Arev P. Sümer

Our new study with @benmpeter.bsky.social is now on biorxiv! Here we present a new computational tool which makes it possible to conduct population genetic analyses from very contaminated and very low quality archaic human genomes. (1/7)

Next Tuesday we have an exciting session with Chris Stringer. Join us LIVE or ZOOM! 🌕 Tues Oct 27 🌖 18:30 (UTC) Chris Stringer Still 'In Search of the Neanderthals' NB Venue is G6 Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY ZOOM ID 948 6108 7055 passcode Wawilak

🏺🧪 The genetic history of humans in pre-LGM Upper Palaeolithic Europe gets even more complex with more ancient genomes and some ingenious use of sedimentary DNA. Also casually identify that two burials from Ostuni Cave represent a mother and her son.

Happy to see my work with Regev Schweiger @regev.bsky.social and Richard Durbin now published in Genetics! Link to paper: academic.oup.com/genetics/adv... (open access). A thread on the main ideas....1/n

I am happy to share the first preprint of my PhD! We developed mixKIN, an ancestry-aware kinship estimation tool for low-coverage genomes. By accounting for ancestries, it allows us to reconstruct genetic kinship accurately even in complex or admixed populations. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚨🚨Are you an ECR working on hominin postcrania? The Cluster of Excellence @humanorigins.bsky.social is hiring a Junior Research Group Leader with your profile. We are a vibrant international community working on integrative approaches to human evolution-Join us!✨ uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

We're looking for a postdoc to work with me and @mariesoressi.bsky.social at Leiden University to investigate how Pleistocene landscapes shaped hominin movement across Europe! 🌍 Remote work possible 💻 GIS, R, spatial modeling & archaeology Apply by 6 November: share.google/F3RzCygiry7e...

We have an open Call for PhD positions at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social : www.leipzig-school.eva.mpg.de/application/... #adna #phd

I’m looking to hire an NIH funded postdoc to join our lab here at Davis (please RT). Ongoing areas of interest include: 1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc 2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding

Diachronic reuse of Neolithic burial monuments by Bronze Age newcomers in Southwestern Britain by @nikolavukovic.bsky.social et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Another opportunity to join us in Tübingen! 😍

🧪🏺🦣 Cool new work using ZooMS on bone assemblages from one of my favourite #Neanderthal sites, Les Pradelles. More hominin remains (MNI = 8), no new processing marks except fresh fracturing, but faunal comparison supports impression of diff taph/treatment. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

We have a new preprint out :D www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Did Denisovans inherit their AMBN gene from Homo erectus? We have released a short preprint trying to answer this question! @lauritsskov.bsky.social @fridowelker.bsky.social ~Summary below~

Check out our new review: Ancient DNA in motion! We examine how the integration of archaeogenomic data with archaeological evidence can help reconstruct past human mobility and interactions, as well as their consequences, while also addressing key terminological and interpretive limitations.

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).

🚨 New paper out in @natcomms.nature.com! We used bony labyrinth morphology to reconstruct over 40,000 years of human population history in northeastern Africa, a region where ancient DNA is almost entirely unavailable. A thread 🧵 ⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/11

Cool work led by Daniel Tabin, including human genomes associated with Epipaleolithic in the Balkans

Reminder: two weeks are left to apply for the PhD and postdoc positions in my lab. See more info here www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/career/jo...

Another fun excavation year of #Mousterian contexts at Saint-Cesaire with great colleagues and friends ✨️🤗 @hrougier.bsky.social Thanks to the Ministère de la culture, @charente-maritime.bsky.social , @univbordeaux.bsky.social, Paléosite,... #archaeology #prehistory #neandertal

Super happy to share that I closed the loop and returned where my journey started.. This time as a faculty at METU Informatics Institute. Thanks so much to everyone who supported my journey so far! Looking forward to continue our collaborations & starting new ones 💪🤩

Copenhagen job alert 🚨 GLOBE (@ucph.bsky.social) is hiring a 21-mo Postdoc in #Bioinformatics & #ComputationalProteomics Work with @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social, @fridowelker.bsky.social, @brandtgroup.bsky.social & more mapping collagen/keratin diversity across 1000s of genomes. 📅 Deadline Aug 31

🐘 check out our newest paper from Liang Bua! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Did H. floresiensis hunt Stegodon? 🔪 Did they also had control use of fire? 🔥 We tested these early claims of complex behavior using taphonomy, experimental archaeology, and zooarchaeology of the Stegodon assemblage.

Happy to share our new paper titled "Ancient DNA reveals elite dynastic rule among Iron Age Eurasian Steppe nomads" in Science Advances! A huge thank you to all of our coauthors and collaborators whose expertise and teamwork made this study possible! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Have ideas for your own, independent research program in Theoretical Biology? Then come and join us as a Group Leader at the @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social in Plön, Germany!

📣 I'm hiring! Two positions (PhD student & Postdoc) in my ERC project Macroevolution of European Literature. Let's study the cultural evolution of literature using massive data 📚📈 📍Frankfurt | Apply by August 15 Details: www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/career/jo... Please repost to help spread the word!

All talks are now available including mine: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZmF... Luckily the video became online on the same day as the paper I talked about at the end of my talk "confidentially" 😅

A new paper on late Neandertal genetic diversity - A must-read! 👏🍾 Congratulations to our amazing paleogeneticist colleagues! Great to see so much data from Belgian sites, made possible in part through our bone-sorting endeavours with @hrougier.bsky.social 🦴🤓🤩 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

So happy and proud to see this paper out in @natcomms.nature.com today! We show that traces of human DNA can persist on cave walls for thousands of years. Absolutely fantastic work by the wonderful Alba Bossoms Mesa at @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social and a great team! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am recruiting a PhD student (fully funded, 4yrs) to analyze modern 🧬 and ancient 🦴 genomic data from humans and domestic animals 🐑 Please share, I am happy to chat at #ICP2026 or #SMBE2026 this summer www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

🧪Heading to shorturl.at/Uaq0d at the Collège de France. Members of the extended @pacea.bsky.social family in the program, N.Zwyns, T.Tsanova, J.Henrion @mariesoressi.bsky.social I’ll speak about beads and networks during the Mid/UP transition @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

This exciting symposium will take place next Tuesday, come join us if you are in Paris :)

We’re looking for a MSc student based in Zurich (UZH or ETH) to join a computational project at the intersection of human population genetics and linguistics. #UZH #ETH #Genomics #Linguistics #Switzerland @nccrlanguage.bsky.social @lifesciencezurich.bsky.social

Are you screening your ancient DNA study for chromosomal aneuploidies? Or looking for a new way to call genetic sex? Regardless of sequencing data type? Our Bayesian method (implemented in R as RChASM) has now been published in Bioinformatics: doi.org/10.1093/bioi...

My group at the MPI for Empirical Aesthetics now has a name: Cultural Evolution of the Arts! You can read a bit more about the idea behind the group at the group's web page: www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/research/... And here's the obligatory door nameplate :)

Registration and abstract submission are open for #ESHE2026 in Burgos (16–20 Sept)! 🗓 Abstract deadline: 8 May 2026 (11:59 PM PDT) If you're planning to submit, consider registering and paying ahead of the deadline to avoid last-minute technical issues. More info: www.eshe.eu/meetings/

🏺Broad, enticing discussion of recent archaeogenetics papers that have found evidence for matrlineal organisation of cemeteries at various times/places in the past, including Iron Age Britain, in some cases implying matrilocal residence patterns. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Our institute @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social starting a new Masters program with the University of Leipzig. If you are a bachelors student graduating soon, and would like to get involved with our research during you MSc, consider applying :) www.uni-leipzig.de/en/studying/...

How did catastrophic black death and myxomatosis outbreaks on an isolated island affect the genomes of humans & rabbits, respectively? And how did the microbes evolve in response to this? PhD position @cpgsthlm.bsky.social with Anders Götherström and me as supervisors! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

🧪🦣 🧬 New #Neanderthal genome just dropped! Denisova cave male, c. 120 Ka, some Denisovan ancestry, and living in very small effective breeding population <50. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Two new studies of Neanderthal DNA from @massilanilab.bsky.social, @hrougier.bsky.social, @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social and others show our ancient cousins survived for millennia in small, geographically isolated groups. www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org 🧬🏺