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Center for Academic Research & Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA) @anthropogeny.org · Aug 28

Don't miss Ancient DNA: New Revelations, a free, public CARTA symposium! 🧬💡

Friday, November 7, 2025 1:00–5:30 PM (Pacific)

In-person at the Salk Institute & Live Webcast

For more details and registration, visit: carta.anthropogeny.org

#carta #cartaucsd #ancientdna

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Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Useful paper from @mp-williams.bsky.social and co. showing different modelling of the spread of Neolithic farming across Europe. Explores different rates and mechanisms of cultural transmission and suggests as migrants with origins in Anatolia moved across…

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Modeling the European Neolithic expansion suggests predominant within-group mating and limited cultural transmission - Nature Communications

The Neolithic Revolution marked an important shift from foraging to farming in human society. Here, the authors show that in Europe the spread of farming involved mostly within-group mating and limite...

www.nature.com

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Matthew Williams @mp-williams.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thanks @boothicus.bsky.social! this was, for me, one of the most intriguing outcomes... was excellent work by PhD candidate Troy LaPolice.

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Rosi Fregel @rfregel.bsky.social · Aug 21

The AADR Visualizer: An ArcGIS Online Visualizer for ancient human DNA from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

The AADR Visualizer: An ArcGIS Online Visualizer for ancient human DNA from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource

AbstractMotivation. The AADR Visualizer is designed to be a public, user-friendly, web-based graphical user interface for visualizing and filtering ancient

academic.oup.com

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HAAM-community @haam-community.bsky.social · Aug 26

🏛️ Still unsure how to spend your afternoon in Turin 🇮🇹 before @isba11.bsky.social starts, come to our #HAAMmeeting @Complesso Aldo Moro and meet young & inspiring researchers!
💻 If you're not in Turin, you can join us online, too.
📖 DM us! #aDNA #HAAMcommunity @isbarchaeology.bsky.social

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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
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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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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · Aug 11

NIH is accepting comments about limiting research publication costs. 1. Disallow pub costs, 2. $2K limit, 3. $3K if reviewers are compensated, 4. 0.8% of award (so $250K grant can pay $2K/year on pubs), 5. $6K limit on pub + limit on % of grant spent on pub costs. 🧪

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

NOT-OD-25-138: Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs NOT-OD-25-138. NIH

grants.nih.gov

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Stephen Hill @srhastraea.bsky.social · Aug 9

This is a great read - it nails a whole bunch of ways in which LLMs simply don’t ‘think’, let alone at a ‘PhD level’.

Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · Aug 9

clauswilke.substack.com/p/phd-level-...

PhD-level intelligence or the graduate student from hell

AI companies love to tout that their models are approaching—or have reached—PhD-level intelligence. This is blatant nonsensical marketing geared towards an audience that deeply misunderstands what a P...

clauswilke.substack.com

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Harald Ringbauer @hringbauer.bsky.social · Aug 7

Our aDNA time transect centered on modern Georgia is out! 🧬

Genetic continuity over 5000 years, but some Bronze Age gene flow and urban outliers since Antiquity - including some with artificially deformed skulls 💀 linked by IBD segments to Asian nomads.

#aDNA #PopGen

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

The genetic history of the Southern Caucasus from the Bronze Age to the Early Middle Ages: 5,000 years of genetic continuity despite high mobility

Ancient DNA from the Southern Caucasus reveals remarkable genetic continuity, with some mixing from Anatolia/Iran and the Eurasian Steppe, and shows that even periods of urbanization and increased mob...

www.cell.com

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · Aug 6

But perhaps most critically, it’s (imo) irresponsible to attribute this to *science* as a whole; suggesting it’s a monolith when things like the image duplication retractions are pretty limited to a unique corner of science under sleuth spotlights.

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Ryan Gutenkunst @ryangutenkunst.bsky.social · Aug 5

If you're new to demographic history inference from population genomics, try this webapp I created to illustrate how dadi fits bottleneck models to site frequency spectra: ryangutenkunst-dadi-two-epoch.hf.space . It even outputs files for submitting to the GHIST competition! ghi.st

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Hannah Moots @mootspoints.bsky.social · Aug 5

🧬🏺Calling everyone interested in the intersection of archaeological theory and ancient DNA!

Thrilled to be co-organizing a session for #TRAC2025 with @ezgimou.bsky.social

The virtual conference will be held October 22 - 24 and the call for abstracts is now open. Come join us!

Ezgi Altınışık @ezgimou.bsky.social · Aug 5

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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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Ezgi Altınışık @ezgimou.bsky.social · Aug 5

TRAC 2025 will be held from 22nd to 24th October 2025 in an online format via the Gather Town platform. Here is the link for further info: www.trac.org.uk/upcoming-con...

