Ricardo Valencia Albornoz
@rvalenciaaz.bsky.social
Postdoc Earlham Institute | PhD U. Edinburgh | BSc UTFSM. Towards an automated biochemist. Choir conductor (in training). 🇨🇱🇬🇧
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Already on holiday or still packing?
Either way, you'll want to keep this on your radar.
New #ComplexityThought essay dropping soon:
“A Tangled Nature”: #complexity, #evolution and the tangled web we live in.
Bookmark it: manlius.substack.com/p/a-tangled-...
No spoilers, just anticipation.
Either way, you'll want to keep this on your radar.
New #ComplexityThought essay dropping soon:
“A Tangled Nature”: #complexity, #evolution and the tangled web we live in.
Bookmark it: manlius.substack.com/p/a-tangled-...
No spoilers, just anticipation.
August 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Already on holiday or still packing?
Either way, you'll want to keep this on your radar.
New #ComplexityThought essay dropping soon:
“A Tangled Nature”: #complexity, #evolution and the tangled web we live in.
Bookmark it: manlius.substack.com/p/a-tangled-...
No spoilers, just anticipation.
Either way, you'll want to keep this on your radar.
New #ComplexityThought essay dropping soon:
“A Tangled Nature”: #complexity, #evolution and the tangled web we live in.
Bookmark it: manlius.substack.com/p/a-tangled-...
No spoilers, just anticipation.
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🕒 NEW VIDEO 🕒
How can a cell know the time? Let's explore the beautiful 24-hour cycle produced by #KaiC proteins in the cyanobacteria S. Elongatus. Rendered in #blender3d with @bradyajohnston.bsky.social's brilliant Molecular Nodes add-on. #biology
How can a cell know the time? Let's explore the beautiful 24-hour cycle produced by #KaiC proteins in the cyanobacteria S. Elongatus. Rendered in #blender3d with @bradyajohnston.bsky.social's brilliant Molecular Nodes add-on. #biology
August 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🕒 NEW VIDEO 🕒
How can a cell know the time? Let's explore the beautiful 24-hour cycle produced by #KaiC proteins in the cyanobacteria S. Elongatus. Rendered in #blender3d with @bradyajohnston.bsky.social's brilliant Molecular Nodes add-on. #biology
How can a cell know the time? Let's explore the beautiful 24-hour cycle produced by #KaiC proteins in the cyanobacteria S. Elongatus. Rendered in #blender3d with @bradyajohnston.bsky.social's brilliant Molecular Nodes add-on. #biology
Top-level talks yesterday at the Generative AI for Biology workshop organised by the UK’s Gen AI Hub. A lot of ideas and interesting applications! @genaihub.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Top-level talks yesterday at the Generative AI for Biology workshop organised by the UK’s Gen AI Hub. A lot of ideas and interesting applications! @genaihub.bsky.social
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💬 "We want to foster an entrepreneurial spirit that helps everyone recognise the translational potential of their work, and I’m excited to be working alongside Fiona as we progress along that journey.”
The Earlham Institute secures its first Entrepreneur in Residence award from @royalsociety.org.
The Earlham Institute secures its first Entrepreneur in Residence award from @royalsociety.org.
Entrepreneur in residence to drive innovation at the Earlham Institute
The Earlham Institute has secured its first Entrepreneur in Residence award from the Royal Society.
www.earlham.ac.uk
January 27, 2025 at 10:49 AM
💬 "We want to foster an entrepreneurial spirit that helps everyone recognise the translational potential of their work, and I’m excited to be working alongside Fiona as we progress along that journey.”
The Earlham Institute secures its first Entrepreneur in Residence award from @royalsociety.org.
The Earlham Institute secures its first Entrepreneur in Residence award from @royalsociety.org.
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January 2, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Mini-Christmas project: a 3d-printed conveyor belt
December 27, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Mini-Christmas project: a 3d-printed conveyor belt
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10 minutes ago
I am excited to share a perspective on the much-needed topic of hashtag#safety for hashtag#selfdrivinglaboratories. As the field progresses, understanding the challenges and gaps in building safe setups will be crucial for scaling up this technology!
doi.org/10.26434/che...
I am excited to share a perspective on the much-needed topic of hashtag#safety for hashtag#selfdrivinglaboratories. As the field progresses, understanding the challenges and gaps in building safe setups will be crucial for scaling up this technology!
doi.org/10.26434/che...
Steering towards safe self-driving laboratories
The past decade has witnessed remarkable advancements in autonomous systems, such as automobiles that are evolving from traditional vehicles to ones capable of
navigating complex environments without ...
doi.org
December 23, 2024 at 5:39 PM
10 minutes ago
I am excited to share a perspective on the much-needed topic of hashtag#safety for hashtag#selfdrivinglaboratories. As the field progresses, understanding the challenges and gaps in building safe setups will be crucial for scaling up this technology!
doi.org/10.26434/che...
I am excited to share a perspective on the much-needed topic of hashtag#safety for hashtag#selfdrivinglaboratories. As the field progresses, understanding the challenges and gaps in building safe setups will be crucial for scaling up this technology!
doi.org/10.26434/che...
