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Sandra Oliveira @sandra-oliveira.bsky.social · 1d

We have a few remaining seats left in the “Programming for Evolutionary Biologists” course - 10th edition, Berlin, Feb 17 to Mar 6
evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de

A highly motivated and experienced team is waiting for you with an updated curriculum!

Programming for Evolutionary Biology School (EVOP) | February 18th – March 5th 2026

evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall was my first childhood hero, as I loved animals as a kid and was inspired by her story. I still remember the National Geographic specials about her. RIP.

Jane Goodall reaches out and touches a small monkey.

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John Hawks @johnhawks.net · 15d

A big reason it's challenging to work out relationships of early hominins: We know today that the populations of living great apes like gorillas and bonobos have deep ancestry from diverged “ghost” lineages. Our ancestors were surely the same.

www.johnhawks.net/p/genetic-hi...

Tracing the genetic histories of ghost apes

The footprints of extinct lineages are the closest we have to a fossil record of the African apes.

www.johnhawks.net

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 17d

CRISPR is amazing

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Felix M Key @keyfm.bsky.social · 23d

Open postdoc position in in my lab in Berlin @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de.

Join us to push the frontier in ancient microbial genomics. Please apply until Oct 17th. Reach out in case you have any questions.

www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/2193291/job_...

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 26d

"Come see me in my office"

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

If you like generating genomic data from unusual medical samples, past and contemporary epidemiology and advancing methods in phylo/population genetics please get in touch.

Group website: www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucbpvan/

Closing date Sept 25th 2025.

#aDNA #microbialgenomics #ISBA #popgen #UCL

New preprint on the early evolution of BA.2.86

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Chiara Barbieri @chiarabarbieri.bsky.social · Aug 30

A very special paper where we did something NEW! 🔥combining a large genetic dataset 🧬, a large linguistic dataset 💬, and Bayesian multilevel logistic regressions 📈, counting the effects of areal contact (geographic constrains) 🌎. Genetic admixture explains higher levels of linguistic exchanges...

Anna Graff @annagraff.bsky.social · Aug 30

Our paper is out! We linked genetic and linguistic data to study how contact changes language and found consistent patterns of borrowing across contact situations
@balthasarbickel.bsky.social @chiarabarbieri.bsky.social @nccrlanguage.bsky.social @isle-uzh.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adv7521

Patterns of genetic admixture reveal similar rates of borrowing across diverse scenarios of language contact

Human population contact leads to consistently similar rates of linguistic borrowing, but effects vary across linguistic features.

www.science.org

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Vienna BioCenter @viennabiocenter.bsky.social · Aug 28

Happy to welcome a group of attendees from the Europe Korea Conference on Science and Technology on Campus this week. Thank you for your interest in Vienna BioCenter and the research conducted here! #viennabiocenter

@imbavienna.bsky.social @lifesciencesunivie.bsky.social

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AITHYRA Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences @aithyra.bsky.social · Jul 25

Apply for the AITHYRA-CeMM International PhD Program!

15-20 fully funded PhD fellowships available in Vienna, AT
in AI/ML and Life Sciences

Deadline for applications:
10 September 2025 apply.cemm.at

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Martin Kuhlwilm @kuhlwilm.bsky.social · Jul 24

How to get introgressed fragments in genomic data? Everything you always wanted to know you find in our review in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social, led by Xin Huang:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

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Trends in Genetics @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social · Jul 23

"Decoding Genomic Landscapes of Introgression"
by Martin Kuhlwilm (@kuhlwilm.bsky.social) & co

"The detection of introgressed loci has evolved into a diverse methodological field encompassing summary statistics, probabilistic modeling, and supervised learning."

authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Figure 1. Introgression and its genomic landscapes.

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · Jul 7

Pending editorial decision

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Sebastien Calvignac-Spencer @scs22.bsky.social · Jul 2

We were part of another viral aRNA study that was just published. In this work spearheaded by Christian Urban in the lab of Verena Schuenemann, a new protocol was assessed (good for short fragments) and a seventh 1918 flu genome was completely sequenced

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

An ancient influenza genome from Switzerland allows deeper insights into host adaptation during the 1918 flu pandemic in Europe - BMC Biology

Background From 1918 to 1920, the largest influenza A virus (IAV) pandemic known to date spread globally causing between 20 to 100 million deaths. Historical records have captured critical aspects of ...

bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com

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Leo Speidel @leospeidel.bsky.social · Jun 25

Postdoc position in my group in Tokyo!
Please get in touch if you are interested.

