✨ 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗠𝗕𝗘 𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗔 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲! ✨

👤 Name: Epifanía Arango-Isaza

📩 Contact: @epifaniaarango.bsky.social

👔 Role: Cochair

🌎 From: 🇨🇴 Colombia - 🇪🇸 Spain

🏛️ Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison

🔬 Research: Indigenous genetic history in South America

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🏳️‍⚧️ On #TransDayOfVisibility, IDEA celebrates the 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 and supports transgender scientists in STEM, recognizing the barriers they face.

💪 Building equity in science takes more than visibility. It takes presence, support, and action.

#TDOV #TransInSTEM @official-smbe.bsky.social

📢 𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀!

💬 We meet monthly to discuss strategies, select and fund initiatives, and advise the SMBE Council on inclusion, diversity, equity, and access in molecular biology and evolution.

✨J𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀 𝗡𝗢𝗪! 🔗 www.smbe.org/call-for-new...

@official-smbe.bsky.social #AcademicSky

What a wonderful work!

Cow Tools!

We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them

It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS

Here I describe our study

(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social

demografr: A toolkit for simulation-based inference in population genetics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12...

TL;DR We're looking for biology/evolution instructors in the US and Canada to test the impacts of inclusive evolutionary biology educational materials on undergraduate learning (you will be compensated). Pasting the official recruitment info in thread below. sunybuffalo.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

🚨 The first HAAM elections are now open!

👥 Meet the candidates: haam-community.github.io/election2025/

🗳️ Cast your vote: forms.gle/6PKTRkqKn57J...

🔒 Voting closes 10 Oct, 23:59 CET!

🔥 Don't miss the opportunity! Submit your proposal 𝙉𝙊𝙒! 🌈

#AcademicSky #IDEA #SMBE2026
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SMBE IDEA 2026 call for proposals SMBE, through the IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access) task force, aims to address systemic racism, sexism, colonialism and other exclusion in our SMBE society. With this in mind, SMBE has m...

We welcome proposals that require full or partial funding. Special emphasis will be given to projects that directly benefit the members of the SMBE society.

Please apply using the following link:

🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdGRHX9HspfcRAZ0X2VeZiBL7zZSyrNfgSypPcCzSAok_tK4w/viewform

Reflecting on the amazing #smbe2025 and #IDEA symposium! Huge thanks to all speakers Mehmet Somel, @mireniraorb.bsky.social, Matteo Fumagallifor, Nussaïbah Raja, @ravinderkanda.bsky.social, poster presenters, and organizers @epifaniaarango.bsky.social @cegamorim.bsky.social for their contributions.

With Ricardo Fujita, José Sandoval, @chiarabarbieri.bsky.social , @epifaniaarango.bsky.social ,
@kkshimizu1.bsky.social , Lea Huber, from USMP Lima, University of Zurich and University of Cagliari.

Huge thanks to @epifaniaarango.bsky.social and @cegamorim.bsky.social for organising the @smbe-idea.bsky.social symposium at #smbe2025, and all the participants for their thought provoking talks and discussion. Many interesting points raised! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Talks by:

Ravinder Kanda (@smbe-idea.bsky.social)
‪@mauritiantales.bsky.social
Matteo Fumagalli
@mireniraorb.bsky.social
Mehmet Somel

Open discussion: Carlos Eduardo G. Amorim / @epifaniaarango.bsky.social‬

🧵1/n ✨🔮✨ Meet (y)our instructors of this year's #HAAMsummerschool 👇 #aDNA #course #humanpopgen

🚨 Don’t miss the 1st HAAM-radio symposium: "Ethics in Human DNA Research"
📅 May 29 (next week!)
🕒 LA (7am) l Berlin (4pm) | Singapore (10pm)
🎙️ With @paleogenomics.bsky.social @jenniferraff.bsky.social @marisolespitia.bsky.social & Tomás Gozález Zarzar
📝 Register by May 28
🔗 shorturl.at/1VScZ

Happy to share a PhD opportunity in my new lab at the University of Zurich! Application deadline: June 30. Do not hesitate to contact me for any questions!

📣 Our next HAAM-radio focuses on the development of a standardised and dedicated metadata reporting schemes for ancient DNA samples and sequencing data presented by MInAS!
📅 When: 19th of June via ZOOM 🧑‍💻
Check our website to register: haam-community.github.io/events/2025/...
#aDNA #course #humanDNA

Call for New Task Force Members CALL FOR NEW TASK FORCE MEMBERS Dear SMBE members, Are you passionate about inclusion, diversity, equity and/or access in science and academia and would like to be a part of the task force to improve ...

✨Passionate about inclusion in science?

🚨 SMBE’s IDEA Task Force is recruiting! 𝗪𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀 to help drive change in diversity, equity & access.

🔹 2-year term
🔹 ~1 day/month
🔹 Open to SMBE members

🌏 Join us!

📩 Apply here: www.smbe.org/smbe/IDEAINI...

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