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Julio R. Banga

@julio-r-banga.bsky.social
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Computational Biology Lab at MBG-CSIC, Pontevedra, Spain @julio-r-banga.bsky.social www.bangalab.org

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 07/10/2026
Terry Tao @teorth.bsky.social: Indiscriminate brute-force application of AI to mathematics is depleting the field of good questions without renewing this resource or providing commensurate value. OpenAI: We hear you. Here's a .zip file with 377 hasty AI solutions to important open problems.
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OpenAI Releases Findings on 377 Math Problems, Further Roiling Field (Gift Article)
After a previous solution angered mathematicians, the company characterized the new release as being more responsive to concerns about A.I. disrupting research.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026
When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.
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Julio R. Banga @julio-r-banga.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New preprint out! We discuss inverse problems in biology. How do we reconstruct the mechanisms that govern living systems from experimental data? In this joint work with Alejandro F. Villaverde, we propose a four-level hierarchy of inverse problems. digital.csic.es/bitstream/10...
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I submitted a paper to arXiv in April. It was rejected by moderators, despite being accepted to a long-running workshop at one of the most prestigious conferences in the world. Apparently workshop acceptance is insufficient for arXiv? What? The? Hell?
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Matthew Sparkes @sparkes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Terence Tao says AI companies are harming mathematics by dropping new results without engaging with academia. “These companies are dumping carcasses of raw meat onto our table and saying ‘here you go, I solved your food problem’ and then they just leave." www.newscientist.com/article/2588...
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Terence Tao: AI companies are harming mathematics | New Scientist
AI companies are making new mathematical discoveries at a rapid pace but not sticking around to help unpick the new proofs. That is not the way to advance our understanding, says mathematician Terence...
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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 08/09/2026
Well, this Navier-Stokes affair did blow up in finite time
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026
Trade xkcd.com/3290/
Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs
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Julio R. Banga @julio-r-banga.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
New paper out, in collaboration with the group of Jesús Picó at UPV. If you are interested in synthetic biology and modelling, check it out. rdcu.be/fA5CY
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Host-aware Identification of Intrinsic Gene Expression Biopart Parameters using Combinatorial Libraries
Nature Communications - Model-based design in synthetic biology is limited because bioparts are typically characterised by relative metrics that vary across genetic and physiological contexts....
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Julio R. Banga @julio-r-banga.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Our latest preprint is out. Great collaboration with the group of Jan Hasenauer (University of Bonn). A very comprehensive benchmarking of optimisation methods for parameter estimation in mechanistic models. Preprint in the post below.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 17/06/2026
Messi xkcd.com/3260/
Comic. Lionel Messi: World Cup Goals per game. [Graph with x axis as year and y axis as number of goals per game, ranging from 0 to 3. Data points: 2006 (~1/3), 2010 (0), 2014 (~1/2), 2018 (~1/4), 2022 (1), 2026 (3) with parenthetical (so far). Behind the line connecting the points is a grayed out curve showing the trajectory.] [caption] At this rate, by 2040 Messi will be scoring hundreds of goals per game.
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Paige Madison @fossilhistory.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Today in 1868, Darwin wrote to a friend, "It drives me mad & I know it does you too, that one has no time for reading anything beyond what must be read: my room is encumbered with unread books." 📚🧪
Black-and-white photograph of Charles Darwin’s library and study. Tall bookshelves packed tightly with books cover the wall on the right, while stacks of papers and volumes spill across tables and lower shelves. In the foreground, a large desk is cluttered with notebooks, loose papers, glass bottles, and oil lamps. A tall window on the left lets in soft natural light, illuminating plants and scientific objects near the sill. The room feels crowded, scholarly, and heavily used, with signs of active research and writing throughout.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 15/05/2026
AI has improved to the point where it can produce convincing scientific papers almost wholesale, resulting in a deluge of slop that the research system can’t keep up with. Read more from @joshdzieza.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Verge headline: AI research papers are getting better, and it’s a big problem for scientists
by Josh Dzieza

Photo of bubbling ooze surrounded by a flurry of scientific papers
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Julio R. Banga @julio-r-banga.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
MUY recomendable podcast para los interesados en ciencia, cultura y más, hecho con rigor y simpatía. De 10.
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Otto Warburg's grant application: "I need 10,000 marks".
Note from Otto Warburg asking for money.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Person: say, i am alive.

Computer: I am alive.

