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Pablo Catalán

@the100footpole.bsky.social
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I teach math at UC3M and do research, now trying to focus on antibiotic resistance. Do much good, avoid all evil, that is the teaching of all Buddhas.

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Saúl Ares @omeuxeito.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Kudos to the whole team! This is Lucía and Marina’s first paper, and we could not be prouder of these two talented researchers 🥳 Thanks also to @the100footpole.bsky.social for helping us steer the boat safely into port, and to Current Opinion in Systems Biology for publishing our ideas.
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Saúl Ares @omeuxeito.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We will not understand antimicrobial resistance by studying genes, cells, or populations in isolation. Our new mini-review argues for frameworks that connect these scales: From cells to populations: Multi-scale quantitative approaches to antimicrobial resistance www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Figure 1 of the paper. Multi-scale quantitative approaches to antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Population-level models (left) address (a) dose optimization, (b) sequential and combination therapies exploiting collateral sensitivity, (c) community effects on drug response, and (d) global epistasis. Cellular-level models (right) describe (e) resource allocation among ribosomal, metabolic, and stress sectors and (f–h) non-linear physiological transitions producing bistability and switches between susceptible and tolerant states. Both levels combine modeling with controlled experiments; they differ in biological organization rather than method.
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Luíño Seoane @brigan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Era una cereza :) Había más, pero no hicimos vídeos. El código lo liberamos, pero el repositorio ya se descompuso. Nadie lo citó :') youtu.be/LERyK3z2cYs?...
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Cherry reconstruction using EEG Brain-Computer Interface
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Pablo Catalán @the100footpole.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Todos los caveats aparte, esto es flipante, y le va a molar a @brigan.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j80...
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Speaking With The Mind | Neuralink
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Pablo Catalán @the100footpole.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Nada sobre Navier Stokes aquí, todo lo estoy leyendo en X. Va a tener razón @jfmoriche.bsky.social cuando dice que esta es una red de micronicho...
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ah, this Anthropic guy resigning over AI risks. lots of headlines. And I see little to no questioning of what he's actually saying. Well after all, he's the expert, right? He actually worked on this stuff, right? mashable.com/tech/anthrop...
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Anthropic researcher quits, calls AI an existential threat to humanity
An Anthropic spokesperson confirmed it believes AI could kill all humans.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
More Palestinians have been killed (1,300) since the so-called ceasefire began in Gaza on 10th October 2025 than Israelis were killed on 7th October 2023 - including ten times as many children (300!) as were killed on 10/7. This is what a 'ceasefire' looks like for Palestinians.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Since I am being called "so fucking dangerous" let's walk through what my argument and its evidence actually is. First, I am not saying fascism, the ideology, is ancient (it isn't) but that the emotions which fuel it are: fascism is ancient (pre-historic!) emotions colliding with modern society.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
But I think the sooner we understand that this is not a 'growing pain' but rather an eternal struggle against a part of human nature that was adaptive millennia ago but is now a pure poison to society, the sooner we can get to the work of building fascism-resistant societies.
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Pablo Catalán @the100footpole.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Esto debería leerlo mucha gente de izquierdas, creo. El fascismo no se irá nunca.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I want to expand on this in a short thread. Fascism sucks. It is also not going away: it is an effectively permanent part of modern representative politics because it is an effectively permanent part of human nature. We have to be prepared to push back against it, basically forever.
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Pablo Catalán @the100footpole.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
New review out! Should be a fun read for quantitative people interested in antimicrobial resistance. Hopefully :P www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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From cells to populations: multi-scale quantitative approaches to antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a critical global health challenge that is increasingly being addressed through quantitative and systems-level appro…
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Sira Rego @sirarego.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Hay 500 plazas disponibles para trasladar a niñas vulnerables de Ceuta a la península. Podríamos empezar hoy mismo. El PP solo tiene que firmar y dejar de bloquear. La solidaridad con el pueblo de Ceuta también es esto.
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Pablo Catalán @the100footpole.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Flipando muy duro con esto: www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-hug...
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The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English
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Alvaro Sanchez @asanchezlab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
New preprint from the lab: The Latent Simplicity of Microbial Ecological Interactions www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We're excited about this one. We find that high-order microbial interactions often obey simple linear laws, making microbial communities far more predictable than one might expect.
