Maria A Nieves Colón

We're hiring TWO postdocs in the Lea Lab at Vanderbilt! 🧬🐒 Both positions are part of a new NIH U19 studying life course experiences, gene regulation, and aging in the Cayo rhesus macaques. More details here: www.vanderbilt.edu/postdoc/pros... Please share widely and reach out with any questions!

Want to support the diversity you’d like to see in Biological Anthropology? Applications are open to join us as a 2027 AABA IDEAS Faculty (9 positions) or Student (15 positions) Scholar at our Annual Meeting in Philadelphia March 31 - April 3, 2027! Details are below! bioanth.org/about/divers...

🎓 Missed the PAASTA Bioinformatics Summer School? Good news! The recordings from our virtual Bioinformatics Summer School, held from 8–12 June 2026, are now available online. 🧬💻

Interested in using ancient DNA to investigate the human evolutionary history of Southeast Asia? I offer a PhD scholarship for a project commencing in 2027, open to domestic and international applicants. EOI due 30 Sep. More details: adelaide.edu.au/research/res... (search: SRTSR0520)

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 preprint: Have you ever tried to perform molecular clock dating of ancient mitogenomes using BEAST? Have you struggled using manual tools to create your input files, run your analyses and extract your results? We hope our pipeline provides a solution to this: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

📣 SMBE IDEA proposals are OPEN for 2027 📣 Here are some more details on our initiatives around inclusion, diversity, equity and access (IDEA), centred in molecular biology and evolution, and what we value in proposals... (More details on project proposals here: www.smbe.org/idea-initiat...)

Check out our new paper about the oldest molecular evidence of smallpox in the Americas!!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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

There is still time to submit your comment and tell the government that you don't want US research to be completely destroyed by politicians meddling in individual grants. You can submit your comments here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM...

If you're a PI, post-doc, or grad student, write about what this means for you. This guide helped me write a personalized message and it might help you: elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne... Perfect is the enemy of done here. We have two days.

Come talk to my students at #smbe2026 in poster session A on the 2nd floor Arkaden 8 Nick Hartman is in 235 and will be talking about the genetic bases for adrenarchy in Neanderthals Michael Orellana is on 226 talking about the demographic trajectory and admixture of South America camelids #smbe

The Skeletal Genomics Group is at #SMBE2026 this year, and we have lots of science we are presenting today!

Hey #SMBE2026! Come check out poster #303 in Arkaden 6 during today’s session A to learn about our lab’s ongoing research collaboration with the Afro-Peruvian community of San Luis de Cañete. Together we are using aDNA to investigate the African diaspora to Peru 🇵🇪 🧬💀

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/...

Several people have asked for possible content and structure for comments regarding the proposed OMB regulations. With some suggestions from others, I have posted on example (as a Word document) for downloading). jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... I hope this is helpful.

Looking for a postdoc to join my group at the NHM London & work on aDNA of dogs/wolves! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

The White House today announced it plans to make major changes in how the U.S. government manages research funding. https://scim.ag/43HgW4s

Central to Indigenous Caribbean societies, woven objects rarely survive archaeologically. 'Anacaona's Gift' explores this understudied material culture, from everyday baskets to elaborate textile status symbols. Learn more in the latest #NewBookChronicle 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Abstract deadline for Midwest Pop Gen 2026 extended to June 12th! Aug 21-22 at UChicago — free, trainee-oriented meeting with talks, posters + Friday BBQ at Promontory Point. Chicago in August doesn't get better than this... jkreinz.github.io/mwpg2026

🌴🌞🌊 We are recruiting 🌊🌞🌴 UCSB seeks a lecturer broadly trained across anthropological fields to teach anthropological approaches to health. More info: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03100 UCSB is an Equal Opportunity Employer Expected salary range: $70,977–$98,249

The letter of intent is due at the end of June. Contact me if you are interested in applying to the fellowship as part of being a graduate student in my lab for Fall 2027. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

From father to son: ancient DNA indicates Neolithic chambered tombs in northern Scotland were physical embodiments of prehistoric kinship, tracing lineages over centuries. 🏺 #AntiquityThread 1/11 🧵

Please repost: My department at USC is hiring for a teaching-track faculty position. We are looking for someone principally to teach statistics for biologists, but there will be opportunities for other courses in statistics & algorithms applied to biology usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

Hey that’s my PhD adviser! 🥰🎉🥂 Congratulations @acstone.bsky.social ! You’re a role model for us all 🧑‍🔬

Today, our #SCIMaP team released an impact analysis of the White House proposed FY 2027 NIH and NSF budgets. Bottom-line: if enacted, cuts to science and medical research would lead to $35B in economic losses and 150,000 lost jobs in communities all across the US. scienceimpacts.org 🧵

We (with @gatag.bsky.social) are happy to share our discussion, where we explore three cases of matrilocality and genetic matriline connections identified with ancient DNA. You can find the open access paper published in evolutionary human sciences: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We present DNAharvester 🎉🦴🚜🧬 A pipeline to process highly degraded ancient DNA data that integrates metagenomic filtering, competitive mapping, multiple alignment strategies, reference bias evaluation and much more. GitHub: github.com/NBISweden/DN... Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Multiple articles in this week’s special section on #science in The Economist. The US loses, and the world loses, because of the trump war on science. #withoutNSF #withoutscience www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Did you enjoy following the Artemis II mission? Time to stand up for science to make sure missions like this continue to launch. Contact your representatives and tell them to protect science funding for NASA and other agencies like NSF, NIH, & USDA. We can change this if we act TOGETHER! 🚀

Why is the U.S. National Science Foundation important? Why is NSF SBE important? Please share your stories! Use the hashtags #WithoutNSF or #WithoutScience or #WithoutNSFsbe

The U.S. administration released the FY 2027 Budget Request this morning, proposing deep cuts to science funding once again. While there are similarities in the proposed cuts between FY26 and FY27, the final FY26 appropriations show the impact of advocacy in action.

Saving SBE starts before the bill is written. SBE needs a distinct FY27 appropriation. If your sch. is on the list, get a group of colleagues to meet w your House/Sen. offices. Esp. for Republican seats, direct constituent comms matter. Timeline/templates/updates: www.paigeamormino.com/pages/9337

BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained. That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social

The President's fiscal year 2027 Budget was released today. Important---Important---Important The President's Budget is always fundamentally a political document that Congress may or may not (usually not) take very seriously. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u... 1/9

Once again it is time to contract your representatives: The FY27 budget request for NSF (see nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...) would get rid of the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.

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/...

You have a time machine. You go back 15 and a half thousand years ago. So people have dogs? Are they fed what people eat and are they buried alongside their humans? We need answers to these burning doggy questions!

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 🧬🏺

Thank you all at #aaba2026 who stepped up to donate! It's not too late to pitch in to help build a community museum at Fort Ternan. Be a PaleoHero! #AABA2026

Always important to support efforts to connect our science to the communities we serve. If you can help to build the Fort Ternan Museum please do so! #AABA2026