Poster announcing a talk titled "SPATIAL INFERENCE OF POPULATION STRUCTURE AND PREHISTORIC HUMAN MOBILITY FROM ANCIENT AND MODERN GENOMES" at the HEAS Seminar Series by Stephan Schiffels (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany), March 23rd 2026 at 10:30 CET. Location: UBB 5.1 University of Vienna.

On my way to Vienna (with punctual trains!) to visit University of Vienna. I will give a talk in the Human Evolution and Archaeological Sciences seminar (HEAS) series tomorrow.

#adna #populationgenetics

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Detailed preprint on the genetics of early farming (TRB-Funnelbeaker associated) and persistent hunter-fisher-gatherer (Pitted Ware-associated) communities on Gotland. Discusses patterns of genetic relatives in both groups, admixture between the groups...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

For anyone interested in the intersection of genetics, ancestry, evolution, and societal structures this week's workshop will be a treat! Featuring @evoroseman.bsky.social

Can you explain/elaborate further?

You're a natural, @boothicus.bsky.social ! Was a fun watch.

Dr Tom Booth, last human on the right on the "Who Are Our Ancestors And Why Does It Matter?" panel Michael Bowles | The Francis Crick Institute

Dr Tom Booth, on the right on the "Who Are Our Ancestors And Why Does It Matter?" panel Michael Bowles | The Francis Crick Institute

A belated welcome to @boothicus.bsky.social Dr Tom Booth

See & hear Tom on "Who Are Our Ancestors and Why Does It Matter? – A Question of Science with Brian Cox

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📲 profiles.ucl.ac.uk/104583-tom-b...

📸 Michael Bowles | The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk

The genomics of modern human biological uniqueness (BERGSTROM_U26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership Modern humans are unique as a species, having spread widely and transformed the world with technology and large-scale societies. But until relatively recently (~50,000 years ago)…

A PhD project in human genomics with me is open for applications through the @nrpdtp.bsky.social. Use biobank-scale genomics datasets to answer long-standing questions about the evolution of our species: biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/the...

Insights into infectious diseases through ancient pathogen genomics - Nature Reviews Microbiology In this Review, Kocher, Krause and Spyrou explore how ancient pathogen genomics is providing new perspectives on the history and evolution of infectious agents. They show how ancient DNA has revealed ...

For anyone interested in ancient diseases (either historical or prehistoric) here's an excellent, readable, comprehensive summary of where we are with ancient pathogen DNA.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hard missing the old twitter days. It’s a bit icky that a lot of interactions amongst academics now happens on linkedin… eventhough bluesky could absolutely be the twitter of old, people just aren’t engaging like they used to. Hope it changes…

Picture of 6 postgrad students sat at a table in a lab studying bones. Text says: The UCL Palaeoanthropology and Palaeolithic (PaPa) MSc programme is an established, pioneering course in human origins delivered by a world-leading university. It will bring you a deep and expert understanding of the scientific record of human evolution which powerfully combines opportunities for the study of palaeolithic archaeology, palaeoanthropology and wider scientific approaches to the early human story.

Interested studying human evolution at @ucl.ac.uk with a dedicated MSc in palaeolithic archaeology, palaeoanthropology, Ice Age fauna, isotopes, aDNA, ancient environments & more?
Get in touch for a chat or even a tour of the department with me.
@uclarchaeology.bsky.social #PaPa
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Historical genomics of the declining red squirrel in Britain | Aries Dr Anders Bergström, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia Professor Cock van Oosterhout, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia Dr Selina Brace…

A PhD project on historical genomics in the declining red squirrel in Britain is available in my group, through the @aries-dtp.bsky.social. Use historical genomes to track the effects of decline and genetic rescue in this charismatic species. aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships...

This is out now:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Association between lactase persistence and height in the past (indicating people with the persistence allele were better nourished by drinking milk than those without it) provides a potential explanation for why it was under strong selection.

Biomolecular Humanities Autumn Workshop 4 10 Dec: Philosophy of science/ populations in genetic and aDNA research, led by Matthew Williams

Register (free) for the workshop here to access the zoom link! www.eventbrite.com/e/biomolecul...

This workshop will examine how fundamental evolutionary forces intersect with social structures governing reproduction and population formation to influence the distribution of genetic variation and how these have significant implications for how we conceptualize race and ancestry today.

... and its implications on modern conceptions of race and racism. His current research focuses on the genetic basis of skeletal morphology.