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Commercially available tiny microscope from the openUC2 team led by Benedict Diederich - a collaboration with Seeed studio. Open design, motorised focus stacking and extensible through the UC2 cage interface.
www.seeedstudio.com/XIAO-Microsc...
www.seeedstudio.com/XIAO-Microsc...
December 21, 2024 at 12:10 PM
Commercially available tiny microscope from the openUC2 team led by Benedict Diederich - a collaboration with Seeed studio. Open design, motorised focus stacking and extensible through the UC2 cage interface.
www.seeedstudio.com/XIAO-Microsc...
www.seeedstudio.com/XIAO-Microsc...
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What happens when the Communications team gets let loose in the lab? Group Leader Dr @sarah-guiziou.bsky.social invited us along to her lab for a festive #STEM #engagement activity - "painting" with bacteria. A great method for introducing #microbiology and #synbio to young audiences. 🦠🧫🖌️🎄
December 20, 2024 at 10:01 AM
What happens when the Communications team gets let loose in the lab? Group Leader Dr @sarah-guiziou.bsky.social invited us along to her lab for a festive #STEM #engagement activity - "painting" with bacteria. A great method for introducing #microbiology and #synbio to young audiences. 🦠🧫🖌️🎄
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We're hiring! Are you a #metabolomics scientist interested in working with #EU colleagues to analyse and model metabolomic data? We are looking for an enthusiastic and knowledgeable individual to join the #BiACEM project: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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December 10, 2024 at 4:37 PM
We're hiring! Are you a #metabolomics scientist interested in working with #EU colleagues to analyse and model metabolomic data? We are looking for an enthusiastic and knowledgeable individual to join the #BiACEM project: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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In our new article, we catch up with PhD researcher @yashbancil.bsky.social about his work developing high-throughput #singlecell #microbial workflows for unravelling the genomic and functional complexities of complex #microbiomes. 🦠🧪
www.earlham.ac.uk/articles/usi...
@atrandi.bsky.social
www.earlham.ac.uk/articles/usi...
@atrandi.bsky.social
Using new technology to explore the tiniest of worlds
Complex microbiomes are everywhere. Our skin, our guts, soil, pond water. All are home to tiny life forms, interacting with each other and going about their business.
www.earlham.ac.uk
December 10, 2024 at 8:33 AM
In our new article, we catch up with PhD researcher @yashbancil.bsky.social about his work developing high-throughput #singlecell #microbial workflows for unravelling the genomic and functional complexities of complex #microbiomes. 🦠🧪
www.earlham.ac.uk/articles/usi...
@atrandi.bsky.social
www.earlham.ac.uk/articles/usi...
@atrandi.bsky.social
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Why you should buy a Bambu A1 Mini even though you "don’t need one": it will crank out simple but time consuming parts like this all day every day quickly and with perfect precision so you aren’t tying up bigger more capable printers.
December 6, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Why you should buy a Bambu A1 Mini even though you "don’t need one": it will crank out simple but time consuming parts like this all day every day quickly and with perfect precision so you aren’t tying up bigger more capable printers.
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Feel like this paper slipped under the radar on ‘the other platform’ so giving it another airing here. Phage can significantly remodel the bacteriome in faecal samples - yet another confounder 🙄 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Dynamic nature of viral and bacterial communities in human faeces
Bacteriophages are a major component of the gut microbiome and are believed to play a role in establishment and stabilization of microbial communities…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 4, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Feel like this paper slipped under the radar on ‘the other platform’ so giving it another airing here. Phage can significantly remodel the bacteriome in faecal samples - yet another confounder 🙄 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Proto-animation showing ions arriving to detector, spectrum, TIC and XIC. Feedback welcome!
December 4, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Proto-animation showing ions arriving to detector, spectrum, TIC and XIC. Feedback welcome!
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🔺🔺🔺RED TRIANGLE ALERT 🔺🔺🔺
Ever wonder how #TADs compare across the tree of life?Look no further & read our Review!!!
Find out what genes & 3D chromatin can & can't do in Bacteria! Archeae! Yeast! Plants! Animals!
SMCs & RNA-Pol are the only thing they have in common
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ever wonder how #TADs compare across the tree of life?Look no further & read our Review!!!
Find out what genes & 3D chromatin can & can't do in Bacteria! Archeae! Yeast! Plants! Animals!
SMCs & RNA-Pol are the only thing they have in common
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Evolution and function of chromatin domains across the tree of life - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Szalay et al. discuss cross-kingdom similarities and differences in 3D chromatin folding in relation to gene regulation, including in bacteria, archaea, mammals and plants. This comparison reveals cer...
www.nature.com
November 28, 2024 at 12:48 PM
🔺🔺🔺RED TRIANGLE ALERT 🔺🔺🔺
Ever wonder how #TADs compare across the tree of life?Look no further & read our Review!!!
Find out what genes & 3D chromatin can & can't do in Bacteria! Archeae! Yeast! Plants! Animals!
