Muriel Gros-Balthazard

Carving of a hippopotamus figurine made from calcite, featuring a stocky body, prominent bulging eyes, short legs, and textured surface, displayed on a glass shelf.

Apparently it's #WorldHippoDay! 🦛🦛
Let's celebrate with this #Egyptian carving of a Hippo, made 5.000 years ago from calcite.

Hippopotami were associated with life, regeneration, and rebirth.

On display at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

📷 me 🏺

Please join us at our SMBE 2026 symposium 🌿🧬! Young researchers are more than welcome!

Invited speakers:
-Chloee McLaughlin (HudsonAlpha Institute of technology)
-Frank Johannes (Technical University of Munich)
@nyuad-oaa.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @official-smbe.bsky.social @murielgrosb.bsky.social

Book cover of The Origins of Agriculture in the Bronze Age Indus Civilization by Jennifer Bates. Image shows a woman in a blue sari decorated with red flowers, with shell bangles on her arm. She stands in a harvested field looking away across to people carrying the harvest in the distance.

🚨Just in time for New Year: my book is being released! "The Origins of Agriculture in the Bronze Age Indus Civilization" explores the origins & uses of #plants in the #IndusCivilization. Published with @cambridgeup.bsky.social, it synthesizes #genetics, #archaeobotany, & #archaeology.

Oh boy - we opened this year’s ISBA meetings in a Roman amphitheater!

The 11th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology starts tomorrow 🥳

Le monde des revues scientifiques au bord de l’asphyxie Plus de 3 millions d’articles sont publiés chaque année dans les revues scientifiques, les chercheurs étant incités à les multiplier pour se distinguer. Une logique économique perverse s’est installée...

Merci David Larousserie du @lemonde.fr pour cet article sur la publication scientifique en asphyxie
www.lemonde.fr/article-offe...

Génial !! Trop fan du casque je veux la même hélice pour mettre sur le mien !!!

@peercomjournal.bsky.social

Thank you to @pciarchaeology.bsky.social and ‪‪‪@peercomjournal.bsky.social‬, it has been a smooth and wonderful experience to publish with you :-)

🌴 #DateBack, our platform to explore Phoenix archaeobotanical remains and advance our understanding of date palm history is now published in Peer Community Journal 🥳 peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....
Visit the website and browse the data and map! cloudapps.france-bioinformatique.fr/dateback/

Projet de thèse sur l'histoire évolutive et la génomique de la conservation des abeilles noires

Co-direction: Pierre Faux et moi-même
Localisation: GenPhySE, centre INRAE Toulouse
+ d'infos: thibaultleroyfr.github.io/pdf/Annonce_...

(Merci par avance pour vos RT et la diffusion à vos M2 😉)

🌴 Explore the history of the date palm with #DateBack!
🔎 The first open-access platform for archaeobotanical remains of Phoenix in Asia (Prehistory to Late Antiquity)
📜 140 entries, 99 sites
🌍 Explore: cloudapps.france-bioinformatique.fr/dateback
📖 Read the preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Genomics and morphometry of herbarium specimens elucidate the origin of the Cape Verde date palm (Phoenix atlantica A.Chev.) and highlight its agronomic potential As climate change accelerates, breeding resilient crops is urgent. The date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.), a crucial 18 billion USD fruit crop, underpins North African and West Asian oasis agroecosys...

🗞️📜Fresh from the press! Our new paper shows that the Cape Verde date palm actually evolved from the date palm crop🧬 with interesting implications for conservation and breeding of drought resistant varieties 🌴🏝️
Read more: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🚨Urgent: 12-month Postdoc in Paris-Saclay on the INCREASE project!

🫘 Dissecting genetic mechanisms of environmental adaptation in common bean

Project: [https://www.pulsesincrease.eu/]
📄 Click on Job for description [https://moulon.inrae.fr/]

Please share! #Postdoc #JobOpening #INCREASEProject

Full-time Molecular Biology Lab Manager at Natural History Museum Denmark Natural History Museum Denmark, Faculty of Science, the University of Copenhagen is looking for a full-time Molecular Biology Lab Manager, to start 1st June 202

We are making a brand new #Museomics Lab at NHM Denmark, University of Copenhagen - working with DNA from museum & herbarium specimens. We are looking for a lab manager to join us - unlocking the amazing potential of our collections for global change 🌐 and #conservationgenomics research

👩‍🔬 À l'occasion de la journée #FemmesEnScience découvrez 4️⃣ portraits inspirants.
Ces 4️⃣ chercheuses participent à l'initiative Eclaireuses de #IRD permettant aux jeunes de rencontrer des femmes travaillant dans des domaines scientifiques variés : www.ird.fr/femmes-de-sc...
@unesco.org #WomenInScience

So happy to announce that we're now accepting abstracts for the 11th international symposium on biomolecular archaeology! www.isba11.com

Announcement: New Editor-in-Chief of Genome Biology and Evolution

We are excited to announce Dr. Maud Tenaillon as a new Editor-in-Chief of Genome Biology and Evolution, starting January 2025. Maud will join Laura A. Katz, Smith College, who continues her term as EIC.

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