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Class of 2025: five PhD students reveal realigned priorities in wake of COVID and cuts Scientists who began their doctoral studies in 2020 found their feet during a global pandemic and are graduating into an uncertain and chaotic future.

Scientists who began their doctoral studies in 2020 found their feet during a global pandemic and are graduating into an uncertain and chaotic future

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Our new paper is out! #stableisotopes #cavebears new data from Serbia and a wide reviews of late Pleistocene cave bear isotope data!

Interesting stuff from Rapa Nui. You can read the whole paper below, and my short take in the Spectator here (much of the argument feels realistic, though I'm not convinced it's - yet? - supported by the data)
www.spectator.co.uk/article/was-...

Research Fellow Archaeological Science (RICHeS Scientist) at Queen's University Belfast An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Fellow Archaeological Science (RICHeS Scientist) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

Research Fellow, Archaeological Sciences
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU880/r...

Graduation time, congrats again @lucyjkoster.bsky.social! With @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social

Researchers sequence first genome from Ancient Egypt Egypt, anthropology, archaeology, history, Ancient Egypt, Biology, Genomics, Genome, Genes, Migration, Research, Nature

LJMU and Francis Crick Institute Researchers have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from a man who lived around 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, the age of the first pyramids.

www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/new...

First human genome from ancient Egypt sequenced from 4,800-year-old teeth Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ancient Egyptian.

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ancient Egyptian

https://go.nature.com/44bHYCh

Researchers sequence first genome from ancient Egypt Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from an individual who lived around 4,500 to 4,800...

Researchers from the Crick and @ljmuofficial.bsky.social have extracted and sequenced DNA from an individual who lived in Egypt around 4,500 years ago, making it the oldest genome from ancient Egypt sequenced to date.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-07...

Whole-genome ancestry of an Old Kingdom Egyptian - Nature Whole-genome sequencing of an ancient male Egyptian revealed a mixture of North African Neolithic and eastern Fertile Crescent ancestry, suggesting human migration between Egypt and Mesopotamia by the...

Forty years after Svante Pääbo kicked off this extraordinary field of science, today sees report of the first whole-genome sequence of an ancient Egyptian (from 2855–2570BCE). Exciting work from @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social, @flinklinus.bsky.social, & co at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social, @crick.ac.uk.🧬🧪

Who were the ancient Egyptians?

It is expressed in the extraordinary historical and archaeological record, but what about ancestry links to other ancient individuals?

Today we report the successful sequencing of the whole genome of an individual who lived in Egypt about ~4700 years ago.

50,000 years of evolutionary history of India: Impact on health and disease variation A genomic study of 2,762 individuals from India offers important insights into the genomic diversity and evolutionary history of the subcontinent and highlights the extensive genetic variation, gene f...

50,000 years of evolutionary history of India: Impact on health and disease variation: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

What do you think Ross?

"Denisovan mitochondrial DNA from dental calculus of the >146,000-year-old Harbin cranium" http://dlvr.it/TLR7X9

#ChineseAcademyofSciences Qiaomei Fu
@cp-cell.bsky.social

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

UCL Institute of Archaeology lab managers role, initially for 1 year. Deadline 1st July. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Senior Research Associate in Population Genomics (RA2327) in University of East Anglia | UEA View details and apply for this Senior Research Associate in Population Genomics (RA2327) vacancy in University of East Anglia. Faculty of Science School of Biological Sciences Senior Research A...

A 4-year postdoc position in population genomics is available in my group at the University of East Anglia, to work on a project sequencing a thousand fox genomes across rural and urban environments in the UK.

vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/15...

Last day in Aberdeen! Wishing you all the best in your new postdoctoral job Lucy @lucyjkoster.bsky.social @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social

Archaeologists Resisting Far-Right Appropriation Countering the far-right co-option of archaeology and heritage

Hello! We are Archaeologists Resisting Far-Right Appropriation (ARFA for short). You can learn more about us at our website here: archaeologistsrfa.wordpress.com

Watch this space for blog posts, events, and commentary on the co-option and misuse of heritage in the near future.

Open Letter to CBA, CIfA, FAME, and UAUK, in relation the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC Interim Guidance If you are in any way involved in UK Archaeology (in its broadest sense), and you would like to sign this open letter then please fill in GOOGLE FORM LINK. Responses will be manually inputted. The for...

UK ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Please sign this open letter to UK Archaeological associations to urge solidarity with trans archaeologists and action in light of the horrendous EHRC guidance:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

YouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble The Archaeology Wars: Call-To-Action to Support Public Education & Science Communication

[NEW VIDEO] Archaeology is under siege from popular anti-intellectual influencers. I document threats and harassment and provide actionable strategies for promoting public educational content

Watch, like, comment, and share to boost visibility 🧪🏺 #AncientBlueSky

youtu.be/F5PvwzgfKKw

Socio-economic status is a social construct with heritable components and genetic consequences - Nature Human Behaviour Abdellaoui et al. synthesize genomic evidence on the link between socio-economic status and heredity. They show how social stratification may create selection pressures, meaning that individuals are c...

‘Socio-economic status is a social construct with heritable components and genetic consequences’ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Here’s the last version I’ve done…

Published on this day 40 years ago! www.nature.com/articles/314...

Publication day for our @pnas.org Special Feature on inequality in the deep past bit.ly/WInqSF How do the transitions to agriculture, urbanisation and hierarchy impact wealth inequality? What social forces produced sustainable, equal societies in the past? Some answers (and more questions) inside!

Finding Scotland’s Lost Ice Age Animals: extending the Late Pleistocene-early Holocene palaeontological record using biomolecular approaches at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Finding Scotland’s Lost Ice Age Animals: extending the Late Pleistocene-early Holocene palaeontological record using biomolecular approaches at University of Aberdeen , listed on F...

A funded PhD at Aberdeen, forming part of @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social’s ERC funded project on Late Glacial Scotland. Application deadline April 13: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The LOCO project is looking for 2 PhDs and 2 Post-docs in (bio-)archaeology, history, geochemistry, and digital humanities. This joint project between VUB, KUL, and UGent looks at the mobility of people, materials, and ideas in the Low Countries. Apply before 30 April 2025 😀

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Ancient DNA) at University of York Discover Postdoctoral Research Associate (Ancient DNA) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

PDRA aDNA
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML043/p...

AdDeam: A Fast and Scalable Tool for Estimating and Clustering Reference-Level Damage Profiles Motivation DNA damage patterns, such as increased frequencies of C>T and G>A substitutions at fragment ends, are widely used in ancient DNA studies to assess authenticity and detect contamination. In ...

aDNA/aeDNA folks: tired of eyeballing hundreds of damage plots? I am excited to introduce AdDeam—a tool to rapidly generate damage profiles, cluster them, and spot outliers. Great for large sample sets or flagging modern contigs in ancient metagenomics assemblies. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Intriguing preprint on the population history of the wider Rhine-Meuse region from 9th-2nd Millennium BC. Backs up arguments from the archaeological evidence that there is a greater continuity of Mesolithic populations in these wetland regions compared to other parts of Europe.

Interested in pursuing an MSc in Biomolecular Archaeology? Check out our programme! We also offer a substantial tuition fee waiver for international students for the September 2025 intake.