Turi King
@turiking.bsky.social
British & Canadian geneticist/genealogy/forensics/archaeology #DNAFamilySecrets, #RichardIII DNA gal, Television/podcast presenter.
The news is out! Really nice piece by Jack Blackburn of @Times about the genetic study been leading into Hitler’s DNA. It’s been a massive group effort as part of a documentary with the team Blink Films & a huge number of experts! We have to put the caveats in and the article does that nicely.
November 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The news is out! Really nice piece by Jack Blackburn of @Times about the genetic study been leading into Hitler’s DNA. It’s been a massive group effort as part of a documentary with the team Blink Films & a huge number of experts! We have to put the caveats in and the article does that nicely.
I am SO pleased to see this! Richard Taylor has quite rightly won his case. I was shocked at how the project and people, Richard T in particular, were so falsely portrayed in the film. Good to see it’s being put right. Do see Richard T’s X thread below. 👇
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x.com/richardtaylo...
October 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I am SO pleased to see this! Richard Taylor has quite rightly won his case. I was shocked at how the project and people, Richard T in particular, were so falsely portrayed in the film. Good to see it’s being put right. Do see Richard T’s X thread below. 👇
x.com/richardtaylo...
x.com/richardtaylo...
Happy Thanksgiving, fellow Canadians! 🍁🇨🇦
October 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Happy Thanksgiving, fellow Canadians! 🍁🇨🇦
My amazing kids got me a Book Spa gift at Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights in Bath. What a treat! The lovely team there fed me tea & cake, nattered to me about my book tastes & then brought me a stack of books they thought I would like! Heaven! Reader, I bought several!
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September 26, 2025 at 9:47 AM
My amazing kids got me a Book Spa gift at Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights in Bath. What a treat! The lovely team there fed me tea & cake, nattered to me about my book tastes & then brought me a stack of books they thought I would like! Heaven! Reader, I bought several!
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Super proud of this! Still top 10 on Audible. It follows two families brought together by an unexpected discovery that changes everything they thought they knew about their father & takes us into the stories of the Home Children.
Listen now on Audible: adbl.co/orphansmith
Listen now on Audible: adbl.co/orphansmith
August 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Super proud of this! Still top 10 on Audible. It follows two families brought together by an unexpected discovery that changes everything they thought they knew about their father & takes us into the stories of the Home Children.
Listen now on Audible: adbl.co/orphansmith
Listen now on Audible: adbl.co/orphansmith
Super proud of this! Our Audible @bbcstudios.bsky.social
podcast series, Orphan Smith, is in the top ten! We tell the story of the Home Children in Canada through the moving experience of one family. Get your tissues!
You can listen here 🎧
www.audible.co.uk/.../Orphan-S...
podcast series, Orphan Smith, is in the top ten! We tell the story of the Home Children in Canada through the moving experience of one family. Get your tissues!
You can listen here 🎧
www.audible.co.uk/.../Orphan-S...
July 27, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Super proud of this! Our Audible @bbcstudios.bsky.social
podcast series, Orphan Smith, is in the top ten! We tell the story of the Home Children in Canada through the moving experience of one family. Get your tissues!
You can listen here 🎧
www.audible.co.uk/.../Orphan-S...
podcast series, Orphan Smith, is in the top ten! We tell the story of the Home Children in Canada through the moving experience of one family. Get your tissues!
You can listen here 🎧
www.audible.co.uk/.../Orphan-S...
Lovely article by @edhollox.bsky.social in the @gensocuk.bsky.social magazine about the University of Leicester's Department of Genetics reaching the grand old age of 60! 🧬😊
July 11, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Lovely article by @edhollox.bsky.social in the @gensocuk.bsky.social magazine about the University of Leicester's Department of Genetics reaching the grand old age of 60! 🧬😊
So lovely to be part of Orphan Smith: My Father's Secret. We follow two families brought together by an unexpected discovery that changed everything they thought they knew about their father! Narrated by the fab Megan Follows & hosted by me. On Audible adbl.co/orphansmith
July 3, 2025 at 8:58 AM
So lovely to be part of Orphan Smith: My Father's Secret. We follow two families brought together by an unexpected discovery that changed everything they thought they knew about their father! Narrated by the fab Megan Follows & hosted by me. On Audible adbl.co/orphansmith
Happy #CanadaDay to all who celebrate! 😊🇨🇦🍁
July 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Happy #CanadaDay to all who celebrate! 😊🇨🇦🍁
You will not believe what arrived today! Squeak! Nothing less than #SystonKnittingBanxy's @richard-third.bsky.social! He's amazing! So touched! Have taken him to see @uniofbath.bsky.social & @milnerevolution.bsky.social
He now has pride of place on my desk! 😍
He now has pride of place on my desk! 😍
April 30, 2025 at 1:19 PM
You will not believe what arrived today! Squeak! Nothing less than #SystonKnittingBanxy's @richard-third.bsky.social! He's amazing! So touched! Have taken him to see @uniofbath.bsky.social & @milnerevolution.bsky.social
He now has pride of place on my desk! 😍
He now has pride of place on my desk! 😍
It was a great pleasure to host Richard Dawkins at the Edinburgh Science Festival last night where we chatted about his latest book, The Genetic Book of the Dead. It’s an excellent introduction to his work if you’ve never read any of his books before, and beautifully illustrated by Jana Lenzová.
