Excited to share our new preprint🙌
It's the first human WGS study in Sudan. We uncover one of the strongest selection signals to date, pointing to post-admixture adaptation to malaria in Copts. Huge thanks to all co-authors. @aidaandres.bsky.social @jgarcia-cal.bsky.social @ebosch1972.bsky.social

📢The Annals of Human Genetics marks 100 years!🎉

Our Centenary Special Issue reflects on the journal’s history while celebrating recent advances and current investigations in human genetics, from statistical #genetics to #genomic medicine.

🔗 Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14691809...

A difficulty in scrutinising ancient DNA from the outside is that the original methods are discussed in arcane terms in separate papers cast across the innumerable winds of scientific publishing. Here are 2 papers which attempt to discuss collections of common methods with plainer language.

Check out our recent review 'Power and Limitations of Inferring Genetic Ancestry'- what do we even mean by the term 'genetic ancestry' and what do commonly-used methods actually tell us?

New review paper led by @nancybird1.bsky.social which unpacks the complexities of genetic ancestry and examines what genetic data can and cannot tell us 🧬 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

UGI at the Forbidden City #SMBE2025

@cednotsed.bsky.social, Cameron Ferguson, @nancybird1.bsky.social

You can catch UGI post-doc @nancybird1.bsky.social presenting at @official-smbe.bsky.social #SMBE next week on her work: "A flexible and efficient new model to infer multiple admixture dates via joint analyses of modern and/or ancient individuals".

✨🧬 Sharing our UCL Genetics Institute starter pack of researchers, friends and alumni past and present 🧬 ✨

#UGISKY
(DM us to be added)

go.bsky.app/Gw1NqRa

www.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/...
Article on the workshop and conference posted here!

#SMBE2025 Symposium 27: Population genetics through time session B

🔗 smbe2025.scimeeting.cn/en/web/program/25070

Thanks to the Wellcome trust for funding both the workshop and conference!!

The conference had many roundtable discussions on how genetic research can inform national unity, scientific policy, and public education in Cameroon

Lots on interesting contributions, inc. Prof. Mathew Forka on Cameroonian deeply divergent Y chromosomes, Prof. Cyrille Tollo on using archeological and genetic evidence together for understanding the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples, and from Prof. Wilfred Mbacham on personalised genetics! 🧬

Had a chance to present my research on Cameroonian genetic history last Thursday at the conference 'From Genes to Nationhood' in Yaoundé, organised with the Cameroonian ministry for Youth Affairs and Civil Education!

Had an amazing time running a workshop at the University of Yaoundé I Medical School these past few days! We started at statistics and population genetics and moved on to genome-wide association studies with both lectures and practicals 🧬🌍📊 thanks to everyone who came!

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: 🧵⬇️

Nancy Bird

New method infers admixture dates per individual, revealing multiple waves of ancient intermixing. Applied to Neanderthal and Neolithic Europe data, it uncovers finer migration patterns previously overlooked by grouping individuals. Compatible with tools like GLOBETROTTER.

#HumanEvo25

Can we estimate when different populations admixed, and howcmsny times they did ? @nancybird1.bsky.social has a really cool new approach 🥰!!
#HumanEvo25