🔎 Què passa amb el nom #Mercè? 📉 Cada cop és menys freqüent entre els nadons a #Barcelona. 🗣️ Francesc Calafell, investigador de l’ @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social i professor de la @upf.edu, ho explica al @ara.cat . 👉

Excited to share our new preprint🙌 It's the first human WGS study in Sudan. We uncover one of the strongest selection signals to date, pointing to post-admixture adaptation to malaria in Copts. Huge thanks to all co-authors. @aidaandres.bsky.social @jgarcia-cal.bsky.social @ebosch1972.bsky.social

A physical captcha: prove that you are not a cow

Where Babies Come From xkcd.com/3127/

I el més amunt: glacera de la Meije (de fet, ahir)

El més lluny on he anat: N: Helsinki S: Curitiba E: Tòquio O: San Francisco

Out of office

Feliz día mundial del ARN ☺️

Just took this picture in Barcelona. The severance procedure will soon be legal in Catalonia

Just took this picture in Barcelona. The severance procedure will soon be legal in Catalonia

Vanessa Villalba-Mouco and I wrote a little preview piece for Cell on the new mtDNA and proteomics results from the Harbin skull. It is free for 50 days at this link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dec ser dels pocs que encara porta (i llegeix) el diari en paper pel carrer. Aquests dies caniculars, la suor em tatua la portada al braç 🥵🥵

Dec ser dels pocs que encara porta (i llegeix) el diari en paper pel carrer. Aquests dies caniculars, la suor em tatua la portada al braç 🥵🥵

#JoinOurTeam 📣The #IBE_Barcelona seeks a #PhD Student in Human Population Genomics🧬🔬 for a 4-year project focused on human isolated populations! #UnravellingEvolution #DiscoveringLife 📆 Deadline: 31st of August Apply here👉https://www.ibe.upf-csic.es/work-with-us/job-offers

Vols fer el doctorat amb l'@ebosch1972.bsky.social i amb mi sobre genòmica de poblacions aïllades? T'apassiona la possibilitat d'entendre la història a partir de l'ADN? Ets un/a crac de la bioinformàtica? Tota la info aquí:https://tinyurl.com/mr4ks44n

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50,000 years of evolutionary history of India: Impact on health and disease variation: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

As a scientist and occasional baker, a pet peeve of mine are the recipes that require letting the dough raise until it doubles in volume. How am I supposed to measure the volume of that blob? At most, I can estimate that the vol. is 2X when the length has increased by the cubic root of 2, or 26%

Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory

I have thoroughly enjoyed "Proto" by @laurainparis.bsky.social. Languages, cultures and myths from the Late Neolithic to Antiquity, with proto-Indoeuropean and its speakers as protagonists. A great summary, quite helpful to keep up with these fields that progress at...

🚨 Excited to share our new paper! 🧬 #aDNA from Sint-Truiden (BE) reveals 1,000 years of change from diverse medieval roots including Scottish and Irish ancestry to modern Limburg-like genetics. 🧫 Yersinia pestis found in 5 of 58 XIV-century burials. #AcademicSky link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📕 A new study from #IBE_Barcelona reveals that the Roma people of the Iberian Peninsula exhibit genetic differences compared to those from the rest of Europe, despite their common origin 🧬🌎 #UnravellingEvolution 👉https://shorturl.at/Svt11

🚨 Our new paper is out in Science! We analyzed 2,723 high-coverage whole genomes from Brazilians to explore how five centuries of colonization, forced migration, and admixture have shaped genetic diversity and impacted health. 📄 science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵👇

📕An international study co-led by @IBE_Barcelona sequenced 2,723 genomes from Brazil’s five geographical regions.🌎🧬 👉https://www.ibe.upf-csic.es/news/-/asset_publisher/PXTgqZXxlocA/content/mapping-the-genome-of-the-brazilian-population-with-implications-for-healthcare/maximized

Le meilleur tweet du jour!

We proudly present UYSD: a new open-access repository with global Y-SNP haplogroup frequencies. A valuable resource for forensic genetics, genetic genealogy, population studies, and more. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'll be teaching in the SIBE Summer School in Ferrara, from the 7th to 11th of September. Great place to learn about PopGen, comparative genomics and ✨Conservation Genomics✨ 🚨Deadline to apply: 11th of May🚨 sites.google.com/view/sibesum... See you there!

HPGG was proud to support the #HumanEvo25 conference and to award four poster + short talk prizes to outstanding early-career researchers. Congratulations to @avantikab.bsky.social, @anchieri.bsky.social, @hannesrathmann.bsky.social, and Ruthie Golomb!"

