Ancient DNA, evolution, and the human past. Senior group leader leading the research of the Ancient Genomics lab at the Francis Crick Institute. http://www.skoglundlab.org
Pontus Skoglund
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So the lesson from Fable 5 is to advise my kids to instead of plumbers become... virologists?
Any job that will be considered too dangerous to be inside advanced AI guardrails.
New preprint led by Hrushikesh Loya, me, and Simon Myers where we introduce GhostBuster! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The idea is to find all the different ways a target individual relates to reference groups in genealogies, to "bust the ghosts" in our ancestry.
4-year-old just learned about the human fossil record:
"We will be olden-days-people soon, and other scientists will discover US! And then it will keep going."
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Out today is our paper 'Genomic history of early dogs in Europe', in which we uncover the identity of the dogs that lived in Europe before agriculture—during the Paleolithic & Mesolithic periods: doi.org/10.1038/s415.... A thread ⬇️ (10)
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More Question of Science podcast Tom-Boothelry on ancient DNA with @profbriancox.bsky.social and @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social
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Our preprint is now out, looking at genomic history and selection in Britain, with a focus on the Roman and early medieval periods. Comments welcome!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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“Science describes accurately from outside, poetry describes accurately from inside. Both celebrate what they describe. We need the languages of both science & poetry to save us from merely stockpiling endless ‘information’ that fails to inform our ignorance or irresponsibility.”
Ursula Le Guin 2014
Pontus Skoglund
We now know that dog domestication happened more than 14,000 years ago, thanks to new research from the Crick, @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social and @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social, shedding light on how the first farmers adopted hunter-gatherer dogs.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2026-03...
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