Public forum with leading scientists at #paleopathology2026. What can the past, through archaeological remains, tell us about the future?

I can only recommend publishing in GENETICS. A wonderful editorial experience, and a career highlight. #GENETICS #ancientDNA

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🌟 🔆 Postdoc researcher spotlight Meet our #postdoc authors who recently published their papers in #GENETICS and #G3journal 📖 Read more about their research interests and career trajectories 🧵 (1/5)

I had a great time chatting about all things ancient DNA, maths and networks on the @therandomsample.bsky.social The Random Sample podcast with Jonathan Tuke and Haripriya Sridharan. If you're interested, listen to the podcast wherever you normally do, or via this link: lnkd.in/gYXZQtB5

I want to contribute to science through peer review, and I regularly do. But having just received a request to review a very technical paper, from a reputable journal, but with a 10-day due date, I had to refuse. Nobody with a full-time job can properly review a paper in that time frame.

1/❓ Interested in mathematical modelling of behaviour with applications to infectious disease outbreaks or energy systems? #IDsky 🧪 📣 Registration now open for three events during Jul & Aug 2026 at the University of Nottingham. 🙏 Supported by the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

As a statistician, publishing in @significancemag.bsky.social is a career highlight, and I still got to write about ancient DNA. See our article on using network regression to explore relatedness and kinship in ancient cemeteries! doi.org/10.1093/jrss...

What three Austrian cemeteries reveal about medieval marriage and family

Abstract. Adam B. Rohrlach and Jonathan Tuke use ancient DNA and network regression to explore the cultural practices of our human past

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What does ancient DNA reveal about biological kinships? Read this exciting study in #GENETICS that used Exponential Random Graph models for correlates of relatedness, identifying evidence for female exogamy and the existence of an elite class in ancient Avar. buff.ly/aSPLOTg @brohrlach.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...

Are you interested in doing a PhD in ancient human genetics, focusing on the Y and MT haplogroups of Finland? Working with Dr Ronan O'Sullivan, Prof. Päivi Onkamo and me, which is a team I'm looking forward to working in. Based in Turku, Finland. ats.talentadore.com/apply/doctor...

Doctoral researcher/project researcher in archaeogenomics

The Faculty of Science at the University of Turku, Department of Biology, invites applications for a contract-based, fixed term doctoral researcher/project researcher position in archaeogenomics. The ...

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I cannot wait to vote out any Australian politician who gets us involved in helping the US in this war. No big speech. I just hope other Australians will agree. @albomp.bsky.social

Want to check your ancient DNA study for chromosomal aneuploidies? RChASM is now available for R, to screen for autosomal and sex chromosomal aneuploidies, such as Down syndrome on data from 0.0014X coverage. We also wrote a step-by-step tutorial with examples: jonotuke.github.io/RChASM/artic...

Excited to share our study in GENETICS on exploring biological kinship in ancient DNA data sets (doi.org/10.1093/gene...). Using ERGMs to find variables that correlate with relatedness, and applied to 6th-9th century Avar, we find evidence for female exogamy and the existence of an elite class.

Detecting and Quantifying Networks of Biological Kinship via Exponential Family Random Graph Models

Abstract. Genetic relatedness between ancient humans can help to identify close and distant connections between groups and populations, uncovering signatur

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📢 We're hiring a postdoc (33 months) in human evolutionary genomics / paleogenomics / statistical genetics, Paris 🇫🇷 Project on selection on disease-associated variants, integrating ancient genomes, GWAS, and Ancestral Rec. Graphs. Start May 2026 (flexible). Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Check out a pre-proof of a really fun study that Denice Higgins and I had accepted in Forensic Science International. We showed that using just the pattern of absence/presence of teeth could be useful (or to support) forensic identification. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Evidentiary value of tooth presence/absence patterns for human identification

Human identification through comparison of dental records is a well-established and widely accepted forensic method, particularly valuable in mass cas…

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I had a great time contributing a new approach to estimating demography by considering the number of observed cases of Down and Edwards syndromes, compared to what might be expected. I also got to work with some friends/colleagues that I couldn't like or respect more. doi.org/10.59641/m3p...

A Social Archaeology of Kinship in Iberia and Beyond @ Sidestone Press

The study of kinship from archaeology has been fluctuating. At the end of the 20th century archaeologists were reluctant or skeptical about its relevance and viability. However, in recent decades it h...

