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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A huge congratulations to Keri Burge for publishing the first research article for her dissertation! Check out her findings on the impact of library method selection on the reconstruction of oral microbiota from the Pleistocene! doi.org/10.1111/1755...

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A huge congratulations to Tessa Zeibig for her first dissertation publication about ancient parvovirus B19! It was such a pleasure to collaborate on this study!

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It's a royal surprise - check out our new work on the oral microbiome of King Richard III of England! Fun fact: he holds the record for the most ancient DNA we have ever recovered from any archaeological sample ever! doi.org/10.1002/ajpa...

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Oh boy! The newest issue of Harvard’s In Situ Magazine is now out! Learn about all the exciting archaeology happening at Harvard! A huge thank you to Mack FitzPatrick and Clara Alexander on the editorial team! Download the issue at archaeology.harvard.edu

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Check out our new work on the biodiversity of oral Tannerella! Metagenomic assembly reveals at least four new species with different virulence potential. We also reassign the first reconstructed T. forsythia genome from medieval Dalheim G12 to the newly named T. colubrina.

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Oh boy - our new ancient DNA module is available for nf-core/mag! Robustly and reproducibly reconstruct ancient metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) using our new nf-core/mag tooling! doi.org/10.1371/jour...

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

A huge congratulations to PhD student Keri Burge for winning the Best Student Poster Award at the International Conference on Paleogenomics in Stockholm this week! We are so proud of you!

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I have the best colleagues! Thank you everyone for the overwhelming support and congratulations ❤️

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I was elected yesterday to the US National Academy of Sciences! I feel so honored and grateful! I’m heading to the SAAs right now and I can’t wait to celebrate!

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

The Adventures in Archaeological Science coloring book is now available in Kyrgyz / Кыргыз. A big thank you to Saltanat Alisher kyzy for making the coloring book available in Kyrgzy! christinawarinner.com/2026/03/27/a...

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

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

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Congratulations to Akari for completing her postdoc on traditional dairying in Mongolia in the FSU Microverse Cluster at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology and starting a new professorship at Okayama University!

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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

New video of talk by @christinawarinner.bsky.social given at Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny posted by @ucsandiego.bsky.social explaining how advances in #aDNA and #proteomics can investigate the complex and diverse microbial communities from dental calculus

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CARTA: Human Microbiome Evolution with Christina Warinner

YouTube video by University of California Television (UCTV)

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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

New 2-year Postdoc: Ancient #Metagenomics & #Microbiome Sciences! 🧬🦷 Join Prof. @christinawarinner.bsky.social ’s group at @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social to study the evolution and ecology of ancient oral microbiota. 📅 Apply by Jan 20, 2026: www.microverse-cluster.de/en/career/jo...

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Jobs - Balance of the Microverse

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Important Announcement: EAA Special Meeting The European Archaeological Association will hold a Special Meeting to discuss the organisation’s governance and future direction. - 🗓 Friday, 9 Jan 2026 - ⏰ 14:00–17:00 CET Online voting will take place on 16–31 Jan 2026 www.e-a-a.org/EAA/News___P...

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Announcement – EAA Special Meeting

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Check out our new ancient DNA article on the deep time evolution of antimicrobial peptides in the oral microbiome! Learn more about actifensins and test out our new software tool, AMPcombi! A big congratulations especially to Anan and Rosa for all their hard work on this! doi.org/10.1021/jacs...

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

What an inspiring CARTA Symposium on “Ancient DNA: New Revelations”! Thank you so much to the whole CARTA organizational team for making it possible!

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

So proud to be among the speakers addressing “What it means to be human” at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology symposium!

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

We're so excited to share our newest ancient DNA findings on hunter-gatherers and pastoralists in Kazakhstan! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

So excited to learn about the work Henny Piezonka is doing on reindeer!

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

We're so happy to share our newest ancient DNA findings in Mongolia on the Slab Grave expansion and its consequences for diverse Bronze Age pastoralists! doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

We're organizing a new CARTA symposium this November 7 on "Ancient DNA: New Revelations"! We have an amazing lineup of speakers who will showcase the biggest discoveries in ancient DNA over the past 5 years - and offer a sneak peek of what's next. Mark your calendars and don't miss it!

