🏺Broad, enticing discussion of recent archaeogenetics papers that have found evidence for matrlineal organisation of cemeteries at various times/places in the past, including Iron Age Britain, in some cases implying matrilocal residence patterns.
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Our institute @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social starting a new Masters program with the University of Leipzig. If you are a bachelors student graduating soon, and would like to get involved with our research during you MSc, consider applying :) www.uni-leipzig.de/en/studying/...
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/...
Figure 1 from Paabo et al 2026 paper, titled "A high-coverage Neandertal genome from the Altai Mountains reveals population structure among Neandertals". Image shows a map, photo of fossil fragment, and data on DNA. Caption text: "Neandertal D17 and its relationship with other Neandertals. (A) Locations of high-coverage Neandertal genomes used in the study. (B) Picture of the undiagnosed bone fragment from Neandertal D17. (C–F) Relative derived allele sharing between Neandertal genomes, computed using D-statistics of the form D-(ind1, ind2; ind3, Mbuti), where ind3 is either (C) Neandertal D17, (D) Neandertal D5, (E) Neandertal Chag8 or (F) Neandertal Vi33.19. In each panel, ind1 and ind2 are indicated at the Left and Right of the graph. Positive values indicate greater allele sharing between ind3 and ind1; negative values indicate greater allele sharing between ind3 and ind2. |Z-score| ≥ 3 are in red. (G) Schematic phylogenetic relationships among Neandertal D17, other archaic genomes, including the Denisovan D3, and modern humans inferred from autosomal DNA analyses using branch shortening and demographic modeling with cecast and F(A|B) statistics (SI Appendix, SI Appendix 6, 10, and 12). (H) Schematic mitochondrial (mt) DNA inferred from a Bayesian tree estimated using BEAST2 from previously published study on D17 mtDNA (11). (I) Y chromosome phylogeny as inferred from a Bayesian tree estimated using BEAST2 including previously published Y chromosomes of the Denisovan Denisova 8 (D8) and Neandertals Mezmaiskaya 2 (Mez2) (12) and Chagyrskaya 2 (Chag2) (7) (SI Appendix, SI Appendix 18).".
🧪🦣 🧬 New #Neanderthal genome just dropped!
Denisova cave male, c. 120 Ka, some Denisovan ancestry, and living in very small effective breeding population <50.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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 🧬🏺
Excited to share our new preprint on time-lagged F2-statistics, which informs about migration rates from ancient DNA data. Find a preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03...
The work was driven by Giulio Isacchini and Oskar Hallatschek. Proud to be part of it! […]
Natural History Museum. Apply for Principal Researcher in Human Evolution jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Happy me in front of the MPI for Empirical Aesthetics
Yay! This week I started working at the MPI for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt as a group leader. Lots of work ahead, but super exciting kind of work 🔥
As part of the Human Past Major Research Program (GPR), we are recruiting a Postdoctral fellowship in biology and taphonomy of Mesolithic and Upper Palaeolithic human fossils from the South-West of France W/M.
Recruitment process: Applications are reviewed as they arrive. Candidates selected for an interview will be contacted by the Recruitment Officer for a first pre-qualification phone conversation. An interview with the supervisor will then be organised by videoconference. Interested applicants should send a CV, brief statement of qualifications and basis for interest in the position, copies of up to 3 relevant publications, and the email addresses of 2 appropriate references.
b offer: https://www.u-bordeaux.fr/universite/travailler-a-l-universite/offresdemploi/postdoctral-fellowship-biology-and-taphonomy-mesolithic-and-upper-palaeolithichuman-fossils-south-west-france-wm or https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/413364 Please note that to be admissible, you must apply to the job offer or send e-mail with your documents at: job-ref-7lbvnelvoc@emploi.beetween.com
🚩 #joboffer two-year #postdoctoral position available at @pacea.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social
“Biology and #taphonomy of human #fossils from the Late #Paleolithic and #Mesolithic periods in southwestern France.”
contact: Bruno Maureille
The @scilifelab.se Ancient DNA Unit is recruiting a (permanent) Research Engineer for planning user projects and generating #aDNA 🧬 data:
Application deadline: March 25th 🧪🏺
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Have you ever wondered how many archaic populations contributed DNA to modern humans? We know about Neanderthals and Denisovans, but the fossil and genetic evidence suggests a much more complex history!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11.
www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...
