Reminder: two weeks are left to apply for the PhD and postdoc positions in my lab. See more info here www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/career/jo...

Another fun excavation year of #Mousterian contexts at Saint-Cesaire with great colleagues and friends ✨️🤗 @hrougier.bsky.social Thanks to the Ministère de la culture, @charente-maritime.bsky.social , @univbordeaux.bsky.social, Paléosite,... #archaeology #prehistory #neandertal

Super happy to share that I closed the loop and returned where my journey started.. This time as a faculty at METU Informatics Institute. Thanks so much to everyone who supported my journey so far! Looking forward to continue our collaborations & starting new ones 💪🤩

Copenhagen job alert 🚨 GLOBE (@ucph.bsky.social) is hiring a 21-mo Postdoc in #Bioinformatics & #ComputationalProteomics Work with @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social, @fridowelker.bsky.social, @brandtgroup.bsky.social & more mapping collagen/keratin diversity across 1000s of genomes. 📅 Deadline Aug 31

Postdoc of Bioinformatics and Computational Proteomics

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🐘 check out our newest paper from Liang Bua! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Did H. floresiensis hunt Stegodon? 🔪 Did they also had control use of fire? 🔥 We tested these early claims of complex behavior using taphonomy, experimental archaeology, and zooarchaeology of the Stegodon assemblage.

Happy to share our new paper titled "Ancient DNA reveals elite dynastic rule among Iron Age Eurasian Steppe nomads" in Science Advances! A huge thank you to all of our coauthors and collaborators whose expertise and teamwork made this study possible! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ancient DNA reveals elite dynastic rule among Iron Age Eurasian Steppe nomads

Elite Scythians formed exclusive kin networks across cemeteries, revealing hereditary rule among Iron Age Central Eurasian nomads.

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Have ideas for your own, independent research program in Theoretical Biology? Then come and join us as a Group Leader at the @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social in Plön, Germany!

Group Leader in Theoretical Biology (m/f/d)

Experience in Theoretical Biology, Applied Mathematics, Theoretical Physics

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📣 I'm hiring! Two positions (PhD student & Postdoc) in my ERC project Macroevolution of European Literature. Let's study the cultural evolution of literature using massive data 📚📈 📍Frankfurt | Apply by August 15 Details: www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/career/jo... Please repost to help spread the word!

All talks are now available including mine: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZmF... Luckily the video became online on the same day as the paper I talked about at the end of my talk "confidentially" 😅

Du Paléolithique moyen au Paléolithique supérieur... (4) - Jean-Jacques Hublin (2025-2026)

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Collège de France@college-de-france.fr · last mo.

#Science #Paléoanthropologie 💀 « Sapiens remplace Néandertal » 🖥️ Les vidéos du colloque organisé par le  Pr Jean-Jacques Hublin, titulaire de la chaire Paléoanthropologie, sont disponibles. 👉 https://tinyurl.com/4pkf3nty

A new paper on late Neandertal genetic diversity - A must-read! 👏🍾 Congratulations to our amazing paleogeneticist colleagues! Great to see so much data from Belgian sites, made possible in part through our bone-sorting endeavours with @hrougier.bsky.social 🦴🤓🤩 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Genetic diversity of late Neanderthals in northwestern Europe - Nature

Genetic sequencing of multiple late Neanderthals living less than 52,500 years ago provides an overview of genetic diversity and demonstrates that even low-coverage nuclear genome data can increase re...

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Mateja Hajdinjak@matejahajdi.bsky.social · last mo.

This study would absolutely *not be possible* without the hard work of many wonderful people we were incredibly lucky to work with. @hrougier.bsky.social, @isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social, Patrick Semal, Grégory Abrams, @thibaut-d.bsky.social, Stéphane Pirson, Kévin Di Modica, Pierre Cattelain,

Our late Neandertal paper is officially out! 💀❤️🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41... It was years in the making, a tremendous feat spearheaded by our PhD student Alba Bossoms Mesa and co-led by @janetk.bsky.social and @benmpeter.bsky.social

So happy and proud to see this paper out in @natcomms.nature.com today! We show that traces of human DNA can persist on cave walls for thousands of years. Absolutely fantastic work by the wonderful Alba Bossoms Mesa at @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social and a great team! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Investigating ancient human DNA preservation on cave walls and in rock art - Nature Communications

Ancient DNA can be preserved on materials from archaeological floor deposits such as bones, sediments and artifacts. Here, the authors investigate whether Palaeolithic wall art can preserve human DNA ...

