📢 The next round of applications for the SENCKENBERG Global #Fellowships is now open! The program supports early-career scientists from the Global South to conduct research for 3-6 months at one of our Senckenberg Institutes. Apply by October 1st! 👉sgn.one/gcu

The ancestry of a genome biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_genetic

📣 CONSERVATION ASIA 2025 is happening next Summer! 🥳 📣 The call for Venue applications is now open to co-host this prestigious conference SCB Asia 🗻 ✍️ Do apply! And please share 🔔 #Conservation #ConservationAsia2025

We're looking for a few field technicians for the CA wolf project for the fall and winter. It's a great project with fieldwork in beautiful locations and an awesome team. Please share and reach out with any questions! jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id=9…

Woo!!! Conservation Asia 2018 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan was so awesome. Exciting to see the conference is going to happen again!

Nature research paper: Recurrent evolution and selection shape structural diversity at the amylase locus go.nature.com/3XvzgLM

A position is available in my research group at UEA for a wet-lab research assistant, for 3 years, to work on data generation for exciting new genomics projects in urban and rural foxes and other mammals. vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/1191…

Are you a landscape ecologist, spatial scientist, or geography expert from outside North America, and want to share your science at the IALE-NA conference next spring? Check out our competitive travel awards. Due 1 Nov. For more information & to apply: ialena.org/foreign-schola…

My lab read this paper biorxiv.org/content/10.110… for journal club, and had some thoughts on the strong claims made about the number of signals of selection found. 1/

Two new chapters from my free online book in human genetics out this weekend! These complete Part 3 of the book, on human population structure and history: 3.3: Inferring human prehistory from genetic data [this thread] 3.4: Ancient DNA [next thread] web.stanford.edu/group/pritchar…

The fundamental connection between history and genetics allows us to use genetic data to infer history. I spend some time on technical methods for this, including the very elegant PSMC technique:

New work from Forrest Li with me and Daniel Runcie, asking how well genotype-environment correlations improve our ability to predict fitness in cultivated populations (spoiler: they don't). biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The genetic mechanism behind the negative fitness effects of inbreeding is not well known. Hasselgren et al. find that expression of strongly harmful mutations lowers reproduction & longevity, whereas moderately harmful ones lower survival. Stockholm University nature.com/articles/s4146…

Published in 2009, bwa-aln is one of the oldest short-read aligners. It remains a popular choice for aligning ancient DNA reads. The following blog post explains the algorithmic reasons. lh3.github.io/2024/09/28/why…

Integrative taxonomy clarifies the evolution of a cryptic primate clade nature.com/articles/s4155…