💰 Looking for funding opportunities? @sabiagini.bsky.social, our incoming co-chair, has got you covered #SMBE2026 @official-smbe.bsky.social

The wait is over. #SMBE2026 is officially ON! 🧬🎉 If you're around on Tuesday 30th, clear your 15:50–17:50 slot and come find us at our symposium. Good talks, good people, good vibes. We'll be waiting 🌈 @official-smbe.bsky.social

Good morning #SMBE2026 ✨ 🚀 Tomorrow is the day! Our symposium is almost here and we can't wait to see you there 🎉 It's going to be an incredible day with amazing speakers, ideas and connections 🤝 See you tomorrow! 🌈 @official-smbe.bsky.social

We present DNAharvester 🎉🦴🚜🧬 A pipeline to process highly degraded ancient DNA data that integrates metagenomic filtering, competitive mapping, multiple alignment strategies, reference bias evaluation and much more. GitHub: github.com/NBISweden/DN... Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A segmental duplication-mediated deletion leads to neocentromere formation in orangutans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.09.717302v1

🆕 HAAM Summer School 2026 📅 June 1-5, 2026 📍 Online 💰 Free 🧑‍🔬🧑‍💻 For Students & ECR 🔓 Applications open until April 13, 2026! 🔗 Apply here: forms.gle/ckqTgQxnEENJ...

What happens when violence targets the future of a society? Our new paper in Nature Human Behaviour examines one of Europe’s largest prehistoric mass graves and finds evidence for selective violence directed against women and children in the Early Iron Age. 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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After a four-year journey, my PhD work is out in @science.org Endless gratitude to the amazing @felix-erc.bsky.social team, all coauthors and collaborators, and my loved ones. Without you all this couldn't be real! 💛🐱✨ @erc.europa.eu @nationalgeographic.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago

The domestic cat (Felis catus) descends from the African wildcat Felis lybica lybica. Its global distribution alongside humans testifies to its successful adaptation to anthropogenic environments. Unc...

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Our new ancient DNA paper has just been published! We present 28 new genomes from southern Africa - several of them high-coverage whole genomes. Exciting to be moving towards population-level representation of ancient southern African genetic diversity! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Homo sapiens-specific evolution unveiled by ancient southern African genomes - Nature

The genomes of 28 ancient southern African individuals dated to between 10,200 and 150 years before present offer insights into the evolution of Homo sapiens.

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The Animal #aDNA Research Community is looking for new members to its steering committee! If you are an ECR and interested in the field, we would love to have you on board. We particularly would value committee representation from outside of Europe. @aarc-community.bsky.social

🦴🧬🦴🧬🦴 Abstract submission is now open for the 1st International Conference on Palaeogenomics! June 23–26 2026, in Stockholm. Join researchers from across the field for 4 days and >100 talks (+ poster sessions)! Submit abstracts here 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/abstracts/ Deadline: Nov 30th

Great work from a great researcher and friend! @bbonucci.bsky.social ❤️

PSU Ancient Biomolecules Research Environment (PSABRE)@psu-adna.bsky.social · 11mo ago

@microarch-lab.bsky.social was lucky enough to host and work with @bbonucci.bsky.social this summer. Checkout her recent publication on retrieving #ancientDNA from concretions from human remains!

Congrats to @fravasini.bsky.social, @beniamino77.bsky.social and all the coauthors! 🎉

Bioinformatics Advances@bioinfoadv.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🧬 Now published in Bioinformatics Advances: "DNPcall: A new pipeline for accurate double nucleotide polymorphism calling" Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf209  Authors include: @eugeniadat.bsky.social

What a week! 🎉 Big thanks to @isba11.bsky.social for hosting an incredible ISBA conference — so well organized and full of great science.

@fravasini.bsky.social @beniamino77.bsky.social @eugeniadat.bsky.social et al. leverage the genome of a new Roman Republic human individual, proposing a novel perspective for Eastern Mediterranean ancestry in the Imperial gene pool. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf149 #genome #evolution #humanevolution

Great imputation application on very low coverage data! Congrats @sabiagini.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉

Simone Andrea Biagini 🏳️‍🌈@sabiagini.bsky.social · last yr.

🏖️ On vacation, but still excited about my latest paper! 🧬 📌 Sharing it again in case it slipped past your feed 👇 ✍️ Looking forward to diving into the details once I’m back! #AcademicSky #imputation #NIPS #PGS #PopulationGenetics #QUILT

📝 New research rewrites Roman genetic history: Eastern Mediterranean ancestry appeared 200 years before the Empire, likely via early East to West movements in the Late Republic through Southern Italy or Eastern ties @eugeniadat.bsky.social 🧬 #AcademicSky 👇 academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...

