Na, und die Beigaben des sog. #Fürstengrab​s am #Glauberg sind ja bekanntlich immer für eine spannende Geschichte gut. 😉 trowelandpen.com/2025/08/21/m...

Moustache, torc, … Mickey Mouse ears? – How a sandstone stele and some grave goods, viewed together, provide insight into Iron Age “princely” get-up and social roles.

Illustration and photo: J. Notroff We often hear about the next “sensational” archaeological discovery in the news. In this case, however, that’s really not an exaggeration. When …

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Jens Notroff@jensnotroff.com · 3mo ago

Raffiniert! 🏅😉 Neue Untersuchungen zur Zusammensetzung des #Goldschmuck​s aus dem Grab des #Glauberg​er #Kelten​fürsten illustrieren einmal mehr das beeindruckend weitverzweigte Netzwerk, auf das er Zugriff hatte: 🏺 www.hessenschau.de/kultur/kelte...

Finally an official publication of Pileupcaller. Please cite. Thanks to @joss-openjournals.bsky.social for the review process and publishing!

Journal of Open Source Software@joss-openjournals.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Just published in JOSS: 'PileupCaller: A command-line tool to sample genotypes from low-coverage sequencing data of ancient DNA' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08634

Ready for the final concert of the unbelievable Bach-Marathon, with Thomas-Organist Johannes Lang performing all(!) organ works from J.S.Bach in 14 back-to-back concerts, through 21 hours. I have attended 4 of the concerts, and it was a transcendental experience, for lack of adequate superlatives.

Two papers to which I contributed came out back to back in Antiquity recently, which discuss African ancestry in early medieval individuals from England. Even though the data has been available since 2023, we now dedicated more space to these two special samples, and highlight this unusual […]

There is a very nice documentary about the ancient Saxons on Arte and YouTube available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzwMzEEnKEE It features our genetic study from 2022 (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05247-2), with prominent interviews of lead authors Joscha Gretzinger and […]

Faszinierender Einblick in die Populationsgenetik von @stschiff im #Deutschlandfunk Nova Hörsaal: https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/populationsgenetik-menschheitsgeschichte-in-den-genen-ablesen

Menschheitsgeschichte in den Genen ablesen

Die DNA ist eine Art Gedächtnis unserer Geschichte. Von Generation zu Generation vererben Menschen Eigenschaften weiter. Das Genom wird so zu einem Archiv.

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Mein Vortrag bei der langen Nacht der Wissenschaften ist nun verfügbar als Podcast bei Deutschlandfunk Nova, z.b. hier (https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/populationsgenetik-menschheitsgeschichte-in-den-genen-ablesen) oder hier (https://open.spotify.com/episode/1s6N6Yv9tUQu5X20noqcrg) […]

Excited to share our new preprint "High resolution analysis of population structure using rare variants" https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.18.665597v1 where we investigate and formalise using rare allele sharing to quantify population structure, with application and examples in […]

#SMBE #SMBE2025 Just notice the preprint of Rare Allele Sharing (RAS) statistics was out on the same day of my talk in @official-smbe.bsky.social . Great thanks to my supervisor @stschiff.bsky.social and co-author Thiseas Christos Lamnidis!

bioRxiv Genetics@biorxiv-genetic.bsky.social · last yr.

High resolution analysis of population structure using rare variants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.18.665597v1

Pls spread the word! We have a postdoc position available in the Rocha Lab @mpi-muenster.bsky.social. Join our team to study mechanisms underlying robust organ development using zebrafish embryos and human organoids. mpi-muenster.mpg.de/career

Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine@mpi-muenster.bsky.social · last yr.

We are looking for a #Postdoc with a great interest in biological robustness to lead a project investigating the self-correction capabilities of the developing nervous system. Join us at the @rocha-lab.bsky.social Rocha lab @mpi-muenster.bsky.social! jobs.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/jobposting/0...

Happy to share our new study from my PhD on the spread of farming across Anatolia and into the Aegean and then into Europe. @compevohumang.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 👇🏽

Out-of-Anatolia: Cultural and genetic interactions during the Neolithic expansion in the Aegean

West Anatolia has been a crucial yet elusive element in the Neolithic expansion from the Fertile Crescent to Europe. In this work, we describe the changing genetic and cultural landscapes of early Hol...

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Postdoc position in my group in Tokyo! Please get in touch if you are interested. And happy to discuss projects - these would range from developing new methods to analysis of new genomes that we are now sequencing in the lab. Job Ad: www.riken.jp/en/careers/r... Lab page: speidellab.github.io

Seeking a few Postdoctoral Researchers at Mathematical Genomics RIKEN ECL Research Unit (25-695)

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Morgen auf der langen Nacht der Wissenschaften gibt's von mir um 22:00 Uhr einen Vortrag mit dem Titel "Gene und Geschichte – Wie alte DNA unsere bewegte Vergangenheit erzählt". Herzliche Einladung ans @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social

MPI-EVA Leipzig@mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social · last yr.

