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Alice Piai
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Museomics, forensics & ancient stuff
@Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona
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Nobel laureate Svante Pääbo, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, will deliver the 2026 EMBL Kafatos lecture.

The lecture will explore how traces of Neanderthal DNA might shape human biology and health today.

www.embl.org/news/embl-an...
December 1, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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The recording of this talk with @rokofler.bsky.social is now available on the #HEASVienna YouTube channel.
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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🦣🧬🦣🤯💥We are pleased to share our new paper about ancient RNA expression profiles from the Woolly Mammoth, now published in Cell @cellpress.bsky.social

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

If you want to know more, read the 🧵 below:
November 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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fucking hell
November 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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✊Italia se paraliza por Gaza: los sindicatos convocan una huelga general tras el asalto israelí a la flotilla

www.elsaltodiario.com/italia/itali...
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...
www.elsaltodiario.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Wrapping up my first congress #ESEB2025! Incredible insights from leading experts and an inspiring Museomics session. Excited to bring new ideas into my project!
August 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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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. 🇵🇸
August 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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#ESEB2025
great talks in the museomics session, including @amandalindahl.bsky.social giving a great talk on her first (!!) conference 👏 🐻
August 20, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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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
August 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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🚨🚨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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August 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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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,...
www.cell.com
August 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Amazing #eseb2025 talk!
🧬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.
August 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Finally, the #museomics symposium. #ESEB2025
August 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Museums, well known for having exhibits about the future
August 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM