Paleogenomics - María Ávila Arcos

China turns the tables in biotech For at least a century, major scientific research initiatives have reliably occurred in the United States, usually in response to geopolitical competition. This helped establish the country’s status a...

“Success in US science has come from sustained funding and welcoming the best talent from around the world, yet both of these advantages are in decline”

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kind of funny there are prob 1,000 major US musicians and every time conservatives need to put up a music artist to counter a mainstream narrative, they put up kid rock. "ok here's kid rock again" for the next 30 years, an octogenarian man in jean shorts rapping something from the 1990s

You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses?

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Davis Summer Population Genomics Program Want to learn population genetics? Please fill out this form to indicate your potential interest in a 2-week intensive online summer population genetics course taught by Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra and Graham...

Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Another Claude project: a static site that pulls in GWAS SNP data from ensemble, multiple public biobanks, open targets, gtex, eqtl catalog, and OMIM.

sashagusev.github.io/gwas_lookup/

Sin palabras después de ver el espectáculo de medio tiempo del Super Tazón ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 Gracias Benito.

Bad Bunny wearing an OCASIO 64 jersey

Ocasio gang rise up 🙌🏽🇵🇷

Two tuberculosis cases detected at Camp East Montana ICE facility Eighteen cases of COVID-19 were also identified. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar on Friday visited the 5,000-bed tent facility on the Fort Bliss Army base and said she saw many "chronic issues."

Two active cases of tuberculosis and 18 cases of COVID-19 have been identified at a massive immigration detention center in El Paso, according to the local Democratic member of Congress.

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We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

Assessing Ancient DNA Sampling Strategies for Natural Selection Inference in Humans Using Allele Frequency Time Series Data Abstract. The increased availability of genomic data from ancient humans allows estimating the strength of natural selection at a given locus using time se

Interested in using aDNA time-series datasets to estimate selection?

Our study "Assessing Ancient DNA Sampling Strategies for Natural Selection Inference in Humans Using Allele Frequency Time Series Data" is now out in GBE! doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... @genomebiolevol.bsky.social @cegamorim.bsky.social

Excited and proud 😊 to share the final chapter of @hjorvik.bsky.social 's PhD thesis:

Seven Millennia of Human Exploitation drove genomic Changes in Iberian Sheep

Comments welcome! 🧬🧪🏺🐑

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New preprint on bioRxiv: an evaluation of epigenetic age-at-death inference in ancient human DNA, highlighting current limitations and future directions.

Promises and limitations of current ancient human epigenetic clocks https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.04.703756v1

Stony Brook University's Ecology and Evolution Dept is seeking a PRODiG Plus Fellow focused on ecological/evolutionary responses to global change. Applications due by March 6, 2026. Apply here: https://apply.interfolio.com/178040. #job

It's not just the women and girls we know of. It's all their future work, and everything they could have been, and how we build structures that shelter their abusers. It's how a man's future has always been worth more than my past, present, and future combined.

"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification.

But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

Research Fellow in Biomolecular Archaeology at UCL Searching for an academic job? Explore this Research Fellow in Biomolecular Archaeology opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

Job alert! 3 year post doc in my research group at University College London working on Roman Leather via biomolecular archaeology. #ZooMS #stableisotopes

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ187/r...

Women have been mapping the world for centuries – and now they’re speaking up for the people left out of those maps Women have moved from mapmakers using their bodies to depict maps to being leaders shaping the field of cartography.

Women known as the “Military Mapping Maidens” produced tens of thousands of topographic maps during World War II, while men fought overseas. Yet their work remained largely uncredited until recently, explains a specialist in geographic information systems.

Confirmed guests according to Brockman included Page and his wife, Lucinda Southworth; Musk; Twitter co-founder Williams; and 23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki.

Epstein’s assistant, [..], replied: “I have in Jeffrey’s calendar and will of course remind him of the Dec. 8th event!”

Pygenstrat: A Python package for EIGENSTRAT data processing AbstractMotivation. Ancient DNA studies rely heavily on the EIGENSTRAT genotype format (.geno, .ind, .snp) for standard population genetic analyses includi

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I have a 3-year postdoc position available at University of Manchester for a mass spec expert in proteomics. The person will be involved in exciting projects in single cell proteomics, drug discovery and innate immunity - on timsTOF Ultra AIP & HF & Astral Zoom.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ093/r...

A round brown rodent pops its head out of its burrow to look and listen for danger. Image Credit: Bernie CC 1.0 Source: Wikimedia Commons

As per always on this most holy of mammal holidays, Groundhog's Day, March Mammal Madness launches our annual tournament page! #2026MMM @mmmletsgo.bsky.social libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM...

I am looking for a PhD student to join my new Socio-Eco-Evo group, hosted in Katie Peichel's Evolutionary Ecology Division @ University of Bern. We're offering a fully funded 4-year position, studying social plasticity and behavioral adaptation among stickleback in Greenland. Please share around!

Israeli airstrikes on Gaza kill at least 30, with death toll expected to rise Attacks, which killed women and children, come day before border crossing is due to open in Gaza’s southern most city

The new Board of Peace should definitely look into this. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Israeli strikes kill 26 people, including children, in Gaza The health ministry has said Israeli attacks have killed at least 509 people in Gaza since the ceasefire came into effect.

Israeli air strikes killed 28 people in Gaza on Saturday, including children, according to the civil defence agency.
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We sequenced #ancientRNA from an 18th-Century human lung and recovered a rhinovirus genome. Take a look at our preprint. Feedback welcome.

This is Callie. She is trained to accurately detect bowel cancer in order to provide rapid diagnoses through non-invasive testing. Some might call it lab work, but Callie is actually a sprocker spaniel. 14/10 incredible job, Callie (IG: medicaldetectiondogs)

humble opinion: boycott the world cup