NEW PODCAST: ‘A Question of Science’ with Professor Brian Cox. In every episode, panels of scientists and experts answer audience questions about some of the biggest issues facing us today. Listen to the first episode, ‘Can we live forever?’: lnk.to/AQOSAgeingBB

Big congratulations to Helen and all other awardees!

Early bird registration until 12 September!

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.

Exited to have such a great set of speakers for Ancient genomes: perspectives on human biology and medicine The program is now online and registration is still open! registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/hg3/frontend...

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!

New postdoc opening in our lab: crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job... Don't hesitate to send in your details or contact me if interested!

Only 10 more days to submit your abstract! @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social and @janetk.bsky.social have organised a fantastic meeting with incredible speakers. Join us in November @royalsociety.org!

Abstract deadline for the London ancient genomes and human evolution meeting in November extended to 31st July. Alongside the invited speakers we have ~8 slots for speakers from submitted abstracts and a poster session. Submit yours!

Join Caetano Reis e Sousa (@reisesousalab.bsky.social) as he describes how our immune systems work and his team’s research into better understanding dendritic cell receptors. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBC9...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ancient Egyptian https://go.nature.com/44bHYCh

[email protected], who heads up our Ancient Genomics lab, spoke to the Today Programme about new work from his team and @ljmuofficial.bsky.social to extract and sequence DNA from a 4,500-year-old ancient Egyptian individual. Listen back from 1:22:30 ➡️ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Forty years after Svante Pääbo kicked off this extraordinary field of science, today sees report of the first whole-genome sequence of an ancient Egyptian (from 2855–2570BCE). Exciting work from @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social, @flinklinus.bsky.social, & co at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social, @crick.ac.uk.🧬🧪

Researchers from the Crick and @ljmuofficial.bsky.social have extracted and sequenced DNA from an individual who lived in Egypt around 4,500 years ago, making it the oldest genome from ancient Egypt sequenced to date. www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-07...

Interested in how ancient genomes are providing insights into the our evolutionary past? @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social and I are excited about the great program coming together for this meeting in London in November! Register now to join us!

Who were the ancient Egyptians? It is expressed in the extraordinary historical and archaeological record, but what about ancestry links to other ancient individuals? Today we report the successful sequencing of the whole genome of an individual who lived in Egypt about ~4700 years ago.

Congratulations to Tom!

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

A 4-year postdoc position in population genomics is available in my group at the University of East Anglia, to work on a project sequencing a thousand fox genomes across rural and urban environments in the UK. vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/15...

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

Thanks to @patrickwyman.bsky.social and the Tides of History podcast for a great chat about the intersection of history and ancient DNA. wondery.com/shows/tides-...

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

We are looking forward to this online only talk with @helenfewlass.bsky.social as part of the #HEASSeminar series in #ArchaeologicalScience taking place on Monday the 28th April at 12:30 CEST. Registration and more information on our website 🔗👇 www.heas.at/events/heas-...

And there doesn't actually seem to be anything about pigmentation in the preprint? Some of the press said there were coding changes in OCA2, SLC45A2 and MITF but I don't see those changes mentioned anywhere. .

Join us at the Royal Society in London 14 November for a day on Ancient genomes, human biology and medicine! Many slots are reserved for talks from submitted abstracts related to the topic, alongside speakers Svante Pääbo, Priya Moorjani, @mathiesoniain.bsky.social and Lluis Quintana-Murci.

Registration now open! Join us for our Autumn Meeting: “Ancient genomes: perspectives on human biology and medicine” organised by @janetk.bsky.social and @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social. Explore how ancient DNA informs migration, adaptation & disease. genetics.org.uk/events/ancie...

A bunch of these edits don’t even have anything to do with dire wolves; they are just in random pigmentation genes.

I am not necessarily against the initiative, but would a chimpanzee with 20 gene edits be human? If you lined up a dire wolf genome with a gray wolf genome there would be millions of differences. These individuals seem optimistically 1/100,000th dire wolf. (No paper or preprint available though).

We had a full house for the first two recordings of A Question of Science, our new podcast from the Crick and BBC Studios Science Unit. 🎙️✨ Grab the last few tickets to be part of the live studio audience for Friday's episodes on ancient DNA and pandemics. 🔗 www.lostintv.com/aqos.htm

We have a 4-year PhD-student opening in our lab, deadline on Wednesday noon. For anyone interested in computational genomics of ancient human, pathogen, or canid genomes. www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud... If you are curious, send in an application!

🎶📣 Apply here for our summer school 2025: haam-community.github.io/haam-summer-... 📅 Application deadline: 17th of April #aDNA #HAAMsummerschool

For example, welcoming anyone keen to apply our new Twigstats approach to genetic history in Europe and beyond. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We have a 4-year PhD-student opening in our lab, deadline on Wednesday noon. For anyone interested in computational genomics of ancient human, pathogen, or canid genomes. www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud... If you are curious, send in an application!

A science AMA, but in real life!? And with 5 scientists instead of just one!?!?!?! Kaboom Come to @crick.ac.uk on 28th March to ask questions of @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social, @poojaswali.bsky.social and @adamrutherford.bsky.social and me with noted keyboardist Brian Cox. www.lostintv.com/aqos.htm

Applications for our Future Leaders in Biomedical Sciences scholarships are now open. These scholarships are aimed at students of Black or mixed Black heritage who wish to undertake a PhD in biological or biomedical sciences. Learn more and apply. ⬇️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...

Check out our Ancient Genomics Lab, including @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social, @boothicus.bsky.social and Frankie Tait, on tonight’s new episode of Digging for Britain. 🦴 Watch it now on iPlayer (from 46:00), or tune in to BBC Two at 20:00. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Cool work led by Leo Speidel and @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social - combining ARG inference on high quality aDNA with the qpAdm admixture framework! 👏💻🧬

Researchers from the Crick, @uclofficial.bsky.social and @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social used a new way of analysing ancient DNA to better understand European migrations in 1-1,000 AD Findings were led by Leo Speidel with senior author @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social www.crick.ac.uk/news-and-rep...

Analysing genetic ancestry using time-stratified approach offers a higher-resolution lens for genetic history. Skoglund et al use it to uncover a new, high-resolution genomic history of early medieval Europe 🧪 @natureportfolio.bsky.social @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...