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Hannah Moots 
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Postdoctoral Researcher at UChicago - studying people and pathogens in the past using ancient DNA. (she/her)
ChicagoJoined November 2010
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Exciting news! Our paper out today in shows how we recovered ancient human DNA from the surface of a pierced elk tooth pendant found in Denisova Cave. We were able to use this DNA to learn about the actual person who wore and/or made this artefact! nature.com/articles/s4158
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I am very happy to share our new paper:
Ancient DNA from a lost Negev Highlands desert grape reveals a Late Antiquity wine lineage | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Read more about some of the findings comparing 240 mammalian species in the by 🐾🐒🧬 We are thrilled to see our Cactus alignment tool being used in such amazing ways!
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I wrote about how cheetahs and blue whales can help us sift through the junk of our genome to find the jewels. nytimes.com/2023/04/27/sci
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Congrats 🎉 and thanks 🙏 to the many authors in our new special issue of Quaternary International! 'Zooarch in the Interconnected Mediterranean' organised by (myself and A. Nieto-Espinet) officially comes out next month. We have papers on:
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The Museum’s Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation opens to the public on May 4. Designed by , it includes an insectarium, a butterfly vivarium, floor-to-ceiling exhibits, a 360-degree immersive experience, and more: bit.ly/3K6zlxE
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Applications are now open for our summer course in the analysis of high throughput data in population genetics! We'll cover multiple topics and tools commonly used in PopGen analyses.
Dates: 7-11 August 2023 @ University of Copenhagen
For more info: popgen.dk/popgen23/
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The moment has arrived: we are excited to announce SPAAM5: The (in person) Gathering!
Join us on Sept. 12, 2023 in Tartu, Estonia for a day of flash talks, discussions, and fun, before ISBA10 even starts. Register by June 16: forms.gle/nJUMGzTmH6Knuy.
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⚠️Postdoc Position (3 years)⚠️
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Join 's AdG project on long-term mammalian evolution, and help us develop computational tools to analyze up to 2.5 million year old genomes.
🙏 RT & tag potential candidates!
Apply: su.se/english/about-
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New paper out in PNAS about how the ability of vertebrates to see is in part due to a gene we acquired from bacteria.
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn
Huge congratulations and thanks to authors , and ! More below: 1/
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We bring you multiple #woollymammoth genomes, genes, furry coats, small ears and much more! 🦣🧬
Check the article here cell.com/current-biolog
And read the 🧵 ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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What genes make a #woollymammoth? 
We have analyzed the genomes of 23 woolly mammoths and compared them to 28 Asian and African savannah #elephants to discover the unique gene variants involved in the woolly mammoth's iconic looks.
OA paper cell.com/current-biolog
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We have analyzed the genomes of 23 woolly mammoths and compared them to 28 Asian and African savannah #elephants to discover the unique gene variants involved in the woolly mammoth's iconic looks.
OA paper cell.com/current-biolog
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What genes make a #woollymammoth? 🦣🧬
We have analyzed the genomes of 23 woolly mammoths and compared them to 28 Asian and African savannah #elephants to discover the unique gene variants involved in the woolly mammoth's iconic looks.
OA paper cell.com/current-biolog
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No matter the outcome here, we will continue to stand for those who are demanding change and want to see an end to gun violence in Tennessee!
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Sharing this in case it's useful: I find that students often have a hard time conceptualizing quantitative parameters in genomics and popgen
Here's a cheat-sheet I put together for teaching. It's also part of a textbook I have been writing on human genetics (more on that below)
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Super excited my new preprint with and !! This is also *my first* preprint so I’m extra stoked. Here’s a thread about it… (1/?)
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Exploring the effects of ecological parameters on the spatial structure of genetic tree sequences biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh #bioRxiv
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recent work from my lab on applying and interpreting topic models for single cell data:
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Job Alert! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Postdoc, aDNA, Stockholm
Apply for our 3-year #postdocposition in 's group, and help us contribute to cutting-edge palaeogenomics research on 🦣, aimed at exploring megafaunal population dynamics in the last Ice Age.
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Our report emphasizes the need to not only carefully describe, but more importantly define with purpose, populations in genomic research.
I learned so much throughout this interdisciplinary collaboration and am looking forward to the public webinar Friday.
