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Alice Piai

@alicepiai.bsky.social
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All about ancient stuff Mosquito Museomics, Ancient Metagenomics, Forensic Anthropology & more ancient secrets to unveil 🌈🦟🧬 @museuciencies.cat @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social

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Alice Piai @alicepiai.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Day 3 of #SMBE26! Inspiring talks on gut microbiome evolution by @nanditagarud.bsky.social and great sessions on ancient animals & viruses! 🦠 A special remark on the paleoproteomics session with Palesa Madupe about social responsibility & ethics in African research! 🌍
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Alice Piai @alicepiai.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
If you are into Museomics, Metagenomics, or just want to complain about why mosquitoes only bite you 🦟... I can help you with the first two! Check out my Poster 262 on Mosquito Museomics in room Arkaden 8! #SMBE26
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Alice Piai @alicepiai.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Outstanding 2nd-day plenary talk from Mehmet Somel on how female-centered societies in the Neolithic were actually a trend in Anatolia! #SMBE26
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Alice Piai @alicepiai.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
What a start! Wrapping up the first day of #SMBE26 with amazing talks covering Ai methods to detect ancient pathogens, museums metagenomics, and a great work on the Culex side with 4 new high-quality reference genomes!
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moicoll.bsky.social @moicoll.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Interactive schedule for SMBE2026. Enjoy the conference! #SMBE2026 github.com/MoiColl/SMBE...
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GitHub - MoiColl/SMBE2026_schedule: Interactive SMBE2026 schedule
Interactive SMBE2026 schedule. Contribute to MoiColl/SMBE2026_schedule development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Carina Schlebusch @cschlebu.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
We have a new preprint! - "Ancient Pathogen Genomics in Africa – Current Evidence and Future Directions" A review of current evidence, challenges, and opportunities for studying past epidemics and host–pathogen evolution using ancient DNA from African contexts. www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...
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HEAS @heasvienna.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
New Publication! New Article by #HEASVienna member @meriamguellil.bsky.social et al. on 'Tracing 2500 years of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B diversity through ancient DNA' #HEASPublications www.heas.at/research/pub...
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Tracing 2500 years of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B diversity through ancient DNA. - HEAS
Guellil, M., van Dorp, L., Saag, L., Beneker, O., Bonucci, B., Sasso, S., Saupe, T., Solnik, A., Kabral, H., Allmäe, R., Bates, J., Dittmar, J.M., Ge, X.J., Inskip, S., Jonuks, T., Karmanov, V.N., Kha...
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EMBL @embl.org · 01/12/2025
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...
An hourglass with DNA bases, set in front of a Neanderthal skull, with a map in the background showing human migration patterns, superimposed with a few cave paintings. Image Credit: Daniela Velasco/EMBL
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HEAS @heasvienna.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
The recording of this talk with @rokofler.bsky.social is now available on the #HEASVienna YouTube channel.
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HEAS Seminar - Robert Kofler
YouTube video by HEAS
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Emilio Mármol Sánchez @marmole6.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
🦣🧬🦣🤯💥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:
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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 02/11/2025
fucking hell
A screen grab of a Guardian article reading "The need to identify victims
Identifying the bodies is not just a question of restoring dignity to the dead; it is also necessary for the health of the living. Psychologists described the unresolved grief of relatives of the unidentified dead as an “ambiguous loss” which can generate or contribute to depression, trauma and identity confusion, a situational disorder widespread in Gaza.

The few remaining hospitals in the territory lack the equipment for DNA testing, which is desperately needed to help identify thousands of missing or deceased peope. Israel does not allow DNA testing materials to enter Gaza." with the last sentence highlighed in yellow.
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El Salto @elsaltodiario.com · 02/10/2025
✊Italia se paraliza por Gaza: los sindicatos convocan una huelga general tras el asalto israelí a la flotilla www.elsaltodiario.com/italia/itali...
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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...
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Dr Ross Barnett @deepfrieddna.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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Ancient mammoth remains yield the world's oldest host-associated bacterial DNA
An international team led by researchers at the Center for Paleogenetics, has uncovered microbial DNA preserved in woolly and steppe mammoth remains dating back more than one million years. The analys...
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Alice Piai @alicepiai.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Wrapping up my first congress #ESEB2025! Incredible insights from leading experts and an inspiring Museomics session. Excited to bring new ideas into my project!
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Vicencio Oostra @climate-adaptation.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
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. 🇵🇸
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julia @geneticjulia.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
#ESEB2025 great talks in the museomics session, including @amandalindahl.bsky.social giving a great talk on her first (!!) conference 👏 🐻
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Love Dalén @lovedalen.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
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
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Fabio Barteri @linudz.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
🚨🚨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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Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de · 11/08/2025
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...
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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,...
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Alice Piai @alicepiai.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Amazing #eseb2025 talk!
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Fabio Barteri @linudz.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Finally, the #museomics symposium. #ESEB2025
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/08/2025
Museums, well known for having exhibits about the future
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