Hello #ESHG2026! I'll be at my poster 𝗣𝟭𝟵.𝟬𝟮𝟭.𝗖 from 12:45 to 13:45, come if you wanna know more! 🇨🇿 🧬 #populationgenetics @eshg.bsky.social

Need metadata for published ancient animal genomes? The metAaRCive project has recently made its first public release, containing metadata for 1518 published genomes across a range of species, curated by members of @aarc-community.bsky.social Find the release here: github.com/AaRC-Animal-...

Release v26.05.08 · AaRC-Animal-aDNA-Research-Community/metAaRCive

This is the first release of metAaRCive, containing 1518 complete entries. metAaRCive: Overview metAaRCive is a resource of metadata for published ancient animal genomes, curated by members of AaRC...

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Would you like to learn about a wide range of #palaeoproteomics bioinformatic analyses from members of the PAASTA community? 🍝 Completely free, virtual, and open to all interested? Sign up at the link below ⬇️

PAASTA Community@paastacommunity.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Applications are now open for the PAASTA Bioinformatics Summer School 💻 Lessons will cover theory and practical exercises on a variety of palaeoproteomic analyses, including ZooMS, amelogenin sex estimation and shotgun proteomics. Deadline: 1 June 2026 Registration form: forms.gle/pqmecUpD7Xay...

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...

🦟 Out and on a shiny new cover of Science Advances: we use a novel approach to study malaria impact on early human groups - malaria wasn't just a threat, it shaped human habitat choice in sub-Saharan Africa in the past 74,000 years. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Eleanor Scerri@elliescerri.bsky.social · 4mo ago

1/5 Well over three years of work and I’m thrilled to see it out today in Science Advances: the cover feature no less! Using an innovative pipeline, we show that malaria shaped the spatial organization of human groups in sub-Saharan Africa over the last 74,000 years. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

1/7 Our papers may seem to address different themes, but they coalesce around the deep human past as a process of niche expansion and feedbacks, into the transition to human dominated landscapes. A starting point was the pan-African structured theory of human origins: www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Did Our Species Evolve in Subdivided Populations across Africa, and Why Does It Matter?

We challenge the view that our species, Homo sapiens, evolved within a single population and/or region of Africa. The chronology and physical diversity of Pleistocene human fossils suggest that morpho...

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We (with @gatag.bsky.social) are happy to share our discussion, where we explore three cases of matrilocality and genetic matriline connections identified with ancient DNA. You can find the open access paper published in evolutionary human sciences: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Exploring matrilocality in history: insights from ancient DNA | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

Exploring matrilocality in history: insights from ancient DNA - Volume 8

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🚨 Interested in joining our board of trustees?🚨 4 trustees position will soon be vacated and we are seeking expression of interest! You can fill this form by the 30th of April: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Any question? Contact us at secretary@isbarch.org

ISBA Trustee Expressions of Interest

This form is to record initial expressions of interest to become a trustee of the International Society for Biomolecular Archaeology. You must be an ISBA member to become a trustee. The deadline for ...

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Being part of the ARTEMIS program last year was an amazing experience. If you are a scientist in a MPI, check out the new call! www.mpg.de/26122924/art... I am also very happy to see that the Bridging Minds Program will continue :) @maxplanck.de

When someone believes in you

How the ARTEMIS mentoring programme connects African students and doctoral researchers with scientists of the Max Planck Society — and why mentoring means more than just offering professional advice

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Delighted to see our paper characterising the inbreeding history of dogs and wolves over the past 10,000 years published this week in @pnas.org. Work led by the excellent @katiabou.bsky.social, and co-supervised by me, Laurent Frantz and Fernando Racimo www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Despite my insomnia, I'm very happy to share our preprint: a multi-disciplinary assessment of a sheep mass mortality event from ~18th century France. We report the first ancient sheeppox virus (think smallpox) and the Taenia hydatigena (nasty roundworm) genomes. #aDNA

Evidence of sheeppox in 17th-19th century France: a multi-disciplinary investigation of a sheep mass mortality assemblage

Epizootic outbreaks posed major threats to food security, economic stability, and animal welfare in past communities. While these events and their impacts are well documented in historical records, ve...

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And on Tuesday Nov. 11 5pm EST at Harvard and online: Ancient DNA illuminates the Origins and Early Migrations of the Slavs sohp.fas.harvard.edu/event/ancien... Joscha Gretzinger @zhofmanova.bsky.social @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social

How the #Slavic #migration reshaped Central & Eastern #Europe. Ancient #DNA provides new insights into early medieval communities. Study @nature.com by an intl. team led by Joscha Gretzinger, @zhofmanova.bsky.social & Johannes Krause. #HistoGenes More: tinyurl.com/msuys4mu & doi.org/10.1038/s415...

