Researchers are pulling clues from genetic material in ice age soils and rewriting chapters of human history go.nature.com/4dMysup

NEIF @isotopesuk.bsky.social are recruiting new members for the NEIF Strategy Group and three Steering Committees (Radiocarbon (Panel A), Life Sciences (Panel B) and Geology & Environment (Panel C)). We are also recruiting for a Chair for Panel A – Radiocarbon. See www.bgs.ac.uk/download/ner...

Natural History Museum. Apply for Principal Researcher in Human Evolution jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Want to check your ancient DNA study for chromosomal aneuploidies? RChASM is now available for R, to screen for autosomal and sex chromosomal aneuploidies, such as Down syndrome on data from 0.0014X coverage. We also wrote a step-by-step tutorial with examples: jonotuke.github.io/RChASM/artic...

Proud that after five years of careful analysis and discussion our paper "Lasting Lower Rhine-Meuse forager ancestry shaped Bell Beaker expansion" has now been published.

Interested in using aDNA time-series datasets to estimate selection? Our study "Assessing Ancient DNA Sampling Strategies for Natural Selection Inference in Humans Using Allele Frequency Time Series Data" is now out in GBE! doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... @genomebiolevol.bsky.social @cegamorim.bsky.social

🏺 As well as acting as an insightful review of ancient DNA as it relates to the Bell Beaker Phenomenon in 3rd Millennium BC Europe (particularly the variability and nuances), this also has some great straightforward explanations of analytical methods in aDNA. cris.unibo.it/handle/11585...

DNA extraction in the lab: The black blobs in this photo are DNA stuck to magnetic nanoparticles. The DNA is from a site in Britain dated to the earlier Neolithic (the period when farming was beginning). By putting an external magnet outside the tray we can then separate DNA from a solution.

📢 Announcing the Analytical research forum (ARF26)! Join us to explore cutting-edge analytical chemistry and its applications across the field. Find out more: rsc.li/arf2026 #ChemSky

It was such a privilege to get to work on this amazing material from an incredible site and team - now the earliest handheld wooden tools in the archaeological record, taking evidence back to 430,000 years! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Paintings at least 67 thousand years old in Indonesia www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Enjoyed the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk exhibition 'Treasured', featuring many rare manuscripts, including Herculaeum scrolls and the libraries copy of Magna Carta. Worth visiting if you are in the area. Closes 1st February. visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/treasured

Walks into the Oxford laboratory under this inscription which reads "Chemistry offers eternal hope" .... that the equipment doesn't break and that the samples produce data

Interesting pre-print: Global patterns of natural selection inferred using ancient DNA www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

“These fossils offer clues about the last common ancestor shared with Neanderthals and Denisovans” Early hominins from Morocco basal to the Homo sapiens lineage @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our paper on the first ancient Human betaherpesvirus 6 A/B (HHV-6) genomes is published in Science Advances! 🥳 In collaboration with @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social @lucyvandorp.bsky.social @lehtisaag.bsky.social @ktambets.bsky.social & other amazing researchers! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This headline is wrong and misleading, and the brief text below it is not much better. Whatever might constitute a full explanation of the differences between sapiens and other hominins, we remain confident that 'genes' will be central to it. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I’m writing up this year’s top discoveries from ancient DNA and it reminded me to circulate a link to last year’s top 10 list. Some amazing stuff there and remarkable how fast this field moves! www.johnhawks.net/p/top-10-dis...

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

Escaping the laboratory by climbing to the top of one of Bordeaux's bell towers. Constructed in 1440 by the founder of Bordeaux University, Pey Berland.

