Sergi Valverde
@svalver.bsky.social
#ComplexSystems scientist. Institute of Evolutionary Biology @csic.es, Barcelona| DySOC-UTennessee, Knoxville | ECLT, Venice. Girl dad. He/him.
Lab: svalver.github.io
#EvoBio #CultEvo #ExtendedBiology #hypergraphs
Lab: svalver.github.io
#EvoBio #CultEvo #ExtendedBiology #hypergraphs
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Sergi Valverde
@svalver.bsky.social
· Nov 12
A starter pack for researchers interested in #ComplexSystems. Complex system science investigates how interactions among multiple parts lead to collective behaviour, as well as how the system interacts and forms links with its environment - please add your name!
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Only 2 days left to get your abstracts in!
👉 A reminder that the deadline for submitting your abstract to the CES 2026 #CESRabat is the 16th of November.
🔗Submit here: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026
We look forward to seeing you in Rabat!
🔗Submit here: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026
We look forward to seeing you in Rabat!
Cultural Evolution Society 2026 Conference | Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique - FGSES
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November 14, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Only 2 days left to get your abstracts in!
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In the age of AI slop, true expertise is even more important to value.
Experts are the people who get so annoyed about the precise way to describe something they dedicate their lives to it (see excellent blog: www.experimental-history.com/p/thank-you-...).
We need them and their journals.
7.2/n
Experts are the people who get so annoyed about the precise way to describe something they dedicate their lives to it (see excellent blog: www.experimental-history.com/p/thank-you-...).
We need them and their journals.
7.2/n
Thank you for being annoying
OR: whack 'em if you got 'em
www.experimental-history.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
In the age of AI slop, true expertise is even more important to value.
Experts are the people who get so annoyed about the precise way to describe something they dedicate their lives to it (see excellent blog: www.experimental-history.com/p/thank-you-...).
We need them and their journals.
7.2/n
Experts are the people who get so annoyed about the precise way to describe something they dedicate their lives to it (see excellent blog: www.experimental-history.com/p/thank-you-...).
We need them and their journals.
7.2/n
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Brand-new conference on collective behaviour! Join us to foster a community to study how interactions among the constituents trigger fascinating collective phenomena: biofilms, fish schools, tissue self-organisation, bird swarms & many more!
Thanks to amazing speakers for helping us realise this!
Thanks to amazing speakers for helping us realise this!
✨ How do bird flocks form or diseases emerge?
Join the brand-new EMBO | EMBL Symposium #EESCollectivity and explore how collective behaviours arise from fundamental principles across biological systems 🧬🦠🐒
💻 s.embl.org/ees26-01-bl
✒️ Submit your abstract by 18 Nov
Join the brand-new EMBO | EMBL Symposium #EESCollectivity and explore how collective behaviours arise from fundamental principles across biological systems 🧬🦠🐒
💻 s.embl.org/ees26-01-bl
✒️ Submit your abstract by 18 Nov
August 22, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Brand-new conference on collective behaviour! Join us to foster a community to study how interactions among the constituents trigger fascinating collective phenomena: biofilms, fish schools, tissue self-organisation, bird swarms & many more!
Thanks to amazing speakers for helping us realise this!
Thanks to amazing speakers for helping us realise this!
Pinball model of development and reprogramming. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Pinball model of development and reprogramming. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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I am pleased to announce a new postdoctoral position in Theoretical Ecology. More info here: info.bc3research.org/2025/11/06/p...
Postdoctoral position in agroecology for TRANSFORM Project
The Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) is offering a full-time postdoctoral research position to support activities within a Horizon Europe project. The project focuses on developing innovative cr...
info.bc3research.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I am pleased to announce a new postdoctoral position in Theoretical Ecology. More info here: info.bc3research.org/2025/11/06/p...
Innovation isn’t random — it follows geometric laws.
Our new Behind the Paper post in @springernature.com Communities explores how innovation forms a fractal geometry — self-organizing like a living system.
communities.springernature.com/posts/the-fr...
Our new Behind the Paper post in @springernature.com Communities explores how innovation forms a fractal geometry — self-organizing like a living system.
communities.springernature.com/posts/the-fr...
The Fractal Geometry of Innovation
Why are some cities more innovative than others? Mapping more than a century of U.S. patents, our npj Complexity study reveals fractal and scaling patterns in innovation—showing how the distribution o...
communities.springernature.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Innovation isn’t random — it follows geometric laws.
Our new Behind the Paper post in @springernature.com Communities explores how innovation forms a fractal geometry — self-organizing like a living system.
communities.springernature.com/posts/the-fr...
Our new Behind the Paper post in @springernature.com Communities explores how innovation forms a fractal geometry — self-organizing like a living system.
communities.springernature.com/posts/the-fr...
