Genome-wide genealogies reveal deep admixtures forming modern humans www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Reposting this old thread on the "Pervasive findings of directional selection" from ancient DNA. While the authors extended their results in various ways, I think many of these points still stand.

How every layer of science's "self-correcting machinery" failed when Iva Veseli and I simply wanted to reproduce the findings of a high-profile study on gut microbiome and autism: merenlab.org/2026/04/15/u...

NEW❗ Throughout history, elephant genes have flown across the African continent, sometimes even between the two species. This is in contrast to what elephants are facing today, habitat loss and isolation. And we are already seeing the genetic consequences in some populations. tinyurl.com/4pfn2xf5

Very excited to share our study of an ancient environmental genome extracted from lake sediment! It originates from a brown bear that lived around 9,600 years ago close to the last ice-sheet remains in northern Sweden, and has an unexpected mitochondrial haplogroup. 1/7 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Ancient DNA reveals that natural selection has upregulated the immune system over the last 10,000 years https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.14.718409v1

New batch of retractions from @plos.org journals for Didier Raoult and his team for ethics concerns, including more 'helicopter' studies in the #Senegal villages of Dielmo and Diop Retractions count now 5️⃣0️⃣ (I think)🎂 #ResearchIntegrity #Decolonize science 🧪

🚨PhD opportunity! Study brown bears in the Balkans using ancient DNA 🧬🐻 Interested in paleogenomics & conservation? Apply! @lpcg.bsky.social 🔗 Details here: www.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/u... #PhD #AncientDNA #Paleogenomics #ConservationGenomics #WildlifeConservation

We have a new exiting PhD position in our program on the skin microbiome of amphibians, supervised by @cortazar-chinarro.bsky.social! Follow the link to read more and apply: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/.... Deadline the 8th of May.

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EGP1K: Whole-Genome Sequencing of 1,024 Egyptians Characterizes Population Structure and Genetic Diversity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.02.715521v1

How did catastrophic black death and myxomatosis outbreaks on an isolated island affect the genomes of humans & rabbits, respectively? And how did the microbes evolve in response to this? PhD position @cpgsthlm.bsky.social with Anders Götherström and me as supervisors! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Come join us in Stockholm as a PhD student for the next 4 years!

Only 2 weeks left to submit your application for the FEMS Summer School for Postdocs, taking place 26–31 August in Porto, Portugal! Curious about what awaits you in Porto? 🌅 Get a sneak peek into your week at the summer school: buff.ly/ANhKb4T buff.ly/ANhKb4T

The world's first cloned golden wild yak via interspecific SCNT: 4800m donor origin and 4200m vitrified blastocyst transfer https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.29.715085v1

Dreaming of a career in cancer research? Join the International PhD Program at DKFZ - Germany’s largest biomedical research center. Explore #cancerresearch including #cancerbiology, #bioinformatics, #epidemiology & #medicalphysics. The Summer Selection is open now 👉 apply here: t1p.de/hl56b

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

Point cloud local ancestry inference (PCLAI): continuous coordinate-based ancestry along the genome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.23.713813v1

Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us

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Fantastic news! 🦋🦋 Link to full report in 🧵 www.worldwildlife.org/news/stories...

TONIGHT Round 2 of Extinction is Forever & That's So Metal Divisions!!! Who will win!? Who will be carnaged? Who will wander off the field of battle accidentally? AND WHAT INCIDENTAL ORGANISM WILL WRECK YOUR BRACKET?!? #2026MMM

Here's your moment of zen: A "holy" cat named Coco stands at the entrance of a church in Mexico, seemingly blessing everyone who walks in 🐱

"Donors from China have already given 5,000 “household” solar energy equipment sets for installation at three Cuban clinics and a home for the elderly, Chinese official news agency Xinhua said on Thursday." www.scmp.com/economy/chin...

A chemist, physicist, and biologist walk into a bar go.nature.com/3PwAchm

The Human Origins Excellence Cluster is recruiting a Group Leader to advance ethical practices in Human Origins research. This is a great initiative, and very much needed!🧬💀

Hoy salió publicado mi artículo “Critical reflections on Sex Eliminativism” en el journal Biology & Philosophy, este último considerado el mejor del mundo en esta disciplina. Pongo a continuación el link para quien le interese consultarlo. rdcu.be/e9f8u

Mood for 2026, (the artist is Ainsley Drew, on Instagram)

¿Cómo llegó la agricultura al sur de los Andes? ¿Por migración o transmisión cultural? Nuestro nuevo paper en @nature.com combina ADN antiguo, isótopos, arqueología y paleoclima para reconstruir más de 2.000 años de historia en Uspallata, Mendoza. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Abro hilo🧵 (1/28+)

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

Just two weeks left to apply to the IGNITION PhD Programme! We’re offering fully funded PhD positions. Join our team @humantechnopole.bsky.social to use cutting-edge human stem cell models to study immune mediated neurodegeneration. For more info check out: ignition-consortium.eu Please share 🙏

In case anyone needs a reminder, "geneticists have long established that race and ethnicity are sociocultural constructs and not good proxies to describe genetic differences in disease risks and traits among groups." www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org @rpocisv.bsky.social

"And that’s the power of journalism. I think, as a science journalist, you’re not covering “the science,” like this big thing. You’re covering scientists, humans, and they all come with their passions, their features, their life stories." 👏🏽 @rpocisv.bsky.social ksj.mit.edu/news/2026/02...

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers. The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

The Chinese government is ramping up its support for science go.nature.com/3P6OTaY

Excited to share our new preprint on time-lagged F2-statistics, which informs about migration rates from ancient DNA data. Find a preprint here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.12.710875v1 The work was driven by Giulio Isacchini and Oskar Hallatschek. Proud to be part of it! […]

Brent Pedersen, Mitchell Vollger and I have "posted" our preprint of the manuscript describing bedder, a complement to the functionality of bedtools. The "preprint server" we have chosen is google docs because it was rejected by biorxiv. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Natural History Museum. Apply for Principal Researcher in Human Evolution jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

The undeclared civil war of 21stC America is men against women. For 25yrs, all of our social institutions--from banks to universities, from media to law enforcement--joined forces to protect a rape club whose members include most of the country's elite men, & ultimately to put a rapist in the WH.

China increases science funding again (by at least 7-% over the next 5 years) as it pledges billion-dollar spending boost for science 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

📣We are recruiting! Postdoc position open in marine #eDNA / #sedaDNA in Copenhagen as part of the Arctic NordForsk #PHATE Research Project. See the link for details 👇 and get in touch if you want to know more. Deadline is on the 6th April 🌊 🧬 Glaciology and Climate - #GEUS #HAB #phycotoxins

My next Webinar is in just one week! Title: 𝙄𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙙𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙝𝙞𝙘 𝙝𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙞𝙣 𝘼𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙖 𝙥𝙤𝙥𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙘𝙨 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 Organised by the Human Palaeosystems at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology. Free Zoom Registration --> www.gea.mpg.de/201476/cross...

Elsevier, Mexico is *not* Central America.

For those of you on LinkedIn, I would deeply appreciate you liking/sharing my post! Especially if you are in biomed and/or are a member of the LGBTQ community www.linkedin.com/posts/jey-mc...

📣 SING USA 2026 applications are open! The Summer Internship for Indigenous Peoples in Genomics (SING) workshop will be July 19–24, 2026 at UW–Madison. ⏰ Apply by March 13 (midnight Hawaiʻi time) Learn more & apply: sing.nativebio.net Please share with Indigenous students! #Indigenous #Genomics

#ColossalBio keeps on keeping on with their #DeExtinction #DisInformation campaign. Their GMOs aren't #DeExtinct species; they're just making designer transgenic animals. 🦣 🦤🐺 🧟 🧪

Recently we're working with SNPs from whole genome assemblies to estimate ARGs. It's a pain to go from alignment files to vcf, keeping track of masked and invariant sites. So we wrote a snakemake/SLURM pipeline. Hope it's useful to others, and don't hesitate to post issues if there are problems!

UNICEF is deeply concerned about the deadly impact the ongoing military escalation in Iran is having on children. Approximately 180 children have reportedly been killed and many more injured. www.unicef.org/press-releas...

If the first Lammoth is two years away, that means gene-edited embryos are about to be implanted into surrogates any time now. I have always argued that the use of elephants in experiments like this is unethical. My opinion has not changed.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.