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Ricard Solé
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Scientist & skeptic. Dad. Book addict. Pathologically curious. Origins and Evolution of Complexity, Synthetic Transitions, Liquid Brains, and Earth Terraformation. ICREA + SFI professor. Author. Secular humanist.

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 5d
Back to @sfiscience.bsky.social joining the night shift (with some extra coffee) at the Cormac McCarthy's Library. Working on criticality + cancer, statistical physics of ant colonies, the Physarum Lagrangian, universal genetic codes, synthetic agriculture & hybrid agencies.
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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 1d
Sunday morining at @sfiscience.bsky.social

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 2d
What is the origin of diversity in allometric laws scaling across species? Check our new paper led by Andrea Tabi where
we propose a new theory of metabolic scaling grounded in thermodynamics and stochastic fluctuations at the cellular level.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Nathaniel Comfort @nccomfort.bsky.social · 3d
James D. Watson is dead. Stay tuned for some thoughts, based on my research on his biography, to be published soon.
While I write that up, y'all can throw tomatoes at this if you like. But I will offer a more nuanced take.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97
www.nytimes.com

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 4d
Why do cultural skills (reading, maths) consistently activate the same brain regions across people? @standehaene.bsky.social and L. Cohen argue that culture doesn’t create new brain circuits: it invades evolutionarily ancient maps of the cortex. check this great paper www.cell.com/action/showP...

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 10d
Why do some cancers respond to immunotherapy while others don’t? A new paper by @guimaguade.bsky.social shows, using maths, that as tumors mutate, they face a trade-off: growing faster can also make them easier for the immune system to spot. @sandyanderson.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 14d
What can we learn about living computation from non-living machines? In this @royalsocietypublishing.org A. Adamatzky shows that a computer doesn’t need to be solid. From droplets 2 chemical waves, liquid computers blur the line between chemistry & thought. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 15d
How can we design complex computational systems using synthetic biology? Check our paper, where we use space as a computational element, dramatically reducing communication requirements while allowing modularity, reusability, scalability & minimal cell engineering.
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 15d
A microscopic organism can survive the vacuum of space: yet our infrastructures collapse under a summer storm.

Why? 👉 Because structure isn’t enough.
Resilience depends on functionality.

And we need a lot of network science to grasp it.

📖 manlius.substack.com/p/making-sen...

#ComplexityThoughts
Making sense of complex systems functionality
What slime molds, neural systems and quantum physics have in common?
manlius.substack.com

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 18d
What if we could chart all cell types across the tree of life?
In @nature.com, @arnausebe.bsky.social and colls launch the Biodiversity Cell Atlas, a global effort to map eukaryotic cell diversity using single-cell & genomic data.
drive.google.com/file/d/1G4zZ... @crg.eu @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 25d
hahaha Boltzmann's Demon!

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 25d
In a sense, yes: at the molecular–cellular level, death is the failure of energy-driven mechanisms that maintain vital gradients. Yet other forms of death—like that of the mind—need not involve this physical breakdown.

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 25d
Thanks! It is an improved translation of Todas la Muertes.

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