Reference genome choice compromises population genetic analyses - Cell www.cell.com/cell/abstrac... #genetics #genomics #popgen

Learn all things C. elegans #research at the EMBO | The Company of Biologists Workshop "C. elegans Biology: IV LAWM" in Merida, Mexico, 24–28 February 2026. Registration by 16 January 2026 Abstract submission by 17 October 2025 meetings.embo.org/event/26-worm #EMBOWorms2026 #EMBOevents 🧪

We are hiring! The Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics is looking for faculty at the Assistant or Associate professor level (tenure track). Please consider joining our vibrant microbiology and immunology community at the University of Pittsburgh School of medicine

I wrote my new Nature World View in this transition — one last reflection before leaving Colombia. It explains why inequities persist in science, even when dressed up as inclusion, and why we must stop mistaking access for change. 👉 rdcu.be/eGEun

Interested in #virulence? Not sure what it is - or how to explain it? Just curious? 🧐🦠🧬🦋 @kayla-king.bsky.social and I just wrote a Primer for @currentbiology.bsky.social on the ecology and evolution of virulence! Check it below and share :) #MicroSky #EvoSky #pathogens

🦠💀🦠 Happy to share our (with @gunnar-u-neumann.bsky.social) new preprint on ancient Salmonella enterica genomes! We analysed 53 new genomes along with published ancient and modern datasets to learn about lineage replacements and host adaptation in prehistory: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Adaptations to water stress and pastoralism in the Turkana of northwest Kenya | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I will be recruiting two PhDs for my ERC Project HERDPATH - let's discover out how livestock and pathogens evolved together using #aDNA. Projects will be animal or pathogen focused but will be in dialogue. Details at my quaint website below. Deadline 3rd October. kevingdaly.github.io

Open postdoc position in in my lab in Berlin @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de. Join us to push the frontier in ancient microbial genomics. Please apply until Oct 17th. Reach out in case you have any questions. www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/2193291/job_...

“Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum will become the first woman to lead the celebration of the 215th anniversary of Mexican Independence.” www.nbclosangeles.com/news/nationa...

Thank goodness for @channel4.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

One week left to apply for our postdoc position on Deep-Time Small Rodent Palaeogenomics! This is a 2-year full-time position that includes Swedish employment benefits, as well as funding for research expenses and work-related travel. More info and application link: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Cobertura mediática por parte del @elpaismexico.bsky.social sobre nuestro estudio reciente publicado en Science, sobre la historia evolutiva de los mamut excavados de Sta Lucia inferida a partir de sus genomas mitocondriales 👇. @liigh-unam.bsky.social #INAH shorturl.at/AKpAx

Check out the latest from Mike and I on how to be a scientist in a post-journal world 9/9 thescientistpapers.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...

Excited to share that I’ve started as Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark! 🧑‍🎓 I also received an a NNF Emerging Investigator grant to use genomics + machine learning to study extinction. 👉 PhD & Postdoc positions coming soon — follow for updates! Reposts appreciated 🙏

🌎👩‍🔬 For 15+ years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵 Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open. doi.org/10.1101/2024...

Announcing SimHumanity, a baseline SLiM 5.0 model of the full human genome, replete with demographic history, autosomes, X/Y, and mtDNA. A shared starting point for reproducible evolutionary simulations. We’d love your feedback! #SLiM #evolution #genomics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Following a marvelous time at ISBA11 and our PAASTA conference, we're back to sharing the work of our community with you here! @ipatramanis.bsky.social PAASTA talk from March about PaleoProPhyler a tool for #phylogenies from ancient proteins is now live on our YouTube youtu.be/2gVEQyinL4A

Excited to say we’re hiring 😊. We’re looking for a post-doc in ancient pathogen genomics to join our friendly supportive team in London at @ugiatucl.bsky.social. Start date January 2026. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Colás and Cumbia arrived to Dublin ☘️ cc @gingerhowley.bsky.social

Happy for my dear friends and colleagues @paleogenomics.bsky.social & @fsanchezquinto.bsky.social and their team, who just published a study @science.org describing the genetic diversity of mammoths 🦣 found while building an airport in 🇲🇽. DNA usually does not preserve well in warmer climates More 👇🏽

Mammoths’ genomes from Mexico? 🦣🇲🇽🧬 Yes! And you can find the full story here 🤩-> shorturl.at/xjIvy Congrats to all the authors!

Lo logramos! @paleogenomics.bsky.social @vvillaislas.bsky.social @mashaals.bsky.social @jcchacond.bsky.social #EduardoArrieta #AngelesTavares #MiriamBravo, #AleCastillo #MarceSandoval, Muchas gracias por su gran entusiasmo, dedicación y entrega. (Ayúdenme a taggear a quienes hacen falta).

Muchas gracias a todxs lxs involucrads en este trabajo, su participación fue clave!. Con esta publicación la paleogenómica en México y Latinoamérica se consolida. Por su puesto celebramos con un pastel de mamut! Muchas gracias @liigh-unam.bsky.social #INAH por el apoyo.!