SMCs & RNA-Pol are the only thing they have in common
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ever wonder how #TADs compare across the tree of life?Look no further & read our Review!!!
Find out what genes & 3D chromatin can & can't do in Bacteria! Archeae! Yeast! Plants! Animals!
SMCs & RNA-Pol are the only thing they have in common
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
When you are a robotic arm and need to find another job after the PhD
November 30, 2024 at 6:12 PM
When you are a robotic arm and need to find another job after the PhD
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Latest #CDlab paper: Synchronization of E. coli Bacteria Moving in Coupled Microwells: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
E. coli bacteria swim in sync in weakly coupled neighboring microcavities!
Great work led by @AleksandreJapa from from Farbod Alijani's lab, to which I also contributed
E. coli bacteria swim in sync in weakly coupled neighboring microcavities!
Great work led by @AleksandreJapa from from Farbod Alijani's lab, to which I also contributed
November 27, 2024 at 12:06 PM
Latest #CDlab paper: Synchronization of E. coli Bacteria Moving in Coupled Microwells: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
E. coli bacteria swim in sync in weakly coupled neighboring microcavities!
Great work led by @AleksandreJapa from from Farbod Alijani's lab, to which I also contributed
E. coli bacteria swim in sync in weakly coupled neighboring microcavities!
Great work led by @AleksandreJapa from from Farbod Alijani's lab, to which I also contributed
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🤖 our new blog post, "a Markov chain-based patrol strategy for a surveillance robot", explaining how to design an efficient and unpredictable patrol schedule for a surveillance robot. includes Julia code to minimize the mean hitting time of the Markov chain.
simonensemble.github.io/pluto_nbs/MC...
simonensemble.github.io/pluto_nbs/MC...
November 21, 2024 at 8:09 PM
🤖 our new blog post, "a Markov chain-based patrol strategy for a surveillance robot", explaining how to design an efficient and unpredictable patrol schedule for a surveillance robot. includes Julia code to minimize the mean hitting time of the Markov chain.
simonensemble.github.io/pluto_nbs/MC...
simonensemble.github.io/pluto_nbs/MC...
First snow ❄️ in Norfolk
November 20, 2024 at 1:34 PM
First snow ❄️ in Norfolk
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one of my labmates is a genius, behold her tiny arabidopsis farm made from a 96-well plate and pcr strip lids 🤩😆
November 16, 2024 at 3:46 PM
one of my labmates is a genius, behold her tiny arabidopsis farm made from a 96-well plate and pcr strip lids 🤩😆
In Cambridge for the day
November 15, 2024 at 10:25 AM
In Cambridge for the day
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I posted a while back about @cumsille.bsky.social ‘s lovely GenoVi software, but it really is great and makes lovely publication quality figures- recommend 5*s - GenoVi, an open-source automated circular genome visualizer for bacteria and archaea journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
GenoVi, an open-source automated circular genome visualizer for bacteria and archaea
Author summary Genome visualization tools can inspect genomic features in a DNA sequence, delivering a visual aid to quickly understand genome architecture and function. Circular representations frequ...
journals.plos.org
November 15, 2024 at 8:12 AM
I posted a while back about @cumsille.bsky.social ‘s lovely GenoVi software, but it really is great and makes lovely publication quality figures- recommend 5*s - GenoVi, an open-source automated circular genome visualizer for bacteria and archaea journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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'Tis the season ... of UK research fellowship interviews! Here are some tips & tricks to help you prepare - featuring a list of 100(!) common Q&A questions elisagranato.com/how-to-apply...
How to apply for a (UK) postdoc fellowship - Elisa Granato
How to apply for a (UK) postdoc fellowship Disclaimer: this guide was written based on my experience applying for (and being awarded) a BBSRC Discovery Fellowship in 2020/2021. Some of this might appl...
elisagranato.com
November 14, 2024 at 10:52 AM
'Tis the season ... of UK research fellowship interviews! Here are some tips & tricks to help you prepare - featuring a list of 100(!) common Q&A questions elisagranato.com/how-to-apply...
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The annual Royal Society of Chemistry Chemical Biology and Bioorganic Group Forum will be in Bristol next year (18th Feb)!
Talks spots are open to new group leaders and postdocs - so get your abstracts in by 8th December!
Please share 🙏 🧪 #chemsky
www.rsc.org/events/detai...
Talks spots are open to new group leaders and postdocs - so get your abstracts in by 8th December!
Please share 🙏 🧪 #chemsky
www.rsc.org/events/detai...
2025 RSC Chemical Biology and Bio-Organic Group (CBBG) Forum
www.rsc.org
November 14, 2024 at 10:30 AM
The annual Royal Society of Chemistry Chemical Biology and Bioorganic Group Forum will be in Bristol next year (18th Feb)!
Talks spots are open to new group leaders and postdocs - so get your abstracts in by 8th December!
Please share 🙏 🧪 #chemsky
www.rsc.org/events/detai...
Talks spots are open to new group leaders and postdocs - so get your abstracts in by 8th December!
Please share 🙏 🧪 #chemsky
www.rsc.org/events/detai...