Really excited to share our new paper on the Early Iron Age mass grave at Gomolava (9th c. BCE), a study I had the pleasure to work on during my PhD with an amazing group of co-authors across multiple disciplines. Open access link: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇

A large mass grave from the Early Iron Age indicates selective violence towards women and children in the Carpathian Basin - Nature Human Behaviour

In this analysis of biomolecular and archaeological data from a ninth-century BCE mass grave in the Carpathian Basin, Fibiger et al. find evidence for the targeted killing of mostly unrelated women an...

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🦠🧬 A study published in @science.org today by SIB and other scientists used a new combination of bioinformatics methods to show that treponemal diseases were circulating far earlier in the Americas, and were more diverse, than previously known. See more👇 @davidebozzi.bsky.social

5,500-year-old genome discovered for syphilis-related bacterium

A bacterial genome found in the remains of an ancient hunter-gatherer shows that treponemal diseases were circulating far earlier in the Americas, and were more diverse, than previously known. Pu...

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Treponemal diseases might have been with us much longer than previously thought! In our recent study, we used ancient DNA to reconstruct a 5,500-year-old 𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘥𝘶𝘮 genome, revealing a previously unknown divergent subspecies. You can check it out here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A 5500-year-old Treponema pallidum genome from Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia

Treponematosis, a bacterial infection caused by Treponema pallidum subspecies and T. carateum (yaws, bejel, syphilis, pinta), has afflicted humans for millennia. Despite paleopathological evidence and...

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I am starting a computational lab at LIOS, Riga, Latvia, and going to recruit a few people. Please DM if you are interested in a postdoc or PhD position in my Metabolic Research Group within the TARGETWISE project. I can highly recommend Riga, it is a beautiful city with very good living conditions.