Ready for the final concert of the unbelievable Bach-Marathon, with Thomas-Organist Johannes Lang performing all(!) organ works from J.S.Bach in 14 back-to-back concerts, through 21 hours. I have attended 4 of the concerts, and it was a transcendental experience, for lack of adequate superlatives.

Two papers to which I contributed came out back to back in Antiquity recently, which discuss African ancestry in early medieval individuals from England. Even though the data has been available since 2023, we now dedicated more space to these two special samples, and highlight this unusual […]

There is a very nice documentary about the ancient Saxons on Arte and YouTube available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzwMzEEnKEE It features our genetic study from 2022 (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05247-2), with prominent interviews of lead authors Joscha Gretzinger and […]

Faszinierender Einblick in die Populationsgenetik von @stschiff im #deutschlandfunk Nova Hörsaal: https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/populationsgenetik-menschheitsgeschichte-in-den-genen-ablesen

Mein Vortrag bei der langen Nacht der Wissenschaften ist nun verfügbar als Podcast bei Deutschlandfunk Nova, z.b. hier (https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/populationsgenetik-menschheitsgeschichte-in-den-genen-ablesen) oder hier (https://open.spotify.com/episode/1s6N6Yv9tUQu5X20noqcrg) […]

Excited to share our new preprint "High resolution analysis of population structure using rare variants" https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.18.665597v1 where we investigate and formalise using rare allele sharing to quantify population structure, with application and examples in […]

#SMBE #SMBE2025 Just notice the preprint of Rare Allele Sharing (RAS) statistics was out on the same day of my talk in @official-smbe.bsky.social . Great thanks to my supervisor @stschiff.bsky.social and co-author Thiseas Christos Lamnidis!

Pls spread the word! We have a postdoc position available in the Rocha Lab @mpi-muenster.bsky.social. Join our team to study mechanisms underlying robust organ development using zebrafish embryos and human organoids. mpi-muenster.mpg.de/career

Happy to share our new study from my PhD on the spread of farming across Anatolia and into the Aegean and then into Europe. @compevohumang.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 👇🏽

Postdoc position in my group in Tokyo! Please get in touch if you are interested. And happy to discuss projects - these would range from developing new methods to analysis of new genomes that we are now sequencing in the lab. Job Ad: www.riken.jp/en/careers/r... Lab page: speidellab.github.io

Morgen auf der langen Nacht der Wissenschaften gibt's von mir um 22:00 Uhr einen Vortrag mit dem Titel "Gene und Geschichte – Wie alte DNA unsere bewegte Vergangenheit erzählt". Herzliche Einladung ans @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social

Am 20. Juni ist es soweit: Das @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social lädt zur Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften ein! 😊 Ab 18 Uhr erwarten Euch spannende Vorträge & eine bunte Vielfalt an Mitmachstationen rund um #Menschheitsgeschichte 🧬🧪 & #Primatenevolution. 🐒 Unser Programm: www.eva.mpg.de/de/veranstal...

Our #PhD students are excited to hear @stschiff.bsky.social speak about "Spatial inference of population structure and prehistoric human mobility from ancient and modern #genomes" tomorrow for our #PopGen Seminar series. Full schedule and streaming signup at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/

Abstract deadline 30th June for the London ancient genome and human biology event of the year this November! @gensocuk.bsky.social

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

Open position at @unileipzig.bsky.social for professor of archaeology of the antique Mediterranean! www.uni-leipzig.de/stellenaussc...

For my German Leserschaft: New story on the crypts of Milan's Ca' Granda hospital in ‪@szde.bsky.social‬ this weekend / neue Geschichte im @szde.bsky.social über die Krypten von Ca' Granda in Mailand, reprinted from @science.org and translated by @jakwet.bsky.social:

90% of doing science is being open to new ideas.

Hallo Oberbergischer Kreis! Am 27. Mai spreche ich in der #Demokratiekirche Oberberg: www.demokratiekirche-oberberg.de/veranstaltun...

Scientists used to think diseases that jump from animals to people really took off when people started domesticating cattle, sheep and goats 11,000 years ago. A new look at ancient bacterial DNA in @science.org by @poojaswali.bsky.social and colleagues suggests the pivotal moment came much later.

Really impressive and moving interview by @baym.lol about the Harvard cuts.

