Ancestral Genomes xkcd.com/3252/

I still love the theory a Year 6 child proposed to me that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he'd created, so he made documentaries to show off.

Absolutely thrilled to see our work featured on the cover of @nature.com, with the stunning artwork of Emiliano Bellini! Deeply grateful to all collaborators, the Indigenous communities who made this work possible, and the funding agencies for their support!

Felicitats, @martamele.bsky.social !

Felicitats, @martamele.bsky.social !

🚨 Check out our new paper in Nature! In our new study, we sequenced 128 high-coverage genomes from Indigenous peoples across Latin America and uncovered their unique genetic diversity and history. 👇🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dad Joke of the Day: How come Earth Day is only once a year, but Sun Day is every week? #DJotD

Lots of exciting new papers coming out in our special issue on population genetics methods & software in 2026 🚀 New tools, pipelines, and best practices - great to see this growing into a useful community resource. 📅 Submissions open until 31 May 👉 www.pivotscipub.com/hpgg/special...

Dos anys d'això.

Es pot tenir una societat d’individus amb sentit crític sense coneixements científics? La ciència, la filosofia i, en particular, la teoria de l’evolució són puntals necessaris que s’han de reforçar, no debilitar, en el sistema educatiu. @ara.cat @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social

This project (with Stacy Rosenbaum and Nick Grebe) began in the dark days of Covid, and is finally ready to share. We've built a living database of primate paternity data (52 species, 3000 paternities) and completed first wave of analyses of paternity distribution. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Ja he fet la meva donació anual a @wikimedia. I vosaltres?

New paper alert 🚨 Researchers at #CPGStlhm have analyzed ancient genomes from an Islamic cemetery in Ibiza (950–1150 CE) 🏖️ They found a highly diverse community with ancestry from Europe and North Africa! The paper was published in @natcomms.nature.com OA link www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 Our aDNA study has been published today in @natcomms.nature.com! A great collaboration with Ricardo Rodríguez, Anders Götherström, Carina Schlebusch & team. 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘐𝘣𝘪𝘻𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘤 𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘥. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ens estem mirant amb la @ebosch1972.bsky.social "The good place". Sembla una comedieta banal sobre el més enllà que recorda a "Upload", però té un gruix filosòfic inesperat. El personatge Chidi està inspirat en Kwame Anthony, autor de "The Ethicist", el consultori ètic del NY Times (1/2)

We are very excited to host a SMBE satellite meeting about gene-culture co-evolution in Cagliari, Sardinia, Sept 2026! Abstract submission is OPEN! stay tuned for more info and help us spread the news! 🦩 🏖️ 🧬 😎

#ComunitatUPF It has been fantastic to spend two days sharing knowledge, learning teaching strategies to improve learning, building community and debating the future of our Department and Faculty. 💫 Thank you all! #MELISupf #Biomedicine #TeamBuilding - @upf.edu

#JobOffer MELIS is looking for a Junior Group Leader Position in Cell Metabolism ✅ PhD in Biology or similar; capacity to lead high-impact research projects; supervision of doctoral theses; teaching ⏰ Deadline: May 2 📍 Barcelona #PRBB Apply: apply.interfolio.com/180316 Details: bit.ly/40N09LX

www.berria.eus/bizigiro/edo... Mira, ara parlo euskera! Looks like I speak Basque!

www.berria.eus/bizigiro/edo... Mira, ara parlo euskera! Looks like I speak Basque!

Gracias a todos los que han colaborado para que este Día de Darwin haya sido un éxito.

#Research 1/ A rapid evolutionary process provides Sudanese Copts with resistance to malaria In just 1,500 years, the Copts have acquired a genetic variant that protects them from contracting malaria after mixing with other Sudanese populations cc @pnas.org @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social tuit.cat/Byntj

Bons desitjos per començar ✨

Our new paper is out in PNAS! We analyzed 125 high-coverage whole genomes from five Sudanese ethnolinguistic groups, to understand the evolutionary and demographic history of the region. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵👇

As we start 2026, those who, like me, were born in 1966 will start a new decade in our lives. Unfortunately, 11% of those born that year will not live to see their 60th birthday.

