It's an honour for us to host @willemsenanouk.bsky.social from @univie.ac.at, who is talking to us about virus evolution and their effect on cancer onset @liigh-unam.bsky.social

Non-British ECR interested in working with me on #bioarchaeology, the @britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowship scheme will shortly open. V keen on Egyptian bioarchaeology, human evo or #disAbility research 🏺https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/schemes/international-fellowships/

Happy new year! My all sky camera imaged the sky every 15 seconds and this picture shows what happened in the sky in 2025. It shows the length of the night and day with the hourglass shape, the monthly lunar cycle with the diagonal bands, the elevation of the Sun at local noon, and lots of clouds.

The best science images of 2025, as picked by Nature, include the Sun’s fiery surface, a tattooed tardigrade, and rare red lightning. See more. 🧪

Our Solar System is orbiting the center of our Galaxy at about 220 km/s so in 2025 we collectively traveled something like 7 billion kilometers across the Milky Way. Once in a while, when you have a moment, it’s worthwhile to take a look around, see where you are, and appreciate how far you’ve come.

2025 was the year we stopped debating whether paying peer reviewers might work and started showing that it does.

My favourite cross-linguistic homophone (a word in one language that sounds the same as a word from another language) is the Dutch word for a squirrel, eekhoorn, which is pronounced pretty much the same as the English word "acorn" (that squirrels of course love to eat).

Happy holidays! Here is a pic (composed of ~900 individual shots) of the Orion nebula, taken over two days in my parents' backyard ☺️🌌🌃 🔭💻(Seestar S50 + Siril + Graxpert)

🎞️ Antes del CGI y las pantallas, ya existía el zoótropo: un cilindro, dibujos y persistencia visual creando movimiento. Ciencia y arte en estado puro. Hoy nos recuerda que innovar no siempre es más tecnología, sino imaginación, ritmo y oficio humano para contar historias con alma.

Dog viciously mauled by a tiger. #cats #kittens #caturday

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

Happy to share our recent work quantifying ‘just-right’ APC inactivation in colorectal cancer initiation: doi.org/10.1158/0008... Excellent collaborative teamwork, led by the fantastic Meritxell Brunet Guasch.

NEW PAPER! Some kinds of genetic mutations are more likely to arise than others. Such "biases" in mutation vary between species. Analyzing data from 14 species, we show that this variation explains species differences in the genetics of adaptation! (1/3) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscopic slide. 🫧🐻🧪

Absolutely thrilled to share the latest work from my lab focused on the variation and evolution of human centromeres among global populations! We assembled 2,110 human centromeres, identifying 226 new major haplotypes and 1,870 α-satellite HOR variants. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

📢 Telomere community: Registration and abstract submission are now open for the EMBO Workshop “Telomere function and maintenance in health and disease”, May 25–30, 2026, in Lazise, Italy 🇮🇹. Looking forward to an exciting meeting! Please re-post. meetings.embo.org/event/26-tel...

Great opportunity! @lcgej.bsky.social 😄

From @shainlab.bsky.social and collaborators! ⬇️

You can get my books for the space themed folks (deeply affectionate) in your life! Or maybe you are the space themed folk, in which case you can get them for yourself. Milky Way: footnote jokes, 45 pgs of citations & silly line drawings. 40 Ways: beautiful diagrams on every page. 🧪🔭📚

It was a great presentation Emma!!! 😄😄😄

Postdocs, students and technicians from all the labs @liigh-unam.bsky.social in the front to answer questions 🤓📚 #LIIGHColloquium2025

Last but not least! We are now listening to Alda Hernandez, from @cgonzagaj.bsky.social's lab @liigh-unam.bsky.social, who is telling us about his project on G6PD deficiency in the Mexican population 🇲🇽 #LIIGHColloquium2025

We are now listening to @alessandrohernandz.bsky.social from @delvecchyo.bsky.social's lab @liigh-unam.bsky.social, who is telling us about his PhD research on coestimation of #demography and the impact of selection in Eurasian populations #LIIGHColloquium2025

Now Leonardo Hernandez from @crisvanhout.bsky.social's lab @liigh-unam.bsky.social is telling us about methods in #epidemiology to study risk factors for cerebrovascular diseases in Mexico 🇲🇽 #LIIGHColloquium2025

Now it's Fernanda Garcia's turn! She is a PhD student at @paleogenomics.bsky.social's lab @liigh-unam.bsky.social, and she's telling us about the #Afromexico genomics project #LIIGHColloquium2025

Now @christianmolinaag.bsky.social, star technician at our lab @liigh-unam.bsky.social, is telling us about the #acral #melanoma models 🧫🐁 he has been developing with the wet lab team #LIIGHColloquium2025

Now we are listening to Ivan Sedeño, a PhD student in @lumoralesr.bsky.social's lab @liigh-unam.bsky.social, talk about mezcal 🥃 and introgressions in Saccharomyces 🦠 #LIIGHColloquium2025

We now are listening to @aschafer.bsky.social, from @alemedinarivera.bsky.social's lab @liigh-unam.bsky.social, tell us about the effects of cell stimulation in #immune cells of Mexican people 🇲🇽 #LIIGHColloquium2025

