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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 23d

We're organizing a new CARTA symposium this November 7 on "Ancient DNA: New Revelations"! We have an amazing lineup of speakers who will showcase the biggest discoveries in ancient DNA over the past 5 years - and offer a sneak peek of what's next. Mark your calendars and don't miss it!

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James Fellows Yates @jfy133.genomic.social.ap.brid.gy · 23d

❓ Do you develop a #nextflow pipeline for #metagenomics, #metataxonomics, #metatranscriptomics, #metaproteomics, etc?

🧑‍💻 I'm looking for #bioinformatics developers to give demos of their #opensource pipelines to the scientific community in a ‘Meta-*omics Nextflow pipeline community exhibition […]

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ISBA - Intl. Soc. for Biomolecular Archaeology @isbarchaeology.bsky.social · Aug 29

What a week! 🎉 Big thanks to @isba11.bsky.social for hosting an incredible ISBA conference — so well organized and full of great science.

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Federico Sánchez Quinto @fsanchezquinto.bsky.social · Aug 29

Thrilled to share our study sequencing genetic data from tropical mammoths 🏝️🦣. First DNA recovered from Columbian mammoths southern than USA shorturl.at/xjIvy. Thanks to all collaborators, you were key to this success! See below a fantastic note covering the paper by the great @rpocisv.bsky.social 👇

Columbian mammoth mitogenomes from Mexico uncover the species’ complex evolutionary history

Paleogenomic studies suggest that Mammuthus columbi derives from an ancient hybridization between Mammuthus primigenius and Mammuthus trogontherii. While its habitat spanned from North to Central Amer...

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Judith Ballesteros Villascán @jballesterosv.bsky.social · Aug 26

🏺 And myself — Talk on ancient Caribbean individuals from the Dominican Republic— Session Migration IV in the Auditorium (Friday).
#ISBA11 #HAAMcommunity

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Judith Ballesteros Villascán @jballesterosv.bsky.social · Aug 26

🧬 @selinacarlhoff.bsky.social (very active this conference) — Poster [43] on Iron Age Austria mobility & social structure (Wednesday) + Academic Feudalism round table 🗣️ (Friday).
#ISBA11 #HAAMcommunity

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Judith Ballesteros Villascán @jballesterosv.bsky.social · Aug 26

🇧🇷 Carolina Padilha (visiting MSc student) — Poster [183] on the population history of pre-colonial São Paulo State (Wednesday).
#ISBA11 #HAAMcommunity

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Judith Ballesteros Villascán @jballesterosv.bsky.social · Aug 26

🐶 @eleniseferidou.bsky.social ‪— Poster [195]. If you like dogs (who doesn’t?), don’t miss learning about pre-colonial Caribbean dogs (Wednesday).
#ISBA11 #HAAMcommunity

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Judith Ballesteros Villascán @jballesterosv.bsky.social · Aug 26

🧬 @capitasonecas.bsky.social ‪— Poster [25] on early colonial interactions in the Spanish-colonized Caribbean (Wednesday).

#ISBA11 #HAAMcommunity

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Judith Ballesteros Villascán @jballesterosv.bsky.social · Aug 26

📢 #TropicalArchaeogenomics at #ISBA11 !
If you’re interested in the Americas 🌎 —particularly the ancient Caribbean— keep an eye on our lab’s research presented this week:
@isba11.bsky.social
@haam-community.bsky.social

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Judith Ballesteros Villascán @jballesterosv.bsky.social · Aug 25

🧳 Already on my way to Torino for #ISBA11 🧬 (and the #HAAMmeeting before). Excited to join colleagues from many Institutions.
Looking forward to the week ahead! 🍝
@isba11.bsky.social

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Judith Ballesteros Villascán @jballesterosv.bsky.social · Jun 23

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MPI-EVA Leipzig @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social · Jun 4

Ancient #DNA reveals #Papua New Guinea's genetic past. Study @natecoevo.nature.com by an intl. team led by Kathrin Nägele @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social shows the significance of regional dispersals & local interactions in coastal Papua New Guinea. tinyurl.com/2s3sc6ad & www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Papua New Guinea's Genetic Past Through Ancient DNA Analysis

A new study reveals the significance of regional dispersals and local interactions in coastal Papua New Guinea

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HAAM-community @haam-community.bsky.social · May 19

🚨 Don’t miss the 1st HAAM-radio symposium: "Ethics in Human DNA Research"
📅 May 29 (next week!)
🕒 LA (7am) l Berlin (4pm) | Singapore (10pm)
🎙️ With @paleogenomics.bsky.social @jenniferraff.bsky.social @marisolespitia.bsky.social & Tomás Gozález Zarzar
📝 Register by May 28
🔗 shorturl.at/1VScZ

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Miguel Angel Contreras Sieck💀🧬🦴🇵🇸 @miguelontlacuatzin.bsky.social · May 13

conferencia virtual “The Ghostly Presence of Race Science in
Indigenous Genomics - El fantasma de la ciencia racial en la genómica” donde Emma Kowal hablará de la genomica indígena en el siglo XXI en el contexto Australiano.

