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Stephan Schiffels

@stschiff.bsky.social

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Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. Population Genetics, Programming Enthusiast (Haskell), Data Analysis

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Stephan Schiffels @stschiff.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Ready for solar eclipse 2026

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Stephan Schiffels @stschiff.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

If you are interested in learning computational population genetics and ancient genomics, I have curated my list of workshops and online tutorials (and will continue to do so) indicating suitability for self-learners and status. You find the list [here](www.stephanschiffels.de/resources.html).

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Stephan Schiffels @stschiff.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Ready for the final concert of the unbelievable Bach-Marathon, with Thomas-Organist Johannes Lang performing all(!) organ works from J.S.Bach in 14 back-to-back concerts, through 21 hours. I have attended 4 of the concerts, and it was a transcendental experience, for lack of adequate superlatives.

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Stephan Schiffels @stschiff.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Motivated by this, the authors simply check mitochondrial diversity across centuries and in all of Europe from published data, and found a pattern that was there all along but nobody looked for it: 3/6

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Stephan Schiffels @stschiff.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

… with women, daughters and granddaughters all buried at the site. This is the opposite pattern of what we’ve seen in other large-pedigree studies from the Neolithic or later, which are all patrilocal. 2/6

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