Cory Doctorow amb Xnet a la LLibreria Finestres, BCN
Cory Doctorow is one of the voices that leads the way in the pursuit of a fair digital future. And he’s fun :). Don’t miss it.
He’ll be presenting #Enshittification, translated with ❤️ by Capitán Swing
📍 Bookstore Llibreria Finestres, Barcelona
📅 March 20 · 7:00 PM
Meet the ultimate gatekeeper of the nucleus. This molecular machine determines what compounds are welcome inside and which shall not pass. The mechanism behind its selectivity remains a mystery. www.quantamagazine.org/disorder-dri...
Chemical Formulas xkcd.com/3040
Pascal’s Law xkcd.com/3087
Honoured to have been selected as the winner for the Brain @brain1878.bsky.social 2025 Essay Competition! I look forward to developing these ideas in future work.
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
Deadline extended! New deadline, March 23.
Want to do a PhD with me or other great synthetic biology projects at CSIC? Haven't been based in Spain recently? Check this out:
lifehub.csic.es/synbio-cofund/
“No hi ha cap màquina ni cap IA capaç de viatjar en el temps com fem els humans”.⌛
🗨️Ricard Solé, investigador de l’@ibe-barcelona.bsky.social i professor i investigador ICREA del @melisupf.bsky.social al @ara.cat .
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In 1874, Georg Cantor published one of the most important papers in math’s 4,000-year history. The ideas in it were stolen. 🧵
This Thursday I'll be at @museuciencies.cat discussing chaos theory, time and its implications with @evamirandag.bsky.social and @ricardsole.bsky.social. Looking forward to it!
museuciencies.cat/activitats/2...
Podem predir el futur mitjançant les matemàtiques? Què ens diu la teoria del caos? Quins són els límits de la nostra capacitat de predir la complexitat? Parlarem amb Doyne Farmer, un dels pares de la teoria, i amb la matemàtica Eva Miranda @evamirandag.bsky.social
museuciencies.cat/activitats/2...
De curiositat contumaç, Ricard Solé (Barcelona, 1962) engolia tots els llibres de segona mà que arribaven a la biblioteca familiar. Aquelles lectures esperonaven encara ...
Our paper w/ @maguilera.net & Sosuke Ito is out in PRL. We combine ideas from stochastic thermodynamics & nonequilibrium Maximum Entropy to quantify forces + dissipation in high-dimensional nonequilibrium systems, including spin glasses and neural data
link: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
A four panel comic, from left to right: 1960s LIFE IS BASED ON DNA, WHICH USES RNA TO MAKE PROTEINS THAT DO STUFF. 1980s ALSO, THE RNA DOES SOME STUFF ITSELF, WHICH IS WEIRD. 2000s THERE ARE 50 MANY KINDS OF RNA. IT'S DOING SO MUCH STUFF! 2020s LIFE IS A SEETHING MASS OF RNA THAT SOMETIMES USES DNA TO TAKE NOTES. WHAT DO THE PROTEINS DO? ERRANDS FOR RNA.
It’s an RNA world. RNA is posited to be the first genetic material, arising 4 billion years ago. It can store information and act as an enzyme. Eventually, it duplicated its information into a more stable form, DNA.
¿David Uclés ha conseguido que un homenaje a Carlos Hernández gire sobre sí mismo? ¡David Uclés ha conseguido que un homenaje a Carlos Hernández gire sobre sí mismo! Pereza infinita con este tío ya...
Por una esfera pública libre de acoso, amenazas y odio
ctxt.es/es/20260201/...
#useyourownbrain 🥴🧠🤓
![Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihcxd5wcrrf5nxz3g4riglsrccbucmdns6kxrtmtj6gjgwqibp3fi)
Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]
Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs
xkcd.com/3204/
Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Cellular World
www.quantamagazine.org/expansion-mi...
La protección efectiva de la infancia pasa por apps seguras por diseño, retirada proactiva de contenidos en la web pública y operaciones policiales focalizadas, no por el espionaje masivo.
#ChatControl
www.patrick-breyer.d...
Excited to share a new PhD thesis from my student and soon Dr @vmaull.bsky.social on synthetic ecosystems, preventing tipping points, and a new concept: emergent bioengineering. Very proud of this achievement, and thankful to @sfiscience.bsky.social, where many of these ideas came to life.
“Los niños tienen derecho a la privacidad y a mirar cosas que sus padres no quieren que vean”, dice Sergio Salgado de @xnet-x.net y pone el ejemplo de un adolescente homosexual con padres ultracatólicos.
ctxt.es/es/20250901/...
![Comic. [Person talking to person with black hat.] PERSON 1: Historically, it refers to a ceremony to predict the weather using a rodent. But nowadays people often use it to mean “a time loop experienced by one person.” PERSON 2: …What. [caption] Easily our weirdest holiday.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidknpywgj44ox6nphuyzs6si6lozn77jyx75nbh7v67wsjr6dssl4)
Comic. [Person talking to person with black hat.] PERSON 1: Historically, it refers to a ceremony to predict the weather using a rodent. But nowadays people often use it to mean “a time loop experienced by one person.” PERSON 2: …What. [caption] Easily our weirdest holiday.
Groundhog Day Meaning
xkcd.com/3202/
I like this paper, and not just for the obvious reason. A great summary of where we stand in thinking about types of mind. Nice also to see this made explicit: "All living systems share a fundamental property: agency."
arxiv.org/abs/2601.12837
4 am, els operaris segueixen de cháchara i ara a crits pel carrer. Moltes d'aquestes edificis son històrics i no tenen bones finestres (ni se'ls poden posar). No podem cancel·lar els sorolls. Una altra nit, moltes gràcies @ajuntamentbcn.bsky.social
Veig que els operaris es posen de cháchara a la cantonada del meu carrer (Argenteria), fent maniobres amb els camions, que xiulan omplint tot el carrer cada vegada que van marcha enrere... I així cada día, cada mitja hora, a aquestes hores del matí. No penseu en els veins o ké?
Hola @ajuntamentbcn.bsky.social Un altre dia amb soroll dels camións de les escombraries cada mitja hora (2, 2:30, 3, 3:30...) al voltant de Jaume I. Aqui no hi ha diversos tipus de papereras, no hi ha recliclatge. Quina necessitar de fer la recollida en 4 torns i a aquestes hores? Volem durmir...
