Stephan Schiffels
@stschiff.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy
I am a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. My interests are population genetics and human […]
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On my way to the #nfdi4objects Community meeting to Bochum. Looking forward to discussing research data infrastructure and how to improve FAIRness of archaeological and archaeogenetic data! #n4ocm2025
September 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
On my way to the #nfdi4objects Community meeting to Bochum. Looking forward to discussing research data infrastructure and how to improve FAIRness of archaeological and archaeogenetic data! #n4ocm2025
There is a very nice documentary about the ancient Saxons on Arte and YouTube available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzwMzEEnKEE
It features our genetic study from 2022 (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05247-2), with prominent interviews of lead authors Joscha Gretzinger and […]
It features our genetic study from 2022 (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05247-2), with prominent interviews of lead authors Joscha Gretzinger and […]
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ecoevo.social
September 9, 2025 at 7:20 AM
There is a very nice documentary about the ancient Saxons on Arte and YouTube available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzwMzEEnKEE
It features our genetic study from 2022 (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05247-2), with prominent interviews of lead authors Joscha Gretzinger and […]
It features our genetic study from 2022 (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05247-2), with prominent interviews of lead authors Joscha Gretzinger and […]
Two papers to which I contributed came out back to back in Antiquity recently, which discuss African ancestry in early medieval individuals from England. Even though the data has been available since 2023, we now dedicated more space to these two special samples, and highlight this unusual […]
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ecoevo.social
September 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Two papers to which I contributed came out back to back in Antiquity recently, which discuss African ancestry in early medieval individuals from England. Even though the data has been available since 2023, we now dedicated more space to these two special samples, and highlight this unusual […]
Excited to share our new preprint "High resolution analysis of population structure using rare variants" https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.18.665597v1 where we investigate and formalise using rare allele sharing to quantify population structure, with application and examples in […]
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ecoevo.social
September 5, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Excited to share our new preprint "High resolution analysis of population structure using rare variants" https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.18.665597v1 where we investigate and formalise using rare allele sharing to quantify population structure, with application and examples in […]
Mein Vortrag bei der langen Nacht der Wissenschaften ist nun verfügbar als Podcast bei Deutschlandfunk Nova, z.b. hier (https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/populationsgenetik-menschheitsgeschichte-in-den-genen-ablesen) oder hier (https://open.spotify.com/episode/1s6N6Yv9tUQu5X20noqcrg) […]
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ecoevo.social
September 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Mein Vortrag bei der langen Nacht der Wissenschaften ist nun verfügbar als Podcast bei Deutschlandfunk Nova, z.b. hier (https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/populationsgenetik-menschheitsgeschichte-in-den-genen-ablesen) oder hier (https://open.spotify.com/episode/1s6N6Yv9tUQu5X20noqcrg) […]
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Faszinierender Einblick in die Populationsgenetik von @stschiff im #deutschlandfunk Nova Hörsaal: https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/populationsgenetik-menschheitsgeschichte-in-den-genen-ablesen
Menschheitsgeschichte in den Genen ablesen
Die DNA ist eine Art Gedächtnis unserer Geschichte. Von Generation zu Generation vererben Menschen Eigenschaften weiter. Das Genom wird so zu einem Archiv.
www.deutschlandfunknova.de
August 3, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Faszinierender Einblick in die Populationsgenetik von @stschiff im #deutschlandfunk Nova Hörsaal: https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/populationsgenetik-menschheitsgeschichte-in-den-genen-ablesen
Morgen auf der langen Nacht der Wissenschaften gibt's von mir um 22:00 Uhr einen Vortrag mit dem Titel "Gene und Geschichte – Wie alte DNA unsere bewegte Vergangenheit erzählt". Herzliche Einladung ans Max Planck Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie in Leipzig […]
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ecoevo.social
June 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Morgen auf der langen Nacht der Wissenschaften gibt's von mir um 22:00 Uhr einen Vortrag mit dem Titel "Gene und Geschichte – Wie alte DNA unsere bewegte Vergangenheit erzählt". Herzliche Einladung ans Max Planck Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie in Leipzig […]
Open position at Leipzig University, professor for Archaeology: https://www.uni-leipzig.de/stellenausschreibung/artikel/professur-fuer-archaeologie-des-antiken-mittelmeerraumes-und-seiner-umwelt-w2-2025-05-20
Professur für Archäologie des antiken Mittelmeerraumes und seiner Umwelt (W2)
www.uni-leipzig.de
June 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Open position at Leipzig University, professor for Archaeology: https://www.uni-leipzig.de/stellenausschreibung/artikel/professur-fuer-archaeologie-des-antiken-mittelmeerraumes-und-seiner-umwelt-w2-2025-05-20
I have implemented VCF reading and writing support in pileupCaller and Poseidon https://www.stephanschiffels.de/posts/2025-05-14-vcf_post.html #aDNA #data
Stephan Schiffels - Embracing the Variant Call Format in Ancient Genomics
www.stephanschiffels.de
May 14, 2025 at 10:40 AM
I have implemented VCF reading and writing support in pileupCaller and Poseidon https://www.stephanschiffels.de/posts/2025-05-14-vcf_post.html #aDNA #data
Several new packages have been added to the Poseidon Community Archive and the Minotaur Archive in recent weeks. You can find them listed on our Poseidon-Account https://ecoevo.social/@poseidon #aDNA #data
Poseidon Framework (@poseidon@ecoevo.social)
85 Posts, 3 Following, 28 Followers · Poseidon is a framework offering a standardized way to store and share archaeogenetic genotype datasets with context information.
ecoevo.social
May 14, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Several new packages have been added to the Poseidon Community Archive and the Minotaur Archive in recent weeks. You can find them listed on our Poseidon-Account https://ecoevo.social/@poseidon #aDNA #data
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May 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Looking for music for a creative project?