We are now hearing from Natalia Said Muñoz from @surh.bsky.social's lab @liigh-unam.bsky.social - she is telling us about using synthetic bacterial communities to study interactions and responses to global warming 🌎 #LIIGHColloquium2025

Next we have @emmahdz.bsky.social, a PhD student in @mgschiavon.bsky.social's group @liigh-unam.bsky.social - he is talking about #bimodality and #feedback mechanisms in phenotypic transitions #LIIGHColloquium2025

Flash talks from students and postdocs now! First up, Santiago Rosas Plaza from @fsanchezquinto.bsky.social's lab, talking about late quaternary environmental changes in Mexico and how to study them through sedimentary DNA #LIIGHColloquium2025 @liigh-unam.bsky.social

And now, @davidjadams.bsky.social @sangerinstitute.bsky.social is closing the session on medical genomics with a talk on the oncogenome of #dogs and #cats 🐶🐱 #LIIGHColloquium2025 @liigh-unam.bsky.social

The third talk of the Medical Genomics session #LIIGHColloquium2025 is being given by @cgonzagaj.bsky.social, PI at the Mendelian Genomics & Precision Health at @liigh-unam.bsky.social, and is on the landscape of rare diseases in Mexico 🇲🇽 and LatAm @liigh-unam.bsky.social

I have my talk! Now Charles Lee @jacksonlab.bsky.social is giving a talk on structural variants in complex regions of the human genome, but he's talking about Indian Muntjac chromosomes 😄 #LIIGHColloquium2025 @liigh-unam.bsky.social

The last talk of the "Community data, biobanks and AI" session is being given by @alemedinarivera.bsky.social, PI @liigh-unam.bsky.social, who is telling us about Project JAGUAR and #immune cell research in #LatAm #LIIGHColloquium2025

We are now listening to Julio Collado, one of the founders of #bioinformatics in Mexico 🇲🇽. In the third talk of the community data and biobanks session, he is telling us about the evolutionary growth of regulatory networks through symbolic explosions #LIIGHColloquium2025 @liigh-unam.bsky.social

The second talk in the "Community data, biobanks and AI" session is being given by Xavier Soberon, of C3 UNAM, on the impact of #alphafold for biological research @liigh-unam.bsky.social #LIIGHColloquium2025

We are starting #Day3 of #LIIGHColloquium2025 with @crisvanhout.bsky.social's talk on how to harness biobank-scale data for #common #disease research in Mexico 🇲🇽

The last talk of the #microbial and #yeast genetics session and of the day is being given by @surh.bsky.social from @liigh-unam.bsky.social, Ans he is talking about #ecology, #evolution and #microbial communities #LIIGHColloquium2025

The second talk in the #microbial and #yeast genetics session is being given by @polzlab.bsky.social from the University of Vienna, who is telling us about the human #microbiome and how genome-wide sweeps create differentiated bacterial populations @liigh-unam.bsky.social #LIIGHColloquium2025

Lunch break over! Now we are starting the #microbial and #yeast genetics session, with @lumoralesr.bsky.social talking about hybrid evolution and adaptive potential in local yeast populations #LIIGHColloquium2025 @liigh-unam.bsky.social

The last talk in the Population Genetics and Palaeogenomics session at #LIIGHColloquium2025 is being given by @fsanchezquinto.bsky.social who will be talking about the population history of prehispanic human populations in Aridoamerica @liigh-unam.bsky.social

We just listened to @sramach.bsky.social virtually! She shared her research on mixed-membership clustering in high-dimensional genomics datasets at the population genetics and palaeogenomics session #LIIGHColloquium2025 @liigh-unam.bsky.social

The next talk in the palaeogenomics and population genetics session at #LIIGHColloquium2025 is by Daniel Piñero, emeritus professor at the #Ecology Institute at UNAM, who is talking about how to define a #species @liigh-unam.bsky.social

We are starting the second scientific session at #LIIGHColloquium2025 on population genetics and palaeogenomics with @delvecchyo.bsky.social's talk on how the accuracy of #polygenic scores in ancient samples is affected by natural selection @liigh-unam.bsky.social

The second talk in the "mathematical modelling to understand gene regulation" session is by @penamiller.bsky.social from CCG-UNAM, who is telling us about #antibiotic resistance, and noise and memory implications to understand it #LIIGHColloquium2025 @liigh-unam.bsky.social

And @mgschiavon.bsky.social opens the colloquium with a fantastic talk on #feedback control how to capture dynamic responses to perturbations #LIIGHColloquium2025 @liigh-unam.bsky.social

We start the 2025 (second) @liigh-unam.bsky.social colloquium! Over the weekend we will have talks by LIIGH faculty, invited guests and colleagues, along with flash talks by students and postdocs! Looking forward to two days of fantastic science discussions 🧬🧫

The Sanger Prize 2026 is open for applications. A fully funded three-month placement for undergraduate students from low and middle-income countries. 🔗 Apply now: www.sanger.ac.uk/about/study/... 📅 The closing date for applications: 9th January 2026 at 5pm GMT

⏰ Calling all melanoma enthusiasts! The abstract submission deadline for the inaugural “Lab to Life: Innovations in Melanoma Research Conference UK 2026” has been extended to 19 December 2025! Happening 12-13 March 2026 at The Midland Hotel, Manchester. Submit your abstract and register here: