Rosi Fregel

The @scilifelab.se Ancient DNA Unit is recruiting a (permanent) Research Engineer for planning user projects and generating #aDNA 🧬 data:

Application deadline: March 25th 🧪🏺

www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Really happy to share our new preprint on the co-occurrance of Y.pestis and Erysipelothrix spp. during prehistory. 🔥🔥🔥
In the study, we find the earliest evidence to date of Y.pestis in Southern Europe and 60 new Erysipelothrix genomes spanning 20k years 🦠🐄🚶‍♂️⌛
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Robust imputation-based method for eye, hair, and skin colour prediction from low-coverage ancient DNA
rdcu.be/e2ODi

Excited and proud 😊 to share the final chapter of @hjorvik.bsky.social 's PhD thesis:

Seven Millennia of Human Exploitation drove genomic Changes in Iberian Sheep

Comments welcome! 🧬🧪🏺🐑

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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The story the evolution of height in populations of Europe has been a bit of rollercoaster, veering between natural selection or admixture with populations who had a higher genetic propensity to be taller by chance. This preprint goes back to natural selection...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

'Landmark' elephant bone finding in Spain may be from time of Hannibal's war against Rome An elephant bone discovered in Spain may date to the time of Hannibal's battles against the Romans.

The discovery of an ancient elephant bone in Spain is the first "direct archaeological testimony" of war elephants being used from Hannibal's time, a new study reports. 🏺🧪🐘

Excited to share our work on #AncientRNA from alcohol-preserved lungs, recovering the oldest human RNA virus genome (an 18th-century rhinovirus). Our study shows that viral RNA remnants persist in centuries-old tissue, opening new ways to study virus evolution and historical disease #Paleovirology🫁🦠

Assessing Ancient DNA Sampling Strategies for Natural Selection Inference in Humans Using Allele Frequency Time Series Data Abstract. The increased availability of genomic data from ancient humans allows estimating the strength of natural selection at a given locus using time se

Interested in using aDNA time-series datasets to estimate selection?

Our study "Assessing Ancient DNA Sampling Strategies for Natural Selection Inference in Humans Using Allele Frequency Time Series Data" is now out in GBE! doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... @genomebiolevol.bsky.social @cegamorim.bsky.social

We sequenced #ancientRNA from an 18th-Century human lung and recovered a rhinovirus genome. Take a look at our preprint. Feedback welcome.

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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

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Registration OPEN for Practical Palaeoproteomics Summer School Copenhagen! 🦴🧪

🗓️ Aug 12–21, 2026 📍 Copenhagen (In-person + 3-day remote option) 🎓 6 ECTS credits ⏳ Deadline: April 1st

Apply here: phdcourses.ku.dk/detailkursus...

#Palaeoproteomics #BioArch #Archaeology #Proteomics #PhDLife

Evidence for the earliest hominin use of wooden handheld tools found at Marathousa 1 (Greece) | PNAS The Middle Pleistocene (MP; ca. 774 to 129 ka) marks a critical period of human evolution, characterized by increasing behavioral complexity and th...

Two rare wooden tools from Greece, dated to 430,000 years ago, reveal a hidden side of early hominin technology. These fragile artifacts hint at a vanished world of organic tools that shaped daily life. #Paleoanthropology #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Paleolithic @katharv.bsky.social

Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’

Incredibly important story that everyone should read.

These are not disorganized lone actors, but well-funded and powerful networks to be treated as serious threats.

They are using our work to push a eugenicist and racist agenda that is scientifically invalid and morally reprehensible.

🙋🏽‍♂️ I'll be there.

A 5500-year-old Treponema pallidum genome from Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia Treponematosis, a bacterial infection caused by Treponema pallidum subspecies and T. carateum (yaws, bejel, syphilis, pinta), has afflicted humans for millennia. Despite paleopathological evidence and...

A newly sequenced 5500-year-old genome of Treponema pallidum rewrites the origins of syphilis, according to a new study in Science.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Zpv2W2

Insights into human history and complex traits from the genomes of African populations Abstract. Ancient and modern genomic data provide insights into continuous human migrations and subsequent admixture and gene flow throughout human history

Insights into human history and complex traits from the genomes of African populations url: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Ancient DNA Reveals Twisted Roots of Syphilis Go Back 5,500 Years The first known outbreak of syphilis in Europe began at the turn of the 16th century, but on the distant continent of South America, the pathogen's history goes much deeper than that.

