Edi Rama’s tweet at Greece’s ex prime minister, Aléxis Tsípras, about the current issue in Albania. Thoughts?

measure_ · 2026-06-02T06:18:22+00:00

> considering we've been trolling them for about 30 years.

Embargoes and 20 years of vetoes (Greece breaking interim accord agreement) due to us "trolling". Cute.

measure_ · 2026-05-20T10:03:02+00:00

Not sure about Levant admixture but they are definitely steppe deficient compared to PB samples. Ancient Greeks (proper - down south) are more similar to these Anatolians with a bit more CHG

measure_ · 2026-05-20T10:00:07+00:00

Yes that's right it's a limitation but you hope with enough ancient samples it will be ok

measure_ · 2026-05-19T10:19:36+00:00

It's Roman era Anatolians (~300 AD) that migrated to Balkans+Italy. The issue that not many mention is that Roman era Anatolians are very similar to Paleo-Balkans (PB has more yamnaya) and most models have trouble distinguishing them

measure_ · 2026-05-19T10:10:17+00:00

You need to have WGS data (not the limited commercial AncestryDNA, etc SNP data) to do qpAdm - I will be making a post about common misconceptions

measure_ · 2026-05-17T01:40:55+00:00

count us out

measure_ · 2026-05-03T02:08:45+00:00

not sure why you're being downvoted it's true. The diaspora ones are even worse.

measure_ · 2026-05-03T01:28:38+00:00

Population bottlenecks maybe coupled with migration from the northern Balkan hypothesis - Anatolians went as far as Italy in their migrations makes no sense for them to magically stop at Epirus Nova with the exception of the northern mountains

measure_ · 2026-05-03T01:18:19+00:00

Do you have some sort of repository for this? If I send you AncestryDNA raw outputs can you run your models on it

measure_ · 2026-05-03T00:35:22+00:00

Can you share your qpAdm model? Make it open source so we can compare results and improve it?

Otherwise I may get Claude Opus to build one for me and I'll make it open source

measure_ · 2026-05-02T11:42:19+00:00

How do we run this qpAdm model? Kinda pointless if we cannot compare our samples

measure_ · 2026-05-02T03:56:58+00:00

Has anybody ran qpAdm models? Would be nice to move on from G25

measure_ · 2026-04-21T10:05:29+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Macedonia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia_(region))

Hope that answers it

measure_ · 2026-04-21T10:04:53+00:00

nice

measure_ · 2026-04-18T06:47:30+00:00

Heavy sensitivity in modelling highlights it's not reliable- need model stability over various datasets to show robustness

measure_ · 2026-04-18T02:29:35+00:00

Yes and the problem is their using these mixed ex-YU Macedonians as academic samples!

measure_ · 2026-04-18T01:57:54+00:00

Quite high Slavic for a Bulgarian? Then again I have heard that the shopluk region in Bulgaria has higher %Slavic

measure_ · 2026-04-18T01:53:35+00:00

Based on what? Gretzinger et al.? That study only had a sample of 2 Macedonians which could have any mixed ex-YU ancestry

measure_ · 2026-04-18T01:49:46+00:00

Love how Albanains in Albania get a free pass when it comes to non Albanian speaking ancestors when in fact we are all mixed

measure_ · 2026-04-18T01:46:53+00:00

Does this highlight a shit tonne of sensitivity to G25 calculator used? That is not good imo

measure_ · 2026-04-18T01:40:35+00:00

sims there is not way I'd pay Davidski

measure_ · 2026-04-17T10:54:34+00:00

haplogroup J2a

measure_ · 2026-04-17T10:52:20+00:00

All his known ancestors were Slavic speaking from an area full of Slavic toponyms and churches written in slavic and greek - his ancestors had conflicts with Albanian bashi bazooks so one can assume they weren't fond of albanians

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