We are excited to share with you the latest SPAAM Newsletter! Inside, you’ll find: announcements, opportunities and publication highlights. www.spaam-community.org/assets/media... We hope you enjoy this edition! #SPAAM #aDNA #Newsletter #paleogenomics #metagenomics

Interesting new multi-population aDNA selection scan from Colbran, Terhorst, Mathieson. Loci that are estimated to be under selection in one population also show enrichment in other populations, consistent with parallel or pre-split selection. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Oh, look! A paper about the coolest piece of software I've ever built!

Abstract submission & Award applications for SMBE 2026 are now open! Submit your research and apply for SMBE awards via the submission portal. 📝 Read more & submit here: smbe2026.org/abstracts And symposium selection is now finalized! 👉 See all accepted symposia: smbe2026.org/programme #SMBE2026

The story about #ancientsouthernafricans in the #ScienceNews now: www.sciencenews.org/article/anci... #media #humanevolutionprogram

Our new ancient DNA paper has just been published! We present 28 new genomes from southern Africa - several of them high-coverage whole genomes. Exciting to be moving towards population-level representation of ancient southern African genetic diversity! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are excited to share our recent work on the surprising robustness of Ancestral Recombination Graph (ARG) inference tools to computational phasing errors, now available on BioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... This work is co-advised by @yundeng.bsky.social and Rasmus Nielsen. 1/7

we made a tool! ybyra is a lightweight, flexible Y-chromosome haplogroup caller. It is faster, easier to tune and more robust than other tools particularly for low-coverage or ancient DNA data. And it has lots of detailed output – including plots! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our special issue on popgen methods and software is on a roll with the second paper out! Looking forward to many exciting papers to come! Submission open until 15 January. www.pivotscipub.com/hpgg/special...

🚨 Reminder to send in your abstracts for the palaeogenomics conference in Stockholm! 🧬🦠🐕💃🏼 If your results are still preliminary, my tip is to keep the abstract broad rather than skip submitting altogether 😉 See the post below for the price estimate and looking forward to seeing you there 🥳! #aDNA

🦴🧬🦴🧬🦴 Abstract submission is now open for the 1st International Conference on Palaeogenomics! June 23–26 2026, in Stockholm. Join researchers from across the field for 4 days and >100 talks (+ poster sessions)! Submit abstracts here 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/abstracts/ Deadline: Nov 30th

Pre @gensocuk.bsky.social talk @crick.ac.uk by Svante Pääbo, and interesting thoughts on how to define a “modern” human. More tomorrow!

Check out my blog summarising my experience at the SMBE2024 conference. You can also learn about my recent work on the Proto-Dravidian ancestry component. @official-smbe.bsky.social @mitopr.bsky.social @mashaals.bsky.social @ryangutenkunst.bsky.social popgenworld.blogspot.com/2025/11/from...

I am happy to share our manuscript summarising the outcome of GHIST2024 (ghist.bio). With so many statistical tools and software, population genetics research seems easy. But every case is different. The approaches used vary! doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf257 @ryangutenkunst.bsky.social

Our article describing the "Proto-Dravidian" ancestry has been published in the European Journal of Human Genetics @ejhg-journal.bsky.social Here is a simplified summary of the scientific findings. #protodravidian #ivc #ancientcivilisation popgenworld.blogspot.com/2025/10/trac...

We are migrants. We move to survive. All of us! Political boundaries do not define who we are, who we will be. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Adaptations to water stress and pastoralism in the Turkana of northwest Kenya | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Multi-ancestry GWAS can increase power and precision, but how should we analyze them? Pooled or stratified? We answer that question in a paper out today in AJHG, led by Julie Dias and Haoyu Zhang. 1/7 www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex...

Interested in learning more about how researchers analyze ancient DNA? Here you can find the free lectures from the SPAAM Summer School 2025 - Introduction to Ancient Metagenomics: tinyurl.com/3u9mhmd2 Slides: tinyurl.com/mkfrvru4 Feel free to ask questions in the comments! #ancientDNA #SPAAM

Nice review of polygenic prediction of traits based on ancient DNA, by @mathiesoniain.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A very special paper where we did something NEW! 🔥combining a large genetic dataset 🧬, a large linguistic dataset 💬, and Bayesian multilevel logistic regressions 📈, counting the effects of areal contact (geographic constrains) 🌎. Genetic admixture explains higher levels of linguistic exchanges...

Happy to share our paper on the genetics of the gotra system in India. The study shows that the 'gotra' played a significant role in shaping the paternal lineage in Indian brahmins. 1/3 #gotra doi.org/10.1007/s004...

This is how @ryangutenkunst.bsky.social and the #GHIST team make science fun and productive. Thank you Ekaterina Noskova for making me a part of the #GADMA team!

