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Bruno Cuevas Zuviría

@brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social

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Computational biology researcher. Now working at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Interested in Origins of Life, early protein evolution, complexity, network analysis, synthetic biology and pathogen evolution. Bike warrior, urbanism nerd and neo-luddite.

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Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 12h

Me he metido en el ramal en vez de en la línea 5. Merezco perder la madrleñidad

Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 12h

Until your desktop goes through a critical point and becomes a liquid

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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 19d

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

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Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe we can consider that if a given problem has a lot of good quality data, the data-hungry AI-based solution is not really that insightful— though probably still practical for engineering purposes.

Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 1d

It is curious to see amazing papers that are going out now 1) ride the AI-trend, 2) use very simple ML techniques that existed 50 years ago, and 3) get amazing results.
My take: many problems are still interesting because there is not enough data, preventing the trendy data-hungry techniques.

Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 7d

in case you are wondering why I still use Word, the answer is that not everybody is aware of how infuriating is MS Word.

Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 7d

2025. Lots of AI and whatever, but Word keeps getting stuck on a 25 pages/8000 words manuscript.

Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 7d

the highest the rise...

Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 7d

Me meo con las recomendaciones de Linkedin. Otra razón para esquivar esta red social.

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American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 12d

E-motos have no place in our active infrastructure. Their operators are causing problems and bringing unjustified anger and regulation into the regular ebike movement and industry.

CalgaryK @calgaryk.bsky.social · 13d

Ugh absolute scourge… just east of the Harry Hays @tinybeaches.bsky.social #yycbike

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Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 12d

and this is simple standard Python. This is the second time I give it a chance, and it seems is going to be the second time I disable it.

Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 12d

What is the point of replacing auto-completions that are based on the variable / class definition (e.g. class methods) by hallucinations? Doesn't it defeat the purpose of auto-completion? The copilot just made up a "pandas.DataFrame.to_yaml" that I don't see anywhere in the documentation.

Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 12d

To me, this liquid glass design is a failure. It might look pretty to someone, but it makes everything extremely cluttered, and I am not 100% confident about this, but I can imagine that it has an impact on performance—now you need to overlay different layers, compute blurring effects, and so on.

Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 13d

Ok, is it me or the new MacOS update looks awful? It gives me the feeling that things are too rounded, wasting a lot of space for nothing.

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Ángeles Hueso-Gil @angeles-hg.bsky.social · 15d

Llega la Noche de los Investigadores!! El viernes que viene estaremos, @redquena.bsky.social como monologuista veterano y yo como novata, junto a @cnb-csic.bsky.social y otros centros @csic.es hablando de ciencia! Podrá verse en directo en el canal de YT de #EspacioFTef #EuropeanResearchersNight

Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB) @cnb-csic.bsky.social · 16d

Este viernes te esperamos con talleres y actividades 🧬🌱 junto a los demás centros @csic.es Cantoblanco

📅 26 septiembre ⏰16:00h
📍Espacio Fundación Telefónica Madrid
ℹ️ https://f.mtr.cool/bmeugfyigt

#EuropeanResearchersNight

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Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 15d

A todos los conductores que dicen que las bicis entorpecen el tráfico, les invito a pillar el bicimad e ir de Imperial a Ciudad Universitaria de mañanita. A ver quién entorpece a quien.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 19d

(it's weird for us, but normal for late capitalism)

A cartoon of a man surrounded by robots says, If I had a nickel for every time the world's richest man bought the world's most important social media site, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice.

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Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 21d

A veces se me olvida que las redes sociales son lugares donde se interactúa (en teoría) con otros seres humanos. Puse un comentario en una noticia y ahora no paro de recibir, para mi sorpresa, notificaciones de lo que opinan de mi comentario.

Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 21d

Humo

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Anthony M. Bonacolta @ambonacolta.bsky.social · 21d

A diazotroph isolated from a marine diatom that is capable of inducing nitrogen fixation in terrestrial plants 🤯

From Chandola et al

A Bradyrhizobium isolate from a marine diatom induces nitrogen-fixing nodules in a terrestrial legume - Nature Microbiology

A non-cyanobacterial diazotroph previously isolated from a marine eukaryotic phytoplankton triggers formation of nitrogen-fixing root nodules when inoculated onto a terrestrial legume.

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Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · 21d

sabes que tienes un problema cuando te adelanta por la izquierda Albiol...

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Angel Goñi-Moreno @angelgm.bsky.social · 28d

The use of evolutionary algorithms offer an interesting advantage for optimising #synbio designs: exploring non-intuitive solutions. We showed this at ALIFE 2023 (paper linked) and will again at #ALIFE 2025 next month! direct.mit.edu/isal/proceed...

Computational evolution of gene circuit topologies to meet design requirements

Abstract. The design and implementation of synthetic gene regulatory networks that compute is a central effort to synthetic biology. Genetic components are arranged into circuits to perform pre-define...

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Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · Sep 8

The definition of AI is becoming extremely blurry. At this point, anything done with a computer will be labelled as AI by the authors, even if they are running a linear regression.

Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · Sep 8

This one is funny. I'm pretty sure that people were doing this much before whatever we call AI right now was a thing. It seems that both reviewers and authors don't see a problem here.

Bruno Cuevas Zuviría @brunocuevaszuviria.bsky.social · Sep 8

When you write a review about the application of AI to a specific field, it is important to not look like if you were a cultist. I'm reading one that almost makes you think they are talking about the arrival of the mesiah.