Anders Bergström

Research in genomics, evolution, biodiversity, ancient DNA. Group leader at @biouea, previously postdoc at @TheCrick and PhD at @sangerinstitute

[Anders Bergström @andersbrgstrm]

A 4-year postdoc position in population genomics is available in my group at the University of East Anglia, to work on a project sequencing a thousand fox genomes across rural and urban environments in the UK.

https://t.co/QYebOIS3VS

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In this comment piece with @jfy133 and @twarinner, we highlight the mounting problems with data archiving and metadata reporting in ancient DNA research. The field cannot afford to keep neglecting this issue.
https://t.co/gFm0GvtlPB

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Don't miss this great webinar on Friday next week, celebrating the 40th birthday of the first ancient DNA paper. A great line-up of speakers, sign up here: https://t.co/GRh4HNQk96

[AaRC Community @AaRC_Community]

On November 15th we'll celebrate the 40th aniversary of the first aDNA paper. Join us and our amazing speakers on the #QaggaQonference at 3pm GMT/ 4pm GMT+1 / 10am EST. Save the date!

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@vsbuffalo Shameless plug for my paper on data archiving practices in ancient genomics: https://t.co/7aY7NMqdcE
This is just the tip of the iceberg, but probably the ugliest tip I've seen!

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A position is available in my research group at UEA for a wet-lab research assistant, for 3 years, to work on data generation for exciting new genomics projects in urban and rural foxes and other mammals.

https://t.co/aO5MitN3ry

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@gabrielylr Very nice work! The paper analyses mitochondrial data, but presumably the approach is also applicable to genome-wide data?

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This is now published in Scientific Data: https://t.co/7aY7NMqdcE. The survey is expanded to 42 studies, and the paper now includes a Box 1: "Step-by-step best practices for archiving ancient genomics data in the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)." I hope this will prove useful!

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In this preprint, I survey data archiving in ancient genomics—I find widespread shortcomings, which hinder reproducibility and data reuse. I argue that we need to step up our collective archiving game in #aDNA genomics, with six practical recommendations:

https://t.co/RnWorbMBT0

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Important findings on artifacts in PSMC curves arising from time segmentation/windowing choices, and advice on how to avoid these.

[bioRxiv Evobio @biorxiv_evobio]

Avoidable false PSMC population size peaks occur across numerous studies https://t.co/10qARUJePY #biorxiv_evobio

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Tomorrow Friday 31st of May, more great animal ancient genomics talks - join the fun 👇

[AaRC Community @AaRC_Community]

10 days left for the next instalment of the #AaRCTikTalks featuring Damla Kaptan and @undeaddandy. Remember that you have to register through our webpage: https://t.co/qqmlCRsHsi

[Anders Bergström @andersbrgstrm]

Join us this Friday for the first set of talks in the monthly @AaRC_Community animal ancient genomics seminar series - sign-up details below

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Here we have the announcement for the first #AaRCTikTalks! We'll have @StevenFiddaman and @_MarcoDeMartino presenting their research the 26th of April.
Registration: https://t.co/r0CdKpR2bo

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@ksamuk This is bad...

[Pontus Skoglund @pontus_skoglund]

"Disease Evolution in the Human Past" - Join us March 21st 2024 @TheCrick for a half-day symposium in the Medicine at the Crick series.

🦠 Johannes Krause | “The genetic history and origin of the Black Death” @MPI_EVA_Leipzig

🦟 Lucy van Dorp | “Tracking zoonotic pathogens in space and time" @LucyvanDorp

📈 Iain Mathieson | “Natural selection in Britain from the Stone Age to the present day” @mathiesoniain

🌍 Carina Schlebusch | “Past Lives, Present Insights: Biomolecular Stories from Ancient Africa” @cschlebu

👥 Matthew Hurles | “Population demography and the genetic architecture of developmental disorders" @mehurles

Everyone in the clinical and scientific community is welcome! Register 👉 https://t.co/SRpr08EGoj

[EMPSEB 31 @empseb31]

Don't miss the chance to present your work at @EMPSEB29

Submit your abstract now and join us on the forefront of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology!

Registration is a click away: https://t.co/RFkBmJaRYQ

#EMPSEB29 #conference

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The ancIBD tool is becoming the killer app for Identity by Descent (IBD) detection in ancient genomes—check out the paper and Harald's thread below. I also wrote a short News & Views piece on the paper: https://t.co/LxJxEYlvOm

[Harald Ringbauer @HaraldRingbauer]

https://t.co/iWWp7WXVXh ancIBD is published now! 🧬💀

Our tool brings accurate IBD detection to aDNA. We show that this unlocks the detection of up to sixth-degree relatives in aDNA, and reveals new links between ancient cultures. A short summary ⬇️ (1/5)

[Nice-seq @NiceSeq]

📢📢#Niceseq is finally back! Don't miss out on its new edition. Amazing line-up of speakers: @andersbrgstrm, @TatianaGiraud6, @DelphineSicard, and @liti_nice, who will speak about "Domestication across the tree of life"
🗓️December 6th
🕘9:30-12:30
📍Le Galet, Pasteur 2 - Nice

[Anders Bergström @andersbrgstrm]

Applications open for a @ARIES_DTP PhD studentship with me at @biouea to work on the evolutionary history of the red fox: the land mammal with the widest natural distribution, and one of few that is thriving even in the face of anthropogenic pressures: https://t.co/mtEtQsAlCo

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Applications are open for a @NRPBIODTP PhD studentship with me at @biouea to work on the genomics of the oldest and wildest evolutionary experiment in human history: domestic dogs and their biological adaptations to life by our side.

https://t.co/DPE0QvqviW

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I'm very honoured to be a recipient of the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Biological Sciences. A very encouraging recognition of past work, and fantastic support for future research!

https://t.co/NXS0U0FfR0

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Great accessible write-up for younger audiences of our wolf paper from last year. From @SJforKids, with myself and Dave Stanton @Nibbledtodeath

[ScienceJournal4Kids @SJforKids]

Recently, an 18,000 year old preserved canine puppy, named Dogor, was found. Scientists at @TheCrick wanted to learn more about wolf domestication and the evolution of modern-day dogs, with the help of Dogor! Learn more in our new adapted article: https://t.co/3t5aXCioYA

[Alex Cagan @ATJCagan]

Anders Bergstrom on the entangles genomic histories of humans and dogs #smbe23 #smbe2023