Stephan Schiffels

@stschiff

Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany. Population Geneticist, Physicist, Programming Enthusiast

Jena, Germany
stephanschiffels.de
Joined January 2009
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    Mar 21

    It sure was a long road, but after umpteen iterations of the reference genome, our platypus work is finally out!

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    Mar 25

    I see little to disagree with in David Reich's thoughtful and articulate NYT piece. Like most geneticists I avoid the term 'race' in human context, due to its historical and continued use as the basis for a completely false view of human differences.

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    Mar 31

    Our work, The Genomic Formation of South and Central Asia, now live . Our new interactive data visualizer is also up We welcome all comments and suggestions.

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    Mar 26

    Come work with me and on long-read vertebrate genome assemblies, cichlids, human demography and more. Lots of , , and data to play with

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    Mar 23

    momi is back and she knows best, by Kamm, Terhorst, &

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    Mar 21

    Announcing our annual summer PhD course in population and medical genetics at ! Featuring @matteo_fuma . Here's the website with more info:

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    Mar 22

    Our on from Northeastern Europe: "Ancient Fennoscandian genomes reveal origin and spread of Siberian ancestry in Europe" is finally on the !

    Ancient Fennoscandian genomes reveal origin and spread of Siberian ancestry in Europe
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    Mar 15

    "Pleistocene North African genomes link Near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations" - read the original paper with coauthors here!

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    15 May 2017

    I'm recruiting postdocs. Come and work with me in sunny Philadelphia! Please RT!

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    27 Nov 2017

    . and I wrote a review article about ancient genomics. Comments on the preprint very welcome!

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    Mar 14

    RT Estimation of population divergence times from SNP data and a test for treeness

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    Mar 12

    OUR NEW SEQUENCEER IS GO! Not bad for two days work, and just in time for National Science Week at tomorrow. Huge thanks to and of !

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    Mar 9

    Every time I teach the python part of my bioinformatics class, I'm reminded how weird python actually is. Example: Exhibit 1 works, exhibit 2 works, exhibit 3 throws an error. Huh?

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    Feb 27

    "Language continuity despite population replacement in Remote Oceania" - read the original paper with researchers from in here!

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    Feb 18

    Our new preprint on permutation-invariant convolutional neural network and likelihood-free population genetic inference:

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    Feb 19

    Being promoted up to steering a chariot that has no wheels. And if you can't convince the emperor to give you a grant, you get fed to the lions.

    Being a new PI is like going from being one of the best racing horses at the Roman coliseum then suddenly being promoted up to steering the chariot.
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  17. Feb 19

    Open position for a senior bioinformatician at our institute: and

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  18. Feb 19

    Argh... how embarrassing! The address is . Sorry

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    Jan 30

    Finally out! A big thanks to everyone involved!

    The original paper in : "The genetic prehistory of the Baltic Sea region"
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    Jan 30

    The original paper in : "The genetic prehistory of the Baltic Sea region"

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