Kelly Elaine Blevins, PhD

Asking bioarchaeological Qs using skeletal remains 🦴 and the genomes 🧬 they harbor 🦠 Formerly @StoneLab_ASU | Currently @WhatIsInAHouse postdoc | she/her

[Kelly Elaine Blevins, PhD @Blevinske]

The first paper of my PhD is out and #openaccess:

Structural Violence and Physical Death at Tlatelolco:
Selecting the Chronically Malnourished for Sacrifice at a Late Postclassic Mesoamerican City (1300–1521 CE)

https://t.co/bpjsJDuU5i

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[Nature Reviews Genetics @NatureRevGenet]

Review: Ancient DNA insights into diverse pathogens and their hosts by @Blevinske, María C. Ávila-Arcos, Verena J. Schuenemann & Anne C. Stone https://t.co/xNDwF5SCMD

[Maarten Larmuseau @MHDLarmuseau]

Discover our results of the largest ancient DNA study ever conducted on a single burial site 🧬: 400 skeletons from the Belgian city Sint-Truiden (8th–18th century). A unique glimpse into 1000 years of genetic history. (1/9) @CHG_CME @KU_Leuven

[StoneLab_ASU @StoneLab_ASU]

#WithoutNSF my lab won’t receive the critical funding it needs to continue studying how ancient pathogens adapted to human hosts. #NSF supports our country's leadership in science and innovation. #SupportNSF #SaveNSF https://t.co/NaHpex4pYu

[SPAAM-community @spaam_community]

#MetagenomicsMonday🧬 Exploring the dominant Streptococcus phylogenetic clades in samples from multiple oral sites and from ancient and modern-day humans and non-human primates!
https://t.co/lrMAV843V1

[Abdel Abdellaoui @dr_appie]

Did you get a chance to read the thread on our new @NatureHumBehav paper on SES yet?

If not, don't worry, I have something better for you!

Check out this comic by the amazing @Lizah_Aart

The complete comic here: https://t.co/t8lcL0JCbQ

You can also scroll this thread 👇🏾

[Griffith University Archaeological Society (GUAS) @GU_ArchSoc]

Next week, the @ARCHE_Griffith Seminar Series is continuing with "Fire, Society and Culture: New evidence from 400,000 year old sites in the UK"
Presented by Professor Nick Ashton.

Date: Thursday 3rd April
Time: 12pm
Room: N78_-1.23 Brisbane South (Nathan)

[Sasha Gusev @SashaGusevPosts]

I wrote about how population stratification in genetic analyses led to a decade of false findings and almost certainly continues to bias emerging results. But we are starting to have statistical tools to sniff it out. A 🧵:

[Daniel Tabin @DanTabin]

In a new paper, colleagues and I raise concerns about the conclusions and data from Zhang et al 2022, a paper which reported that they obtained DNA from a 14-thousand-year-old individual from Red Deer Cave in Yunnan China referred to as ‘Mengzi Ren’ (MZR)
(Zhang et al Fig 1)
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[Gabriel Renaud @gabrielylr]

aDNA/aeDNA folks: tired of eyeballing hundreds of damage plots? I am excited to introduce AdDeam—a tool to rapidly generate damage profiles, cluster them, and spot outliers. https://t.co/O87oFP6iL6

[Abdel Abdellaoui @dr_appie]

In every civilization, people end up sorted into levels of socio-economic status (SES). We explore the history, present, and future of scientific research on the complicated relationship between SES and DNA in @NatureHumBehav 💰🧬🎓

Link: https://t.co/Q5wAbt2B46

Thread below 👇🏽

[Koelle Lab @KoelleLab]

Excited to share our recent preprint on quantifying pandemic potential from experimental transmission studies, spearheaded by grad student Elizabeth Somsen in my group and in collab with Troy Sutton & lab at Penn State and Anice Lowen at Emory: https://t.co/pOGBZqi4Ki.

[Nikolay Oskolkov @NikolayOskolkov]

Attention ancient environmental DNA folks. In our recent preprint, we provide coordinates of microbial-like regions (contaminated or evolutionary conserved or convergent) for 4,294 eukaryotic reference genomes.

[David Wengrow @davidwengrow]

New paper! In the Cambridge Archaeological Journal we present a fresh analysis of the spectacular Bronze Age cemetery at Başur Höyük and its implications for “early state formation” -
open-access, #aDNA, ritual killings, teenagers, and “cosmopolitics” ����

https://t.co/2ktGajQOwm

[Justin Feldman @jfeldman_epi]

I wrote about the "health freedom" movement https://t.co/R7SIKSULWV

[Eric Reinhart @_Eric_Reinhart]

Published at Nature today.

[Ann Gibbons @evolutionscribe]

I write about this cool fossil face found in Spanish cave belongs to first known Western European | Science | AAAS https://t.co/QOCRfolHHG

[A. Murat Eren (Meren) @merenbey]

The best opening slide doesn't exi...

[Kostas Kampourakis @KampourakisK]

Just published!

"The problems with genetic essentialism, determinism, and reductionism."

https://t.co/SpJ26EeOsL

[Wellcome Connecting Science Learning and Training @eventsWCS]

#Bioinformatics is a powerful tool for #biologists working with #GenomicsData🧬

Our free online courses on bioinformatics workflows are available on demand until February 2026.

From 10-30 March 2025, join our educators for a limited facilitation period in the comments 🔽

[John Hawks @johnhawks]

In case you missed this remarkable archaeological news from earlier this week: Track marks beside footprints show that some of the earliest known people in the Americas were constructing and dragging travois.

https://t.co/FTgBP89f7s