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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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Greger Larson @gregerlarson.bsky.social · 14d

What's that? The story of East Asian pig domestication as told through ancient DNA? Yes please! Congrats to everyone on such a fantastic and overdue story! Pigs are so great.
doi.org/10.1093/molb...

Ancient Genomics Reveals the Origin, Dispersal, and Human Management of East Asian Domestic Pigs

Abstract. Pigs are the most commercially important modern livestock animal in East Asia. Numerous aspects of their domestication history remain unclear, ho

doi.org

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Human Evolution Research Program Uppsala University @humanevouu.bsky.social · 16d

Application deadline in less than a week! Apply to join the Uppsala Human Evolution team!

Human Evolution Research Program Uppsala University @humanevouu.bsky.social · Sep 5

We are recruiting an associate professor (senior lecturer) at our program in Human #Paleogenomics and #PopulationGenetics. Come and join the Uppsala team! Please see the ad for more information. Application deadline: Sept 30st.
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Associate Professor in Human Paleo- and Population Genomics - Uppsala University

Associate Professor in Human Paleo- and Population Genomics, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Faculty of Biology, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University

www.uu.se

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Torsten Günther @trstngnthr.bsky.social · 23d

I have funding for a 2-year dry-lab postdoc to join our team @humanevouu.bsky.social 🧪 (Deadline Oct 21st)

The project will utilize modern and #aDNA data from humans and sheep to study environmental adaptation (including method development and simulations).

Please share!
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Postdoctoral position in Population Genomics - Uppsala University

Postdoctoral position in Population Genomics, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University

www.uu.se

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Jas Rees @jasminrees.bsky.social · 23d

1/ So pleased to share our paper on genetic adaptation to micronutrients in humans! Our biggest conclusion? Trace minerals in the diet have shaped human evolution far more than previously appreciated 🧬🌍👇
www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex...

https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(25)00315-5

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · 24d

PhD Studentship alert!
I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia.
Details in the link below!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

University assistant predoctoral 1

jobs.univie.ac.at

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Chase W. Nelson 倪誠志 @chasewnelson.bsky.social · Sep 3

Announcing SimHumanity, a baseline SLiM 5.0 model of the full human genome, replete with demographic history, autosomes, X/Y, and mtDNA. A shared starting point for reproducible evolutionary simulations. We’d love your feedback! #SLiM #evolution #genomics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

SimHumanity: Using SLiM 5.0 to run whole-genome simulations of human evolution

The reconstruction of human evolutionary history has undergone repeated advances, each made possible by methodological innovations. In recent decades, genetic and genomic data played a central role in...

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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · Sep 5

I will be recruiting two PhDs for my ERC Project HERDPATH - let's discover out how livestock and pathogens evolved together using #aDNA. Projects will be animal or pathogen focused but will be in dialogue.

Details at my quaint website below. Deadline 3rd October.

kevingdaly.github.io

Ruminant Palaeogenomics - Kevin G. Daly: Ruminant Palaeogenomics

kevingdaly.github.io

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Evan Irving-Pease @evanirvingpease.bsky.social · Sep 5

Congratulations!

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Evan Irving-Pease @evanirvingpease.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Lucy van Dorp @lucyvandorp.bsky.social · Sep 1

Excited to say we’re hiring 😊. We’re looking for a post-doc in ancient pathogen genomics to join our friendly supportive team in London at @ugiatucl.bsky.social. Start date January 2026.

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · Aug 27

I wrote about gene-gene interactions (epistasis) and the implications for heritability, trait definitions, natural selection, and therapeutic interventions. Biology is clearly full of causal interactions, so why don't we see them in the data? A 🧵:

Beneath the surface of the sum

When genetic interactions matter and when they don't

open.substack.com

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Laurits Skov @lauritsskov.bsky.social · Aug 28

Are you interested in doing a PhD in Copenhagen? Interested in studying Neanderthals and Denisovans which live on in our genomes?
Than you are more than welcome to apply to join my group starting Jan 2026 :)

candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Please reach out if you have any questions!

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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · Aug 27

Shameless promotion from #isba11 - I'll be hiring PhDs to start early 2026 (plus postdocs starting later), using #adna to study livestock and pathogen coevolution, particularly looking at inbreeding and immune gene evolution!

Contact me at kevin[at]palaeome.org, full ad to come. Please share!

