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Hannah Moots
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Archaeology and Ancient DNA 🧬 Mobility in the Iron Age and Roman Mediterranean 🏺 Human-Environment Interactions 🌱 https://mootspoints.blogspot.com/
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Hannah Moots @mootspoints.bsky.social · Nov 22
The new episode of Tides of History is out today! It was truly a pleasure speaking with @patrickwyman.bsky.social about the Iron Age Mediterranean - everything from Carthage and the Phoenicians to the rise of Rome. wondery.com/shows/tides-...
Tides of History: S5 E102: Ancient DNA and the Iron Age Mediterranean: Interview with Dr. Hannah Moots
Ancient DNA has transformed our understanding of the more distant reaches of the human past, but what can it tell us about more recent ages of history? Dr. Hannah Moots has extensively investigated th...
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Liz Aguilar @liz-aguilar.bsky.social · 1h
I can’t think of a better reason to finally join Bluesky - my first first-authored paper is out! It being published in @science.org is surreal. This was a community effort in every sense, led by an incredible team with @rosvall-lab.bsky.social @mathcancer.bsky.social @juncowren.bsky.social
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Science Magazine @science.org · 1d
As the Moon eclipsed the Sun on 8 April 2024, birds took note.

Leveraging nature’s own experiment, scientists and the public joined forces to show how different species responded to sudden midafternoon darkness followed by a new “dawn.” Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/48WbhLL
As the Moon eclipsed the Sun on 8 April 2024, birds like these rock pigeons (Columba livia) took note.
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LBV Magazine @labrujulaverde.bsky.social · 12h
Charred Byzantine-Era Loaves of Bread with Greek Inscriptions Discovered in Anatolia www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/10/c...
Charred Byzantine-Era Loaves of Bread with Greek Inscriptions Discovered in Anatolia
An archaeological excavation campaign carried out at the Topraktepe site, corresponding to the ancient city of Irenopolis, has yielded a discovery of extraordinary scientific significance: five charre...
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Gabriele Russo @gabrieleru1.bsky.social · 1d
Turns out #hippos 🦛 lived in Europe much more recently than we thought!
Fossil & genetic evidence from Germany shows they roamed 50,000–31,000 years ago, right in the middle of the last #iceage 🥶🌨️
Same species as today’s African hippos, thriving during warmer periods.
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Ancient DNA and dating evidence for the dispersal of hippos into central Europe during the last glacial
Arnold et al. present evidence that Late Pleistocene hippos from the Upper Rhine Graben show close genetic ties to modern African hippos. Although hippos have been thought to have gone extinct around ...
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Pontus Skoglund @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social · 1d
PhD-opening in our ancient genomics lab this year, apply below!

We work on:
1. Genetic history integrated with archaeology and history
2. Natural selection and trait genetics
3. Evolutionary genomics of dogs and wolves
4. Ancient pathogen genomics
5. Hominin evolution and ancient proteomics
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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 8d
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 05 November 2025

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...
PhD students
Our PhD programme attracts the brightest scientific minds and is an opportunity for talented people to embark on their career in biomedical research.
www.crick.ac.uk
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April Wei @aprilwei.bsky.social · 2d
Excited to preprint our latest work (w/ Drew DeHaas, Zhibai Jia, Leo Speidel) on using ARGs for demographic inference. w/ applications using data from 1000 Genomes Project. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Inference of complex demographic history using composite likelihood based on whole-genome genealogies
Accurate parametric inference on complex demographic models is a continuing challenge in population genetics. Ancestral recombination graphs (ARGs) provide richer information than simple population ge...
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Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller.bsky.social · 2d
Me (to The Internet, everybody listening, or just looking my way for more than 5 sec): „Look what we did!“
I received the prints of our #RepresentationMatters publication yesterday evening. It’s not only a collection of papers on the way we reproduce and communicate our knowledge towards audience.
A middle aged white Woman with an red updo and big glasses holding a large book, title says diversity in visual representations of the past. Representation matters.
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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 4d
A rare Iron Age textile from Loch Tay preserved for thousands of years & thought to be the earliest of its kind - Scottish Crannog Centre - 📷 ©A. Palyvos.
Textile-making tools found at Trimontium 📷 ©NMS & TrimontiumTrust.

