Nancy Bird

Human evolutionary and population genetics | post-doc in the Hellenthal group @UGI_at_UCL

[Daniel Tabin @DanTabin]

New paper by @nancybird_ and @g_hellenthal reinforces my feelings on this topic...

Read it here: https://t.co/XLTqyxlGxI

[Editor, Annals of Human Genetics @AHGEditor]

An Early View: Dr @nancybird_, Prof @Turi__King, & Prof @g_hellenthal review methodological advances and limits in genetic ancestry inference, emphasizing the need to communicate uncertainty to mitigate ever-present risks of over-interpretation.

https://t.co/ogWTZ9AOlN

[EMBL Events @EMBLEvents]

It's a wrap! #EESHuman finished lunch time today and everyone is already on their way back 😭 We wish we could all stay for another couple of days – no matter how much time we have, it's never enough and there's always more research to discuss! 🧬🤓 See you next time? 👋🏼

[Centre Ecol & Evol @CEEvol]

The second speaker is Nancy Bird from UCL on ‘Genetic data uncovers historical migrations in people from West and Central Africa’ @nancybird_ @uclbiosciences

[SMBE Ancient DNA Beyond Allele Frequencies @SMBESat2024_TCD]

Thank you everyone! #smbeBeyond

[Kendra Sirak @KendraSirak]

Our first group output from the #DNAirobi workshop is now published! Written by co-authors from all over the world, we share our view for what the #popgen and #aDNA research landscape in Africa could look like in ten years’ time (and how we can get there).
https://t.co/ITBMZp33BI

[Garrett Hellenthal @g_hellenthal]

Currently advertising for a 3-year, Wellcome Trust-funded post-doc position at UCL: https://t.co/JZQff38Vzw
aiming to disentangle the interplay between environmental pressures and our epigenome -- please inquire and/or pass along!

[Evolution Letters @EvolLetters]

Do social behaviors irretrievably decay when they aren’t expressed for many generations?
https://t.co/PjbnSYYgzg

Read more in a recent article in @EvolLetters by @eleanor_bladon, Sonia Pascoal, @nancybird_, @r_mashup, and @BuryingBeetle 🪲

📷: Jack M Smith

[Nature Africa @natAfrica1]

🌍 Researchers at @ucl published a new study in @ScienceMagazine that revealed traces of ancient African empires in the DNA of people living on the continent, that help identify early migration patterns.

Read more: 👇🏻
https://t.co/hUjrn6w3qD

#NatureAfrica #Africa

@nancybird_

[Nancy Bird @nancybird_]

@cropsandbops thank you!!!!! excited to read yours!! 🌿🌱

[Nancy Bird @nancybird_]

Check out this article about our recent paper investigating African history using genetics, also available in French! https://t.co/DDilw2i7ye

[Lehti Saag @LehtiSaag]

Had a great time with amazing colleagues @nancybird_, Catherine Walker and Ruairidh Macleod from @UGI_at_UCL @UCLmacelab yesterday at @pintofscience speaking about my @MSCActions postdoc work! Thanks so much for organising, Sam!
#pint23 #MSCA

[Lehti Saag @LehtiSaag]

With #Pint23 for sure!
Happy to be speaking together with @nancybird_ , Catherine Walker and Ruairidh Macleod!
https://t.co/NaaTfG84p0

[Kendra Sirak @KendraSirak]

To this group of people who traveled to Nairobi for #DNAirobi, I am grateful for you and inspired by you.. We took a huge step toward building a future of ethical, engaged, and equitable scholarship and I could not be more proud.

Onwards! 🧬💀🇰🇪 🌍

[Kendra Sirak @KendraSirak]

…brilliant talks by @SarahTishkoff @rfregel @nancybird_ and Getnet Yimer.

Ready to kick off day 2 at @museumsofkenya 🧬💀🇰🇪🌍

[Ellie Bladon @Eleanor_Bladon]

🧵We have a new open access paper out in @EvolLetters!

The evolutionary demise of a social interaction: experimentally induced loss of traits involved in the supply and demand of care: https://t.co/jKUOcmVzv3

@BuryingBeetle @r_mashup @nancybird_
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Photo ©Jack M Smith

[Nancy Bird @nancybird_]

I passed my PhD viva on Tuesday! 🎉🎊🎉🎊Thanks so much to my examiners @beleza_sandra and Dallas Swallow for an enjoyable discussion!!!

[Nancy Bird @nancybird_]

'It’s vital that scientists analyse more genomes from African people. As we do so, it will undoubtedly reveal an intricate picture of the continent’s rich past.' Check out my article in the Conversation summarising some of the findings of our recent paper!!

[UCL News @uclnews]

"Our genomes hold information about major events of the past": @nancybird_ @uclbiosciences @UCLLifeSciences shows how evidence of ancient empires and migrations can still be seen embedded within the genomes of Africans living today.
https://t.co/DgkmaFCmeS

[UCL News @uclnews]

Traces of ancient empires that stretched across Africa remain in the DNA of people living on the continent, reveals a new genetics study led by PhD candidate @nancybird_ with Dr @g_hellenthal @UGI_at_UCL @uclbiosciences. Read more in 🧵 from Nancy 👇https://t.co/mQxDrj1F7C

[Nancy Bird @nancybird_]

this massive piece of work wouldn’t have been possible without all collaborators. Thanks to all co-authors, including @awahpaschal @Saioa_l @smaceachern2 @mikeweale @DavidZeitlyn @mt_genes @g_hellenthal (as well as those without twitter)

[Nancy Bird @nancybird_]

Excited to share our new paper out in @ScienceAdvances!! We analyse new genetic data from >1300 people from West and Central Africa and Sudan, finding incredible diversity and signals of admixture across the continent. https://t.co/ziB8JTtFNm. #ScienceAdvancesResearch thread>

[Nancy Bird @nancybird_]

This project has made up most of my PhD and it has been so amazing (as a humble geneticist) to work with anthropologists, archaeologists and linguists in Africa and around the world and learn so much history. (pic is me being a tourist in Foumban, Cameroon)