🏺 Detailed preprint on the genetics of early farming (TRB-Funnelbeaker associated) and persistent hunter-fisher-gatherer (Pitted Ware-associated) communities on Gotland. Discusses patterns of genetic relatives in both groups, admixture between the groups... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

For anyone interested in the intersection of genetics, ancestry, evolution, and societal structures this week's workshop will be a treat! Featuring @evoroseman.bsky.social

A belated welcome to @boothicus.bsky.social Dr Tom Booth See & hear Tom on "Who Are Our Ancestors and Why Does It Matter? – A Question of Science with Brian Cox 📺 bit.ly/4i840uW 🎧 bit.ly/49tS70j 📲 profiles.ucl.ac.uk/104583-tom-b... 📸 Michael Bowles | The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk

A PhD project in human genomics with me is open for applications through the @nrpdtp.bsky.social. Use biobank-scale genomics datasets to answer long-standing questions about the evolution of our species: biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/the...

For anyone interested in ancient diseases (either historical or prehistoric) here's an excellent, readable, comprehensive summary of where we are with ancient pathogen DNA. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hard missing the old twitter days. It’s a bit icky that a lot of interactions amongst academics now happens on linkedin… eventhough bluesky could absolutely be the twitter of old, people just aren’t engaging like they used to. Hope it changes…

Interested studying human evolution at @ucl.ac.uk with a dedicated MSc in palaeolithic archaeology, palaeoanthropology, Ice Age fauna, isotopes, aDNA, ancient environments & more? Get in touch for a chat or even a tour of the department with me. @uclarchaeology.bsky.social #PaPa 🏺🦣🧪

A PhD project on historical genomics in the declining red squirrel in Britain is available in my group, through the @aries-dtp.bsky.social. Use historical genomes to track the effects of decline and genetic rescue in this charismatic species. aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships...

This is out now: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Association between lactase persistence and height in the past (indicating people with the persistence allele were better nourished by drinking milk than those without it) provides a potential explanation for why it was under strong selection.

I’m really excited to be hosting @evoroseman.bsky.social for a 1 hour online workshop for the Biomolecular Humanities group on December 10th (8am to 9am PST : 11am to 12pm EST : 5pm to 6pm CET) on the intersection of evolutionary theory, demography and race/ancestry!

Don't miss Ancient DNA: New Revelations, a free, public CARTA symposium! 🧬💡 Friday, November 7, 2025 1:00–5:30 PM (Pacific) In-person at the Salk Institute & Live Webcast For more details and registration, visit: carta.anthropogeny.org #carta #cartaucsd #ancientdna

🏺 Useful paper from @mp-williams.bsky.social and co. showing different modelling of the spread of Neolithic farming across Europe. Explores different rates and mechanisms of cultural transmission and suggests as migrants with origins in Anatolia moved across… www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The AADR Visualizer: An ArcGIS Online Visualizer for ancient human DNA from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

🏛️ Still unsure how to spend your afternoon in Turin 🇮🇹 before @isba11.bsky.social starts, come to our #HAAMmeeting @Complesso Aldo Moro and meet young & inspiring researchers! 💻 If you're not in Turin, you can join us online, too. 📖 DM us! #aDNA #HAAMcommunity @isbarchaeology.bsky.social

It's out! 😀 THE MAP: EXPANSION OF FARMING IN WESTERN EURASIA, 9600-4000 BCE 2025.1 Regional updates, particularly 🇺🇦. Colour and greyscale resolutions, and much asked for colour code and legend. @barbarahorejs.bsky.social @leizarchaeology.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social zenodo.org/records/1688...

NIH is accepting comments about limiting research publication costs. 1. Disallow pub costs, 2. $2K limit, 3. $3K if reviewers are compensated, 4. 0.8% of award (so $250K grant can pay $2K/year on pubs), 5. $6K limit on pub + limit on % of grant spent on pub costs. 🧪 grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

This is a great read - it nails a whole bunch of ways in which LLMs simply don’t ‘think’, let alone at a ‘PhD level’.

Our aDNA time transect centered on modern Georgia is out! 🧬 Genetic continuity over 5000 years, but some Bronze Age gene flow and urban outliers since Antiquity - including some with artificially deformed skulls 💀 linked by IBD segments to Asian nomads. #aDNA #PopGen www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

But perhaps most critically, it’s (imo) irresponsible to attribute this to *science* as a whole; suggesting it’s a monolith when things like the image duplication retractions are pretty limited to a unique corner of science under sleuth spotlights.

If you're new to demographic history inference from population genomics, try this webapp I created to illustrate how dadi fits bottleneck models to site frequency spectra: ryangutenkunst-dadi-two-epoch.hf.space . It even outputs files for submitting to the GHIST competition! ghi.st

🧬🏺Calling everyone interested in the intersection of archaeological theory and ancient DNA! Thrilled to be co-organizing a session for #TRAC2025 with @ezgimou.bsky.social The virtual conference will be held October 22 - 24 and the call for abstracts is now open. Come join us!

TRAC 2025 will be held from 22nd to 24th October 2025 in an online format via the Gather Town platform. Here is the link for further info: www.trac.org.uk/upcoming-con...

