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Ricardo Valencia Albornoz

@rvalenciaaz.bsky.social
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Postdoc Earlham Institute | PhD U. Edinburgh | BSc UTFSM. Towards an automated biochemist. Choir conductor (in training). 🇨🇱🇬🇧

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Already on holiday or still packing? Either way, you'll want to keep this on your radar. New #ComplexityThought essay dropping soon: “A Tangled Nature”: #complexity, #evolution and the tangled web we live in. Bookmark it: manlius.substack.com/p/a-tangled-... No spoilers, just anticipation.
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Clockwork @watchclockwork.com · 05/08/2025
🕒 NEW VIDEO 🕒 How can a cell know the time? Let's explore the beautiful 24-hour cycle produced by #KaiC proteins in the cyanobacteria S. Elongatus. Rendered in #blender3d with @bradyajohnston.bsky.social's brilliant Molecular Nodes add-on. #biology
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Ricardo Valencia Albornoz @rvalenciaaz.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Top-level talks yesterday at the Generative AI for Biology workshop organised by the UK’s Gen AI Hub. A lot of ideas and interesting applications! @genaihub.bsky.social
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Earlham Institute @earlhaminst.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
💬 "We want to foster an entrepreneurial spirit that helps everyone recognise the translational potential of their work, and I’m excited to be working alongside Fiona as we progress along that journey.” The Earlham Institute secures its first Entrepreneur in Residence award from @royalsociety.org.
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Entrepreneur in residence to drive innovation at the Earlham Institute
The Earlham Institute has secured its first Entrepreneur in Residence award from the Royal Society.
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Emma Chory, Ph.D. @chorye.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
First @chorylab.bsky.social blog post! chorylab.substack.com/p/new-year-n...
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New Year, New Lab: Automating Your Lab Life with Zapier 🎉
Freezers fail. Robots tantrum. Automation saves the day.
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Ricardo Valencia Albornoz @rvalenciaaz.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Mini-Christmas project: a 3d-printed conveyor belt
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Alán Aspuru-Guzik @aspuru.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
10 minutes ago I am excited to share a perspective on the much-needed topic of hashtag#safety for hashtag#selfdrivinglaboratories. As the field progresses, understanding the challenges and gaps in building safe setups will be crucial for scaling up this technology! doi.org/10.26434/che...
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Steering towards safe self-driving laboratories
The past decade has witnessed remarkable advancements in autonomous systems, such as automobiles that are evolving from traditional vehicles to ones capable of navigating complex environments without ...
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Jim Haseloff @jimhaseloff.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Commercially available tiny microscope from the openUC2 team led by Benedict Diederich - a collaboration with Seeed studio. Open design, motorised focus stacking and extensible through the UC2 cage interface. www.seeedstudio.com/XIAO-Microsc...
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Earlham Institute @earlhaminst.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
What happens when the Communications team gets let loose in the lab? Group Leader Dr @sarah-guiziou.bsky.social invited us along to her lab for a festive #STEM #engagement activity - "painting" with bacteria. A great method for introducing #microbiology and #synbio to young audiences. 🦠🧫🖌️🎄
Group Leader Dr Sarah GuiziouCultured bacteria in agar plate drawn in the shape of an ECultured bacteria in agar plate fluoresced under UV light in the outline of a christmas tree.Cultured bacteria in agar plate fluoresced under UV light in the outline of a bauble decoration.
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Tim Ebbels @tebbels.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
We're hiring! Are you a #metabolomics scientist interested in working with #EU colleagues to analyse and model metabolomic data? We are looking for an enthusiastic and knowledgeable individual to join the #BiACEM project: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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Description
Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...
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Earlham Institute @earlhaminst.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
In our new article, we catch up with PhD researcher @yashbancil.bsky.social about his work developing high-throughput #singlecell #microbial workflows for unravelling the genomic and functional complexities of complex #microbiomes. 🦠🧪 www.earlham.ac.uk/articles/usi... @atrandi.bsky.social
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Using new technology to explore the tiniest of worlds
Complex microbiomes are everywhere. Our skin, our guts, soil, pond water. All are home to tiny life forms, interacting with each other and going about their business.
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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Why you should buy a Bambu A1 Mini even though you "don’t need one": it will crank out simple but time consuming parts like this all day every day quickly and with perfect precision so you aren’t tying up bigger more capable printers.
