Luís M. Rocha

If you're in Lisbon tonight. Come dance.

(Chronologically)
Billie Holiday - Lady in Satin
Nina Simone - Little Girl Blues
Rita Lee - Rita Lee
Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
Sade - Diamond Life

Congrats to Dr. Luís M. Rocha & Dr. Ahmed Abdeen Hamed on their SUNY - The State University of New York AI Platform Award to support work on “LLM-Accelerated Multilayered Network Construction for Breast Cancer Drug Repurposing and Combination Discovery through Agentic AI Collaboration." #BingPride

Is it just me, or just the right, exact number of Democrats in Congress voted against the war powers resolution to make it sink? #DNC

Updating the Complex Systems Keyword Diagram Using Collective Feedback and Latest Literature Data The complex systems keyword diagram generated by the author in 2010 has been used widely in a variety of educational and outreach purposes, but it definitely needs a major update and reorganization. T...

Finally published
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

@rschifan.bsky.social speaking about studies to promote exposure to urban green at #NetSciX2026 in beautifully green Auckland. Important work showing accessibility indices for various cities and policy targets.

Beautiful morning for the start of NetSciX 2026 in Auckland! Looking forward to giving a talk tomorrow and meeting fellow network scientists #netsciX2026
@netscisociety.bsky.social

Multiscale Modelling Reveals Accelerating Community Outbreak Risks of Measles in the United States Measles resurgence in high-income countries that previously achieved elimination reveals a critical surveillance failure: current systems rely on county-level aggregates that obscure fine-scale cluste...

New study from my group on measles in the US helps explain why South Carolina’s 789‑case outbreak is exactly what you’d expect when under‑vaccinated schools and cross‑county school‑district corridors are invisible to county‑level surveillance
Preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202... #measles #surveillance

The logical mechanisms of life Updated second chapter of Lecture notes for ISE483/SSIE583 - Evolutionary Systems and Biologically Inspired Computing. Binghamton University.

Also on Substack heycityzen.substack.com/p/the-logica...

Updated Second Chapter of Lecture Notes.
casci.binghamton.edu/academics/i-...

Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.

I like the recommendation "Avoid overly broad funding calls." For decades I have recommended that the Portuguese funding agency stops "calls in all domains". But it is 2026 and we are still going through these expensive motions that likely pass the Szilard point...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

An Agent Revolt: Moltbook Is Not A Good Idea OpenClaw is a breakthrough AI assistant. Moltbook, its new social network for agents, is a security catastrophe waiting to happen.

'Cisco's security team put it plainly: "From a capability perspective, OpenClaw is groundbreaking. This is everything personal AI assistant developers have always wanted to achieve. From a security perspective, it's an absolute nightmare."'

www.forbes.com/sites/amirhu...

Ricardo Marques no @jornalexpresso.bsky.social alucina Minneapolis no Arizona.... Será uma IA?

Pleased to finally share this: our paper on sex-specific transcriptomic similarity networks to study comorbidities is published! This started from a simple but annoying gap: we know that women and men have different multimorbidity patterns, but we still rarely look at the underlying biology by sex.

If you work on multimorbidity, network medicine, sex/gender in health, or drug repurposing, we’ve made these results (and more) available in our portal: disease-perception.bsc.es/shdc/
@alfonsovalencia.bsky.social @lmrocha.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s438...

Preparing the next generation of Complex Networks and Systems scientists: Evaluation results for the Complex Networks and Systems NSF research training program at Indiana University Assessing and evaluating programmatic outcomes of graduate education programs help stakeholders understand and respond to challenges that emerge over the course of a complex academic program. Given th...

Great to see the evaluation of our NSF-NRT training grant come out. thank you @katyborner.bsky.social and team for doing this evaluation. I am still very proud of putting this interdisciplinary training program together with you and others at IU.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

2/2 "we find that immune and metabolic pathways are more prominently linked to comorbidity in women, whereas extracellular matrix organization and signal transduction pathways play a larger role in men". So happy to see the nascent @cberaproject.bsky.social network collaborating on #NetworkMedicine.

1/2Tour de force work connecting multiscale data to predict sex differences in comorbidity. Happy to have contributed but congratulations to @jonsv89.bsky.social, Davide Cirillo and @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social for driving this to completion.
doi.org/10.1038/s438...

What is Life? Updated First Chapter of Evolutionary Systems and Biologically Inspired Computing Course at Binghamton University.

open.substack.com/pub/heycityz...

Updated Chapter 1 of my lectures notes for the Evolutionary Systems course.
casci.binghamton.edu/academics/i-...

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Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis An analysis of footage from three camera angles show that the vehicle appears to be turning away from a federal officer as he opened fire.

"And the shame, was on the other side,
Oh, we can beat them forever and ever,
Then we could be heroes just for one day”.
Fascists be damned.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Super nice to be back at @sfiscience.bsky.social for such a fun workshop on collective transitions in biology and society.

CBR CBR hereby announces the opening of an international call for applications or one Research Fellowship for a Master's degree holder, under the terms of UCP's regulations on scientific research grants,...

CBeRa | PhD Fellowship in Complex Networks and Systems - Application deadline
📆 Jan 20, 2026

Grok Is Undressing Women and Children. Only Elon Musk Is to Blame The abuse is widespread. But instead of apologizing, Musk has gleefully encouraged the behavior, praising Grok’s ability and promoting the tool.

“Grok Is Undressing Women and Children. Only Elon Musk Is to Blame”

The abuse is widespread, writes ⁦‪⁦‪Taylor Lorenz‬⁩ for Zeteo. But instead of apologizing, Musk has gleefully encouraged the behavior, praising Grok’s ability and promoting the tool.

Esta foi mais ao estilo inglês e francês nas guerras do ópio contra a China e Vasco da Gama na Índia. Mais à gangster do que à César.

A defining moment for Europe. If it endorses/fails to condemn this flagrant breach of international law, it will have surrendered its core justification for opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.

Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Venezuelan president Maduro captured and flown out of country following ‘large scale’ US attack, Trump says – live US president says ‘the United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela’

The Empire strikes back, not just to grab oil and other riches but, fundamentally, to hide its own weakness at home – and to prepare the ground for subjugating its own people, in Chicago, Portland, NYC etc. Meanwhile, a vassal Europe watches in silence... www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Now that we have a fake golden-plate Putin of the Americas, reviving the Monroe doctrine zombie, I can't wait to hear European leaders saying about daddy Trump what they were saying about Putin....