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/... 👇🏽

🧬🧪🏺 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.

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

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 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...

🧵12/n @eadaoinharney.bsky.social: a scientist on the Population Genetics R&D team at @23andMe. and a lecturer at @harvard.edu. Her work integrates allele frequency approaches & IBD analysis to study migration, admixture, & relatedness. She will give a lecture on how to interpret qpAdm & IBD results

🧵7/n @leospeidel.bsky.social: a group leader #RIKEN, based at @iTHEMS. He focuses on the development of methods for the inference of genealogies and their applications. Leo will be teaching theoretical and practical sessions on f-statistics

🧵5/n John Robb: prof of European Prehistory at the University of Cambridge and an editor @cambridgeup.bsky.social. His research includes archaeological & anthropological theory, with a focus on agency, material culture, gender & the body. He will guide a roundtable on archaeological interpretations

🧵13/n Originally from Portugal, Bárbara Sousa da Mota is a postdoctoral researcher in David Reich Lab @harvard.edu. For her PhD (University of Lausanne) she assessed how imputation tools can reliably be applied in the field of ancient human DNA. Bárbara will give a lecture on imputation.

🧵3/n @stschiff.bsky.social: group leader for population genetics at the @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social. His research group investigates human history by means of genetics & develops computational methods to model & analyse ancient and modern genomic data. He will teach an intro to population genetics

🧵8/n @jazminrm.bsky.social: an assistant professor at the Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics at the University of Copenhagen tracing the evolution of plant and animal species through domestication using palaeogenomics. She will be leading sessions on data curation & unsupervised analyses

🧵4/n @cjfrieman.bsky.social: an associate professor of European Archaeology at ANU and an editor at Current Anthropology. Her work explores innovation, resistance, feminist theory, ancient tech, the politics of archaeology and ethical challenges of aDNA. She will be guiding a roundtable on kinship