Did Neandertals choose their prey when practicing cannibalism?🍖 Check out our new study, just published in Scientific Reports - @natureportfolio.nature.com! We provide the strongest evidence to date for a highly selective cannibalism at the end of Neandertal lineage, 41-45.000 years ago. 1/7

🦴🧬🦴🧬🦴 Abstract submission is now open for the 1st International Conference on Palaeogenomics! June 23–26 2026, in Stockholm. Join researchers from across the field for 4 days and >100 talks (+ poster sessions)! Submit abstracts here 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/abstracts/ Deadline: Nov 30th

Amazing presentations at the meeting on Ancient Genomes: perspectives on human biology and medicine at the Royal Society today

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Our research, published today in Science, reveals remarkable concordance between human and dog genomes through time, highlighting how deeply intertwined our evolutionary histories have been over the past 11,000 years. 🔗 Read the full paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Currently writing up the results of new radiocarbon dating from this amazing Neolithic monument, Le Déhus, on the Channel Islands. With thanks to @isotopesuk.bsky.social and @oxradiocarbon.bsky.social for funding radiocarbon dating.

is back at one of my favourite places in the whole world, The Oxford University Museum of Natural History @morethanadodo.bsky.social

Is all alone early a very quiet radiocarbon lab, freeze drying things..hey, who put the sign in the pie oven...no Frey Bentos in here

Interesting new paper on radiocarbon dating methods: Application of microsublimation for sample purification in compound-specific radiocarbon analysis. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... Probably posted a preprint version of this before but good to see some formal testing of different hypotheses of descent/residence in prehistoric cemeteries of Europe, rather than just eyeballing the trends.

At the Treasure exhibition, Museum of Liverpool

Optimizing ancient DNA recovery from archaeological plant seeds www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A new high-coverage #Denisovan genome, chock-full of fascinating new information. Must-read study by @stephanepeyregne.bsky.social @janetk.bsky.social and colleagues On @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social: 🧪🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hand bones from a human relative, found in Kenya, reveal features similar to those of living gorillas, complicating the evolutionary history of hand and tool manipulation go.nature.com/4nQn3ff

👋 Hello, Bluesky! We’re Radiocarbon, an international peer-reviewed journal (since 1959) dedicated to advancing radiocarbon research, from calibration and chronology to applications across archaeology, geology, environmental science, and more. We’re glad to be here. #Radiocarbon #Geochronology

🚨SAVE THE DATE for two 14C conferences happening in Santiago, Chile 🇨🇱, next year: 4th 14C & Diet: 6-8 July 3rd Latin American 14C: 8-10 July Plus, the 11th 14C & Archaeology will be in Brazil just before on 30 June-3 July 🇧🇷 Details for 🇨🇱 below👇 Please share widely! @fransantanas.bsky.social

Useful new paper on use of isotopes in biomolecular archaeology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Has just emerged from below ground in central Bordeaux looking at some beautifully carved 4th-6th century sarcophagi

Made it from Oxford to Bordeaux... just before the transport chaos started here in France

Busy in the labs working on isotope samples to link these to our palaeogenomic data. Better linking these datasets will help us directly study changes in population diet, mobility and genomics over time.

Your project can create positive change – by helping the environment, your project can also support your own growth and success. Make your ideal project a reality and share sustainable research practices with your community. Find out more: rsc.li/sustainable-labs-grant

Nice piece by @mathiesoniain.bsky.social on polygenic prediction of human complex traits using ancient DNA (h/t @evobioclio.bsky.social ) 🧪🧬 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Disagree with this paper, it is too early to tell...very many sites have not been sampled, or had data published yet... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Attending #ESEB2025 has been an amazing experience! If you are interested in more ancient DNA and museomics, please consider joining us in Stockholm for the first International Conference on Palaeogenomics (June 23-26 2026)! Follow @palaeogenomics.bsky.social 👉icp2026.palaeogenomics.org

Escaped the DNA lab for a day to climb Europe's largest sand dune

Two useful new reviews on ancestry inference in population genetics: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

We have an exciting line-up of speakers already confirmed for our Ancient Genomes meeting in November. If you want to be one of the speakers or present a poster, submit your abstract by 31 July! genetics.org.uk/events/ancie...

Cool....Optimized in-solution enrichment of over a million ancient human SNPs. doi.org/10.1186/s130...

Bastille Day in Bordeaux...

Details of our new research project are now online: thanks to the the European Commission for funding. Based at @pacea.bsky.social partnered with @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1...