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MPI-EVA Leipzig @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social · Sep 3

How the #Slavic #migration reshaped Central & Eastern #Europe. Ancient #DNA provides new insights into early medieval communities. Study @nature.com by an intl. team led by Joscha Gretzinger, @zhofmanova.bsky.social & Johannes Krause. #HistoGenes More: tinyurl.com/msuys4mu & doi.org/10.1038/s415...

How the Slavic migration reshaped Central and Eastern Europe

Genetic analyses of medieval human remains reveal large-scale migrations, regional diversity, and new insights into early medieval communities

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · Sep 3

A study led by @zhofmanova.bsky.social @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social used ancient DNA to investigate the spread of Slavic language and culture 1,500 years ago. “This wasn’t a migration of elites, or a few male warriors,” 1 co-author says. “This was the migration of an entire population.” @science.org

Ancient skeletons’ genes reveal origin of the Slavic people

DNA connects modern Slavs to a wave of migration following the fall of the Roman Empire

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Simone Andrea Biagini 🏳️‍🌈 @sabiagini.bsky.social · May 20

🚨 Excited to share our new paper! 🧬 #aDNA from Sint-Truiden (BE) reveals 1,000 years of change from diverse medieval roots including Scottish and Irish ancestry to modern Limburg-like genetics. 🧫 Yersinia pestis found in 5 of 58 XIV-century burials. #AcademicSky

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Urbanization and genetic homogenization in the medieval Low Countries revealed through a ten-century paleogenomic study of the city of Sint-Truiden - Genome Biology

Background Processes shaping the formation of the present-day population structure in highly urbanized Northern Europe are still poorly understood. Gaps remain in our understanding of when and how cur...

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ISBA - Intl. Soc. for Biomolecular Archaeology @isbarchaeology.bsky.social · Apr 8

Would your institution like to host ISBA12? We are inviting expressions of interest from ISBA members to host the next ISBA12 symposium in 2027. Please contact the ISBA board ([email protected]) for application requirements. Applications are due by the 25th May 2025.

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Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · Mar 15

Come join us for this funded PhD opportunity! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Harald Ringbauer @hringbauer.bsky.social · Apr 2

Our study analyzing the DNA of ~7ky-old Pastoralists from the "Green Sahara" is out! Who were these people, and how did herding spread into the region when the present-day desert was dotted with water bodies? 🧬🦴🏜️ (1/7)

#PopGen #GreenSahara #aDNA

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ancient DNA from the Green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage - Nature

Pastoralism spread through cultural diffusion into the Green Sahara, where an isolated, distinct North African ancestry persisted.

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European Association of Archaeologists @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social · Apr 1

*** IMPORTANT INFORMATION ***

To all members of the EAA and friends, please be aware of important information regarding our next annual meeting #EAA2025.

An email has also been sent to members, but you can find details attached.

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Marco Capodiferro @marcocapo.bsky.social · Mar 27

🎓 PhD Position Available in the Population and Evolutionary Genetics group at Trinity College Dublin ☘️ . More details👇

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · Mar 27

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Ancient DNA)- University of York - Department of #Archaeology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML043/p...

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Ancient DNA) at University of York

An opportunity for an academic position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate (Ancient DNA) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Zuzana Hofmanova @zhofmanova.bsky.social · Mar 25

Happy to see that Max Planck institute for Evolutionary Anthropology is on @bsky.app as well! @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social welcome! Also great that the weather slowly starts to allow lunch outside by the pond at the institute ;)

photo of MPI-EVA's pond in the courtyard

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Pontus Skoglund @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social · Mar 17

We have a 4-year PhD-student opening in our lab, deadline on Wednesday noon.

For anyone interested in computational genomics of ancient human, pathogen, or canid genomes. www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

If you are curious, send in an application!

Skoglund Lab | Ancient human statistical population genomics

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ISBA11 Turin @isba11.bsky.social · Mar 4

Our scientific committee is busy evaluating your abstracts.

In the mean time, registration for ISBA11 is now open! For the special early bird discount, make sure to register by April 30, 2025!

www.isba11.com/registration

@isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social

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HAAM-community @haam-community.bsky.social · Mar 12

🎶 📣 - Our #HAAMsummerschool is happening again!
📅 - Application open: 17th of March 🧑‍💻
Keep your eyes and ears open for coming updates!
🔗 - haam-community.github.io/projects/haa...
#aDNA #PopGen #summerschool

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paveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · Mar 9

At #Woodstockbio2025 #selforganization is key. If you plan to do something special at the #YMCAcampsite, go for a talk & work the #advertisement of the #event into your ~5 minutes of fame in #Prague - after the #walkupsong

#TheConferenceToEndAllConferences (what a hashtag🤷🏻‍♂️)

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Mar 9

Science delivers! Time & time again scientists make unexpected & important discoveries when following their curiousity! That's why we're organizing Woodstock Night Science, a reimagined conference to inspire us to new ideas.
June 10-13 woodstock.img.cas.cz
Join us! #TheConferenceToEndAllConferences

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Mar 10

What defines ethnicity: culture or genetics?🧬

ERC Grantees found that two Avar cemeteries had nearly identical artifacts but distinct DNA—proving culture and genetics don’t always align!📜

👉 buff.ly/3Dbkbrr

#FrontierResearch @maxplanck.de Eötvös Loránd University Austrian Academy of Sciences IAS

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Zuzana Hofmanova @zhofmanova.bsky.social · Mar 3

Why we do what we do in ERC Syg HistoGenes where I am coordinating archaeogenetic analyses. Even when it is long over, I will always be grateful to have been a part of this project. What a privilege to work with the HistoGenes team, I've learned so much..

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Katerina Guschanski @kguschan.bsky.social · Mar 2

3-y postdoc position in (meta)Genomics of Population Declines elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid.... If you have experience with low-coverage genomic data, care about biodiversity loss, want to understand host-microbiomes interactions, this post is for you! #museomics #ancientDNA #mammals

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Mar 3

now seems to have been genetically vindicated by this study by Gnecchi-Ruscone et al. in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.... (2/2)

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · Mar 3

Joseph de Guignes (1721-1800) is smiling from his grave: His connection between Huns and Xiongnu, first formulated in the _Mémoire historique sur l'origine des Huns et des Turks adressé à M. Tanevot_ (www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/details/b...) of 1748 (1/2)

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Nature @nature.com · Jan 15

Nature research paper: Ancient DNA reveals reproductive barrier despite shared Avar-period culture

https://go.nature.com/3WggAig

Ancient DNA reveals reproductive barrier despite shared Avar-period culture - Nature

Ancient genome-wide data of 722 individuals and interdisciplinary analysis of large seventh- to eighth-century ce neighbouring cemeteries near Vienna are used to address the impact of the encounter between Eastern Asian Avars and Europeans.

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · Feb 24

The Huns helped end the Roman Empire – but where did they come from? New DNA results offer some answers: www.science.org/content/arti...

Attila’s Huns were a motley crew of central European locals and East Asian immigrants

A genetic analysis reveals some Huns descended from pillagers in East Asia

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