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Lluis Quintana-Murci @lquintanamurci.bsky.social · Sep 4

Free, in English or French, and great speakers! 😂

Institut Pasteur Education @pasteuredu.bsky.social · Aug 25

🧬 The MOOC “Human Population and Evolutionary Genetics” is open for registration!!
👉 bit.ly/4fw3Zje
💀🌍 Where do we come from? What was the migration history of our species? What role does the Neanderthal genome play in our genetic heritage? How has our species adapted to different environments?

Human Population and Evolutionary Genetics

This Mooc aims to provide basic knowledge on population genetics and the help of genetics in the study of human migrations and human adaptation to extreme conditions.

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Lluis Quintana-Murci @lquintanamurci.bsky.social · Aug 2

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Julien Santi-Rocca @ghjulianu.bsky.social · Jul 11

Un régal d'apprendre de la dynamique des populations, des organismes et des génomes d'une manière ludique, élégante et précise.
#genomique #science #institutpasteur #collegedefrance #academiedessciences
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Genetics Society UK @gensocuk.bsky.social · Jul 29

Not long left to submit your abstract! Deadline is 31 July.

Join us in November for the Ancient Genomes meeting and hear from amazing speakers including: @mathiesoniain.bsky.social, @lquintanamurci.bsky.social & @lucyvandorp.bsky.social!

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Lluis Quintana-Murci @lquintanamurci.bsky.social · Jun 12

Thrilled that the 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for Science has been awarded to Marie-Claire King. A brilliant recognition of how genetics can inform both medical (eg breast cancer) and humanitarian (Argentinian victims of the military dictatorship) questions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIGk...

Mary-Claire King, Premio Princesa de Asturias de Investigación Científica y Técnica 2025

YouTube video by Fundación Princesa de Asturias

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Genetics Society UK @gensocuk.bsky.social · Jun 9

We have a fantastic meeting on Ancient Genomes in November @royalsociety.org! Confirmed speakers @lquintanamurci.bsky.social, @mathiesoniain.bsky.social, Priya Moorjani & Svante Pääbo!

Deadline for abstract submissions: Monday 30 June

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Ancient genomes: perspectives on human biology and medicine | Genetics Society

It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the Autumn Meeting of the Genetics Society. This meeting will provide a unique forum to network and socialise with a wide cross-section of the ...

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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · Jun 4

📣 Happy to share our review on host-microbiome genomics!

We synthesize the growing field exploring interactions between human genetics and the microbiome, building a roadmap for mapping the dialogue between our genes and microbes

Out now in Nature Reviews Genetics👇

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · May 23

Steroid hormone levels vary with age, sex ... and lifestyle. A large-scale ten-year study conducted by @milieuinterieur.bsky.social on a thousand individuals has shed new light on #steroid hormones. ↘️

Steroid hormone levels vary with age, sex ... and lifestyle

A large-scale ten-year study conducted by the Institut Pasteur on a thousand individuals has shed new light on steroid hormones. Levels of these molecules, which play a crucial role in our health, var...

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Collège de France @college-de-france.fr · Apr 10

#Prélude #Science #Biologie
🧬 "Inné ou acquis ? Impact de la génétique sur la diversité biologique et les maladies"
👨‍🏫 Le Pr @lquintanamurci.bsky.social, titulaire de la chaire #Génomique humaine et évolution, introduit son cours de l'année 2024-2025.
👉 www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...

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Collège de France @college-de-france.fr · Feb 27

🧬 "Inné ou acquis ? Impact de la #génétique sur la diversité biologique et les maladies"
📌 Le cours du Pr @lquintanamurci.bsky.social, titulaire de la chaire Génomique humaine et évolution, commence la semaine prochaine.
⏰ 7 mars → 4 avril 2025
👉 www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...

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Carina Schlebusch @cschlebu.bsky.social · Feb 17

One more day for abstract submission! Join us at Hinxton for the 2025 Human Evolution conference

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Lluis Quintana-Murci @lquintanamurci.bsky.social · Feb 13

Mes cours de cette année porteront sur « Inné ou acquis ? L’impact de la génétique sur la diversité biologique et les maladies », et se tiendront tous les vendredis, du 7 mars au 4 avril, au Collège de France.
@collegedefrance.bsky.social
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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · Jan 16

The Institut Pasteur has decided to leave X (formerly Twitter) to join BlueSky! 🦋
The Institut Pasteur made this decision due to several serious issues observed on the X platform since its acquisition. Join us here to continue advocating for science. www.pasteur.fr/en/home/pres...

