Our paper presenting PhysiBoSS 2.0 is finally out! This is a great advance performed in the context of the PerMedCoE and @CREXDATA projects. nature.com/articles/s4154… Great job! BSC-CNS AlfonsoValencia alfonsovalencia.bsky.social Arnau Montagud Vincent Noël (@vincent-noel.fr on BlueSky)

"Si esto sigue así, es posible que perdamos lo más importante de la ciencia, que es el rigor científico. Si pierdes eso, pierdes todo." Absolutamente de acuerdo con este artículo EL PAÍS Internacional

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It has been around fifty years since Kenneth Wilson’s work on the renormalization group. We celebrate this anniversary with a collection of Comments on its development and applications. go.nature.com/475NSnw

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The next Complexity Global School for Emerging Political Economies, a program designed to promote brave and creative thinking about our collective global challenges, will run from July 21 to August 3. TREES Apply today! 🌐 📚 apply-sfi.smapply.org/prog/2024_comp…

Again: by setting up Sci-Hub and making basically all science papers available to everyone by ignoring absurd copyright laws, Alexandra Elbakyan has contributed enormously to science, and arguably to mankind as a whole. She deserves a thanks and recognition, not legal threats.

Agitated Formica wood ants spraying formic acid in defense of their colony. This fantastic photo by Dutch Biologist René Krekels won the Close-up Photographer of the Year “Insects” category last year. cupoty.com/category-winne…

Somatic mutation rates scale with lifespan across mammals, suggesting that somatic mutation rates are evolutionary constrained and may be a contributing factor in ageing. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Animals paths at different temporal scales can display a crossover between Lévy flights and Brownian motion. “Exploring the interplay between small and large scales movements in a neotropical small mammal”, with B. Ríos-Uzeda and Marcus Vinícius Vieira, is out: rdcu.be/dCskZ

Apple: "let's literally crush all that is wonderful about human artistic creation."

Something to read for the weekend: link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s…

. 22 people have published more than 200 papers in 2024 (so far, we still have another six months to go) We have been doing some research on another project and saw something that we found interesting. We'd be interested to know what you think. In 2024, 22 authors (according to

#OnThisDay in 1963, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space, orbiting the Earth 48 times in the Vostok 6 space capsule. Tereshkova remains the youngest woman to reach space, and the only woman to fly a solo space mission.

Can a simple stochastic differential equation accurately describe specific features of microbiome growth-rate distribution? The work "Growth-rate distributions of gut microbiota time series", developed with S. Azaele during my visit at Lab of Interdisciplinary Physics, is out: rdcu.be/d67S9

Analysis of crowds at the San Fermín festival in Spain shows that dense crowds can self-organize into macroscopic chiral oscillators, coordinating the orbital motion of hundreds of individuals without external guidance, according to a paper in nature. go.nature.com/40OUbdn

📢 Urban health & #BigData at #4YFN25! Join Miguel Ponce de Leon (BSC-CNS ) on March 4 at 11:00h at the BSC Booth (8.0C1, Hall 8) to explore MePreCiSa: a new approach to the study of urban health. 🔗 More info x4hpc.cat/mwc25/agenda/

Our new paper, based on data from 1,705 studies, shows that pesticides are toxic to organisms they are not intended to harm, including fungi, microbes, plants, insects, & vertebrates such as ourselves. Questions the wisdom of applying over 3 million tonnes of them every year...