Stephan Schiffels

Command line tools are essential in many computational fields of science, not the least because command lines are often the only interface… Read more

Update: Since the summer of 2020, my website has undergone a further upgrade to gatsby , another static site generator that builds more… Read more

Working in academia comes with unique freedoms and challenges. I would argue that in no other job we have so much freedom to define our own… Read more

This post appeared originally on the Nature Ecology & Evolution Community blog . Reference: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-01… Read more

We recently advertised 16 new PhD positions within our newly founded Max Planck Research School for the Science of Human History , an… Read more

von Stephan Schiffels und Andrej Fischer Vorhersagen von Wahlergebnissen aufgrund von Umfragen gehören zum Standardgeschäft des politischen… Read more

Note: The Equation rendering does not work currently. I'm working on a fix So, I am reading this book called “Probability Theory; The logic… Read more

In my last blog post I have shown how we estimated the Anglo-Saxon genetic contribution to modern English from rare variants. Here I’ll show… Read more

Human history is deeply imprinted in our genomes, through patterns of common ancestry. These patterns can be studied by looking at mutations… Read more

This is a response to a creationist’s post on Human evolution , in which I found so many flaws that I have to at least correct the most… Read more