"Churning" the past for answers. An interesting chapter on samudramanthana and the connection between milk and snakes in Indo-European heritage. #IndoEuropean #IndoIranian #rigveda stockholmuniversitypress.se/reader/chapt...

I'm so proud to see this paper published! Hopefully, it can inspire a positive change in the field of #palaeoproteomics, through open science and researchers working together instead of against each other. Huge thanks and congrats to all coauthors! 🎉

#MetagenomicsMonday Analysis of aDNA from 1313 ancient human remains spanning 37k years revealed that the rise of infectious diseases coincided with animal domestication around 65k years ago, with disease spread intensifying during pastoralist migrations. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New research from Priya Moorjani's lab offers insights into India’s genomic legacy. Postdocs @lauritsskov.bsky.social and @ekerdoncuff.bsky.social traced Indian's ancestry to three main sources. Read the findings in this story by grad student Jules Perez: bit.ly/3IK46vh

Vanessa Villalba-Mouco and I wrote a little preview piece for Cell on the new mtDNA and proteomics results from the Harbin skull. It is free for 50 days at this link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Surprisingly, the resolution of rare variants is even higher than using all variants..." Excited to use this method on Indian population data! @stschiff.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our latest articles on Whole genome sequencing and assembly of the house sparrow, Passer domesticus #passer gigabytejournal.com/articles/161

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

A common misconception is that genetic drift/bottlenecks erase ancestral components. Yet the persistence of archaic ancestry in India's founder populations proves otherwise. Modern pops like Onge, Paniya, Koraga, Papuan preserve true relics of the human past, sometimes even better than aDNA.

🌾 Agriculture didn’t always spread with mobility of people. New ancient DNA research shows that in western Anatolia, while communities stayed put, farming and village life spread through the movement of ideas and practices.

Our paper out today: 50,000 years of evolutionary history of India: Impact on health and disease variation: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Dragon Man was a Denisovan! DNA and proteins both confirm it, giving this mysterious human lineage a face at long last. Here’s my story. [Gift link] nyti.ms/44nQq1i

Uttryck just published my piece on how genetic ancestry tests have unexpectedly disrupted the notion of nationalism. Pick up a hardcopy in thier office at Uppsala University! www.uttryckmagazine.com/2025/04/28/g...

🧵1/n ✨🔮✨ Meet (y)our instructors of this year's #HAAMsummerschool 👇 #aDNA #course #humanpopgen

All biobanks must consider fine scale genetic clusters for a reasonably good understanding of the genetic variation and it's implications. Continental, linguistic, geographical and racial clusters are less effective in real life scenarios.

🔬 Uploading or finding ancient DNA data a headache? Help fix it! Join our Standards in Human ancient DNA metadata workshop 🧬 🗓️ June 19, 2025 🕐 13:00–16:00 CET 💻 Online | 💰 Free 💬 Feedback = co-authorship possible! 👉 Register: shorturl.at/D3j6i

Just like we need women in STEM and "Girls Who Code", we need “Men Who Nurse” and “Guys Who Teach,” pipeline programs that can offer boys pathways forward in female-typed fields. @reshmasaujani.bsky.social time.com/7286184/worr...

‼️ PhD opportunity: join a vibrant community working on language evolution @nccrlanguage.bsky.social @isle-uzh.bsky.social please spread widely www.isle.uzh.ch/en/jobs/phd-...

🚨 Don’t miss the 1st HAAM-radio symposium: "Ethics in Human DNA Research" 📅 May 29 (next week!) 🕒 LA (7am) l Berlin (4pm) | Singapore (10pm) 🎙️ With @paleogenomics.bsky.social @jenniferraff.bsky.social @marisolespitia.bsky.social & Tomás Gozález Zarzar 📝 Register by May 28 🔗 shorturl.at/1VScZ

We are happy to proudly report that the #book on #IndoEuropean #prehistoric #linguistic #research, by our #HumanPast Junior #Fellow 2024-25, Axel Palmér is published now! Congratulations, Axel! brill.com/display/titl... @cschlebu.bsky.social #archaeology #genetics #indoslavic #indoiranian #bronzeage

Happy to share a PhD opportunity in my new lab at the University of Zurich! Application deadline: June 30. Do not hesitate to contact me for any questions!

We proudly present UYSD: a new open-access repository with global Y-SNP haplogroup frequencies. A valuable resource for forensic genetics, genetic genealogy, population studies, and more. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

🚨New preprint!🚨"Sexual division of labour shapes hunter-gatherer spatial ranges". Following on the sexual division of labour theme, finally out our analyses on the lifetime spatial ranges of over 700 Mbendjele BaYaka 🤩 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I'm beyond excited to share our new paper in Nature! We sequenced the first ancient human autosomal genomes from the Central Sahara, two ~7,000-year-old individuals from Takarkori in Libya, revealing a long-isolated North African lineage: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here's a short thread: (1/n)