
Tom Booth
@boothicus
Bioarchaeologist and amateur scarecrow. Ancient Genomics Laboratory @TheCrick
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https://www.crick.ac.uk/research/find-a-researcher/thomas-booth 08-05-2012 18:57:22
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PhD opportunity in computational population genetics at MPI-EVA Leipzig: Join our fully funded project to develop IBD-segment tools, connecting high-quality genomes from 500 Black Death victims to modern Europeans. 🌍💻🧬 Please spread the word! 📢🙌 eva.mpg.de/de/karriere/st…


Meet the #Sheffield Ancestors on Tuesday 10 December 7 till 9pm at Showroom Cinema room 5: People of the Peaks by Tom Tom Booth & Hunter Archaeological Society @PeakDistrict @PeakDistrictNT PeakDistrict Help Sheffield #sheffevents #Sheffieldissuper #DNA #Archaeology #Heritage #PeakDistrict


I'm delighted that CRYPT has been nominated for the Current Archaeology Book of the Year Awards! If you'd read and liked it, please vote for it here! archaeology.co.uk/vote


In this comment piece with James Fellows Yates | @[email protected] and Christina Warinner, we highlight the mounting problems with data archiving and metadata reporting in ancient DNA research. The field cannot afford to keep neglecting this issue. nature.com/articles/d4158…



👏👏 @arevsumer! Contains our IBD analysis led by Yilei Huang: Multiple really long 20cm++ IBD segments link the two record 45ky-old sequenced modern human sites Zlatý kůň (Czechia) and Ranis (Germany). Showing they are closely related - within few generations. 😮😮 (1/3)




Kicking off the new year, our paper by Leo Speidel et al. is out describing what to me is a breakthrough in ancient genomics. By using genealogies to study ancestry we can get much more resolution to study finer-scale history. We call this method Twigstats.



Very happy to share the results of my Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions project done at UCL Genetics Institute with Mark Thomas and Pontus Skoglund from The Francis Crick Institute. We used ancient DNA to reveal remarkably high genetic diversity in the region of modern-day Ukraine / Україна over the last 3,500 years until ~500 years ago.


Check out our Ancient Genomics Lab, including Pontus Skoglund, @boothicus and Frankie Tait, on tonight’s new episode of Digging for Britain. 🦴 Watch it now on iPlayer (from 46:00), or tune in to BBC Two at 20:00. bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…



Our new paper is out! Congrats to the whole team, especially the staff and students Bournemouth Uni who have been excavating this incredible site for 15 years (with much more left to uncover!) Widespread matrilocality in Iron Age Britain - Up Na Mná :) rdcu.be/d6mb0

The Durotriges An Iron Age people with women at the centre of power, kinship and land ownership A great report on our joint Trinity College Dublin Bournemouth Uni research project by Andrew Curry (spoke32.bsky.social) in Science Magazine science.org/content/articl…