Really excited to share our new paper on the Early Iron Age mass grave at Gomolava (9th c. BCE), a study I had the pleasure to work on during my PhD with an amazing group of co-authors across multiple disciplines. Open access link: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇
Motivated graduates with backgrounds in biological or biomedical sciences, physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering and/or computer science are invited to apply to our 4-year fully funded PhD programme.
Apply by 17 March 2026.
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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...
📣 The @scilifelab.se #ddls postdoc (2yrs) offers a great community + training + all social benefits!
Happy to discuss your own project ideas! I also have some ideas on ARGs, pangenomes or biobank-scale datasets 🧬🐏🧪🖥️
Deadline is Mar 31 but some admin things need to be handled well in advance!
At least we know the rest of the year will be uneventful...? 🙃
I've slowly been reformatting notes from my population and conservation genetics course at Montana State University into a web book—a rough draft is now live here: elinck.org/popgen_conge...
🧬 #Bioinformatics AEGIS #PostdocJobs in metagenomic pipelines & HPC: Ancient Environmental Genomics at @ucph.bsky.social to reconstruct ecosystems and develop climate-resilient crops. 🌍
Deadline: Jan 4, 2026.
Mikkel Winther Pedersen (mwpedersen@sund.ku.dk)
#AcademicJobs #aeDNA #ClimateChange
Graph of the results of principal component analysis, displaying the Worth Matravers individuals, alongside other early medieval aDNA samples from England (yellow squares; Gretzinger et al. 2022) and contemporaneous North African individuals (blue triangles; seventh to eleventh centuries AD Guanches from the Canary Islands; Rodríguez-Varela et al. 2017). Modern samples (grey crosses) from West Eurasia and West/North Africa are shown in the underlying plot. Whilst almost all the individuals from early medieval England fall neatly within the range for modern west Europe, one (EAS003) is in the range for modern west/north Africa.
Exploring your family history this #NationalRootsDay? Ancient DNA can tell us a lot about family relationships in the past.
DNA analysis of early medieval burials in England even found an individual with a grandparent from West Africa!
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Just want to point out that both the Guardian and the BBC used "man" in their coverage of this research today.
If you want science news that doesn't employ anachronistically gendered language, be sure to read us at @livescience.com. 😘
Please welcome the HAAM steering committee for the period 2025-2026 🎊. We are looking forward to the following year!
we made a tool!
ybyra is a lightweight, flexible Y-chromosome haplogroup caller. It is faster, easier to tune and more robust than other tools particularly for low-coverage or ancient DNA data. And it has lots of detailed output – including plots!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Last week we had a great meeting on "Ancient genomes: perspectives on human biology and medicine" at the @royalsociety.org and the @crick.ac.uk.
It was an amazing set of talks and posters. Thanks to the @gensocuk.bsky.social, co-host @janetk.bsky.social and all participants for a great day!
Specifically, the calling of genotypes and thus the calculation of polygenic scores in the degraded DNA is not straight-forward, leading to questions about the reliability of high profile results (eg www.nature.com/articles/s41... ).
Putting aside the deeper issues of why this analysis was done and how it has been promoted, the choice to broadcast a tv show before releasing a preprint should make people skeptical of the results. How can one be sure of their scientific claims?
Join us for an extraordinary evening with Nobel Laureate Svante Pääbo!
Prof Pääbo will present a FREE public talk titled “Of Neanderthals and Denisovans, and how they live on in many of us” at the @crick.ac.uk.
Register here: genetics.org.uk/events/of-ne...
PhD-opening in our ancient genomics lab this year, apply below!
We work on:
📜 Genetic history integrated with archaeology and history
📈 Natural selection and trait genetics
🐺 Evolutionary genomics of dogs and wolves
🦠 Ancient pathogen genomics
💀 Hominin evolution and ancient proteomics
If you work with #aDNA in or around London, you might be interested in joining us this Wednesday for a talk from @boothicus.bsky.social on integrating archaeology and ancient DNA, the first of this year's talk series organised by the London aDNA Network! Get in touch if you'd like to come along!
I have funding for a 2-year dry-lab postdoc to join our team @humanevouu.bsky.social 🧪 (Deadline Oct 21st)
The project will utilize modern and #aDNA data from humans and sheep to study environmental adaptation (including method development and simulations).
Please share!
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Congratulations Kevin!! 👏🎉
What a week! 🎉 Big thanks to @isba11.bsky.social for hosting an incredible ISBA conference — so well organized and full of great science.
🚨JOB ALERT!🚨
Postdoc position at #CpgSthlm on Microtine Palaeogenomics!
Join our deep-time genomics project, funded by @erc.europa.eu, and help us explore lemming and vole evolution using ancient DNA from fossils spanning the last 2.6 million years 🐭🦴🧬
Apply here:
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Purple pollen visible in a dissected flower of Linum grandiflorum, flowering flax, an insect-pollinated species.
*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University*
We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5
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@isba11.bsky.social
Super happy and proud for @marialopopolo.bsky.social and @avanzich.bsky.social who got the prize to the best paper at #ISBA11 in Turin.
Thanks to the jury for this honor!
Shameless promotion from #isba11 - I'll be hiring PhDs to start early 2026 (plus postdocs starting later), using #adna to study livestock and pathogen coevolution, particularly looking at inbreeding and immune gene evolution!
Contact me at kevin[at]palaeome.org, full ad to come. Please share!
📣 #HAAMcommunity is looking for early career researchers working on human #aDNA & #popgen for the upcoming elections 🌎🌍🌏
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or want to chat about this. Apply here (ignore the deadline in the form): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
💻🧬 The Swedish Museum of Natural History is seeking a bioinformatician. Permanent position, 70-80% of the time should be dedicated to supporting day-to-day activities and long-term research of research groups. 20-30% for their own research.
Please share widely!
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📢 We're excited to launch our AaRCademy Workshop Series kicking off October 7th online!
🧬Our first session, "aDNA Data Processing", will be led by Nikolay Oskolkov from Lund University.
📅 Registration closes September 7th! Sign up via the QR code or link below.
#aDNA @aarc-community.bsky.social
Board The AaRC at @isba11.bsky.social !
Very excited to have a great mix of speakers at the animal #adna community meeting
If you'd like to join us 26th August for talks, a roundtable discussion and networking, a link is in the threads (ignore mention of abstract!)
@aarc-community.bsky.social
The findings are detailed in two research articles, one on each grave, both available to read 🆓
Updown: doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Worth Matravers: doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
10/10
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🏺 #Archaeology
Plan of the cemetery at Updown, Kent, showing the burials sampled for aDNA and grave goods such as a spoon, comb and pottery. Graves containing related individuals are coloured red.
The findings add a new dimension to understanding long-distance movement and demographic interaction involving Britain during the Early Middle Ages. They emphasise the cosmopolitan nature of early medieval England and point to a diverse population with far-flung connections 9/10