Encetem el 2026, un any en què tots els que, com jo, vam néixer el 1966, entrarem en una nova dècada de la nostra vida. Malauradament, l'11% dels membres d'aquella generació no han arribat a fer els 60 anys.

Today is the only day you can repost this image.

H0 H0 H0 😂

📣 Save the date! On December 12th, The future of ART is now! The 6th symposium Catedra Eugin - @upf.edu will happen at the @prbb.org Registration is free - tuit.cat/l7reG #AssistedReproduction #artificiallntelligence

Organisers - @claudiafontsere.bsky.social | @hologenomics.bsky.social - @hernmoral.bsky.social | @hologenomics.bsky.social - Mirte Bosse | @vuamsterdam.bsky.social - Christina Hvilsom | @hologenomics.bsky.social Invited Speaker - Cock van Oosterhout | @ueaenv.bsky.social

Really looking forward to this symposium and the whole SMBE meeting! Join us at the #SMBE2026 for interesting discussions of how to identify signatures of natural selection (or try to) where it seems impossible.

Discussiô amb la meva família política barcelonina: com ens hem de referir a la vorera esquerra del Paral·lel, mirant cap a Plaça Espanya? Llobregat o mar?

Objectiu: crear l'arca de Noè de la biodiversitat dels Països Catalans💫🧬 L’ @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social participa en una iniciativa per seqüenciar el genoma de totes les espècies eucariotes🌎 Més informació al reportatge de @saez_cristina al @diariARA 👉

🌅 Quan el PRBB es desperta, la ciència també brilla. Els primers raigs de sol han pintat el PRBB de rosa i taronja en una escena que sembla sortida d’un quadre. ✨Comparteix la màgia del nostre dia a dia! Envia’ns imatges de ciència o de la vida al PRBB 📸 [email protected] tuit.cat/raskd

#VeusExpertesUPF Sembla que d'aquí a uns anys no tindrem un boom de Rosalies. "És un personatge massa notori, la gent a partir de certa popularitat, ja no opta per aquell nom per al seu fill o filla perquè és massa obvi", explica @francesccalafell.bsky.social criatures.ara.cat/familia/rosa...

Un aptònim biomèdic: l'Alzheimer està causat per l'acumulació de la proteïna amiloide. Una investigadora de la Univ. de Dundee en temes aplicables a l'Alzheimer es diu... Amy Lloyd! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39460937/

The research identified new genetic variants showing adaptive signatures in modern Europeans — particularly in genes related to: 🧬 Immune response 🧈 Cholesterol metabolism 🌶️ A greater preference for spicy food

This just out! Honoured to have been a part of this paper on mitogenomes in Flanders, part of Noah Gaens's thesis and led by my friend @maartenlarmuseau.bsky.social ! kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

Al MELIS tenim una persona experta a lligar genètica, genealogia i demografia! 👌 El @francesccalafell.bsky.social reflexiona al diari @ara.cat sobre les modes dels noms i parla de l'ascens dels Leos i el descens de les Mercès. No te'ls perdis! criatures.ara.cat/infancia/mer...

Thank you, Anna Bigas, for such an inspiring talk! 💫 It has been a pleasure to hear your thoughts on the origin of hematopoyetic stem cells and cell communication 🧫🔬 cc @hospitaldelmar.bsky.social

We have an open PhD student position in evolutionary ecology in our lab @creaf.cat in Barcelona! 🦎 🌳 🦆 🐍 Applications open until Nov. 10th, 2025. Please help us spread the word! Link to position description and requirements: creaf.factorialhr.com/job_posting/... Lab website: oriollapiedralab.com

🔙 #35AnysUPF! Avui mirem enrere al dia que ho va canviar tot: el primer dia de classe, ara fa 35 anys. 🗓 1990: Sota el lideratge del rector Enric Argullol, la UPF obria les portes al seu primer campus (Edifici Balmes) amb un esperit innovador.

Then, Francesc Calafell ( @francesccalafell.bsky.social ), also from the EvoMG Program, @melisupf.bsky.social and @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social, presented their results on Eivissa's ancestral population.

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🔎 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

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