How the Slavic migration reshaped Central and Eastern Europe

Genetic analyses of medieval human remains reveal large-scale migrations, regional diversity, and new insights into early medieval communities

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A study led by @zhofmanova.bsky.social @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social used ancient DNA to investigate the spread of Slavic language and culture 1,500 years ago. “This wasn’t a migration of elites, or a few male warriors,” 1 co-author says. “This was the migration of an entire population.” @science.org

Ancient skeletons’ genes reveal origin of the Slavic people

DNA connects modern Slavs to a wave of migration following the fall of the Roman Empire

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🚨 Excited to share our new paper! 🧬 #aDNA from Sint-Truiden (BE) reveals 1,000 years of change from diverse medieval roots including Scottish and Irish ancestry to modern Limburg-like genetics. 🧫 Yersinia pestis found in 5 of 58 XIV-century burials. #AcademicSky link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Urbanization and genetic homogenization in the medieval Low Countries revealed through a ten-century paleogenomic study of the city of Sint-Truiden - Genome Biology

Background Processes shaping the formation of the present-day population structure in highly urbanized Northern Europe are still poorly understood. Gaps remain in our understanding of when and how cur...

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Would your institution like to host ISBA12? We are inviting expressions of interest from ISBA members to host the next ISBA12 symposium in 2027. Please contact the ISBA board (board@isbarch.org) for application requirements. Applications are due by the 25th May 2025.

Come join us for this funded PhD opportunity! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Our study analyzing the DNA of ~7ky-old Pastoralists from the "Green Sahara" is out! Who were these people, and how did herding spread into the region when the present-day desert was dotted with water bodies? 🧬🦴🏜️ (1/7) #PopGen #GreenSahara #aDNA www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ancient DNA from the Green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage - Nature

Pastoralism spread through cultural diffusion into the Green Sahara, where an isolated, distinct North African ancestry persisted.

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*** IMPORTANT INFORMATION *** To all members of the EAA and friends, please be aware of important information regarding our next annual meeting #EAA2025. An email has also been sent to members, but you can find details attached.

🎓 PhD Position Available in the Population and Evolutionary Genetics group at Trinity College Dublin ☘️ . More details👇

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Ancient DNA)- University of York - Department of #Archaeology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML043/p...

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Ancient DNA) at University of York

An opportunity for an academic position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate (Ancient DNA) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

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Happy to see that Max Planck institute for Evolutionary Anthropology is on @bsky.app as well! @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social welcome! Also great that the weather slowly starts to allow lunch outside by the pond at the institute ;)

We have a 4-year PhD-student opening in our lab, deadline on Wednesday noon. For anyone interested in computational genomics of ancient human, pathogen, or canid genomes. www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud... If you are curious, send in an application!

Our scientific committee is busy evaluating your abstracts. In the mean time, registration for ISBA11 is now open! For the special early bird discount, make sure to register by April 30, 2025! www.isba11.com/registration @isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social

🎶 📣 - Our #HAAMsummerschool is happening again! 📅 - Application open: 17th of March 🧑‍💻 Keep your eyes and ears open for coming updates! 🔗 - haam-community.github.io/projects/haa... #aDNA #PopGen #summerschool

At #Woodstockbio2025 #selforganization is key. If you plan to do something special at the #YMCAcampsite, go for a talk & work the #advertisement of the #event into your ~5 minutes of fame in #Prague - after the #walkupsong #TheConferenceToEndAllConferences (what a hashtag🤷🏻‍♂️) woodstock.img.cas.cz

Science delivers! Time & time again scientists make unexpected & important discoveries when following their curiousity! That's why we're organizing Woodstock Night Science, a reimagined conference to inspire us to new ideas. June 10-13 woodstock.img.cas.cz Join us! #TheConferenceToEndAllConferences

What defines ethnicity: culture or genetics?🧬 ERC Grantees found that two Avar cemeteries had nearly identical artifacts but distinct DNA—proving culture and genetics don’t always align!📜 👉 buff.ly/3Dbkbrr #FrontierResearch @maxplanck.de Eötvös Loránd University Austrian Academy of Sciences IAS

Why we do what we do in ERC Syg HistoGenes where I am coordinating archaeogenetic analyses. Even when it is long over, I will always be grateful to have been a part of this project. What a privilege to work with the HistoGenes team, I've learned so much.. buff.ly/3Dbkbrr

Decoding Europe’s genetic puzzle

Questions of belonging and ethnicity have shaped humanity for centuries. With an ERC Synergy Grant, Walter Pohl and three co-grantees explore the complex links between biological, ethnic, and cultural...

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European Research Council (ERC)@erc.europa.eu · last yr.

🔎Ever wondered where the people of Europe came from? ERC grantees are investigating the migration history of Eastern Europe in the early Middle Ages. 👉 buff.ly/3Dbkbrr #FrontierResearch #Migration #CulturalHeritage