Paleogenomics - María Ávila Arcos
@paleogenomics.bsky.social
Mom. Scientist. Ancient DNA, genetic ancestry, Afrodescendants. Mexico. PI. She/her/hers RT!=endorsement
🚨 #postdoc alert ❤️🔥 I'm looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my group at @cpgsthlm.bsky.social and @stockholm-uni.bsky.social working on #woollymammoth genomics 🦣🦴🧬✨ Deadline: 30th Nov. +Info about the position 👉 www.su.se/english/divi... +info about CPG 👉 palaeogenetics.com RT pls
Disruption of global research at NIH is endangering people in the United States and around the world. 27unihted.substack.com/p/disruption... Foreign collaborations have been interrupted and discouraged and foreign scientists in the United States are working in an increasingly hostile environment.
Disruption of global research is endangering people in the United States and around the world
Concern 8 of the Bethesda Declaration: One Year Later
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I am hiring a postdoc! Are you interested to work on population genetics/ drug resistance/ data? Want to work in Montpellier, France? Fastq files don't scare you? PhD required, start date hopefully Nov 1! (end date Sep 30 2028) Please share! abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/p...
Postdoc position on drug resistance evolution in Montpellier, France
I have some exciting news (again!). I got money from the region (Occitanie) to hire a postdoc (and later an engineer / technician) to work on drug resistance evolution in malaria (P. faciparum) and…
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We've [with @louis-lhote.bsky.social] published an article on @theconversation.com about our work on #adna of sheeppox virus.
Ancient virus hunters: how we discovered sheeppox DNA hidden in medieval gospels
DNA can survive in parchment for well over a thousand years.
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🦇 Bat1K's biggest paper yet is out. Largest bat genome + fossil study ever: 103 genomes, 44 fossils, 137 researchers. We rewrote the bat family tree! Bats likely originated in Europe ~65 million years ago, not Asia, Africa or Americas. @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-11007-3
Fold Spacer lets you fly through protein structures (Weekend project #2). It’s my first game: I originally set out to build a racer with structures as the tracks, but was a little too crazy. So it became this instead. You can upload your own structures. 🌐 martin-steinegger.github.io/Fold-Spacer/
Hoy fue un orgullo ser el primer alcalde de Nueva York en marchar en el Desfile del Día de la Independencia de México en Sunset Park, junto a una comunidad que ha mantenido vivo su orgullo cultural durante generaciones.
Mexico’s fight for independence is the triumph of a people determined to shape their own future. Today, I was proud to be the first New York City Mayor to march in Sunset Park’s Mexican Independence Day Parade alongside a community that has fostered cultural pride across generations.
So (if I understand this correctly), the way AI (companies) will "solve" all the major problems in maths, biology, and medicine in the next 5 years will be by stealing and building on the ideas of researchers naive enough to think their chats with AI companies would be private.
Two extraordinary charts from today’s PISA test results: 1) School test scores continue to collapse internationally, underscoring how this is no longer a Covid effect but sustained decline. Those falls in reading and maths are equivalent to about two years of lost schooling.
Latest in #GENETICS: Read the inspiring journey of the Genetics Society of America Medal awardee @schacherer.bsky.social and learn about his contributions to #yeast research, including leading the 1000 Yeast Genomes Project. 🔗 buff.ly/V5yPKkl
Ancient parchments, covered in ancient disease DNA! Researchers led by @ucddublin.bsky.social's @gingerhowley.bsky.social recover the genes of a deadly animal pathogen from medieval manuscripts. @science.org
Ancient sheep virus found hiding in medieval parchment
Newly recovered sheeppox sequences reveal when and how the virus emerged
science.org
“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 · last yr.“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...
Beyond animal glue: Paleoproteomic analysis of paint binders and adhesives in ancient Egypt | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Beyond animal glue: Paleoproteomic analysis of paint binders and adhesives in ancient Egypt
Despite the wealth of artworks from ancient Egypt in collections worldwide, the number of analytical studies on the organic media used in paints and adhesives is limited, especially because microsampl...
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"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
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Ah yes, family, that bizarre institution that only women have If in the future you look for BBC's tradwife turn moment, this is it
Mexico is sending its first blind women's football team to compete in an international tournament. Players cannot wait.
How blind football is helping women overcome barriers in Mexico
Mexico is sending its first blind women's football team to compete in an international tournament. Players cannot wait.
aljazeera.com
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
If you are interested in learning computational population genetics and ancient genomics, I have curated my list of workshops and online tutorials (and will continue to do so) indicating suitability for self-learners and status. You find the list [here](www.stephanschiffels.de/resources.html).
Oh boy - our new ancient DNA module is available for nf-core/mag! Robustly and reproducibly reconstruct ancient metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) using our new nf-core/mag tooling! doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Excited for @gabrielesgarlata.bsky.social’s new preprint on the Genome-Wide Effect of Drift and Selection over a Single Generation 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The Genome-Wide Effect of Drift and Selection over a Single Generation
The relative importance of genetic drift versus selection to evolutionary change has long been debated. This debate has mainly focused over long-time-scales (e.g. hundreds of thousands of generations)...
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‘We are still here’: a day in the life of 12 Afghan women
‘We are still here’: a day in the life of 12 Afghan women
In the five years since the Taliban’s return to power, the walls have been closing in on the women and girls of Afghanistan. A dozen women and girls have, at great risk to their safety, documented their lives for the world to see
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“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 · 2mo agoI 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...
"“I’m always asking: How many people are dying because we misorient the purpose and point of our work?”" www.ontheory.com/interviews/s...
Seye Abimbola | On Theory
Seye Abimbola wants us to stop mistaking prestige for insight – and inclusion for equity. At a bustling restaurant tucked into a leafy corner of the University of Sydney, Associate Professor Seye Abim...
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It's interesting that Sankore Mosque in Timbuktu, one of the oldest madrasas in West Africa, was also founded by a woman according to the Timbuktu manuscripts.
Paleogenomics - María Ávila Arcos@paleogenomics.bsky.social · 2mo agoEven older educational centers were created in the Arab world and continue to function as universities today. This one in Morocco dates to 859 and was founded by a woman: Fatima al Fihriya en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univers...