And happy to discuss projects - these would range from developing new methods to analysis of new genomes that we are now sequencing in the lab.

Job Ad: www.riken.jp/en/careers/r...
Lab page: speidellab.github.io

Seeking a few Postdoctoral Researchers at Mathematical Genomics RIKEN ECL Research Unit (25-695)

www.riken.jp

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HEAS @heasvienna.bsky.social · Jun 17

There is still time to register for this event taking place today at 11:00 CEST online and in-person at @univie.ac.at

HEAS @heasvienna.bsky.social · Jun 11

We are looking forward to welcoming #FelixMKey to #HEASVienna for the final #HEASSeminar for 2024/2025 in #AncientGenomics.

More information and registration on our website 🔗👇

HEAS Seminar Series - Ancient Genomics - HEAS

As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Ancient Genomics, Felix M Key from Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology will give a talk on Decoding the Evolutionary Past of Pathogens on the 17th June at ...

www.heas.at

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Pere Gelabert @peregx9.bsky.social · Jun 4

Today it is a very nice day. The BEAM lab has expanded. Looking forward to the comming years of science! @heasvienna.bsky.social

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HEAS @heasvienna.bsky.social · May 28

New Publication!

New Article by #HEASVienna member #LauravanderSluis et al. on 'Late Paleolithic whale bone tools reveal human and whale ecology in the Bay of Biscay.'

#HEASPublications

Late Paleolithic whale bone tools reveal human and whale ecology in the Bay of Biscay. - HEAS

McGrath, K., van der Sluis, L.G., Lefebvre, A., Charpentier, A., Rodrigues, A.S.L., Álvarez-Fernández, E., Baleux, F., Berganza, E., Chauvière, F.-X., Dachary, M., Duarte Matías, E., Houmard, C., Marí...

www.heas.at

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Vienna Doctoral School of Ecology and Evolution @vdsee-univie.bsky.social · May 28

🔬📜 PhD in Paleogenomics & Geochemistry @univie.ac.at
Join the Pinhasi Lab to push boundaries in ancient DNA from sediments 🧬🪨
Fully funded (3 yrs), earliest start 07.2025.
More infos here: vds-ecology-evolution.univie.ac.at/application/...
#PhDposition #Paleogenomics #aDNA #ScienceJobs

Labormitarbeiter nimmt Knochenprobe mit Dremel-ähnlichem Instrument

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Martin Kuhlwilm @kuhlwilm.bsky.social · May 26

Here a book chapter on Palaeogenomics (and language evolution)! with @cedricboeckx.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

Palaeogenomics: A window into the genetic basis of derived traits in Homo sapiens

AbstractPalaeogenomics is revolutionizing our understanding of human evolution. Recent efforts to compare the genomes our species to that of Neanderthals a

doi.org

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Pooja Swali @poojaswali.bsky.social · May 22

Excited to announce our paper on ancient Borrelia genomes is finally out! 🦠💀We document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever, published today in @science.org‬ with @lucyvandorp.bsky.social and @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social #aDNA 🏺🧪🧬
Main findings and paper below: 🧵⬇️

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HEAS @heasvienna.bsky.social · May 9

New Publication!

New Article from #HEASVienna members #KatrinSchaefer and #SonjaWindhager et al.
#HEASPublications

www.heas.at/research/pub...

Life satisfaction around the world: Measurement invariance of the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) across 65 Nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age groups. - HEAS

Swami, V., Stieger, S., Voracek, M., Aavik, T., Abdollahpour Ranjbar, H., Adebayo, S.O., Afhami, R., Ahmed, O., Aimé, A., Akel, M., Al Halbusi, H., Alexias, G., Ali, K.F., Alp-Dal, N., Alsalhani, A.B....

www.heas.at

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · May 8

Choose Science. Choose Europe.

A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.

With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.

Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

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Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · May 2

Delighted to share our new preprint, the outcome of many years of collaborative work with Giuseppe Testa’s group, both at the bench & in front of the computer, probing human brain evolution using organoids. We tried something cool, and learned a lot 🧪🧫🧠🧬
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Regulatory logic of human cortex evolution by combinatorial perturbations

Comparative genomic studies between contemporary and extinct hominins revealed key evolutionary modifications, but their number has hampered a system level investigation of their combined roles in sca...

www.biorxiv.org

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