I learned about this dark side of syphilis when I took a history of medicine course. It is a remarkably resistant disease that brought armies to their knees and wrought tremendous societal damage.
Ancient DNA Reveals Twisted Roots of Syphilis Go Back 5,500 share.google/V15zBbvnvlbf...

Far-reaching hunter-gatherer networks during the Last Glacial Maximum in Western Europe Geochemistry of stone tools reveals unprecedently large social ties among European hunter-gatherers during the Last Ice Age.

Far-reaching hunter-gatherer networks during the Last Glacial Maximum in Western Europe | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Tracing social mechanisms and interregional connections in Early Bronze Age Societies in Lower Austria - Nature Communications Here, the authors present genome-wide aDNA from 138 Early Bronze Age individuals from Lower Austria. Their findings point to a patrilocal society with non-strict female exogamic practices and long-dis...

Tracing social mechanisms and interregional connections in Early Bronze Age Societies in Lower Austria @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Population genomics reveals an ancient origin of heartworms in canids - Communications Biology Genomic analyses of heartworms from multiple continents suggest a deeper evolutionary origin in canids than previously recognised, with evidence of both ancient dispersal events and more recent introd...

🔔 New paper from the Vet Para lab @sydney.edu.au 🪱
In @commsbio.nature.com, our global analyses of 100+ heartworm genomes uncover the unexpected evolutionary history and population structure of this canine parasite 🧬🌏
Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1038/s420...
Key findings in the 🧵 below 👇

📣 The @scilifelab.se #ddls postdoc (2yrs) offers a great community + training + all social benefits!

Happy to discuss your own project ideas! I also have some ideas on ARGs, pangenomes or biobank-scale datasets 🧬🐏🧪🖥️

Deadline is Mar 31 but some admin things need to be handled well in advance!

Misusing research to trap songbirds in Spain

Misusing research to trap songbirds in Spain | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📣 Work with us! 📣

We are seeking to appoint a part-time, permanent Biomolecular Research Laboratory Technician!

Hear a bit more about the role from @matthewcollins.bsky.social

📅 Closing date: 2 February

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/biomole...

📢 I would be happy to host a 2-year DDLS Postdoc at my group using museum genomics to look at recent adaptation in insect pollinators 📉🐝🦋🧬

If you are interested in this (or have other project ideas) get in touch ASAP!

The application deadline is March 31.

INFO 👉 www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/...

Genome Shows no Recent Inbreeding in Near-Extinction Woolly Rhinoceros Sample Found in Ancient Wolf's Stomach Abstract. Using temporarily spaced high-coverage ancient genomes, we can assess population decline prior to extinction. However, finding suitable ancient r

Genome Shows no Recent Inbreeding in Near-Extinction Woolly Rhinoceros Sample Found in Ancient Wolf's Stomach url: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

📣 We are seeking a postdoctoral research fellow in ancient metagenomics. Join us at the Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu.

⏳ 01.04.2026–31.03.2028
📚 1.0 position
📍 Riia 23b, Tartu, Estonia

ℹ️ Project: lnkd.in/dQARuBxM
ℹ️ Application: lnkd.in/dFR8DQxH

⏰ Deadline 02.02.2026

Playmobil Cacofonix the bard blowing a miniature reproduction of the Norfolk carnyx, on a green field with other Iron Age Playmobil figures in the distance.

The Norfolk Carnyx: a Playmobil story in 4 parts. 🧵
#DiggingForBritain
#DrawingDiggingForBritain
#PlaymobilInfestation
@profaliceroberts.bsky.social
@pcaarchaeology.bsky.social

1: Life

Global patterns of natural selection inferred using ancient DNA https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.07.697984v1

Early hominins from Morocco basal to the Homo sapiens lineage - Nature New hominin fossils from the Grotte à Hominidés at Thomas Quarry I (ThI-GH) in Casablanca, Morocco, dated to around 773 thousand years ago are similar in age to Homo antecessor, yet are morphologicall...

Of all the quarries in all the countries in all the world it gets dug up in mine: 773,000-year-old hominin fossils from Casablanca @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...