Maria A Nieves Colón

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Adaptations to water stress and pastoralism in the Turkana of northwest Kenya The Turkana pastoralists of Kenya inhabit arid, water-limited environments and rely largely on livestock for subsistence. Working with Turkana communities, we sequenced 367 whole genomes and identifie...

Adaptations to water stress and pastoralism in the Turkana of northwest Kenya | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Playmobil figure kitted out as prehistoric iceman Ötzi.

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit.
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
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I'm hiring a computational biologist interested in complex trait genetics using deep learning approaches. Reach out to me, if interested.

Re-upping this again. I assisted the amazing team at @onthemedia.bsky.social developing the breaking news consumers handbook, and its recommendations still hold true to this day.

IDEA Initiatives SMBE, through the IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access) Task Force, aims to address systemic racism, sexism, colonialism, and other exclusion in our society. SMBE DIVERSITY STATEMENT Our goa...

🌍✨ SMBE IDEA 2026 – Call for Proposals!

We support initiatives that tackle inequities in evolutionary biology.

Funding available:
💡 IDEA ($25k)
🪂 Non-Parachute Science ($10k)
🗣️ Outreach ($10k)

📅 Deadline: Oct 10, 2025
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Job ad still open! Deadline is Oct 17. Please apply!

A very special paper where we did something NEW! 🔥combining a large genetic dataset 🧬, a large linguistic dataset 💬, and Bayesian multilevel logistic regressions 📈, counting the effects of areal contact (geographic constrains) 🌎. Genetic admixture explains higher levels of linguistic exchanges...

Full programme on ancient DNA, human biology and medicine out now for our packed November 14 @gensocuk.bsky.social symposium! Join us at the @royalsociety.org in London.

Are you interested in doing a PhD in Copenhagen? Interested in studying Neanderthals and Denisovans which live on in our genomes?
Than you are more than welcome to apply to join my group starting Jan 2026 :)

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Please reach out if you have any questions!

📢Job Opportunity:independent junior research group leader-Experimental Archaeology 🪨🪏The Cluster of Excellence #HumanOrigins at Uni Tübingen seeks a researcher in experimental archaeology!
📝Job starts Jan 1, 2026
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Skoglund Lab - Ancient Genomics Skoglund lab

Now recruiting for two positions in my lab:

Postdoc in computational analysis of ancient human genomes www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Bioarchaeology staff scientist supporting human aDNA projects www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

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Applications welcome!

37 Scientists on the Cutting Edge of Biomedical Research Scientific innovation is fundamental to the health and well-being of communities across the globe. From developing novel strategies for treating cancer to exploring cutting-edge methods to prevent dis...

🤓🥳🔥💪🏽 congratulations to all!!!

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Maria Nieves-Colón Joins the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences The Pew Charitable Trusts announced the 22 researchers joining the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences, including our own Dr. Maria Nieves-Colón.

Really honored and excited to be among the 2025 cohort of Pew Biomedical Scholars. Thx to the Pew Charitable Trust, my mentors, colleagues, students & family. Now let’s go do some science!!! 🧬🧪🥼📚🤓 💀 🇵🇷 🔥 #LatinAmericanGenomics #BoricuaInSTEM

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We are hiring a faculty position in Evolutionary Genetics in the Biology Department at U of South Carolina!

Check us out and come be our colleague!
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Deadline for applications is Oct 1

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Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.

Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

My department at Tulane has a TT position for a bioanth ("specializing in the analysis of human skeletal remains"). Apps due by Oct 15.

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Biological Anthropologist (# 369407) - HigherEdJobs Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

Are you a biological anthropologist who loves nerding out about human evolution, fossils and/or adaptation ? 💀🙉 🤓 Do you like doing research and teaching? Do you want to live in the Twin Cities? 🌃 ❄️☃️Then join us at the University of Minnesota! See ad here:👇

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Large-scale processing of within-bone nutrients by Neanderthals, 125,000 years ago Neanderthals intensively processed a minimum of 172 large mammals for grease and marrow fat, 125,000 years ago.

So they found a 125,000 yr old Neanderthal fat rendering plant & I have thoughts.

Knowing that they loved saturated fat SO MUCH that they industrialized to get as much of it as humanly possible?

Makes me feel seen, heard, supported, etc www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We are a computational lab focusing on developing machine learning algorithms for biological data. Currently we are working on inference tasks related to natural selection and demographic inference, as well as generative models for genomic data from humans, mosquitos, and other species.

The Mathieson Lab at the University of Pennsylvania is hiring a computational postdoc in machine learning and evolutionary biology. Apply with a CV and references: smathi@sas.upenn.edu. More info: https://saramathieson.github.io/lab #postdoc

Scenes from a science crisis: a selection of recent developments 🧵1/6

Just once I want an article on this topic to say something like...

Women carry the burden of service at work: Here's how men can say yes and share the load

Public goods are important: Here's how bosses can better reward employees for providing public goods at work

My PhD student Emmanuel, co advised with @mcnultylab.bsky.social, is a Baldwin fellow 🎉🍾🙌🏽👏🏽! Thanks Leakey Foundation for supporting these talented scholars :-) learn more about Emmanuel’s work and background here: www.nievescolonlab.org/about-emmanuel

Oh I’m so sorry Jenny! 😢

**10th Midwest PopGen Conference**
Location: UMN Twin Cities,
Date: Aug 21–22!
Events: Talks, Posters, dinner + MN State Fair.
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Abstracts by Jun15 / Register by Aug 1.

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Gender equality in research publishing is a responsibility for everyone A concerted effort is needed to support women in their choice of journal when submitting their manuscript.

Women make up only 16% of corresponding authors who submit to Nature, a new Springer Nature analysis revealed. This is not enough - there are 30-40% #womeninSTEM

We want to change it, through targeted editorial policies & outreach. But change will take everyone!
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Senior Researchers 60,400 --> 16,900 Other Professionals 14,400 --> 4,100 Postdoctoral Associates 5,500 --> 1,000 Graduate Students 41,500 --> 12,400 Undergraduate Students 37,300 --> 8,000 PreK-12 Teachers 42,900 --> 8,200 PreK-12 Students 128,100 --> 39,400 Total Number of People 330,100 --> 90,000

🚨🚨 Friday night news drop from National Science Foundation!! 🧪

NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people**

🧵 on some highlights...

Enamel proteins reveal biological sex and genetic variability in southern African Paranthropus Paranthropus robustus is a morphologically well-documented Early Pleistocene hominin species from southern Africa with no genetic evidence reported so far. In this work, we describe the mass spectrome...

Hello,

Our paper on enamel proteins from Paranthropus robustus has finally been peer reviewed, please have a read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Paranthropus robustus has been puzzling scientists since its discovery in 1938 in South Africa, where a high number of fossils have been found.

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