#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

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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.

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📣 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

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/... 🧵👇