This weekend don't miss our Iron Age Textiles Workshop! zurl.co/AntJr
Image of the Crannog textile, collage of textile-making Roman and Iron Age tools Image of the Crannog textile, collage of textile-making Roman and Iron Age tools
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Nikolay Oskolkov @oskolkov.bsky.social · 6d
Our method, GENome EXogenous (GENEX) sequence detection, for identifying microbial-like regions in eukaryotic reference genomes is online in GigaScience track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...
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Hannah Moots @mootspoints.bsky.social · 7d
New interdisciplinary study from @cam-archaeology.bsky.social finds surprising continuity in daily life after the Black Death. Using osteology, isotopes, and genetics, they examine health, diet and everyday lived experiences within medieval Cambridge. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
More continuity than change following the Black Death epidemic in medieval Cambridge - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - More continuity than change following the Black Death epidemic in medieval Cambridge
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Jules Berardini @julesberardini.bsky.social · 7d
Congrats to Arianna and co. for a fab paper! Posth lab animal aDNA crew going strong 😋 Some nice damage correction software for non-UDG treated samples is also presented here- which I have had the pleasure of using in my thesis 🤩🧬🐎
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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 9d
Mitochondrial DNA from horses at the Middle Pleistocene archaeological site of Schöningen reveals insight into the evolutionary history of horses, and advances techniques for the analysis of ancient DNA retrieved from highly degraded samples 🧪🐴 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Mitochondrial genomes of Middle Pleistocene horses from the open-air site complex of Schöningen - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Mitochondrial DNA from horses at the Middle Pleistocene archaeological site of Schöningen reveals insight into the evolutionary history of horses and advances techniques for the analysis of ancient DNA retrieved from highly degraded samples.
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Ana Ignatieva @anaignatieva.bsky.social · 7d
Delighted that our paper about the distribution of genomic spans of clades/edges in genealogies (ARGs), and using this for detecting inversions and other SVs (and other phenomena that cause local disruption of recombination) is out in MBE academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... (1/n)
The Length of Haplotype Blocks and Signals of Structural Variation in Reconstructed Genealogies
Abstract. Recent breakthroughs have enabled the accurate inference of large-scale genealogies. Through modelling the impact of recombination on the correla
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Samantha López Clinton (she/her) @sam-siwatlaali.bsky.social · 9d
So excited to share a new paper I’m coauthor on which has just come out in Scientific Data: “Decoding the Peruvian Amazon with in situ DNA barcoding of vertebrate and plant taxa”
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Decoding the Peruvian Amazon with in situ DNA barcoding of vertebrate and plant taxa - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Decoding the Peruvian Amazon with in situ DNA barcoding of vertebrate and plant taxa
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 8d
Today's the big day, friends - my new book, Lost Worlds: The Rise and Fall of Human Societies from the Ice Age to the Bronze Age, is available for preorder! Smash that link and purchase from your retailer of choice, if that's the kind of thing you're into. www.harpercollins.com/products/los...
Lost Worlds
The creator of the hit podcast Tides of History offers a new look at humanity’s deep past, showing us how our world was built not by inevitability, but by t...
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Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos @dortizba.bsky.social · 8d
Excited to share our new paper in
@GeneticsGSA
! We developed "Retriever," a novel method that enables high-quality genotype imputation in non-model organisms. 🧬 Congratulations to Charles on his first PhD paper!

Paper: doi.org/10.1093/gene...

A thread 🧵👇
Chimeric Reference Panels for Genomic Imputation
Abstract. Despite transformative advances in genomic technologies, missing data remains a fundamental constraint that limits the full potential of genomic
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Dr Izzy Wisher @izzywisher.bsky.social · 11d
Time to update your Palaeolithic palettes... 🔵

Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺

doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Close-up image of a sand coloured stone, with a diagonal crack. The sand rock has a textured surface, and small spots of blue can be seen towards the centre of the stone. The background is grey. Microscopic photo of the blue spots, that are irregular in shape and size and positioned diagonally across the image. The rest of the photo shows the rough sand coloured texture of the stone.
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SPAAM @spaam-community.bsky.social · 11d
What lived in Arctic Norway ~80,000 years ago? ❄️🦌 Ancient sediments from a cave reveal 46 taxa of mammals, birds & fish — a unique cold-adapted coastal ecosystem. #MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
A 75,000-y-old Scandinavian Arctic cave deposit reveals past faunal diversity and paleoenvironment | PNAS
During the last glacial period (~118 to 11.7 ka), the Arctic has been characterized by a major redistribution of flora and fauna as a consequence o...
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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 12d
Very happy to see our pre-print on ancient Irish goat genetics on bioRxiv #aDNA #spiergorm

