A 5-year PDRA position in "Statistical Modelling in Archaeology" is available @cam-archaeology.bsky.social as part of the FORAGER project. Deadline: 21/8/2026 tinyurl.com/muhcjkfy www.forager-erc.eu

It has been amazing to have all my research group giving great oral and poster presentations at #ICP2026 🐝🦋🦣🧬 #proudPI

🚨New Publication Alert🚨 For 2,500 years, the Cycladic island of Polyaigos has been described as uninhabited, but its archaeology tells a much more interesting story. Our new article on the archaeology of Polyaigos is available open access at doi.org/10.1086/741063 🏺🇬🇷

Our late Neandertal paper is officially out! 💀❤️🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41... It was years in the making, a tremendous feat spearheaded by our PhD student Alba Bossoms Mesa and co-led by @janetk.bsky.social and @benmpeter.bsky.social

Macìa et al. introduce two novel enhancements to hmmix that improve the detection of archaic fragments and the estimation of summary stats for the study of admixture events between modern and archaic humans. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag134 🖌️ Lídia Gonfaus Coll #evobio #molbio #compbio

New preprint! "Joint dog and wolf genealogies reveal the evolution of the canine genome" We build genealogies of dogs and wolves to find two strong mutation-rate pulses, GC-biased gene conversion, selection, and inter-species gene flow shaping the canine genome. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Tucci Lab solved a cold case from Italian Renaissance, with secrets from the de' Medici family, and the history of malaria in central Italy. Very cool study!

Very happy to see our study out today in iScience! Very grateful to work with our amazing collaborators! Ancient DNA analyses of remains of the Medici family (16th century) provide insights into the genetic variation of Plasmodium falciparum: iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

In our new paper, we isotopically analyze 50 sheep & goat mandibles/teeth and uncover the economy supporting both households and public feasts at Azoria on Crete. More soon: we will drop a YouTube video about it tomorrow & an article in The Conversation next week 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

✨ 𝗪𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗠𝗕𝗘 𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗔 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲? 📢 Call for new members is 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡! 🌈 Help us make science more diverse, equitable, and inclusive. 🔗 Apply now: www.smbe.org/call-for-new... #SMBE2026 @official-smbe.bsky.social #AcademicSky

New review article on the need to move beyond sex & gender binaries in the study & teaching of human skeletal biology (with a particular emphasis on forensic anthropology). www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

I am recruiting a PhD student (fully funded, 4yrs) to analyze modern 🧬 and ancient 🦴 genomic data from humans and domestic animals 🐑 Please share, I am happy to chat at #ICP2026 or #SMBE2026 this summer www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

#SMBE2026 L05: The role and responsibilities of the SMBE community in facing the polycrisis 🗓️ Thu Jul 2, 10am 🔗 smbe2026.org/programme Talks by: Diego Hartasánchez @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social @phylogenetrips.bsky.social @mootspoints.bsky.social Michael Dills @ezgimou.bsky.social

Mini but mighty! Exciting new paper from @compevohumang.bsky.social showing that the stapes (the smallest bone in the human skeleton) is one of the best sources of ancient DNA preservation. A promising advance for maximizing DNA recovery while minimizing destructive sampling! doi.org/10.1101/gr.2...

Clothes like this connected Colchester to global trade, craft skill, and social life. They were worn, adapted, repaired, and worn again. Visit our museums to discover more hidden stories in historic objects: colchester.cimuseums.org.uk/visit-us

This book is epic in so many ways. I urge you to embark on an adventure into @carolawrence.bsky.social’s brilliantly inspiring & creative world of Homer’s Odyssey. Caroline’s unceasing passion & energy for Classics & fun bounces off the pages in her inimitable style. www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...

Ancient DNA from Tuscan wells reveals origins of modern wine. #Archaeology phys.org/news/2026-06...

Our investigation of mass mortality burial of sheep is published at @royalsociety.org Open Science! Evidence of sheeppox in seventeenth- to nineteenth-century France: a multi-disciplinary investigation of a sheep mass mortality assemblage

Land visibility was important to ancient mariners, who relied on the coast to navigate around the seas #WorldOceansDay A new map of land visibility around the Mediterranean helps explore the logistics of past seafaring. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

a huge thank you to pamela for sharing her story with us and her friend carrie, mentioned in @mjgault.bsky.social’s story, who have all become organizers and PR people and comms all at once to fight against the data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...

I’m looking to hire one or two postdocs - possible projects include pop gen theory, methods development, and human evolutionary inference. Please share, and email if you are interested. More info: evoldir.net/brian/evoldi...

Our results show that cave lions were not just a northern population of modern lions. They represented a distinct evolutionary lineage that persisted in Eurasia for nearly 2 million years. Image: A) cave lion samples, B) modern and cave lions were distinct lineages, C) modern lion samples 🧵 3/9

📣 POSTDOC position available in the Feschotte Lab at Cornell to work on #TRANSPOSONS! More details below. Pls send informal application or inquiry ASAP by DM or email to cf458_at_cornell.edu. Pls spread the word 🙏 #TEsky www.thefeschottelabatcornell.com

Starting my sabbatical on a great note! Roman Rural Archaeology: Society, Economy, and Culture ed. by Gijs Tol and Astrid Van Oyen is published! The volume looks amazing and includes my contribution on the Abundant Egyptian Countryside <3 Congrats to the contributors and the brilliant editors!

