Come be my colleague! The CU Natural History Museum has a welcoming community, great leadership, and connections with the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. I believe museum faculty also get a summer stipend, in addition to the 9 month salary listed here.

My PhD student Jaime Zolik and I were interviewed on the @anthrobiology.bsky.social podcast about our aDNA 🧬💀work with community partners in Peru. Have a listen to hear what Jaime & our lab have been up to! 🤓 Thx Gaby for inviting us on! @umnanth.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/27ys...

Lovely to work with @blevinske.bsky.social, @paleogenomics.bsky.social & Verena Schuenemann on " Ancient DNA insights into diverse pathogens and their hosts"! Read it at rdcu.be/eSVPN

A collection of articles from The Genetics of Canine Domestication, Migration, and Behavior Special Feature highlights research on the evolutionary history of dogs and the genetic basis of dog behavior. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/vLlW50XAO6A

Students: the deadline for #AABA2026 travel awards is this week!

Cool work from my colleagues @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social just dropped! Merlin Szymanski, @janetk.bsky.social et al. developed quicksand, a fast, accurate and beautifully designed Nextflow pipeline for taxonomic classification of mammalian mtDNA from ancient sediment DNA. doi.org/10.1093/molb...

I taught (and co-taught) a course on human population genetics from 2000-2024. Having retired, I'm now making all the course materials public: github.com/alanrogers/p... #popgen #evbio

The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.

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...

All NSF SBE DDRIG solicitations have been archived and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Grants currently submitted will be processed, but as always, chances of funding remain very low. This means anyone aiming for the upcoming deadline will not be able to submit. 1/3

The 2026 EMBL symposium 'Reconstructing the human past using ancient and modern genomics' is live with a fantastic invited speaker lineup! Abstract deadline 9 June. If work is ongoing, plan for Heidelberg in September😉. Organised by Maanasa Raghavan, @matejahajdi.bsky.social, Choongwon Jeong & me.

Come and join us here in Cambridge! Applications open for a new faculty position, for a researcher in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/faculty...

Interested in #palaeoproteomics, #ZooMS and human evolution? We currently have a postdoctoral position and a research position open. Postdoc: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli... Research assistant: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Are you obsessed with archaeological or historical questions and easily get into coding? Or a computational scientist that want to understand biology and disease evolution, and curious about the ancient past? If you have these or other burning questions that fits into our programme, apply below!

Proud of the latest edition of my free intro biostats book. gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b... book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/ Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable dm me with comments , ideas etc

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

Apply! @bioanth.org #AABA2026

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

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit. Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil. 1🧵 #PlaymobilÖtzi #PlaymobilInfestation

I'm hiring a computational biologist interested in complex trait genetics using deep learning approaches. Reach out to me, if interested.

Re-upping this again. I assisted the amazing team at @onthemedia.bsky.social developing the breaking news consumers handbook, and its recommendations still hold true to this day.

🌍✨ SMBE IDEA 2026 – Call for Proposals! We support initiatives that tackle inequities in evolutionary biology. Funding available: 💡 IDEA ($25k) 🪂 Non-Parachute Science ($10k) 🗣️ Outreach ($10k) 📅 Deadline: Oct 10, 2025 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/1we2...

Job ad still open! Deadline is Oct 17. Please apply!

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...

Full programme on ancient DNA, human biology and medicine out now for our packed November 14 @gensocuk.bsky.social symposium! Join us at the @royalsociety.org in London.

Are you interested in doing a PhD in Copenhagen? Interested in studying Neanderthals and Denisovans which live on in our genomes? Than you are more than welcome to apply to join my group starting Jan 2026 :) candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI... Please reach out if you have any questions!

📢Job Opportunity:independent junior research group leader-Experimental Archaeology 🪨🪏The Cluster of Excellence #HumanOrigins at Uni Tübingen seeks a researcher in experimental archaeology! 📝Job starts Jan 1, 2026 🗓 Apply by Sept 10, 2025 Apply now! 🔗 share.google/d9npIiRdhOWq... #Jobad Share it!

