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

🚨 Join us in Uppsala and the lab of @trstngnthr.bsky.social as a 2 year fully funded bioinformatics postdoc with all Swedish social benefits etc!🧪

The project involves modern and #aDNA 🧬 in humans and sheep 🐑 to study adaptation. Application deadline: Oct 21st

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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.
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Despite our name, we are not just working on humans!

@germanha.bsky.social et al find traces of a rock dove 🕊️ (the wild relatives of domestic pigeons) hybrid zone during the Green Sahara and suggest that Western African pops represent a separate species 👇🏼

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

New paper on reference/mapping bias, its impact on estimating ancestry proportions and a a genotype likelihood to adjust for it in #aDNA studies:

doi.org/10.1093/g3jo...

by @trstngnthr.bsky.social et al

The Iceman Ötzi's genome was one of the first ancient human genomes sequenced. Now our former postdoc Myriam Croze et al present the population dynamics in his Alpine region from the Mesolithic to the Bronze Age 🧪🏺

Fun collaboration with Valentina Coia and others at EURAC

doi.org/10.1038/s414...

I'm thrilled to announce that our featured article, "Herders from the Green Sahara", was published in the 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵 magazine. Another great collaboration with Viktor Černý and Carina Schlebusch.

Free access here: livejohnshopkins-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...

A big congrats to Imke Lankheet + co-authors for this new publication on genetic ancestry in the South African Coloured population. We reveal fine-scale regional differences in SAC, shaped by complex history and social factors @schlebuschgroup.bsky.social

bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Thrilled to announce that Routledge has published our book chapter in #OpenAccess. This chapter is part of an outstanding 740-page book that examines the early events of the Bantu expansion in Africa using multidisciplinary perspectives, including genetics. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

Great to attend the #HumanEvo25 conference with Cesar Fortes-Lima and @a-solernunez.bsky.social, who gave an excellent talk and poster presentation representing the Schlebusch group and @humanevouu.bsky.social!

A popular science feature now available on our recently published Fulani study in The Conversation - Africa!

We have a new preprint! Mapping and analyzing nearly 5,000 full mitogenomes across Africa.
First major update on mtDNA distribution since Salas et al. 2002, "The making of the African mtDNA landscape." Congrats to Imke Lankheet and thanks to all collaborators!

📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very happy that our new article was published today in AJHG @ajhgnews.bsky.social. Great collaboration with Cesar Fortes-Lima, Yoro Diallo, Vaclav Janousek, and Viktor Cerny. "Population history and admixture of the Fulani people from the Sahel" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We have a postdoc position in Human Population Genetics available at the Center for the Human Past. Closing date 31 Jan. Please circulate and apply! More info and application available here:

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The scene is set for Pedro Morell Miranda @hjorvik.bsky.social to defend his thesis "Following the herd" with Dan Bradley, Trinity College Dublin, as faculty opponent.

New paper and ginormous effort from the Schlebusch lab!!! Cesar Fortes-Lima, Concetta Burgarella, Rickard Hammarén et al. analyzed thousands of modern and ancient samples across Africa to study "The genetic legacy of the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples in Africa" 🧪

Please add us, we are a group of Human Evolution researchers at Uppsala University www.iob.uu.se/research/hum...

New preprint by Atağ et al who sequenced 🧬 Cyprian+Anatolian mouflons 🐑 showing that they are closer to domestic sheep than other wild sheep groups, and discussing their conservation status

HumanEvoUU contributors: @hjorvik.bsky.social @maridehasque.bsky.social @trstngnthr.bsky.social

🚨 Not just one but two postdoc opportunities to work on African population history in the group of Carina Schlebusch

📆 Deadline Dec 15th, run don't walk!!!

More info: evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...

Gwenna Breton, Cesar Fortes-Lima and Carina Schlebusch contributed a chapter on central African demographic history to the #OpenAccess eBook "Luca Cavalli-Sforza’s Legacy, 100 Years After His Birth", eds. L. Chichi and G. Barbujani.

Published by Human Population Genetics and Genomics:

Our PhD student @hjorvik.bsky.social followed the old tradition of nailing his PhD thesis "Following the herd - population genetics of European sheep in time and space" to a wall yesterday.

His public defense will take place on Dec 8th at 13:15 with Prof Dan Bradley as external faculty opponent

New article from of Rickard Hammarén's PhD thesis showing that Eurasian back migration into NE Africa was complex and different populations experienced admixture at different times, at varying degrees, from different external sources.

with ST Goldstein and CM Schlebusch (no author on bluesky yet)

After the first episode, Mattias was also part of a discussion group "Historiskt eftersnack":

www.svtplay.se/historiskt-e...

Last night, the Swedish public broadcaster SVT 📺 started a new series on the History of Sweden (Historien om Sverige). The first episode on the Stone Age featured Helena Malmström and Mattias Jakobsson from our program.

The show is available online: www.svtplay.se/historien-om...