Turi King
British & Canadian geneticist/genealogy/forensics/archaeology #DNAFamilySecrets, #RichardIII DNA gal, Television/podcast presenter. Professor of Genetics and Public Engagement in Science, Agent: http://josarsby.com
- You will not believe what arrived today! Squeak! Nothing less than #SystonKnittingBanxy's @richard-third.bsky.social! He's amazing! So touched! Have taken him to see @uniofbath.bsky.social & @milnerevolution.bsky.social He now has pride of place on my desk! 😍
- It was a great pleasure to host Richard Dawkins at the Edinburgh Science Festival last night where we chatted about his latest book, The Genetic Book of the Dead. It’s an excellent introduction to his work if you’ve never read any of his books before, and beautifully illustrated by Jana Lenzová.
- Somehow feels extra important to vote this time round. 🇨🇦 #CanadaVotes2025
- Looooook at this! It’s Richard III by Syston Knitting Banxy! Obviously like to think that he would have been so chuffed to see himself in knitted form! 🤩
- Yaaaaaay! They’ve changed it!! I know a bunch of you wrote in. Huge thanks to you all! Honestly, sometimes I wonder what century we’re in. 😍
- Lovely to be quoted but how come ‘Ms’ King, not Dr or Prof? Being quoted in my professional capacity as the scientist who led the identification of the remains of King Richard III. Notice male Prof gets his title.😉 #everydaysexism www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Lovely to be quoted but how come ‘Ms’ King, not Dr or Prof? Being quoted in my professional capacity as the scientist who led the identification of the remains of King Richard III. Notice male Prof gets his title.😉 #everydaysexism www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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- I’ve copied in the journalist on X. Hopefully he’ll change it. Not sure what century this is! Feel like back in the 1950s!
- Honoured to help The Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit by explaining about how familial DNA testing works as they carry out a cold case investigation (Op. Otterington) into a 1991 rape. If you have information, contact herts.police.uk/contact youtu.be/nUsqlcKPzmg?...
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- I agree. It would be sensible to use in certain cases. You’ll no doubt have seen we use the same basic methodology for the work done on DNA Family Secrets on the BBC.
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- You’re right, usually just first degree relatives but I’m aware that sometimes, if there is a rare STR allele involved, they will add that to the mix of making lists of people with profiles that look similar enough to be of interest.
- Well this is rather nice. My podcast, which my husband and I basically do in spare time, has been named as one of best 100 genetics podcasts. 😊🧬 www.millionpodcasts.com/Genetics-pod...
- An excellent response by @adamrutherford.bsky.social to the latest attempt to de-extinct mammoths. I also wonder who gets to decide which species they target for attempted de-extinction. I see they’re also going for the Dodo… 👇
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- I spotted that! Good ol’ @adamrutherford.bsky.social 😊
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- 😂 Meanwhile “we’d like to de-extinct this really cute, fluffy miniature bunny” “Come on in! My, that is cute! I reckon we could sell cuddly toys based on that!” * note: I have literally no idea if there are any cute but extinct bunnies.
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- Someone somewhere is going going, “sorry insert-extinct-animal-name-here, you just don’t have that ‘wow’ factor we’re looking for”
- I had the absolute pleasure of nattering with my lovely mate @bengarrod.bsky.social for the @milnerevolution.bsky.social podcast.Hear about his career and love of all things evolution here: youtu.be/eX4AMXxWEvw?...
- It's Evolutionary Fact Friday! People often think that evolution is directional, it's aiming for something ever better. It's not. It's much more complex than that! Listen to the rather wonderful @bengarrod.bsky.social talk about his evolution misconception bugbears here YouTube youtu.be/eX4AMXxWEvw
- Soooooo much writing to do!
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- Sadly not. 😔
- Patricia Cornwall has had an interest in the Ripper case for years & we’ve chatted numerous times. If it’s one thing I know about her, it’s that she wants rigorous scientific study & that’s definitely not been the case with the shawl supposedly associated with the Catherine Eddowes murder. 👇
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- I will eventually watch it. I just cringe at watching myself!
