Marina Silva
@marinasdsilva.bsky.social
Postdoc @crick.ac.uk | ancient genomics | from 🦴🦷👩🔬 to 🧬👩💻
Our new free exhibition, We Go Way Back, opens today. Stop by and learn how revolutionary ancient DNA research reveals the deep connections that link us all. We’re open Wednesday – Saturday with late opening on Wednesday evenings. https://bit.ly/4frAkZ4
📢 Want to help shape the future of the HAAM Community? We're looking for 🆕 Steering Committee members for the 2026/27 term! Join us in driving community projects, organizing events & developing new initiatives 🗓️ Apply by Sep 15 Details & application 👇 shorturl.at/RYqQM #aDNA #paleogenetics
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On this last day of the conference, we have a Plenary talk by Beth Shapiro and sessions on Sedimentary ancient DNA and Domestication #ICP2026 See you there!
Funded PhD studentship with me and Dan Bradley @brad-dan.bsky.social at TCD. Medieval cattle and sheep genomics utilising parchment and bones! Deadline to apply is 27th May 🧬🐄🐑🧬 #aDNA
Victoria Mullin@victoriaemullin.bsky.social · 4mo agoCome join our aDNA community at Trinity College Dublin and explore medieval ruminant genomes! Funded PhD studentship in ancient animal genomics at Trinity College Dublin. Deadline 27th May 2026 Please see the information attached for full description and application process.
Our paper on the evolutionary history and genetic diversity of Indigenous Americans is featured on the cover of @nature.com
Tábita Hünemeier@hunemeier.bsky.social · 3mo agoAbsolutely thrilled to see our work featured on the cover of @nature.com, with the stunning artwork of Emiliano Bellini! Deeply grateful to all collaborators, the Indigenous communities who made this work possible, and the funding agencies for their support!
🚨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...
Worth stressing that studies like this would not be possible without archaeological units, archaeological trusts, heritage centres and museums who excavate and look after collections, many of which continue to be underfunded and/or neglected. New technologies will continue to bring new insights.
Our preprint is now out, looking at genomic history and selection in Britain, with a focus on the Roman and early medieval periods. Comments welcome! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @boothicus.bsky.social @leospeidel.bsky.social @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social
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📢 Next #HAAMeeting at #ICP2026! @palaeogenomics.bsky.social 🗓 June 22 📍Stockholm 🇸🇪 (hybrid) 🎤 Poster presenters + no-talk attendees: apply for a flash talk by May 27: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... More info coming soon 👀 haam-community.github.io/events/2026/... #ancientDNA #paleogenomics
Submission form for a flash talk at the Second HAAMeeting (ICP 2026 Pre-Conference meeting)
Did you NOT get a talk at ICP2026 scheduled from 23rd to 26th of June in Stockholm (Sweden) and you're focusing on anything related to human (modern or ancient) DNA, mobility, demographic history, or ...
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New preprint led by Hrushikesh Loya, me, and Simon Myers where we introduce GhostBuster! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... The idea is to find all the different ways a target individual relates to reference groups in genealogies, to "bust the ghosts" in our ancestry.
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Out today is our paper 'Genomic history of early dogs in Europe', in which we uncover the identity of the dogs that lived in Europe before agriculture—during the Paleolithic & Mesolithic periods: doi.org/10.1038/s415.... A thread ⬇️ (10) @biouea.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social
As promised, what follows is a behind-the-scenes story of how we came across this permafrost-mummified tissue and tried to determine which species it belonged to.
This was one of @cpgsthlm.bsky.social earliest posts on Bluesky. The results have now been published! Study led by @sofiaselvatici.bsky.social as part of her masters project. Thanks to all the collaborators. Follow the CPG account if you wanna know more about the back story. Thread incomig soon 👀
Centre for Palaeogenetics@cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 2y agoThis frozen "Mystery Mummy" was found in the Klondike permafrost, and is likely several tens of thousands of years old!! But what species is this? We don't know! What is your best guess? We have a sample in our lab, and are working on sequencing it's DNA, so can soon tell you who got it right 😀
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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Motivated graduates with backgrounds in biological or biomedical sciences, physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering and/or computer science are invited to apply to our 4-year fully funded PhD programme. Apply by 17 March 2026. www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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PhD recruitment information.
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Are you interested in human DNA from ancient sediments? Do you want to do a PhD in Vienna? We have two open positions in our group! You can learn more and apply here (scroll down to the very bottom, ours are the last two listings): careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/s...
