MAJOR UPDATE: All planetary boundaries are assessed, and six are crossed.

For the first time ever, scientists have quantified all nine planetary boundaries. Six of them are already transgressed and we are increasing pressure on the others.

Read more: buff.ly/45Ps1QG

Pleistocene Megafauna Extinctions:
Humans, Not Climate #Anthropocene
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Sono incredula di fronte alla vicenda che ha coinvolto Sofia Pasotto, giovane attivista di Fridays For Future Italia, fermata, identificata e trattenuta dalla questura di Mantova durante il Festival della Letteratura solo per aver portato con sé dei cartelli critici nei confronti di ENI,
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This past spring semester, while my AMAZING PI, Emilia (Emilia Huerta), has been on sabbatical, I had the exciting opportunity to serve as instructor of record for her computational population genetics course. The entire course is publicly available on GitHub github.com/David-Peede/BI…

Aylwyn Scally Just read the paper and I agree with you. On real data (Fig. 3), only their method FitCoal infers a bottleneck at 900kya but on simulated data (Fig. 4), PSMC and SMC++ can recover the bottleneck, much deeper than the constant-sized part.

🚨New #ancientDNA data from #Africa 🚨 and the first from the medieval #Swahili coast! Among the most amazing results are different participation from males/females in pop. mixtures (e.g. male Near Eastern & Persian ancestry mixing with female African ancestry).

Estimating the genome-wide mutation rate from thousands of unrelated individuals biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We're thrilled to welcome new Yale School of Medicine A/Prof Diyendo Massilani to the department! Dr. Massilani is an expert in ancient DNA and evolution. His new lab will focus on the genetic basis of human adaptation to local environments. Read more here! Massilani Lab medicine.yale.edu/genetics/news-…

A fascinating talk about human evolution from my friend Fabrizio Mafessoni! If you don't understand Italian, subtitles are available. youtube.com/watch?v=PQIHqV…

One might disagree on some criticisms to the EES, but definitely worth a read.
whyevolutionistrue.com/2022/06/29/onc…

Fuck the US Supreme Court. They just made a devastating decision for humanity. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Updated preprint on our Coalescent-HMM method to infer population size history: doi.org/10.1101/2021.0… We extended the composite likelihood, did more some more simulations to understand how it behaves, and included some analysis of human data.

It is not even about the legitimacy of the question. And perhaps not even of scientific accuracy. But the sensationalism and offensive undertones of such rants is pretty appalling. Love the killer single-line thoughts of the 'traditionalists' though.

What happens when an oil giant captures most of the value of carbon credits, rather than the rural villagers in Mexico who actually protect the trees? My colleague Max de Haldevang digs in deep and visits 10 of these communities to find out. bloomberg.com/features/2022-… via Bloomberg Green

Many papers reported genetic evidence for 'ghost' archaic admixture in early human history. With new WGS data from Nama (Khoe-San) & other African individuals and parameterized modelling, we (Aaron Ragsdale HennLab et al) reach different conclusions. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Computational biologist Mikhail Gelfand, well known to everyone in my field for his scientific achievements, is leading a brave effort within Russia to protest Putin's unprovoked war on Ukraine science.org/content/articl…

New spirit animal for when things get stressful. Stay cool little klipspringer.

*New preprint*: the dominant academic publishing system is deeply unethical. We all know this to some extent, but how can we transition to better alternatives? 1/n 🧵Nicolas Galtier Thomas Guillemaud Ben Phillips Noémie Aubert Bonn Véronique De Herde Bourguet Denis doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…

Our paper on the Grotte Mandrin (France), is out. We show that Homo sapiens made the so-called 'Neronian' Palaeolithic industry there ~54,000 years ago. This is the earliest evidence we have in this part of the world for modern humans. advances.sciencemag.org