Great news! 🥳 Led by the amazing Mateja Hajdinjak, a new Max Planck Research Group for Hominin Palaeogenomics started MPI-EVA Leipzig. 😊😍 Using cutting-edge #aDNA methods, its goal is to shed light on past encounters between hominin groups. Max Planck Society eva.mpg.de/press/news/art…

On behalf of Zilong Li , Anders Albrechtsen and myself, I’m pleased to announce the release of QUILT2, a method for lc-WGS imputation using biobank scale reference panels that works on diverse sequencing input data including NIPT data. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We know that DNA introgressed from one population into another is often deleterious, but why? Carl Veller and I show that stabilizing selection, by itself, can induce selection against introgressed ancestry. doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

A briefing of our latest research, hot off the press: Ancient equine genomes reveal dawn of horse domestication nature.com/articles/d4158… CAGToulouse Horsepower nature

I have a fully funded postdoc position open in my lab. The postdoc will get to work on a whole genome sequence based population genetics project focused on several Greenlandic land mammals. For details see tinyurl.com/2zae8zym. Application deadline is September 27. Please RT.

We have collected sediment cores from lakes on northern Greenland, and now we need a postdoc to help us with the sedaDNA. If you are interested in sedaDNA, the Arctic, and human-faunal interaction, apply for this postdoc at CPG in Stockholm: su.se/english/about-… #aDNA #CPG

Calling all emerging scientists - it’s time to send us an application! 😉😎 Lead your own #MaxPlanck Research Group w/ €2.7M in funding over 6 yrs, full independence & resources to hire staff. State-of-the-art infrastructure awaits you!🌟 Apply today➡️mpg.de/career/max-pla…

We’re thrilled to see our paper (rb.gy/u6islv) on the amylase locus published in nature last week! HUGE thanks to Nicole Soranzo and Erik Garrison (Human Technopole) for setting the stage to collaborate with Peter Sudmant and his lab at UC Berkeley - CR: S. Brandini 1/n

⬇️Exciting work about the population history of Rapa Nui - using 15 genomes from ~|1750-1900 CE Interested in haplotype-sharing? See Referee #5 in the peer review files; there is some insightful back-and-forth regarding accurate ROH & IBD calls (which feature centrally here)

Happy to have been part of this work with fantastic colleagues! Low Genetic Impact of the Roman Occupation of Britain in Rural Communities academic.oup.com/mbe/article/41… "The Roman period in East Anglia was not one of great genetic change"

I wrote about the paucity of genetic evidence for very recent selective sweeps and the generally odd and sporadic nature of the ones we do see. A 🧵:

Congratulations to Ali Akbari Ali Akbari on his amazing new work on selection in Western Eurasia that is finally released as a preprint after years of painstaking work. Accompanying it is a selection browser (beta) reich-ages.rc.hms.harvard.edu biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Really interesting new paper from Akbari et al. identifying a lot more selection in ancient DNA than previous approaches. I think it gets at three core challenges for this type of analysis where our understanding is still limited. 🧵

Preprint alert🚨This one is special, as I am happy to share our latest work on the genetic history of my native Portugal! Led by postdoc Xavier Roca-Rada, PhD, we use aDNA to uncover dynamic interactions between migrant and local communities across millennia! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Oldest human #DNA from South Africa decoded to date. 10,000-year-old DNA provides insights into the region's #population history. Study by Joscha Gretzinger, Victoria Gibbon, Stephan Schiffels et al. in NatureEcoEvo. MPI-EVA Leipzig UCT tinyurl.com/3fjzu5vr & nature.com/articles/s4155…

The UC Davis Center for Population Biology postdoctoral fellowship is now being advertised. This is a great opportunity to come join our wonderful community of Evolution & Ecology here at Davis. Please RT cpb.ucdavis.edu/cpb-postdoc-fe…

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/

Here are three quick takeaways from our study on human remains from Oakhurst rock shelter in South Africa (nature.com/articles/s4155…), which we published in NatEcolEvol last week with UCT and MPI-EVA Leipzig: