A very intriguing result in the new Y chromosome paper, one that you might miss unless you read the paper closely... 1/6 nature.com/articles/s4158…

Our work on the first Ancient DNA from Arabia gives insight into ancient populations and diseases of the region. 🧬☠️ #aDNA #MiddleEast #Bahrain biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Every once in a while, the actual rules of the liberal international order become terrifyingly clear. This shocks people of good conscience in the First World, while billions of others, who do not have the luxury of this ignorance, see awful confirmation of what they already know

PhD position in Human Population Genetics is available at the Human Genome Diversity Group Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE). Applications deadline: October 30th 2023. More info: biologiaevolutiva.org/dcomas/news/

I have been informed that I am being replaced as the Editor in Chief of eLife - the journal for retweeting a The Onion piece that calls out indifference to the lives of Palestinian civilians.

En este post se describe el proceso en el que a través de un apoyo financiero de Wenner-Gren Foundation se concibió y conformó la Red BALANCE, integrada hasta el momento por:

Lxs invitamos a seguir nuestro trabajo, a unirse a nuestra red y a seguir nuestras cuentas en medios sociales BALANCE facebook.com/23blan instagram.com/blanetwork/?im…

Position open! 3-y PhD from 1/Feb/24 or imm. thereafter. Project focus: analysis of ancient proteins from Plio-Pleistocene African hominins. You should be highly motivated, dynamic and competent in aDNA/protein analysis or palaeoanthropology, better both! employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=1602…

Apreendem na Espanha um contrabando de 6400 fósseis procedentes da Argentina. É o maior roubo de patrimônio cultural argentino na história recente. +

The 3 branches of science

O dinheiro gasto com militares inativos dá 6 vezes o orçamento da CAPES.

wonderful piece about a fantastic man lajicarita.wordpress.com/2024/02/17/in-…

New paper introducing RESHAPE, a method simulating genomes of hypothetical descendants that can be used as reference panels safeguarding against re-identification threats. Read more: nature.com/articles/s4358…. Great work done by Théo Cavinato!

large scale data mining in ethnographical records for hypothesis testing – my favourite paper of the year so far nature.com/articles/s4156…

I am deeply honoured to have our research featured by the National Geographic Society. Thank you very much National Geographic Society for this and all your support! linkedin.com/posts/national…

Plague was surprisingly abundant and widespread in Scandinavia in the period leading up to the Neolithic Decline. In fact, we found plague in 17% of the sampled population. Check out our new paper out in Nature today! nature.com/articles/s4158… #plague #NeolithicDecline #ancientDNA

Great symposium at #SMBE2024! Thank you chiara barbieri, Alessandro Achilli and John Lindo for organizing this amazing session! Thomaz Pinotti @ArangoEpifania

📣📣We have just opened a two-year postdoctoral position to work with us. The postdoc will focus on the analysis of aDNA and ancient proteins from human skeletal remains. For more details, please refer to the link: pica.cineca.it/uniroma2/

So so excited to see our paper on Thorin, a late Neanderthal man from Grotte Mandrin, out in Cell Genomics today! He belonged to a genetic lineage deeply diverged from other known late Neanderthals. Check it out here cell.com/cell-genomics/…

Published in 2009, bwa-aln is one of the oldest short-read aligners. It remains a popular choice for aligning ancient DNA reads. The following blog post explains the algorithmic reasons. lh3.github.io/2024/09/28/why…