Victor Maull Miquel
@vmaull.bsky.social
Complexity scientist studying ecology and synthetic ecosystems.
Today I will be giving a talk in the BioClub Tokio on synthetic ecosystems. Happy to share and discuss with this community again! You can follow on zoom if you are interested: bioclub.tokyo/en/events/sy...
October 21, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Today I will be giving a talk in the BioClub Tokio on synthetic ecosystems. Happy to share and discuss with this community again! You can follow on zoom if you are interested: bioclub.tokyo/en/events/sy...
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Off to Madrid from an amazing #ALIFE2025 conference in beautiful Kyoto. Kudos to the organisers.
October 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Off to Madrid from an amazing #ALIFE2025 conference in beautiful Kyoto. Kudos to the organisers.
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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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October 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
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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
October 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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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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
Biology - UMass Boston
www.umb.edu
October 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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
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Una exposició per pensar el Temps des de la ciència, la cultura i la condició humana museuciencies.cat/exposicio_te...
September 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Una exposició per pensar el Temps des de la ciència, la cultura i la condició humana museuciencies.cat/exposicio_te...
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#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<a href="/hashtag/%2Fregistration" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#/registration
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<a href="/hashtag/%2Fregistration" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#/registration
September 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM
#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<a href="/hashtag/%2Fregistration" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#/registration
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<a href="/hashtag/%2Fregistration" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#/registration
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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...
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...
September 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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...
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...
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...
Inspiration:
spj.science.org/doi/10.34133...
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...
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...
September 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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...
Inspiration:
spj.science.org/doi/10.34133...
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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...
September 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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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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-...
August 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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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A new theme issue of #PhilTransB focuses on the evolution of Earth’s biosphere: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
August 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
A new theme issue of #PhilTransB focuses on the evolution of Earth’s biosphere: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
A yellow bloom spreads in the southeast. Mud collected from the rivers that frame Barcelona, Besòs and Llobregat. Month 7.
July 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A yellow bloom spreads in the southeast. Mud collected from the rivers that frame Barcelona, Besòs and Llobregat. Month 7.
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#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...
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June 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
#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/...
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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 ...
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June 19, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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...
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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
June 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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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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...
⌚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...
June 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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...
⌚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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Registration for our workshop "An Introduction to Structural Stability in Ecology" is open!
📍 #AEETSIBECOL2025 meeting
📅 June 2
@eco-aeet.bsky.social @sibecol.bsky.social
📍 #AEETSIBECOL2025 meeting
📅 June 2
@eco-aeet.bsky.social @sibecol.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Registration for our workshop "An Introduction to Structural Stability in Ecology" is open!
📍 #AEETSIBECOL2025 meeting
📅 June 2
@eco-aeet.bsky.social @sibecol.bsky.social
📍 #AEETSIBECOL2025 meeting
📅 June 2
@eco-aeet.bsky.social @sibecol.bsky.social
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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
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May 19, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Ricard Solé, biólogo y físico 👉🏻 elpais.com/tecnologia/2...
A green glowing spectre is haunting the waters again..
May 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
A green glowing spectre is haunting the waters again..
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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
May 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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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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....
May 8, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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....
The ostracods grazed it all. Should we expect Lotka-Volterra dynamics? Mud collected from the rivers that frame Barcelona, Besòs and Llobregat. Month 5.
May 6, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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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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...
May 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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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How can biological systems anticipate future events? In our new paper with @jordiplam.bsky.social, we show how a simple genetic circuit can predict future trends through a simple (and perhaps widespread) mechanism @drmichaellevin.bsky.social @koseskalab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
How can biological systems anticipate future events? In our new paper with @jordiplam.bsky.social, we show how a simple genetic circuit can predict future trends through a simple (and perhaps widespread) mechanism @drmichaellevin.bsky.social @koseskalab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...