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Alba Nieto Heredia

@albanietoh.bsky.social
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PhD Student MSCMSCA-Horizon2020 AI4theSciences. IBE - PSL 🍂 PopGen with a sprinkle of AI 🍂

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Matthew Hahn @3rdreviewer.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Final version of paper with @smishra677.bsky.social now published in a wonderful issue of GENETICS! academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
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Estimating recombination using only the allele frequency spectrum
Abstract. Standard methods for estimating the population recombination parameter, ρ, are dependent on sampling individual genotypes and calculating various
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Alba Nieto Heredia @albanietoh.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Check our review in GBE about SMC-based methods! I wish I had a review like this when I started my PhD
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Laura Vilà Valls @lvilavalls.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Our new paper is out in PNAS! We analyzed 125 high-coverage whole genomes from five Sudanese ethnolinguistic groups, to understand the evolutionary and demographic history of the region. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵👇
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Universitat Pompeu Fabra @upf.edu · 19/11/2025
#VeusExpertesUPF Francesc Calafell, investigador de l'Institut de Biologia Evolutiva @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social i la #UPFBarcelona, troba difícil que el nom Rosalia, malgrat la popularitat de la cantant de Sant Esteve Sesrovires, es pugui posar de moda. Via el Criatures del @ara.cat
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Rosalía, un nom que difícilment es posarà de moda
A Catalunya hem passat de 600 Rosalies a la dècada dels anys 50 a menys d'una desena en l'actualitat
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Pontus Skoglund @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The 2026 EMBL symposium 'Reconstructing the human past using ancient and modern genomics' is live with a fantastic invited speaker lineup! Abstract deadline 9 June. If work is ongoing, plan for Heidelberg in September😉. Organised by Maanasa Raghavan, @matejahajdi.bsky.social, Choongwon Jeong & me.
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Alba Nieto Heredia @albanietoh.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Take a look at my first preprint as a first author! We analyse the effect of population structure in SMC methods and find two systematic biases that have indeed extra information about the population! We model the nature of these biases and find a link with the isolation of the population and Fst.
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Laura Vilà Valls @lvilavalls.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Excited to share our new preprint🙌 It's the first human WGS study in Sudan. We uncover one of the strongest selection signals to date, pointing to post-admixture adaptation to malaria in Copts. Huge thanks to all co-authors. @aidaandres.bsky.social @jgarcia-cal.bsky.social @ebosch1972.bsky.social
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Alba Nieto Heredia @albanietoh.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
That somehow truly happened 1 month ago. #SMBE2025 has been amazing and being part of the Excellence Graduate Awarded is nothing less than a dream come true
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Alba Nieto Heredia @albanietoh.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
So grateful for this incredible opportunity!!! #SMBE2025
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Alba Nieto Heredia @albanietoh.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
An experience I will never forget!
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Alba Nieto Heredia @albanietoh.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
They did it! They opened the path to overcome the assumptions the of SMC-based coalescent with LLMs. This new era is just right here!
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Alba Nieto Heredia @albanietoh.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Seeing how every effort has now materialized into lessons and teachings that truly benefit @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social scientists of all generations has been immeasurable. Thank you, @xavimartiperez.bsky.social, for co-leading this project.
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John Novembre @jnovembre.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Excited for our publication on how the geographic scale of a sample affects the discovery of rare, deleterious variants to be out this week. With a mix of theory, simulation, and data analysis, we show when samples are narrow vs broad, the number of variants discovered and their frequencies change
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Alba Nieto Heredia @albanietoh.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Very happy to have been part of this project. Go check this dive on SMC-based models!
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Arun Durvasula @arundurvasula.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Our review of recent Sequentially Markovian Coalescent methods is up on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2506.00692 (based on last year's @official-smbe.bsky.social symposium)
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Not Just $N_e$ $N_e$-more: New Applications for SMC from Ecology to Phylogenies
Genomes contain the mutational footprint of an organism's evolutionary history, shaped by diverse forces including ecological factors, selective pressures, and life history traits. The sequentially Ma...
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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Talks by: @dylansosa.bsky.social @aidanwshort.bsky.social @gemmaeling.bsky.social @hverdonk.bsky.social @Kaiyuan Li @philipphummer.bsky.social Huangyi He @albanietoh.bsky.social
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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Any young paleo workers will be hard pressed to find a better opportunity than this.
