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

🧪 If you had your NSF grant terminated, I'd *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar. Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Time to catch up on the past week’s news about science and medicine in the US. Whew. 1/10

NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics. At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

UPDATE: We have data on >1000 terminated #NSF grants at grant-watch.us. Thanks to all who have been contributing data the past few days. We've also added a "Reports" section with some analyses. For NSF, we see that the STEM education directorate has been absolutely pummeled.

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...

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

📣 Across the U.S., cuts to federal funding for health research are projected to cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. How will YOUR area be impacted? Excited to share SCIMaP, a website that our team has created to communicate the impact of funding cuts. #PsychSciSky #MedicalSky scienceimpacts.org

My review of computational methods for anthropological genetics with @kwittadna.bsky.social is out for the Yearbook issue of AJBA. We talk about all sorts of cool methods that YOU could use too! Also check out this great figure we commissioned from @janey1216.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ajpa...

Also, the business meeting will be immediately followed by a cocktail reception from 9.30 - 10.30 PM in the Grand Ballroom, Dover AB. There will be a cash bar and dessert table. You don’t need to be a member, so please come and bring friends!

For AnthGen folks at @bioanth.org: Our Annual Business Meeting will be held TONIGHT from 8.30 - 9.30 PM in the Grand Ballroom, Salons I-II. The agenda, minutes from the 2024 meeting, and the Treasurer's Report for 2024 are available in your email if you’re a member! See you there!

"Rejecting the...advice of shared governance bodies and neutering the faculty’s ability to collectively speak up, particularly at a moment when senior leaders may lack the courage or willingness to do so, would be not just wrong and misguided but a betrayal of their obligations to the institution."

Super excited to be at #AABA2025 this week! Our lab’s presentations and posters this year focus on aDNA, modern genomics and community engagement 🧬💀🤝 from projects in 🇵🇪 🇵🇷. All scheduled for this Saturday 🗓️ and featuring work by stellar trainees 🧑‍🔬 ! Come say hi and nerd out with us @bioanth.org 🤓

1/8. This week I had a few different conversations with scholars who, in the face of the attacks on science and institutions of learning in the U.S., are wondering what to do. One suggestion I have is: keep doing your work. It matters in and of itself. Why do I say that? A few reasons.