🧵 New preprint: Have you ever tried to perform molecular clock dating of ancient mitogenomes using BEAST? Have you struggled using manual tools to create your input files, run your analyses and extract your results? We hope our pipeline provides a solution to this: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

MitoDate: a Nextflow pipeline for molecular clock dating and phylogenetic inference using ancient mitogenomes

Summary Ancient DNA studies are increasingly targeting samples that are beyond the limit of radiocarbon dating (>50 thousand years old) and are often difficult or impossible to date using other geochr...

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📣 SMBE IDEA proposals are OPEN for 2027 📣 Here are some more details on our initiatives around inclusion, diversity, equity and access (IDEA), centred in molecular biology and evolution, and what we value in proposals... (More details on project proposals here: www.smbe.org/idea-initiat...)

IDEA Initiative Call for Proposals

2027 CALL FOR PROPOSALS SMBE, through the IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access) task force, aims to address systemic racism, sexism, colonialism, and other forms of exclusion in our SMBE soci...

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Check out our new paper about the oldest molecular evidence of smallpox in the Americas!!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Copenhagen job alert 🚨 GLOBE (@ucph.bsky.social) is hiring a 21-mo Postdoc in #Bioinformatics & #ComputationalProteomics Work with @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social, @fridowelker.bsky.social, @brandtgroup.bsky.social & more mapping collagen/keratin diversity across 1000s of genomes. 📅 Deadline Aug 31

Postdoc of Bioinformatics and Computational Proteomics

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There is still time to submit your comment and tell the government that you don't want US research to be completely destroyed by politicians meddling in individual grants. You can submit your comments here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM...

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4w ago

Comments due by Monday on the attempt to politicize science/aka kill American research as we know it. Do it at the link (counter the ton of Heritage-foudnatoin-prompted comments): www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...

If you're a PI, post-doc, or grad student, write about what this means for you. This guide helped me write a personalized message and it might help you: elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne... Perfect is the enemy of done here. We have two days.

What We Need to do NEXT: OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB-2026-0034)

What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice

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Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social · 4w ago

There's an OMB rule change that would require political oversight of scientific grants, and could pull any that don't "reflect presidential priorities" Another country has tried this before! It was the USSR and it was called Lysenkoism. By @thsaey.bsky.social www.sciencenews.org/article/omb-...

Come talk to my students at #smbe2026 in poster session A on the 2nd floor Arkaden 8 Nick Hartman is in 235 and will be talking about the genetic bases for adrenarchy in Neanderthals Michael Orellana is on 226 talking about the demographic trajectory and admixture of South America camelids #smbe

The Skeletal Genomics Group is at #SMBE2026 this year, and we have lots of science we are presenting today!

Hey #SMBE2026! Come check out poster #303 in Arkaden 6 during today’s session A to learn about our lab’s ongoing research collaboration with the Afro-Peruvian community of San Luis de Cañete. Together we are using aDNA to investigate the African diaspora to Peru 🇵🇪 🧬💀

I am recruiting a PhD student (fully funded, 4yrs) to analyze modern 🧬 and ancient 🦴 genomic data from humans and domestic animals 🐑 Please share, I am happy to chat at #ICP2026 or #SMBE2026 this summer www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Several people have asked for possible content and structure for comments regarding the proposed OMB regulations. With some suggestions from others, I have posted on example (as a Word document) for downloading). jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... I hope this is helpful.

Looking for a postdoc to join my group at the NHM London & work on aDNA of dogs/wolves! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Postdoctoral Researcher ancient DNA:South Kensington

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The White House today announced it plans to make major changes in how the U.S. government manages research funding. https://scim.ag/43HgW4s

White House seeks to tighten political oversight of grantmaking

Sweeping proposed rule, now open for comments, would also restrict foreign collaborations and remove federal funding for open-access fees

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Central to Indigenous Caribbean societies, woven objects rarely survive archaeologically. 'Anacaona's Gift' explores this understudied material culture, from everyday baskets to elaborate textile status symbols. Learn more in the latest #NewBookChronicle 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

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.

Abstract deadline for Midwest Pop Gen 2026 extended to June 12th! Aug 21-22 at UChicago — free, trainee-oriented meeting with talks, posters + Friday BBQ at Promontory Point. Chicago in August doesn't get better than this... jkreinz.github.io/mwpg2026

🌴🌞🌊 We are recruiting 🌊🌞🌴 UCSB seeks a lecturer broadly trained across anthropological fields to teach anthropological approaches to health. More info: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03100 UCSB is an Equal Opportunity Employer Expected salary range: $70,977–$98,249

Lecturer (Health Track), Anthropology

University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

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The letter of intent is due at the end of June. Contact me if you are interested in applying to the fellowship as part of being a graduate student in my lab for Fall 2027. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution

The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...

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From father to son: ancient DNA indicates Neolithic chambered tombs in northern Scotland were physical embodiments of prehistoric kinship, tracing lineages over centuries. 🏺 #AntiquityThread 1/11 🧵

Please repost: My department at USC is hiring for a teaching-track faculty position. We are looking for someone principally to teach statistics for biologists, but there will be opportunities for other courses in statistics & algorithms applied to biology usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

Hey that’s my PhD adviser! 🥰🎉🥂 Congratulations @acstone.bsky.social ! You’re a role model for us all 🧑‍🔬

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution@official-smbe.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Anne C. Stone, Regents Professor @arizonastateuni.bsky.social has been awarded our Lifetime Contribution Award. @acstone.bsky.social Visit our website to learn more about the SMBE Faculty Awards 🔗 smbe.org/faculty-awards #society

Today, our #SCIMaP team released an impact analysis of the White House proposed FY 2027 NIH and NSF budgets. Bottom-line: if enacted, cuts to science and medical research would lead to $35B in economic losses and 150,000 lost jobs in communities all across the US. scienceimpacts.org 🧵

We (with @gatag.bsky.social) are happy to share our discussion, where we explore three cases of matrilocality and genetic matriline connections identified with ancient DNA. You can find the open access paper published in evolutionary human sciences: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Exploring matrilocality in history: insights from ancient DNA | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

Exploring matrilocality in history: insights from ancient DNA - Volume 8

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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...

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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota@umnanth.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Congratulations to Anthropology faculty member Dr.Maria Nieves Colón who was awarded a 2026 McKnight Land-Grant Professorship. This award recognizes the careers of outstanding assistant professors at the UMN 🥳🎓. scholarswalk.umn.edu/university-a...

Multiple articles in this week’s special section on #science in The Economist. The US loses, and the world loses, because of the trump war on science. #withoutNSF #withoutscience www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

MAGA’s assault on science is an act of grievous self-harm

America will pay the price most of all

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Did you enjoy following the Artemis II mission? Time to stand up for science to make sure missions like this continue to launch. Contact your representatives and tell them to protect science funding for NASA and other agencies like NSF, NIH, & USDA. We can change this if we act TOGETHER! 🚀

Scientific American@sciam.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Experts found that the White House budget request for the upcoming fiscal year could defund 54 NASA science missions, including a spacecraft currently studying Jupiter and two planned Venus missions: www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...

A call for urgent action to protect wild yak in the Himalayan regions🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... This paper highlights the urgent need for transboundary conservation policies to ensure the long-term survival of wild yaks and the ecological resilience of the Himalayan region.

Why is the U.S. National Science Foundation important? Why is NSF SBE important? Please share your stories! Use the hashtags #WithoutNSF or #WithoutScience or #WithoutNSFsbe