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Anahit Hovhannisyan @anahit19.bsky.social · 1d

Huge congratulations to Zhe and everyone involved! 😊

Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge @eegcam.bsky.social · 1d

#newpreprint: "Climate Shaped the Global Population Structure of Leopards and their Extinction in Europe": www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...! Leopards are charming big cats but there are many mysteries around them. Thread 🧵

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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · Sep 5

I will be recruiting two PhDs for my ERC Project HERDPATH - let's discover out how livestock and pathogens evolved together using #aDNA. Projects will be animal or pathogen focused but will be in dialogue.

Details at my quaint website below. Deadline 3rd October.

kevingdaly.github.io

Ruminant Palaeogenomics - Kevin G. Daly: Ruminant Palaeogenomics

kevingdaly.github.io

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Anahit Hovhannisyan @anahit19.bsky.social · Sep 3

Our new paper shows how a multidisciplinary approach (ancient proteins + DNA) reveals the long history of dairy in Armenia! 🥛🐄

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Palaeoproteomic and genetic insights into millennial-scale dairy consumption in Armenia

Dairy products are a key component of the diet in Armenia today, yet the origins of milk consumption, its historical development, and genetic adaptations related to milk digestion in the region remain...

www.biorxiv.org

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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · Aug 27

Shameless promotion from #isba11 - I'll be hiring PhDs to start early 2026 (plus postdocs starting later), using #adna to study livestock and pathogen coevolution, particularly looking at inbreeding and immune gene evolution!

Contact me at kevin[at]palaeome.org, full ad to come. Please share!

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Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge @eegcam.bsky.social · Aug 7

Check the package website for more information, example workflows, benchmarking and ideas on how to use tidygenclust: github.com/EvolEcolGrou...

GitHub - EvolEcolGroup/tidygenclust: R package providing a tidy interface to clustering in population genetics, building on top of `tidypopgen`

R package providing a tidy interface to clustering in population genetics, building on top of `tidypopgen` - EvolEcolGroup/tidygenclust

github.com

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Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge @eegcam.bsky.social · Aug 7

🚨🧬New #preprint and R package from the lab out in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social🧬🚨: 'tidygenclust' combines the functionality of ADMIXTURE, fastmixture and Clumppling into R - allowing for reproducible clustering analyses and plotting all in one place!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

tidygenclust: Clustering for Population Genetics in R

Background Population structure analysis is crucial for evolutionary research and medical genomics. Clustering methods, broadly categorized as model-based (e.g. ADMIXTURE) or non-model-based (e.g. SCO...

www.biorxiv.org

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Marco Capodiferro @marcocapo.bsky.social · Jul 24

Turns out imputation of introgressed archaic regions in aDNA works really well — sometimes even better than for the rest of the genome. More on this (and other cool results) in our new preprint 👇 #aDNA #ArchaicIntrogression #imputation
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Archaic ancestry inference in imputed ancient human genomes

When modern humans expanded from Africa into Eurasia, they interbred with archaic hominins such as Neanderthals and Denisovans. This groundbreaking discovery, made in part possible through the genomic...

doi.org

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Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge @eegcam.bsky.social · Jun 20

We are excited to announce that tidypopgen – a new package for rapid population genetic workflows in R – is now available at evolecolgroup.github.io/tidypopgen/ 🧬💻 Read more in the preprint describing its features here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #popgen #Rpackage #genetics 1/2

Tidy Population Genetics

We provide a tidy grammar of population genetics, facilitating the manipulation and analysis of data on biallelic single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). `tidypopgen` scales to very large genetic data...

evolecolgroup.github.io

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Anahit Hovhannisyan @anahit19.bsky.social · Jun 18

Congrats, @mikleonardi.bsky.social !!!! So so happy and proud to see this out!!!! 😍

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Margherita Colucci @margheritac17.bsky.social · Jun 9

🚨 NEW preprint🚨 Our latest study @HPS MPI-GEA @elliescerri.bsky.social & @eegcam.bsky.social models #malaria risk over the past 74,000 years revealing its powerful role in shaping human habitat choice and dispersal since the late Pleistocene in sub-Saharan Africa 🦟🌍 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Malaria shaped human spatial organisation for the last 74 thousand years

The mechanisms driving the spatial organisation of early human societies in Africa are typically addressed through climate variables [1][1]-[3][2]. However, genetic and archaeological studies have als...

www.biorxiv.org

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Anahit Hovhannisyan @anahit19.bsky.social · Jun 18

Massive congrats to the team on this amazing paper!
So happy for everyone involved!!👏

Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge @eegcam.bsky.social · Jun 18

#newpaper now out in @nature.com!
A huge expansion of the human niche in Africa ~70 kya likely equipped later #outofAfrica dispersals with a unique ecological flexibility.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
led by Emily Hallett, @mikleonardi.bsky.social, Andrea Manica, @elliescerri.bsky.social 1/4

Major expansion in the human niche preceded out of Africa dispersal - Nature

Analysis of species distribution models in a pan-African database comprising chronometrically dated archaeological sites over the past 120,000 years shows major expansion in the human niche from 70 ka...

www.nature.com

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Anahit Hovhannisyan @anahit19.bsky.social · May 24

Check out our new paper providing new insights into the Chalcolithic Armenia through a multiproxy approach (and more to come!)

