Spencer Wells
@spwells.bsky.social
scientist • author • explorer
Lombok, Indonesia 🇮🇩
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Lombok, Indonesia 🇮🇩
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Exploration of hanging coffin customs and the bo people in China through comparative genomics 🧬☠️🇨🇳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Exploration of hanging coffin customs and the bo people in China through comparative genomics - Nature Communications
Hanging Coffins were a mortuary tradition practiced in southern China and Southeast Asia. Here, the authors show that different groups of ancient Hanging Coffin practitioners are genetically related, ...
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November 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Exploration of hanging coffin customs and the bo people in China through comparative genomics 🧬☠️🇨🇳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Archaeologists find evidence that a wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture ⛏️☠️ www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
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November 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Archaeologists find evidence that a wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture ⛏️☠️ www.science.org/content/arti...
Ape ancestors and Neanderthals likely kissed, new analysis finds 💋 phys.org/news/2025-11...
Ape ancestors and Neanderthals likely kissed, new analysis finds
A new study led by the University of Oxford has found evidence that kissing evolved in the common ancestor of humans and other large apes around 21 million years ago, and that Neanderthals likely enga...
phys.org
November 19, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Ape ancestors and Neanderthals likely kissed, new analysis finds 💋 phys.org/news/2025-11...
'City of seven ravines': Bronze age metropolis unearthed in the Eurasian steppe ⛏️🇰🇿 phys.org/news/2025-11...
'City of seven ravines': Bronze age metropolis unearthed in the Eurasian steppe
An international team of archaeologists from UCL, Durham University, and Toraighyrov University (Kazakhstan) has uncovered the remains of a vast Bronze Age settlement, Semiyarka, in the Kazakh steppe—...
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November 18, 2025 at 8:01 AM
'City of seven ravines': Bronze age metropolis unearthed in the Eurasian steppe ⛏️🇰🇿 phys.org/news/2025-11...
The woman and the goose: A 12,000-year-old glimpse into prehistoric belief ⛏️🪿 phys.org/news/2025-11...
The woman and the goose: A 12,000-year-old glimpse into prehistoric belief
A 12,000-year-old clay figurine unearthed in northern Israel, depicting a woman and a goose, is the earliest known human-animal interaction figurine. Found at the Late Natufian site of Nahal Ein Gev I...
phys.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:26 AM
The woman and the goose: A 12,000-year-old glimpse into prehistoric belief ⛏️🪿 phys.org/news/2025-11...
Great talk by @paleogenomics.bsky.social! 🦠🧬🌎 And thanks again to @heasvienna.bsky.social for making these presentations available online for a global audience…🙏🌏
November 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Great talk by @paleogenomics.bsky.social! 🦠🧬🌎 And thanks again to @heasvienna.bsky.social for making these presentations available online for a global audience…🙏🌏
From spiky branches to dome-shaped: How corals in Singapore have evolved over 70 years 🪸🇸🇬 www.straitstimes.com/singapore/en...
From spiky branches to dome-shaped: How corals in Singapore have evolved over 70 years
The corals today are mostly dome-shaped or flat and they host a lower diversity of marine life. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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November 16, 2025 at 9:49 PM
From spiky branches to dome-shaped: How corals in Singapore have evolved over 70 years 🪸🇸🇬 www.straitstimes.com/singapore/en...
Climate collapse: Southeast Asia’s new normal? ‘Everybody will be giving up’ 🌀⛈️🌏 www.scmp.com/week-asia/he...
‘Everybody will be giving up’: is climate collapse Southeast Asia’s new normal?
With a 30th year of Cop climate talks under way in Brazil, for many of Asia’s most vulnerable populations, the crisis is already here.
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November 15, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Climate collapse: Southeast Asia’s new normal? ‘Everybody will be giving up’ 🌀⛈️🌏 www.scmp.com/week-asia/he...
Dogs 10,000 years ago roamed with bands of humans and came in all shapes and sizes ⛏️🧬🐕 theconversation.com/dogs-10-000-...