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Marios Georgakis @mariosgeorgakis.bsky.social · Aug 27

I'm often asked how human genetic data can be used to validate drug targets.

In our new ‪@natcardiovascres.nature.com‬ paper, we provide an end-to-end framework for genetically validating IL-6 inhibition for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease outcomes 🧵

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Fernando Villanea @fervillanea.bsky.social · Aug 21

Our paper on the evolution of MUC19 in humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans is finally out today in Science!

This has been a six-year effort by 13 authors to weave together 3 separate but related evolutionary stories around this one gene (more on thread 🧵).

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

The MUC19 gene: An evolutionary history of recurrent introgression and natural selection

We study the gene MUC19, for which some modern humans carry a Denisovan-like haplotype. MUC19 is a mucin, a glycoprotein that forms gels with various biological functions. We find diagnostic variants ...

www.science.org

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 19

1. The philosophy of science sometimes gets an unearned reputation as a purely academic exercise that offers little by way of concrete tools for advancing research.

This is wrong.

And today, as we grapple with how AI is changing the nature of scientific activity, it's desperately wrong.

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Detlef Gronenborn @dgron.bsky.social · Aug 15

It's out! 😀

THE MAP: EXPANSION OF FARMING IN WESTERN EURASIA, 9600-4000 BCE
2025.1

Regional updates, particularly 🇺🇦. Colour and greyscale resolutions, and much asked for colour code and legend.

@barbarahorejs.bsky.social @leizarchaeology.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social

zenodo.org/records/1688...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 12

Will's detailed thread about using Claude Code as a coding assistant parallels my experience using ChatGPT o.3 and o.4 as a proof assistant.

Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · Aug 12

Not sure how many scientists here have tried Claude Code or similar command line coding assistants. I had a complicated family property tax problem that was best solved by a brute force Monte Carlo simulation approach, so I spent a few days coding up and analyzing a model with Claude Code.

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Torsten Günther @trstngnthr.bsky.social · Aug 12

The @scilifelab.se ancient DNA unit is looking for an bioinformatician placed at Uppsala University. This is a great way to be part of diverse #aDNA research projects as a staff scientist with permanent (!!) employment:

www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Bioinformatician - Uppsala University

Bioinformatician, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University

www.uu.se

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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · Aug 10

I wrote about how genetic risk works in the context of embryo selection and how people often think about it all wrong. A short 🧵:

What we talk about when we talk about risk

How embryo selection exploits our flawed intuitions about risk

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Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · Aug 5

🧬🖥️ I am strongly of the opinion that bioinformatics needs to move away entirely from text-based and "loosely" structured file formats for essentially any type of data. File formats should be binary-first, and designed for *correct* and *efficient* machine parsing 1/3

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SPAAM @spaam-community.bsky.social · Aug 4

#MetagenomicsMonday Analysis of aDNA from 1313 ancient human remains spanning 37k years revealed that the rise of infectious diseases coincided with animal domestication around 65k years ago, with disease spread intensifying during pastoralist migrations.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The spatiotemporal distribution of human pathogens in ancient Eurasia - Nature

Screening shotgun-sequencing data from ancient humans covering 37,000 years of Eurasian history uncovers the widespread presence of ancient bacterial, viral and parasite DNA and zoonotic pathogens…

www.nature.com

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Torsten Günther @trstngnthr.bsky.social · Aug 4

Results of our (extremely long-term) side project with @amygoldberg.bsky.social and @jgschraiber.bsky.social out now in G3: doi.org/10.1093/g3jo...

We benchmarked methods for estimating ancestry proportions under mapping bias and present an adjusted GenotypeLikelihood to mitigate its impact (1/2)

Estimating allele frequencies, ancestry proportions and genotype likelihoods in the presence of mapping bias

Abstract. Population genomic analyses rely on an accurate and unbiased characterization of the genetic composition of the studied population. For short-rea

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Pontus Skoglund @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social · Aug 1

New postdoc opening in our lab: crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job... Don't hesitate to send in your details or contact me if interested!

Postdoctoral Fellow - P Skoglund Lab

Salary for this Role: Salary: From £45,500 per annum with benefits, subject to skills and experience. Job Title: Postdoctoral Fellow - P Skoglund Lab Reports to: Pontus Skoglund Closing Date: 20/Aug/2...

crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com

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