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Hugh McColl

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@fseersholm.bsky.social · last wk.

Do you like riddles(and molecular biology)? Maybe you can help me solve this one. We’ve found a short piece of DNA (a plasmid) present in almost all plague samples from the Second Plague Pandemic (1338-1840), but absent in all earlier or later plague cases. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A near-ubiquitous plasmid characterises Second Pandemic Yersinia pestis

Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, crippled population across Eurasia in three well-described historical pandemics: The Justinianic plague (541-780), the Second Pandemic (1346-1840) and t...

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Evan Irving-Pease@evanirvingpease.bsky.social · 2w ago

New #aDNA paper! 💀🧬 Ancient DNA from colonial Montréal challenges narratives of a French–Indigenous “admixed founding population”—narratives that continue to shape false-Indigeneity debates today. Our study of Notre-Dame Cemetery finds exclusively French European ancestry. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Ancient DNA challenges to admixture narratives: Insights from Notre-Dame Cemetery (1683–1796) in Colonial Montreal, Canada | PNAS

Historical narratives of early colonization in Quebec frequently portray French–Indigenous relations as cooperative and characterized by admixture;...

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Hugh McColl@hmcccoll.bsky.social · 2w ago

Excited to share our preprint on the spread of megaliths in Neolithic Europe. Trade networks formed in the wake of migrations, and megaliths then spread within those networks. On their own, migration and cultural diffusion tell an incomplete story. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Migrations facilitated the cultural diffusion of megaliths in Neolithic Europe

Around 6700 BP (years before present), Neolithic Europe saw the emergence of megalithic monuments in northern France, followed by a rapid spread to the rest of the continent1. However, whether this wa...

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@fseersholm.bsky.social · 7mo ago

A little bit of reading material for your easter vacation: We found evidence of a population collapse in France 5,000 years ago in our new paper in Nature Evology and Evolution. Check it out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #NeolithicDecline #ancientDNA

Population discontinuity in the Paris Basin linked to evidence of the Neolithic decline - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Analysis of ancient human genomes from a Neolithic collective gallery grave in northern France points to population discontinuity and turnover between the third and fourth millennium BC.

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@fseersholm.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Interested in working on pathogen DNA with the king of ancient disease, Martin Sikora? Check out this new postdoc opening at GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen! candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Postdoctoral positions in Ancient Pathogen Genomics at Globe Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen

We are seeking two highly motivated and independent postdoctoral researchers with a strong computational and analytical background to join our research in ancie

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