Benjamin Vernot
@melanoidin
Scientist living in Germany, moving to Vienna soon! Population genetics, sediment/env DNA. Group leader @ MPI EVA, Prof @ Uni Wien. http://benvernot.bsky.social
I'm thrilled and honored to be awarded an @ERC_Research Consolidator grant! With the UNEARTH project we will develop new methodology for studying human DNA from sediments, and use that DNA as "forensic breadcrumbs" to trace social interactions in ancient societies.
Huge congrats to Benjamin Vernot @melanoidin, Max Planck Research Group leader @MPI_EVA_Leipzig, for being awarded an @ERC_Research Consolidator Grant #ERCCoG for his project UNEARTH Unearthing ancient social structures w/ sediment DNA! 🥳 @maxplanckpress tinyurl.com/bdhd54j8
USAID provides lifesaving funding across the world. Children are dying because Elon Musk wants to own the libs.
‘We Are in Disbelief’: Africa Reels as U.S. Aid Agency Is Dismantled The collapse of U.S.A.I.D. at the hands of President Trump and Elon Musk is already leaving gaping holes in vital health care and other services that millions of Africans rely on for their survival. For…
I'm beyond excited to share our new paper in Nature! We sequenced the first ancient human autosomal genomes from the Central Sahara, two ~7,000-year-old individuals from Takarkori in Libya, revealing a long-isolated North African lineage: nature.com/articles/s4158… Short thread: 1/n
Last chance to apply for this amazing funded PhD position in the Netherlands! If you're interested in ancient dna or cutting edge ecology research, take a look!
PhD position alert! My collaborator @AnnegretLarsen, is hiring for a funded PhD position combining river science with ancient sediment DNA research! This is an awesome project, based in the Netherlands, and co-advised by me.
PhD position alert! My collaborator @AnnegretLarsen, is hiring for a funded PhD position combining river science with ancient sediment DNA research! This is an awesome project, based in the Netherlands, and co-advised by me.
They are so impossibly out of control on this. 5 alarm fire.
Stunning interview with DHS deputy secretary Troy Edgar and Michel Martin just now. The conflation of protest and terrorism stopped me cold. npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-… @NPRMichel
Looking for a PhD in Evolutionary Anthropology? The University of Vienna is offering a 3-year position to study Pleistocene carnivore evolution in Spain—with the University of Cantabria! #PhDOpportunity
Please RT: New Postdoc position in my lab - with great collaborators in France @Klervia_Jaouen and Canada @cbataill - App deadline on March 25th Horses, climate change, the Americas... and more! Post-doc Position in paleogenomics and isotope geochemistry euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/320401
PhD position in archaeozoology and omics at the University of Vienna! 🤠🦊🐯🦁🐱🐰🐍🦬🐂🦣🐄 The student will be based in Vienna and co-supervised in Santander!
(1/9) I’m hiring! Join my ‘Terraform’ ERC project at the University of Malta, looking at the origin, evolution, and impacts of agricultural terracing in the Maltese Islands. Please circulate to anyone you think could be interested. Starting in the summer.
Are you a student at the University of Michigan? Apply to participate in our archaeological field school in Kazakhstan! @UMich @umichLSA #CentralAsia #Archaeology #Excavation #Science #BronzeAge #Kazakh #Kazakhstan lsa.umich.edu/ummaa/student-…
We are searching for a Master's Student/Intern to join the group for 6-12 months to work on large-scale bioimage analysis of complex human model system data! Please send your CV to: [email protected] #IHB
Join us in Turin @ISBA11_Torino. Submit your abstracts on methodological advances in biomolecular archaeology (and many other exciting topics) now!! 😊🙏
You asked and we listened! The ISBA11 abstract submission deadline has been extended to January 31st! Submit your abstract before time runs out! isba11.com/abstract-submi… #archaeology #biomoleculararchaeology #ISBA #ISBA11 #archaeologists
Good news, the deadline for ISBA11 has been extended until Jan 31st! Now you have no excuses not to submit an awesome sedaDNA abstract :)
The abstract submission deadline for ISBA11 is in four days: Jan 20th! Join us in Turin, Italy. Especially if you have a cool project on new sedaDNA methodology - computational, lab-focused, new data or re-analysis of published data - please submit it! Link below:
My wife's, Anna Patova's first PhD paper is finally out in Scientific Reports. Population genomics of deep see sponge, Vazella pourtalesii. Very proud! doi.org/10.1038/s41598…