I want to acknowledge this was only possible through the work of the late Dr. Judith Findlater, along with Prof. Eileen Murphy at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social.
Old Goats: 3,000 years of genetic connectivity of the domestic goat in Ireland
The domestic goat likely first arrived to the island of Ireland as part of the introduction of agriculture approximately 5,900 years ago, and remains a part of the island's biocultural heritage. Howev...
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 15d
🧬🧬🧬 🦣❤️🦣 🧬🧬🧬

New #CpgSthlm paper led by @maridehasque.bsky.social published in Biology Letters!

Genomic and morphological analysis reveals long-term mammoth hybridization in British Columbia, Canada
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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · Sep 9
Here's the official #archInk2025 prompt list - 31 days of archaeological (illustration) prompts for October.

From pigment and bronze to provenance and afterlife, each prompt open to be explored through drawing or other techniques and mediums.

Ready to join in?
#archInk
Hand-drawn archInk 2025 prompt list on lined paper with archaeological tools scattered around the margins including pottery sherds, flint tools, brushes, and an ink bottle. The title 'archInk 2025' is written in orange and green lettering. Below are 31 numbered prompts organized in three columns: 1 Pigment, 2 Shell, 3 Residue, 4 Bronze, 5 Flint, 6 Horn, 7 Textile, 8 Stratigraphy, 9 Ivory, 10 Palimpsest; 11 Transformation, 12 Echo, 13 Pseudoscience, 14 Network, 15 Bioarchaeology, 16 Gatekeeping, 17 Ownership, 18 Exclusion, 19 Preservation, 20 Visibility; 21 Embodiment, 22 Provenance, 23 Absence, 24 Toolmark, 25 Reclamation, 26 Ephemeral, 27 Justice, 28 Looted, 29 Temporality, 30 Becoming, 31 Afterlife signed by @archaeoInk
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Iván Ramírez-Pedraza @ivanramirezpedraza.bsky.social · 21d
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Anne Stone @acstone.bsky.social · 20d
Adaptations to water stress and pastoralism in the Turkana of northwest Kenya | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Adaptations to water stress and pastoralism in the Turkana of northwest Kenya
The Turkana pastoralists of Kenya inhabit arid, water-limited environments and rely largely on livestock for subsistence. Working with Turkana communities, we sequenced 367 whole genomes and identifie...
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ASOR @asor-research.bsky.social · 25d
Friends of ASOR is pleased to announce our next webinar, "Visions of Antiquity: Paintings of Robert Duncanson and Sculptures of Edmonia Lewis" presented by Dr. Tasha Vorderstrasse, is on September 24 at 7:00pm ET. Register for the free webinar here: buff.ly/JdUpaud
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Samantha López Clinton (she/her) @sam-siwatlaali.bsky.social · 21d
Our new study is out!

We analysed 40 Malaise trap samples collected across Sweden by the Insect Biome Atlas project using #metabarcoding and #metagenomics

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Small Bugs, Big Data: Metagenomics for Arthropod Biodiversity Monitoring
We used metagenomic sequencing of 40 bulk arthropod samples collected across Sweden to classify taxa and compare results with metabarcoding from the same samples. While metabarcoding was more sensiti...
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Natanella Illouz-Eliaz @natanellae.bsky.social · 21d
Big thanks to Laura Tran for the wonderful coverage of our study in The Scientists Magazine! You captured and delivered the science in our work beautifully. Also big thanks to Lucia Strader for commenting on our findings! 🙏🏻 #STEM #PlantScience #Genomics

www.the-scientist.com/plants-boost...
Plants Boost Their Immune System to Recover from Drought
Plant biologist Natanella Illouz-Eliaz studies how the Arabidopsis plant responds to stress such as moderate drought. During drought recovery, the plant boosts its immune system and undergoes genetic ...
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wennergrenorg.bsky.social @wennergrenorg.bsky.social · 23d
Aanthropologists are facing unprecedented obstacles. Join Danilyn Rutherford, the President of Wenner-Gren, along with Foundation Anthropologists Dr. Brendane Tynes and Michael Muse, for a discussion of how Wenner-Gren is responding. wennergren.org/workshop/pro...
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