Person: oh my god.
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Julio R. Banga @julio-r-banga.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
New preprint out! We present a global optimization metaheuristic that performs exceptionally well on tough model calibration problems in systems biology.
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Olivier Borkowski @oborkowski.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Host-aware Identification of Intrinsic Gene Expression Biopart Parameters from Combinatorial Libraries doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Julio R. Banga @julio-r-banga.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Interested in microbial ecology? Our latest paper, “Identification of dynamic models of microbial communities: A workflow addressing identifiability and modeling pitfalls,” is now out in PLOS Computational Biology journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... .
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 12/11/2025
every company in 2025
comic strip with call and response text. 
who are we? 
CEOs
what do we want? 
AI! 
AI to do what? 
We don't know! 
When do we want it? 
Right now!
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 04/11/2025
The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst - played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
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Michael Burry Returns With Two Big Shorts: Palantir and Nvidia
Signs of an AI bubble abound: Stock valuations have become uncomfortably rich, AI-related debt is ballooning, and a sustainable financial model for the technology has largely yet to emerge. Now Michae...
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Julio R. Banga @julio-r-banga.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
👉 New paper out: "Generalized Inverse Optimal Control and Its Application in Biology" Joint work with Sebastian Sager — www.mathopt.de/people/sager/ Just published in 𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗨𝗔𝗟 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪𝗦 𝗜𝗡 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗟 👉 Link: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... Optimality principles directly from observations!
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Julio R. Banga @julio-r-banga.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Free access to this article at authors.elsevier.com/a/1lVrl8jbph...
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Julio R. Banga @julio-r-banga.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
🚀 New Paper Published! 📄 Title: "Mechanistic dynamic modelling of biological systems: the road ahead" 📄 Journal: Current Opinion in Systems Biology 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.co... This is review/opinion paper co-authored with Alejandro F. Villaverde afvillaverde.webs.uvigo.gal
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Redirecting
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Julio R. Banga @julio-r-banga.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
🚨 New preprint out! 🚨 Our latest work discusses the complexities of mathematically modelling microbial communities. Joint work with Ana Paredes and @balsacanto.bsky.social 🔬 doi.org/10.1101/2025... #Microbiome #Ecology #Modeling
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Identification of dynamic models of microbial communities
Microbial communities, complex ecological networks crucial for human and planetary health, remain poorly understood in terms of the quantitative principles governing their composition, assembly, and f...
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Julio R. Banga @julio-r-banga.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
🚨 New paper out! Novel algorithms for uncertainty quantification in systems biology using conformal inference. Joint work with Alberto Portela and Marcos Matabuena www.marcosmatabuena.com 📄 Read more: doi.org/10.1371/jour... #SystemsBiology #UQ
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BCBHubCSIC @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
🚀 @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social l is pleased to share the recorded seminars from April 2! 🎥 Watch the presentation of the tool pyDock by juanfdezrecio.bsky.social (ICVV) & MEIGO by @julio-r-banga.bsky.social @mbgcsic.bsky.social 📺 Available now 👉 pyDock youtu.be/yvH8-1kg94Y 👉MEIGO youtu.be/T68sGGf2N9c
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Mat Simpson @mjsimpson.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Fully-funded PhD opportunity in mathematical biology and applied mathematics with Pascal Buenzli and me at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. Details at smb.org/Member-Forum... @smbmathbiology.bsky.social
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 17/03/2025
Lungfish xkcd.com/3064
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Thomas Wolf @thomwolf.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I shared a controversial take the other day at an event and I decided to write it down in a longer format: I’m afraid AI won't give us a "compressed 21st century" Here: thomwolf.io/blog/scienti... It's an extension of this interview discussion from the AI summit: youtu.be/AxBd3G0lFLs?...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Today marks the beginning of OpenRxiv, which replaces bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world's largest preprint platform for life and medical science openrxiv.org/introducing-... @openrxiv.bsky.social
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
How gut microbiome research needs to move forward. Going multi-omics, getting to causality, rigorous clinical studies www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... @cellpress.bsky.social
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 26/02/2025
RNA xkcd.com/3056
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
You first.
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Julio R. Banga @julio-r-banga.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Sputnik moment?
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Julio R. Banga @julio-r-banga.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
"A call for research to address the threat of paper mills" Paper mills are an increasing threat to the integrity of the scientific record. This Perspective discusses 5 key questions that need resourcing & support #PLOSBiology journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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A call for research to address the threat of paper mills
Research paper mills are covert organizations that provide low quality or fabricated manuscripts to paying clients. This Perspective, written by members of the United2Act Research Working Group, propo...
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Julio R. Banga @julio-r-banga.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Wordcloud of our research interests
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Andy @andy.wrestlejoy.com · 13/11/2024
If your profile says invalid handle, here is how you fix it
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Mike Croucher @walkingrandomly.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Over at her blog, @pawlean.com talks about why she is using BlueSky and I find that so many of her reasons resonate with me www.pawlean.com/posts/why-im...
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Why I’m using Bluesky | a blog by Pawlean
Thoughts shared into pixels by Pauline Narvas since 2008
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DGBassani @dgbassani.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Librarians moving dystopian novels to the nonfiction shelves.
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a woman standing in a library with a book titled room on the shelf
ALT: a woman standing in a library with a book titled room on the shelf
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Julio R. Banga @julio-r-banga.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Hello everyone! 🌟 I am a researcher in computational systems biology. I look forward to sharing thoughts, ideas, and keeping in touch with all of you in this fresh space. Let’s keep the conversation going!
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