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Raquel Teixeira
@rakkel-tx.bsky.social
Msc
Evolutionary Biology and Paleogenomics

They/She
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In 1872 John Atkinson Grimshaw was commissioned by the House of Commons to paint three views of the Roundhay Estate (of which this is one) in consideration of the Leeds Corporation Improvement Bill that proposed to turn this former private estate into a public park.
June 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius.

This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
June 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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”You should be lucky to be in Stockholm where @cpgsthlm.bsky.social has sequenced over 1 million year old DNA”
Ludovic Orlando from University of Toulouse lecturing in Aula Magna on "The Taming of the Horse" about how prehistoric DNA has changed our understanding of horse domestication. #AncientDNA
May 30, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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New review paper in TREE out!

The Progressive Evolution of Cold-Adapted Species

By John Stewart, @lovedalen.bsky.social, @palaeopete.bsky.social and others

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
May 19, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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NOBEL SYMPOSIA

We are delighted to announce two exciting public talks on Ancient DNA at Aula Magna (Stockholm University) on May 30th, 10:00-12:30h.

🦣⬅️ ”Can we bring back the woolly mammoth?” by Beth Shapiro.

🐎✋”The taming of the horse” by Ludovic Orlando.

Free entrance. All welcome!
April 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM