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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

That somehow truly happened 1 month ago. #SMBE2025 has been amazing and being part of the Excellence Graduate Awarded is nothing less than a dream come true

So grateful for this incredible opportunity!!!

#SMBE2025

An experience I will never forget!

They did it! They opened the path to overcome the assumptions the of SMC-based coalescent with LLMs. This new era is just right here!

Léa Guyon == @lea-guyon.bsky.social !!

Juan C. Guevara == @juanbigotes.bsky.social (couldnt cite you above!)

And thanks of course to all speakers @xavimartiperez.bsky.social @macscastro.bsky.social , Giacomo Ena, @adriaula.bsky.social @simonperera.bsky.social , Léa Guyon, Sebastián H. Cuadros, @jgarcia-cal.bsky.social , Juan C. Guevara and all the attendants !!!

Seeing how every effort has now materialized into lessons and teachings that truly benefit @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social scientists of all generations has been immeasurable. Thank you, @xavimartiperez.bsky.social, for co-leading this project.

Excited for our publication on how the geographic scale of a sample affects the discovery of rare, deleterious variants to be out this week. With a mix of theory, simulation, and data analysis, we show when samples are narrow vs broad, the number of variants discovered and their frequencies change

Very happy to have been part of this project. Go check this dive on SMC-based models!

Not Just $N_e$ $N_e$-more: New Applications for SMC from Ecology to Phylogenies Genomes contain the mutational footprint of an organism's evolutionary history, shaped by diverse forces including ecological factors, selective pressures, and life history traits. The sequentially Ma...

Our review of recent Sequentially Markovian Coalescent methods is up on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2506.00692 (based on last year's @official-smbe.bsky.social symposium)

Talks by: @dylansosa.bsky.social @aidanwshort.bsky.social @gemmaeling.bsky.social @hverdonk.bsky.social @Kaiyuan Li @philipphummer.bsky.social Huangyi He @albanietoh.bsky.social

Any young paleo workers will be hard pressed to find a better opportunity than this.

@albanietoh.bsky.social , doctorante
@psl-univ.bsky.social
Elle mène ses recherches entre
@isyeb.mnhn.fr au #MNHN Paris et
@ibe-barcelona.bsky.social à Barcelone"
lauréate ▶️ graduate studient excellence award
@official-smbe.bsky.social ! 🏆

Merci beaucoup!

‘Not a free-for-all’: Indigenous communities want limits on how their data are shared Push for “data sovereignty” could reshape how scientists share information

Indigenous researchers and communities are reshaping how Western science thinks about data ownership. #AANHPIHeritageMonth scim.ag/4m5VBJZ

Today, Anís del Mono is enjoyed around the world, and the statue has become a symbol of Badalona. What began as a joke about Darwin now stands as a quiet tribute to one of science’s greatest minds.

Yesterday’s fools may lay the groundwork for tomorrow’s truths.

When Anís del Mono began production in the late 1800s, The Origin of Species was still controversial. The founders may have leaned into this, turning mocking into marketing strategy by putting a (drunk) monkey with Darwin’s face on the label.

The statue represents the logo of Anís del Mono, an emblematic local aniseed liqueur brand founded in 1870.

In my hometown, Badalona, there's a bronze statue of a monkey holding a bottle of anise liqueur. It's not just any monkey—it bears a striking resemblance to Charles Darwin!

Feeling truly honored and grateful to be recognized by @official-smbe.bsky.social with this award! Looking forward to see you all in #SMBE2025 in Beijing!

For those who want to know more about Darwin's statue ⬇️⬇️

Thank you so much!

🐜 Today's GSEA focus is on Gemma Martínez Redondo, PhD candidate @ub.edu

Gemma's research combines traditional phylogenetics, phylogenomics, and machine learning to understand the genomic basis of terrestrialization across animals

More on Gemma ⬇️ and follow her: @gemmaeling.bsky.social

Don't miss this study on selection using a Catalan cohort of Spanish Population! Catalonia is a region in the north of the Iberian Peninsula with a rich history of recent migration from all the Spanish geography. They made the most of the data with an historical context of popstructure!

So Happy for the warm welcome or our PopGen bookclub! Each month, at IBE, we review a new chapter of @gcbias.bsky.social book, which is totally open-source! We encourage you to take a look at it! Link: github.com/cooplab/popg...

Join us for ARGEvol, a conference on ancestral recombination graphs in Vila do Conde, Portugal from Nov 12-14, 2025. Complete the interest survey: https://framaforms.org/argevol-conferenceworkshop-interest-survey-1742308127. #conference

April 2025 cover for Molecular Biology and Evolution

The April cover of Molecular Biology and Evolution features the work of Menno de Jong et al., who analysed autosomal and sex chromosomal data to reconstruct the demographic history of the Red deer.

Link: doi.org/10.1093/molb...

📷 Bas Worm

#evolution #reddeer

📢 Recipients of the SMBE Graduate Student Excellence Award have been selected and contacted by email. The society is impressed by their outstanding research and invites them to attend SMBE2025 in Beijing.

In the upcoming weeks, we will highlight the recipients and their research. Stay tuned!

Huele concretamente a dejarse un horno cerrado 10 meses después de hacer patatas al ajillo