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📢 Here is my commentary about the pitfalls of taking an impoverished evolutionary approach to culture, which include 'the limitations of a unidirectional model of evolution' and 'the neglect of niche construction theory'. #ehbea #evolution #psychscisky 🧪
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The pitfalls of an impoverished approach to culture: Commentary on Baumard and André
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November 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
📢 Here is my commentary about the pitfalls of taking an impoverished evolutionary approach to culture, which include 'the limitations of a unidirectional model of evolution' and 'the neglect of niche construction theory'. #ehbea #evolution #psychscisky 🧪
🧵 1/2
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🧵 1/2
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Congratulations to @gemmaeling.bsky.social al, Ana M. Rojas, and @rosafernandez.bsky.social for their groundbreaking application of large language models to understand the functions of uncharacterized proteins (the “dark proteome” sequences). This is a solid step towards non-model organisms! 🪄🧬
📣Una herramienta basada en IA es capaz de predecir funciones desconocidas de cualquier proteína
📕 Un estudio del @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social y el @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social ha revelado la función de 24 millones de genes codificantes para proteínas en animales.🧵
👉https://shorturl.at/O1x3m
📕 Un estudio del @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social y el @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social ha revelado la función de 24 millones de genes codificantes para proteínas en animales.🧵
👉https://shorturl.at/O1x3m
November 5, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Congratulations to @gemmaeling.bsky.social al, Ana M. Rojas, and @rosafernandez.bsky.social for their groundbreaking application of large language models to understand the functions of uncharacterized proteins (the “dark proteome” sequences). This is a solid step towards non-model organisms! 🪄🧬
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Fractal clusters and urban scaling shape spatial inequality in U.S. patenting 🏺🧪
S. Duran-Nebreda, @blaividiella.bsky.social, @svalver.bsky.social et al
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Innovation is distributed unevenly across space, yet mechanisms behind patenting inequality are poorly understood.
S. Duran-Nebreda, @blaividiella.bsky.social, @svalver.bsky.social et al
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Innovation is distributed unevenly across space, yet mechanisms behind patenting inequality are poorly understood.
November 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Fractal clusters and urban scaling shape spatial inequality in U.S. patenting 🏺🧪
S. Duran-Nebreda, @blaividiella.bsky.social, @svalver.bsky.social et al
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Innovation is distributed unevenly across space, yet mechanisms behind patenting inequality are poorly understood.
S. Duran-Nebreda, @blaividiella.bsky.social, @svalver.bsky.social et al
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Innovation is distributed unevenly across space, yet mechanisms behind patenting inequality are poorly understood.
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Congratulations Sergi and Co, excellent work! Bretskyan hierarchy in spirit work on the spatial structures of innovation.
Look at this revealing thread on the new study about the spatial patterns of human innovation👇
🧪 #Complexity
Look at this revealing thread on the new study about the spatial patterns of human innovation👇
🧪 #Complexity
Is #innovation born or made? Why do some places keep innovating while others fall behind? Is innovation the product of cities—or of deeper laws?
Our new paper in npj Complexity explores these questions through the lens of a century of US patent data.🧵👇
nature.com/articles/s44...
Our new paper in npj Complexity explores these questions through the lens of a century of US patent data.🧵👇
nature.com/articles/s44...
November 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Congratulations Sergi and Co, excellent work! Bretskyan hierarchy in spirit work on the spatial structures of innovation.
Look at this revealing thread on the new study about the spatial patterns of human innovation👇
🧪 #Complexity
Look at this revealing thread on the new study about the spatial patterns of human innovation👇
🧪 #Complexity
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What does #ecology have to do with #innovation?
#Scalinglaws of innovation don’t just come from city size, they emerge from how ideas compete and spread.
Then, inequality is not a bug; it’s an emergent feature.
See doi.org/10.1038/s442... @svalver.bsky.social @sduran-nebreda.bsky.social
#Scalinglaws of innovation don’t just come from city size, they emerge from how ideas compete and spread.
Then, inequality is not a bug; it’s an emergent feature.
See doi.org/10.1038/s442... @svalver.bsky.social @sduran-nebreda.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
What does #ecology have to do with #innovation?
#Scalinglaws of innovation don’t just come from city size, they emerge from how ideas compete and spread.
Then, inequality is not a bug; it’s an emergent feature.
See doi.org/10.1038/s442... @svalver.bsky.social @sduran-nebreda.bsky.social
#Scalinglaws of innovation don’t just come from city size, they emerge from how ideas compete and spread.
Then, inequality is not a bug; it’s an emergent feature.
