New study on mammoths from Upper Paleolithic Kraków Spadzista, Langmannersdorf & Dolní Věstonice compared w/ non-anthropogenic contexts to learn about people who relied on them 🧬 Great coverage (in Polish!) www.national-geographic.pl/historia/kra... Article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Zaskakujące wyniki DNA. Nasi przodkowie wybierali samice mamutów

Jak polowali ludzie w epoce lodowcowej? Najnowsze badania genetyczne setek mamutów przynoszą zaskakującą odpowiedź. W miejscach obozowisk ludzkich przeważają szczątki samic. Ważną rolę w tych wnioskac...

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@david-peede.bsky.social talking about the relation between coalescent times and site patters under an introgressed genetic tree to introduce a new statistic D*. D* is an ILS agnostic test of introgression that performs best under unknown demography.

Save the date for the 2027 SMBE Conference in Québec City! The LOC of #SMBE2027 would like to welcome you to Québec City for the 2027 Conference of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution,from June 20-24, 2027, and hosted by Université Laval at the Québec Convention Centre. #society

♥️ THANK YOU ♥️ We are overwhelmed by the positive comments and are incredibly happy that everyone enjoyed their time in Stockholm! #ICP2026 was only possible with the hard work of the organizing committee and a marvellous team of ECR volunteers 🟠 at @cpgsthlm.bsky.social

We're still absorbing tons of inspiring notes from #ICP2026, and already planning the next one. #ICP2028 is coming to Dublin 🍀 and we can't wait to welcome the ancient DNA 🧬 community in Ireland. We'll do our best to build on the outstanding work of the Stockholm committee. More info coming soon!

ICP2026 Stockholm@palaeogenomics.bsky.social · last mo.

#ICP2026 Stockholm is over, but ICP will return... in 2028! #ICP2028 will be hosted by Trinity College Dublin 🎉☘️🇮🇪

#ICP2026 Stockholm is over, but ICP will return... in 2028! #ICP2028 will be hosted by Trinity College Dublin 🎉☘️🇮🇪

Dublin crew at #ICP2026

🧬 @lindaongaro.bsky.social from #huentasanchezlab, presenting at #ICP2026 her pipeline to detect IBD in ancient humans 🦴

Day 3 of #ICP2026 with these lovely people.

Full house for the first plenary talk of #ICP2026 by Ian Barnes "From a simple beginning to endless forms" aka "Why are we here?"

Reposting in case any #ICP2026 attendee would like to chat!

Kevin Daly@gingerhowley.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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

@sadbhcarrick.bsky.social presenting on human #anceintDNA extracted from #Medieval #manuscripts @ bsky.app/profile/pala... The more that we explore the #biocodicology of parchment, the more we learn!

🧬 Martina Gulì presenting at #ICP2026 preliminary results from her work on archaic introgression in pre-contact ancient Americans 🌎

@louis-lhote.bsky.social talks about a high-resolution analysis of the evolution of the sheepox virus from a surprising source... #Medieval #Parchment @palaeogenomics.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Talks by: @amanda-meuser.bsky.social Yizhen Wang Mikel Lana Alberro Steven Reilly Alberto Carmagnini @annaewhite.bsky.social @flarisi.bsky.social @kittybmurphy.bsky.social @marcocapo.bsky.social Charlotte Antoine-Derouet Diyar Hamidi Oğuzhan Parasayan Michael Mitschke

We're excited to be recruiting an NSF funded postdoc to work in the Villanea lab at CU Boulder. We're specifically interested in candidates who want to work at the intersection of population genetics, ancient DNA, and computer modeling. Please RT jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Despite my insomnia, I'm very happy to share our preprint: a multi-disciplinary assessment of a sheep mass mortality event from ~18th century France. We report the first ancient sheeppox virus (think smallpox) and the Taenia hydatigena (nasty roundworm) genomes. #aDNA

Evidence of sheeppox in 17th-19th century France: a multi-disciplinary investigation of a sheep mass mortality assemblage

Epizootic outbreaks posed major threats to food security, economic stability, and animal welfare in past communities. While these events and their impacts are well documented in historical records, ve...

