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Alba Nieto Heredia @albanietoh.bsky.social · 4d

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.

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 5d

Performance of Sequential Markovian Coalescence Methods when Populations are Structured https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.09.681379v1

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Laura Vilà Valls @lvilavalls.bsky.social · Sep 3

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

medRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · Sep 3

Sudan's complex genetic admixture history drives adaptation to malaria in Sudanese Copts https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.01.25334828v1

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Alba Nieto Heredia @albanietoh.bsky.social · Aug 21

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 · Jul 22

So grateful for this incredible opportunity!!!

#SMBE2025

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · Jul 21

Jacky Kaiyuan Li - Graduate Student Excellence Symposium

Philipp Hummer - Graduate Student Excellence Symposium

Huangyi He - Graduate Student Excellence Symposium

Alba Nieto Heredia - Graduate Student Excellence Symposium

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Alba Nieto Heredia @albanietoh.bsky.social · Jun 29

An experience I will never forget!

Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge @eegcam.bsky.social · Jun 29

After a week of intense population genomics, lots of tired but still smiley faces. Thank you @embo.org for funding another edition of our Population Genomics course in Naples. And thank you to the trainers and participants for making this eight edition another success! #EMBOpopgen

Group photo from the EMBO Population Genomics Course in Naples, 2025

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Alba Nieto Heredia @albanietoh.bsky.social · Jun 29

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!

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · Jun 28

Coalescence and Translation: A Language Model for Population Genetics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.24.661337v1

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Alba Nieto Heredia @albanietoh.bsky.social · Jun 16

Léa Guyon == @lea-guyon.bsky.social !!

Alba Nieto Heredia @albanietoh.bsky.social · Jun 16

Juan C. Guevara == @juanbigotes.bsky.social (couldnt cite you above!)

Alba Nieto Heredia @albanietoh.bsky.social · Jun 16

And thanks of course to all speakers @xavimartiperez.bsky.social @macscastro.bsky.social , Giacomo Ena, @adriaula.bsky.social @simonperera.bsky.social , Léa Guyon, Sebastián H. Cuadros, @jgarcia-cal.bsky.social , Juan C. Guevara and all the attendants !!!

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Alba Nieto Heredia @albanietoh.bsky.social · Jun 16

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.

Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (IBE) @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social · Jun 16

📣Today the #IBE_Barcelona Students Committee organizes the #IBEWorkshop, a new initiative aimed at fostering knowledge exchange, skill development, and community building across all levels of the institute.🤩

#UnravellingEvolution
#DiscoveringLife
#ConservingBiodiversity

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John Novembre @jnovembre.bsky.social · Jun 5

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

PNAS

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...

www.pnas.org

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Alba Nieto Heredia @albanietoh.bsky.social · Jun 16

Very happy to have been part of this project. Go check this dive on SMC-based models!

Arun Durvasula @arundurvasula.bsky.social · Jun 11

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)

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...

arxiv.org

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Arun Durvasula @arundurvasula.bsky.social · Jun 11

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)

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...

arxiv.org

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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · Jun 9

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 · May 21

Any young paleo workers will be hard pressed to find a better opportunity than this.

Lee Hsiang Liow （廖珕庠） @lhliow.bsky.social · May 20

Come postdoc in Oslo! 3 years. You design the project! Get in touch with me or others at our museum! Deadline 23 june www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... share and repost !

Postdoctoral Fellow: Self-Developed Project (280531) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow: Self-Developed Project (280531), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, June 23, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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ISYEB @isyeb.mnhn.fr · May 13

@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 ! 🏆

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · May 8

Our latest GSEA winner is Alba Nieto Heredia, PhD student @psl-univ.bsky.social

Alba's popgen and computational biology research focuses on population structure and its critical role in demographic inference.

More on Alba ⬇️ and follow her: @albanietoh.bsky.social

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Alba Nieto Heredia @albanietoh.bsky.social · May 13

Merci beaucoup!

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Science Magazine @science.org · May 8

Indigenous researchers and communities are reshaping how Western science thinks about data ownership. #AANHPIHeritageMonth scim.ag/4m5VBJZ

‘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

scim.ag

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Alba Nieto Heredia @albanietoh.bsky.social · May 8

Today, Anís del Mono is enjoyed around the world, and the statue has become a symbol of Badalona. What began as a joke about Darwin now stands as a quiet tribute to one of science’s greatest minds.

Yesterday’s fools may lay the groundwork for tomorrow’s truths.

Alba Nieto Heredia @albanietoh.bsky.social · May 8

When Anís del Mono began production in the late 1800s, The Origin of Species was still controversial. The founders may have leaned into this, turning mocking into marketing strategy by putting a (drunk) monkey with Darwin’s face on the label.

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Alba Nieto Heredia @albanietoh.bsky.social · May 8

The statue represents the logo of Anís del Mono, an emblematic local aniseed liqueur brand founded in 1870.

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Alba Nieto Heredia @albanietoh.bsky.social · May 8

In my hometown, Badalona, there's a bronze statue of a monkey holding a bottle of anise liqueur. It's not just any monkey—it bears a striking resemblance to Charles Darwin!

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Alba Nieto Heredia @albanietoh.bsky.social · May 8

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 ⬇️⬇️

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · May 8

Our latest GSEA winner is Alba Nieto Heredia, PhD student @psl-univ.bsky.social

Alba's popgen and computational biology research focuses on population structure and its critical role in demographic inference.

More on Alba ⬇️ and follow her: @albanietoh.bsky.social

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Alba Nieto Heredia @albanietoh.bsky.social · May 8

Thank you so much!

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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · May 5

🐜 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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