iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

We present DNAharvester 🎉🦴🚜🧬 A pipeline to process highly degraded ancient DNA data that integrates metagenomic filtering, competitive mapping, multiple alignment strategies, reference bias evaluation and much more. GitHub: github.com/NBISweden/DN... Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

If you see this post a monster. "grampapa I caught a BUG today"

really silly doodle of a pink velvet worm wearing a blue baseball cap and holding a lollipop talking to his grampa, cthulhu, who is grean with glasses, greying tentacles and sitting in a brown armchair with a blue blanket over his legs, on the wall behind them there is a sign that says LIVE LAUGH LOVE with an attached postit that turns it into LOVEcraft and a Hallucigenia doodle that says heart grandma.

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Neat demonstration of how artificial so-called intelligence is taking us backwards. "ChatGPT produced content most consistent with the 1960s and DALL-E 3 in the late 1980s and early '90s." #AI - see @shannonvallor.bsky.social's work for important thinking on this phys.org/news/2026-02...

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New study uses Neanderthals to demonstrate gap between generative AI and scholarly knowledge

Technological advances over the past four decades have turned mobile devices and computers into the world's largest library, where information is just a tap away. Phones, laptops, tablets, smartwatche...

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Laura Cooper @transitionalform.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below! Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage

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J. Camilo Chacón-Duque @jcchacond.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

So proud that this is out 🐺⏳🧬🦏. First paper as a senior author (co-shared with @lovedalen.bsky.social; thanks for a great opportunity) and led by my awesome former MSc student @solveiggudjonsd.bsky.social and a brilliant CPG postdoc @edanalord.bsky.social (1/n) OA: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

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parker parrella @parkparr.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

desert mitosis, 2024

rectangular acrylic painting against a white background. painting depicts red sand desert dunes, floating in the sky above an oval rainbow with 2 faintly connected stars

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Lander Lorca-Francisco @fourcornersworld.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

And for some reason everybody keeps slowly morphing into Jeff from HR

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Lander Lorca-Francisco @fourcornersworld.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Reminds me of a very old post that went along the lines of 'humans are god's passion project, crabs are his job'

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Nick Petrić Howe @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

'Tis the season for some festive science songs. If you've ever wanted to hear someone sing about a dimunitive tyranosaur then now is your chance

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Roberto Sáez @robertosaezm.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Hace 45-70 ka neandertales de El Castillo usaban materia prima local para talla lítica, pero también de largas distancias (+100 km). Neanderthal mobility over very long distances: The case of El Castillo cave (northern Spain) and the ‘Vasconian’ Mousterian

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Neanderthal mobility over very long distances: The case of El Castillo cave (northern Spain) and the ‘Vasconian’ Mousterian

This study explores the mobility and raw material circulation of Neanderthals at the El Castillo cave, located in the northern part of the Iberian Pen…

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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

🦣 🤯 🦣 🤯 🦣 Video of woolly mammoth leg discovered in the Siberian permafrost! Researchers from #CpgSthlm and SciLifeLab have now, for the first time ever, identified signatures of gene activity in frozen mammoth remains! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Lander Lorca-Francisco @fourcornersworld.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

It's not a good day until you've had a look at a new species of fungus

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Lander Lorca-Francisco @fourcornersworld.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

When you think the next can't be any worse and it's the most catastrophically horrible thing a human can say

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 06/11/2025

Me and the boys on a night out in 3000 BC 🍻 In ancient Sumer, it was common to drink beer from a communal vessel using long straws. Similar straws and vessels have been found as far away as the Caucasus, indicating the practice was popular! (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Diagram of people encircling a vessel, each drinking through a straw.

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Silvia Pineda-Munoz, PhD - Climate Ages @climateages.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

A 126,000-year-old butt-drag just made fossil history. A tiny rock hyrax scooted across the sand of ancient South Africa, and that moment was preserved in stone. Even the smallest acts can echo through time. 🧪 #SciComm buff.ly/dcGWTR4

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The 126,000-Year-Old Butt-Drag That Rewrote What Counts as a Fossil

How a small animal’s odd habit turned into one of the most unexpected stories ever preserved in stone Some discoveries make headlines because they’re dramatic: new...

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

video www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyU5...

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The War on Science

YouTube video by Shaun

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 12/09/2025

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Say what you want about pseudoarchaeology, but it's just silly Why would you prefer a more entertaining, but laughably false narrative over the detailed richness and nuanced messiness of the real evidence for our shared human past?

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Lander Lorca-Francisco @fourcornersworld.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I have just experienced a school classmate from my cohort having a child... for the first time

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

that's right

The Wall Street Journal tweets: "Evidence suggests early humans used primitive sunscreen and wore tailored clothing—possibly contributing to their survival as Neanderthals went extinct." There is then a link to a story.

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

"de-extinction feels like a distraction from the unfinished business of protecting life in the present" 💯 Incredibly disappointing that two extremely wealthy creatives, George Martin and Peter Jackson, have chosen to invest in this rather than fund immediately impactful conservation efforts

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Lander Lorca-Francisco @fourcornersworld.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Thank you so much for such a thorough (and interesting!) reply! It makes me think that despite all the effort and emphasis in finding common humanity with people of the past to better understand them, there's always more dimensions to explore. Do you have any recs for further reading on this topic??

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Lander Lorca-Francisco @fourcornersworld.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Woah! It had definitely never occurred to me to think of these mega-projects as sites of political intrigue, or just how many conflicting interests could be at play for different groups and 'elites' and how much could be riding their (non-)completion!

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Lander Lorca-Francisco @fourcornersworld.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

First question is can I just pop them down here in the comments? And if so, in what ways might Neolithic monument building have been about control? What signs point to it?? 👀

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Arev P. Sümer @arevsumer.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Vanessa Villalba-Mouco and I wrote a little preview piece for Cell on the new mtDNA and proteomics results from the Harbin skull. It is free for 50 days at this link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Unmasking the Denisovans

The Harbin cranium, linked to Denisovans via mitochondrial DNA, broadens their known range and provides the first insights into Denisovan morphology. …

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Lander Lorca-Francisco @fourcornersworld.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I can't believe we got a new Sumerian myth before GTA 6...

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WIRED @wired.com · 16/07/2025

NEW: The US government has added the DNA of approximately 133,000 migrant children and teens to a criminal database, which critics say could mean police treat them like suspects “indefinitely.”

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DHS Faces New Pressure Over DNA Taken From Immigrant Children

The US government has added the DNA of approximately 133,000 migrant children and teens to a criminal database, which critics say could mean police treat them like suspects “indefinitely.”

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Lander Lorca-Francisco @fourcornersworld.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Sexiest figure i've seen in any paper yet

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Lander Lorca-Francisco @fourcornersworld.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

You can kill the man but never the idea

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Lander Lorca-Francisco @fourcornersworld.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Bon dia! Existeix la possibilitat de format híbrid?

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Lander Lorca-Francisco @fourcornersworld.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Where's the audience for this and are they even on here

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Lander Lorca-Francisco @fourcornersworld.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

"God, I forgot the name of that very famous archaeological culture of Proto-Indo-European speakers from the Pontic-Caspian steppe" The ever-reliable and very scholarly Isabel Pantoja:

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European Association of Archaeologists @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

🏺 Recent research suggests that thousands of earthen ridges and canals in the Shatt al-Arab floodplain outside Basra in Iraq, part of an ancient agricultural system, were constructed with slave labour during the early Islamic period associated with the 'Zanj rebellion'. #Archaeology #Iraq