A new perspective on the arrival of the Eastern Mediterranean genetic influx in Central Italy before the onset of the Roman Empire

Abstract. Italian genetic history was profoundly shaped by the Romans. While the Iron Age Central Italian gene pool was comparable to that of other coeval

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🚨 New paper out in Genome Biology and Evolution! We present new ancient DNA evidence from Central Italy suggesting that Eastern Mediterranean genetic influence predates the Roman Empire. @beniamino77.bsky.social @fravasini.bsky.social 🧵👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... 1/

A new perspective on the arrival of the Eastern Mediterranean genetic influx in Central Italy before the onset of the Roman Empire

Abstract. Italian genetic history was profoundly shaped by the Romans. While the Iron Age Central Italian gene pool was comparable to that of other coeval

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Turns out imputation of introgressed archaic regions in aDNA works really well — sometimes even better than for the rest of the genome. More on this (and other cool results) in our new preprint 👇 #aDNA #ArchaicIntrogression #imputation doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Archaic ancestry inference in imputed ancient human genomes

When modern humans expanded from Africa into Eurasia, they interbred with archaic hominins such as Neanderthals and Denisovans. This groundbreaking discovery, made in part possible through the genomic...

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🎶📣 Registration is now open for our #HAAMmeeting in Turin 🏛️ & online 💻 link: forms.gle/6eR2GPkM2fuE... 📅 Closes 23rd of August ❗Registration to attend via ZOOM is required!

Registration form: Hybrid HAAM-meeting scheduled for 26th of August

Please register for our hybrid HAAM-meeting scheduled for the 26th of August 2025, especially if you're planing to attend online. Schedule: Start - 15.00 CET 15.00 - 15.30 CET: HAAM community upda...

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

We’re excited to share more about the 1st Annual HAAM Meeting — a hybrid pre-ISBA event! 📅 Aug 26 | 🏛️ Turin & 💻 online 🧬 HAAM updates 💼 Career panel w/ Lehti Saag, Monica Kelly, Éadaoin Harney & Zuzana Hofmanová ⚡ Flash talks — submit your abstract by July 11 (extended deadline‼️) 👉 shorturl.at/8LZsr

📢 Registration Now Open for SPAAM7! Join as for the pre-ISBA hybrid event, to be held on August 26th, 2025,in Turin, Italy 🇮🇹 Check out our preliminary program 🧬🦠 🔗 Register by the 30th of July using this link!! forms.gle/6jiHhCKFk3Qh... We look forward to seeing you (In person or via zoom)! 🔥🔥

Excited about microbes, ancient DNA, methods and meeting other fellow researchers?? Join us in Turin!! 🔥 #aDNA #metagenomics #SPAAM7

SPAAM@spaam-community.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 Registration Now Open for SPAAM7! Join as for the pre-ISBA hybrid event, to be held on August 26th, 2025,in Turin, Italy 🇮🇹 Check out our preliminary program 🧬🦠 🔗 Register by the 30th of July using this link!! forms.gle/6jiHhCKFk3Qh... We look forward to seeing you (In person or via zoom)! 🔥🔥

ArchEvo project has been funded by @researchireland.ie Pathway at the Smurfit Institute of Genetics, @tcddublin.bsky.social to study #archaic-introgression in #aDNA💀! Thanks to my mentor Emilia Huerta-Sanchez, collaborators Flora Jay & Léo Planche and the PhD student Martina. We’re ready to start!🚀

Dogs? Dogs dogs dogs. South American dogs? Ancient South American dogs? Lots and lots of Ancient South American Dogs! Huge effort by so many great people! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

⏰ - Less than 100 days until our first (virtual) HAAM-meeting during the @isbarchaeology.bsky.social symposium in Turin 🇮🇹 ✅ check out our website and feel free to submit your abstract for a flash talk at our meeting: tinyurl.com/haam-meeting... #aDNA #ISBA #conference #humanDNA #popgen

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

🧬 The First Annual HAAM Meeting is coming on August 26, 2025 in Turin🇮🇹 (and online)! ✨ Flash talks, career panel & community updates. 📅 Submit your abstract for a flash talk by June 15 📢 We're looking for volunteers to join the organizing team #HAAM #ISBA2025 @isbarchaeology.bsky.social

Happy to be involved in this great study with fantastic collaborators and mentors! 🎊 #aDNA #popgen

Simone Andrea Biagini 🏳️‍🌈@sabiagini.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 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...

We are pleased to announce that the early bird registration deadline has been extended to May 7th! www.isba11.com/registration/ #archaeology #biomoleculararchaeology #ISBA11 #archaeologists @archaeobiomics.bsky.social @isbarchaeology.bsky.social

The 11th International Symposium for Biomolecular Archaeology, hosted in Turin 26-29 August 2025, is organised by the ArchaeoBiomics team at the University of Turin and the Musei Reali #archaeology #biomoleculararchaeology #ISBA11 #UNITO #MRT @archaeobiomics.bsky.social @isbarchaeology.bsky.social

The 11th International Symposium for Biomolecular Archaeology, hosted in Turin 26-29 August 2025, is organised at @unito by the following departments #ISBA11

The 11th International Symposium for Biomolecular Archaeology, hosted in Turin 26-29 August 2025, is organised at @unito has the pleasure of having the following patronages #ISBA11