Luíño Seoane @brigan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Uno de mis poemas favoritos es _Pradoxes and Oxymorons_, del inmortal John Ashbery: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50986/... Creo que te puede gustar :)poetryfoundation.orgParadoxes and OxymoronsThis poem is concerned with language on a very plain level. And before you know know / It The line began and ended with the same word when first published… 010
Reposted by Luíño SeoaneGemma De les Coves @gemmadlc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I've written an article for The Conversation about what I find most exciting these days: The reach of self-reference and negation in science, philosophy and beyond. Perhaps art? theconversation.com/paradojas-in...theconversation.comParadojas inalcanzables: un recorrido de la lógica a la poesíaA veces, basta una frase para poner en jaque a la lógica: “Esta frase es falsa”. Si es verdadera, es falsa; si es falsa, es verdadera. Ese nudo conceptual –la combinación de autorreferencia y negación... 242
Reposted by Luíño SeoaneQuanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 05/10/2026For columnist Jordana Cepelewicz, the core of math lies in its beauty, intuition, and depth. What happens if AI takes all of that away? Read the latest Qualia: www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-the-en…quantamagazine.orgIs AI the End of Math As We Know It? | Quanta MagazineMathematicians are facing the sudden shift with grief, anger, and a desperate search for fresh ideas: “If we don’t adapt, there’s just no more math in 50 years.” 1125
Reposted by Luíño SeoaneVictor Maull Miquel @vmaull.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Hace 200 años, Darwin y Hooker se preguntaron si era posible cambiar el clima de una isla construyendo un ecosistema de novo. Demostraron que sí. Ahora he viajado a Ascension con @nastassiakn.bsky.social para entender cómo ocurrió y cómo podemos exportarlo. Gracias @pflis.bsky.social por contarlo.elpais.comAscensión, la isla desértica que se hizo selvaEste remoto paraje en medio del Atlántico podría esconder la fórmula para combatir la desertificación en otros lugares del planeta. Un científico español ha decidido investigarlo. Viajamos hasta allí ... 2116
Reposted by Luíño SeoanePatricia Fernández de Lis @pflis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Por fin está aquí, el reportaje de mi vida. 🐑 Una historia de esperanza en un punto casi desierto en mitad del Atlántico Sur que era poco más que ceniza cuando Darwin pasó por allí. Hoy su cima es un bosque nuboso. Y no lo plantó la naturaleza. 🧵 elpais.com/eps/2026-10-...elpais.comAscensión, la isla desértica que se hizo selvaEste remoto paraje en medio del Atlántico podría esconder la fórmula para combatir la desertificación en otros lugares del planeta. Un científico español ha decidido investigarlo 1013259
Reposted by Luíño SeoaneRicard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 02/10/2026How are extinction, evolution and time related? Come to our new conversation hosted by @museuciencies.cat with @amnh.org Niles Eldredge and @mncn-csic.bsky.social Susanna Manrubia. From Darwin's reflections, deep time and the fossil record to cancer, network science & pandemics. @nilese.bsky.social 2194
Reposted by Luíño SeoanePodcast de la Vaca Esférica @lavacaesferica.bsky.social · 23/09/2026🚨 ¡Nuevo episodio 🚨 S04E02: El Teorema de Gödel De esta nos hacemos virales, fijo 😅 Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/3glq... YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceqv... iVoox: estará algo más tarde. En las otras plataformas y apps ya debería estar. #Podcast incompleto e indecibible.open.spotify.comS04E02 El teorema de GödelLa vaca esférica · Episode 043
Luíño Seoane @brigan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Era una cereza :) Había más, pero no hicimos vídeos. El código lo liberamos, pero el repositorio ya se descompuso. Nadie lo citó :') youtu.be/LERyK3z2cYs?...youtu.beCherry reconstruction using EEG Brain-Computer InterfaceYouTube video by Luíño F. Seoane 022
Luíño Seoane @brigan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Esto parece un PR stunt y creo que, por desgracia, quedará en un ejemplo único porque no habrá manera de capitalizarlo. Ojalá me equivoque... Me alegro por el tipo. Espero que la performance se mantenga durante años! 110
