In support of efforts to advocate for science we are sharing the msg sent by @bioanth.org for our membership. Consider getting involved if you can! 🗣️ 📢🧑🏽🔬👩🏻💻🧬
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AAAG Past President @amylnon.bsky.social is hosting a FREE workshop on Epigenetics for Anthropologists 🧬 at the University of California San Diego from August 17 - 21, 2026. Applications are due May 4, 2026 🗓️. Click on link👇🏾 for details docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Interested in a population genetics that uses a trusted text (Hartl & Clark) but also has a flipped lab component where students do R-based bioinformatics work with real human genomics data (from the 1000 Genomes Project)?
Look no further:
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Hey professors and instructors! 🧑🏫👨🏾🏫 Are you stressing about lecture prep? AAAG has a bank of syllabi and teaching materials to support courses in genetics, anthropology, and related fields! 🧬🏺🦴 You can access these materials through our webpage with an active AAAG membership 🤓! anthgen.org/Education
How did catastrophic black death and myxomatosis outbreaks on an isolated island affect the genomes of humans & rabbits, respectively?
And how did the microbes evolve in response to this?
PhD position @cpgsthlm.bsky.social with Anders Götherström and me as supervisors!
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And that’s a wrap for #aaba2026! Congratulations to the winners of our Outstanding Trainee Presentation Awards 2026 👏🏽🏆🥇We hope everyone had a wonderful conference and look forward to seeing you at the next meeting. Follow us for more updates throughout the year incl. AAAG events at other meetings. 🧬
Last but not least! Check out the genetics posters at today's late breaking session 28 starting at 5pm in Plaza Exhibits #AABA2026 www.xcdsystem.com/aaba/program...
Saturday morning session 32 features more awesome genetics and genomics! Check out talks on evolution, behavior, and adaptation starting 8am in Plaza A #AAABA2026 www.xcdsystem.com/aaba/program...
Join us for some good DNA themed conversation! #AABA2026
Fun times at AAAG cocktail hour! #AABA20/6
Join us for the AAAG cocktail event at historic Wynkoop Brewery 🍻today from 8 - 11 pm. We will have appetizers, cash bar and nerdy conversation! #AABA2026 directions below 👇
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Thanks to all the speakers who participated in our symposium today! If you weren’t able to make it ,watch this account for a thread 🧵 coming soon linking to our speakers’ work and discussing all we learned about domestication, metagenomes, tapeworms, woolly dogs and more! 🤓 #AABA2026 #aaba2026
Thanks to all the speakers who participated in our symposium today! If you weren’t able to make it ,watch this account for a thread 🧵 coming soon linking to our speakers’ work and discussing all we learned about domestication, metagenomes, tapeworms, woolly dogs and more! 🤓 #AABA2026 #aaba2026
Hey #AABA2026 are you interested in ancient DNA 🧬💀? Check out AAAG members' posters in today’s Session 12 on Ancient DNA and Population Histories starting at 4:30 pm www.xcdsystem.com/aaba/program... #aaba2026
Want to learn what DNA from animals🐕🐟🐋, insects🪲, worms 🪱 & microbes🦠 tells us about human evolution? Join us for today's AAAG/AABA Joint Symposium: Human-Associated Genomes in Anthropological Genetics organized by VP Andrew Kitchen starting 8am in Plaza A #AABA2026 www.xcdsystem.com/aaba/program...
AAAG members: reminder that our annual business meeting will be today 3/19 at 7pm in Governor's Square 16 #AABA2026 #aaba2026
Want more genetics 🧬? Check out Poster Session 8: Genetics and Genomics: Health, Physiology, and Comparative Insights TODAY in Plaza Exhibit Hall starting 5:30pm #aaba2026 #AABA2026 www.xcdsystem.com/aaba/program...
Today: Learn how AAAG members reconstruct human history and population dynamics in Session 12 starting at 1:30 pm in Plaza A #AABA2026 www.xcdsystem.com/aaba/program...
Good morning AABA! ☀️Don't miss AAAG members at Session 3 - Symposium: Post-Contact Evolution: Selection, Admixture, and Health in American Populations starting at 9:30 am in Plaza F #AAABA2026 #aaba2026
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AAAG: Check out emerging anthropological genetics scholars 👩🎓👨🏼🎓 in the COD undergrad symposium today at 6:30pm in Plaza Exhibits #AABA2026 #aaaba2026
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Networking event in full swing! Loving all the nerdy conversations 🗣️🔊 #AABA2026
Welcome to Denver 🏔️ Biological Anthropologists 💀🐒🧪⛏️🧬! We are looking forward to catching up with AAAG members at today's speed networking event! We will meet from 3.30 - 5.00 pm in Governor's Square 11 #AABA2026
Can't wait to see everyone at #AABA2026 😃 in Denver🏔️! AAAG 🧬has a great event lineup this yr including a cocktail event at Wynkoop Brewing 🍻 on Fri. Mar 20 🗓️! RSVP for this event here: aaag.wildapricot.org/event-6597192
AAAG students 🧑🏻🎓👩🎓👨🏾🎓going to #AABA2026: sign up to compete for the outstanding trainee presentation and poster awards 🏆by TODAY Fri March 13 at noon EDT 🕕. Submit your nominations using this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
⭐️AAAG members⭐️: The deadline to vote 🗳️in the 2026 AAAG elections is noon EDT, Wednesday, March 18. Use your member login to access the poll here: aaag.wildapricot.org/Sys/Login?Re...
🧬 NEW JOB: @york-bioarch.bsky.social is hiring a Postdoc in Ancient DNA
Work on the RoBMobS project to explore mobility and diversity in Roman Britain using genomic data.
💰 £37k - £39k
⏳ 34 months
📍 York, UK
📅 Apply by 24 March 2026
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The @scilifelab.se Ancient DNA Unit is recruiting a (permanent) Research Engineer for planning user projects and generating #aDNA 🧬 data:
Application deadline: March 25th 🧪🏺
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I am seeking a postdoc to join my group at UCLA -- ideally the candidate would have some experience in either population genetics or microbes/microbiome (computational background needed). We have a range of projects and are happy to tailer to your interests. Please dm/email me if interested.
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
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