Percy Ho

4 revisions later & almost a year in the making, our latest work on horses is finally out! @HorsepowerERCUK @CagToulouse @CNRSecologie @CNRS_Toulouse @CNRS @UT3PaulSabatier Widespread horse-based mobility arose around 2,200 BCE in Eurasia nature.com/articles/s4158… 1/2

My latest review has been published in @jitcancer! Can't wait for you all to check it out and share your thoughts. @Oncolytics_oxon @OxfordOncology @OxfordCancer

In our study published today in @ScienceMagazine, we provide a proof of concept for the potential use of ancient microbes as a source for developing new drugs by synthesising previously unknown metabolites from reconstructed gene clusters. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Ancient #DNA reveals the #multiethnic structure of the #Xiongnu, Mongolia’s first nomadic empire. New paper by Juhyeon Lee & an intl. team of scientists led by Christina Warinner @WarinnerGroup & Choongwon Jeong @SNUnow. More: bit.ly/403Vvqg & science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Intl. research team has sequenced the #genome of #Beethoven using five genetically matching locks of his hair. It offers clues to the composer's health & family history. Johannes Krause @MPI_EVA_Leipzig contributed to the study. bit.ly/3Tz9aE0 & doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…

The Amazing #Archaeology Fair is back on 3/26! Visit us and the @peabodymuseum to meet archaeologists studying ancient mummies, ancient DNA analysis, and more. Don't forget to stop by our museum to check a reproduction of #KingTut’s throne! bit.ly/AmazingArchFai… #BostonEvents

Relatedness inference with low-coverage ancient DNA data is still a hard problem. Today, we posted a preprint presenting a new method called KIN that identifies close relatives up to 3rd-degree while differentiating parent-child from siblings: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… (1/3)

Our new paper on the oldest human DNA from the UK, showing there were 2 different genetic ancestries present in Britain in the Late Glacial period, is now out! nature.com/articles/s4155…

Many thanks to Sunday @mingpaocom for sharing my thoughts and studies on Hong Kong's museums. news.mingpao.com/pns/%e5%89%af%…

In case anyone needs to see a @NobelPrize winner get tossed into a pond :) Congratulations, Svante!

Speechless! HAPPY! Pinching ourselves! #NobelPrize2022 in Physiology or Medicine😁🥳😃🙃🤗😊🤗🙃🥳😃😁😀 🥳😃😁😀🙃🤗😊😆🤣😆Svante Pääbo @MPI_EVA_Leipzig 😆😊🤗@maxplanckpress 🙃😀😁😃🥳😃😀🙃🤗😊🤣😆🤣😊😊🤗🤗🙃🥳😀😆🤗😊🙃🥳😃😀😆😊🤗🙃🙂😄😲😀😁😃🥳🙃🤗😊🤗🙃🥳😃😁😀😲🥳😊 🥳

So, kids in bed, can finally tweet about our paper that came out today: nature.com/articles/s4158… And since it's trendy, let me take a stab at this thread-thing. 1/11

Special thanks to @HaraldRingbauer @ArchaeoHermes @WarinnerGroup for everything you’ve done for me, and also a big thank you to all my wonderful colleagues at EVA. Farewell for now, and hopefully see you again soon!

After an amazing year at the @MPI_EVA_Leipzig, I am moving to @HarvardAnthro to continue my graduate studies. Here is a collage of my fondest memories during my stay:

how it started how it's going

Glad to share our newly published hapCon, a new method for estimating contamination for ancient male modern humans. academic.oup.com/bioinformatics…

Finally! Our paper on ancient Yersinia pestis is out! What a great team effort! Thank you to all coauthors but specially to my first shared coauthors @gunnar_neumann @ma_spyrou Lyazzat Musralina! You can read it here: pnas.org/doi/full/10.10… Short summary: (1/5)

This is what happens when there are no archaeologists, biological anthropologists, or paleoanthropologists involved in genetic studies of past peoples: claims that lower HDL cholesterol led to “increased intelligence” alongside “reduced skin pigmentation” sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/…

This is a very special paper to me, small dataset, but it is data from home!! 🥲🥲 #StableIsotope study shows #Neolithic people in #HongKong ate an extremely marine diet!! 🐟🎣🦈🐠🦐 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #archaeology #HongKongArchaeology #MarineAdaptation #IslandArchaeology

Our paper on the Grotte Mandrin (France), is out. We show that Homo sapiens made the so-called "Neronian" Palaeolithic industry there ~54,000 years ago. This is the earliest evidence we have in this part of the world for modern humans. advances.sciencemag.org