David Peede

📷 Thrilled to share my 1st PhD's 1st publication at @LIIGH_UNAM. Anecdotally it is also my 1st paper as corresponding author from my group / the "Paloegenomics and Evolutionary Biology" at LIIGH. shorturl.at/VumOq. Let us know what you think about it.

Ancient DNA is reshaping human history. 🧬 Assoc. Prof. Emilia Huerta-Sánchez spoke with @NatGeo about new discoveries revealing a more complex picture of our ancestors and the other humans they encountered. 🔗 Read more: ow.ly/5Scz50UPvv7

🚨 New paper! 🧬 We explore ancestry shifts, kinship ties & Mediterranean links at Mas d’en Boixos (Catalonia), from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. 👨🏻‍🔬A long journey since my master’s! Huge thanks to @cmpereirasantos Assumpció & Bastien! @ACAD_Research_ shorturl.at/B8TlB

The paper is out in @AJHGNews!!! “Natural selection acting on complex traits hampers the predictive accuracy of polygenic scores in ancient samples”. Read it here: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2…

Save the date! ProbGen 2026 will be hosted at UC Berkeley, March 25 to March 28, 2026, featuring keynote speakers @jkpritch and Sally Otto. Help spread the message to people who are not this dystopian hellsite.

Exciting news: CCMB PhD student Shevaughn Holness is one of 3 Brown students awarded funding from the @NSF's Graduate Research Fellowship Program to continue her work on population genetics. @BrownUResearch ccmb.brown.edu/news/2025-04-2…

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Just saw someone saying using the em-dash is a sign of something being written by AI, because real people rarely use it. This is terrible news for everyone like me who has an unhealthy emotional attachment to the em-dash.

Season Two starts NOW! 🚀 Dr. @MEOrive joins us for #WomenInScienceDay and shares her academic journey - from finding her path in science to earning tenure✨ This convo is full of honesty and thoughtful insights! Listen now! 🎧 pod.link/1715048894

New preprint! We find a novel signal of positive selection in georeferenced genotype data, then use this signal to identify in-progress selective sweeps in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New paper with @smishra677 ! Maybe it will bring you some joy given all this (waves arms around). "Estimating recombination using only the allele frequency spectrum" 1/2 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New paper alert! My undergraduate work on modeling the relationship between temperature, coral microbiome composition, and black band disease progression is now published in Mathematical Biosciences: doi.org/10.1016/j.mbs.…

Thrilled to share: out now in @Nature (!) & just in time for US Thanksgiving, the dinosaurian history of how your turkey does the twist. Fibular reduction enabled mid-drumstick mobility, unlocking extreme knee long-axis rotation in theropods 🍗🦖🧵 nature.com/articles/s4158…

Evolution and Speciation enthusiasts! Please submit your abstract for the phd student + postdoc symposium ahead of the @GordonConf on Speciation (or encourage your lab members!). My co-chair @Anna_F_Feller and I would love to see you there: grc.org/speciation-grs…

Excited to share our review article on Denisovans, now out in @NatureGenet🥳I am very grateful to @emiliahsc for making this possible! Check it out 🔎🧬 nature.com/articles/s4158…

2¹³⁶²⁷⁹⁸⁴¹−1, discovered today, is the largest known prime. It's a Mersenne prime (2ᵖ-1), which are easier to find. It took nearly 6 years for the GIMPS software to find it after the previous largest known prime. It was also the first Mersenne prime found using GPUs.

Very cool !! biology.brown.edu/news/2024-10-0…

Excited to share this new preprint with @spence_jeffrey_ and @DocEdge85 in which we developed a method to infer demographic history and mutation rates from millions of genomes, and applied it to gnomAD v4 data. Read on for a brief thread! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

How Many R’s are in the Word Strawberry?