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I am recruiting a PhD student (fully funded, 4yrs) to analyze modern 🧬 and ancient 🦴 genomic data from humans and domestic animals 🐑 Please share, I am happy to chat at #ICP2026 or #SMBE2026 this summer www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

🧪Heading to shorturl.at/Uaq0d at the Collège de France. Members of the extended @pacea.bsky.social family in the program, N.Zwyns, T.Tsanova, J.Henrion @mariesoressi.bsky.social I’ll speak about beads and networks during the Mid/UP transition @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

Du Paléolithique moyen au Paléolithique supérieur : la transition en question | Collège de France

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This exciting symposium will take place next Tuesday, come join us if you are in Paris :)

Collège de France@college-de-france.fr · 2mo ago

#Science #Paléoanthropologie 💀 « Sapiens remplace Néandertal » 📌 Colloque du Pr Jean-Jacques Hublin, titulaire de la chaire Paléoanthropologie.  ⏰ Mardi 16 juin 2026 👉 https://tinyurl.com/4pkf3nty

We’re looking for a MSc student based in Zurich (UZH or ETH) to join a computational project at the intersection of human population genetics and linguistics. #UZH #ETH #Genomics #Linguistics #Switzerland @nccrlanguage.bsky.social @lifesciencezurich.bsky.social

Are you screening your ancient DNA study for chromosomal aneuploidies? Or looking for a new way to call genetic sex? Regardless of sequencing data type? Our Bayesian method (implemented in R as RChASM) has now been published in Bioinformatics: doi.org/10.1093/bioi...

My group at the MPI for Empirical Aesthetics now has a name: Cultural Evolution of the Arts! You can read a bit more about the idea behind the group at the group's web page: www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/research/... And here's the obligatory door nameplate :)

Registration and abstract submission are open for #ESHE2026 in Burgos (16–20 Sept)! 🗓 Abstract deadline: 8 May 2026 (11:59 PM PDT) If you're planning to submit, consider registering and paying ahead of the deadline to avoid last-minute technical issues. More info: www.eshe.eu/meetings/

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European Society for the study of Human Evolution

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🏺Broad, enticing discussion of recent archaeogenetics papers that have found evidence for matrlineal organisation of cemeteries at various times/places in the past, including Iron Age Britain, in some cases implying matrilocal residence patterns. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Our institute @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social starting a new Masters program with the University of Leipzig. If you are a bachelors student graduating soon, and would like to get involved with our research during you MSc, consider applying :) www.uni-leipzig.de/en/studying/...

How did catastrophic black death and myxomatosis outbreaks on an isolated island affect the genomes of humans & rabbits, respectively? And how did the microbes evolve in response to this? PhD position @cpgsthlm.bsky.social with Anders Götherström and me as supervisors! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

🧪🦣 🧬 New #Neanderthal genome just dropped! Denisova cave male, c. 120 Ka, some Denisovan ancestry, and living in very small effective breeding population <50. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Two new studies of Neanderthal DNA from @massilanilab.bsky.social, @hrougier.bsky.social, @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social and others show our ancient cousins survived for millennia in small, geographically isolated groups. www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org 🧬🏺

Neanderthals survived on a knife’s edge for 350,000 years

A pair of studies illuminates these humans’ long, hardscrabble existence

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Excited to share our new preprint on time-lagged F2-statistics, which informs about migration rates from ancient DNA data. Find a preprint here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.12.710875v1 The work was driven by Giulio Isacchini and Oskar Hallatschek. Proud to be part of it! […]

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Principal Researcher in Human Evolution:South Kensington

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Yay! This week I started working at the MPI for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt as a group leader. Lots of work ahead, but super exciting kind of work 🔥

🚩 #joboffer two-year #postdoctoral position available at @pacea.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social “Biology and #taphonomy of human #fossils from the Late #Paleolithic and #Mesolithic periods in southwestern France.” contact: Bruno Maureille

The @scilifelab.se Ancient DNA Unit is recruiting a (permanent) Research Engineer for planning user projects and generating #aDNA 🧬 data: Application deadline: March 25th 🧪🏺 www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Have you ever wondered how many archaic populations contributed DNA to modern humans? We know about Neanderthals and Denisovans, but the fossil and genetic evidence suggests a much more complex history! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...