Paleogenomics - María Ávila Arcos

Average MHQ scores of 18–24-year-olds (males and females combined) by age of first smartphone ownership for the global population, as well as across different regions.

👇 Wait a minute, hold the phone...
This is quite alarming.

A New Study Just Found Something Horrifying About Kids Who Get Phones Early in Life

Protecting the Developing Mind in a Digital Age:
A Global Policy Imperative 🏺🧪
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Can somene with subscription please share the key findings?

Estimating allele frequencies, ancestry proportions and genotype likelihoods in the presence of mapping bias Abstract. Population genomic analyses rely on an accurate and unbiased characterization of the genetic composition of the studied population. For short-rea

Results of our (extremely long-term) side project with @amygoldberg.bsky.social and @jgschraiber.bsky.social out now in G3: doi.org/10.1093/g3jo...

We benchmarked methods for estimating ancestry proportions under mapping bias and present an adjusted GenotypeLikelihood to mitigate its impact (1/2)

Critics of de-extinction research hit by mystery smear campaign Several researchers who have been critical of Colossal Biosciences’ plans to revive extinct animals say they have been targeted by online articles trying to discredit them

Academics who have questioned the validity of efforts to “de-extinct” animals like the woolly mammoth and the dire wolf have complained of an apparent campaign to discredit them.

Thanks to #smbe2025 organizers! It was a tremendous meeting. I loved the science, the people, the food, and the city. Proud of my students who came and presented posters/talks. So stoked that so many Mexicans attended!

Today @ #SMBE2025 10:50-10:55 Room 3 Flash talk
“Pathogen Evolution and Social Dynamics in Colonial Mexico through Paleogenomics”
By Laura Carrillo-Olivas from our group.

I am seeking a postdoc for my group at UCLA. We work at the intersection of population genetics x microbiome (garud.eeb.ucla.edu). If interested, please message me!

Jazeps talks is in room 5!

Talk: 16:15-16:30 - Joint inference of continental and archaic ancestry: A deep learning approach. #SMBE2025
Jazeps Medina Tretmanis (from Emilia Huerta-Sanchez Lab)

Talk 11:50-12:05 - Exploring Pathogen diversity in Patagonian Hunter-Gathers in a 6000-100-year time transect through Paleogenomics. Florencia Alvarez Room 2. #SMBE2025

Poster S25-P03- Genomic history and ancestral origins
of Afro-Mexican populations – Fernanda García
#SMBE2025

Poster: S27-P03 - HLA Genetic Diversity and Immune Response
in Ancient Mexican Populations: Insights from the
Prehispanic and Colonial Periods – Walter Nicolás #SMBE2025

Big day to our lab and lab's friends at #SMBE2025:
Come check these out:

Symposium 28: Human history and past social organisation in the light of palaeogenomes: new methods, new findings session B

#SMBE2025

Thanks @liigh-unam.bsky.social once again for organising this lecture and for the invitation. Special kudos to @paleogenomics.bsky.social for making this possible. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Egypt, Mexico discuss environmental cooperation, combating desertification Egypt’s Minister of Environment, Yasmine Fouad, met with Mexican Ambassador to Cairo, Leonora Rueda Gutierrez, to explore opportunities for bilateral and multilateral cooperation on key environmental issues, including desertification, climate change, and waste management, the ministry announced in a statement...

Egypt, Mexico discuss environmental cooperation, combating desertification
->Daily News Egypt | #Environment #Desertification | More info from EcoSearch

The spatiotemporal distribution of human pathogens in ancient Eurasia - Nature Screening shotgun-sequencing data from ancient humans covering 37,000 years of Eurasian history uncovers the widespread presence of ancient bacterial, viral and parasite DNA and zoonotic pathogens coi...

A big advance today in the infectious disease history of Eurasia: Sikora et al., "The spatiotemporal distribution of human pathogens in ancient Eurasia," www.nature.com/articles/s41.... #histmed #aDNA 🧪🗃️

3-year #Postdoc opportunity at the University of York!
I am #hiring a Postdoc to join my URF project on exploring how #biodiversity change is unfolding in the #Anthropocene.

Deadline: 10th August 2025.

All details and the link to apply: shorturl.at/qOQst

@anthropocenebio.bsky.social #ecology

Fascinating findings. Regrettably, with no involvement of Egyptian institutions.

🇲🇽 VIDEO: Only panda not owned by China turns 35

The only known giant panda not owned by China, Xin Xin, celebrates her 35th birthday at the Zoo of Chapultepec in Mexico City. She is the last in a line of giant pandas brought to Mexico in 1975.

More measles outbreaks put US total within single digits of modern-day record

With brisk activity in Canada, Mexico, and the US, cases in the Americas region are up 29-fold compared to a year ago.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...

4,000-year-old Mycobacterium lepromatosis genomes from Chile reveal long establishment of Hansen’s disease in the Americas - Nature Ecology & Evolution Recovery of ancient Mycobacterium lepromatosis genomes in 4,000-year-old human remains from Chile demonstrates that this causal agent of Hansen’s disease has a long history in the Americas, predating ...

... And now it's hit the ground. The peer-reviewed version of Ramirez et al, announcing the recovery of even older (much older) genomes of Mycobacterium lepromatosis (the "other" leprosy, which we might call "Han's Disease") is now out: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #GlobalHealth #IndigenousHistory

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Biodiversity Research Using Genetics - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet Ledig stilling ved Center for Kvantitativ Genetik og Genomforskning, Aarhus, Aarhus Universitet

Aarhus University seeks a tenure-track assistant professor in population genetics, comparative genomics, or bioinformatics for biodiversity research. More info: https://www.au.dk/om/stillinger/job/tenure-track-assistant-professor-in-biodiversity-research-using-genetics #job

In about a week we (Biological Sciences @ Monash Uni in Melbourne, Australia) will be opening a search for 3 (!!!) permanent academic positions (40% research, 40% teaching, 20% service) at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer. 1 Genomics, 2 Ecology. Please share, email me, DM, follow, send carrier pigeons…

there are certain qualities a person possesses to sexually harass and assault people.

those qualities are inherently incompatible with ethical and competent leadership.

Awake and reading this piece because said racket woke me up al 5am 🫩🫩

White Sands' Footprints Confirmed as the Oldest Evidence of Humans in the Americas Learn about a new study that confirms ancient footprints in New Mexico are over 21,000 years old, rewriting the history of the Americas.

White Sands' Footprints Confirmed as the Oldest Evidence of Humans in the Americas - a new study confirms ancient footprints in New Mexico are over 21,000 years old, rewriting the history of the Americas www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences...

Talks by:

@paleogenomics.bsky.social
Ke Wang
@annaewhite.bsky.social
Yichen Liu
Alba Bossoms Mesa
Yunhui Liu
Marcos Araujo Castro e Silva
Fan Bai
@zandraselina.bsky.social ‬
Youssef Tawfik

#SMBE2025 Symposium 5: Human history and past social organisation in the light of palaeogenomes: new methods, new findings (session A)

🔗 smbe2025.scimeeting.cn/en/web/program/25070

Preprint on "Improving spliced alignment by modeling splice sites with deep learning". It describes minisplice for modeling splice signals. Minimap2 and miniprot now optionally use the predicted scores to improve spliced alignment.
arxiv.org/abs/2506.12986