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HAAM-community @haam-community.bsky.social · Apr 11

🧬 The First Annual HAAM Meeting is coming on August 26, 2025 in Turin🇮🇹 (and online)!
✨ Flash talks, career panel & community updates.
📅 Submit your abstract for a flash talk by June 15
📢 We're looking for volunteers to join the organizing team
#HAAM #ISBA2025 @isbarchaeology.bsky.social

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Judith Ballesteros Villascán @jballesterosv.bsky.social · Mar 28

I attended online this year the @nf-co.re #Hackathon and I feel I’ve learned a lot since I joined the eager team.
Looking forward to continuing adding stickers, and merging pull requests without conflicts!
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Jazmín Ramos Madrigal @jazminrm.bsky.social · Feb 12

PhD position in bean palaeogenomics!🌱
Join our group at @hologenomics.bsky.social , U. of Copenhagen. The PhD, funded by Novo Nordisk Foundation, will study bean domestication and its coevolution with rhizobia using ancient and modern genomes.
Apply by March 16: tinyurl.com/24uzrj2f
Please share!

PhD fellowship in Evolutionary Biology at the Globe Institute

A PhD fellowship in Evolutionary Biology is being posted in the research team lead by Assistant Prof Jazmín Ramos Madrigal commencing 1 July 2025 or as soon as

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Jorge Antonio Amador Balderas @jorgeamador.bsky.social · Dec 23

I'm very happy to announce the publication of our work in Carboxypeptidase A; at the Computer Chemistry Center at @fau.de

www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/25...

Mode of Metal Ligation Governs Inhibition of Carboxypeptidase A

Carboxypeptidase is a Zn-dependent protease that specifically recognises and hydrolyses peptides with a hydrophobic side chain at the C-terminal residue. According to hydrolysis mechanisms proposed in...

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Leonardo Iasi @leonardoiasi.bsky.social · Dec 12

Out today in @sciencemagazine, we've journeyed into our shared history with Neandertals by analyzing over 300 present-day and ancient modern humans, including 59 individuals who lived between 2,000 and 45,000 years ago.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Neanderthal ancestry through time: Insights from genomes of ancient and present-day humans

Gene flow from Neanderthals has shaped genetic and phenotypic variation in modern humans. We generated a catalog of Neanderthal ancestry segments in more than 300 genomes spanning the past 50,000 year...

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Arev P. Sümer @arevsumer.bsky.social · Dec 12

I am very happy to share our new paper on the genetics of some of the first modern humans who ever lived in Europe! We sequenced nuclear DNA from 13 specimens from Ranis in Germany, and found that they belonged to at least 6 individuals. www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/n)

Earliest modern human genomes constrain timing of Neanderthal admixture - Nature

Nature - Earliest modern human genomes constrain timing of Neanderthal admixture

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · Dec 10

Check out our new commentary on strategies for improving ancient DNA data archiving! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Judith Ballesteros Villascán @jballesterosv.bsky.social · Sep 18

This will be my first time attending the EMBL/EMBO Symposium at Heidelberg! 🧬💀

I'm excited to have the opportunity to present our work⚱️.

Looking forward to seeing many familiar faces!
#EESHuman

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Emiliano Sotelo @jemilianosf.bsky.social · Feb 15

Join us at #SMBE2024 in Puerto Vallarta for Symposium 12 on "The Evolutionary Effects of Admixture" from July 7-11, 2024! Invited Speakers:
🔬 Emilia Huerta-Sanchez and Alexander Ioannidis
📅 Deadline Abstract submissions: March 15
🌎 For more info & to register: smbe2024.org

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Judith Ballesteros Villascán @jballesterosv.bsky.social · Jul 7

Come to my poster on exploring genetic diversity in the Americas through ancient genomes.
I’m eager to discuss and share our research with the community!

📅 Tuesday, July 9th: Poster session 2, 113-Tue

#SMBE2024 #WomenInScience

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