Group picture at the SMBE satellite meeting - Campus of Architecture, University of Cagliari

two talks from our lab at the SMBE Satellite Meeting on Gene-Culture Co-Evolution! i'll be talking about alcohol-metabolism-related regions, selection signals and climate. 👀 looking forward to it!

SMBE Satellite Meeting on Gene-Culture Co-Evolution@smbegeneculture.bsky.social · 4w ago

Final program for SMBE Satellite Meeting on Gene–Culture Co-Evolution: Molecular Perspectives on Human History and Diversity

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The south Congo Basin was critical to Bantu settlement of south central Africa https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.14.741591v1

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).

3 postdoc open positions in our lab on a project developing new AI methods to integrate genetics and ecological data to predict the impact of global change on species - see below

We’re looking for a Statistical Geneticist to join our team at @humantechnopole.bsky.social. The role offers the opportunity to work across a wide range of projects, supporting research groups throughout Human Technopole while developing and implementing new statistical methods tinyurl.com/44uyt8u2

Super excited & honoured to announce that my on-going project "45,000 years of changes in ancestry profiles and environmental conditions as shaping forces of Homo sapiens demography worldwide" has been selected for a short talk at the upcoming #EESHuman conference in Heidelberg! See you all there!

EMBL Events@events.embl.org · 4mo ago

Working in population genetics, bioinformatics, microbiology, anthropology, archaeology, or history? Join us to explore a field that is reshaping our understanding of the past and the future of genetic variation. #EESHuman 🧪 Submit your abstract by 23 June https://s.embl.org/ees26-10-bl

Wonderful preprint by Miccolis et al! "...the first comprehensive review of threat status and policy inclusion of Italian biodiversity, encompassing animals, plants, fungi, lichens, and algae." A monstrous yet necessary work to start tackling the biodiversity crisis! 👏🏻

bioRxiv Ecology@biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social · 3mo ago

How well is Italian biodiversity represented in red lists and conservation legislation? Taxonomic biases, coverage gaps and the assessment-to-legislation bottleneck https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.30.730850v1

A 5-year PDRA position in "Statistical Modelling in Archaeology" is available @cam-archaeology.bsky.social as part of the FORAGER project. Deadline: 21/8/2026 tinyurl.com/muhcjkfy www.forager-erc.eu

📣 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!

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

Such an exciting preliminary program that I feel super honoured to be a part of! Don't forget to register if you want to hear from a panel of wonderful anthropologists + me rambling about the evolution of alcohol metabolism 👀🧬🍻

SMBE Satellite Meeting on Gene-Culture Co-Evolution@smbegeneculture.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our preliminary program of talks is out!! 😎 sites.google.com/view/gene-cu... We accept registrations for online attendance until the 30th of June. You can register at geneculturecoevolution.com 🦩

I’m looking to hire one or two postdocs - possible projects include pop gen theory, methods development, and human evolutionary inference. Please share, and email if you are interested. More info: evoldir.net/brian/evoldi...

After a month in Leipzig at the MPI EvAn, 10 days in Belgium, an intense week of CES in Rabat, I have finally got back to Padua! (And, as per the last picture, immediately took my bike to Venice, getting caught in a storm and much mud... but making it to Ithaca)

I'm so thrilled to be one of the Guest Editors of the new Nature Portfolio Collection on "𝙃𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝘼𝙙𝙢𝙞𝙭𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙈𝙞𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣". This cross-journal collection involves publications in 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴, 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘉𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺, and 𝘚𝘤𝘪 𝘙𝘦𝘱. communities.springernature.com/posts/call-f...

Call for papers: Human Admixture and Migration

This Collection invites submissions that use ancient or modern genetic data to explore human population history, admixture, and health. Submissions are encouraged by 28 February 2027.

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Registration for the SMBE Satellite Meeting on Gene–Culture Co-Evolution is OPEN at this link geneculturecoevolution.com ✏️ DEADLINE 20th of June! Acceptance of short talks and posters and recipients of travel grants will be notified in two weeks.

📢📢 At the ESTER-project we're looking for two #PostDocs and one #PhD student: https://ester-project.org/2026/05/01/the-ester-project-is-hiring/ 📢📢 If you are interested in demography, biological proxies, modelling and/or Bayesian statistics, have a look! Deadline is May 31st, this sunday! […]

Postdoctoral job announcement: come to Cambridge and work on population genetic modelling with environmental and ancient DNA, jointly with @gamzeandgursoy.bsky.social and me. Details at www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/55580/ - applications by June 16th.

What a week! I had a wonderful time at #CES2026 and I'm very thankful for the opportunity to hang out with such amazing people and researchers, learn about their work and present my own. 🧬 I leave Morocco the head full of ideas, the heart full of friendship (and the stomach full of tajine) 🙌🏻

Speed-running between amazing sessions at #CES2026 and different perspectives on shared cultural evolutionary questions feels like my life now. Some highlights from day #2.

Very proud of my PhD student Alexes Mes for her first archaeology paper where she has developed a novel Bayesian spatiotemporal model for estimating arrival times using 14C dates authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

We invite you to submit an abstract for a session talk or poster presentation!

🏺🧪Preprint of 1039(!) whole ancient human genomes from Britain, mainly dating to 1st Millennium CE, representing the best part of 7 years of my life. Herculean effort by @marinasdsilva.bsky.social to get this over the line. 'Migration Period' is more migrationy than we could have possibly imagined.

bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Genomic history and selection in Roman and early medieval Britain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.28.721361v1

🚨FULLY FUNDED PHD POSITION!🚨 If you are interested in trying to answer the question of "How did climate shape the movements, interactions, and evolution of hominin populations?" Come join my lab at @humanorigins.bsky.social 🧬🧪 deadline 7th of June ⬇️ uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

The #HEIRS Group Synthesis Project 2026 call is now open! We invite #HumanEvolution scientists worldwide to apply for collaborative groups of 10–15 researchers, including at least one #ICArEHB member. Deadline: 18 June 2026. #ResearchSynthesis #OpenScience heirs.icarehb.com

ICArCHEB in Portugal has put out a call for proposals for HEIRS (the Hub for Human Evolution Research Synthesis). HEIRS supports collaborative research projects designed to produce syntheses of important issues in the field. A wonderful opportunity - link below heirs.icarehb.com/calls-traini...

“The evolutionary history and unique genetic diversity of Indigenous Americans” 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The evolutionary history and unique genetic diversity of Indigenous Americans - Nature

Analysis of 128 high-coverage Indigenous American genomes shows extensive diversity shaped by several South American dispersals, ancient Australasian admixture, archaic introgression and long-term ada...

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Super excited about this new paper by Akbari et al.! A lot of food for thought, I'll definitely give it multiple reads 🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia - Nature

Analysis of 15,836 ancient West Eurasian genomes reveals hundreds of instances of directional selection, showing that sustained changes in allele frequency were widespread, rather than being...

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Graph transformer for ancient ancestry inference https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.05.714076v1