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Having the best time at the Stanford Fermented Food Conference! From kimchi to koji to sauerkraut, this was the tastiest conference I’ve ever attended! A big thank you to the Sonnenburg lab for organizing, and it was so great to see Rob Dunn and Rachel Dutton again!

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

And that’s a wrap! Congratulations to the entire ISBA community for a successful ISBA11!

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Oh boy - we opened this year’s ISBA meetings in a Roman amphitheater!

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

The Warinner Group and collaborators having fun at ISBA11 in Torino, Italy!

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

We have a new article out in Cell! Learn more about plague in prehistoric livestock: "Bronze Age Yersinia pestis genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineage" www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

New article in the Harvard Gazette about how we’re persevering despite funding cuts news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I'll be presenting our research on ancient food fermentations at the upcoming Stanford Fermented Food Conference on September 4-5, 2025. Join us to learn more about our recent findings on Roman wine and ancient Himalayan beer! There will be yeast and LAB genomes! med.stanford.edu/nutrition/ev...

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Warinner lab undergraduate researcher Juliet Garon recently presented her summer research that builds foundational knowledge for the use of protein mass spectrometry to understand human respiratory diseases and immune response before the antibiotic era. Congratulations Juliet!

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PAASTA Community @paastacommunity.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Delighted to be bringing you the following PAASTA community-led paper outlining our recommendations for best practices and open science in palaeoproteomics! Congratulations to the authors and for anyone keen to read the paper, it can be found #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Postdoc James Fellows Yates has won the Dawn Field Award for Outstanding Contributions to Genomic Standards at this year’s Genomics Standards Consortium (GSC) meeting in Cambridge, UK! Congratulations, James! We couldn’t be more proud!

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Want to learn more about the cutting edge of ancient microbial metagenomics and the evolutionary history of Candidate Phyla Radiation bacteria? Join us this Thursday for I-Ting’s PhD defense on “Microbial evolution through the lens of metagenomics and paleogenomics”!

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

It's not every day you get to see the summer solstice sunset at a 7,000-year-old woodhenge! Yay for the Sonnenobservatorium in Goseck!

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Just finished our summer retreat for the Paleobiotechnology research group at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology HKI. We had so much fun charting the future of ancient microbial genomes with the aim of developing better antimicrobial therapies for the future.

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Our official photo from the Nobel Symposium - what a blast! It was so incredible to learn about all the amazing paleogenomics research happening right now!

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

It was so nice spending time with my colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology at our annual retreat at Ringberg Castle! What a treat!

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

A great news article in Science this week by Taylor Brown on the devastating effects of funding cuts by DOGE and the Trump Administration on American archaeology. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Funding cuts to U.S. archaeology could imperil field’s future

A Science analysis of canceled and curtailed federal grants reveals hits to research, collections, and training

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

We got to see the Linnean type specimens!!!

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

It is so fun to get to hang out with the newest member of the National Academy Sciences!

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Lennart Pyritz @lennartpyritz.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Die US-Regierung will der Harvard Universität verbieten, weiterhin ausländische Studierende aufzunehmen. Was das für das wiss. Arbeiten dort bedeuten würde, darüber habe ich im Dlf mit @christinawarinner.bsky.social gesprochen, Anthropologie-Prof. in Harvard: www.deutschlandfunk.de/harvard-univ...

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Harvard Universität ohne ausländische Studierende? Interview Christina Warinner

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

On my way to meet the Nobel Committee. My government may not value my research but I’m glad others do

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Bridget Alex @bridgetalex.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Help save SAPIENS magazine! The Wenner-Gren Foundation, our funder, may decide to close the magazine in the coming weeks. But the Board of Trustees hasn't made its final decision. A letter from you could help! Sign here: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

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Support Needed for SAPIENS Magazine and its Staff Union!

We, SAPIENS staff, write to our supporters with an urgent request for support. We were informed this week that our funder, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, may choose to close SAPIENS Anthropology Magazine...

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