See doi.org/10.1038/s442... @svalver.bsky.social @sduran-nebreda.bsky.social
There’s no need for confrontation here. Qualitative and quantitative approaches study the same phenomenon, just at different levels and timescales.
Innovation needs both: imagination to create new forms, and analysis to understand how those forms evolve and connect.
Innovation needs both: imagination to create new forms, and analysis to understand how those forms evolve and connect.
I get what you are saying, yet disagree. Quant counts what is known. Qual discovers what is unknown (which can then be counted or quantified). Innovation is discovery. They aren't opposites but I still argue that Qual is more in innovation's wheelhouse.
Quant and Qual are not opposites — they’re layers of the same phenomenon.
Innovation begins as a social process — people, relationships, creativity — yet it leaves patterns we can learn from.
Quant analysis shouldn't replace the human story; it helps us see how those stories connect across scales.
Innovation begins as a social process — people, relationships, creativity — yet it leaves patterns we can learn from.
Quant analysis shouldn't replace the human story; it helps us see how those stories connect across scales.
November 4, 2025 at 9:40 AM
There’s no need for confrontation here. Qualitative and quantitative approaches study the same phenomenon, just at different levels and timescales.
Innovation needs both: imagination to create new forms, and analysis to understand how those forms evolve and connect.
Innovation needs both: imagination to create new forms, and analysis to understand how those forms evolve and connect.
Quant and Qual are not opposites — they’re layers of the same phenomenon.
Innovation begins as a social process — people, relationships, creativity — yet it leaves patterns we can learn from.
Quant analysis shouldn't replace the human story; it helps us see how those stories connect across scales.
Innovation begins as a social process — people, relationships, creativity — yet it leaves patterns we can learn from.
Quant analysis shouldn't replace the human story; it helps us see how those stories connect across scales.
Innovation isn't quant, it's Qual. The quant just counts the outcome.
Is #innovation born or made? Why do some places keep innovating while others fall behind? Is innovation the product of cities—or of deeper laws?
Our new paper in npj Complexity explores these questions through the lens of a century of US patent data.🧵👇
nature.com/articles/s44...
Our new paper in npj Complexity explores these questions through the lens of a century of US patent data.🧵👇
nature.com/articles/s44...
November 4, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Quant and Qual are not opposites — they’re layers of the same phenomenon.
Innovation begins as a social process — people, relationships, creativity — yet it leaves patterns we can learn from.
Quant analysis shouldn't replace the human story; it helps us see how those stories connect across scales.
Innovation begins as a social process — people, relationships, creativity — yet it leaves patterns we can learn from.
Quant analysis shouldn't replace the human story; it helps us see how those stories connect across scales.
Is #innovation born or made? Why do some places keep innovating while others fall behind? Is innovation the product of cities—or of deeper laws?
Our new paper in npj Complexity explores these questions through the lens of a century of US patent data.🧵👇
nature.com/articles/s44...
Our new paper in npj Complexity explores these questions through the lens of a century of US patent data.🧵👇
nature.com/articles/s44...
November 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Is #innovation born or made? Why do some places keep innovating while others fall behind? Is innovation the product of cities—or of deeper laws?
Our new paper in npj Complexity explores these questions through the lens of a century of US patent data.🧵👇
nature.com/articles/s44...
Our new paper in npj Complexity explores these questions through the lens of a century of US patent data.🧵👇
nature.com/articles/s44...
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Excited to be in Valencia this week for my annual master’s seminar at the Master’s Degree in Bioinformatics, coinciding with the publication of our new book chapter based on course notes.
Thanks to @julipereto.bsky.social for the ongoing collaboration!
📚 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Thanks to @julipereto.bsky.social for the ongoing collaboration!
📚 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Networks: The Visual Language of Complexity
Understanding the origins of complexity is a fundamental challenge with implications for biological and technological systems. Network theory emerges as a powerful tool to model complex systems. Netwo...
link.springer.com
October 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Excited to be in Valencia this week for my annual master’s seminar at the Master’s Degree in Bioinformatics, coinciding with the publication of our new book chapter based on course notes.
Thanks to @julipereto.bsky.social for the ongoing collaboration!
📚 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Thanks to @julipereto.bsky.social for the ongoing collaboration!
📚 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Postdoc Opportunity - Interested in plant scaling, quantitative botany, or theoretical plant biology? join our group to explore how plant form, function & scaling principles connect across levels of organization
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology🧪🌾🌐
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology🧪🌾🌐
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation
www.simonsfoundation.org
October 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Postdoc Opportunity - Interested in plant scaling, quantitative botany, or theoretical plant biology? join our group to explore how plant form, function & scaling principles connect across levels of organization
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology🧪🌾🌐
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology🧪🌾🌐
Excellent opportunity at a fantastic institute with one of our best PIs.