🧪 🏺 Excited to co-organize a session with @mootspoints.bsky.social at #TRAC2025! 🧬 Integrating Ancient DNA with Archaeological Theory and Practice We welcome papers on mobility, migration, & identity in the Roman world and beyond. 📢 Call for abstracts now open! Please spread the word. #aDNA #science

New postdoc opening in our lab: crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job... Don't hesitate to send in your details or contact me if interested!

Check out our paper in Evolution Letters! We used D. melanogaster pigmentation as a focal trait to explore parallelism in phenotypic and genomic responses to environmental change - read more at the link below 👇

How predictably does complex trait adaptation proceed over space and time in wild populations? doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by @skylerberardi.bsky.social, @paulrschmidt.bsky.social et al. 📷: Dr. Rush Dhillon

🚨 New paper out in Genome Biology and Evolution! We present new ancient DNA evidence from Central Italy suggesting that Eastern Mediterranean genetic influence predates the Roman Empire. @beniamino77.bsky.social @fravasini.bsky.social 🧵👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... 1/

Turns out imputation of introgressed archaic regions in aDNA works really well — sometimes even better than for the rest of the genome. More on this (and other cool results) in our new preprint 👇 #aDNA #ArchaicIntrogression #imputation doi.org/10.1101/2025...

The 2026 Probabilistic Modeling in Genomics (ProbGen) meeting will be held at UC Berkeley, March 25-28, 2026. We have an amazing list of keynote speakers and session chairs: probgen2026.github.io Please help spread the news.

The Mathieson Lab at the University of Pennsylvania is hiring a computational postdoc in machine learning and evolutionary biology. Apply with a CV and references: [email protected]. More info: https://saramathieson.github.io/lab #postdoc

Come check out my poster this afternoon! On the language we use to talk mobility in ancient DNA studies #SMBE2025

Hence, this highlights the fundamental difference btw genomic and family h2. The former is considering millions of years of mutation while the latter is looking at everything but mutations over a very short period of time.

I can now finally speak out loud my honest thoughts on missing heritability or the genomics/family gap in h2 estimates. Based on new paper the *issue* is a feature and not a bug. TLDR: SNP h2 only captures mutational variance and family h2 captures everything but mutation. 1/n

New preprint comparing aDNA preservation and recovery rates during extraction from all three ossicles and the petrous. Congrats @compevohumang.bsky.social!

Join us at the Royal Society in London 14 November for a day on Ancient genomes, human biology and medicine! Many slots are reserved for talks from submitted abstracts related to the topic, alongside speakers Svante Pääbo, Priya Moorjani, @mathiesoniain.bsky.social and Lluis Quintana-Murci.

Nifty preprint led by @mathiesoniain.bsky.social comparing femur length as a proxy of stature to genetic variants linked to height today. Many key insights, but main one for me is that variants responsible for lactase persistence are strongly associated with height in ancient but not modern people.

My talk from this year's probgen is finally out. Where do linear mixed models and random effects come from? They emerge from *mutations* on Ancestral Recombination Graphs.

Two useful new reviews on ancestry inference in population genetics: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

A difficulty in scrutinising ancient DNA from the outside is that the original methods are discussed in arcane terms in separate papers cast across the innumerable winds of scientific publishing. Here are 2 papers which attempt to discuss collections of common methods with plainer language.

It started with a meeting between @mp-williams.bsky.social) and Robbi Davidson during the last @isbarchaeology.bsky.social conference (Tartu, 2023). I remember them sitting at the bar after lunch, engrossed in their discussion—that moment was even captured by the event photographer 🧵1/n

Get excited for ISBA11! The conference program is now online! www.isba11.com/programme #ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #Archaeology #Archaeology #archaeologist @isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social

👇 Make sure to register for our webinar happening next week!

Open position at @unileipzig.bsky.social for professor of archaeology of the antique Mediterranean! www.uni-leipzig.de/stellenaussc...

I have an opportunity to hire a staff scientist for my lab. Looking for someone with outstanding skillset in ML/statistics, genomics applications; interest in mentoring, strong publication record, PD experience required. Email CV to me+cc my assistant (see 'contact' on my website). Ad to follow.

🥳 We're back with a new edition of our HAAM-radio webinar series! Come and be part of the development from a reporting scheme for aDNA samples & seqdata! #aDNA #workshop #humanDNA #sequencing

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

Hello Bluesky! We are a specialized laboratory for ancient DNA and protein analysis, led by Prof. Camilla Speller and located at UBC in Vancouver, Canada. Follow us for lab updates, or visit our website (link in profile) #archaeology #palaeoproteomics #ancientDNA #ZooMS #BCarchaeology

Long after we first had the idea, BREADR has just been published in the Journal of Open Source Software (@joss-openjournals.bsky.social). A huge thanks to Jono Tuke, Divy Popli and Wolfgang Haak for the support. #ancientDNA #genetickinship doi.org/10.21105/jos...

Check out our ancient DNA paper on the maritime Punic civilization! 🦴🧬🌊 We find that their Levantine Phoenician cultural ancestors contributed surprisingly little ancestry to Punic sites in the central and western Mediterranean! (1/4) doi.org/10.1038/s415... #aDNA #PopGen #Punic #Phoenician

🧬 The First Annual HAAM Meeting is coming on August 26, 2025 in Turin🇮🇹 (and online)! ✨ Flash talks, career panel & community updates. 📅 Submit your abstract for a flash talk by June 15 📢 We're looking for volunteers to join the organizing team #HAAM #ISBA2025 @isbarchaeology.bsky.social