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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 20d

Labımızın mezunu @meerf.bsky.social, Gene Forum 2025 kapsamında düzenlenen Artur Lind Bursu video yarışmasında Büyük Ödül’ü kazandı! 🍻🥳
Tema: 2035’te Bilimde İnsan ve Yapay Zeka
🎬 Kazanan video “The Code”u izleyin: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyKn...

The Code

YouTube video by Merve Nur Güler

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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 20d

🏺🧪 Our alumni @meerf.bsky.social has won the Grand Prize in the Artur Lind Scholarship video competition at Gene Forum 2025!
🎥 Theme: Human and Artificial Intelligence in Science in 2035
Watch the award-winning video The Code: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyKn...

The Code

YouTube video by Merve Nur Güler

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Kayra @kayracanpolat.bsky.social · Aug 21

I will be presenting my poster: “The Population Genetic History of the Hittite Capital Hattusa” at #ESEB2025

📍Poster #273

If you’re around, please come by, ask questions or have a chat, and let’s talk ancient DNA & population genetics!

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Alice Piai @alicepiai.bsky.social · Aug 21

Amazing #eseb2025 talk!

CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · Jun 27

🧬In Neolithic Çatalhöyük, family was built on social relations rather than blood ties.
Genetic analysis shows that over time, co-residents were no longer genetic relatives. Female subadults were buried with 5x more grave goods.
🔍A surprising story of Neolithic social life.

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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · Aug 21

At #ESEB2025, Exploring Female Lineages & Mortuary Practices in Neolithic Çatalhöyük with insights from genomic & archaeological data.

Don't miss Eren Yüncü’s presentation at 02:00 p.m.!

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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · Aug 20

Siz yine de okumak isterseniz, ayrıntılar burada 👩🏻‍💻🤨🤓
bsky.app/profile/comp...

CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · Jun 27

🧬 Çatalhöyük'te aile kan bağıyla değil hayat ortaklığıyla kurulmuş!
Genetik analizler gösteriyor ki, zamanla aynı evde yaşayanlar biyolojik akraba olmaktan çıkıyor. Kız çocukları mezarlarda 5 kat daha fazla hediyeyle gömülüyor.
🔍 Neolitik sosyal yapının şaşırtıcı hikayesi.

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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · Aug 20

💀+🧬+🤖 = 🎬🔥
Makalemiz artık sadece okunmuyor, izleniyor! Kurgu değil, gerçek bilim 😍😎
Teşekkürler Hacettepe ❤️
@science.org
👇 Yapay zeka animasyonumuza acil bakın:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3_C...

Çatalhöyük Animasyonu

YouTube video by Hacettepe Üniversitesi

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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · Aug 18

Our genetic kinship estimation tool using deep learning is just out:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Our models trained on simulated data work effectively on real data from diverse backgrounds and often better than available tools. Congratulations @meerf.bsky.social and team!

DeepKin: Predicting Relatedness From Low‐Coverage Genomes and Palaeogenomes With Convolutional Neural Networks

DeepKin is a novel tool designed to predict relatedness from genomic data using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Traditional methods for estimating relatedness often struggle when genomic data i...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · Aug 5

Check this out 👇
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Ezgi Altınışık @ezgimou.bsky.social · Aug 5

🧪 🏺
Excited to co-organize a session with @mootspoints.bsky.social at #TRAC2025!
🧬 Integrating Ancient DNA with Archaeological Theory and Practice
We welcome papers on mobility, migration, & identity in the Roman world and beyond.
📢 Call for abstracts now open! Please spread the word.
#aDNA #science

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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · Jul 25

2) They assembled genomes of 65 individuals to near completion—including centromeres and the MHC—enabling accurate detection of 26,115 structural variants per genome for improved disease studies. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Complex genetic variation in nearly complete human genomes - Nature

Using sequencing and haplotype-resolved assembly of 65 diverse human genomes, complex regions including the major histocompatibility complex and centromeres are analysed.

www.nature.com

CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · Jul 25

1) They sequenced 1,019 genomes from the 1kGP cohort with long reads. Using linear and graph-based analyses, we uncovered SVs down to low allele frequencies—advancing beyond short-read population surveys. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Structural variation in 1,019 diverse humans based on long-read sequencing - Nature

