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

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

Ancient human DNA from the cave walls! 🤯 Wonderful new paper led by Alba Bossoms Mesa and a great team of people that made this work possible.

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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...

If you're you have experience in working in animal / pathogen #aDNA and are interested in a postdoctoral position as part of my ERC Project HERDPATH, please DM/email me kevin[at]palaeome.org

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/...

DNA is not the same as kinship. Our perspective paper argues that treating genetics as the ultimate proof of identity or family can: • erase community-defined relationships • reinforce Western biases • and even cause real harm in policy + research Special Issue: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

SAVE THE DATE! SMBE Satellite Meeting on Gene–Culture Co-Evolution: Molecular Perspectives on Human History and Diversity 🌍 University of Cagliari, Italy - Abstract submission and travel grants deadline: 30 April - Registration opening soon - Conference dates: 21-23 September 2026

Mehmet Somel (Middle East Technical University, Turkey) will join us in Copenhagen to present a plenary talk on the latest advances in human evolution, at SMBE 2026. Title: "Human societies past and present in light of ancient DNA" #SMBE2026

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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Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky

Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

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The Association of Greek Archaeologists has published an open letter withdrawing its participation from the EAA Athens advisory committee 🍉 archaeol.gr/anoichti-epi...

Ανοιχτή επιστολή σχετικά με τις εξελίξεις στην European Association of Archaeologists - Σύλλογος Ελλήνων Αρχαιολόγων

Ανοιχτή επιστολή σχετικά με τις εξελίξεις στην European Association of Archaeologists Κατόπιν της ομόφωνης απόφασης των μελών του…

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Interested in using aDNA time-series datasets to estimate selection? Our study "Assessing Ancient DNA Sampling Strategies for Natural Selection Inference in Humans Using Allele Frequency Time Series Data" is now out in GBE! doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... @genomebiolevol.bsky.social @cegamorim.bsky.social

Assessing Ancient DNA Sampling Strategies for Natural Selection Inference in Humans Using Allele Frequency Time Series Data

Abstract. The increased availability of genomic data from ancient humans allows estimating the strength of natural selection at a given locus using time se

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🧬 Now published in Bioinformatics Advances: "pygenstrat: A Python package for EIGENSTRAT data processing" by @dilekopter.bsky.social Full article available: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbag022

🚨 6th HAAM-RADIO Webinar 🌍 African Population Demography and Social Organizations of the Past 🗓️ Wed, 28 Jan 2026 Register here: 👉 forms.gle/FuBTTX4wreW4... #AncientDNA #HumanGenetics #AfricanHistory #HAAM #Webinar @abinstitute.bsky.social @cesarforteslima.bsky.social @hildegunnink.bsky.social

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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Nature Aging @nataging.nature.com turns 5 and asked ~50 researchers to reflect on the field. I am honored to contribute alongside colleagues whose work has shaped how I think about #aging science. Past, present and future perspectives on the science of aging www.nature.com/articles/s43...

📢 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...

I will be recruiting two PhDs for my ERC Project HERDPATH - let's discover out how livestock and pathogens evolved together using #aDNA. Projects will be animal or pathogen focused but will be in dialogue. Details at my quaint website below. Deadline 3rd October. kevingdaly.github.io

The University of Texas at Austin seeks a postdoctoral researcher in Ancient DNA. Requirements include a PhD, DNA analysis experience, and strong computational skills. Apply to Ainash Childebayeva. More info: ainash.childebayeva@austin.utexas.edu. #postdoc

#SMBE2025 Symposium 28: Human history and past social organisation in the light of palaeogenomes: new methods, new findings session B 🔗 smbe2025.scimeeting.cn/en/web/program/25070

🌾 Agriculture didn’t always spread with mobility of people. New ancient DNA research shows that in western Anatolia, while communities stayed put, farming and village life spread through the movement of ideas and practices.

📰 News Recherche Une équipe de @unil.bsky.social @sib.swiss METU, @hacettepe.bsky.social met en lumière la manière dont les premiers modes de vie agricoles se sont diffusés - et comment, parfois, les idées ont voyagé plus loin que les individus. ➡️ www.unil.ch/news/1750772... @dilekopter.bsky.social

Révolution néolithique: Quand les idées voyagent plus loin que les individus

Le passage à l'agriculture et à un mode de vie sédentaire est l'un des grands tournants de l'histoire de l'humanité. Pourtant, la manière dont ce mode de vie néolithique s'est propagé du Croissant fer...

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🧬In Neolithic Çatalhöyük, family was built on social relations rather than blood ties. Genetic analysis shows that over time, co-residents were no longer genetic relatives. Female subadults were buried with 5x more grave goods. 🔍A surprising story of Neolithic social life.

I didn’t know much about the Neolithic, neither had I ever heard the saying « pots don’t equal people ». Well that changed, thanks to a real fun interview with @dilekopter.bsky.social and her colleagues behind this study (text also available in English, see comments) 👇 #archaeology #paleogenomics

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📰 News Recherche Une équipe de @unil.bsky.social @sib.swiss METU, @hacettepe.bsky.social met en lumière la manière dont les premiers modes de vie agricoles se sont diffusés - et comment, parfois, les idées ont voyagé plus loin que les individus. ➡️ www.unil.ch/news/1750772... @dilekopter.bsky.social

Happy to share our new study from my PhD on the spread of farming across Anatolia and into the Aegean and then into Europe. @compevohumang.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 👇🏽

Out-of-Anatolia: Cultural and genetic interactions during the Neolithic expansion in the Aegean

West Anatolia has been a crucial yet elusive element in the Neolithic expansion from the Fertile Crescent to Europe. In this work, we describe the changing genetic and cultural landscapes of early Hol...

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Check out our new paper! We studied reference bias in ancient genomes and proposed bamRefine, a new algorithm for PMD-correction. We showed that graph alignment + bamRefine is the most practical solution to mitigate bias, and we urge the community to publish raw data! doi.org/10.1186/s130...

Pre-processing of paleogenomes: mitigating reference bias and postmortem damage in ancient genome data - Genome Biology

We investigate alternative strategies against reference bias and postmortem damage in low coverage paleogenomes. Compared to alignment to the linear reference genome, we show that masking known polymo...

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