🚨JOB ALERT
Dr. Buceta at @i2sysbio.es welcome applications for 36-month postdocs on:
👉 Mechanical markers of tissue dysfunction due to ageing – digital twins & machine learning
Details here: fgcsic.es/convocatoria...
📩 Contact [email protected] to shape your proposal!
@epimechfc.bsky.social
Dr. Buceta at @i2sysbio.es welcome applications for 36-month postdocs on:
👉 Mechanical markers of tissue dysfunction due to ageing – digital twins & machine learning
Details here: fgcsic.es/convocatoria...
📩 Contact [email protected] to shape your proposal!
@epimechfc.bsky.social
ComFuturo Fourth Edition: ComFuturo iAGE Call - FGCSIC
The Fundación General CSIC (FGCSIC) launches the fourth edition of its ComFuturo programme: ComFuturo iAGE, a postdoctoral initiative co-financed by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions COFUND scheme of...
fgcsic.es
October 14, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Excellent opportunity at a fantastic institute with one of our best PIs.
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In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.
Your Genes Are Simply Not Enough to Explain How Smart You Are
Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.
www.theatlantic.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.
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🚀 The University of Rochester is hiring in Complex Systems (Physics)!
Join a vibrant cross-disciplinary cluster supported by the Simons Foundation.
Great opportunity to build a program at the interface of physics, biology & cognition.
Apply ➡️ apply.interfolio.com/173432
Join a vibrant cross-disciplinary cluster supported by the Simons Foundation.
Great opportunity to build a program at the interface of physics, biology & cognition.
Apply ➡️ apply.interfolio.com/173432
Apply - Interfolio
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October 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
🚀 The University of Rochester is hiring in Complex Systems (Physics)!
Join a vibrant cross-disciplinary cluster supported by the Simons Foundation.
Great opportunity to build a program at the interface of physics, biology & cognition.
Apply ➡️ apply.interfolio.com/173432
Join a vibrant cross-disciplinary cluster supported by the Simons Foundation.
Great opportunity to build a program at the interface of physics, biology & cognition.
Apply ➡️ apply.interfolio.com/173432
The Innovation Game: How Arcade Genres Evolve, Imitate, and Collapse
www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20... @blaividiella.bsky.social @andrejpaleo.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20... @blaividiella.bsky.social @andrejpaleo.bsky.social
The Innovation Game: How Arcade Genres Evolve, Imitate, and Collapse « News# « Cambridge Core Blog
What can Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Mortal Kombat teach us about cultural evolution? In shopping malls of the 1970s, arcades were where people played digital games together, huddled around custom-bu...
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October 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The Innovation Game: How Arcade Genres Evolve, Imitate, and Collapse
www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20... @blaividiella.bsky.social @andrejpaleo.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20... @blaividiella.bsky.social @andrejpaleo.bsky.social
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📢 Excited to announce CompleNet 2026! Join us to share your network science research in a highly interdisciplinary conference!
🗓️ 4–8 May 2026 | 📍 Zaragoza, Spain 🇪🇸
🚨 Call for contributions open – submit by Nov 15, 2025!
🌐 Info & registration: complenet.weeblysite.com
🗓️ 4–8 May 2026 | 📍 Zaragoza, Spain 🇪🇸
🚨 Call for contributions open – submit by Nov 15, 2025!
🌐 Info & registration: complenet.weeblysite.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
📢 Excited to announce CompleNet 2026! Join us to share your network science research in a highly interdisciplinary conference!
🗓️ 4–8 May 2026 | 📍 Zaragoza, Spain 🇪🇸
🚨 Call for contributions open – submit by Nov 15, 2025!
🌐 Info & registration: complenet.weeblysite.com
🗓️ 4–8 May 2026 | 📍 Zaragoza, Spain 🇪🇸
🚨 Call for contributions open – submit by Nov 15, 2025!
🌐 Info & registration: complenet.weeblysite.com
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This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥
We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪
Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪
Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
October 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥
We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪
Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪
Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
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Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91. Gift link: nyti.ms/48FOuUn
nyti.ms
October 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91. Gift link: nyti.ms/48FOuUn
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Study is exploring what paleontologists and neontologists know about the punctuated equilibria, and how they perceive the dominant modes of evolution. As expected, there is a significant variance in views on evolution reflecting differing backgrounds.
doi.org/10.1017/pab....
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio
doi.org/10.1017/pab....
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio
October 1, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Study is exploring what paleontologists and neontologists know about the punctuated equilibria, and how they perceive the dominant modes of evolution. As expected, there is a significant variance in views on evolution reflecting differing backgrounds.
doi.org/10.1017/pab....
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio
doi.org/10.1017/pab....
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio