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
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? 👋🏼
The second speaker is Nancy Bird from UCL on ‘Genetic data uncovers historical migrations in people from West and Central Africa’ @nancybird_@uclbiosciences
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
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!
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
🌍 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_
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
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! 🧬💀🇰🇪 🌍
'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!!
"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
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
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>
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)