Dogs 10,000 years ago roamed with bands of humans and came in all shapes and sizes
Two new studies suggest the story of dogs and their relationship with humans is older and more complex than once thought.
theconversation.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Dogs 10,000 years ago roamed with bands of humans and came in all shapes and sizes ⛏️🧬🐕 theconversation.com/dogs-10-000-...
COVID-19 is spreading again — how serious is it and what are the symptoms? 🦠 Yep… www.nature.com/articles/d41...
COVID-19 is spreading again — how serious is it and what are the symptoms?
Limited COVID-19 surveillance data are hampering vaccination and health strategies, researchers say.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
COVID-19 is spreading again — how serious is it and what are the symptoms? 🦠 Yep… www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"This is the single most impactful finding to emerge from my lab in my entire career…. We think it applies to 100% of lupus cases." 🦠 medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11...
Scientists tie lupus to a virus nearly all of us carry
One of humanity's most ubiquitous infectious pathogens bears the blame for the chronic autoimmune condition called systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus), Stanford Medicine investigators and their colle...
medicalxpress.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
"This is the single most impactful finding to emerge from my lab in my entire career…. We think it applies to 100% of lupus cases." 🦠 medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11...
Mathematical model indicates Neanderthal disappearance can be explained by genetic dilution 💀📉 phys.org/news/2025-11...
Mathematical model indicates Neanderthal disappearance can be explained by genetic dilution
Currently, there are several hypotheses surrounding the disappearance of Neanderthals. While they all have at least some scientific support, researchers can't agree on which—or which combination—is mo...
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November 12, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Mathematical model indicates Neanderthal disappearance can be explained by genetic dilution 💀📉 phys.org/news/2025-11...
Neanderthal DNA helps explain how faces form 🧬💀 phys.org/news/2025-11...
Neanderthal DNA helps explain how faces form
Every human face is unique, allowing us to distinguish between individuals. We know little about how facial features are encoded in our DNA, but we may be able to learn more about how our faces develo...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Neanderthal DNA helps explain how faces form 🧬💀 phys.org/news/2025-11...
Typhoon Kalmaegi exposes centuries-old shipwreck off Vietnam port ⛏️⚓️🇻🇳 www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/typhoon...
Typhoon Kalmaegi exposes centuries-old shipwreck off Vietnam port
HOI AN: Severe coastal erosion caused by Typhoon Kalmaegi exposed a centuries-old shipwreck in Vietnam, providing a narrow window to salvage what experts say could be a historically significant find.I...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Typhoon Kalmaegi exposes centuries-old shipwreck off Vietnam port ⛏️⚓️🇻🇳 www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/typhoon...
Iconic Andean monument may have been used for Indigenous accounting ⛏️🧮🇵🇪 phys.org/news/2025-11...
Iconic Andean monument may have been used for Indigenous accounting
Sediment analysis and drone photography of the iconic South American monument of Monte Sierpe (aka "Band of Holes") support a new interpretation of this mysterious landscape feature as part of an Indi...
phys.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Iconic Andean monument may have been used for Indigenous accounting ⛏️🧮🇵🇪 phys.org/news/2025-11...
Reposted by Spencer Wells
The story,
carried in our blood,
really is true.
You and I,
in fact everyone
all over the world,
we're all literally African,
under the skin.
Old fashioned concepts of race
are not only socially divisive,
but scientifically wrong.
🧬 @spwells.bsky.social
youtu.be/P6nEGfcwMNA?...
carried in our blood,
really is true.
You and I,
in fact everyone
all over the world,
we're all literally African,
under the skin.
Old fashioned concepts of race
are not only socially divisive,
but scientifically wrong.
🧬 @spwells.bsky.social
youtu.be/P6nEGfcwMNA?...
November 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The story,
carried in our blood,
really is true.
You and I,
in fact everyone
all over the world,
we're all literally African,
under the skin.
Old fashioned concepts of race
are not only socially divisive,
but scientifically wrong.
🧬 @spwells.bsky.social
youtu.be/P6nEGfcwMNA?...
carried in our blood,
really is true.