Este trabajo sólo fue posible gracias al entusiasmo, dedicación y extraordinario trabajo de estudiantes e investigadores de la UNAM y el INAH, quienes combinamos nuestro conocimiento en paleontología y paleogenómica. @paleogenomics.bsky.social Esta trabajo es importante por muchas razones: 👇 3/N

Most people have no idea how horrible colonialism was, how much it was driven by & also generated racist ideas, & how much of it lives on www.bbc.com/news/article...

📣 #HAAMcommunity is looking for early career researchers working on human #aDNA & #popgen for the upcoming elections 🌎🌍🌏 Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or want to chat about this. Apply here (ignore the deadline in the form): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Join us for Ancient DNA: New Revelations, a free CARTA public symposium! 🧬💡 Friday, November 7, 2025 1:00–5:30 PM (Pacific) In-person at the Salk Institute & Live Webcast For more details and registration, visit: carta.anthropogeny.org #carta #cartaucsd #ancientdna

Our Pitt Microbiology and Molecular Genetics department in the School of Medicine is recruiting.. Microbiologists! 🧫🦠🔬🧪 Please apply to join our faculty and enjoy these views 👀 while doing great science cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

SO THRILLED to welcome Dr. Miguel Guardado to the #newPhD club! 🎉 His exit talk was incredible, and his acknowledgements among the most impassioned I’ve heard. So proud of him and all he’s accomplished! Please read his words of hope—take up space! Progress takes us all. @scimiguel.bsky.social

The University of Washington seeks a Postdoctoral Scholar for genetic mark recapture in Atlantic Bluefin Tuna. Applicants with a biology PhD and genomic experience encouraged to apply by Oct 31, 2025. More info: https://fish.uw.edu/faculty/lorenz-hauser/ #postdoc

Turns out imputation of introgressed archaic regions in aDNA works really well — sometimes even better than for the rest of the genome. More on this (and other cool results) in our new preprint 👇 #aDNA #ArchaicIntrogression #imputation doi.org/10.1101/2025...

@david-peede.bsky.social et al on the convoluted route of a variant of the MUC19 gene: Denisovans (before going extinct) passed the gene to Neanderthals, who (before going extinct) passed it to ancient humans, who then crossed the Bering Strait. Today, 1 in 3 Mexicans carry the genetic variant.

Thrilled to see this paper on MUC19 out. I feel honoured and priviledged to have witnessed this amazing project unfold. Read @fervillanea.bsky.social ’s thread and be prepared for a jaw-dropping story on introgression and selection, and best of all… in Native and Admixed Americans!!

📢 We're excited to launch our AaRCademy Workshop Series kicking off October 7th online! 🧬Our first session, "aDNA Data Processing", will be led by Nikolay Oskolkov from Lund University. 📅 Registration closes September 7th! Sign up via the QR code or link below. #aDNA @aarc-community.bsky.social

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I built a Gradio app to illustrate how selective sweeps can be detected from population genetic data: ryangutenkunst-sweep-detection-dpi.hf.space . It can help with your first submissions to the GHIST sweep detection challenges! ghi.st #GHIST

We're very happy to release our new database Metalog metalog.embl.de ! It offers manually curated and harmonised contextual data for 110k metagenomics samples across the globe, incl. precomputed taxonomic profiles, for interactive browsing and for download 🧵 1/7 #microsky

Music to my ears. This is brilliant. Either 90% of us can claim to be better musicians than Beethoven or… maybe just maybe polygenic scores aren’t perfect?

A an exhibition in Paris telling the story of Gaza, part of Palestine. Hopefully these artefacts can one day return there, to a museum in a safe, peaceful nation free from occupation🏺 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center. www.wthr.com/article/news...

Trainees: If you haven't already, learn the value of implementing the Bat Signal with your peers. When you're stuck and need a body double, a review, a brainstorm, an escape... this can be game-changing. Don't worry about being a bother, instead: pay it forward. We all need it a some point. 1/3

👇 Wait a minute, hold the phone... This is quite alarming. A New Study Just Found Something Horrifying About Kids Who Get Phones Early in Life Protecting the Developing Mind in a Digital Age: A Global Policy Imperative 🏺🧪 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Results of our (extremely long-term) side project with @amygoldberg.bsky.social and @jgschraiber.bsky.social out now in G3: doi.org/10.1093/g3jo... We benchmarked methods for estimating ancestry proportions under mapping bias and present an adjusted GenotypeLikelihood to mitigate its impact (1/2)

Academics who have questioned the validity of efforts to “de-extinct” animals like the woolly mammoth and the dire wolf have complained of an apparent campaign to discredit them.

Thanks to #smbe2025 organizers! It was a tremendous meeting. I loved the science, the people, the food, and the city. Proud of my students who came and presented posters/talks. So stoked that so many Mexicans attended!

Today @ #SMBE2025 10:50-10:55 Room 3 Flash talk “Pathogen Evolution and Social Dynamics in Colonial Mexico through Paleogenomics” By Laura Carrillo-Olivas from our group.

I am seeking a postdoc for my group at UCLA. We work at the intersection of population genetics x microbiome (garud.eeb.ucla.edu). If interested, please message me!

Big day to our lab and lab's friends at #SMBE2025: Come check these out: