There is a very nice documentary about the ancient Saxons on Arte and YouTube available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzwMzEEnKEE It features our genetic study from 2022 (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05247-2), with prominent interviews of lead authors Joscha Gretzinger and […]

Two papers to which I contributed came out back to back in Antiquity recently, which discuss African ancestry in early medieval individuals from England. Even though the data has been available since 2023, we now dedicated more space to these two special samples, and highlight this unusual […]

Excited to share our new preprint "High resolution analysis of population structure using rare variants" https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.18.665597v1 where we investigate and formalise using rare allele sharing to quantify population structure, with application and examples in […]

Mein Vortrag bei der langen Nacht der Wissenschaften ist nun verfügbar als Podcast bei Deutschlandfunk Nova, z.b. hier (https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/populationsgenetik-menschheitsgeschichte-in-den-genen-ablesen) oder hier (https://open.spotify.com/episode/1s6N6Yv9tUQu5X20noqcrg) […]

Faszinierender Einblick in die Populationsgenetik von @stschiff im #deutschlandfunk Nova Hörsaal: https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/populationsgenetik-menschheitsgeschichte-in-den-genen-ablesen

Morgen auf der langen Nacht der Wissenschaften gibt's von mir um 22:00 Uhr einen Vortrag mit dem Titel "Gene und Geschichte – Wie alte DNA unsere bewegte Vergangenheit erzählt". Herzliche Einladung ans Max Planck Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie in Leipzig […]

Open position at Leipzig University, professor for Archaeology: https://www.uni-leipzig.de/stellenausschreibung/artikel/professur-fuer-archaeologie-des-antiken-mittelmeerraumes-und-seiner-umwelt-w2-2025-05-20

I have implemented VCF reading and writing support in pileupCaller and Poseidon https://www.stephanschiffels.de/posts/2025-05-14-vcf_post.html #aDNA #data

Several new packages have been added to the Poseidon Community Archive and the Minotaur Archive in recent weeks. You can find them listed on our Poseidon-Account https://ecoevo.social/@poseidon #aDNA #data

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Summer course in analysis of high throughput data for population genetics 2025 in Copenhagen. Registration is open. Highly recommended: https://website.popgen.dk/summer/ #genetics #phd #bioinformatics

Last week I was in Athens for the International Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in #Archaeology (CAA) (see @CAA_int). Under the auspices of the @CAA_SSLA special interest group Martin Hinz and I had organized a session on […] [Original post on archaeo.social]

Tatsächlich zeigen repräsentative Umfragen immer wieder: Vertrauen in Wissenschaft ist recht hoch! Gerade erst haben wir dazu eine sehr große Studie über 68 Länder mit mehr als 71.000 Befragten und 241 Forschenden in Nature Human Behaviour veröffentlicht. 3/4

You know why we Germans are so pedantic about data protection? Someone around 90 years ago went through all records available, selected people with certain criteria, with the help of IBM, and then killed them all. We don't want to be on any list. And now the US Gov and Musk is trying to get […]

Fascinating new study by Lara Cassidy and Colleagues on a South British Iron Age burial site with an extraordinary matrilocal relatedness pattern (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08409-6) with women, daughters and granddaughters all buried at the […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

Excellent book review on "The trouble with ancient DNA" by my colleague @KathrinNaegele: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt5631 #aDNA #books #science

Nice article in National Geographics (in German) on our findings of dynastic relationships among Celtic elite burials, featuring Angela Mötsch from my group […]

"Ancient DNA reveals family ties" is named on of the top 10 Science Break-throughs in 2024 by Science (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv2101). Our work on early Celtic princely burials and their discovered close kinship gets mentioned, too!

#OpenScience opportunity: "Astera is opening a call for its first major science residency program, a one-year, fully funded program centered on the creation of public goods." https://astera.org/first-residency-cohort/