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Jónatham F. Moriche 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @jfmoriche.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Apostar contra la España socialcomunista es perder.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider. Post Anything Here: interactink.vercel.app
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Nydia🥳 @nyconene.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Analicemos evolución y perfil Xokas que me parece fascinante. Mi hijo le seguía cuando empezó. Era cercano, tranquilo y transmitía buen rollo. ¿Qué ha pasado? Es algo que habla de nosotros, de la sociedad, de cómo las redes premian la peor versión hasta radicalizarnos. Mirad el vídeo y empezamos👇
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José Antonio Noguera @josenoguerauab.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Esto es una barbaridad. Necesitamos una política predistributiva radical contra el rentismo improductivo. Enhorabuena por el reportaje, un ejemplo de buen periodismo a contracorriente.
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Roger Senserrich @4freedoms.es · 18/06/2026
No me puedo creer lo bueno que es el último disco de Olivia Rodrigo. Pero muy, muy bueno.
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Alvaro Sanchez @asanchezlab.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The project originated from an idea of our brilliant friend @the100footpole.bsky.social that was then translated to the bench by @jdiazc9.bsky.social, Andrea Arrabal, Magda San Roman. We now use the protocol weekly in the lab, it's made it possible to do all kinds of cool experiments. Check it out!
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Alvaro Sanchez @asanchezlab.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
...The methods works beyond the realm of microbial communities, making it fast, easy & cheap to construct all possible combinations up to N=10-15 of any set of soluble compounds: from drugs or other stressors to nutrients, plasmids, DNA molecules, and whatever else one may think of!
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Alvaro Sanchez @asanchezlab.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The version of record of our revised preprint is finally out today. In it, we introduce a fast and reliable methdology for the full factorial design of microbial communities, i.e. constructing every monoculture, pair, trio, four-member,... n-member co-culture of N strains. doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
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Full factorial construction of synthetic microbial communities
A rapid, inexpensive, and easy to implement experimental protocol enables the construction of combinatorially complete sets of microbial consortia.
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Sara Hernando-Amado @hernando-amado.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The best results come from diverse minds working together. I´m very happy to share a collaborative work between 3 biologists, 2 mathematicians, a physicist, a chemist, and a physician: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... @the100footpole.bsky.social @omeuxeito.bsky.social @pablolaborda.bsky.social
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Samoth Erbauer🥄☂️🇵🇸 @erbauer.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
¿Quién está matando a los periodistas?
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José Luis Rodríguez @jlrodriguez.eurosky.social · 17/04/2026
Electrificarlo todo.
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Pablo Catalán @the100footpole.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Apparently YouTube's algorithm recently spammed this short video by Ajahn Brahm, definitely didn't expect that: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiLk...
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Demonstration of how easy it is to stop thinking
YouTube video by BSWA Retreats 2011-15 & Media
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 31/03/2026
🚨 BREAKING: The European Commission has urged people to work from home, drive and fly less, and for EU countries to urgently roll out renewables, as it warned of a prolonged energy crisis as a result of the conflict in the Gulf. Full story: www.politico.eu/article/euro...
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Mark Mandel @markjmandel.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Apply to be an editor at an ASM Journal! Open call for editors at mBio, mSphere, mSystems, and Microbiology Spectrum. This is a very fulfilling way to share your expertise and give back to our society journals. @asm.org journals.asm.org/asm-call-for...
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ASM Journals Open Calls for Editors
A list of current and upcoming open calls for editors at ASM Journals.
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Saúl Ares @omeuxeito.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Papel accepted! 🥳
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Hugo Martínez Abarca 🇪🇺🇵🇸 @martinezabarca.net · 23/03/2026
Meloni ha perdido su referéndum. La izquierda ha parado a los ultras en las ciudades francesas. Orban va a perder Hungría. Ha habido más resultados significativos en Alemania, Eslovenia. Por primera vez en tiempo la derecha trumpista empieza su cuesta abajo. Vamos a vencerlos.
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Arturo Puente @apuente.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
La idea de una extrema derecha imparable y cuya victoria está predeterminada y solo podemos esperar sentados está quedando desmentida por todos los lados. Al contrario, a veces parecería que ni con la absoluta asimetría de recursos a su favor son capaces de ganar unas elecciones. Así que moral alta.
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Jaime Caro 🌾🇵🇸 @jaimecarom.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Hay un frenazo/retroceso global de la ultraderecha: En Francia no ganan las principales ciudades En USA perderán las Midterms En Hungría perderán las siguientes elecciones En Italia van a retroceder. En España, no pasarán.
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Pablo Padilla @maesepads.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Nuevo puerta a puerta de MásMadrid. Hoy en San Cristóbal (Villaverde). No hay garantías de éxito pero nadie podrá negar que estamos haciendo algo nuevo, que nos hemos puesto en marcha con tiempo y que tenemos la firme voluntad de ser más. Con las puertas abiertas a todo el que quiera moverse.
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ilse @ilse.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
La frase es justo esa de "hasta que tú te cojas un fusil y te subas al cuartel de la montaña a hacer la revolución proletaria déjanos a los demás intentar que la gente viva un poco mejor el mes que viene". Ese es el resumen de TODO y el argumento contra los revolucionarios estos del todo mal.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
And that, I suppose is my fundamental takeaway: Trump foolishly opened a door he cannot now close. He did so without Congress, without the constitutional process and we now all have to live with the consequences. Honestly, that ought to be a capital crime. It many countries, it would be.
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Pablo Bustinduy @pbustinduy.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Intolerable es que los trabajadores que levantan cada día este país le tengan que transferir la mitad de su salario a un puñado de fondos buitres a los que usted protege y para los que usted gobierna.
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César Rendueles @crendueles.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Que estemos discutiendo sobre renovables es ya una derrota para el ecologismo. El debate que deberíamos estar teniendo es cómo electrificarlo todo a toda velocidad.
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Javier Espinosa @javierespinosa.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Esto está ocurriendo cada día en los Territorios Palestinos ocupados y sigue siendo ignorado por la mayoría de los medios occidentales. Imaginamos la cobertura si fuese “palestinos encapuchados apalean a un judío”?
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Alex Hale🦜🏴‍☠️ @climatecrisisclub.org · 10/03/2026
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Alvaro Sanchez @asanchezlab.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
New preprint on the limits of detecting higher-order interactions in microbial communities. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We find that the dominance of additive and pairwise interactions on community function may not reflect biological simplicity, but fundamental limits of statistical detection.
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Andrés Trasado @andrestrasado.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Tipos a los que les quedan 15 años de vida como mucho y que tienen dinero para gastar sin parar durante 500 vidas están arruinando el mundo, masacrando a inocentes y llevando a la civilización al colapso para poder enriquecerse un poquito más.
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César Rendueles @crendueles.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Ese extraño patriotismo antibelicista que sentimos estos días se alimenta del viento y del sol. Estamos a las puertas del reino de la libertad solar. Podemos sentar las bases energética de una democracia incrementada, construida sobre las ruinas pestilentes del imperialismo fósil.
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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
An Iranian drone exploded within shockwave distance of my godson in Erbil, who is four years old, and he cannot stop breaking down crying randomly now and isn't really eating. Just in case you'd bought into the "poor plucky Iran" bullshit. Fuck Trump's war, and fuck the IRGC.
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
This is one of my favorite comics we've made.
1 Me: He froze like a deer in the headlights.
2 Deer: Okay tough guy, what would you do?
Me: It’s just an expression.
3 Deer: No, no, no. You’re standing there, suddenly all you see is a blinding light. What’s your plan? I want to hear it.
4 Me, frowning: I would freeze.
Deer: I fucking thought so.
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Pablo Bustinduy @pbustinduy.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Qué mundo este en el que los que más vociferan en nombre de la patria defienden ser vasallos del que manda y usar nuestra soberanía como moneda de cambio.
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Jehad Abusalim @jehadabusalim.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
36 children were killed in an Israeli strike on a girls’ elementary school in Hormozgan province, Iran. The same doctrine that bombed schools in Gaza is now bombing schools in Iran.
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Saúl Ares @omeuxeito.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
En el Parlamento Europeo representantes de todo el espectro político: Alvise, Vox, PSOE, Sumar, se han expresado contra la barbaridad del #Megacantón de #Montecarmelo. Ningún eurodiputado español del PP ha tenido la desvergüenza de defender esto: ha hablado uno de Malta. elpais.com/espana/madri...
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El Parlamento Europeo investigará el proyecto del cantón de Montecarmelo tras las denuncias de las familias de los colegios cercanos
Una representación de padres y madres de los más de 4.000 estudiantes que estarán afectados han expuesto en Bruselas el peligro que representa esta instalación para sus hijos
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Nydia🥳 @nyconene.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Mientras, Óscar Puente resolviendo los problemas a la gente EN PERSONA.
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Bukuku @bukuku.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
La gente cree que con un gobierno PP-Vox todo seguirá como hasta ahora pero con Abascal diciendo más chorradas en 'prime time' mientras la izquierda mediática hace chufla –monetizada, claro– de sus declaraciones. No son conscientes de hasta qué punto tu vida se puede ir por el retrete en seis meses.
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