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...

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...

A paper that passed largely unnoticed, like carnivores in a "inhospitable" desert: Trophic niche partitioning in a carnivore community of a hyper-arid environment, the Sahara Desert Let me tell you what it's about. (1/6) doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

Postdoctoral job announcement: come to Cambridge and work on population genetic modelling with environmental and ancient DNA, jointly with @gamzeandgursoy.bsky.social and me. Details at www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/55580/ - applications by June 16th.

"Science is not simply a sequence of tasks that can be optimized....The scientific system thrives on inefficiency: redundant efforts, failed attempts, and divergent paths. These are not costs to be eliminated but sources of discovery." Excellent essay! ⬇️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Just published our new paper: “The reliability of inferred archaic segments” 🎉🧬💀 www.pivotscipub.com/hpgg/6/2/000... We systematically compare several published methods and our new method "cp-archaic" using simulations and 1000 Genomes data

🧬 Join the Posada Lab! TALENTGAL offers 40 postdoc fellowships (30 months) in Spain. - Molecular & Immune Mechanisms in Precision Oncology - AI-driven Biomedical Data Analysis - Multiomic Approaches for Next-Gen Therapeutics Deadline: July 23, 2026. Check requirements at talentgal.cigus.gal

Choose your character: Linnaeus Chad beer Or Darwin Monkey anise

Great new work by @evangiangrande.bsky.social tracking how race scientists exploit preprint servers to legitimize and spread their work

The ERGA BioGenome Seminar Series is back! We return with Jérôme Goudet and Isabela do O for a seminar on the impact of population structure in identifying local adaptation. How do we know when population differences reflect adaptation, and when they are shaped by demography and structure?

Our paper entitled "The persistence and loss of hard selective sweeps amid admixture in ancient Eurasians" is now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1.... A really fun and informative collaboration with @mharris.bsky.social, Ziyi Mo and Adam Siepel. (1/n)

The final chapter of my dissertation is out in PNAS! This was an incredibly fun and challenging project to work on. Check it out!

I’m grateful to have been part of this amazing project! 🥳

📦 My new R package {spatialData} is on CRAN! 🎉 Ecological datasets as sf data frames and their companion raster data ready for analysis and modeling. Built as example data for R packages, but great for teaching too! 🔗 blasbenito.github.io/spatialData/ ❗check the Articles section!

1/ New paper out in Nature Communications! We studied the salivary amylase gene, AMY1, in Indigenous Andean populations and found evidence that high AMY1 copy number rapidly increased in frequency, likely through recent positive selection. doi.org/10.1038/s414...

I am excited and proud to introduce to you PSMC-FAC (FNR-Automatized Correction) — a mathematical method designed to optimize the calculation of False Negative Rates in low-coverage curves. Let me break it down briefly:

A preliminary, but complete, conference programme is now available on the ICP2026 website: tinyurl.com/3rhp5u6m Some 140 talks on everything ancient DNA! There is still time to register!

Aquí tenéis gratis uno de los mejores libros de filosofía de la ciencia, en cuanto a introducciones se refiere, que he tenido el placer de leer; junto al famoso de A. F. Chalmers o el de S. Okasha. Disfrutadlo y aprended mucho, claro :) De @adieguez.bsky.social. monografias.uma.es/index.php/mu...

All of this work was done using my new R package hmetad, which implements this measure in a neat & accessible interface! metacoglab.github.io/hmetad/

Applications now open for the UNIL Summer School on Modelling for Evolutionary Biology (31 Aug–5 Sep 2026, Lausanne)! For PhD & postdocs interested in formal approaches to evolutionary ecology (incl. social evo, life-history, species interactions). Scholarships available, Pls RP! shorturl.at/fo1GA

El 23 de abril se celebra el Día de Castilla y León en conmemoración de la derrota de las tropas comuneras en la Batalla de Villalar (1521). Esta fiesta autonómica, rinde homenaje a los líderes comuneros (Padilla, Bravo y Maldonado) que se levantaron contra el rey Carlos I. Y feliz S.Jordi. 🌹🐲

I'll speaking tomorrow at HEAS - you can sign up to watch online! www.heas.at/events/heas-...

🚨 Check out our new paper in Nature! In our new study, we sequenced 128 high-coverage genomes from Indigenous peoples across Latin America and uncovered their unique genetic diversity and history. 👇🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📕Una investigación internacional liderada por @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social ha generado la mayor base de datos genómica de los indígenas americanos El estudio publicado en #Nature aporta 128 genomas completos y revela más de un millón de variantes genéticas nuevas🧬 👉https://shorturl.at/G8Ys6

“The evolutionary history and unique genetic diversity of Indigenous Americans” 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📣 EvolDir is now managed by @eseb.bsky.social! We are delighted to be taking the reins and express our gratitude to both Brian Golding who began this service to the community in the mid-1980s and to @rdmpage.bsky.social who ran this account until now 👏 You can now find evoldir here: evoldir.net

Genome-wide genealogies reveal deep admixtures forming modern humans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.17.719197v1

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.

In the early 1990s, Bruno Latour was not hired at the Institute for Advanced Study. I wrote an article about that decision and what it reveals about the science wars and the history of science studies, now live @histsocialscience.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/article/985884

Si eres joven y te interesa la #SciComm, NO TE PIERDAS este eventazo que estamos preparando con la @aecomcientifica.bsky.social !! 📆 Madrid, 8 de mayo Con @putomikel.bsky.social, @moureortega.bsky.social, @belenremacha.bsky.social, @gomobel.bsky.social, @raffiovalentina.bsky.social y +!

#ERGAReads | FANTASIA leverages language models to decode the functional dark proteome across the animal tree of life www.nature.com/articles/s42... @rosafernandez.bsky.social @commsbio.nature.com @csic.es @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social #LLM #proteome #functional #annotation #genomes

🆕 HAAM Summer School 2026 📅 June 1-5, 2026 📍 Online 💰 Free 🧑‍🔬🧑‍💻 For Students & ECR 🔓 Applications open until April 13, 2026! 🔗 Apply here: forms.gle/ckqTgQxnEENJ...

A full house for @nancybird1.bsky.social UGI seminar marking the culmination of her many years of work at #UGI on human population genetics and the development of haplotype-based methods. Wishing Nancy all the best as she goes on to an exciting new senior post-doc position.

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! […]

Eagle owls in Spain were hunted nearly to extinction in the 20th century. DNA from survivors shows a classic genetic bottleneck: loss of diversity due to low numbers. But populations have bounced back since protections began! Conservation genetics in action #2026MMM journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

tidyverse on the streets, base r in the sheets

Have you ever wondered how many archaic populations contributed DNA to modern humans? We know about Neanderthals and Denisovans, but the fossil and genetic evidence suggests a much more complex history! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We hoped this would take 5 years, but in fact it took 14! Thanks to all co-authors, but particularly Mark Jobling who held it all together, and more. A proper magnum opus. Hope it is useful for those in the field or adjacent. Phew.

New preprint! with @a-solernunez.bsky.social Rethinking a textbook example of human adaptation "AMY1 copy number evolution in light of demographic history" Once population structure is accounted for, the classic starch–agriculture narrative becomes much less clear www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🧬 Avui ha tingut lloc l'acte inaugural del "25è aniversari de la publicació del Genoma Humà", amb la xerrada de l'investigador Tim Hubbard i la taula rodona amb els investigadors Pep Abril, Roderic Guigó i Gemma Marfany, sobre la contribució catalana a la recerca del genoma #25APGH

In #GENETICS, Jacob Marsh, Sachin Kaushik, and @johriparul.bsky.social examine why and when rescaling of forward simulations in population genetics is not accurate, identifying pitfalls in simulation methods. buff.ly/wpzDRV9

Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!

Why did consciousness evolve at all? A superb special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org brings together experts across disciplines to explore the functions of consciousness and why it emerged in some species but not others. @tecumsehfitch.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

Excited and proud 😊 to share the final chapter of @hjorvik.bsky.social 's PhD thesis: Seven Millennia of Human Exploitation drove genomic Changes in Iberian Sheep Comments welcome! 🧬🧪🏺🐑 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵(1/8)

Interested in using aDNA time-series datasets to estimate selection? Our study "Assessing Ancient DNA Sampling Strategies for Natural Selection Inference in Humans Using Allele Frequency Time Series Data" is now out in GBE! doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... @genomebiolevol.bsky.social @cegamorim.bsky.social

We hope this little guide and review of the recent literature on SVs will be useful for the community in #ecology #evolution #genomics #PopGen. Great lead by Kat!!

📣 The @scilifelab.se #ddls postdoc (2yrs) offers a great community + training + all social benefits! Happy to discuss your own project ideas! I also have some ideas on ARGs, pangenomes or biobank-scale datasets 🧬🐏🧪🖥️ Deadline is Mar 31 but some admin things need to be handled well in advance!

Cost of being female lead/corresponding author in biomedical sciences: "[T]he median amount of time spent under review is 7.4%–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles" even in disciplines where women well-represented. #AcademicSky journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Linkage disequilibrium scaling improves robustness and power to detect genomic regions under selection. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.19.700334v1