I’m looking to hire an NIH funded postdoc to join our lab here at Davis (please RT). Ongoing areas of interest include: 1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc 2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding

Diachronic reuse of Neolithic burial monuments by Bronze Age newcomers in Southwestern Britain by @nikolavukovic.bsky.social et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Diachronic reuse of Neolithic burial monuments by Bronze Age newcomers in Southwestern Britain - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Diachronic reuse of Neolithic burial monuments by Bronze Age newcomers in Southwestern Britain

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Another opportunity to join us in Tübingen! 😍

HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence@humanorigins.bsky.social · 3w ago

Yet ANOTHER great opportunity at our cluster HUMAN ORIGINS: ❗️ We‘re looking for a Independent Junior Research Group Leader in the field of hominin postcranial evolution ❗️ Apply here till October 15th: uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit... #Paleosky

🧪🏺🦣 Cool new work using ZooMS on bone assemblages from one of my favourite #Neanderthal sites, Les Pradelles. More hominin remains (MNI = 8), no new processing marks except fresh fracturing, but faunal comparison supports impression of diff taph/treatment. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Integrating ZooMS and taphonomy further highlights differential processing of animal and Neandertal carcasses in the Quina Mousterian at Les Pradelles (Marillac‐le‐Franc, southwest France)

The cave of Les Pradelles (Marillac-le-Franc, France) was repeatedly visited by Neandertals ~55 000 years ago and is a key site in discussions of Neandertal cannibalism. Excavations between 1967 and ...

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Our new study with @benmpeter.bsky.social is now on biorxiv! Here we present a new computational tool which makes it possible to conduct population genetic analyses from very contaminated and very low quality archaic human genomes. (1/7)

bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 4w ago

A Method to Analyze Low-Quality Archaic Human Genomes and its Application to the Teshik-Tash 1 Neandertal https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.10.743885v1

We have a new preprint out :D www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Did Denisovans inherit their AMBN gene from Homo erectus? We have released a short preprint trying to answer this question! @lauritsskov.bsky.social @fridowelker.bsky.social ~Summary below~

Check out our new review: Ancient DNA in motion! We examine how the integration of archaeogenomic data with archaeological evidence can help reconstruct past human mobility and interactions, as well as their consequences, while also addressing key terminological and interpretive limitations.

arXiv q-bio.PE Populations and Evolution@qbiope-bot.bsky.social · last mo.

Moots, Koptekin, Williams, Reingruber, Malmstr\"om, Mac Sweeney, Somel: Ancient DNA in motion: Studying past human mobility and interactions by integrating archaeogenetics and archaeology https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09399 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.09399 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.09399

If you are interested in learning computational population genetics and ancient genomics, I have curated my list of workshops and online tutorials (and will continue to do so) indicating suitability for self-learners and status. You find the list [here](www.stephanschiffels.de/resources.html).

🚨 New paper out in @natcomms.nature.com! We used bony labyrinth morphology to reconstruct over 40,000 years of human population history in northeastern Africa, a region where ancient DNA is almost entirely unavailable. A thread 🧵 ⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/11

Bony labyrinth morphology reveals deep population history and isolation among Homo sapiens in prehistoric northeastern Africa (44–3 ka) - Nature Communications

Little is known of the Homo sapiens population history in late prehistoric northeastern Africa. Using inner ear morphology from 148 individuals, this study documents 40.000 years of human evolution, i...

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Cool work led by Daniel Tabin, including human genomes associated with Epipaleolithic in the Balkans

bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · last mo.

The Pan-European Impact of the Balkan Hunter-Gatherers https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.05.743150v1

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 · 3mo ago

#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 · 3mo ago

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 · 3mo 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...