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PhD student at the University of Padua, using genetics-based demographic inferences to investigate cultural change and diversity 🧬

After a month in Leipzig at the MPI EvAn, 10 days in Belgium, an intense week of CES in Rabat, I have finally got back to Padua! (And, as per the last picture, immediately took my bike to Venice, getting caught in a storm and much mud... but making it to Ithaca)

I believe interdisciplinarity is key to the study of human evolution and, as obvious as it may sound, there is no interdisciplinarity without direct, open dialogue between disciplines.

It's always a bit scary to get out of your comfort zone, but also incredibly enriching. I'm very happy my pop gen ramblings were welcomed by the Cultural Evolution Society, and even more so that I got to discuss and question them with folks outside of my field.

I’m looking to hire one or two postdocs - possible projects include pop gen theory, methods development, and human evolutionary inference. Please share, and email if you are interested. More info: evoldir.net/brian/evoldi...

What a week! I had a wonderful time at #CES2026 and I'm very thankful for the opportunity to hang out with such amazing people and researchers, learn about their work and present my own. 🧬 I leave Morocco the head full of ideas, the heart full of friendship (and the stomach full of tajine) 🙌🏻

I'm so thrilled to be one of the Guest Editors of the new Nature Portfolio Collection on "𝙃𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝘼𝙙𝙢𝙞𝙭𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙈𝙞𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣". This cross-journal collection involves publications in 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴, 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘉𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺, and 𝘚𝘤𝘪 𝘙𝘦𝘱. communities.springernature.com/posts/call-f...

Postdoctoral job announcement: come to Cambridge and work on population genetic modelling with environmental and ancient DNA, jointly with @gamzeandgursoy.bsky.social and me. Details at www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/55580/ - applications by June 16th.

Registration for the SMBE Satellite Meeting on Gene–Culture Co-Evolution is OPEN at this link geneculturecoevolution.com ✏️ DEADLINE 20th of June! Acceptance of short talks and posters and recipients of travel grants will be notified in two weeks.

This Collection invites submissions that use ancient or modern genetic data to explore human population history, admixture, and health. Submissions are encouraged by 28 February 2027.

Speed-running between amazing sessions at #CES2026 and different perspectives on shared cultural evolutionary questions feels like my life now. Some highlights from day #2.

Research Associate in Population Genetics Modelling and Environmental DNA (Fixed Term) in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge.

📢📢 At the ESTER-project we're looking for two #PostDocs and one #PhD student: https://ester-project.org/2026/05/01/the-ester-project-is-hiring/ 📢📢 If you are interested in demography, biological proxies, modelling and/or Bayesian statistics, have a look! Deadline is May 31st, this sunday! […]