You and I,
in fact everyone
all over the world,
we're all literally African,
under the skin.
Old fashioned concepts of race
are not only socially divisive,
but scientifically wrong.
🧬 @spwells.bsky.social
youtu.be/P6nEGfcwMNA?...
James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at age 97 🧬 R.I.P. apnews.com/article/jame...
James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at age 97
Scientist James Watson, who shared a Nobel prize for helping discover the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule, has died. He was 97.
apnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM
James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at age 97 🧬 R.I.P. apnews.com/article/jame...
Tree rings from ancient coffins offer clues to Earth’s past ⛏️⚰️🌏 www.science.org/content/arti...
Tree rings from ancient coffins offer clues to Earth’s past
Wood from gravesites can help reconstruct historic temperatures, floods, and droughts
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November 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Tree rings from ancient coffins offer clues to Earth’s past ⛏️⚰️🌏 www.science.org/content/arti...
Archaeologists discover how oldest American civilisation survived a climate catastrophe ⛏️🇵🇪 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Archaeologists discover how oldest American civilisation survived a climate catastrophe
Experts find artefacts left behind in Caral showing how population survived drought without resorting to violence
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Archaeologists discover how oldest American civilisation survived a climate catastrophe ⛏️🇵🇪 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
How a misread Arabic tale misled generations of historians about the Black Death's rapid spread 🦠📜 phys.org/news/2025-11...
How a misread Arabic tale misled generations of historians about the Black Death's rapid spread
Myths about how the Black Death traveled quickly across Asia, ravaging Silk Route communities, date back to a single fourteenth-century source, experts have found.
phys.org
November 4, 2025 at 12:06 PM
How a misread Arabic tale misled generations of historians about the Black Death's rapid spread 🦠📜 phys.org/news/2025-11...
Billion-dollar Grand Egyptian Museum innaugurated with lavish ceremony 🇪🇬 www.france24.com/en/culture/2...
Billion-dollar Grand Egyptian Museum innaugurated with lavish ceremony
Egypt opened the $1 billion Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) on Saturday in a lavish, spectacle laden ceremony, which Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said was "a new chapter in the history of the…
www.france24.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Billion-dollar Grand Egyptian Museum innaugurated with lavish ceremony 🇪🇬 www.france24.com/en/culture/2...
DNA study reveals origins, migrations and genetic legacy of 'forgotten' Sarmatians ⛏️🇭🇺🇷🇴 phys.org/news/2025-10...
DNA study reveals origins, migrations and genetic legacy of 'forgotten' Sarmatians
In a recent study, Dr. Oszkár Schütz and his colleagues analyzed 156 ancient genomes from the Sarmatian period, spanning the 1st to 5th centuries CE. The aim of the study was to clarify the origins an...
phys.org
October 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
DNA study reveals origins, migrations and genetic legacy of 'forgotten' Sarmatians ⛏️🇭🇺🇷🇴 phys.org/news/2025-10...
The long, deep dig: Collaboration unearths ancient city of Sardis ⛏️🇹🇷 phys.org/news/2025-10...
The long, deep dig: Collaboration unearths ancient city of Sardis
From the Greeks and the Romans to the Ottoman empire, the history of Sardis, Turkey, is one of persistent turnover. But its archaeological investigation has been remarkably consistent. Since 1958, the...
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October 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The long, deep dig: Collaboration unearths ancient city of Sardis ⛏️🇹🇷 phys.org/news/2025-10...
New DNA evidence from Crimea sheds light on Neanderthal migration into Asia 🧬💀🌏 phys.org/news/2025-10...
New DNA evidence from Crimea sheds light on Neanderthal migration into Asia
Researchers have long been attempting to piece together the trek of Neanderthals from Europe into Asia around the Middle and Upper Paleolithic time periods. This time marks the eventual disappearance ...
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October 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
New DNA evidence from Crimea sheds light on Neanderthal migration into Asia 🧬💀🌏 phys.org/news/2025-10...
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head 🌎🌡️ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head 🌎🌡️ www.theguardian.com/environment/...