"Mobygratis.com is a platform created by the artist Moby to provide free music for non-commercial creative projects, such as films, choreography, videos, and remixes...there are only 2 things you can't do with the music here; use it to advertise right […]
"Mobygratis.com is a platform created by the artist Moby to provide free music for non-commercial creative projects, such as films, choreography, videos, and remixes...there are only 2 things you can't do with the music here; use it to advertise right […]
Summer course in analysis of high throughput data for population genetics 2025 in Copenhagen. Registration is open. Highly recommended: https://website.popgen.dk/summer/ #genetics #phd #bioinformatics
Popgen summer course
Popgen summer course
website.popgen.dk
May 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Summer course in analysis of high throughput data for population genetics 2025 in Copenhagen. Registration is open. Highly recommended: https://website.popgen.dk/summer/ #genetics #phd #bioinformatics
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Last week I was in Athens for the International Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in #archaeology (CAA) (see @CAA_int). Under the auspices of the @CAA_SSLA special interest group Martin Hinz and I had organized a session on […]
[Original post on archaeo.social]
[Original post on archaeo.social]
May 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Last week I was in Athens for the International Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in #archaeology (CAA) (see @CAA_int). Under the auspices of the @CAA_SSLA special interest group Martin Hinz and I had organized a session on […]
[Original post on archaeo.social]
[Original post on archaeo.social]
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Tatsächlich zeigen repräsentative Umfragen immer wieder: Vertrauen in Wissenschaft ist recht hoch! Gerade erst haben wir dazu eine sehr große Studie über 68 Länder mit mehr als 71.000 Befragten und 241 Forschenden in Nature Human Behaviour veröffentlicht. 3/4
February 18, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Tatsächlich zeigen repräsentative Umfragen immer wieder: Vertrauen in Wissenschaft ist recht hoch! Gerade erst haben wir dazu eine sehr große Studie über 68 Länder mit mehr als 71.000 Befragten und 241 Forschenden in Nature Human Behaviour veröffentlicht. 3/4
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You know why we Germans are so pedantic about data protection? Someone around 90 years ago went through all records available, selected people with certain criteria, with the help of IBM, and then killed them all.
We don't want to be on any list.
And now the US Gov and Musk is trying to get […]
We don't want to be on any list.
And now the US Gov and Musk is trying to get […]
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mastodon.social
February 18, 2025 at 9:59 AM
You know why we Germans are so pedantic about data protection? Someone around 90 years ago went through all records available, selected people with certain criteria, with the help of IBM, and then killed them all.
We don't want to be on any list.
And now the US Gov and Musk is trying to get […]
We don't want to be on any list.
And now the US Gov and Musk is trying to get […]
Fascinating new study by Lara Cassidy and Colleagues on a South British Iron Age burial site with an extraordinary matrilocal relatedness pattern (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08409-6) with women, daughters and granddaughters all buried at the […]
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January 30, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Fascinating new study by Lara Cassidy and Colleagues on a South British Iron Age burial site with an extraordinary matrilocal relatedness pattern (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08409-6) with women, daughters and granddaughters all buried at the […]
[Original post on ecoevo.social]
[Original post on ecoevo.social]
Excellent book review on "The trouble with ancient DNA" by my colleague @KathrinNaegele: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt5631 #aDNA #books #science
January 22, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Excellent book review on "The trouble with ancient DNA" by my colleague @KathrinNaegele: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt5631 #aDNA #books #science
Nice article in National Geographics (in German) on our findings of dynastic relationships among Celtic elite burials, featuring Angela Mötsch from my group […]
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ecoevo.social
January 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Nice article in National Geographics (in German) on our findings of dynastic relationships among Celtic elite burials, featuring Angela Mötsch from my group […]
"Ancient DNA reveals family ties" is named on of the top 10 Science Break-throughs in 2024 by Science (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv2101). Our work on early Celtic princely burials and their discovered close kinship gets mentioned, too!
January 9, 2025 at 10:31 AM
"Ancient DNA reveals family ties" is named on of the top 10 Science Break-throughs in 2024 by Science (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv2101). Our work on early Celtic princely burials and their discovered close kinship gets mentioned, too!
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#OpenScience opportunity:
"Astera is opening a call for its first major science residency program, a one-year, fully funded program centered on the creation of public goods."
https://astera.org/first-residency-cohort/
"Astera is opening a call for its first major science residency program, a one-year, fully funded program centered on the creation of public goods."
https://astera.org/first-residency-cohort/
October 28, 2024 at 9:05 PM
#OpenScience opportunity:
"Astera is opening a call for its first major science residency program, a one-year, fully funded program centered on the creation of public goods."
https://astera.org/first-residency-cohort/
"Astera is opening a call for its first major science residency program, a one-year, fully funded program centered on the creation of public goods."
https://astera.org/first-residency-cohort/