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Here's a new explainer on genetic vs genealogical ancestry that I hope many find useful. ow.ly/cc5s50OPOsa. It's an outgrowth of the recent genomics & population descriptors report and made possible by the great support staff and graphics teams working with National Academies

Great talk beautifully presented! ⁦Alex Cagan⁩ #SMBE23

Probing the deep genetic structure of #Africa by analyzing modern #DNA from human populations. New study by Sandra Oliveira, Mark Stoneking, Jorge Rocha et al. now out in Science Advances. Universität Bern MPI-EVA Leipzig BIOPOLIS-CIBIO See: tinyurl.com/3ta8dre4 & doi.org/10.1126/sciadv…

Huge congrats to Benjamin Vernot Benjamin Vernot, Max Planck Research Group leader MPI-EVA Leipzig, for being awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant #ERCCoG for his project UNEARTH Unearthing ancient social structures w/ sediment DNA! 🥳 Max Planck Society tinyurl.com/bdhd54j8

Cool new paper: Grammars Across Time Analyzed (GATA): a dataset of 52 languages. Grammatical snapshots over time. #linguistics nature.com/articles/s4159…

📢My thesis literature review is out ‼️ 100+ sources and 7 epochs of Sulu history -- Writing is indeed creating order out of chaos! Sea Nomads, Sultans & Raiders: History & Ethnogenesis in the Sulu Archipelago, Philippines osf.io/preprints/soca… via Center for Open Science

Inferring language dispersal patterns with velocity field estimation nature.com/articles/s4146…

Highlighting some work I've enjoyed reading recently: "DNA language models are powerful predictors of genome-wide variant effects" by Gonzalo Benegas, Sanjit Batra, and Yun S. Song: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… It's simply incredible unsupervised DNA language models can learn so much!

In a collaboration between ManjushaChintalapati ,@SkovLaurits , Alba Bosoms Mesa, Mateja Hajdinjak , Benjamin Peter and @moorjani_priya , we've journeyed into our shared history with Neandertals by analyzing over 300 genomes spanning 50,000 years. A thread 🧵🧬 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 @JoGretzing, Victoria Gibbon, Stephan Schiffels et al. in NatureEcoEvo. MPI-EVA Leipzig UCT tinyurl.com/3fjzu5vr & nature.com/articles/s4155…

Celebrating 50 years of Quantitative Cultural Evolution! 🥳 PNASNews Special Feature explores origins, development & future of this multidisciplinary research field. TICELab Creanza Lab MPI-EVA Leipzig Stanford University Vanderbilt University tinyurl.com/5y4ekwy7 & pnas.org/topic/565

A very inspiring lecture by Prof. Laurent Excoffier on his scientific journey! Universität Bern

Out today in Science Magazine, we've journeyed into our shared history with Neandertals by analyzing over 300 present-day and ancient modern humans, including 59 individuals who lived between 2,000 and 45,000 years ago. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The “Programming for Evolutionary Biology” course is back! Join us in Berlin (Feb 17 to Mar 6, 2026) for 3 weeks of hands-on coding with a very supportive and diverse group of instructors. More info: evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de #bioinformatics #Rstats #Python #NGS #Machinelearning

Happy to share a PhD opportunity in my new lab at University of Zurich ! Application deadline: June 30. Please retweet and do not hesitate to contact me for any questions