How Writing Changes Mathematical Thought | Quanta Magazine David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology.

www.quantamagazine.org/how-writing-...

🦠¿Cómo exploran los virus sus opciones de evolución genética?

🔬 Un estudio del #CSIC aborda esta pregunta mediante el análisis de millones de mutaciones

🔎El trabajo revela que la exploración adopta una estructura fractal y jerárquica

➡️ http://tiny.cc/wxe1101

Un nuevo trabajo del @csic.es y el #INTA muestra como los virus exploran su espacio genético de forma jerárquica para adaptarse a distintos ambientes.

Lee la noticia completa:
https://f.mtr.cool/sgockakqcc

DOI ( @pnas.org ):
https://f.mtr.cool/sgdqliijsq

Glia gang, this is for you!

In this video by our #ElectronMicroscopy team, shows a pyramidal neuron (PyC) surrounded by 8 glia brain cells – 5 microglia (MG) and 3 oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPC).

🧠📈 http://microns-explorer.org

Is the universe really fine-tuned for life? The claim that even tiny changes in fundamental constants would make life impossible (the God-needed argument) is been dismantled by recent research: Life can emerge under a wide range of physical conditions ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019PhR....

I Am Not a Number A memorial for the 60,199 Palestinian victims of the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Each dot is a name. Each name was a life.

Harrowing visualization of the 60K+ murdered in Gaza. (certainly an undercount)

Each pixel was a life.

bkhmsi.github.io/i-am-not-a-n...

🧠👩‍🎓 Would you like to study #CompNeuro in Berlin?

You can still enrol in the International Master Program Computational Neuroscience at the #BCCNBerlin for an October start -- the deadline has been extended to April 15!

Find more information here 👉 bit.ly/4c1h5na

#BernsteinNetwork #Neuroskyence

A view of Green Mountain on Ascension Island, often described as the world’s first and only human-made cloud forest. More here: cadenaser.com/nacional/202... @avivirser.bsky.social @ricardsole.bsky.social

Hoy hablaré en el programa “A vivir que son dos días” en la cadena SER sobre la terraformación de la Isla de Ascensión. cadenaser.com/cadena-ser/a...

Fotografía del álbum La razón de todo. A la derecha, un postit con un autorretrato mío, mostrando el cómic y diciendo “F.A.Q.” Más a la derecha, otro postit en el que se lee “¿…fuck?”

¡Hola!

Hoy se pone a la venta La razón de todo, el cómic en el que he trabajado estos últimos tiempos.

Como sé que los dineros no caen del cielo y puede que te estés preguntando si pillarlo o no, aquí estoy para resolver algunas dudas que me han hecho llegar y que tú puedes tener también.

¿Vamos?

Comic. [Small panel overlaying large panel.] PERSON 1: What’s up with this weird landscape? PERSON 2 with ponytail: Oh, it was caused by… [Large panel is map of the United States with with red overlays denoting landscape phenomena. Mega-floods in the northwest, a plate tectonics speedrun on the west coast, volcanoes next to the west coast, water and time in the southwest, geology in the west, a supervolcano within the west, glaciers in the north, farming in the middle, rivers in the mideast, geology in between rivers and farming, ??? toward the northeast, farming on the east coast, continents colliding next to the east coast, ongoing disputes between limestone and water in the south of Florida, volcanoes in Hawaii, geology in Alaska with volcanoes and glaciers below.]

Landscape Features

xkcd.com/3221/

I'm happy to count among my friends several true adventurers—the old-fashioned kind! @vmaull.bsky.social is one of the greatest. With a looking glass and a pirate hat, peeking into the marvels that exist in our world. Come back to tell us about them!! Bon voyeur!!!

Where Some See Strings, She Sees a Space-Time Made of Fractals | Quanta Magazine Pushed down to a certain scale, the laws of physics seem to fall apart. Astrid Eichhorn, a leader in an area of study called asymptotic safety, thinks we just need to push a little further.

Physicists use the machinery of renormalization, which Astrid Eichhorn describes as a “mathematical microscope,” to calculate how the laws of physics change as you zoom in and out.

Podem viatjar en el temps? Què en diu la física? A partir de diverses pel·lícules de ciència-ficció, Susanna Manrubia explorarà diferents maneres d’imaginar els viatges temporals i analitzarà fins a quin punt podrien ser possibles segons les lleis de la física. museuciencies.cat/activitats/2...

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

What lies beyond thy silicone face and silicon brain? The rapid rise of large language models has fuelled speculation about eventual artificial general intelligence. Winner of the Brain Essay Competition 2025,

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/

Ricard Solé: “No hi ha cap màquina ni cap IA capaç de viatjar en el temps com fem els humans” Investigador ICREA a la UPF i l’Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (IBE UPF-CSIC)

“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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From there:

archive.fo/202602260944...

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...

Ricard Solé: “No hi ha cap màquina ni cap IA capaç de viatjar en el temps com fem els humans” Investigador ICREA a la UPF i l’Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (IBE UPF-CSIC)

De curiositat contumaç, Ricard Solé (Barcelona, 1962) engolia tots els llibres de segona mà que arribaven a la biblioteca familiar. Aquelles lectures esperonaven encara ...