Pierpaolo Maisano Delser

[Pierpaolo Maisano Delser @pmd_genetics]

Extremely excited to share our latest #preprint quantifying the effects of #climate and #mountains on human migrations through time and space using modern &ancient samples. #spatialmodel #genetics #paleoclimate https://t.co/X3cRVrVHnt More info at @EEG_Cam! Huge team effort!

[Pierpaolo Maisano Delser @pmd_genetics]

@brad_dan Congratulations!!!

[Alastair Grant @AlastairGrant4]

Today's UKHSA "variants of concern" report calculates that BA.2 has a growth advantage of 126% over the original Omicron strain plus lots of other detail
https://t.co/Ql3rey1hG1

[Paul Mainwood @PaulMainwood]

I'll say it again: the daily case counts are a *very* good guide to the actual situation.

(No, I've not touched a single damn thing in the historical ratio; it comes out like this).

[Alastair Grant @AlastairGrant4]

Median R-value across England is 0.67 for week ending 14th January
Highest rates still in Middlesbrough, Sunderland & South Tyneside, all on 1.8%

But 37% of 12+ haven't had a booster, so still potential for #Omicron to grow if mixing returns to normal
https://t.co/idXHMUTzIB

[Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge @EEG_Cam]

#newpaper! 🚨🚨
@RobertMBeyer et al. analyse how #climate shaped early human #migrations in the last 300k years, opening a few "windows" to allow the #outofAfrica
https://t.co/CaveWimp7b
🧵below, 1/n

[Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge @EEG_Cam]

🚨#newpaper! "A curated #dataset of modern and ancient high-coverage shotgun #humangenomes" by @pmd_genetics et al. is now out in @ScientificData. 35 modern and ancient samples together with the pipeline used to process them. 1/3 #genomics #ancientDNA
https://t.co/7R0o72zAJC

[Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge @EEG_Cam]

⚠️please RT
2 #postdoc positions open in our group @CamZoology to study #localadaptation in humans
software-driven:
https://t.co/ncCfy5eXFX
analyses-driven:
https://t.co/XT2vB8w92c
A great opportunity to join our group! https://t.co/nnJLFiyqhb
#popgen #jobalert #AcademicTwitter

[Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge @EEG_Cam]

#Newpreprint!
Maisano Delser et al. #Climate and #mountains shaped human ancestral genetic lineages os now out in @biorxivpreprint
https://t.co/oy6ZOUdSDE
#popgen #outofAfrica #humangenomics #ancientDNA
A thread 1/7

[Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge @EEG_Cam]

Thanks to the @guardian for featuring our paper on how climate affected body and brain size evolution in Homo!
@MW_hominin @mkrapp3000 @JayTStock
original study ➡️ https://t.co/IXUJTXvnY8 @natcomms

[Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge @EEG_Cam]

🚨🚨 @EleanorFMiller et al show trends from 2 classic popsize reconstr methods (#BSP & #SDM) don't correlate (tested on ~100 spp). Consider factors like pop density changes, interpret such methods carefully & use multiple lines of evidence! https://t.co/9k3kwWmb7S #PopGen #ConGen

[Marius Somveille @MariusSomveille]

Birds exhibit a tremendous diversity of migration patterns, but what determines their seasonal destinations? Our latest #openaccess research in @Ecology_Letters examines the role of energetic optimality in driving avian migratory connectivity: https://t.co/Vts0UxGYjI 🐦

[Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge @EEG_Cam]

#Postdoc Johanna Paijmans' recent work uses #aDNA and #fossil data to estimate the dwarfing rate of an #extinct Sicilian #dwarf #elephant. The #island species likely #evolved from one of the largest terrestrial #mammals to < 20% of its original mass! https://t.co/QqanXK8yWu

[Dan Bradley @brad-dan.bsky.social @brad_dan]

Getting close to the start of it all: our archaeozoological and genomic analysis of 10,000 yr old goats from the Zagros Mountains https://t.co/E64XmOVaG7

[Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge @EEG_Cam]

The @CamZoology dept. seminar series have been great to keep up with research while #WFH! EEG PhD student @m_and_emms shared how we can study #reef #fish #populations' response to large scale #climate-induced habitat loss by using #genomics and past climatic events in the #RedSea

[Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge @EEG_Cam]

Huge congratulations to EEG's Dr. @caitlinfrankish on passing her PhD viva! A fantastic milestone after a lot of hard work. Enjoy the celebrations! #PhDone #phdlife

[Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge @EEG_Cam]

Patterns of pop. differentiation are often attributed to distinct glacial refugia. Yet @EleanorFMiller et al. show observed gen. diversity in the Yellow Warbler resulted from asymmetric expansion from a single cohesive range. Range dynamics are important! https://t.co/L1huPKbByG

[Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge @EEG_Cam]

#newpaper! How can we assess the status of data-limited populations? Our @CatHorswill @DrManica et al use life-history theory to reconstruct missing values and show how these can improve population assessments of #threatenedspecies. #ornithology #seabirds https://t.co/7wyshbulsy

[Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge @EEG_Cam]

Did #ClimateChange play a role in the emergence of #COVID19? Our new study in #STOTEN_journal suggests a potential mechanism https://t.co/1Pfhur07BR @RobertMBeyer

[Roberto Biello @rsbiello]

So happy to see our paper out in @ELSforensics FSI: Genetics. We investigated patterns of illegal translocations and made available the first toolkit to assist forensic genetic applications for Hermann’s tortoises.
#tortoises #forensic #illegaltrade

https://t.co/oQGDKESBof