Niraj Rai

Tracing the Neanderthal–Modern Human hybrid zone using paleogenomic data

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Check out our new article in Current Anthropology on the changing landscape of archaeological publishing! www.doi.org/10.1086/739789

@matthewcollins.bsky.social please share the zoom link of your upcoming talk.

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Fully funded PhD studentship here with @katerinad.bsky.social on palaeoproteomics. Apply below!

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Dealing With Inbuilt Age: A Bayesian Approach to Radiocarbon Dating of Rice, Bamboo and Charcoal From Non Ban Jak, Thailand New radiocarbon determinations from rice grains and bamboo have been obtained from Non Ban Jak, Northeast Thailand. These, along with charcoal, date a late Iron Age building sequence. The results com...

My dad and I published this paper this week in Archaeometry. It shows how you can avoid old wood effects when dating charcoal by using a bespoke Bayesian outlier model developed by my friends Mike Dee and Chris Ramsey a few years ago. We applied it to a Thai site.
doi.org/10.1111/arcm.70105

Fabulous fossils ! @robertosaezm.bsky.social ‘s top 10 #FossilFriday posts of 2025, includes KNM-ER 23000 🤩✨😁

Why is AAR (Amino Acid Racemisation; by implication #palaeoproteomics) so often overlooked for #geochronology?

New paper by @neaarlab.bsky.social, using Bithynia snails 🐌 to date the last 1Ma: 4 new reference sets for climate & Quaternary Science 🌍

open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-396

Dynamic human admixture histories over the past ~1300 years at the northern Himalayan frontier Ancient and present-day human genomes shed light on ~1300 years of genetic admixture and continuity in the northern Himalayas.

Happy to share our recent ancient DNA based article.
Dynamic human admixture histories over the past ~1300 years at the northern Himalayan frontier | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

YouTube video by Dr. Jane Goodall & the Jane Goodall Institute USA Wounda's Journey - Jane Goodall Witnesses Release of Chimpanzee Into New Island Sanctuary Site

Like you, I've read so many nice things about Jane Goodall's amazing life and legacy today, but this video of the realease of the chimp called Wounda is beyond words ♥️

If only we could find the will to stop destroying the extraordinary natural world around us...

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Science research gets more engagement on Bluesky than X, study finds Bluesky posts referencing scholarly articles ‘find substantially higher levels of interaction’ than on Elon Musk’s platform

As expected, Bluesky better than X for scientists www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Population histories of the Indigenous Adivasi and Sinhalese from Sri Lanka using whole genomes Sri Lanka is home to diverse ethnic groups with different genetic histories. Urban Aragon et al. find that despite close genetic affinities, Indigenous Adivasi have more hunter-gatherer ancestry and l...

Happy to share our new research article on demographic and migratory history of Sri Lanka. This is one of the detailed genetic studies ever done on Sri Lankan population

www.cell.com/current-biol...