Convocatòria oberta de Empleo Joven 2025 a l' @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social 📣 🔬 Forma't a l'#IBE en laboratori de biologia molecular i genòmica, posada a punt de protocols i anàlisi de resultats!🤩 📆 Data límit: 9 de maig Incriu-te #JoinOurTeam👉https://www.ibe.upf-csic.es/work-with-us/open-calls

We aimed to detect specific signals of adaptation in the Spanish population and infer which role past admixtures, such as the Neolithic Revolution, play in this process.🧑‍🌾

Using 704 whole genome sequences, we discovered novel candidates for positive selection putatively associated with immunity (UBL7, SMYD1, VAC14) and diet (FDFT1)🥩. Interestingly, SMYD1 is related to the presence of antigen AnWj, a receptor of Haemophilus influenzae.🦠

With the information of local ancestry, we inferred regions with an excess of any main ancestral components that shaped European populations: West Hunter Gatherers, Early European farmers, and Steppe ancestry. 👣

We find an overlap of signatures of selection and genomic regions showing local ancestry deviation, which may indicate selection events facilitated by admixture. For example, the selection signals in the LCT locus and the MHC region both showed Steppe ancestry enrichment. 🏇

També vull agraïr a l’Elena i al Francesc per fer ells principalment l’esforç de traduir l’article al català🌹. Vam pensar que si volíem fer un retorn a la societat de la nostra investigació, era molt adequat fer-ho en la llengua del lloc on són les dades. Podeu llegir-lo aquí:

Durant les obres del futur aparcament de BSM de la #MercatdelPeix, on s’ubicarà la nova seu de l’#IBE, han aparegut les restes d’un vaixell medieval. 👉 https://www.ibe.upf-csic.es/home/-/asset_publisher/T2caeLMECPvW/content/trobat-un-vaixell-medieval-als-fonaments-del-mercat-del-peix/maximized

🚨Excited to share our new paper on the genetic legacy in the modern Spanish population,revealing North African ancestry and positively selected genes tied to immunity and diet. Kudos to @jgarcia-cal.bsky.social and the team led by @ebosch1972.bsky.social & @francesccalafell.bsky.social #AcademicSky

I am delighted to share with you some new insights into the selection processes that shaped the Spanish population! This work has been led by @ebosch1972.bsky.social @francesccalafell.bsky.social ( @upf.edu ) in collaboration with Rafael de Cid ( @igtp.bsky.social ) and @sabiagini.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️

🔊 We're Hiring! 🔊 The #IBE seeks a Post-award Research Project Manager - European Projects. 🌍 📄 Full-time | 🕒 2-year renewable contract 📆 Apply by: 4th May Explore all our #JobOffers & #JoinOurTeam 👉 https://www.ibe.upf-csic.es/work-with-us/job-offers

🔥 New in HPGG: The Legacy of Luca Cavalli-Sforza on Human Evolution Led by @margheritac17.bsky.social & @mikleonardi.bsky.social, with @chrisbstringer.bsky.social, Jason Hodgson & @elliescerri.bsky.social 🔗 Read: www.pivotscipub.com/hpgg/5/1/0001 #HumanEvolution #HPGG #OpenAccess

HPGG has two new papers out! "Brahui and Oraon: Tracing the Northern Dravidian genetic link back to Balochistan" 🔗 Read here: doi.org/10.47248/hpg... "Human adaptation in the Andes Mountains" 🔗 Read here: doi.org/10.47248/hpg... #HPGG #OpenAccess #PopGen

📢 Exciting news! HPGG is launching a Special Issue on "Population Genetics Methods and Software." We invite developers to contribute accessible summaries of their tools, existing and new. Submissions welcome! Let's advance population genetics research together! www.pivotscipub.com/hpgg/special...

HPGG is excited to sponsor 2 short talk and 2 poster prizes at the Wellcome Genome Conference ‘Human Evolution – From Fossils to Ancient and Modern Genomes’ Hinxton, UK. Each prize is £300, priority to early career researchers. Proud to support the Human Evolution community! @eventswcs.bsky.social

Your research matters! Contribute to the future of #EvolutionaryBiology by submitting your Abstract to #ESEB2025. 🔬 Explore over 50 topics, including: ✅ #Evolution in all its aspects ✅ #Genetics & #Genomics ✅ New Frontiers and more! 📩 Submit now: eseb2025.com/call-for-abs...

What if the Earth rotated 90 degrees? Watch the latest What If? video collaboration with MinuteEarth! youtu.be/WH4g1ptJ-70

As a scientist and occasional baker, a pet peeve of mine are the recipes that require letting the dough raise until it doubles in volume. How am I supposed to measure the volume of that blob? At most, I can estimate that the vol. is 2X when the length has increased by the cubic root of 2, or 26%

Com a científic aficionat a fer pa, m'irriten les receptes que demanen deixar llevar fins que la massa dobli el volum. Com puc mesurar el volum? A tot estirar, suposant un creixement isomètric, puc estimar que el volum s'ha doblat quan la longitud s'ha multiplicat per l'arrel cúbica de 2, un 26%

Honoured to see an article about my research on extra-pair paternity in @science.org. Many thanks to journalist @spoke32.bsky.social for the story and to all colleagues for their quotes! Hopefully, future visitors to my office will be less surprised by a (reproduction) 17th-century painting...