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Maika Nguyen @maikanguyen.bsky.social · 9d

🖋️ really happy to be a part of @the4facedliar.bsky.social's upcoming issue - can't believe I was highly commended! I'm looking forward to reading the rest 📖

The Four Faced Liar @the4facedliar.bsky.social · 10d

Congratulations to the winning & Highly Commended authors of or Creative Non-Fiction competition chosen by judge Tim MacGabhann! Their work will be published in Issue 4. Thanks to all who entered @writing.ie @irishpen.bsky.social @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social

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Jolijn Erven @jolijnerven.bsky.social · 12d

Interested in goats 🐐? Read our pre-print on ancient Irish goats and their connection to the Old Irish goat breed

Just look at this dashing individual, courtesy of the Old Irish Goat society

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Iseult @iseultjackson.bsky.social · 18d

🦠💀🦠 Happy to share our (with @gunnar-u-neumann.bsky.social) new preprint on ancient Salmonella enterica genomes! We analysed 53 new genomes along with published ancient and modern datasets to learn about lineage replacements and host adaptation in prehistory: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Evolutionary history and recurrent host adaptation in ancient Salmonella enterica

Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica is an extremely diverse bacterial pathogen causing frequent infections and foodborne disease among human populations. More than 1500 different bacterial strains (se...

www.biorxiv.org

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Iseult @iseultjackson.bsky.social · 27d

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Maika Nguyen @maikanguyen.bsky.social · 27d

So my first ever article from my PhD, 'Returning to Home Water(s) in Nostalgie de la rizière by Anna Moï' 🌊🏠, has recently been published in a special issue! It explores Vietnamese diasporic writing, conceptions of home, and is available - open access - here:

Returning to Home Water(s) in Nostalgie de la rizière by Anna Moï: Ingenta Connect

www.ingentaconnect.com

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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · Sep 4

Second craziest thing you'll read today: from 2026 I will be leading an @erc.europa.eu Starter Grant project. HERDPATH will explore how livestock and their pathogens co-evolved during the last 10,000 years. PhD advertisements to come!

Press release below with one of the few good photos of me.

| UCD Research

www.ucd.ie

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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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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...

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Pooja Swali @poojaswali.bsky.social · May 22

Excited to announce our paper on ancient Borrelia genomes is finally out! 🦠💀We document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever, published today in @science.org‬ with @lucyvandorp.bsky.social and @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social #aDNA 🏺🧪🧬
Main findings and paper below: 🧵⬇️

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Pooja Swali @poojaswali.bsky.social · May 8

PhD opportunity on ancient humans and pathogens 🦠👀 🤩 #aDNA

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Ancient human and pathogen genomics at the insular edges of Eurasia at Trinity College Dublin on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Ancient human and pathogen genomics at the insular edges of Eurasia at Trinity College Dublin, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · Apr 26

The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail.

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

Séamas O'Reilly: Trans people have spent a decade being attacked in a moral panic

The poor provision of unisex children’s facilities— which reinforces gender stereotypes and inconveniences women and men both — was, incidentally, an issue I remember being quite talked-about a decade...

www.irishexaminer.com

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · Apr 24

The way the algorithms keep us hemmed into a handful of news stories has really been bothering me recently www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Patrick Freyne: Returning home from Chad, I feel there’s a glitch in western empathy

The Sudan war is the world’s biggest humanitarian disaster, but it seems our human compassion is taken up by other conflicts

www.irishtimes.com

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Jolijn Erven @jolijnerven.bsky.social · Apr 21

🐐 New preprint out with @gingerhowley.bsky.social The VarGoats Consortium and many others!
We explore how genotype imputation can enhance low-coverage ancient goat/Capra🐐 genomes, shedding light on early domestication and herd management.

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

#aDNA #Domestication

Inferring domestic goat demographic history through ancient genome imputation

Goats were among the earliest managed animals, making them a natural model to explore the genetic consequences of domestication. However, a challenge in ancient genomic analysis is the relatively low ...

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SPAAM @spaam-community.bsky.social · Apr 14

#AncientMetagenomeDir is expanding to include C14 dating & detailed archaeological/historical info for all samples! 📜✨

🗓️ Join our Hackathon on April 29th from 10-17 CEST and contribute to this groundbreaking project! 🙌

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SPAAM @spaam-community.bsky.social · Apr 9

🚨 New release of #AncientMetagenomeDir! (v25.03.0, Historic Centre of Cordoba)
github.com/SPAAM-commun...
It is a community resource of #metadata of >2K shotgun-sequenced #AncientMetagenome or ancient microbial genome enriched samples & >5K libraries. Stats below (🧵 1/5)

Release v25.03: Historic Centre of Cordoba · SPAAM-community/AncientMetagenomeDir

Release v25.03.0 includes 8 new publications, representing 132 new ancient host-associated metagenome samples, 33 new ancient microbial genomes, and 0 new ancient environmental samples. This brings...

