So proud to see our new paper out in PNAS spearheaded by @emilypigott.bsky.social She found a tiny 46,000 yr old Neanderthal bone at Starosele (Crimea). DNA work revealed long-distance connections across Eurasia, supported by stone tool evidence @heasvienna.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New paper on a late Neanderthal, with contribution from the lab: dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

If you like genomics, speciation, and primates, this PhD position is for you! Unraveling the genomic architecture of speciation and gene flow in guenons, a diverse group of African monkeys. Funding through DTP. Do reach out with questions! #genomics #genome_assembly evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...

Monty Python understood p-hacking

In a new paper led by Jiaqi Yang we trace the distribution of Denisovan introgressed DNA in ancient modern human genomes over time. www.cell.com/current-biol...

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...

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

We have a few remaining seats left in the “Programming for Evolutionary Biologists” course - 10th edition, Berlin, Feb 17 to Mar 6 evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de A highly motivated and experienced team is waiting for you with an updated curriculum!

Jane Goodall was my first childhood hero, as I loved animals as a kid and was inspired by her story. I still remember the National Geographic specials about her. RIP.

A big reason it's challenging to work out relationships of early hominins: We know today that the populations of living great apes like gorillas and bonobos have deep ancestry from diverged “ghost” lineages. Our ancestors were surely the same. www.johnhawks.net/p/genetic-hi...

CRISPR is amazing

Open postdoc position in in my lab in Berlin @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de. Join us to push the frontier in ancient microbial genomics. Please apply until Oct 17th. Reach out in case you have any questions. www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/2193291/job_...

"Come see me in my office"

Are you interested in doing a PhD in Copenhagen? Interested in studying Neanderthals and Denisovans which live on in our genomes? Than you are more than welcome to apply to join my group starting Jan 2026 :) candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI... Please reach out if you have any questions!

If you like generating genomic data from unusual medical samples, past and contemporary epidemiology and advancing methods in phylo/population genetics please get in touch. Group website: www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucbpvan/ Closing date Sept 25th 2025. #aDNA #microbialgenomics #ISBA #popgen #UCL

A very special paper where we did something NEW! 🔥combining a large genetic dataset 🧬, a large linguistic dataset 💬, and Bayesian multilevel logistic regressions 📈, counting the effects of areal contact (geographic constrains) 🌎. Genetic admixture explains higher levels of linguistic exchanges...

Happy to welcome a group of attendees from the Europe Korea Conference on Science and Technology on Campus this week. Thank you for your interest in Vienna BioCenter and the research conducted here! #viennabiocenter @imbavienna.bsky.social @lifesciencesunivie.bsky.social

Apply for the AITHYRA-CeMM International PhD Program! 15-20 fully funded PhD fellowships available in Vienna, AT in AI/ML and Life Sciences Deadline for applications: 10 September 2025 apply.cemm.at

How to get introgressed fragments in genomic data? Everything you always wanted to know you find in our review in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social, led by Xin Huang: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

"Decoding Genomic Landscapes of Introgression" by Martin Kuhlwilm (@kuhlwilm.bsky.social) & co "The detection of introgressed loci has evolved into a diverse methodological field encompassing summary statistics, probabilistic modeling, and supervised learning." authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Pending editorial decision

We were part of another viral aRNA study that was just published. In this work spearheaded by Christian Urban in the lab of Verena Schuenemann, a new protocol was assessed (good for short fragments) and a seventh 1918 flu genome was completely sequenced bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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

There is still time to register for this event taking place today at 11:00 CEST online and in-person at @univie.ac.at

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

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

🔬📜 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

Here a book chapter on Palaeogenomics (and language evolution)! with @cedricboeckx.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

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: 🧵⬇️

New Publication! New Article from #HEASVienna members #KatrinSchaefer and #SonjaWindhager et al. #HEASPublications www.heas.at/research/pub...

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

Delighted to share our new preprint, the outcome of many years of collaborative work with Giuseppe Testa’s group, both at the bench & in front of the computer, probing human brain evolution using organoids. We tried something cool, and learned a lot 🧪🧫🧠🧬 [follow 🧵] www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

SAI: Statistics to detect adaptive introgression - new manuscript on biorxiv: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

We just succeeded in formally linking a specific rodent species - the otherwise charming fire-footed rope squirrel - to the onset of a mpox outbreak in a primate species - sooty mangabeys. Here Kai’s report on the preprint we released yesterday 1/2

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/...

We are looking forward to welcoming #MehmetSomel to Vienna as part of the #HEASSeminar in #AncientGenomics next Monday the 17th March at 10:30 CET. Registration and information is on our website 🔗👇

Interested in applying for an MCSA? Get in touch! admixture.univie.ac.at?page_id=70

We are looking for a dedicated replacement to work as a technical assistant. www.helmholtz-hzi.de/karriere/job... If you are interested, please send us your complete application documents in accordance with the job advertisement. @helmholtz-hioh.bsky.social

Very happy that our new article was published today in AJHG @ajhgnews.bsky.social. Great collaboration with Cesar Fortes-Lima, Yoro Diallo, Vaclav Janousek, and Viktor Cerny. "Population history and admixture of the Fulani people from the Sahel" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This will be nice! Abstract submission still open!

With some delay... but some good news. The final version of our paper Local Genetic Adaptation to Habitat in Wild Chimpanzees is out in Science. Great PanAfrican (PanAf) collaboration led by PhD student (now Dr!) Harrison Ostridge. 🧪#PopGen #evobio www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

How we hunt viruses in the museum: scilog.fwf.ac.at/en/magazine/...

Building on work I did with Juan Moriano, and with @kuhlwilm.bsky.social, we zoom in on a single nucleotide variant, virtually fixed in contemporary human populations, which resides in an enhancer region active during early cortical development bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Letting the students decide the order of the co-first

We have a postdoc position in Human Population Genetics available at the Center for the Human Past. Closing date 31 Jan. Please circulate and apply! More info and application available here: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Neglected primates no more! 162 lemur genomes from 50 species in our latest paper: Ecological and anthropogenic effects on the genomic diversity of lemurs in Madagascar! 1 of 2 lemur evolution papers in Jan25 @natureecoevo.bsky.social 3 big takeaways below! rdcu.be/d4XWV @tmarquesbonet.bsky.social

Are you trying to recover Plasmodium from ancient teeth? Negative results? Here we show that a denser samplig could yield positive results. Great work of Aejandro and Michelle!! @heasvienna.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It is out! A story about how sedaDNA can help to reveal undocumented fauna presence and be used together with zooarcheology in the Pleistocene context! The preservation of sedaDNA in El Miron Cave is exceptional 😍🪨🐅 @heasvienna.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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New paper from the lab just out before New Years! Revisiting adaptive introgression at the HLA genes in Lithuanian genomes with machine learning doi.org/10.1016/j.me...