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Janet Kelso

@janetk.bsky.social
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Genomics, bioinformatics, ancient DNA. 🇿🇦Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany Germany

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Mateja Hajdinjak @matejahajdi.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Our late Neandertal paper is officially out! 💀❤️🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41... It was years in the making, a tremendous feat spearheaded by our PhD student Alba Bossoms Mesa and co-led by @janetk.bsky.social and @benmpeter.bsky.social
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Harald Ringbauer @hringbauer.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The HAAM summer school is always a fantastic online workshop on popgen analysis via aDNA. Check out the 2026 version! ⬇️💡🧬
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Jenny Tung @jennytung.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11. www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...
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Professorship in population genetics in the field of evolutionary anthropology and medicine (W2)
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Tobias Lenz @biotobi.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Please share: We are hosting the 2026 DZG evolutionary biology graduate meeting at Uni Hamburg on March 25-27: "Interactions and Coevolution: from Molecules to Species". #PhD students, early postdocs and advanced Master students in evolutionary biology are welcome to register! t1p.de/dzg2026evolbio
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Pontus Skoglund @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The 2026 EMBL symposium 'Reconstructing the human past using ancient and modern genomics' is live with a fantastic invited speaker lineup! Abstract deadline 9 June. If work is ongoing, plan for Heidelberg in September😉. Organised by Maanasa Raghavan, @matejahajdi.bsky.social, Choongwon Jeong & me.
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Janet Kelso @janetk.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
In a new paper led by Jiaqi Yang we trace the distribution of Denisovan introgressed DNA in ancient modern human genomes over time. www.cell.com/current-biol...
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An early East Asian lineage with unexpectedly low Denisovan ancestry
Yang et al. study Denisovan ancestry in ancient and present-day humans. In contrast to other East Asians, genomic comparisons suggest that the Jomon derived most of their ancestry from a deep lineage ...
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 15/09/2025
Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...
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Pontus Skoglund @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Early bird registration until 12 September!
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The world's oldest bacterial DNA found in a million-year-old mammoth! New results from researchers at #CpgSthlm published in Cell! Paper: www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
When testing a computational data analysis method: simulated data are good for checking whether the method is doing what you think it should be doing, real data for checking whether what you think it should be doing is any good.
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Janet Kelso @janetk.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Exited to have such a great set of speakers for Ancient genomes: perspectives on human biology and medicine The program is now online and registration is still open! registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/hg3/frontend...
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Genetics Society UK @gensocuk.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
We’ve got some good news! The deadline to submit abstracts for our “Ancient #Genomes: Perspectives on Human Biology and Medicine” meeting has been extended to 31 July 2025. So if you were thinking about submitting, there’s still plenty of time! genetics.org.uk/events/ancie...
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Ancient genomes: perspectives on human biology and medicine | Genetics Society
It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the Autumn Meeting of the Genetics Society. This meeting will provide a unique forum to network and socialise with a wide cross-section of the ...
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Janet Kelso @janetk.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Interested in how ancient genomes are providing insights into the our evolutionary past? @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social and I are excited about the great program coming together for this meeting in London in November! Register now to join us!
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 18/06/2025
Dragon Man was a Denisovan! DNA and proteins both confirm it, giving this mysterious human lineage a face at long last. Here’s my story. [Gift link] nyti.ms/44nQq1i
Artist's reconstruction of the Harbin skull Denisovan. Image by Chuang Zhao
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ICP2026 Stockholm @palaeogenomics.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The FIRST International Conference on Palaeogenomics will happen in Stockholm, Sweden, June 23-26, 2026! Topics will encompass all corners of ancient DNA research, from humans to wildlife and sediments🧬🦣💀🦠 Save the dates ✅ Check the website icp2026.palaeogenomics.org and follow us for updates!
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ESEB 2025 Congress @eseb2025.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Almost 1,000 abstracts have already been submitted for hashtag#ESEB2025: and we want to hear your voice too! 🌍 We are excited to bring together a diverse, global community of evolutionary biologists this summer in Barcelona. 📅 Submit your abstract now:https://eseb2025.com/call-for-abstracts/
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Takumi Tsutaya @tsutatsuta.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Our paper on the #palaeoproteomic identification of a male Denisovan mandible from Taiwan is out in @science.org ! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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A male Denisovan mandible from Pleistocene Taiwan
Denisovans are an extinct hominin group defined by ancient genomes of Middle to Late Pleistocene fossils from southern Siberia. Although genomic evidence suggests their widespread distribution through...
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Nature @nature.com · 02/04/2025
The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated population go.nature.com/3QWkjOV
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Revealed: first DNA profiles of ancient people who roamed a lush Sahara
The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated population.
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Aylwyn Scally @aylwyn-scally.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
We are excited to announce a new faculty position here in Cambridge, for researchers in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Come and join us! Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50414/
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Assistant/Associate Professor in Computational Biology - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Assistant/Associate Professor in Computational Biology in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge.
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Anthony Mathelier @amathelier.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
🧵 Bioinformatics faces a critical challenge: despite its importance, software quality often falls short due to the lack of proper development practices. In our latest paper, we advocate for improving software quality in bioinformatics through teamwork. academic.oup.com/bioinformati...
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Adam Van Arsdale @apv2600.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
Weekend reading on tap! www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Diverse African genomes reveal selection on ancient modern human introgressions in Neanderthals
Harris et al. identify evidence of bi-directional introgression between modern humans and Neanderthals through the analysis of diverse African genomes. Some Africans have Neanderthal ancestry from re...
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