#Ancestry

Nemets

Peter_Nimitz

Sci-Hub gives access to this paper on Roman DNA:https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6466/708 Roman region had two major shifts in ancestry composition - arrival of EEFs & farming, then later the Indo-European invasion. By

Kaustubh Adhikari

kaustubhad

We've got a new preprint out! Looking into the prediction of skin, eye and hair colour in a diverse cohort beyond just European ancestry, especially into Native American ancestry, really

abolitionism = spicy reformism

no_slave_coasts

“In 1789, the Spanish Crown declared free trade in slaves throughout the empire. No colony in Spanish America capitalized on the decree more than Cuba… from 1790 to 1820 at

Zenab Tamimy

zenabtamimy

(1/6) Remember how I was stuck in the US due to covid, after visiting the statistical genetics workshop in Boulder? Well, worth it! A lecture of Mike Hunter on multilevel

Maxine Mackintosh

Maxi_Macki

.@BrieucLehmann from @oxcsml @OxfordStats, with @cholmesuk & Gil McVean just released a pre-print @biorxiv_genomic (which I meagrely contributed to & y'all should know about) on the transferability of polygenic scores

BrandiKHOU

BrandiKHOU

*watching @TheGreatHulu for a second time*Voltaire: "You are German anyway."Catherine: "I am Russian in my heart."My brain: "Wait a sec ..." Suddenly, I recalled a years-old conversation with my grandmother

Stoneacre Studios🎨

artymaggie

A thread touching on just one...just one aspect of the current abhorrent situation Irish Adoptee's find ourselves in.@JoeBiden is connected to Mayo & Louth.@BarackObama is connected to Offaly.JFK had connections

🇺🇸 DOCTOR OSUJI BECAUSE I HAVE A DOCTORATE 🇳🇬

chinyereosuji

I am very suspicious of people who are wedded to DNA and gene-language when discussing race. It gives it a pseudo-scientific veneer that is problematic at worst and bad science

Tom Booth

Boothicus

Me and my brother visiting Stonehenge in AD 2003. Speaking of relatives in and around Stonehenge, here's a new (OA) paper with Jo Brück, @SelBrace & Ian Barnes based on

Curse

cursedsalad

1. Jews have been trying to claim Elvis Presley as part of their tribe ever since he died. Does it strike you as odd that they would wait until after

Sascha Stronach (on Hiatus)

understatesmen

I've seen this argument coming up a lot, mostly based on a TERRIBLE article by a non-Māori author, so to make this clear: kirituhi doesn't mean 'moko done by non-Māori',

DM Steve

DeeEmSteve

Strength (all ability scores) are an abstraction of a creature's capability.Strength is your:* pushing power (okay, muscle strength)* lifting power (so technique, too?)* melee damage (so also special training?)* etc.[6/21]

Arcanist Press

ArcanistPress

In case you missed it over the weekend:Our co-owner @eugenemarshall was interviewed for this important article in @WIRED. Our book, Ancestry & Culture: an Alternative to Race in 5e, is

Antonio Regalado

antonioregalado

23andMe to go public via a merger.Reportedly valued at $3.5 billionTicker symbol: $ME https://twitter.com/joelwinston/status/1357356823980957703 investment thesis slide. do they even know how dystopian this sounds? Useful ranking of largest

Dr. Rachel Schine

RachelSchine

Did the aghribat al-'arab ("crows of the Arabs") write on their blackness? A short thread...https://twitter.com/AntarIbnShadad/status/1011510642656923648 Lists of the aghribat al-'arab, or "crows of the Arabs," a

Beth DeBold

eliza_audacis

I love genealogy. It’s part of why I’m in the field(s) I’m in. I also have the privilege of lots of surviving documentation & info—b/c my ancestors were able to

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