Come join us at MPI-EVA Leipzig! The Dept of Primate Behavior & Evolution is looking for a lab manager/coordinator to integrate our molecular genetic, cell culture, and field-based labwork. Details here: tinyurl.com/2p83xj4p

Newly published paper by myself and Corinⓐ Logan (she/her), Dieter Lukas, and Nancy Chen 陳嵐欣 on the range expansion of the great-tailed grackle, and range stability of the boat-tailed grackle! peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.24…
#TheGrackleProject
Peer Community Journal

Open again: postdoc position (18 months) for great apes and viruses! Apply here:
univis.univie.ac.at/ausschreibungs…

Ever wondered how accurate genetic genealogy is? Rori Rohlfs and I have a NIJ funded PhD position to investigate this! Please reach out with any questions

Dr. Rebecca Wragg Sykes Amazingly enough the answer is yes :) Check out this paper: elifesciences.org/articles/75464

Complete genomes of almost all individuals of the critically endangered kākāpō 🇳🇿🦜🧬
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Often I post ads for postdocs in others' research groups but now this is to work in mine! Be a part of a new 'theory hub', surely you want to? kokkonuts.org/postdoc-positi…

An exciting new preprint !!! Can wait to have a closer look 🤓

First preprint of my PhD student Divyaratan Popli on a new method for inferring relatedness from ultra-crappy ancient DNA. Please check out the preprint and his write-up! #Neandertal #Neanderthal

Oh hey I heard Benjamin Peter on radioeins today (auf Deutsch) radioeins.de/programm/sendu…

Our 2022 medicine laureate Svante Pääbo and a worldwide team of researchers have discovered the first known Neanderthal family. Check out the article from the The New York Times:

nytimes.com/2022/10/19/sci…

New paper alert nature.
'Genetic insights into the social organization
of Neanderthals' by Laurits Skov Benjamin Peter et al. From the amazing site of Chagyrskaya, insights into Neanderthal social group size. nature.com/articles/s4158…

What I love about this field is how from a few fragments of bones and teeth, one can end up with a vivid picture of a #Neanderthal family that lived tens of thousands of years ago.

To me, that's the magic of #ancientDNA

So happy to see this paper out!

Fascinating study by Laurits Skov and many collaborators uncovers the kin relations among Neandertals from Chagyrskaya Cave, Russia, based on DNA from their bone fragments and teeth. This figure is bananas: tiny remnants of father and daughter 2 m apart. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Meet the first #Neandertal family! Ancient #genomes of thirteen Neandertals provide a rare snapshot of their community & social organization. New study in nature by Laurits Skov, Benjamin Peter & an intl. team. MPI-EVA Leipzig See: bit.ly/3yP5h4I & nature.com/articles/s4158…