Want to check your ancient DNA study for chromosomal aneuploidies? RChASM is now available for R, to screen for autosomal and sex chromosomal aneuploidies, such as Down syndrome on data from 0.0014X coverage.
We also wrote a step-by-step tutorial with examples:
jonotuke.github.io/RChASM/artic...
The final chapter of my PhD thesis, is finally published in GBE!
academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
You can also read the earlier recommendation by PCI in a nice little summary here: evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...
#palaeoproteomics #phylogenetics
📣Call for Applications‼️
ARTEMIS – African Research Talents Experiencing Mentoring In Science
📅Application Deadline: April 13, 2026.
👓Read all:
https://www.mpg.de/26122924/artemis-mentoring-programme
✍️Application:
www.mpg.de/26133233/MPG_ARTEMIS_202...
Are you a computational postdoc or even in the last year of your PhD and you want to set up your own lab? Want to work in one of the most multi-disciplinary and multi-national institutions in the world? Want to be a leader in understanding biology - molecules up? Apply below!
Mehmet Somel (Middle East Technical University, Turkey) will join us in Copenhagen to present a plenary talk on the latest advances in human evolution, at SMBE 2026.
Title: "Human societies past and present in light of ancient DNA"
#SMBE2026
My post-doc Charlotte King will be starting her own Minerva research group in September and is looking for PhD students. Click here if you are into experimental biomechanics, apes and hominin evolution.
www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Register now for our free online workshop on 10th March,
Applications welcome to be a PhD-student in my ancient DNA research programme at @crick.ac.uk:
🏰 Ancient human history in Europe and beyond.
⚕️ Statistical genetics to understand human biology with ancient genomes.
🦠 Pathogen genomics of past infections.
Apply at www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...
I participated in this summer school a few years ago and it was really fun. Highly recommend 👇
We are seeking two students: One would develop computational methods for the analysis of ancient DNA from sediments, and apply these tools to novel datasets. The second would generate and analyze aDNA data from archaeological sediments at a number of Holocene sites.
Are you interested in human DNA from ancient sediments? Do you want to do a PhD in Vienna? We have two open positions in our group! You can learn more and apply here (scroll down to the very bottom, ours are the last two listings): careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/s...
Being part of the ARTEMIS program last year was an amazing experience. If you are a scientist in a MPI, check out the new call! www.mpg.de/26122924/art... I am also very happy to see that the Bridging Minds Program will continue :) @maxplanck.de
New EkoEvo Bulletin is out! 📄 Big thanks to the Society for featuring our GLOSSAQUA dataset in the Research Highlights.
Check out the full issue:
EN: ekoevo.org/wp-content/u...
TR: ekoevo.org/wp-content/u...
🚨 Job alert! The University of Tübingen announces a W3 (Full) Professorship in Early Hominin Evolution in the framework of the DFG Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS':
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
Application deadline: 11.03.2026 🚨
We are looking for an enthusiast and motivated postdoc to join the Paleogenomics and Evolutionary Biology group at @liigh-unam.bsky.social, to lead a project working with human pre-hispanic samples. Interested candidates send a CV and letter of intent to fsanchez@liigh.unam.mx. Please #RT
Expressions of interest: Director at MPI EvolBio (f/m/d) — We invite expressions of interest from distinguished scientists in evolutionary biology with a bold, long-term research vision that complements our Institute. More information: www.evolbio.mpg.de/3856225/Dire...
The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön, Germany, seeks expressions of interest for open Max Planck Director positions. For details: http://www.evolbio.mpg.de/3856225/Directors #job