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A biomolecular perspective on mobile pastoralism and its role in wider socioeconomic connections in the Chalcolithic South Caucasus

Mobile pastoralism is widely evoked when discussing technological developments, resource procurement, trans-regional interactions, and exchange networ…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Anahit Hovhannisyan @anahit19.bsky.social · May 23

A huge congratulations to @ceciliapad.bsky.social and @eegcam.bsky.social! 🤗👏

Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias @ceciliapad.bsky.social · May 23

🚨NEW PAPER from the @eegcam.bsky.social!🚨I have never been as proud of something as of the work that finally we can share today: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... - we show how a climatically driven Pan African meta population model explains our species genetic and morphological diversity 🧬💀

Pan-African metapopulation model explains Homo sapiens genetic and morphological evolution

Emerging evidence has challenged the traditional view of a single-region origin for Homo sapiens, suggesting instead that our species arose and diversified across multiple geographically distinct popu...

www.biorxiv.org

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Anahit Hovhannisyan @anahit19.bsky.social · May 17

I have officially started my new scholarship. Grateful to @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de for funding and to @brad-dan.bsky.social for the support!

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Anahit Hovhannisyan @anahit19.bsky.social · Mar 27

Apply to become part of an amazing team! 👇

Marco Capodiferro @marcocapo.bsky.social · Mar 27

🎓 PhD Position Available in the Population and Evolutionary Genetics group at Trinity College Dublin ☘️ . More details👇

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Anahit Hovhannisyan @anahit19.bsky.social · Jan 30

New insights on the domestication of sheep from @gingerhowley.bsky.social ! 🐑

Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · Jan 30

Thread and open access version to come-
Ancient genomics and the origin, dispersal, and development of domestic sheep | Science search.app/gtSKYHF5HqRa...

#adna

Ancient genomics and the origin, dispersal, and development of domestic sheep

The origins and prehistory of domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are incompletely understood; to address this, we generated data from 118 ancient genomes spanning 12,000 years sampled from across Eurasia. Ge...

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Marco Capodiferro @marcocapo.bsky.social · Jan 16

Science, future and Guinness!
@lindaongaro.bsky.social @anahit19.bsky.social

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Dan Bradley @brad-dan.bsky.social · Jan 15

Delighted that our new paper on female-centred kinship in Celtic Britain is out in Nature

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

www.nature.com

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Anahit Hovhannisyan @anahit19.bsky.social · Jan 12

@eegcam.bsky.social 🥰

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Anahit Hovhannisyan @anahit19.bsky.social · Jan 11

Thank you @ajhgnews.bsky.social for the opportunity to talk about our recent paper and also share my story!

American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) @geneticssociety.bsky.social · Jan 10

@ajhgnews.bsky.social sat with @anahit19.bsky.social in the latest "Inside AJHG" to discuss her recently published paper, “Demographic history and genetic variation of the Armenian population.”

➡️ www.ashg.org/ajhg/inside-... #ASHG #GeneticsDiscoveries #HumanGenetics

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Anahit Hovhannisyan @anahit19.bsky.social · Dec 24

Lovely picture!! 🤗

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Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge @eegcam.bsky.social · Dec 10

#ICYM we recently took part in a cool @science.org #paper about population connectivity and #cumulativeculture in chimpanzee! Congratulations to the authors including our postdoc @ceciliapad.bsky.social!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#anthropology #popgen

Population connectivity shapes the distribution and complexity of chimpanzee cumulative culture

Although cumulative culture is a hallmark of hominin evolution, its origins can be traced back to our common ancestor with chimpanzees. Here, we investigated the evolutionary origins of chimpanzee cum...

www.science.org

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Anahit Hovhannisyan @anahit19.bsky.social · Dec 4

@eegcam.bsky.social 🥰

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Anahit Hovhannisyan @anahit19.bsky.social · Dec 4

Thank you to everyone from @eegcam.bsky.social ! Nothing would be possible without you 😊

Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge @eegcam.bsky.social · Dec 3

As we just joined, here is a quick catch-up about our most recent #research!

Last week @anahit19.bsky.social had her paper on the #popgen of #Armenia finally published (it took a while...)! 34 new #genomes and lots of new info on the genetic #history of the region!

www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex...

Demographic history and genetic variation of the Armenian population

A whole-genome study of Armenians shows homogeneous genetic structure across the region, with a recent bottleneck explaining the distinctiveness of the Sasun population. Our findings reject the Balkan...

www.cell.com

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Anahit Hovhannisyan @anahit19.bsky.social · Nov 29

Thank you! 🙂