The @scilifelab.se Ancient DNA Unit is recruiting a (permanent) Research Engineer for planning user projects and generating #aDNA 𧬠data:
Application deadline: March 25th π§ͺπΊ
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
New article from the AviArch Project (Ramazan ParmaksΔ±z, Beatrice Demarchi, Lisa Yeomans) on the archaeological avifauna of Turkey and the identification of its remains (bone and eggshell) using palaeoproteomics π¦π¦’π¦ @archaeobiomics.bsky.social #Aviarch
#AaRCademy is back with another animal #aDNA workshop. This time, @jolijnerven.bsky.social will showcase the state-of-the-art methods to explore the relatedness between our samples. Join us online on April 16th, 14:00 CET!
Can safely way this is the craziest and coolest study I have led. We chart the evolution of sheeppox virus, finding it in the Eurasian steppe ~3700 years ago, and also in a LOT of parchment from medieval Europe (made from a range of animals skins!) #aDNA
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... π§΅π
Rachidatou Amadou Hassane, Γ©tudiante de l'UniversitΓ© de Niamey π³πͺ peignant une reconstitution d'un crΓ’ne de Spinosaurus mirabilis au Fossil Lab @paulserenoofficial.bsky.social de l'UniversitΓ© de Chicago.
#FossilFriday & happy to see coworker & coauthor Erin Fitzgeraldβs culmination of fierce fieldwork, ace preparation of difficult material & great paint job on the display-skull, out now w/ Spinosaurus mirabilis, debuting @ Chicago Childrenβs Museum on March 1
#SciArt
Couverture du magazine Science montrant une illustration de Dani Navarro de deux Spinosaurus mirabilis se disputant une proie.
β οΈ ALERTE nouvelle espΓ¨ce de spinosaure. Celle-ci est particuliΓ¨rement Γ©lΓ©gante avec une crΓͺte magnifique sur le haut de la tΓͺte. Elle est dΓ©crite par une Γ©quipe dirigΓ©e par @paulserenoofficial.bsky.social avec des membres de @cr2p.bsky.social @recherche.mnhn.fr
β‘οΈ doi.org/10.1126/scie...
π¨NEW SCIENCE ALERT!π¨Our paper, led by Dr. Paul Sereno, is now available in @science.org! We describe a new African #dinosaur species with a unique cranial crestβSpinosaurus mirabilis. Beautiful #paleoart by Dani Navarro graces the cover of the February 19 issue!
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
New #aDNA Paper Alert from @martynamolak.bsky.social and team!
In the #LateRomanPeriod #MasΕomΔcz, now in eastern Poland, gathered people from all corners of Europe!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Not quite the same, but my hometownβs hockey team is named after a fossil! www.atlasobscura.com/places/bridg...
Congratulations!! Excited to read it! I can't seem get the link to work though
Aerial lidar, which can map large areas even beneath dense vegetation, is often celebrated as a revolutionary archaeological tool.
But a new article in American Antiquity argues remote-sensing technologies like lidar can also function as tools of extractivism and colonialism. π§΅1/6
Fascinating βwhole townβ approach to medieval Cambridge with amazing isotopes by @alicekensa.bsky.social! Charting diet & social status from the 10th-16th century! π§ͺβοΈπ° #MedievalSky
Civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate Jesse Jackson has died. His work and activism "contributed to making this country more democratic, more inclusive, more fair," says Howard University professor Clarence Lusane.
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/17/remembering_jesse_jackson
Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has passed away at the age of 84. My thoughts are with his family.
I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.
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...
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.
π§¬SedaDNA Postdoc positionπ₯ 2 years Starts 2026, apply by 1st March.
Join Aleks Pluskowski at Reading & me at NHM. jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
Step into the world of the Etruscans on Society Sunday! Join the AIA Societies Committee for a virtual talk and live Q&A with Dr. Jessica Tilley on how Etruscans moved from βmysteryβ to the center of modern archaeology.
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Feb 22, 2026 I 1pm ET
Register: buff.ly/PU2qOFs
A figure depicting continental drift from when Gondwana existed to present day, with continents and countries colored according to the ratite species that occur or occurred on them. Next to that is a cartoon of a phylogeny that we would expect support for if continental drift explained patterns of species occurrence and relatedness. And next to that is a cartoon of the phylogeny supported by the genetic data presented in this paper, which demonstrates that closely related species must have traveled great distances after Gondwana broke up, after which flightlessness evolved, and that this happened more than once.
This paper is a great for teaching phylogenetic trees.
"Ancient DNA reveals elephant birds and kiwi are sister taxa and clarifies ratite bird evolution"
Clearly written. It discusses hypotheses of relatedness among species via continental drift vs genetic data. π§ͺ
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
New preprint on bioRxiv: an evaluation of epigenetic age-at-death inference in ancient human DNA, highlighting current limitations and future directions.
Excited and proud π to share the final chapter of @hjorvik.bsky.social 's PhD thesis:
Seven Millennia of Human Exploitation drove genomic Changes in Iberian Sheep
Comments welcome! π§¬π§ͺπΊπ
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
π§΅(1/8)
𧬠Now published in Bioinformatics Advances: "pygenstrat: A Python package for EIGENSTRAT data processing" by @dilekopter.bsky.social
Full article available: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbag022
Job alert! 3 year post doc in my research group at University College London working on Roman Leather via biomolecular archaeology. #ZooMS #stableisotopes
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ187/r...
Today on Ancient Office Hours, Dr. Lindsey Mazurek, an Associate Professor of Classics at Indiana University Bloomington, discusses her interests in Roman provincial archaeology, ancient migration, and the implications of migration on social and political dynamics in ancient civilizations.
Our new study is out!
We analysed DNA preserved in buried river sediments and Neolithic sites (Serbia), uncovering past landscapes and traces of sturgeon populations. Read more about our findings and the challenges in such complex and dynamic contexts: doi.org/10.1038/s415... @mikkelwp.bsky.social
Interested in using aDNA time-series datasets to estimate selection?
Our study "Assessing Ancient DNA Sampling Strategies for Natural Selection Inference in Humans Using Allele Frequency Time Series Data" is now out in GBE! doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... @genomebiolevol.bsky.social @cegamorim.bsky.social
