I've slowly been reformatting notes from my population and conservation genetics course at Montana State University into a web book—a rough draft is now live here: elinck.org/popgen_conge...

🧬 #Bioinformatics AEGIS #PostdocJobs in metagenomic pipelines & HPC: Ancient Environmental Genomics at @ucph.bsky.social to reconstruct ecosystems and develop climate-resilient crops. 🌍 Deadline: Jan 4, 2026. Mikkel Winther Pedersen ([email protected]) #AcademicJobs #aeDNA #ClimateChange

Exploring your family history this #NationalRootsDay? Ancient DNA can tell us a lot about family relationships in the past. DNA analysis of early medieval burials in England even found an individual with a grandparent from West Africa! 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Just want to point out that both the Guardian and the BBC used "man" in their coverage of this research today. If you want science news that doesn't employ anachronistically gendered language, be sure to read us at @livescience.com. 😘

Please welcome the HAAM steering committee for the period 2025-2026 🎊. We are looking forward to the following year!

we made a tool! ybyra is a lightweight, flexible Y-chromosome haplogroup caller. It is faster, easier to tune and more robust than other tools particularly for low-coverage or ancient DNA data. And it has lots of detailed output – including plots! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Last week we had a great meeting on "Ancient genomes: perspectives on human biology and medicine" at the @royalsociety.org and the @crick.ac.uk. It was an amazing set of talks and posters. Thanks to the @gensocuk.bsky.social, co-host @janetk.bsky.social and all participants for a great day!

Specifically, the calling of genotypes and thus the calculation of polygenic scores in the degraded DNA is not straight-forward, leading to questions about the reliability of high profile results (eg www.nature.com/articles/s41... ).

Putting aside the deeper issues of why this analysis was done and how it has been promoted, the choice to broadcast a tv show before releasing a preprint should make people skeptical of the results. How can one be sure of their scientific claims?

Join us for an extraordinary evening with Nobel Laureate Svante Pääbo! Prof Pääbo will present a FREE public talk titled “Of Neanderthals and Denisovans, and how they live on in many of us” at the @crick.ac.uk. Register here: genetics.org.uk/events/of-ne...

PhD-opening in our ancient genomics lab this year, apply below! We work on: 📜 Genetic history integrated with archaeology and history 📈 Natural selection and trait genetics 🐺 Evolutionary genomics of dogs and wolves 🦠 Ancient pathogen genomics 💀 Hominin evolution and ancient proteomics

If you work with #aDNA in or around London, you might be interested in joining us this Wednesday for a talk from @boothicus.bsky.social on integrating archaeology and ancient DNA, the first of this year's talk series organised by the London aDNA Network! Get in touch if you'd like to come along!

I have funding for a 2-year dry-lab postdoc to join our team @humanevouu.bsky.social 🧪 (Deadline Oct 21st) The project will utilize modern and #aDNA data from humans and sheep to study environmental adaptation (including method development and simulations). Please share! www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

What a week! 🎉 Big thanks to @isba11.bsky.social for hosting an incredible ISBA conference — so well organized and full of great science.

🚨JOB ALERT!🚨 Postdoc position at #CpgSthlm on Microtine Palaeogenomics! Join our deep-time genomics project, funded by @erc.europa.eu, and help us explore lemming and vole evolution using ancient DNA from fossils spanning the last 2.6 million years 🐭🦴🧬 Apply here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University* We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5 su.varbi.com/what:job/job...

@isba11.bsky.social Super happy and proud for @marialopopolo.bsky.social and @avanzich.bsky.social who got the prize to the best paper at #ISBA11 in Turin. Thanks to the jury for this honor!

Shameless promotion from #isba11 - I'll be hiring PhDs to start early 2026 (plus postdocs starting later), using #adna to study livestock and pathogen coevolution, particularly looking at inbreeding and immune gene evolution! Contact me at kevin[at]palaeome.org, full ad to come. Please share!

📣 #HAAMcommunity is looking for early career researchers working on human #aDNA & #popgen for the upcoming elections 🌎🌍🌏 Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or want to chat about this. Apply here (ignore the deadline in the form): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

💻🧬 The Swedish Museum of Natural History is seeking a bioinformatician. Permanent position, 70-80% of the time should be dedicated to supporting day-to-day activities and long-term research of research groups. 20-30% for their own research. Please share widely! arbetsformedlingen.se/platsbanken/...

