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El Salto @elsaltodiario.com · 6d

✊Italia se paraliza por Gaza: los sindicatos convocan una huelga general tras el asalto israelí a la flotilla

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Italia se paraliza por Gaza: los sindicatos convocan una huelga general tras el asalto israelí a la flotilla

La principal central sindical italiana, CGIL, convoca para este viernes el paro por el asalto del Estado israelí a la Flotilla Global Sumud. La presidenta italiana Giorgia Meloni dice que los trabajad...

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Dr Ross Barnett @deepfrieddna.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Ancient mammoth remains yield the world's oldest host-associated bacterial DNA

An international team led by researchers at the Center for Paleogenetics, has uncovered microbial DNA preserved in woolly and steppe mammoth remains dating back more than one million years. The analys...

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Alice Piai @alicepiai.bsky.social · Aug 25

Wrapping up my first congress #ESEB2025! Incredible insights from leading experts and an inspiring Museomics session. Excited to bring new ideas into my project!

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Vicencio Oostra @climate-adaptation.bsky.social · Aug 23

Goodbye #eseb2025 @eseb2025.bsky.social see you next time!

Perhaps what stuck most was powerful talk on resilience and survival by Palestinian researcher, play director, and ESEB EUEA awardee May Shehady. Let's not forget, let's not look away. 🇵🇸

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julia @geneticjulia.bsky.social · Aug 20

#ESEB2025
great talks in the museomics session, including @amandalindahl.bsky.social giving a great talk on her first (!!) conference 👏 🐻

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Love Dalén @lovedalen.bsky.social · Aug 22

Attending #ESEB2025 has been an amazing experience!

If you are interested in more ancient DNA and museomics, please consider joining us in Stockholm for the first International Conference on Palaeogenomics (June 23-26 2026)!

Follow @palaeogenomics.bsky.social

👉icp2026.palaeogenomics.org

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Fabio Barteri 🇪🇺 @linudz.bsky.social · Aug 22

🚨🚨CASUAL GALA DINNER🚨🚨

For those not going to the gala dinner, let’s keep the networking going with a casual beach dinner!
Bring something to eat or drink, and join us.

WhatsApp group: chat.whatsapp.com/E5o0crMZxibD...

Starting 5:30 PM today - position attached.

#ESEB2025

PLEASE REPOST!!!

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Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de · Aug 11

Ancient Yersinia pestis genome discovered in 4,000-year-old sheep tooth sheds new light on a mysterious infectious disease that plagued prehistoric Eurasia. New research by @keyfm.bsky.social and @i-light-maka.bsky.social now published in @cellpress.bsky.social: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Bronze Age Yersinia pestis genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineage

A Yersinia pestis genome from a Bronze Age domesticated sheep provides insight into the host range, evolution, and possible transmission scenarios of an ancient lineage of the plague-causing bacteria,...

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Alice Piai @alicepiai.bsky.social · Aug 21

Amazing #eseb2025 talk!

CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · Jun 27

🧬In Neolithic Çatalhöyük, family was built on social relations rather than blood ties.
Genetic analysis shows that over time, co-residents were no longer genetic relatives. Female subadults were buried with 5x more grave goods.
🔍A surprising story of Neolithic social life.

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Fabio Barteri 🇪🇺 @linudz.bsky.social · Aug 20

Finally, the #museomics symposium. #ESEB2025

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 19

Museums, well known for having exhibits about the future

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