Now recruiting for two positions in my lab: Postdoc in computational analysis of ancient human genomes www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud... Bioarchaeology staff scientist supporting human aDNA projects www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud... Background: sites.google.com/view/skoglun... Applications welcome!

🤓🥳🔥💪🏽 congratulations to all!!! www.pew.org/en/research-...

Really honored and excited to be among the 2025 cohort of Pew Biomedical Scholars. Thx to the Pew Charitable Trust, my mentors, colleagues, students & family. Now let’s go do some science!!! 🧬🧪🥼📚🤓 💀 🇵🇷 🔥 #LatinAmericanGenomics #BoricuaInSTEM cla.umn.edu/anthropology...

Please repost and amplify ! We are hiring a faculty position in Evolutionary Genetics in the Biology Department at U of South Carolina! Check us out and come be our colleague! sc.edu/study/colleg... Deadline for applications is Oct 1 #AcademicJobs #EvoBio

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years. Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

My department at Tulane has a TT position for a bioanth ("specializing in the analysis of human skeletal remains"). Apps due by Oct 15. apply.interfolio.com/171196

Are you a biological anthropologist who loves nerding out about human evolution, fossils and/or adaptation ? 💀🙉 🤓 Do you like doing research and teaching? Do you want to live in the Twin Cities? 🌃 ❄️☃️Then join us at the University of Minnesota! See ad here:👇 www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

So they found a 125,000 yr old Neanderthal fat rendering plant & I have thoughts. Knowing that they loved saturated fat SO MUCH that they industrialized to get as much of it as humanly possible? Makes me feel seen, heard, supported, etc www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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

Scenes from a science crisis: a selection of recent developments 🧵1/6

Just once I want an article on this topic to say something like... Women carry the burden of service at work: Here's how men can say yes and share the load Public goods are important: Here's how bosses can better reward employees for providing public goods at work

My PhD student Emmanuel, co advised with @mcnultylab.bsky.social, is a Baldwin fellow 🎉🍾🙌🏽👏🏽! Thanks Leakey Foundation for supporting these talented scholars :-) learn more about Emmanuel’s work and background here: www.nievescolonlab.org/about-emmanuel

**10th Midwest PopGen Conference** Location: UMN Twin Cities, Date: Aug 21–22! Events: Talks, Posters, dinner + MN State Fair. Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Abstracts by Jun15 / Register by Aug 1. Add to calendar: calendar.google.com/calendar/event…#MidwestPopGenen

Women make up only 16% of corresponding authors who submit to Nature, a new Springer Nature analysis revealed. This is not enough - there are 30-40% #womeninSTEM We want to change it, through targeted editorial policies & outreach. But change will take everyone! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨🚨 Friday night news drop from National Science Foundation!! 🧪 NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF... We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people** 🧵 on some highlights...

Hello, Our paper on enamel proteins from Paranthropus robustus has finally been peer reviewed, please have a read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Paranthropus robustus has been puzzling scientists since its discovery in 1938 in South Africa, where a high number of fossils have been found.

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!

(5/8) Trump’s budget wipes out $307M for bee and plant tracking—leaving 4,000+ native bee species unmonitored. That’s not just pollinator loss. That’s ecosystem collapse in the making. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

The NSF helped fund the tech in your phone, the models that forecast deadly storms and 268 Nobel prize-winners. The Trump Administration has proposed cutting its budget by 55% – and 1400+ grants are already terminated.

Cutbacks have gutted the staff at NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, who work to protect the public from toxic algal blooms. Severe spending limits have made it difficult to purchase ordinary equipment for processing samples, such as filters and containers.

HAPPY 75th, NSF! We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond. Read on 🧵(1/11):

Join SSE, @asn-amnat.bsky.social & @systbiol.bsky.social in a Week of Action for NSF! Call and write congress and engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding! Our Media Tool can help you get started: shorturl.at/i7WfU #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF

#WithoutNSF I wouldn’t be a scientist. I studied thanks to an NSF fellowship. NSF funded my PhD and postdoc, and funds the work of my students today. W/O NSF our team couldn’t do the ancient DNA studies that teach us about our ancestors and their legacies. #SaveNSF www.nievescolonlab.org