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Research using human genetic data has grown exponentially over the past decade. This new consensus study report explores best practices for using #PopDescriptors such as race, ethnicity, ancestry, and more in #genomics research. Read now: ow.ly/Y9Rc50NfP6V
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Motivated by recent evidence of residual confounding in PGS, we first use a simple model of genetic relatedness to show how confounding in the GWAS biases the distribution of PGS in the prediction panel in a way that depended on the overlap in population structure between panels
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Very happy to share my preprint:
'A More Interconnected World? Measuring Change in Accessibility as a Result of Routeway Development in Premodern Societies'
tinyurl.com/5fsdmbfz
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Our latest! Medieval social landscape through the genetic history of Cambridgeshire before and after the Black Death
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Heard it through the grapevine, but apparently ...
"#Wine grapes were first domesticated 11,000 yrs ago" - in *two* separate #domestication processes from distinct wild populations in the Near East & South Caucasus:
washingtonpost.com/science/2023/0 by via
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I am excited to share my work at the labs of and in collaboration with the amazing Theo Susanto, , Naomi Genuth and Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong
“A comprehensive rRNA variation atlas in health and disease”
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New preprint by and myself on the interpretation of population and family-based genome-wide association studies in the presence of confounding
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New preprint out about our research on prehistoric #stature! Led by Samantha Cox and and in collaboration with and others, we explore the effects of #genetics and #socioeconomics on sexual dimorphism in Early #Neolithic Europe.
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Socio-cultural practices affect sexual dimorphism in stature in Early Neolithic Europe biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh #bioRxiv
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Our new paper on estimating human mobility from archaeogenetic time-series data came in out last week, and I hadn’t had the chance yet to introduce it properly. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn. Joint work with . 1/9
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I have been enjoying teaching my Pompeii class so much this semester, that I wanted to share my syllabus with you all (and, yes, I did spend *way* too long coming up with my weekly theme titles....) victoriaausten.com/teaching/teach /1
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🚨New paper: Long-distance dispersal is one of the most fascinating animal behaviors. Our 13-year satellite tracking study of Arctic foxes allowed us to record amazing long-distance dispersal events and compare juvenile vs adult dispersal!
Link below⬇️
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs
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How is 𝘗. 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘶𝘮 SO GOOD at evading host immunity? In our new preprint, we use ultra-long reads to discover extra-chromosomal alleles of antigenic 𝘷𝘢𝘳 genes in clonal malaria parasites, 👑 bit.ly/3Hy1nAD
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New article! Open access! Dental disease reflects differential diets and changes in consumption over time at Knossos #OpenAccess #Knossos
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Proud to be a co-author on this paper with Jessica Pearson (Uni Liverpool) entitled "Mobility and kinship in the world’s first village societies" #archaeology #neolithic #turkey
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I am delighted our new ancient DNA study on the Aegean is now published ! nature.com/articles/s4155
I want to thank all the coauthors and colleagues from , the institutions in Greece, Germany, and North America for being part of this study!
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Marriage in Minoan Crete. Intl. team led by @MPI_EVA_Leipzig researchers @SkourEirini, @StockhammerPh & Johannes Krause analysed over 100 genomes of Bronze Age people from the Aegean & gained new insights into their social order. nature.com/articles/s4155 & bit.ly/3GE2UVw
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"The real history of ordinary people turns out to be extraordinary." 💯💯💯
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I wrote a piece for @thenation about so-called “pseudo-archaeology,” and what it does to our sense of history.
thenation.com/article/cultur
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After the snow scenes last week - 'Winter' has got the right idea wrapped up warm in a 'birrus britannicus'. These hooded cloaks were popular attire in Roman Britain and very much needed in the freeze #MosaicMonday
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We broke the world record in ancient DNA today! 2-million-year-old DNA from plants and animals were retrieved from geological deposits and show that North Greenland was once home to an open boreal/arctic community incl. mastodon. nature.com/articles/s4158 natureasia.com/en/research/hi
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Vad lärde vi oss av Shah Tepé? Det var mycket (kolla pressmeddelandet), bland annat att bondestenåldersmobiliteten som från början var kvinnointensiv över tiden blev mer mansintensiv. #cpgSTHLM #archaeogenetics #aDNA su.se/nyheter/genstu
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New paper alert‼️ et al is out now! We explored human mobility in Southwest Asia throughout the Holocene.
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We are happy to share our research article published today in @CurrentBiology where we investigated human mobility patterns in Southwest Asia and the East Mediterranean over time.
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I am pleased to share that one of the projects of my PhD dissertation is published today 💃
For more detail see the thread below 👇🏽
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We are happy to share our research article published today in @CurrentBiology where we investigated human mobility patterns in Southwest Asia and the East Mediterranean over time.
sciencedirect.com/science/articl
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