Charles is an associate professor at the University of Illinois who has worked on projects examining the divergence times of modern humans and Neanderthals, relative signatures of natural selection and genetic drift shaping human morphology, and the philosophical nuances of evolutionary theory..

I’m really excited to be hosting @evoroseman.bsky.social for a 1 hour online workshop for the Biomolecular Humanities group on December 10th (8am to 9am PST : 11am to 12pm EST : 5pm to 6pm CET) on the intersection of evolutionary theory, demography and race/ancestry!

Don't miss Ancient DNA: New Revelations, a free, public CARTA symposium! 🧬💡

Friday, November 7, 2025 1:00–5:30 PM (Pacific)

In-person at the Salk Institute & Live Webcast

For more details and registration, visit: carta.anthropogeny.org

#carta #cartaucsd #ancientdna

Modeling the European Neolithic expansion suggests predominant within-group mating and limited cultural transmission - Nature Communications The Neolithic Revolution marked an important shift from foraging to farming in human society. Here, the authors show that in Europe the spread of farming involved mostly within-group mating and limite...

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Useful paper from @mp-williams.bsky.social and co. showing different modelling of the spread of Neolithic farming across Europe. Explores different rates and mechanisms of cultural transmission and suggests as migrants with origins in Anatolia moved across…

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thanks @boothicus.bsky.social! this was, for me, one of the most intriguing outcomes... was excellent work by PhD candidate Troy LaPolice.

The AADR Visualizer: An ArcGIS Online Visualizer for ancient human DNA from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource AbstractMotivation. The AADR Visualizer is designed to be a public, user-friendly, web-based graphical user interface for visualizing and filtering ancient

The AADR Visualizer: An ArcGIS Online Visualizer for ancient human DNA from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

🏛️ Still unsure how to spend your afternoon in Turin 🇮🇹 before @isba11.bsky.social starts, come to our #HAAMmeeting @Complesso Aldo Moro and meet young & inspiring researchers!
💻 If you're not in Turin, you can join us online, too.
📖 DM us! #aDNA #HAAMcommunity @isbarchaeology.bsky.social

It's out! 😀

THE MAP: EXPANSION OF FARMING IN WESTERN EURASIA, 9600-4000 BCE
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Regional updates, particularly 🇺🇦. Colour and greyscale resolutions, and much asked for colour code and legend.

@barbarahorejs.bsky.social @leizarchaeology.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social

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NIH is accepting comments about limiting research publication costs. 1. Disallow pub costs, 2. $2K limit, 3. $3K if reviewers are compensated, 4. 0.8% of award (so $250K grant can pay $2K/year on pubs), 5. $6K limit on pub + limit on % of grant spent on pub costs. 🧪

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This is a great read - it nails a whole bunch of ways in which LLMs simply don’t ‘think’, let alone at a ‘PhD level’.

The genetic history of the Southern Caucasus from the Bronze Age to the Early Middle Ages: 5,000 years of genetic continuity despite high mobility Ancient DNA from the Southern Caucasus reveals remarkable genetic continuity, with some mixing from Anatolia/Iran and the Eurasian Steppe, and shows that even periods of urbanization and increased mob...

Our aDNA time transect centered on modern Georgia is out! 🧬

Genetic continuity over 5000 years, but some Bronze Age gene flow and urban outliers since Antiquity - including some with artificially deformed skulls 💀 linked by IBD segments to Asian nomads.

#aDNA #PopGen

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But perhaps most critically, it’s (imo) irresponsible to attribute this to *science* as a whole; suggesting it’s a monolith when things like the image duplication retractions are pretty limited to a unique corner of science under sleuth spotlights.

Logo for the Genomic History Inference Strategies Tournament.

If you're new to demographic history inference from population genomics, try this webapp I created to illustrate how dadi fits bottleneck models to site frequency spectra: ryangutenkunst-dadi-two-epoch.hf.space . It even outputs files for submitting to the GHIST competition! ghi.st

🧬🏺Calling everyone interested in the intersection of archaeological theory and ancient DNA!

Thrilled to be co-organizing a session for #TRAC2025 with @ezgimou.bsky.social

The virtual conference will be held October 22 - 24 and the call for abstracts is now open. Come join us!

Upcoming Conferences TRAC 2025 The 33rd Theoretical Roman Archaeology ConferenceWe are pleased to announce that TRAC 2025 conference will be held between 22nd and 24th October 2025 in an online format through the Gathe…

TRAC 2025 will be held from 22nd to 24th October 2025 in an online format via the Gather Town platform. Here is the link for further info: www.trac.org.uk/upcoming-con...