Am 20. Juni ist es soweit: Das @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social lädt zur Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften ein! 😊 Ab 18 Uhr erwarten Euch spannende Vorträge & eine bunte Vielfalt an Mitmachstationen rund um #Menschheitsgeschichte 🧬🧪 & #Primatenevolution. 🐒 Unser Programm: www.eva.mpg.de/de/veranstal...

Am 20. Juni ist es soweit: Das @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social lädt zur Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften ein! 😊 Ab 18 Uhr erwarten Euch spannende Vorträge & eine bunte Vielfalt an Mitmachstationen rund um #Menschheitsgeschichte 🧬🧪 & #Primatenevolution. 🐒 Unser Programm: www.eva.mpg.de/de/veranstal...

Our #PhD students are excited to hear @stschiff.bsky.social speak about "Spatial inference of population structure and prehistoric human mobility from ancient and modern #genomes" tomorrow for our #PopGen Seminar series. Full schedule and streaming signup at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/

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Abstract deadline 30th June for the London ancient genome and human biology event of the year this November! @gensocuk.bsky.social

Pontus Skoglund@pontus-skoglund.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us at the Royal Society in London 14 November for a day on Ancient genomes, human biology and medicine! Many slots are reserved for talks from submitted abstracts related to the topic, alongside speakers Svante Pääbo, Priya Moorjani, @mathiesoniain.bsky.social and Lluis Quintana-Murci.

🧵1/n ✨🔮✨ Meet (y)our instructors of this year's #HAAMsummerschool 👇 #aDNA #course #humanpopgen

Open position at @unileipzig.bsky.social for professor of archaeology of the antique Mediterranean! www.uni-leipzig.de/stellenaussc...

Professur für Archäologie des antiken Mittelmeerraumes und seiner Umwelt (W2)

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For my German Leserschaft: New story on the crypts of Milan's Ca' Granda hospital in ‪@szde.bsky.social‬ this weekend / neue Geschichte im @szde.bsky.social über die Krypten von Ca' Granda in Mailand, reprinted from @science.org and translated by @jakwet.bsky.social:

Mailand: Die Toten im Untergrund

In Gewölben unter einem alten Krankenhaus in Mailand liegen die Gebeine Tausender Menschen. Sie erzählen von Hunger, Leid - und Drogen.

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90% of doing science is being open to new ideas.

Hallo Oberbergischer Kreis! Am 27. Mai spreche ich in der #Demokratiekirche Oberberg: www.demokratiekirche-oberberg.de/veranstaltun...

Weshalb der Rechtspopulismus christlichen Werten fundamental widerspricht - 27.05.25, 18:30

Anmeldung bis zum 21.5.2025 erforderlich, bitte hier klicken! Die liberale Demokratie ist ja weit mehr als nur ein politisches System. Sie schützt grundlegende Werte wie Freiheit, Menschenwürde und Ge...

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Scientists used to think diseases that jump from animals to people really took off when people started domesticating cattle, sheep and goats 11,000 years ago. A new look at ancient bacterial DNA in @science.org by @poojaswali.bsky.social and colleagues suggests the pivotal moment came much later.

Clothing—not agriculture—helped spread a tick disease 5000 years ago

New study of a pathogen’s Bronze Age spread challenges longstanding links between disease and early agriculture

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Really impressive and moving interview by @baym.lol about the Harvard cuts.

Lynn Jolicoeur@lynnjolicoeur.bsky.social · last yr.

"I'm still in shock. I know that there have been political issues around Harvard in recent weeks, but antibiotic resistance isn't one of them." My conversation with Harvard microbiologist @baym.lol, one of many researchers there who just lost millions in fed. grants. www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...

Poseidon now supports VCF files (and pileupCaller does, too)! blog.poseidon-adna.org/posts/vcf_po...

Call for #PhD students open! Apply by 14 May to start your research career in #evolution #genetics in beautiful #Vienna among a fun international and interdisciplinary crowd of peers #evolVienna #bioinformatics #bigdata #Drosophila #adaptation #popgen

Happy to see that Max Planck institute for Evolutionary Anthropology is on @bsky.app as well! @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social welcome! Also great that the weather slowly starts to allow lunch outside by the pond at the institute ;)

If you need another break from current news, come with me 7000 years ago to search for the first speakers of Indo-European languages. 🧪 Gift link: nyti.ms/42ILio5

Ancient DNA Points to Origins of Indo-European Language (Gift Article)

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and hundreds of others.

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Woah. Two of my top trigger words in one paper. Gotta read!

Ida Momennejad@neuroai.bsky.social · 2y ago

Bayes and Darwin: how replicator populations implement Bayesian computation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Fascinating new study by Lara Cassidy and Colleagues on a South British Iron Age burial site with an extraordinary matrilocal relatedness pattern (www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/6

Now this is how #aDNA *and* the #archaeological record are teaming up - The fascinating case of #IronAge Britain's #matrilocality: 🏺 www.science.org/content/arti... by @spoke32.bsky.social via Science Mag

Part of ancient Britain was a woman’s world, burials reveal

2000-year-old graves suggest women wielded as much—and sometimes more—power than men in some Celtic tribes

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