Poseidon now supports VCF files (and pileupCaller does, too)! blog.poseidon-adna.org/posts/vcf_po...

Call for #PhD students open! Apply by 14 May to start your research career in #evolution #genetics in beautiful #Vienna among a fun international and interdisciplinary crowd of peers #evolVienna #bioinformatics #bigdata #Drosophila #adaptation #popgen

Happy to see that Max Planck institute for Evolutionary Anthropology is on @bsky.app as well! @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social welcome! Also great that the weather slowly starts to allow lunch outside by the pond at the institute ;)

If you need another break from current news, come with me 7000 years ago to search for the first speakers of Indo-European languages. 🧪 Gift link: nyti.ms/42ILio5

Woah. Two of my top trigger words in one paper. Gotta read!

Fascinating new study by Lara Cassidy and Colleagues on a South British Iron Age burial site with an extraordinary matrilocal relatedness pattern (www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/6

Now this is how #aDNA *and* the #archaeological record are teaming up - The fascinating case of #IronAge Britain's #matrilocality: 🏺 www.science.org/content/arti... by @spoke32.bsky.social via Science Mag

More than 15 years ago I went to @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social to understand the link between memory and preservation. I was lucky enough to speak with survivors of the camp, only one of whom is still alive. I think the piece I wrote for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social remains relevant today.

Problem solved!

Excellent book review on "The trouble with ancient DNA" by my colleague Kathrin Nägele at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #adna #books #science

Nice article in National Geographics (in German) on our findings of dynastic relationships among Celtic elite burials, featuring Angela Mötsch from my group: www.nationalgeographic.de/geschichte-u...

#Vortrag am #LEIZA #Mainz Am Donnerstag 16.1. spricht Miguel Morillo Leòn (@uni-kiel.de) über "Bασιλ ̑ηας δωροφάγους. How mobility and exchange shaped Mediterranean Late #Prehistory and how to trace it through the Archaeological record" Aus der Reihe "Time Talks" von LEIZA und @unimainz.bsky.social.

"Ancient DNA reveals family ties" is named on of the top 10 Science Break-throughs in 2024 by Science (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). Our work on early Celtic princely burials and their discovered close kinship gets mentioned, too! #ancientDNA #science

Surprising the number of things that sort of work like bank runs

DOGE is literally just this, down to the ridiculous acronym, but with the two most unlikable douchebags in America instead of an awesome kid and even more awesome tiger.

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

Stockholm is looking for a senior curator in paleontology! Come be my neighbor! Stockholm is a lovely city! recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...

This study introduces new methods to estimate hierarchical F–statistics for Pool–Seq data. These methods improve upon traditional F_ST statistics by considering the complex structures within populations. This helps provide a clearer understanding of genetic diversity and differences among groups.

So, who had "Boris Johnson sensationally solves whatever mystery Rapa Nui holds to just end up with the old (and false) ecocide narrative" on their 2024 bingo card? 🏺🤨

Aus der Serie alte Tweets, kurz nach Regierungsbildung 2021. Man darf ja auch mal stolz auf ne richtige, frühe #Prognose sein?😁Zumal Alfred Grosser immer witzelte, Politologen seien Wissenschaftler, die NACHHER erklärten, warum man VORHER hätte wissen können, wie es laufen wird.

For no particular reason here’s a nice new fine-scale study on (mostly) modern and some ancient (medieval) genomes from northwestern France. Includes an individual from Chaussé Saint-Pierre, Angers dating to 414–548 cal. AD who carried predominantly ancestry from North Africa. t.co/BttbzsNtyc

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NEW in Ecology Letters: We used machine learning trained on >10k iNaturalist records, validated with herbarium records and newspaper archives, to reconstruct Joshua tree flowering events since the year 1900 🌿 OA paper: https://buff.ly/3LScwiu Explainer: https://buff.ly/3A4K8XE And a thread: 1/20

from around 3:30-5am this morning, this is the next 3 addresses on the block 🔭🧪

Breathtaking view (into the past): 96 sarcophagi, 23 chamber tombs, seven cist tombs and 60 tile tombs - in the ancient city of #Tios in #Zonguldak, northern Türkiye 🇹🇷, a whole #Roman necropolis, a burial street, has been uncovered. 🏺 www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/exca...