Institut Pasteur decides to leave X

The Institut Pasteur, a research organization which for more than 130 years has been committed to tackling infectious diseases, sharing knowledge and defending science, has decided to leave X because ...

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · Jan 11

'If the protagonist in the story is humanity writ large, then the antagonist is infectious disease.'

Jennifer Raff on the diversity of our genetic inheritance

Human Peoples by Lluís Quintana-Murci | Book review

We live alone now. But for more than 20,000 years Homo sapiens coexisted with other kinds of humans: Neanderthals in Europe, Denisovans in Asia, and perhaps others whose genetic traces we are only…

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tdcapellini.bsky.social @tdcapellini.bsky.social · Jan 10

1/11 Pleased to see our article by the terrific Dr. Daniel Richard
finally out in January 9th the journal Cell: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Functional genomics of human skeletal development and the patterning of height heritability

A framework for understanding complex-trait genetic uncovers regulatory networks underpinning human height variability.

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Lluis Quintana-Murci @lquintanamurci.bsky.social · Jan 2

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Cliona O’Farrelly @clionaofarrelly.bsky.social · Jan 1

@lquintanamurci.bsky.social ‘s new book ‘Human Peoples’ on human evolutionary genetics gets written up by @sciencespinning.bsky.social in @irishtimes.bsky.social

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Yago Arribas @yarribas.bsky.social · Dec 12

Not easy to describe the emotions of seeing our work published in @cellpress.bsky.social ! We explored how novel isoforms emerge during evolution through the exonization of Transposable Elements. Exonized TEs modify the functions and structures of host proteins.
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Transposable element exonization generates a reservoir of evolving and functional protein isoforms

Transposable element exonization by unannotated splicing events produces stable protein isoforms with acquired functions that are subject to evolutionary selection.

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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · Nov 15

Wellcome Human Evolution Conference 2025 🥳!
'From Fossils to Ancient and Modern Genomes'
28–30 April 2025
Wellcome Genome Campus, UK & Virtual
coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/human-...
Come and join us 😍!!
#HumanEvo25

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Lluis Quintana-Murci @lquintanamurci.bsky.social · Dec 4

All is bad since Macron dissolved the assembly. Now if the objection happens Macron can (most likely) create a new government (again!) or presents his resignation (unlikely). He cannot dissolve the assembly again until next June.

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Aaron Quinlan (he/him) @aaronquinlan.bsky.social · Dec 3

Biology of Genomes 2025 is coming up:
- meeting dates: May 6 - 10, 2025
- abstract deadline: Feb 14, 2025
We hope to see you there for another great meeting with a fantastic speaker lineup!

meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...

Biology of Genomes

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · Nov 20

Looking forward to the 2025 Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics Gordon Conference in Italy this summer! This meeting was fantastic in 2023 and promises to be outstanding again! Get more info and register here: www.grc.org/ecological-a... @samyeaman.bsky.social @chicascientifica.bsky.social

2025 Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics Conference GRC

The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics will be held in Lucca (Barga), Lucca Italy. Apply today to reserve your spot.

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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · Nov 27

Design tips for reproducible BWAS - studies linking the brain to behaviour - a News & Views to accompany this Nature paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@natureportfolio.bsky.social

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Design tips for reproducible studies linking the brain to behaviour

Sampling schemes for reproducible brain-wide association studies.

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SMBE Chile Adaptation & Evolution Meeting @smbe-chile2025.bsky.social · Nov 27

🚨 New Confirmed Keynote Speaker!! 🚨

Helen Murphy from William & Mary University will join us!!! 🙂

@OfficialSMBE Satellite Meeting: Molecular Mechanisms of Adaptation and Experimental Evolution

Puerto Varas, Chile 🌳🗻

October 6th - 8th, 2025

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Darren Obbard @darrenobbard.bsky.social · Nov 27

#PhD Advert: Please share! Are you looking for a PhD studentship in comparative- or population-genomics, using 300+ species of #Drosophila and 1000+ genomes of #melanogaster? #Entomology #Genomics #PopGen #Phylogenetics

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