Niraj Rai
@nirajrai.bsky.social
Group Head, Ancient DNA and Population Genomics Lab, BSIP, Lucknow, India.
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Tracing the Neanderthal–Modern Human hybrid zone using paleogenomic data
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February 10, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Tracing the Neanderthal–Modern Human hybrid zone using paleogenomic data
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Check out our new article in Current Anthropology on the changing landscape of archaeological publishing! www.doi.org/10.1086/739789
February 5, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Check out our new article in Current Anthropology on the changing landscape of archaeological publishing! www.doi.org/10.1086/739789
@matthewcollins.bsky.social please share the zoom link of your upcoming talk.
February 3, 2026 at 11:41 AM
@matthewcollins.bsky.social please share the zoom link of your upcoming talk.
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Fully funded PhD studentship here with @katerinad.bsky.social on palaeoproteomics. Apply below!
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January 10, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Fully funded PhD studentship here with @katerinad.bsky.social on palaeoproteomics. Apply below!
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My dad and I published this paper this week in Archaeometry. It shows how you can avoid old wood effects when dating charcoal by using a bespoke Bayesian outlier model developed by my friends Mike Dee and Chris Ramsey a few years ago. We applied it to a Thai site.
doi.org/10.1111/arcm.70105
doi.org/10.1111/arcm.70105
Dealing With Inbuilt Age: A Bayesian Approach to Radiocarbon Dating of Rice, Bamboo and Charcoal From Non Ban Jak, Thailand
New radiocarbon determinations from rice grains and bamboo have been obtained from Non Ban Jak, Northeast Thailand. These, along with charcoal, date a late Iron Age building sequence. The results com...
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January 31, 2026 at 1:19 PM
My dad and I published this paper this week in Archaeometry. It shows how you can avoid old wood effects when dating charcoal by using a bespoke Bayesian outlier model developed by my friends Mike Dee and Chris Ramsey a few years ago. We applied it to a Thai site.
doi.org/10.1111/arcm.70105
doi.org/10.1111/arcm.70105
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Fabulous fossils ! @robertosaezm.bsky.social ‘s top 10 #FossilFriday posts of 2025, includes KNM-ER 23000 🤩✨😁
December 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Fabulous fossils ! @robertosaezm.bsky.social ‘s top 10 #FossilFriday posts of 2025, includes KNM-ER 23000 🤩✨😁
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Why is AAR (Amino Acid Racemisation; by implication #palaeoproteomics) so often overlooked for #geochronology?
New paper by @neaarlab.bsky.social, using Bithynia snails 🐌 to date the last 1Ma: 4 new reference sets for climate & Quaternary Science 🌍
open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-396
New paper by @neaarlab.bsky.social, using Bithynia snails 🐌 to date the last 1Ma: 4 new reference sets for climate & Quaternary Science 🌍
open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-396
December 26, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Why is AAR (Amino Acid Racemisation; by implication #palaeoproteomics) so often overlooked for #geochronology?
New paper by @neaarlab.bsky.social, using Bithynia snails 🐌 to date the last 1Ma: 4 new reference sets for climate & Quaternary Science 🌍
open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-396
New paper by @neaarlab.bsky.social, using Bithynia snails 🐌 to date the last 1Ma: 4 new reference sets for climate & Quaternary Science 🌍
open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-396
Happy to share our recent ancient DNA based article.
Dynamic human admixture histories over the past ~1300 years at the northern Himalayan frontier | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Dynamic human admixture histories over the past ~1300 years at the northern Himalayan frontier | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Dynamic human admixture histories over the past ~1300 years at the northern Himalayan frontier
Ancient and present-day human genomes shed light on ~1300 years of genetic admixture and continuity in the northern Himalayas.
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October 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Happy to share our recent ancient DNA based article.
Dynamic human admixture histories over the past ~1300 years at the northern Himalayan frontier | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Dynamic human admixture histories over the past ~1300 years at the northern Himalayan frontier | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Like you, I've read so many nice things about Jane Goodall's amazing life and legacy today, but this video of the realease of the chimp called Wounda is beyond words ♥️
If only we could find the will to stop destroying the extraordinary natural world around us...
youtu.be/ClOMa_GufsA?...
If only we could find the will to stop destroying the extraordinary natural world around us...
youtu.be/ClOMa_GufsA?...
Wounda's Journey - Jane Goodall Witnesses Release of Chimpanzee Into New Island Sanctuary Site
YouTube video by Dr. Jane Goodall & the Jane Goodall Institute USA
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October 2, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Like you, I've read so many nice things about Jane Goodall's amazing life and legacy today, but this video of the realease of the chimp called Wounda is beyond words ♥️
If only we could find the will to stop destroying the extraordinary natural world around us...
youtu.be/ClOMa_GufsA?...
If only we could find the will to stop destroying the extraordinary natural world around us...
youtu.be/ClOMa_GufsA?...
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As expected, Bluesky better than X for scientists www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Science research gets more engagement on Bluesky than X, study finds
Bluesky posts referencing scholarly articles ‘find substantially higher levels of interaction’ than on Elon Musk’s platform
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September 1, 2025 at 11:50 AM
As expected, Bluesky better than X for scientists www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Happy to share our new research article on demographic and migratory history of Sri Lanka. This is one of the detailed genetic studies ever done on Sri Lankan population
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Population histories of the Indigenous Adivasi and Sinhalese from Sri Lanka using whole genomes
Sri Lanka is home to diverse ethnic groups with different genetic histories. Urban
Aragon et al. find that despite close genetic affinities, Indigenous Adivasi have
more hunter-gatherer ancestry and l...
www.cell.com
June 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Happy to share our new research article on demographic and migratory history of Sri Lanka. This is one of the detailed genetic studies ever done on Sri Lankan population
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...