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ISYEB @isyeb.mnhn.fr · 13/05/2025
@albanietoh.bsky.social , doctorante @psl-univ.bsky.social Elle mène ses recherches entre @isyeb.mnhn.fr au #MNHN Paris et @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social à Barcelone" lauréate ▶️ graduate studient excellence award @official-smbe.bsky.social ! 🏆
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Science Magazine @science.org · 08/05/2025
Indigenous researchers and communities are reshaping how Western science thinks about data ownership. #AANHPIHeritageMonth scim.ag/4m5VBJZ
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‘Not a free-for-all’: Indigenous communities want limits on how their data are shared
Push for “data sovereignty” could reshape how scientists share information
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Alba Nieto Heredia @albanietoh.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Feeling truly honored and grateful to be recognized by @official-smbe.bsky.social with this award! Looking forward to see you all in #SMBE2025 in Beijing! For those who want to know more about Darwin's statue ⬇️⬇️
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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
🐜 Today's GSEA focus is on Gemma Martínez Redondo, PhD candidate @ub.edu Gemma's research combines traditional phylogenetics, phylogenomics, and machine learning to understand the genomic basis of terrestrialization across animals More on Gemma ⬇️ and follow her: @gemmaeling.bsky.social
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Alba Nieto Heredia @albanietoh.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Don't miss this study on selection using a Catalan cohort of Spanish Population! Catalonia is a region in the north of the Iberian Peninsula with a rich history of recent migration from all the Spanish geography. They made the most of the data with an historical context of popstructure!
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Alba Nieto Heredia @albanietoh.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
So Happy for the warm welcome or our PopGen bookclub! Each month, at IBE, we review a new chapter of @gcbias.bsky.social book, which is totally open-source! We encourage you to take a look at it! Link: github.com/cooplab/popg...
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GitHub - cooplab/popgen-notes: Population genetics notes
Population genetics notes. Contribute to cooplab/popgen-notes development by creating an account on GitHub.
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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Join us for ARGEvol, a conference on ancestral recombination graphs in Vila do Conde, Portugal from Nov 12-14, 2025. Complete the interest survey: framaforms.org/argevol-conferencewo…. #conference
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Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The April cover of Molecular Biology and Evolution features the work of Menno de Jong et al., who analysed autosomal and sex chromosomal data to reconstruct the demographic history of the Red deer. Link: doi.org/10.1093/molb... 📷 Bas Worm #evolution #reddeer
April 2025 cover for Molecular Biology and Evolution
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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
📢 Recipients of the SMBE Graduate Student Excellence Award have been selected and contacted by email. The society is impressed by their outstanding research and invites them to attend SMBE2025 in Beijing. In the upcoming weeks, we will highlight the recipients and their research. Stay tuned!
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Simone Andrea Biagini 🏳️‍🌈 @sabiagini.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
📝 Excited to share this work!We revealed significant genetic isolation and unique demographic patterns in the Raute, the last nomadic hunter-gatherer population of the Himalayas! 🏔️🧬 ✨ Big thanks to the team, and kudos to Dr. Inez Derks 🎉 🔗 Check it out! #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The genetic demographic history of the last hunter-gatherer population of the Himalayas
Scientific Reports - The genetic demographic history of the last hunter-gatherer population of the Himalayas
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Francesc Calafell @francesccalafell.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
This just out! rdcu.be/d5ptO. We compared SNP arrays and exomes in Eivissans and Minorcans, found that drift was way more intense in the former than in the latter, although, fortunately, Eivissans did not accumulate more deleterious mutations (1/2)
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A reduction in effective population size has not relaxed purifying selection in the human population of Eivissa (Balearic Islands)
Scientific Reports - A reduction in effective population size has not relaxed purifying selection in the human population of Eivissa (Balearic Islands)
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Xavier Martí-Pérez @xavimartiperez.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
A pleasure to have presented my work on polygenic adaptation in human European populations at the XII Jornada de Bioinformàtica, organized by @scb.iec.cat in Lleida. #Genomics #NaturalSelection #PolygenicAdaptation
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Alba Nieto Heredia @albanietoh.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Happy to share our work in preparation in Bioinformatics and Genomics Journeys from @scb.iec.cat in Lleida!
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