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Paleogenomics - María Ávila Arcos

@paleogenomics.bsky.social

Mom. Scientist. Ancient DNA, genetic ancestry, Afrodescendants. Mexico. PI. She/her/hers RT!=endorsement

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Tereza Hendl@terezahendl.bsky.social · 11mo ago

“Open your eyes to history. Pay attention to where current taken-for-granted norms came from. They weren’t designed for equity and justice, but they could be repurposed for those ends. We need to ask what that would take.”

Maebh Ní Fhallúin@maebhnif.bsky.social · 11mo ago

“The field you’re entering... was designed, deliberately, for you to have as little impact as possible on equity & justice... It’s designed to keep you busy doing nonsense. Your job is to see through that & do your very best to resist.” globalhealthotherwise.com/why-global-h...

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle@dytsras.bsky.social · 2w ago

"The team found that the greater the proportion of enslaved people in a county in 1860, the bigger the mortality gap between Black & white people in the 2010s, even after controlling for common factors tied to health inequalities, such as rurality or pop. density" www.science.org/content/arti...

Slavery linked to mortality gap between Black and white Americans today

New study is among the first to quantify and explain slavery’s influence in contemporary U.S. health disparities

science.org

Sandeep Bakshi@sandeepbak.bsky.social · 3w ago

There's an uninterrupted line of anti-Blackness in academia where white supremacists and South Asian academics lie in bed together. Professor Arday has become the latest sacrifice to purge academia of Black academics. 3/4

Rebecca Sear@rebeccasear.bsky.social · 4w ago

“There are dark days ahead. If we are to fight against those with untold financial wealth, we will need untold intellectual wealth….Reading for pleasure and delight are vital – but alongside that and even more urgently: reading for power”

Philip Ball@philipcball.bsky.social · 4w ago

I thought I'd repost this piece quoting the first sentence. Then I thought, no, the first paragraph. No, the first three. And I went on doing that until the final word. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

Monica H Green@monicamedhist.bsky.social · 4w ago

Last week, @jackiantonovich.bsky.social asked for my thoughts on the new smallpox aDNA study that had just come out. I said I'd need a little more time to sort thru it. bsky.app/profile/moni.... I've now had time to go thru my files, so here's a quick summary on where we are in the history of VARV.

Monica H Green@monicamedhist.bsky.social · last mo.

Thanks for the query @jackiantonovich.bsky.social. I already knew this study on the Chilean genomes was coming out, but I need some time to assess its historical significance. Here's a link to the last smallpox aDNA pub'd earlier this year. Not included in the present study: bsky.app/profile/moni...

Paleogenomics - María Ávila Arcos@paleogenomics.bsky.social · 4w ago

I unsuscribed from Amazon prime 1.5y+ ago. I saved money as a consequence and became a more conscious shopper, with only two amazon deliveries in this period. We had happy lives before Amazon, we really never needed it. I wish more people could see this.

Lee West@whodat35.bsky.social · 4w ago

WTF? Amazon received a permit from the state of #Texas allowing its new gas power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — the largest single source of pollution in the United States. newrepublic.com/post/214111/...

Noah Whiteman@nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 4w ago

I’m thrilled to share that our search for a tenure-track colleague in my *truly wonderful and collegial* Genetics, Genomics, Evolution and Development Division in the MCB Department at Berkeley @berkeleymcb.bsky.social is live! Please share this broad search widely: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05481

Assistant Professor -Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development - Molecular and Cell Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Science Magazine@science.org · 4w ago

Paleogenomics research is revealing the complex history of bison, overturning assumptions about the ubiquity of cattle ancestry and showing that their decline did not markedly affect genetic diversity, although it has increased population fragmentation. Read more in Science: https://scim.ag/4wekKWJ

Wood bison such as this one, photographed near Muncho Lake Provincial Park in Canada’s Northern Rockies, split from plains bison ~3000 years ago but have plains ancestry from early 20th-century management. Paleogenomics research is revealing the complex history of bison, overturning assumptions about the ubiquity of cattle ancestry and showing that their decline did not markedly affect genetic diversity, although it has increased population fragmentation. An accompanying news feature explores how genomic findings are guiding conservation. Photo: © Chris Stenger/Buiten-beeld
This Many Years Ago@thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 4w ago

81 years ago, on the 6th of August 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It was the first time a bomb like this was used in warfare. Over 70.000 people were killed instantly. Tens of thousands more suffered consequences, lethal and non-lethal, for decades. #otd #history 🗃️

The Hiroshima atom bomb cloud 2–5 minutes after detonation
Richard Sever@richardsever.bsky.social · 4w ago

"Grokipedia...mentions genetics more frequently than Wikipedia and hallucinates or misrepresents human genetics research...it asserts that genes are causal factors underlying group-level measures such as...crime rates" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

From Wikipedia to AI: Measuring 25 years of synthesis of human genetics research in the public-facing information ecosystem

Genetics research frequently intersects with ethnicity, nationality, and race, making it uniquely vulnerable to misrepresentation. Yet, 25 years after the initial sequencing of the human genome, there...

biorxiv.org