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Traces of ancient empires that stretched across Africa remain in the DNA of people living on the continent, reveals a new genetics study led by PhD candidate Nancy Bird with Dr Garrett Hellenthal UCL Genetics Institute UCL Biosciences. Read more in 🧵 from Nancy 👇ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/mar/…

'It’s vital that scientists analyse more genomes from African people. As we do so, it will undoubtedly reveal an intricate picture of the continent’s rich past.' Check out my article in the Conversation summarising some of the findings of our recent paper!!

I passed my PhD viva on Tuesday! 🎉🎊🎉🎊Thanks so much to my examiners Sandra Beleza and Dallas Swallow for an enjoyable discussion!!!

🧵We have a new open access paper out in Evolution Letters! The evolutionary demise of a social interaction: experimentally induced loss of traits involved in the supply and demand of care: doi.org/10.1093/evlett… Rebecca Kilner Rahia Mashoodh Nancy Bird 1/12 Photo ©Jack M Smith

…brilliant talks by Dr. Sarah Tishkoff @rfregel Nancy Bird and Getnet Yimer. Ready to kick off day 2 at National Museums of Kenya 🧬💀🇰🇪🌍

To this group of people who traveled to Nairobi for #DNAirobi, I am grateful for you and inspired by you.. We took a huge step toward building a future of ethical, engaged, and equitable scholarship and I could not be more proud. Onwards! 🧬💀🇰🇪 🌍

With #Pint23 for sure! Happy to be speaking together with Nancy Bird , Catherine Walker and Ruairidh Macleod! pintofscience.co.uk/event/who-do-y…

Had a great time with amazing colleagues Nancy Bird, Catherine Walker and Ruairidh Macleod from UCL Genetics Institute UCL mace-lab yesterday at Pint of Science UK speaking about my Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions postdoc work! Thanks so much for organising, Sam! #pint23 #MSCA

Check out this article about our recent paper investigating African history using genetics, also available in French! nature.com/articles/d4414…

🌍 Researchers at UCL published a new study in Science Magazine that revealed traces of ancient African empires in the DNA of people living on the continent, that help identify early migration patterns. Read more: 👇🏻 go.nature.com/43mJEWm #NatureAfrica #Africa Nancy Bird

Do social behaviors irretrievably decay when they aren’t expressed for many generations? doi.org/10.1093/evlett… Read more in a recent article in Evolution Letters by @eleanor_bladon, Sonia Pascoal, Nancy Bird, Rahia Mashoodh, and Rebecca Kilner 🪲 📷: Jack M Smith

Currently advertising for a 3-year, Wellcome Trust-funded post-doc position at UCL: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se… aiming to disentangle the interplay between environmental pressures and our epigenome -- please inquire and/or pass along!

Our first group output from the #DNAirobi workshop is now published! Written by co-authors from all over the world, we share our view for what the #popgen and #aDNA research landscape in Africa could look like in ten years’ time (and how we can get there). cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/…

Thank you everyone! #smbeBeyond

The second speaker is Nancy Bird from UCL on ‘Genetic data uncovers historical migrations in people from West and Central Africa’ Nancy Bird UCL Biosciences

It's a wrap! #EESHuman finished lunch time today and everyone is already on their way back 😭 We wish we could all stay for another couple of days – no matter how much time we have, it's never enough and there's always more research to discuss! 🧬🤓 See you next time? 👋🏼