Vienna Doctoral School of Ecology and Evolution
The Vienna Doctoral School of Ecology and Evolution is dedicated to educating students to advance our understanding of the ecology and evolution of extant and ancestral organisms, populations, and communities. In Ecology, the focus is on uncovering the mechanistic and evolutionary drivers of patterns and processes across biological scales, from gene regulation to ecosystem structure and function, including the role of communities in biogeochemical cycles and their adaptive responses to environmental change. In Evolution, we investigate the processes shaping changes in organization and dynamics of organisms, populations, and species at molecular, developmental, morphological, and physiological levels.
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📣 The @scilifelab.se #ddls postdoc (2yrs) offers a great community + training + all social benefits! Happy to discuss your own project ideas! I also have some ideas on ARGs, pangenomes or biobank-scale datasets 🧬🐏🧪🖥️ Deadline is Mar 31 but some admin things need to be handled well in advance!
Torsten Günther@trstngnthr.bsky.social · 7mo agoSciLifeLab has opened a call for #postdoc fellows in Data-Driven Life Science. We would be happy to host such fellows! Get in touch if you are interested in applying with a project on the evolution of humans and domestic animals using ancient and/or modern DNA 🧪🏺 www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/...
At least we know the rest of the year will be uneventful...? 🙃
Marc Morris@marcmorris.bsky.social · 7mo agoSo far in 1066: • Edward the Confessor has died. • Harold Godwineson has been named king instead of Edgar Ætheling. • Edward has been buried. • Harold has been crowned. It's still only 6 January.
I've slowly been reformatting notes from my population and conservation genetics course at Montana State University into a web book—a rough draft is now live here: elinck.org/popgen_conge...
🧬 #Bioinformatics AEGIS #PostdocJobs in metagenomic pipelines & HPC: Ancient Environmental Genomics at @ucph.bsky.social to reconstruct ecosystems and develop climate-resilient crops. 🌍 Deadline: Jan 4, 2026. Mikkel Winther Pedersen (mwpedersen@sund.ku.dk) #AcademicJobs #aeDNA #ClimateChange
Postdoctoral positions in ancient environmental genomics within the Ancient Environmental Genomics Initiative for Sustainability (AEGIS)
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Exploring your family history this #NationalRootsDay? Ancient DNA can tell us a lot about family relationships in the past. DNA analysis of early medieval burials in England even found an individual with a grandparent from West Africa! 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
Just want to point out that both the Guardian and the BBC used "man" in their coverage of this research today. If you want science news that doesn't employ anachronistically gendered language, be sure to read us at @livescience.com. 😘
Kristina Killgrove@killgrove.bsky.social · 8mo agoFire! Heh heh. Fire! -- Beavis 🏺🧪
Please welcome the HAAM steering committee for the period 2025-2026 🎊. We are looking forward to the following year!
we made a tool! ybyra is a lightweight, flexible Y-chromosome haplogroup caller. It is faster, easier to tune and more robust than other tools particularly for low-coverage or ancient DNA data. And it has lots of detailed output – including plots! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Last week we had a great meeting on "Ancient genomes: perspectives on human biology and medicine" at the @royalsociety.org and the @crick.ac.uk. It was an amazing set of talks and posters. Thanks to the @gensocuk.bsky.social, co-host @janetk.bsky.social and all participants for a great day!
Specifically, the calling of genotypes and thus the calculation of polygenic scores in the degraded DNA is not straight-forward, leading to questions about the reliability of high profile results (eg www.nature.com/articles/s41... ).
Insufficient evidence for natural selection associated with the Black Death - Nature
Nature - Insufficient evidence for natural selection associated with the Black Death
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Putting aside the deeper issues of why this analysis was done and how it has been promoted, the choice to broadcast a tv show before releasing a preprint should make people skeptical of the results. How can one be sure of their scientific claims?
Pontus Skoglund@pontus-skoglund.bsky.social · 9mo agoAs I told the CNN, without details and data it is not possible to assess the claims. More importantly, the scientific value of this media campaign, balanced against the possible stigmatization of individuals with these real conditions today, is highly questionable. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/13/s...
Join us for an extraordinary evening with Nobel Laureate Svante Pääbo! Prof Pääbo will present a FREE public talk titled “Of Neanderthals and Denisovans, and how they live on in many of us” at the @crick.ac.uk. Register here: genetics.org.uk/events/of-ne...
