Harald Ringbauer

Check out our ancient DNA paper on the maritime Punic civilization! 🦴🧬🌊 We find that their Levantine Phoenician cultural ancestors contributed surprisingly little ancestry to Punic sites in the central and western Mediterranean! (1/4) doi.org/10.1038/s415... #aDNA #PopGen #Punic #Phoenician

🚨 Ancient DNA Alert 🚨 Do you depend on BWA aln, and worry that the world’s HPC clusters are pivoting towards GPUs? Fear no more! We here present G-ALN, a GPU implementation that is >6 times faster and produces byte-identical outputs to BWA aln! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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...

A PhD project in my group to work on the sequencing of whole animal genomes from mosquito blood meals is open to applications, through the @nrpdtp.bsky.social.

Quite the saga I found myself involved in! Was a stimulating way to spend my evenings. Highly impressed by the folks at I4R and the important work they're doing.

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

This group is really useful to keep up to date with new papers in #PopGen and adjacent fields. ⏬️

Given the recent decline of social media for high quality science discussions, I have recently moved most of my activity into this Slack group, dedicated to population genetics and genetic genealogy. Everyone is welcome to join: join.slack.com/t/geneticgen...

There’s still time to apply!!

Reminder Postdoc job looking at aDNA of dogs at the NHM @nhm-london.bsky.social Deadline tomorrow 16th June jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

It is great to now have a proper way to cite pileupCaller! The code to generate pseudohaploid genotypes from BAMs is one of the most quoted github code chunks in human ancient DNA research.

Finally an official publication of Pileupcaller. Please cite. Thanks to @joss-openjournals.bsky.social for the review process and publishing!

🚨 Check out our new paper in Nature! In our new study, we sequenced 128 high-coverage genomes from Indigenous peoples across Latin America and uncovered their unique genetic diversity and history. 👇🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper alert 🚨 Researchers at #CPGStlhm have analyzed ancient genomes from an Islamic cemetery in Ibiza (950–1150 CE) 🏖️ They found a highly diverse community with ancestry from Europe and North Africa! The paper was published in @natcomms.nature.com OA link www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Out today is our paper 'Genomic history of early dogs in Europe', in which we uncover the identity of the dogs that lived in Europe before agriculture—during the Paleolithic & Mesolithic periods: doi.org/10.1038/s415.... A thread ⬇️ (10) @biouea.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social

The HAAM summer school is always a fantastic online workshop on popgen analysis via aDNA. Check out the 2026 version! ⬇️💡🧬

🆕 HAAM Summer School 2026 📅 June 1-5, 2026 📍 Online 💰 Free 🧑‍🔬🧑‍💻 For Students & ECR 🔓 Applications open until April 13, 2026! 🔗 Apply here: forms.gle/ckqTgQxnEENJ...

What happens when violence targets the future of a society? Our new paper in Nature Human Behaviour examines one of Europe’s largest prehistoric mass graves and finds evidence for selective violence directed against women and children in the Early Iron Age. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Really excited to share our new paper on the Early Iron Age mass grave at Gomolava (9th c. BCE), a study I had the pleasure to work on during my PhD with an amazing group of co-authors across multiple disciplines. Open access link: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇

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... 🧵(1/8)

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 hope this little guide and review of the recent literature on SVs will be useful for the community in #ecology #evolution #genomics #PopGen. Great lead by Kat!!

We developed/optimised the protocol to enrich low aDNA content libraries using Twist panels. 🎣🧬👩‍🔬 #aDNA #Labwork

SciLifeLab has opened a call for #postdoc fellows in Data-Driven Life Science. We would be happy to host such fellows! Get in touch if you are interested in applying with a project on the evolution of humans and domestic animals using ancient and/or modern DNA 🧪🏺 www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/...

#AI may indeed exacerbate our bad academic habits: #LLM science summaries were nearly five times more likely than human-authored science summaries to contain broad generalizations (95% CI [3.06, 7.70], p < 0.001). And newer models over-generalized more; not less! doi.org/10.1098/rsos... #philSci

This smells distinctly like collider bias and/or selection bias and/or regression to the mean... You simply can't select teen prodigies, and world class athletes rom databases, and go run regressions without serious consideration of the selection process!

Have you ever wondered: just how strong *is* the evidence for Muller's ratchet on mtDNA? Well, wonder no more! (Project led by Yu Mo, with @smishra677.bsky.social and @yadirapga.bsky.social) "No molecular evidence for Muller's ratchet in mitochondrial genomes" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Happy to share my work with my advisor Zachary Szpiech! Why are associations between ROH & complex traits inconsistent across studies? We use realistic simulations to show how demographic history and genetic architecture interact to shape the phenotypic impact of ROH. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

More Italians 😂 #aDNA #PopGen

A new community-driven lab handbook for reducing conflict and creating more positive and equitable work environments gets strong support from a survey of 200 researchers. buff.ly/K7CGFLV

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

What's that? 5 ancient doggy papers in 10 days is too many dogs? Can I interest you in some cats? Perhaps a complete retelling of cat domestication, dispersal, and replacement across Eurasia? As you wish! Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Cell Genomics www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

I taught (and co-taught) a course on human population genetics from 2000-2024. Having retired, I'm now making all the course materials public: github.com/alanrogers/p... #popgen #evbio

As I told the CNN, without details and data it is not possible to assess the claims. More importantly, the scientific value of this media campaign, balanced against the possible stigmatization of individuals with these real conditions today, is highly questionable. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/13/s...

Putting aside the deeper issues of why this analysis was done and how it has been promoted, the choice to broadcast a tv show before releasing a preprint should make people skeptical of the results. How can one be sure of their scientific claims?

www.nature.com/articles/s41... New paper led by Javier Maravall on a time transect from ancient Argentina.

✨Thrilled to share that the first chapter of my Ph.D. thesis is NOW OUT in Science Advances! ✨🥳🎉 🧬. This couldn't have been possible without the support of everyone involved @genscapelab.bsky.social, @nirajrai.bsky.social, ‪@cdelafc.bsky.social‬, @jaurban2204.bsky.social, @mootspoints.bsky.social

Excited to share that I’ve started as Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark! 🧑‍🎓 I also received an a NNF Emerging Investigator grant to use genomics + machine learning to study extinction. 👉 PhD & Postdoc positions coming soon — follow for updates! Reposts appreciated 🙏

Anglo-Saxons with West African roots: DNA analysis of 7th century burials reported in @antiquity.ac.uk today reveals long-distance connections reached across continents and cultures. Read about it @science.org:

#Population history of the Southern #Caucasus: Archaeogenetic study generates #DNA transect spanning nearly 5,000 years. In @cellpress.bsky.social by Eirini Skourtanioti, Xiaowen Jia, @hringbauer.bsky.social & an intl. team. #PopulationGenetics More: tinyurl.com/8r39ywfu & doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...