Thrilled to see this out in Bioinformatics! AdDeam is a powerful tool to rapidly estimate aDNA damage from BAM files and cluster them to flag outliers—great for large/small aDNA projects and ancient metagenomics to find contigs likely to be modern. Great work by Louis Kraft!
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Let me be clear, de-extinction of moa is a pipe dream that will not result in a moa...at most they will produce the equivalent of a genetically modified emu that will not be a good proxy of a moa. You can see more expert commentary here predatorfreenz.org/research/exp... 2/3

Our latest work is out! Ancient DNA from Danube sturgeon fossils dating back 10,000 years reveals that, despite centuries of decline, some populations have preserved high genetic diversity and ancient lineages. doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
@royalsociety.org @lukeeholman.bsky.social

Calling out the recent announcement by Colossal Biosciences, Canterbury Museum, & the Ngai Tahu Research Centre regarding moa de-extinction for what it is....a pipe dream. On the front page of the Otago Daily Times no less.

Postdoctoral Position in Wildlife Palaeogenomics!

Come join us in beautiful Stockholm!

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1/12 - New in @science.org !
☠️ Curious of what happened to Yersinia pestis, the bacterium responsible for the Black Death, throughout plague pandemics?
Check out our new study 👇
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

aDNA/aeDNA folks: tired of eyeballing hundreds of damage plots? I am excited to introduce AdDeam—a tool to rapidly generate damage profiles, cluster them, and spot outliers. Great for large sample sets or flagging modern contigs in ancient metagenomics assemblies. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Attention ancient environmental DNA folks. In our recent preprint, we provide coordinates of microbial-like regions (contaminated or evolutionary conserved or convergent) for 4,294 eukaryotic reference genomes.

🚀 Excited to share our new paper:
“Navigating Past Oceans: Comparing #Metabarcoding and #Metagenomics of Marine Ancient Sediment eDNA”

DOI: doi.org/10.1111/1755...

We dive into 8,000 years of marine life from Skagerrak sediments to show what different tools tell us about past #oceans! 🌊🧬

3-y postdoc position in (meta)Genomics of Population Declines elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid.... If you have experience with low-coverage genomic data, care about biodiversity loss, want to understand host-microbiomes interactions, this post is for you! #museomics #ancientDNA #mammals

Von Adenauer bis Merkel haben konservative Kanzler sich stets in den Dienst Europas gestellt. Doch Friedrich Merz ist dabei, eine Mehrheit mit erklärten EU-Feinden – mit der in Teilen gesichert rechtsextremen AfD – zu bilden. Dieses Verhalten macht Europa kaputt.

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Next week we will got back to our schedule of #AaRCTikTalks, and this year starts strong with a talk about the population genomics of the extinct Darwin ground sloths of Chile and another about the salmon fisheries of the Coast Salish #aDNA 🧪🏺🧬

Very excited (and a bit nervous) to announce that I will be hiring two Postdocs for my new group(!) in Copenhagen to study the Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA which survives in present-day humans. Retweet will be much appreciated :)

Link for application:
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The 3rd Ancient Environmental Genomics PhD course (2025) is now open for registration. This has been a true pleasure to teach (and hard work) both times. Come join us and have a week of in-depth hands-on work with ancient metagenomic data and the latest analysis tools. phdcourses.dk/Course/124659

Tagging our seminar speaker @maridehasque.bsky.social

Join us for monthly ancient animal genomics seminar!

New PhD studentship opportunity in my lab & with collaborators from the Pinniped Genomes Consortium. Come help us unravel the genomics of seal physiological super powers! Closing date 6th January 2025 🧪🦭🧬🌍🦑🐳 #marine #mammals
#consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution
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