Luíño Seoane @brigan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Tengo sentimientos muy encontrados... Tema nazi a parte, el state of the art permite cosas parecidas con mucha menos invasión. Hay BCIs brutales olvidadas en un cajón porque no hay mercado (e.g. mi máquina de reconstruir imágenes con la mente de hace... ~15 años!!). 110
Luíño Seoane @brigan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026This: aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...aiguide.substack.comMisleading Metaphors, Real RisksWhat To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency 110
Luíño Seoane @brigan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Ahora te recomiendo también los hilos de Felipe Pelota, Esteban Estrogoz, y Melania Mitchell, que se lo han currado bastante! 101
Reposted by Luíño SeoaneRicard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Where are all the intermediate forms between animals & plants? Our new paper with @jordiplam.bsky.social suggests evolution can split sharply between sessile, photosynthetic and mobile, sensing strategies. If so, what does this imply for claims of plant intelligence? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 0329
Luíño Seoane @brigan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Pues yo me he enterado por aquí. La historia de Quanta está bastante bien!! www.quantamagazine.org/ai-has-solve...quantamagazine.orgAI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems | Quanta MagazineMathematicians at OpenAI showed that the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe how fluids flow, can sometimes “blow up.” But the massive result is not without controversy. 110
Reposted by Luíño SeoaneQuanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 08/09/2026Mathematicians at OpenAI announced that a group of 10,000 autonomous AI agents under their direction proved that the Navier-Stokes equations can “blow up,” thus solving one of the six remaining Millennium Prize Problems. The result is not without controversy. www.quantamagazine.org/ai-has-solve...quantamagazine.orgAI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems | Quanta MagazineMathematicians at OpenAI showed that the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe how fluids flow, can sometimes “blow up.” But the massive result is not without controversy. 35429
Reposted by Luíño SeoaneInstitut de Biologia Evolutiva (IBE) @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social · 07/09/2026📕A study led by the @IBE_Barcelona and @idisbaib, with the participation of @IFISC_mallorca, transforms children’s spontaneous conversations into mathematical networks to investigate how language is acquired in early childhood. #UnravellingEvolution 👉https://shorturl.at/5G7lp 052
Reposted by Luíño SeoanePhilip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 07/09/2026LLMs are cognitive viruses that can depress collective cognitive competence. But by the same token, immunization is possible. arxiv.org/abs/2609.03344arxiv.orgLarge-Language Models as a Cognitive VirusLarge-language models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming part of human culture, reshaping how information is produced, transmitted, and used. Here we propose that their diffusion can be understood through a ... 413237
Luíño Seoane @brigan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Tampoco habría que olvidar lo difícil que es ser demócrata en una democracia... 000
Reposted by Luíño SeoaneBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money. 1/ 211546655
Reposted by Luíño SeoaneRicard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Can AI spread like a virus and erode cognitive autonomy? Our new paper models how LLM adoption can cross tipping points, triggering runaway dependence and tech lock-in, suggesting routes to "cognitive immunization". arxiv.org/abs/2609.03344 @ruffini.bsky.social @francesca-castaldo.bsky.social 14816
Reposted by Luíño SeoaneRicard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 31/08/2026"Solé reveals a paradox: death is not merely life’s opposite but also one of its organizing forces, a constant cycle of removal and renewal". Delighted to see my new @princetonupress.bsky.social book on the @newyorker.com book review list. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... 04010