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colinhillucc.bsky.social @colinhillucc.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Feel like this paper slipped under the radar on ‘the other platform’ so giving it another airing here. Phage can significantly remodel the bacteriome in faecal samples - yet another confounder 🙄 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Dynamic nature of viral and bacterial communities in human faeces
Bacteriophages are a major component of the gut microbiome and are believed to play a role in establishment and stabilization of microbial communities…
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Ricardo Valencia Albornoz @rvalenciaaz.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Proto-animation showing ions arriving to detector, spectrum, TIC and XIC. Feedback welcome!
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Daniel Ibrahim @danielibrahim.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
🔺🔺🔺RED TRIANGLE ALERT 🔺🔺🔺 Ever wonder how #TADs compare across the tree of life?Look no further & read our Review!!! Find out what genes & 3D chromatin can & can't do in Bacteria! Archeae! Yeast! Plants! Animals! SMCs & RNA-Pol are the only thing they have in common www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Evolution and function of chromatin domains across the tree of life - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Szalay et al. discuss cross-kingdom similarities and differences in 3D chromatin folding in relation to gene regulation, including in bacteria, archaea, mammals and plants. This comparison reveals cer...
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Ricardo Valencia Albornoz @rvalenciaaz.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
When you are a robotic arm and need to find another job after the PhD
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Cees Dekker @ceesdekker.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Latest #CDlab paper: Synchronization of E. coli Bacteria Moving in Coupled Microwells: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... E. coli bacteria swim in sync in weakly coupled neighboring microcavities! Great work led by @AleksandreJapa from from Farbod Alijani's lab, to which I also contributed
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Cory Simon @corymsimon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
🤖 our new blog post, "a Markov chain-based patrol strategy for a surveillance robot", explaining how to design an efficient and unpredictable patrol schedule for a surveillance robot. includes Julia code to minimize the mean hitting time of the Markov chain. simonensemble.github.io/pluto_nbs/MC...
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Ricardo Valencia Albornoz @rvalenciaaz.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
First snow ❄️ in Norfolk
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Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
one of my labmates is a genius, behold her tiny arabidopsis farm made from a 96-well plate and pcr strip lids 🤩😆
rows of tiny seedlings only millimeters tall
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Ricardo Valencia Albornoz @rvalenciaaz.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
In Cambridge for the day
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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I posted a while back about @cumsille.bsky.social ‘s lovely GenoVi software, but it really is great and makes lovely publication quality figures- recommend 5*s - GenoVi, an open-source automated circular genome visualizer for bacteria and archaea journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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GenoVi, an open-source automated circular genome visualizer for bacteria and archaea
Author summary Genome visualization tools can inspect genomic features in a DNA sequence, delivering a visual aid to quickly understand genome architecture and function. Circular representations frequ...
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Elisa Granato @prokaryota.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
'Tis the season ... of UK research fellowship interviews! Here are some tips & tricks to help you prepare - featuring a list of 100(!) common Q&A questions elisagranato.com/how-to-apply...
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How to apply for a (UK) postdoc fellowship - Elisa Granato
How to apply for a (UK) postdoc fellowship Disclaimer: this guide was written based on my experience applying for (and being awarded) a BBSRC Discovery Fellowship in 2020/2021. Some of this might appl...
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Michael Booth @drmikebooth.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The annual Royal Society of Chemistry Chemical Biology and Bioorganic Group Forum will be in Bristol next year (18th Feb)! Talks spots are open to new group leaders and postdocs - so get your abstracts in by 8th December! Please share 🙏 🧪 #chemsky www.rsc.org/events/detai...
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2025 RSC Chemical Biology and Bio-Organic Group (CBBG) Forum
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bioRxiv Synthetic Biology @biorxiv-synthbio.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Risk-averse optimization of genetic circuits under uncertainty www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Risk-averse optimization of genetic circuits under uncertainty https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.13.623219v1
Synthetic biology aims to engineer biological systems with specified functions. This requires naviga
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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
What are #theory and concepts in #biology? Come to our EMBL Heidelberg symposium (edition II) next May to find out more! Featuring such exciting topics as active matter, information processing, learning and computation, Physics of morphogenesis and much more! www.embl.org/about/info/c...
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Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Teleoperating the robot to stack cups was challenging but I'm getting better (4x speed video)
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