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Andy Walton

@andyjmwalton.bsky.social

PhD student at UCL Genetics Institute 🧬 | PopGen | History of Science | Ancient DNA | 🤿 🚴 ⛰️

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Andy Walton@andyjmwalton.bsky.social · 3w ago

Proud I got to play a small part in this project - do come along tomorrow to hear @lucyvandorp.bsky.social talk about what we’ve learn from sequencing Jeremy Bentham’s DNA.

UCL Faculty of Life Sciences@ucllifesciences.bsky.social · 2mo ago

UCL’s Lunch Hour Lectures are returning with a fascinating deep dive into ancient DNA. Dr @lucyvandorp.bsky.social will explain how genetic traces from mummies, museum objects and even Bentham’s auto‑icon are reshaping our understanding of human history and disease. www.ucl.ac.uk/events/event...

Selina Brace@selinabrace.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🧬SedaDNA Postdoc position💥 2 years Starts 2026, apply by 1st March. Join Aleks Pluskowski at Reading & me at NHM. jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Ancient Environmental DNA:Whiteknights Reading UK

We are seeking a highly motivated Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to join our research team at Reading, focusing on sedimentary DNA (sedaDNA / environmental DNA) from soils and sediments from the project’s case study regions in Spain and North Africa. You will contribute to the reconstruction of past landscapes and human-environment interactions through the analysis of sedimentary DNA. This includes analysing samples from terraces, irrigated fields and archaeological sites, and using eDNA metagenomics and metabarcoding approaches for multi-species detection, with the aim of characterising changing plant and animal species diversity and richness over time. The position will involve fieldwork, laboratory work, data analysis, and collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists, palaeoecologists and historians.

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra@jrossibarra.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!

Davis Summer Population Genomics Program

Want to learn population genetics? Please fill out this form to indicate your potential interest in a 2-week intensive online summer population genetics course taught by Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra and Graham...

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Tom Booth@boothicus.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🏺Stellar work by @andyjmwalton.bsky.social and colleagues. Previous craniometric analysis of the Beachy Head Woman, a Roman burial from near Eastbourne Sussex, had suggested she had ancestry from Africa. Ancient DNA analysis finds no evidence for this... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Beachy Head Woman: clarifying her origins using a multiproxy anthropological and biomolecular approach

The skeletal remains of an individual colloquially referred to as Beachy Head Woman (BHW) were re-discovered in the Eastbourne Town Hall collection in…

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Andy Walton@andyjmwalton.bsky.social · last yr.

Really excited to share the first paper from my PhD - it’s all about assumptions in modelling and the history of early population genetics… 🧵 doi.org/10.1111/ahg....

The History of the Panmictic Population Concept and Its Legacy in Contemporary Population Genetics

ABSTRACT The panmictic population concept is at the heart of population, evolutionary and conservation genetics. However, in nature, true panmictic populations are vanishingly rare. As an idea conce...

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Adam Rutherford@adamrutherford.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 New paper klaxon! 🚨 The History of the Panmictic Population Concept and Its Legacy in Contemporary Population Genetics Quite niche admittedly, one for the historians of evolutionary thought, and population geneticists. doi.org/10.1111/ahg....

The History of the Panmictic Population Concept and Its Legacy in Contemporary Population Genetics

ABSTRACT The panmictic population concept is at the heart of population, evolutionary and conservation genetics. However, in nature, true panmictic populations are vanishingly rare. As an idea conce...

doi.org