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- Definitely! I filmed for this. Knew it was about the Princes in the Tower but that was about it! I may well be on the cutting room floor. 😊
- Working on something! Out next spring! Watch this space. 😊🎧
- Morning run in Bath - route down by the river is a bit damp after storm Bert! 🏃🏻♀️
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- Always love beetling around Bath! 😊
- Bath getting its sparkle on. 😊✨
- Such sad news. It was reading Colin Renfrew’s books that lead me to read Arch and Anth at Jesus College, Cambridge where he was Master. He was a fantastic lecturer and so kind and generous with his time. The end of an era.
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- Oh my goodness! When? He was Master at my College when I was reading Arch and Anth at Cambridge. He was the whole reason I went there.
- Ooooo, our podcast Head Number 7 has made @thetimes.com list of best podcasts of the week! Have so enjoyed working on this with @ailsarochester.bsky.social and the Audio Always team! 😊 www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...
- I'm going to be speaking to A-level, BTEC and T-level Biology students today at @edu_in_action! Hoping to inspire them with to continue in biology by regaling them with a tale of how DNA🧬 helped identify a King. 😊 👑 educationinaction.org.uk/study-day/bi... @uniofbath.bsky.social
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- Time travel? 😉
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- Ah, that was me being a doughnut! I definitely don’t fit that one. So great to see you’ve got one going! 😊
- Hi everyone. I'm fairly new here so thought I would introduce myself. My background is in archaeology & then genetics so now I use genetics to answer questions in history & archaeology. I led the identification of King Richard III. I also do telly/radio presenting eg. BBC DNA Family Secrets. 😊🧬
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- I would love that! 😊
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- Bahahaha! 😂
- A big update about the lovely Viv from #DNAFamilySecrets. She came to the programme to find her sister, who I found. But what we didn't show was that it showed that Viv's dad wasn't who she thought it was. Listen to what happened next: youtu.be/XCZHKHb-VuM?... Or wherever you get your podcasts
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- It’s a bit of a plot twist!
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- Oooo can you add me to any scicomms list? 😊
- Ooooo! Can you add me? :)
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- Happy to join. 😊
- One of the things about working at the University of Bath is that it means that this is the sort of view I get when I go for a morning run. 🏃🏻♀️😊
- Got anything on on Monday evening? I'm giving a talk in Bristol at St George's Bristol on Nov 11th at 7pm! Come hear me chat about surnames, genetics, genealogy and, of course, Richard III 😊🧬 Tickets here ⬇️ www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk/whats-on/pro...
- So lovely to have been at the Grierson Trust documentary #GriersonAwards tonight having been a judge for one of the categories this year. Also got to see the lovely Stacey Dooley receive her Trustee’s Award. So well deserved! 😊
- It’s out! I’ve been in cahoots with the rather fabulous Ailsa Rochester making this new podcast series, #HeadNo7 about the Harvard morgue scandal for Audio Always. You can listen to Eps 1&2 on Wondery+ @wonderyak.bsky.social Link here: wondery.com/links/head-n...
- This is coming out soooooon! You can listen to me host the #truecrime podcast Head Number 7 by @audioalways for @WonderyMedia about the Harvard morgue case. The trail is here! 👇 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...
- Just had a ‘memory’ come up. This time last year the rather wonderful #StaceyDooley, the amazing team at Minnow Films, gorgeous little Minnie, and I were filming series 3 of #BBC #DNAFamilySecrets. So hope we get recommissioned! I’m so proud of the programme: we work so hard on it. 😊🧬
- For those of you who watched the lovely Jean's story on Series 3 of #DNAFamilySecrets, I caught up with her to find out what happened after the programme went out. She's such a kind and generous lady: tissues at the ready! 😊🧬 You can listen to the podcast here: www.podbean.com/eas/pb-aa32u...
- Very busy day yesterday starting with meeting Science Museum with the lovely @RogerHighfield followed by speaking at #FOG2024 and then getting to have a rather public fireside chat with wonderful Louis Theroux
- Busy couple of days at Leicester graduations last week. Got to hang out with some of coolest women ever! Did orations for Helen Sharman, first Briton in space & lovely friend, the multi-talented Alice Roberts, at a ceremony presided over by our Chancellor, the wonderful Maggie Aderin-Pocock