Upcoming Conferences

TRAC 2025 The 33rd Theoretical Roman Archaeology ConferenceWe are pleased to announce that TRAC 2025 conference will be held between 22nd and 24th October 2025 in an online format through the Gathe…

www.trac.org.uk

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Ezgi Altınışık @ezgimou.bsky.social · Aug 5

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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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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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Skyler Berardi @skylerberardi.bsky.social · Jul 31

Check out our paper in Evolution Letters!

We used D. melanogaster pigmentation as a focal trait to explore parallelism in phenotypic and genomic responses to environmental change - read more at the link below 👇

Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social · Jul 31

How predictably does complex trait adaptation proceed over space and time in wild populations?
doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by @skylerberardi.bsky.social, @paulrschmidt.bsky.social et al.

📷: Dr. Rush Dhillon

Figure showing the experimental overview as a graphic. Remaining alt text taken from the figure caption in the paper: (A) we sampled flies from six wild orchard populations ranging from Homestead, FL, to Lancaster, MA, and established isofemale lines in the laboratory. (B) We returned to a focal orchard in Media, PA, at early- and late-season timepoints and collected flies to capture evolutionary patterns following winter and summer conditions. (C) We then seeded outdoor mesocosms (N = 9) with an outbred population originating from early-season collections in Media, PA, and sampled flies at the end of summer (mid-season) and fall (late-season) to determine if seasonal patterns are recapitulated in experimental populations controlled for migration, drift, and cryptic population structure. (D) Across each wild or experimental context, we sampled flies, established lines in the lab, completed common garden treatment to remove environmental effects, and scored females for abdominal pigmentation. We also conducted pooled DNA sequencing on additional flies sampled from each population to map genomic patterns for candidate pigmentation SNPs.

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Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social · Jul 31

How predictably does complex trait adaptation proceed over space and time in wild populations?
doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by @skylerberardi.bsky.social, @paulrschmidt.bsky.social et al.

📷: Dr. Rush Dhillon

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Eugenia D'Atanasio @eugeniadat.bsky.social · Jul 26

🚨 New paper out in Genome Biology and Evolution!
We present new ancient DNA evidence from Central Italy suggesting that Eastern Mediterranean genetic influence predates the Roman Empire.
@beniamino77.bsky.social @fravasini.bsky.social

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🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

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A new perspective on the arrival of the Eastern Mediterranean genetic influx in Central Italy before the onset of the Roman Empire

Abstract. Italian genetic history was profoundly shaped by the Romans. While the Iron Age Central Italian gene pool was comparable to that of other coeval

doi.org

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Marco Capodiferro @marcocapo.bsky.social · Jul 24

Turns out imputation of introgressed archaic regions in aDNA works really well — sometimes even better than for the rest of the genome. More on this (and other cool results) in our new preprint 👇 #aDNA #ArchaicIntrogression #imputation
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Archaic ancestry inference in imputed ancient human genomes

When modern humans expanded from Africa into Eurasia, they interbred with archaic hominins such as Neanderthals and Denisovans. This groundbreaking discovery, made in part possible through the genomic...

doi.org

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Yun S. Song @yun-s-song.bsky.social · Jun 6

The 2026 Probabilistic Modeling in Genomics (ProbGen) meeting will be held at UC Berkeley, March 25-28, 2026. We have an amazing list of keynote speakers and session chairs:
probgen2026.github.io

Please help spread the news.

Home - ProbGen 2026

Your Site Description

probgen2026.github.io

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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · Jul 24

The Mathieson Lab at the University of Pennsylvania is hiring a computational postdoc in machine learning and evolutionary biology. Apply with a CV and references: [email protected]. More info: https://saramathieson.github.io/lab #postdoc

We are a computational lab focusing on developing machine learning algorithms for biological data. Currently we are working on inference tasks related to natural selection and demographic inference, as well as generative models for genomic data from humans, mosquitos, and other species.

saramathieson.github.io

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Hannah Moots @mootspoints.bsky.social · Jul 22

Come check out my poster this afternoon! On the language we use to talk mobility in ancient DNA studies #SMBE2025

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Hanbin Lee @epigenci.bsky.social · Jul 20

Hence, this highlights the fundamental difference btw genomic and family h2. The former is considering millions of years of mutation while the latter is looking at everything but mutations over a very short period of time.

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Hanbin Lee @epigenci.bsky.social · Jul 20

I can now finally speak out loud my honest thoughts on missing heritability or the genomics/family gap in h2 estimates.
Based on new paper the *issue* is a feature and not a bug.

TLDR: SNP h2 only captures mutational variance and family h2 captures everything but mutation.
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Hannah Moots @mootspoints.bsky.social · Jul 20

New preprint comparing aDNA preservation and recovery rates during extraction from all three ossicles and the petrous. Congrats @compevohumang.bsky.social!

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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