April 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
It was a great pleasure to host Richard Dawkins at the Edinburgh Science Festival last night where we chatted about his latest book, The Genetic Book of the Dead. It’s an excellent introduction to his work if you’ve never read any of his books before, and beautifully illustrated by Jana Lenzová.
Somehow feels extra important to vote this time round. 🇨🇦 #CanadaVotes2025
April 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Somehow feels extra important to vote this time round. 🇨🇦 #CanadaVotes2025
Looooook at this! It’s Richard III by Syston Knitting Banxy! Obviously like to think that he would have been so chuffed to see himself in knitted form! 🤩
March 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Looooook at this! It’s Richard III by Syston Knitting Banxy! Obviously like to think that he would have been so chuffed to see himself in knitted form! 🤩
Working on something! Out next spring! Watch this space. 😊🎧
November 29, 2024 at 10:42 AM
Working on something! Out next spring! Watch this space. 😊🎧
Bath getting its sparkle on. 😊✨
November 25, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Bath getting its sparkle on. 😊✨
Morning run in Bath - route down by the river is a bit damp after storm Bert! 🏃🏻♀️
November 25, 2024 at 8:57 AM
Morning run in Bath - route down by the river is a bit damp after storm Bert! 🏃🏻♀️
Ooooo, our podcast Head Number 7 has made @thetimes.com list of best podcasts of the week! Have so enjoyed working on this with @ailsarochester.bsky.social and the Audio Always team! 😊
www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...
www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...
November 24, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Ooooo, our podcast Head Number 7 has made @thetimes.com list of best podcasts of the week! Have so enjoyed working on this with @ailsarochester.bsky.social and the Audio Always team! 😊
www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...
www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...
Hi everyone. I'm fairly new here so thought I would introduce myself. My background is in archaeology & then genetics so now I use genetics to answer questions in history & archaeology. I led the identification of King Richard III. I also do telly/radio presenting eg. BBC DNA Family Secrets. 😊🧬
November 18, 2024 at 11:35 AM
Hi everyone. I'm fairly new here so thought I would introduce myself. My background is in archaeology & then genetics so now I use genetics to answer questions in history & archaeology. I led the identification of King Richard III. I also do telly/radio presenting eg. BBC DNA Family Secrets. 😊🧬
One of the things about working at the University of Bath is that it means that this is the sort of view I get when I go for a morning run. 🏃🏻♀️😊
November 11, 2024 at 9:01 AM
One of the things about working at the University of Bath is that it means that this is the sort of view I get when I go for a morning run. 🏃🏻♀️😊
So lovely to have been at the Grierson Trust documentary #GriersonAwards tonight having been a judge for one of the categories this year. Also got to see the lovely Stacey Dooley receive her Trustee’s Award. So well deserved! 😊
November 6, 2024 at 11:42 PM
So lovely to have been at the Grierson Trust documentary #GriersonAwards tonight having been a judge for one of the categories this year. Also got to see the lovely Stacey Dooley receive her Trustee’s Award. So well deserved! 😊
This is coming out soooooon! You can listen to me host the #truecrime podcast Head Number 7 by @audioalways for @WonderyMedia about the Harvard morgue case. The trail is here! 👇
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podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...
August 10, 2024 at 7:24 PM
This is coming out soooooon! You can listen to me host the #truecrime podcast Head Number 7 by @audioalways for @WonderyMedia about the Harvard morgue case. The trail is here! 👇
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...
Just had a ‘memory’ come up. This time last year the rather wonderful #StaceyDooley, the amazing team at Minnow Films, gorgeous little Minnie, and I were filming series 3 of #BBC #DNAFamilySecrets. So hope we get recommissioned! I’m so proud of the programme: we work so hard on it. 😊🧬
April 5, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Just had a ‘memory’ come up. This time last year the rather wonderful #StaceyDooley, the amazing team at Minnow Films, gorgeous little Minnie, and I were filming series 3 of #BBC #DNAFamilySecrets. So hope we get recommissioned! I’m so proud of the programme: we work so hard on it. 😊🧬
Very busy day yesterday starting with meeting Science Museum with the lovely @RogerHighfield followed by speaking at #FOG2024 and then getting to have a rather public fireside chat with wonderful Louis Theroux
January 26, 2024 at 6:16 PM
Very busy day yesterday starting with meeting Science Museum with the lovely @RogerHighfield followed by speaking at #FOG2024 and then getting to have a rather public fireside chat with wonderful Louis Theroux
Busy couple of days at Leicester graduations last week. Got to hang out with some of coolest women ever! Did orations for Helen Sharman, first Briton in space & lovely friend, the multi-talented Alice Roberts, at a ceremony presided over by our Chancellor, the wonderful Maggie Aderin-Pocock
January 23, 2024 at 9:31 AM
Busy couple of days at Leicester graduations last week. Got to hang out with some of coolest women ever! Did orations for Helen Sharman, first Briton in space & lovely friend, the multi-talented Alice Roberts, at a ceremony presided over by our Chancellor, the wonderful Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Super excited that I'm going to be Director of the Milner Centre at University of Bath come spring! So looking forward to working with the team there & continuing the vision of Jonathan Milner in making it the go-to place for evolutionary research & outreach. 🧬
January 18, 2024 at 8:57 AM
Super excited that I'm going to be Director of the Milner Centre at University of Bath come spring! So looking forward to working with the team there & continuing the vision of Jonathan Milner in making it the go-to place for evolutionary research & outreach. 🧬