📢 We're excited to launch our AaRCademy Workshop Series kicking off October 7th online! 🧬Our first session, "aDNA Data Processing", will be led by Nikolay Oskolkov from Lund University. 📅 Registration closes September 7th! Sign up via the QR code or link below. #aDNA @aarc-community.bsky.social

Board The AaRC at @isba11.bsky.social ! Very excited to have a great mix of speakers at the animal #adna community meeting If you'd like to join us 26th August for talks, a roundtable discussion and networking, a link is in the threads (ignore mention of abstract!) @aarc-community.bsky.social

The findings are detailed in two research articles, one on each grave, both available to read 🆓 Updown: doi.org/10.15184/aqy... Worth Matravers: doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 10/10 🧵 🏺 #Archaeology

The findings add a new dimension to understanding long-distance movement and demographic interaction involving Britain during the Early Middle Ages. They emphasise the cosmopolitan nature of early medieval England and point to a diverse population with far-flung connections 9/10

NEW West African ancestry in #medieval England? 🏺 #Archaeology DNA analysis of two unrelated individuals from two seventh-century-AD cemeteries uncovers the first evidence for genetic connections between Britain and Africa during the Early Middle Ages. #AntiquityThread 1/10 🧵 📷 Lilian Ladle

Also - come and get my job! Which I’m still partially doing, but someone needs to take up the slack/ allow me to send them to far flung locations to retrieve mysterious ancient samples. See the World*! *mainly Britain. crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

The @scilifelab.se ancient DNA unit is looking for an bioinformatician placed at Uppsala University. This is a great way to be part of diverse #aDNA research projects as a staff scientist with permanent (!!) employment: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

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!

Check out our recent review 'Power and Limitations of Inferring Genetic Ancestry'- what do we even mean by the term 'genetic ancestry' and what do commonly-used methods actually tell us?

Come check out my poster this afternoon! On the language we use to talk mobility in ancient DNA studies #SMBE2025

Huge thanks to @epifaniaarango.bsky.social and @cegamorim.bsky.social for organising the @smbe-idea.bsky.social symposium at #smbe2025, and all the participants for their thought provoking talks and discussion. Many interesting points raised! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

@haam-community.bsky.social represented by @mireniraorb.bsky.social at #SMBE2025 IDEA symposium: "Fostering collaboration, inclusivity, and sustainable research in Human #aDNA, Ancestry, and Mobility"

Mehmet Somel up next in the @smbe-idea.bsky.social symposium at #smbe2025 talking about the brain drain in science and helicopter research- the use of a helicopter index is genious!

Are you attending ISBA and work with animal aDNA? Sign up and join us at our ISBA networking event happening on Tuesday August 26th brought to you by @aarc-community.bsky.social @isbarchaeology.bsky.social. #adna

Excited about microbes, ancient DNA, methods and meeting other fellow researchers?? Join us in Turin!! 🔥 #aDNA #metagenomics #SPAAM7

See you in Turin :3 #HAAMcommunity #aDNA #conference #ISBA11

New preprint alert 🚨 The tiniest bone in the human body appears to have the best DNA preservation: "The mini yet mighty staples" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Currently translating Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (C) for reigns of Athelred & Cnut & see that Whitelock's seminal translation adds words 'Danes' & 'English' where they are not in original. It adds clarity between attackers & defenders but exaggerates ethno-nationalist opposition at risk of anachronism.

Exciting that the Bayeux Tapestry is coming to England! If you wanna know about it, here's a fun BBC You're Dead To Me episode we did about it, featuring expert historian @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social and fab comedian Lou Sanders www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Submit your flash talks! You’re still on time 🏃🏽‍♀️🧬

📣 Are you an early-career researcher working on human #aDNA or #popgen? Less than one week to register your interest to become part of HAAM steering committee in preparation for the public elections later this year. 🚨Deadline 15th July 2025🚨 Submit your details here: tinyurl.com/HAAMelections

🧬🧪🏺 Do you work on human #aDNA or #popgen? #HAAMcommunity is looking for new members for the steering committee. It's a great way to contribute to our field, network and lead exciting community projects. It's very rewarding and lots of fun! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

🚨 New paper! 🧬 We explore ancestry shifts, kinship ties & Mediterranean links at Mas d’en Boixos (Catalonia), from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. 👨🏻‍🔬A long journey since my master’s! Huge thanks to Cristina, Assumpció & @dnatimetravel.bsky.social! @acadresearch.bsky.social shorturl.at/B8TlB

If you are at #ISBA11, feel free to join us on August 26th for an AaRC in-person networking event, with short talks and round table discussion. Use the following link if you would like to attend and/or present: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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

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...

See our Adeline Morez Jacobs et al. study here: doi.org/10.1038/s415... and a more concise Research Briefing here: doi.org/10.1038/d415....

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.

We’re excited to share more about the 1st Annual HAAM Meeting — a hybrid pre-ISBA event! 📅 Aug 26 | 🏛️ Turin & 💻 online 🧬 HAAM updates 💼 Career panel w/ Lehti Saag, Monica Kelly, Éadaoin Harney & Zuzana Hofmanová ⚡ Flash talks — submit your abstract by July 11 (extended deadline‼️) 👉 shorturl.at/8LZsr

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/... 👇🏽