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Nada Salem @nadasalem.bsky.social · Apr 2

I'm beyond excited to share our new paper in Nature! We sequenced the first ancient human autosomal genomes from the Central Sahara, two ~7,000-year-old individuals from Takarkori in Libya, revealing a long-isolated North African lineage: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here's a short thread: (1/n)

Ancient DNA from the Green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage - Nature

Pastoralism spread through cultural diffusion into the Green Sahara, where an isolated, distinct North African ancestry persisted.

www.nature.com

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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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Jolijn Erven @jolijnerven.bsky.social · Mar 18

Interested in human-pig-boar interactions? Read our new paper on human-pig-boar relationships in Neolithic Europe 🐷🐗🧬.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Archaeogenomic insights into commensalism and regional variation in pig management in Neolithic northwest Europe | PNAS

The relationship between humans and pigs has changed dramatically since their domestication in southwest Asia and subsequent human-induced introduc...

www.pnas.org

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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · Mar 18

How did Europe's first farmers interact with their pigs and local wild boar? @jolijnerven.bsky.social has a new paper addressing just that using 11 ancient suis genomes!

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Archaeogenomic insights into commensalism and regional variation in pig management in Neolithic northwest Europe | PNAS

The relationship between humans and pigs has changed dramatically since their domestication in southwest Asia and subsequent human-induced introduc...

www.pnas.org

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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · Feb 11

We really want this to be an event that ECRs can share their research in front of a friendly audience of other animal palaeogenomics enthusiasts. Please, the more weird and wonderful the submissions the better! #aDNA

AaRC @aarc-community.bsky.social · Feb 11

Abstract submission is open for the online #AaRConference! Join us and invited speakers Laurent Frantz and Evon Hekkala on May 30th to present your research about animal #aDNA and discuss them with the community. All topics #aDNA related are welcomed! 🧪🧬🏺

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i-light-maka.bsky.social @i-light-maka.bsky.social · Feb 10

Finally getting some of my research for my PhD out there! Hopefully soon in a journal near you ;)

Ancient Y. pestis infection from a sheep falls on the LNBA lineage, previously only known from humans! +molecular evolutionary analysis to leverage the ever increasing number of ancient genomes known!

Felix M Key @keyfm.bsky.social · Feb 10

Many zoonotic diseases are believed to have emerged during prehistory, but can we actually identify their past host range using ancient DNA? In the first publication of the Key Lab we present a 4000y old Yersinia pestis genome reconstructed from domesticated sheep. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Bronze Age Yersinia pestis genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineage

Most human pathogens are of zoonotic origin. Many emerged during prehistory, coinciding with domestication providing more opportunities for spillover from original host species. However, we lack direc...

www.biorxiv.org

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Jeremy BOO! Yoder 🎃💀🕷️ @jbyoder.org · Feb 10

“So why would I go through the pretense of peer review if the process is ultimately outsourced to an algorithm? I do not care for the aesthetics of peer review. We are not children playing academics. We are supposed to be doing substantive, not performative work.”

Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · Feb 10

We finally got a ChatGPT generated review on a manuscript. So I wrote about how we handle these reviews is a sign of whether we have given up on peer review altogether.

Vol. 24 - Here is a revised version of your review with improved clarity

ChatGPT is not my peer. It should not review my papers.

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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · Feb 5

Very cool work on recent demographic history in Ireland and Britain - congratulations Ashwini Shanmugam and Ross Byrne!

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

A genetic perspective on the recent demographic history of Ireland and Britain - European Journal of Human Genetics

European Journal of Human Genetics - A genetic perspective on the recent demographic history of Ireland and Britain

www.nature.com

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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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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...

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Arev P. Sümer @arevsumer.bsky.social · Dec 12

I am very happy to share our new paper on the genetics of some of the first modern humans who ever lived in Europe! We sequenced nuclear DNA from 13 specimens from Ranis in Germany, and found that they belonged to at least 6 individuals. www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/n)

Earliest modern human genomes constrain timing of Neanderthal admixture - Nature

Nature - Earliest modern human genomes constrain timing of Neanderthal admixture

www.nature.com

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