En route to Dublin after two wonderful days of meetings and back-to-back seminars in Vienna #Heasseminar and at MPI Leipzig. Thanks @peregx9.bsky.social and @jennytung.bsky.social for being terrific hosts. Leaving inspired and sleepy. Soundtrack: youtu.be/xPaSuWrBAQI?...

@peregx9.bsky.social from #HEASVienna introducing @paleogenomics.bsky.social for the #HEASSeminar in #AncientGenomics taking place now online and in-person at @univie.ac.at

We are looking forward to welcoming Maria Avila Arcos @paleogenomics.bsky.social to #HEASVienna for a #HEASSeminar in #AncientGenomics next Monday at the later than normal time of 11:45 CET. @peregx9.bsky.social Registration for online and in-person participation in on our website 👇🔗

We have a new #HEASBlog on our website. This week twenty one HEAS members went to the #NationalMuseumPrague to see #LucyandSelam. www.heas.at/activities/b...

We're so excited to share our newest ancient DNA findings on hunter-gatherers and pastoralists in Kazakhstan! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

So excited to announce the lineup of speakers here @heasvienna.bsky.social for the 2025/6 academic year! We have some outstanding speakers for our three seminar series in Archaelogical Science, Ancient Genomics and Human Evolution & the Palaeolithic. All hybrid! Register now at HEAS.at

Working on an article, and stumbled on this after many years. Incredible no? Camelid fiber woven bag/basket from pre-urban Tiwanaku (~AD 400-600), from Southern Peru or northern Chile. Published in Nicole Couture's chapter in the 2004 "Tiwanaku: Ancestor of the Inca" book.

Nice story on Reich's research on ancient DNA "Claims of pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no." 🏺🧪 news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

👏👏 Congratulations to our colleague Marjolein D. Bosch on receiving an #ERC Starting Grant for her COPE project. She will explore how Ice Age hunters and gatherers responded to cold temperatures, resource scarcity 💦 🦌 🌱 , and environmental changes 30,000 years ago. More info: buff.ly/EGicG8z

3 @erc.europa.eu Starting Grants, die mit je rund 1,4 bis 1,7 Millionen Euro dotiert sind, gehen an die #univie: Historikerin Eva-Maria Muschik, Mikrobiologin Megan Sørensen & Geschichtssoziologin Agata Zysiak erhalten die prestigeträchtige Förderung für ihre Forschung. Wir gratulieren herzlichst! 🥳

Check out our latest paper, a huge effort led by @benjaminguinet.bsky.social and @tvdvalk.bsky.social 🦣🔍🦠 Paper: www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

Lovely new paper by @pennybickle.bsky.social and team, using some NEIF funded dates to suggest European Neolithic cemeteries were a short-lived phenomenon. 20 years on, things are still getting shorter! @oxradiocarbon.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Excited to say we’re hiring 😊. We’re looking for a post-doc in ancient pathogen genomics to join our friendly supportive team in London at @ugiatucl.bsky.social. Start date January 2026. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Michelle did a wonderful job presenting our work at the 11th World Mummy Congress in Cusco! What a venue

The Commission is pushing for a massive increase in funding for Horizon Europe 2028-2034. If I understand correctly, Pillar I, which includes @erc.europa.eu and Marie Sklodowska Curie fellowships, would go from the current €25 billion to €44 billion. Let's hope it happens!

2000 years ago: the Romans would let an aqueduct destroy the Gardon Valley. We need clean water, but at what cost?

[Open Access] sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10....

Our new contribution for the understanding Gran Dolina TD10 unit at Atapuerca 🔗 kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

Saturday express at home. Demo, lobster paella and bicicle trip. Fun! ;) #niunpamdeterra #elPrat

Today it is a very nice day. The BEAM lab has expanded. Looking forward to the comming years of science! @heasvienna.bsky.social

Postdoctoral Position in Wildlife Palaeogenomics! Come join us in beautiful Stockholm! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

We're thrilled to announce that the FIRST International Conference on Palaeogenomics will happen in Stockholm, Sweden, June 23-26 2026! Topics will span from humans to wildlife and sediments 🧬🦣💀🦠 bring it on! Save the dates! Follow @palaeogenomics.bsky.social for news 👉icp2026.palaeogenomics.org

Then, Greger and Beth performed an original song entitled: MFaDNA youtu.be/Z62RTsgpHc4

🚨 Two PhD Positions Available! Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠 Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history. www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...

Great to have you here!!

🔬📜 PhD in Paleogenomics & Geochemistry @univie.ac.at Join the Pinhasi Lab to push boundaries in ancient DNA from sediments 🧬🪨 Fully funded (3 yrs), earliest start 07.2025. More infos here: vds-ecology-evolution.univie.ac.at/application/... #PhDposition #Paleogenomics #aDNA #ScienceJobs

New Publication! New Article by #HEASVienna member #LauravanderSluis et al. on 'Late Paleolithic whale bone tools reveal human and whale ecology in the Bay of Biscay.' #HEASPublications

Article alert!! ZooMS, radiocarbon dating and stable isotope analysis on ancient whale bone tools, check it out. Absolutely thrilled to see our work published in Nature Communications 🙏 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natcomms.nature.com

A nice update on the chronology of Denisova Cave! I wish more sites had this type of resolution 🥹⏳️🏺🦣🧪

The Wenner Green is considering closing SAPIENS Magazine. This would be a huge loss to Anthropology! Please write the board in support of this dynamic and vital publication! actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

Our @ucl.ac.uk @crick.ac.uk work, out this week in @science.org, traces a genetic time series of bacterial infections to reveal when and how Borrelia recurrentis jumped from ticks to humans—via our body lice. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Excited to announce our paper on ancient Borrelia genomes is finally out! 🦠💀We document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever, published today in @science.org‬ with @lucyvandorp.bsky.social and @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social #aDNA 🏺🧪🧬 Main findings and paper below: 🧵⬇️

Very happy to start the sampling for ERC SHADOWS in Cantabria together with Carla. Carla will work as a PhD student on the Pleistocene fauna collections of the area ⚒️🐅🦁🦊

Check out our ancient DNA paper on the maritime Punic civilization! 🦴🧬🌊 We find that their Levantine Phoenician cultural ancestors contributed surprisingly little ancestry to Punic sites in the central and western Mediterranean! (1/4) doi.org/10.1038/s415... #aDNA #PopGen #Punic #Phoenician

New Publication! New Article from #HEASVienna member Pere Gelabert @peregx9.bsky.social et al. on 'A review on Pyrenean Pleistocene leopards paleoecology, paleobiogeography and adaptative convergences with snow leopards.' #HEASPublications www.heas.at/research/pub...

Hey I know her! @drlizhaynes.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Discovered 25 years ago in Dordogne, Cussac cave is an immaculately preserved jewel of prehistory – and so strictly protected by the French ministry that the public will never be allowed to set foot in it Inside France's perfectly preserved prehistoric Cussac cave 🏺🧪 www.rfi.fr/en/france/20...

Analysing phylogenetic relationships, genome-wide selective sweeps and genetic differentiation among populations of Aedes aegypti, the authors identify adaptive signals in 186 genes related to self-domestication that distinguish the globally distributed non-African ecotype from its African ancestor

Attention #HumanOrigins researchers! 🧪🦣🏺

A new Nature Index data set shows that progress towards gender equity in research continues to be slow. With just 27% of high-quality papers in the natural sciences having female co-authors in 2024, there is a lot of room for improvement #AcademicSky 🧪 #womeninSTEM www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Looking for a new challenge? Our career section has numerous open positions to offer: www.viennabiocenter.org/career/open-... Apply now and join the Vienna BioCenter Community! #viennabiocenter #hiring #lifescience #biotech

Interested in a starting PI position at University College London to work on Genetics, Evolution or the Environment? My department has opened the call for expressions of interest for sponsorship of independent fellowship applications. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Today I am closing a very challenging proces. For 3 PhD positions of my ERC I recieved in total 134 applications. So frustrating to only be able to choose 3. So much talent. Impressive. Thank you!

🦭 Animal #598 🪲 I figured it out in 4 guesses! 🟥🟥🟨🟩 🔥 25 | Avg. Guesses: 6.6 metazooa.com #metazooa

Our paper on ancient human population structure is now published. We find that the ancestors of modern humans lived in multiple populations during the period when Homo sapiens evolved in Africa. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Immerse yourself in the time when homo sapiens travelled through the vast steppe landscape of Central Europe to follow the herds of mammoths, horses and reindeer. The ICE AGE exhibition at #MAMUZ Mistelbach, created in cooperation with the OeAI, opens today. ℹ️ buff.ly/m1cON8k

Come join us for this funded PhD opportunity! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

@whatkatiedigs.bsky.social has a funded PhD opportunity @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social Using #ZooMS and #sedaDNA #ancientDNA, #radiocarbon dating and #geoarchaeology to find Scotland's lost Ice Age animals 🦣❄️ #PhDposition #archaeology #paleontology #biomolecular