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Angel Goñi-Moreno @angelgm.bsky.social · 5h

Off to Madrid from an amazing #ALIFE2025 conference in beautiful Kyoto. Kudos to the organisers.

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 2d

Honored to receive the 2024 Outstanding Publication Award from the Intl Soc for Artificial Life @alife2025.bsky.social for our @royalsocietypublishing.org ublishing.org paper “Fundamental Constraints to the Logic of Living Systems” @sfiscience.bsky.social
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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 2d

Si trobem vida en un altre planeta, serà diferent de la que coneixem? Crear vida al laboratori seguirà les mateixes regles? Pot existir vida sense aigua o ADN? I les IAs del futur, poden aparèixer sense assemblar-se al cervell humà? Vine al @iec.cat i t’ho explico! @melisupf.bsky.social @prbb.org

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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 6d

UMass Boston seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in microbial ecology, starting September 1, 2026. Apply by December 1, 2025. Details: http://www.umb.edu/academics/csm/biology #job

Biology - UMass Boston

www.umb.edu

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 16d

Una exposició per pensar el Temps des de la ciència, la cultura i la condició humana museuciencies.cat/exposicio_te...

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Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas Margarita Salas (CSIC) @cib-csic.bsky.social · 14d

#MISB (@csic.es-UIMP )

Design meets evolution: Theory and practice
Víctor de Lorenzo (@vdlorenzo.bsky.social), @cnb-csic.bsky.social

📅Oct 3
⏰11am
The seminar will take place at CIB and additionally streamed online 🔗https://rediris.zoom.us/meeting/register/ZmrXKHmFSHqyxE65O3wvRQ<span class="text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400">#/registration

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 16d

Can synthetic biology help save endangered ecosystems?
Our new paper with @vmaull.bsky.social explores how engineered genes can spread through soil microbes.
We model how synthetic gene transfer can support biodiversity. @vdlorenzo.bsky.social @guimaguade.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Victor Maull Miquel @vmaull.bsky.social · 16d

Can we leverage the mechanics of horizontal gene transfer to percolate genes of interest through bacterial communities? This paper takes the initial theoretical steps to explore its potential and implications, and to derive design principles.

Inspiration:
spj.science.org/doi/10.34133...

Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 16d

Can synthetic biology help save endangered ecosystems?
Our new paper with @vmaull.bsky.social explores how engineered genes can spread through soil microbes.
We model how synthetic gene transfer can support biodiversity. @vdlorenzo.bsky.social @guimaguade.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · Sep 10

Can a single cell learn? Even without a brain, some microbes show simple forms of cognition. Can this basal cognition be engineered? Check our new paper with @jordiplam.bsky.social on the minimal synthetic circuits & their cognitive limits. @drmichaellevin.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.bsky.social · Aug 13

In Pan de Azúcar National Park in Chile’s Atacama Desert are pebbles known locally as “maicillo” and in English as “grit.” Rich colonies of hidden microbial life dwell in their crevices and bind them together into thin crusts. quantamagazine.org/in-a-fierce-...

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · Aug 9

A new theme issue of #PhilTransB focuses on the evolution of Earth’s biosphere: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

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Victor Maull Miquel @vmaull.bsky.social · Jul 18

Beautiful patterns at the opposite side

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Victor Maull Miquel @vmaull.bsky.social · Jul 18

A yellow bloom spreads in the southeast. Mud collected from the rivers that frame Barcelona, Besòs and Llobregat. Month 7.

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Fernando T. Maestre @ftmaestre.bsky.social · Jun 24

#Biocrusts are vital to dryland health—but can they recover after being disturbed? 🤔A new review in @botsocamerica.bsky.social #AmJBot by @michalaphillips.bsky.social & al explores biocrust recovery timelines, climate impacts & restoration potential bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Navigating the possibilities and pitfalls of biocrust recovery in a changing climate

Biological soil crusts are complex communities composed of lichens, mosses, bacteria, and cyanobacteria that create a living skin on the soil surface across drylands worldwide. Although small in size...

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Victor de Lorenzo (CNB, Madrid) @vdlorenzo.bsky.social · Jun 19

This paper on massive genomic rearrangements at the basis of a major evolutionary event reminds me of Cortazar's novel Rayuela, in which the order you read the same text originate very different stories www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An episodic burst of massive genomic rearrangements and the origin of non-marine annelids - Nature Ecology & Evolution

An analysis of annelid genomes reveals massive reshuffling of chromosomes in the ancestral lineage leading to clitellates, a clade composed of non-marine annelids, with potential implications for the ...

www.nature.com

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · Jun 12

How can we build a general theory of mutualistic communities? After five years, we finally completed a new Neutral Theory of Cooperation that is fully solved analytically and displays remarkable properties @jordipinero.bsky.social @artemyte.bsky.social @manlius.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2506.09737

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museuciencies @museuciencies.cat · Jun 12

Reobre el Terrat Viu del Museu amb una nova àrea experimental sobre el canvi climàtic: Mesocosmos

⌚Horari de visita:
Dissabtes, d’ 11 a 15h.
Diumenges i festius, d’ 11h a 15h.
Diumenges tarda (portes obertes), de 16h a 20h.

🧪 Més informació:

museuciencies.cat/reobre-el-te...

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Violeta Calleja @violetacalleja.bsky.social · Apr 1

Registration for our workshop "An Introduction to Structural Stability in Ecology" is open!

📍 #AEETSIBECOL2025 meeting
📅 June 2

@eco-aeet.bsky.social @sibecol.bsky.social

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Victor de Lorenzo (CNB, Madrid) @vdlorenzo.bsky.social · May 19

Ricard Solé, biólogo y físico 👉🏻 elpais.com/tecnologia/2...

Ricard Solé, biólogo y físico: “Tal vez haya que redefinir la soledad”

El científico, comisario de la exposición ‘Cerebro(s)‘, revisa los efectos de la relación entre personas y máquinas y cuestiona el alcance de algunos desarrollos tecnológicos

elpais.com

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Victor Maull Miquel @vmaull.bsky.social · May 16

A green glowing spectre is haunting the waters again..

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · May 8

How can we build or engineer synthetic ecosystems? What can they tell us about ecological rules? Can we model planetary-level regulation in the test tube? Glad to deliver my keynote tomorrow at the MPDEE'25 conference www.bcamath.org/events/mpdee... @vmaull.bsky.social @lizashpilkina.bsky.social

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · May 8

Two types of brains have emerged in nature: solid (ours) and liquid (ant colonies, immune system). What can be computed by liquid brains? How complex are they? Check our paper on the statistical physics of liquid brains @jordipinero.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

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Victor Maull Miquel @vmaull.bsky.social · May 6

The prototype for a bigger version is working very well! @museuciencies.cat

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Victor Maull Miquel @vmaull.bsky.social · May 6

The ostracods grazed it all. Should we expect Lotka-Volterra dynamics? Mud collected from the rivers that frame Barcelona, Besòs and Llobregat. Month 5.

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · May 4

Is there a global pattern in our planet's chemistry consistent with life? Looking at our atmosphere, Mars, Venus, and interstellar space, we found that Earth follows the same architecture as a living cell, while the others do not. Would this be used as a biosignature? web.archive.org/web/20060113...

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