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...
DNAharvester's workflow.
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...
😊 🥂👩🏻🔬
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...
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! 🚀
Himalayan Yak
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
The image is split into two sections. The left side features a quote on funding priorities by Sudip S. Parikh, AAAS CEO, with a small photo of the person below. The U.S. Capitol building is in the background. The right side shows a bar chart titled "Federal R&D FY26 + FY27 Appropriations in Billions." It compares requested and enacted funding amounts for NIH, NSF, DOE, and NASA in 2026 and 2027. Bars are color-coded to distinguish between 2026 requests, 2027 requests, and 2026 enacted law.
The U.S. administration released the FY 2027 Budget Request this morning, proposing deep cuts to science funding once again. While there are similarities in the proposed cuts between FY26 and FY27, the final FY26 appropriations show the impact of advocacy in action.
Saving SBE starts before the bill is written.
SBE needs a distinct FY27 appropriation. If your sch. is on the list, get a group of colleagues to meet w your House/Sen. offices. Esp. for Republican seats, direct constituent comms matter. Timeline/templates/updates:
www.paigeamormino.com/pages/9337
BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained.
That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social
The President's fiscal year 2027 Budget was released today.
Important---Important---Important
The President's Budget is always fundamentally a political document that Congress may or may not (usually not) take very seriously.
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
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Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences. In FY 2027, NSF will close-out this directorate. Continuing grants that align with Administration priorities, such as in behavioral and cognitive science, and all impacted employees will be transferred to other parts of the agency. The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics will operate independently of the directorates and continue to be supported through the R&RA appropriation.
Once again it is time to contract your representatives: The FY27 budget request for NSF (see nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...) would get rid of the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.
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!
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
You have a time machine. You go back 15 and a half thousand years ago. So people have dogs? Are they fed what people eat and are they buried alongside their humans?
We need answers to these burning doggy questions!
Two new studies of Neanderthal DNA from @massilanilab.bsky.social, @hrougier.bsky.social, @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social and others show our ancient cousins survived for millennia in small, geographically isolated groups. www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org 🧬🏺
Thank you all at #aaba2026 who stepped up to donate! It's not too late to pitch in to help build a community museum at Fort Ternan. Be a PaleoHero!
#AABA2026
Always important to support efforts to connect our science to the communities we serve. If you can help to build the Fort Ternan Museum please do so! #AABA2026
Check out these young scholars’ amazing work this week at #AABA2026 I also want to acknowledge that projects are the product of collaborative research with other collaborators and community partners and other lab members 👇📸Thanks to all and see you soon in Denver! (Fin🧵).
Also on Mar 20 in poster Session 12 PhD student Emmanuel Kipruto Ngetich co advised with @mcnultylab.bsky.social will present his innovative research reconstructing the genetic impacts of the Green Sahara 🌳🏝️period on African population genetic diversity 🌍🧬 (5/n) #AABA2026
Oops sorry that was supposed to be Friday March 20!
On Thurs. Mar 20 in poster Session 12 awesome PhD student Jaime Zolik will present her poster discussing experimental work assessing the Twist SNP enrichment assay’s performance on historic aDNA samples 🧪👩🏼🔬🥼🥽🥼🧬 (4/n) #AABA2026
www.nievescolonlab.org/about-jaime
Tomorrow Mar 19 in Symposium 3 rockstar PhD student Laura Pott will give a talk about her dissertation project which traces admixture patterns in historic 🧬💀 and modern Afrodescendants in Peru 🧬🙋🏿♀️🇵🇪 (3/n) #AABA2026
First up we have stellar undergrad Abby Holden presenting a poster in today’s COD undergrad symposium on her research investigating patrilineal y-chromosome ancestries in ancient Caribbean individuals 🧬💀👨🏽🇵🇷 (2/n) #AABA2026
www.nievescolonlab.org/about-abby
Friends and Colleagues! I am SO excited to catch up with you all this week at #AABA2026! Here is a quick 🧵summarizing what our 🧪🧬👩🏽💻👨🏿🔬👩🏼🔬🧑💻lab will be presenting at the meetings (1/n) @umncla.bsky.social @umnanth.bsky.social
www.nievescolonlab.org
🆕 HAAM Summer School 2026
📅 June 1-5, 2026
📍 Online
💰 Free
🧑🔬🧑💻 For Students & ECR
🔓 Applications open until April 13, 2026!
🔗 Apply here: forms.gle/ckqTgQxnEENJ...
3 people gathered around a poster presentation at Janelia's Research Campus
No-cost workshop opportunities for grad students, postdocs, & trainees! Our Janelia Research Campus is accepting applications for 3 specialized, intensive workshops with presentation & networking opportunities. Accommodations, meals, & travel expenses covered: bit.ly/4roghP6. 🧪
