Hot off the press!! New open access special edition of the Cambridge Archaeological Journal on "Kinship Trouble". www.cambridge.org/core/journal... All papers are open access, and the papers, I think, really capture this dynamic moment in studies of past kinship.

1/ Good morning, Europe! Now that you're awake, I'll make a little thread about what we are doing in this paper! This is part of a special issue on kinship in archaeology ed by @pennyend.bsky.social, Sabina Cvecek and Manaasa Raghavan. All the articles and the three commentaries are very worthwhile

Under 27 and interested in #archaeology 🏺? You would like to dig? We still have a place left on our volunteer programme. Join us for a gap year and work on our excavations. Internationals welcome! 👇 freiwilligesjahr-nrw.ijgd.de/fsj-denkmal

Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People https://theonion.com/archaeological-dig-uncovers-ancient-race-of-skeleton-pe-1819565415/

Applications for this year's #HAAMSummerSchool are open now! Looking forward to introducing new students to aDNA processing in @nf-co.re/eager with @jballesterosv.bsky.social 🧬🍏👩‍💻

In case anyone needs a reminder, "geneticists have long established that race and ethnicity are sociocultural constructs and not good proxies to describe genetic differences in disease risks and traits among groups." www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org @rpocisv.bsky.social

Want to check your ancient DNA study for chromosomal aneuploidies? RChASM is now available for R, to screen for autosomal and sex chromosomal aneuploidies, such as Down syndrome on data from 0.0014X coverage. We also wrote a step-by-step tutorial with examples: jonotuke.github.io/RChASM/artic...

Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11. www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...

The @scilifelab.se Ancient DNA Unit is recruiting a (permanent) Research Engineer for planning user projects and generating #aDNA 🧬 data: Application deadline: March 25th 🧪🏺 www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Really excited to share our new paper on the Early Iron Age mass grave at Gomolava (9th c. BCE), a study I had the pleasure to work on during my PhD with an amazing group of co-authors across multiple disciplines. Open access link: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇

This is a deep dive into the details of how Neanderthal ancestry is patterned across ancient genomes of modern people. A wave of mixture starting in the Near East kept mixing as long as the expanding group kept meeting Neanderthals, from France to Central Asia. www.johnhawks.net/p/tracing-th...

'“Embedded precarity” in higher education is diminishing research quality as staff on short-term contracts favour “safer” work to secure future employment, according to the author of a new report.' Royal Geographical Society maps important connections between precarity and research topics. 1/3

"The sweeping study... found that using AI in education can 'undermine children's foundational development' and that 'the damages it has already caused are daunting.'" They include limiting kids' cognitive, social, and emotional developmen, and increasing inequity. www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

“If you dressed up a Homo habilis individual in clothes and you saw her walking in the distance, would you do a double take? … This study shows us that the answer is YES!” https://scim.ag/4aSsPJT

New research reveals how millennia of human migration across Pacific islands led to the introduction of invasive pig species all over the Asia-Pacific 🐖🐽🐷🧬🌴🏝️🗿region. www.arch.ox.ac.uk/article/geno... @gregerlarson.bsky.social Image credit: A Brumm (Griffith Uni) & A Agus Oktaviana (BRIN, Indonesia).

I've slowly been reformatting notes from my population and conservation genetics course at Montana State University into a web book—a rough draft is now live here: elinck.org/popgen_conge...

Humans took two routes to reach the ancient landmass Sahul about 60,000 years ago. Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/3XOFMwn

Become our colleague! - 2yr Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past (UU) @humanpastcenter.bsky.social 🧪 Great place to work at (ok, I am biased), integration with archaeologists and linguists + pretty flexible research topic www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin: Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author. Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.

If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Our team is Legend (wait for it) dary! Ohio State, Stanford, UW Madison, UW Seattle, UC Santa Cruz, Arizona State & of course the Native Bio Data Consortium within the borders and legal jurisdiction of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation! Woop woop! First time ever! The FOUR BANDS lead the way again!

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

🚨 The first HAAM elections are now open! 👥 Meet the candidates: haam-community.github.io/election2025/ 🗳️ Cast your vote: forms.gle/6PKTRkqKn57J... 🔒 Voting closes 10 Oct, 23:59 CET!

This is HUGE. Unconditional #repatriation of 28,000 fossils from the Dubois collection to Indonesia. Largest ever fossil and perhaps natural history #restitution (AFAIK). Famous #hominin fossil included. Lots of things to unpack, here are some preliminary thoughts. /1

We're so happy to share our newest ancient DNA findings in Mongolia on the Slab Grave expansion and its consequences for diverse Bronze Age pastoralists! doi.org/10.1038/s414...

New research reveals the oldest known examples of a human mummification process anywhere in the world. https://scim.ag/467VsjB

One mother, two species: a bizarre case of sexual parasitism results in two distinct species of ant being produced from a single mother. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What a week! 🎉 Big thanks to @isba11.bsky.social for hosting an incredible ISBA conference — so well organized and full of great science.

Neatly dated early hominin presence on Wallacea: securely excavated stone tools from site of Colio, on Sulawesi -between 1.04 Ma and 1.48 Ma.

Excited to share our new paper! We benchmarked the Twist Ancient DNA kit for in-solution enrichment. It’s cost-effective, robust, and shows no allelic bias, even when pooling libraries! @acadresearch.bsky.social @dnatimetravel.bsky.social @twistbioscience.com doi.org/10.1186/s130...

Delighted to share our #archaeology 🏺 research in @theconvo-bot.bsky.social Men traded wares – but women traded knowledge: what a new archeological study tells us about PNG sea trade theconversation.com/men-traded-w...

"The game is set... in the wake of a treaty that promised to repatriate African artifacts from Western museums. But a last-minute twist soured the deal, and now your team of crew members from different African countries must work to take back 70 artifacts" 🏺 share.google/p3GyFphVSPI4...

Scientists have come under pressure in the information age; with fascist myth-making and autocratic political movements leading the anti-science aggression. @lewan.bsky.social put together a team to provide key info & guidance. I have some thoughts: www.protagonist-science.com/p/the-anti-a... 1/

‘Dragon Man’ skull may be the first from an enigmatic human cousin [our ongoing phylogenetic analyses suggest Denisovan fossils are part of the Homo longi clade] www.sciencenews.org/article/skul...

Published today in @nature.com our new study on the drivers of the successful dispersal of modern humans out of Africa! A huge, interdisciplinary team effort long in the making, headed by @elliescerri.bsky.social . Glad to have contributed! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #archaeology #Evolution

Join the Tropical Archaeogenomics crew at our stall about jade trade and genetic connectivity in the tropics - including DIY jewelry station! 🟢🏝️🛶🧬

Very much enjoyed introducing @nf-co.re/eager to students at the HAAM summer school with James! Thanks to the organising committee and teaching assistants for their great support 👩‍💻🍏 #aDNA #bioinformatics

Very excited for our newest paper on Oceania to be published today! Congratulations to Kathrin and the whole team 🥳 You can read all about delayed Austronesian-related admixture and differences in interaction spheres in ancient coastal PNG communities here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #aDNA 🏺

🧪 By our post doc fellow A. Lefebvre and colleagues from @umr5608traces.bsky.social Late Paleolithic whale bone tools reveal human and whale ecology in the Bay of Biscay 17ky ago out in @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

🚨 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

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025... During dredging operations in the Madura Strait, archaeologists found fossilised remains of 36 vertebrate species. This is the first discovery of fossils from the seabed between the Indonesian islands. This area, called Sundaland, was once a vast lowland.

Whales, Greenland, and some really old mud. My first PhD chapter now published in @natcomms.nature.com reveals 12,000 years of marine mammal history around Northern Greenland through DNA hidden in marine mud. Check it out: rdcu.be/emdYS #sedaDNA #Greenland #Arctic #whales #seals

PhD applications welcome until 15th May! estonia.dreamapply.com/en_GB/course...

PhD opportunity on ancient humans and pathogens 🦠👀 🤩 #aDNA www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Ein Team um Johannes Krause vom Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie hat den Ort entdeckt, an dem der Schwarze Tod seinen Ausgang nahm. Diese #Infografik veranschaulicht die Ausbreitungswege der #Pest.

Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n

Incredibly proud that our paper on the #palaeoproteomics analysis of the Penghu mandible, led by @tsutatsuta.bsky.social and in collaboration with Chun-Hsiang Chang, Enrico Cappellini and co, is out now in @science.org! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Congratulations, Nada! What a spectacular paper 🎉