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Lovely is the right adjective. Writing this was so enjoyable in the company of @acstone.bsky.social @blevinske.bsky.social and Verena Schuenemann. Hope you enjoy.

Anne Stone@acstone.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Lovely to work with @blevinske.bsky.social, @paleogenomics.bsky.social & Verena Schuenemann on " Ancient DNA insights into diverse pathogens and their hosts"! Read it at rdcu.be/eSVPN

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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So happy to see this out! Amazing science and amazing people behind it. Well done!!!

@mdemartino.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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/...

If you need more exciting news about Denisovans, check out our paper on Denisovan ancestry in modern humans through time, out today in Current Biology: www.cell.com/current-biol...! #Denisovan #ancientDNA

An early East Asian lineage with unexpectedly low Denisovan ancestry

Yang et al. study Denisovan ancestry in ancient and present-day humans. In contrast to other East Asians, genomic comparisons suggest that the Jomon derived most of their ancestry from a deep lineage…

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In a new paper led by Jiaqi Yang we trace the distribution of Denisovan introgressed DNA in ancient modern human genomes over time. www.cell.com/current-biol...

An early East Asian lineage with unexpectedly low Denisovan ancestry

Yang et al. study Denisovan ancestry in ancient and present-day humans. In contrast to other East Asians, genomic comparisons suggest that the Jomon derived most of their ancestry from a deep lineage ...

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Retweet this picture so many times that when someone googles FIFA, this picture shows up.

BladeoftheSun@bladeofthes.bsky.social · 10mo ago

FIFA has decided to take no action against Israel. President says "FIFA cannot resolve geopolitical issues." FIFA has and still bans Russia. FIFA is a disgrace, Israel need to be banned.

🇵🇸 Amazing! 180 civil society organisations have endorsed our National March for Palestine. Join us, 12.30pm. We march for sanctions on apartheid Israel and to show our unbreakable solidarity with our Palestinian sisters and brothers. All out! #FreePalestine #SanctionsNow 🇵🇸

Join us on 31st October to celebrate Día de los Muertos with some #ancientDNA from Mexico! Two very exciting talks on 🦣 and 🪴, by Federico Sánchez-Quinto and Marcela Sandoval-Velasco of LIIGH UNAM. Note the later 3pm London time! #aDNA @aarc-community.bsky.social

Very happy to see our pre-print on ancient Irish goat genetics on bioRxiv #aDNA #spiergorm I want to acknowledge this was only possible through the work of the late Dr. Judith Findlater, along with Prof. Eileen Murphy at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social.

Old Goats: 3,000 years of genetic connectivity of the domestic goat in Ireland

The domestic goat likely first arrived to the island of Ireland as part of the introduction of agriculture approximately 5,900 years ago, and remains a part of the island's biocultural heritage. Howev...

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🦠💀🦠 Happy to share our (with @gunnar-u-neumann.bsky.social) new preprint on ancient Salmonella enterica genomes! We analysed 53 new genomes along with published ancient and modern datasets to learn about lineage replacements and host adaptation in prehistory: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Evolutionary history and recurrent host adaptation in ancient Salmonella enterica

Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica is an extremely diverse bacterial pathogen causing frequent infections and foodborne disease among human populations. More than 1500 different bacterial strains (se...

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🇵🇹Our paper on Portugal's genetic history is now published in Genome Biology. We present Portugal’s largest ancient genome collection, with deeper analyses than our pre-print, revealing migrations, admixture & continuity shorturl.at/TcErC @acadresearch.bsky.social @dnatimetravel.bsky.social

The genetic history of Portugal over the past 5,000 years - Genome Biology

Background Recent ancient DNA studies uncovering large-scale demographic events in Iberia have presented very limited data for Portugal, a country located at the westernmost edge of continental Eurasi...

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

Bioinformatics Advances@bioinfoadv.bsky.social · 11mo 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

Second craziest thing you'll read today: from 2026 I will be leading an @erc.europa.eu Starter Grant project. HERDPATH will explore how livestock and their pathogens co-evolved during the last 10,000 years. PhD advertisements to come! Press release below with one of the few good photos of me.