I'm excited to share that our work studying gene dosage response curves (GDRCs) is now out in Cell Genomics (@cellpress.bsky.social). www.cell.com/cell-genomic... [1/n]

We built a joint experimental and computational platform for scalable multi-modal single-cell chemical screens — profiling RNA, protein (including phospho-signaling), and chromatin accessibility responses to thousands of small molecule perturbations in parallel. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our new paper is out! Tweetorial coming soon!

Lovely to see "Pathways to Inclusive Digital Archaeological Archives" available now via firstview in Advances in Archaeological Practice (open access). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Looking for a postdoc to join my group at the NHM London & work on aDNA of dogs/wolves! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Wrote a short piece on Transposable Elements as catalysts of evolutionary innovation for a forthcoming special issue of @naturerevgenet.bsky.social on, duh, Evolutionary Innovation! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our paper on recurrent independent duplications in the primate amylase locus is now out in Cell Reports! Huge thanks to @petarpajic, @spit-lab.bsky.social and @gokcumenlab.bsky.social for their support. More about the work in the thread below from when we first shared the preprint last August.

Are you interested in doing local ancestry inference (LAI) using imputed #aDNA? Take a look at our preprint, together with @bodkan.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Need metadata for published ancient animal genomes? The metAaRCive project has recently made its first public release, containing metadata for 1518 published genomes across a range of species, curated by members of @aarc-community.bsky.social Find the release here: github.com/AaRC-Animal-...

"From 2021 to 2025, “Phylogenetic Analysis,” “Public Health,” & “Madagascar” newly entered the top 20 keyword list; the frequencies of “Black Death” & “Infectious Disease” increased .., while .. “Plague Vaccine” & “Prairie Dogs” remained relatively stable." journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...

The first release of the metAaRCive is out!!! A resource of metadata for published ancient animal genomes, curated by members of @aarc-community.bsky.social - 1518 complete records for its first release! [missing: equids!] github.com/AaRC-Animal-... #adna

I'm hiring a postdoc to lead sedimentary aDNA reconstructions of alpine plant biodiversity as part of a broader project exploring the mechanisms of alpine plant resilience. Come join a collaborative team working in beautiful places! Bonus: postdocs at UMaine are unionized!

If you couldn’t sleep for wondering about the Garamantes, the perfect solution airs in five minutes on Radio 4! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Sure looks like Republicans redrew the map in Tennessee to stop Memphis from sending Justin J. Pearson to Congress, who is/was poised to win the primary after fighting like hell against Elon Musk's methane-spewing data centre monstrosities in South Memphis. Craven, desperate and racist as hell.

“HANDS OFF MEMPHIS!” Protestors & Democratic legislators leave the scene of the crime arm in arm, after Tennessee Republicans broke the law to strip Memphis of representation with a racist 9-0 map, drowning out the majority Black city with white power. @GovBillLee

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

Happy to announce that registrations are open for PAASTA's first summer school! Completely free and open to all it is the perfect opportunity for anyone who would like to learn more about palaeoproteomics!

Finally an official publication of Pileupcaller. Please cite. Thanks to @joss-openjournals.bsky.social for the review process and publishing!

The biggest challenge during my PhD within sedimentary ancient DNA was to figure out how to bioinformatically process several hundreds of sequenced samples. This workflow is optimised for identification of eukaryotes from metagenomic shotgun data. Let me introduce the preprint of metaJAM! 1/6

Here's the amazing lineup of speakers for our upcoming virtual conference. There’s still time to register and join us online. We look forward to seeing you there! forms.gle/Kse1kPYnpsVg...

My new book, Lost Worlds, is out today! It tells a new story about how humanity went from hunting and gathering to the cusp of "civilization" that incorporates all of the stunning new archaeological work of the past couple of decades. I'm really proud of it! www.harpercollins.com/products/los...

Interested in people who lived through the Norman Conquest? We have a new pre-print out about the aDNA of a rural community in Surrey who did just that! With more bioarch to come on this amazing site: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @liabetti.bsky.social @cegamorim.bsky.social & others not on 🦋

@lorenalf.bsky.social et al. scanned the genomes of the four extant species of lynx for recent selective sweeps, revealing species-specific signatures of ecological differentiation in their genomes, with minimal overlap. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag086 📷 Jorge Monje Martín #genome #evolution

On #openaccess co-edited with Anna Collar Paul Johnson and Katherine Crawford in honour of Prof. Simon Keay. Thank you to all of the colleagues and friends of Simon who contributed. www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

✉️ Explore 145,000 medieval merchant letters as a live map: the correspondence network of Francesco di Marco Datini (c.1363–1412), spanning Florence to Barcelona to North Africa. Visualise routes, travel times & seasonality. docuracy.github.io/datini/ #DigitalHumanities #MedievalHistory