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As I told the CNN, without details and data it is not possible to assess the claims. More importantly, the scientific value of this media campaign, balanced against the possible stigmatization of individuals with these real conditions today, is highly questionable. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/13/s...

Researchers say they have verified and sequenced Hitler’s DNA – and found a genetic disorder | CNN

Analysis of Adolf Hitler’s DNA reveals he may have had a rare genetic disorder that can delay puberty.

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Just catching Svante Pääbo, a Nobel laureate, give a talk. That's a cracking start to the day.

Wow, giving a talk at the Royal Society in London is such a thrill. I'm going to see so many amazing talks, and hopefully not take away from the overall quality with my own. Just an amazing place for science and history.

I cannot say this strongly enough, but to the scientific journals out there: please stop making AI assistants for reading papers the default.

🇵🇹Our paper on Portugal's genetic history is now published in Genome Biology. We present Portugal’s largest ancient genome collection, with deeper analyses than our pre-print, revealing migrations, admixture & continuity shorturl.at/TcErC @acadresearch.bsky.social @dnatimetravel.bsky.social

The genetic history of Portugal over the past 5,000 years - Genome Biology

Background Recent ancient DNA studies uncovering large-scale demographic events in Iberia have presented very limited data for Portugal, a country located at the westernmost edge of continental Eurasi...

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Our cross-cultural study on alcohol and its role in the rise of political complexity is finally published 🍻 🎉 (1/5) 🧪 #Alcohol #CulturalEvolution #CulturalComplexity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Did alcohol facilitate the evolution of complex societies? - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Did alcohol facilitate the evolution of complex societies?

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Our paper showing the power of exponential random graph models (ERGMs) to analyse IBD networks is out. ERGMs perform "network regression" to find variables which predict connectedness, and quantify their effect. A huge thanks to my co-authors! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Detecting and Quantifying Networks of Biological Kinship via Exponential Family Random Graph Models

Genetic relatedness between ancient humans can help to identify close and distant connections between groups and populations, uncovering signatures of demographic histories such as identifying mating ...

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🧬🧪🏺 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.

HAAM-community@haam-community.bsky.social · last yr.

📯 [Announcement]: Open call for new members of the steering committee. We're looking for ambitious people who are interested in shaping the future of the community and being actively involved in our projects. 📖 check our website: haam-community.github.io/news/2025/06... #aDNA #HAAMcommunity

To be clear, I don't support the US strikes at all. The intelligence FROM THE US categorically denied that Iran were even close to nukes, and US leaders are prolific liars of the laziest kind. This reeks of Iraq and their phantom weapons of mass destruction. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

Australia backs US strikes on Iran while urging return to diplomacy

Anthony Albanese says action to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon was acceptable, but that talks should now resume.

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The start of the Kiel Conference on Wealth and Inequality in the human past. Let's go.

Alte #DNA enthüllt Papua-Neuguineas genetische Vergangenheit. Neue Studie von einem intl. Team um Kathrin Nägele @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social zeigt die zentrale Bedeutung der regionalen Ausbreitung & lokalen Interaktionen an der Küste von #Papua-Neuguinea auf. #Genetik www.mpg.de/24827943/060...

Alte DNA enthüllt Papua-Neuguineas genetische Vergangenheit

Eine neue Studie zeigt die zentrale Bedeutung der regionalen Ausbreitung und lokalen Interaktionen an der Küste Papua-Neuguineas

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Ancient #DNA reveals #Papua New Guinea's genetic past. Study @natecoevo.nature.com by an intl. team led by Kathrin Nägele @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social shows the significance of regional dispersals & local interactions in coastal Papua New Guinea. tinyurl.com/2s3sc6ad & www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Papua New Guinea's Genetic Past Through Ancient DNA Analysis

A new study reveals the significance of regional dispersals and local interactions in coastal Papua New Guinea

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🥳 We're back with a new edition of our HAAM-radio webinar series! Come and be part of the development from a reporting scheme for aDNA samples & seqdata! #aDNA #workshop #humanDNA #sequencing

HAAM-community@haam-community.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 Our next HAAM-radio focuses on the development of a standardised and dedicated metadata reporting schemes for ancient DNA samples and sequencing data presented by MInAS! 📅 When: 19th of June via ZOOM 🧑‍💻 Check our website to register: haam-community.github.io/events/2025/... #aDNA #course #humanDNA

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