Intermediate-coverage long-read sequencing in 1,019 diverse humans from the 1000 Genomes Project, representing 26 populations, enables the generation of comprehensive population-scale structural varia...

www.nature.com

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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · Jul 25

🚨 Big news! Our group member @asoylev.bsky.social co-authored two groundbreaking papers in @nature.com! 🧬
Here’s what they achieved 👇

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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · Jul 20

New preprint alert 🚨
The tiniest bone in the human body appears to have the best DNA preservation: "The mini yet mighty staples"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The mini yet mighty stapes: a comparison of ancient DNA yields among ossicles and the petrous bone

The petrous bone is considered the most efficient source of endogenous DNA across skeletal tissues in ancient DNA research as well as in forensic work. Recently, ancient DNA (aDNA) in auditory ossicle...

www.biorxiv.org

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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · Jun 29

neolitik dönemde tarımın kulaktan kulağa yayılması
@eksisozluk.com
eksisozluk.com/neolitik-don...

neolitik dönemde tarımın kulaktan kulağa yayılması

hem türkiye’den hem de dünya çapında oldukça ses getirecek iki çalışma bugün science dergisinde aynı anda yayımlandı. ikisi de odtü ve hacettepe üniversitesinden araştırmacıların öncülüğünde, erc des…

eksisozluk.com

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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · Jun 28

See the first author @dilekopter.bsky.social's post:
bsky.app/profile/dile...

Dilek Koptekin @dilekopter.bsky.social · Jun 26

Happy to share our new study from my PhD on the spread of farming across Anatolia and into the Aegean and then into Europe. @compevohumang.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Out-of-Anatolia: Cultural and genetic interactions during the Neolithic expansion in the Aegean

West Anatolia has been a crucial yet elusive element in the Neolithic expansion from the Fertile Crescent to Europe. In this work, we describe the changing genetic and cultural landscapes of early Hol...

www.science.org

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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · Jun 28

📜 This thread summarizes findings from our paper published yesterday in Science.
🔗 You can read the paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Out-of-Anatolia: Cultural and genetic interactions during the Neolithic expansion in the Aegean

West Anatolia has been a crucial yet elusive element in the Neolithic expansion from the Fertile Crescent to Europe. In this work, we describe the changing genetic and cultural landscapes of early Hol...

www.science.org

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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · Jun 28

This study highlights the remarkable adaptability and cultural creativity of Neolithic communities.
Change doesn’t always require crisis or mass migration.

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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · Jun 28

The takeaway:
Ideas sometimes travel faster and further than people.
The pot arrives, but the potter stays. Farming can spread like gossip — from neighbor to neighbor.

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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · Jun 28

Led by researchers from METU and Hacettepe, in an international collaboration, this study integrates ancient DNA with archaeology.
📊 Pottery types, stone tool morphologies, and architectural features were quantified and directly compared to the genetic data.

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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · Jun 28

This pattern is quite different from the farming expansion into Europe, which was largely driven by migration.
➡️ In Anatolia, farming spread sometimes with people, sometimes with ideas, and often with a mix of both.

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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · Jun 28

In other words, people stayed physically in place, but their culture changed dramatically.
Farming spread not through genetic mixing but through cultural transformation.

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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · Jun 28

But the archaeological record tells a different story:
🏺 Pottery, tools, and architecture change rapidly. People move from caves into houses, adopt new technologies, and begin farming.

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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · Jun 28

Genetic analyses reveal that the genomes of individuals living in western Anatolia 9,000 years ago show strong continuity with earlier local hunter-gatherers.
➡️ This suggests there were no large-scale migrations.

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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · Jun 28

This study is the first to combine genetic and archaeological data at scale and systematically to understand how farming spread from the Fertile Crescent into Anatolia and the Aegean.

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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · Jun 28

🌾 Agriculture didn’t always spread with mobility of people.
New ancient DNA research shows that in western Anatolia, while communities stayed put, farming and village life spread through the movement of ideas and practices.

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