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Museomics, forensics & ancient stuff @Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona

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An hourglass with DNA bases, set in front of a Neanderthal skull, with a map in the background showing human migration patterns, superimposed with a few cave paintings. Image Credit: Daniela Velasco/EMBL

An hourglass with DNA bases, set in front of a Neanderthal skull, with a map in the background showing human migration patterns, superimposed with a few cave paintings. Image Credit: Daniela Velasco/EMBL

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...

01.12.2025 08:22 — 👍 36    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 2

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

14.11.2025 11:42 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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🦣🧬🦣🤯💥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:

14.11.2025 16:08 — 👍 108    🔁 41    💬 1    📌 6
A screen grab of a Guardian article reading "The need to identify victims
Identifying the bodies is not just a question of restoring dignity to the dead; it is also necessary for the health of the living. Psychologists described the unresolved grief of relatives of the unidentified dead as an “ambiguous loss” which can generate or contribute to depression, trauma and identity confusion, a situational disorder widespread in Gaza.

The few remaining hospitals in the territory lack the equipment for DNA testing, which is desperately needed to help identify thousands of missing or deceased peope. Israel does not allow DNA testing materials to enter Gaza." with the last sentence highlighed in yellow.

A screen grab of a Guardian article reading "The need to identify victims Identifying the bodies is not just a question of restoring dignity to the dead; it is also necessary for the health of the living. Psychologists described the unresolved grief of relatives of the unidentified dead as an “ambiguous loss” which can generate or contribute to depression, trauma and identity confusion, a situational disorder widespread in Gaza. The few remaining hospitals in the territory lack the equipment for DNA testing, which is desperately needed to help identify thousands of missing or deceased peope. Israel does not allow DNA testing materials to enter Gaza." with the last sentence highlighed in yellow.

fucking hell

02.11.2025 13:43 — 👍 65    🔁 34    💬 0    📌 1
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Italia se paraliza por Gaza: los sindicatos convocan una huelga general tras el asalto israelí a la flotilla La principal central sindical italiana, CGIL, convoca para este viernes el paro por el asalto del Estado israelí a la Flotilla Global Sumud. La presidenta italiana Giorgia Meloni dice que los trabajad...

✊Italia se paraliza por Gaza: los sindicatos convocan una huelga general tras el asalto israelí a la flotilla

www.elsaltodiario.com/italia/itali...

02.10.2025 09:09 — 👍 173    🔁 97    💬 2    📌 6
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Ancient mammoth remains yield the world's oldest host-associated bacterial DNA An international team led by researchers at the Center for Paleogenetics, has uncovered microbial DNA preserved in woolly and steppe mammoth remains dating back more than one million years. The analys...

phys.org/news/2025-09...

03.09.2025 07:16 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Wrapping up my first congress #ESEB2025! Incredible insights from leading experts and an inspiring Museomics session. Excited to bring new ideas into my project!

25.08.2025 10:45 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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. 🇵🇸

23.08.2025 08:05 — 👍 27    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0
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#ESEB2025
great talks in the museomics session, including @amandalindahl.bsky.social giving a great talk on her first (!!) conference 👏 🐻

20.08.2025 09:16 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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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

22.08.2025 13:48 — 👍 27    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0

🚨🚨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!!!

22.08.2025 11:43 — 👍 5    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
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Bronze Age Yersinia pestis genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineage A Yersinia pestis genome from a Bronze Age domesticated sheep provides insight into the host range, evolution, and possible transmission scenarios of an ancient lineage of the plague-causing bacteria,...

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...

11.08.2025 15:47 — 👍 37    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 1

Amazing #eseb2025 talk!

21.08.2025 12:48 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Finally, the #museomics symposium. #ESEB2025

20.08.2025 08:35 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Museums, well known for having exhibits about the future

19.08.2025 20:16 — 👍 6654    🔁 663    💬 185    📌 39

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