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🔬 Uploading or finding ancient DNA data a headache? Help fix it! Join our Standards in Human ancient DNA metadata workshop 🧬 🗓️ June 19, 2025 🕐 13:00–16:00 CET 💻 Online | 💰 Free 💬 Feedback = co-authorship possible! 👉 Register: shorturl.at/D3j6i

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People, remember to be kind. Just be kind to each other.

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I learned HMMER as an undergrad in one of my courses at UNAM (Mexico) ~20 years ago. It’s a fundamental tool in genomics… I’m in shock… What is going on in the US has unquestionably a global impact.

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In the 19th century, a New Orleans doctor sent the skulls of 19 Black Americans to a doctor in Germany, where they were used as part of now discredited racial science. The remains were recently returned to the city, where they will be laid to rest on Saturday.

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Paleoproteomics and sexing of Paranthropus in South Africa published today in @ScienceMagazine science.org/doi/10.1126/... #archaeology #anthropology

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These creative questions are fun to answer and can help reveal people's personalities. Conflict resolution facilitator Priya Parker shares her favorites and explains how to come up with your own.

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And now we are listening to @itzyyp.bsky.social, working with @paleogenomics.bsky.social, talk about #paleogenomics of Porphyromonas gingivalis in Colonial Mexico 🇲🇽🦠 #LCGUNAM @liigh-unam.bsky.social

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Our students have organised the first Undergraduates in Genome Sciences symposium, where they will be presenting the research they have been working on for the last year! We are starting with Valeria Vela giving introductory remarks #LCGUNAM @liigh-unam.bsky.social

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New metagenome assembler for ONT R10 and PacBio HiFi reads, from Jim Shaw. See Jim's thread for details

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🚨 Don’t miss the 1st HAAM-radio symposium: "Ethics in Human DNA Research" 📅 May 29 (next week!) 🕒 LA (7am) l Berlin (4pm) | Singapore (10pm) 🎙️ With @paleogenomics.bsky.social @jenniferraff.bsky.social @marisolespitia.bsky.social & Tomás Gozález Zarzar 📝 Register by May 28 🔗 shorturl.at/1VScZ

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We're thrilled to announce that the FIRST International Conference on Palaeogenomics will happen in Stockholm, Sweden, June 23-26 2026! Topics will span from humans to wildlife and sediments 🧬🦣💀🦠 bring it on! Save the dates! Follow @palaeogenomics.bsky.social for news 👉icp2026.palaeogenomics.org

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Today marks five years since Minneapolis police murdered George Floyd, igniting nationwide demands for an end to police violence. We're working with local partners across the country to hold police departments accountable for misconduct — including in Minneapolis.

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No se lo pierdan!

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It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

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It's not really deportation if people are sent to countries where they never lived. It's a human trafficking ring. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Just like we need women in STEM and "Girls Who Code", we need “Men Who Nurse” and “Guys Who Teach,” pipeline programs that can offer boys pathways forward in female-typed fields. @reshmasaujani.bsky.social time.com/7286184/worr...

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Whales, Greenland, and some really old mud. My first PhD chapter now published in @natcomms.nature.com reveals 12,000 years of marine mammal history around Northern Greenland through DNA hidden in marine mud. Check it out: rdcu.be/emdYS #sedaDNA #Greenland #Arctic #whales #seals

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Lazy Sunday

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Lazy Sunday

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Massive DNA sequencing effort reveals how colonization shaped Brazil’s genetic diversity. My new story in @science.org. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Acá les dejo la entrevista que me hizo Andrés Cota para @revista_unam Hablamos sobre Xin Xin la última emperatriz panda de Chapultepec (y un poquito sobre los poderosísimos Pandas, el equipo donde juego). Tengan para que se entretengan. youtu.be/inVg6X6FVlE?...

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Very proud of my colleagues and friends for their amazing publication out in Science today! Nunes et al. "Admixture’s impact on Brazilian population evolution and health" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @hunemeier.bsky.social @macscastro.bsky.social 👏

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📢 Calling PhD students 📢 we want to hear from you! Help shape the future of PhD education. Take our survey to tell us all about your experiences https://go.nature.com/43iJAsi

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RAxML-NG v2.0 beta is here github.com/amkozlov/rax... Features 1. Difficulty prediction academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... 2. Adaptive search academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... 3. Early Stop www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 4. Model selection 5. Rapid bootstrapping academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

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Folks, you read that right: this whole book on #GlobalHealth is available #OpenAccess! #histmed

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Holy fuck www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations! These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs. Save and share the post!

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Chimpanzee drumming may give clues to the roots of rhythm, my latest in @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

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To all the Moms who fill that role, who wanted to be, but didn’t have the chance, or who fight for the rights of those who choose not to be, I send love and support as we navigate these most difficult dark waters. Love is fierce & Love is kind & Love is always more powerful than hate. ❤️

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My new book, “Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary” publishes today from @princetonupress.bsky.social My goal in writing this book is to facilitate a better conversation. A short thread…

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Our dog, definitely our dog.

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It’s not so soft tbh.

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Aarhus University seeks a Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate Professor in bioinformatics. Deadline: June 1, 2025. Focus on computat… https://international.au.dk/about/profile/vacant-positions/job/tenure-track-assistant-professor-associate-professor-in-bioinformatics-at-aarhus-university-denmark-1 #job

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I can't wait to dive into this #GlobalMiddleAges story: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Prior skepticism about links between past and present Puebloan groups "has negatively affected Tribal Nations seeking to protect and preserve Chaco Canyon and its ancestral role in the Puebloan world" 🧪

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ASHG is concerned about the research cuts in the proposed U.S. FY26 budget, forecasting substantial reductions to the NIH and other agencies. We urge the U.S. Congress to reject this proposal and maintain support for life-saving biomedical research. Read More: www.ashg.org/publications... #ASHG

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It finally reached me. I’m in this lot. Understanding how epidemics started in the past is not relevant for this administration.

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Almost 1,000 abstracts have already been submitted for hashtag#ESEB2025: and we want to hear your voice too! 🌍 We are excited to bring together a diverse, global community of evolutionary biologists this summer in Barcelona. 📅 Submit your abstract now:https://eseb2025.com/call-for-abstracts/

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Diversity in the academic workforce objectively increases novelty#, impact* and technical innovation$. References for each claim in 🧵. So, some of you may be thinking "this doesn't affect me". It 💯 does if you want medical breakthroughs, or if, as a scientist, you want to do your best work. 🧪

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Breaking news: A Trump-appointed federal judge ruled that the president exceeded his authority by invoking the Alien Enemies Act to summarily deport Venezuelan migrants, dealing a blow to the administration’s deportation efforts and permanently barring such removals in South Texas.

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Shift in focus at #HumanEvo25 ! @paleogenomics.bsky.social on the 🧬 legacy of colonization in Mexico 🇲🇽 🥰

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Maria Avila-Arcos @paleogenomics.bsky.social aDNA & modern genomes reveal the impact of colonialism over time. In Mexico, European and African genes mixed with Indigenous populations. African gene flow, previously understudied, reveals demography, ancestry & identity in Mexico today. #HumanEvo25

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“If left unchallenged, a rising wave of white nationalism in many parts of the globe could threaten the progress that has been made in science — and broader society — towards a more equitable world,” writes Genevieve Wojcik in a Comment article for Nature. 🧬 🧪

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#WithoutNSF my lab won’t receive the critical funding it needs to continue studying how ancient pathogens adapted to human hosts. #NSF supports our country's leadership in science and innovation. #SupportNSF #SaveNSF www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxOE...

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