Reposted by Luíño SeoaneQuanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 29/08/2026The theoretical side of computer science doesn’t require computing machines. But many questions would never have been posed without them. Read our latest Qualia column: www.quantamagazine.org/does-compute… quantamagazine.orgDoes Computer Science Need Computers? | Quanta MagazineThe theoretical side of the field doesn’t require computing machines. But many questions would never have been posed without them. 0307
Reposted by Luíño SeoaneStrand Bookstore @strandbooks.com · 29/08/2026SAVE THE DATE FOR STRAND DAY! On September 19, 2026 we will celebrate our 99th anniversary! In honor of 99 years of independent bookselling, we’ve planned a day filled with activities, storytimes, and a 20% discount across all locations. Mark your calendars, more details to come! 041
Reposted by Luíño SeoaneRicard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Do machines “die”? What does that mean? And why can the death of a machine affect us deeply? In my new @princetonupress.bsky.social book, I explore these questions within the landscape of human–machine interactions and consider what AI may bring in the future. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... 1124
Reposted by Luíño SeoaneThe Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m… 158223506263
Reposted by Luíño SeoaneDaniel Marín @eurekablog.bsky.social · 15/08/2026En el blog > El eclipse de Sol del 12 de agosto de 2026 danielmarin.naukas.com/2026/08/14/e...danielmarin.naukas.comEl eclipse de Sol del 12 de agosto de 2026 - EurekaEl pasado 12 de agosto de 2026, a eso de las 20:30 hora local, tuvo lugar un eclipse total de Sol que se pudo ver desde gran parte de España […] 03015
Luíño Seoane @brigan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Tampoco era erróneo. Es decir, te lo preguntas porque nos empeñamos en ponernos la camiseta. Si no nos empeñáramos en ello, no te lo preguntarías 🤗🤗 De nada! 010
Reposted by Luíño SeoanePhilip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I thought I'd repost this piece quoting the first sentence. Then I thought, no, the first paragraph. No, the first three. And I went on doing that until the final word. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...theguardian.com‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroomEducation is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back? 411952
Reposted by Luíño SeoaneCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 06/08/2026Here's a new kind of virus that scientists have generated with AI. And here's my story about what it means for us to have gotten to this remarkable moment: nyti.ms/4bBhoWB (Gift link) 🧪 2214673
Reposted by Luíño SeoaneRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 07/08/2026Antiques Roadshow xkcd.com/3281/ 244045533
Reposted by Luíño SeoaneRicard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 02/08/2026What separates life from death? What makes the cell on the left different from the one on the right? These are questions I explore in my new @princetonupress.bsky.social book. At the cell scale, death begins when the distinction between inside & outside collapses. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... 25617
Reposted by Luíño SeoaneQuanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 01/08/2026What are AI systems actually doing when we say they’re busy “reasoning”? In this week’s Qualia column, John Pavlus reckons with the intellectual whiplash of the last few years. www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-reason… 15113
Reposted by Luíño SeoaneThe Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Dendrites keep their own memory of the past and even predict the future independently of the cell body. #neuroskyence By @natmesanash.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/memory/dendr...thetransmitter.orgDendrites compute independently of cell bodyDepending on their distance from the cell body, dendrites play different roles in learning and memory. 04311
Reposted by Luíño SeoaneRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 30/07/2026Vera Rubin Observatory xkcd.com/3278/ 251334205
Reposted by Luíño SeoaneNoema Magazine @noemamag.com · 28/07/2026Increasing desertification now means large parts of Earth are becoming inhospitable. Can gene-edited bacteria save our planet from drying out? @interspecies.agency explores. #climate #desertification #syntheticbiologynoemamag.comInside The Lab Growing Mutant Bacteria To Terraform Earth | NOEMAIncreasing desertification now means large parts of Earth are becoming inhospitable. Can gene-edited bacteria save our planet from drying out? 1136
Reposted by Luíño SeoaneRosa Fernández @rosafernandez.bsky.social · 28/07/2026New paper from the lab out! How did animals move repeteadly from water to land? We compared ca. 1,000 animal genomes across the animal kingdom to ask whether evolution reused the same genomic solutions. The answer: same challenge, but many genomic routes 🧵1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comConvergent genomic trajectories shape adaptation to life on land across animal lineages - Nature CommunicationsAnimals have moved from water to land many times, but whether they used the same genetic routes has remained unclear. This study shows that independent land transitions relied mostly on ancient, conse... 1157
Reposted by Luíño SeoaneNetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Limits of Inference in Complex Systems: When Stochastic Models Become Indistinguishable link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...link.aps.orgLimits of Inference in Complex Systems: When Stochastic Models Become IndistinguishableA path-inference framework quantifies data resolution limits that render distinct stochastic models empirically indistinguishable and offers guidelines for designing experimental measurements that max... 0126
Reposted by Luíño SeoaneRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 24/07/2026Calibration Nobel xkcd.com/3275/ 225222688
Reposted by Luíño SeoaneCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 23/07/2026Can a cancer become a new species of parasite? Here's my story on the discovery of a transmissible cancer lurking in Vermont catfish. Gift link: nyti.ms/4whfi6vnyti.msDeep in This Lake, a Contagious Cancer Is Spreading (Gift Article)Transmissible tumors have been reported in a handful of animal species, but never before among fish. Is it possible in humans? 47321
Reposted by Luíño SeoanePaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 15/07/2026Left: Venus, 1 March 1982 Centre: Titan, 14 January 2005 Right: Boston, 15 July 2026 211055347
Reposted by Luíño SeoaneTito @sebimetal.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Se cumplen 30 años del OMEGA 🎶youtu.beManhattan (First We Take Manhattan) (Remastered 2016)YouTube video by Enrique Morente - Topic 191
Reposted by Luíño SeoaneQuanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 16/07/2026Last year, a 17-year-old high school student named Hannah Cairo solved a 40-year-old math mystery about how waves behave. Here’s how she did it, and what it means for the field: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SNQ...youtube.comHow a High School Student Overturned a Famous ConjectureWhen Hannah Cairo was a 17-year-old high school student, she did something mathematicians had been unable to do for four decades: she overturned the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a famous prediction… 15816
Reposted by Luíño SeoanePhilip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 08/07/2026My latest piece for @quantamagazine.bsky.social might stir the pot somewhat. It takes on the contentious notion that biological organisms can be considered to possess agency. www.quantamagazine.org/is-life-just...quantamagazine.orgIs Life Just Different? | Quanta MagazineThe idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of what it means to be alive. But does it serve a scientific purpose? 74618
Luíño Seoane @brigan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026I think this is the correct link: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article... A lot of links appear broken in BlueSky these days :'/royalsocietypublishing.orgOrigins of life: the possible and the actualAbstract. The questions of how life forms, whether life is an inevitable outcome and how diverse its presentation could be remain some of the most profound 010
Reposted by Luíño SeoaneRicard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 03/07/2026The first copy of my new @princetonupress.bsky.social book has just arrived at the office. It explores death in all its forms, from cells to minds, machines, languages and information. A complexity/evolutionary perspective, from Frankenstein to neuroscience. Soon out: www.amazon.com/Endless-Endi... 17113
![4-panel comic. (1) [Two people, one with a ponytail, sitting and typing at terminals opposite each other. A sign on the wall reads “Juice Mission Control,” with JUICE in huge letters.] PERSON 1: Jupiter Icy Moons Exploder checkin is complete. All systems nominal. (2) PERSON 2 with ponytail. [People turn to look at each other.] PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: Jupiter Icy Moons *Explorer*. (3) [Person 1 turns back to his terminal.] (4) PERON 1: Control, everything is fine, but I need to schedule an urgent spacecraft update. [Person 2 facepalms] PERSON 2: Oh no.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihvb6ef4girxg5xticymwvtuopbv5gpcbdc6ptxn2p3qauk7ldfja)
![Comic. [Two people with tiny star floating above display on table.] PERSON 1 with ponytail: Now, your grandmother said this was a relic low-mass population III star, from the first generation of stars. Unfortunately, the high iron content shows that it formed much later, after several rounds of supernovas. I’m afraid it’s a population I star. PERSON 2: Aw, darn. Well, it still has sentimental value. [banner for Antiques Roadshow]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreid2vzxc6ftisazc66p275gofrnkpbotbksmz7prz26wkuej7653we)
![Comic. [Person 1 with short hair on stage behind podium reading off paper while addressing audience. People are shown sitting in chairs while Person 2 with ponytail and Person 3 waving are walking toward stage.] PERSON 1: This year’s Nobel Prize in “calibrating your equipment carefully and not embarrassing yourself by publishing spurious results” goes to Dr. Adams and Dr. Smith, who did *not* announce the discovery of microbes on Titan. PERSON 3: Thank you, thank you.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihztdrvxjeyzmz6dmz3xb4vi6wiwwtge6fwdoxjcum5aptndv3kfm)
![3-panel comic. (1) PERSON 1 behind podium on stage: We all hate springing forward. But we love falling back. (2) [Audience pictured listening] PERSON 1: Therefore, we are abolishing the *spring* time change *only*. We’ll gain an hour every year, but never lose one. (3) PERSON OFF-PANEL: Won’t that cause the clocks to spiral out of sync with the sun? PERSON 1 holding up a fist: *Then we will meet the chaos clear-eyed and well-rested!*](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidl5ovrvqzuhtr6ygqwtdjes2qraloyxtxqrvjwu7xxxersawskde)
![Comic: Holes. Elevation is to scale relative to sea level and ground level. Land shapes and horizontal distances are not to scale. [Lines for every 1k meters starting from -12k up to +4k: Bingham Canyon Mine (US), Veryovkina Cave (Georgia), MPONENG Gold Mine (South Africa), Sanford Laboratory (US), Giant Crystal Cave (Mexico), Derinkugo Underground City (Turkey), WIPP (US), Restof Salt Mine, with an arrow pointing at the bottom that reads “oops” (US), San Andreas Fault Observatory Borehole (US) CFB North Bay (Canada), Woodingdean Water Well (dug by hand) (United Kingdom), Diefen-Bunker (Canada), Deep Underground Command Center (Canceled in 1965) (US), Lake Peigneu, with another oops arrow next to it (US), Sydney Opera House Parking (Australia), Onkalo Spent Nuclear Fuel Repository (Finland), Hudson River, Delaware Aqueduct (US), Raven Rock (US), Wieliczka and Bochina Salt Mines (Poland), Atchison Storage Facility (US), Snolab (Canada), Detroit Salt Mine (US), Hongyancun Subway Station (China), Nuclear Test Shafts (North Korea), Super Kamiokande Neutrino Detector (Japan), Gran Sasso Laboratory (Italy), Peak above Gran Sasso, Modane Laboratory (France), Peak above Modane Laboratory, Gotthard Tunnel (Switzerland), Peak above Cheyenne Bunker and Gotthard Tunnel, Cheyenne Mountain Bunker (US), Kola Superdeep Borehole (Russia) - deepest artificial point below surface at -11917m, Lake Baikal (Russia), sediments under Lake Baikal, IDDP-2 Borehole (Iceland), Dead Sea (multiple countries), Ryfylke Tunnel (Norway), Pantal Remis Mine with another oops arrow (Malaysia), Great Blue Hole (Belize), Joides Resolution Expedition 307 (Atlantic Ocean), Deepwater Horizon Borehole (Gulf of Mexico) - deepest artificial point below sea level at -11944m, Glomar Challenger Hole 504B (Pacific Ocean), Mohole (Pacific Ocean), Joides Resolution Expedition 329 (Pacific Ocean), Mariana Trench (Pacific Ocean)]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreia43wl3gwyqydc47yse5gbdzybk2edtcibxdtr5jf4gqorc676ap4)