Day 3 of #SMBE26! Inspiring talks on gut microbiome evolution by @nanditagarud.bsky.social and great sessions on ancient animals & viruses! 🦠 A special remark on the paleoproteomics session with Palesa Madupe about social responsibility & ethics in African research! 🌍

If you are into Museomics, Metagenomics, or just want to complain about why mosquitoes only bite you 🦟... I can help you with the first two! Check out my Poster 262 on Mosquito Museomics in room Arkaden 8! #SMBE26

Outstanding 2nd-day plenary talk from Mehmet Somel on how female-centered societies in the Neolithic were actually a trend in Anatolia! #SMBE26

What a start! Wrapping up the first day of #SMBE26 with amazing talks covering Ai methods to detect ancient pathogens, museums metagenomics, and a great work on the Culex side with 4 new high-quality reference genomes!

Interactive schedule for SMBE2026. Enjoy the conference! #SMBE2026 github.com/MoiColl/SMBE...

We have a new preprint! - "Ancient Pathogen Genomics in Africa – Current Evidence and Future Directions" A review of current evidence, challenges, and opportunities for studying past epidemics and host–pathogen evolution using ancient DNA from African contexts. www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...

New Publication! New Article by #HEASVienna member @meriamguellil.bsky.social et al. on 'Tracing 2500 years of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B diversity through ancient DNA' #HEASPublications www.heas.at/research/pub...

Nobel laureate Svante Pääbo, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, will deliver the 2026 EMBL Kafatos lecture. The lecture will explore how traces of Neanderthal DNA might shape human biology and health today. www.embl.org/news/embl-an...

The recording of this talk with @rokofler.bsky.social is now available on the #HEASVienna YouTube channel.

🦣🧬🦣🤯💥We are pleased to share our new paper about ancient RNA expression profiles from the Woolly Mammoth, now published in Cell @cellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... If you want to know more, read the 🧵 below:

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✊Italia se paraliza por Gaza: los sindicatos convocan una huelga general tras el asalto israelí a la flotilla www.elsaltodiario.com/italia/itali...

Wrapping up my first congress #ESEB2025! Incredible insights from leading experts and an inspiring Museomics session. Excited to bring new ideas into my project!

Goodbye #eseb2025 @eseb2025.bsky.social see you next time! Perhaps what stuck most was powerful talk on resilience and survival by Palestinian researcher, play director, and ESEB EUEA awardee May Shehady. Let's not forget, let's not look away. 🇵🇸

#ESEB2025 great talks in the museomics session, including @amandalindahl.bsky.social giving a great talk on her first (!!) conference 👏 🐻

Attending #ESEB2025 has been an amazing experience! If you are interested in more ancient DNA and museomics, please consider joining us in Stockholm for the first International Conference on Palaeogenomics (June 23-26 2026)! Follow @palaeogenomics.bsky.social 👉icp2026.palaeogenomics.org

🚨🚨CASUAL GALA DINNER🚨🚨 For those not going to the gala dinner, let’s keep the networking going with a casual beach dinner! Bring something to eat or drink, and join us. WhatsApp group: chat.whatsapp.com/E5o0crMZxibD... Starting 5:30 PM today - position attached. #ESEB2025 PLEASE REPOST!!!

Ancient Yersinia pestis genome discovered in 4,000-year-old sheep tooth sheds new light on a mysterious infectious disease that plagued prehistoric Eurasia. New research by @keyfm.bsky.social and @i-light-maka.bsky.social now published in @cellpress.bsky.social: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Amazing #eseb2025 talk!

Finally, the #museomics symposium. #ESEB2025

Museums, well known for having exhibits about the future