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Katie Solari @kasolari.bsky.social · 1d

Very excited to share that our work assessing the genomic diversity of snow leopards has come out today in PNAS! Spoiler alert - they have the lowest genetic diversity of all big cats!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Exceedingly low genetic diversity in snow leopards due to persistently small population size | PNAS

Snow leopards (Panthera uncia) serve as an umbrella species whose conservation benefits their high-elevation Asian habitat. Their numbers are belie...

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ICP2026 Stockholm @palaeogenomics.bsky.social · 8d

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Abstract submission is now open for the 1st International Conference on Palaeogenomics!

June 23–26 2026, in Stockholm.

Join researchers from across the field for 4 days and >100 talks (+ poster sessions)!

Submit abstracts here 👉
icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/abstracts/

Deadline: Nov 30th

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Jolijn Erven @jolijnerven.bsky.social · 10d

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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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 11d

Very happy to see our pre-print on ancient Irish goat genetics on bioRxiv #aDNA #spiergorm

I want to acknowledge this was only possible through the work of the late Dr. Judith Findlater, along with Prof. Eileen Murphy at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social.

Old Goats: 3,000 years of genetic connectivity of the domestic goat in Ireland

The domestic goat likely first arrived to the island of Ireland as part of the introduction of agriculture approximately 5,900 years ago, and remains a part of the island's biocultural heritage. Howev...

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Pedro @hjorvik.bsky.social · 20d

Duncan ha recreado todo lo que cargaba Ötzi, el hombre encontrado momificado en los Alpes (video de @pakozoic.bsky.social aquí: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSlz...) a escala de Playmovil. Creo que este es mi hilo favorito en todo BlueSky.

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Torsten Günther @trstngnthr.bsky.social · 22d

I have funding for a 2-year dry-lab postdoc to join our team @humanevouu.bsky.social 🧪 (Deadline Oct 21st)

The project will utilize modern and #aDNA data from humans and sheep to study environmental adaptation (including method development and simulations).

Please share!
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Postdoctoral position in Population Genomics - Uppsala University

Postdoctoral position in Population Genomics, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University

www.uu.se

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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 24d

A small thing but this is probably the only point in my career my extended family will half know what I do (thanks to the Meath Chronicle).

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Rosi Fregel @rfregel.bsky.social · Sep 9

Denisovan mitochondrial DNA from dental calculus of the >146,000-year-old Harbin cranium www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Denisovan mitochondrial DNA from dental calculus of the >146,000-year-old Harbin cranium

A mitochondrial genome from Middle Pleistocene hominin dental calculus from northeastern China clusters with mtDNAs of early Denisovan individuals in Siberia, linking a nearly complete cranium to Deni...

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Mick Westbury @mick2474.bsky.social · Sep 9

🦣🍖🧬 Fully funded 3-yr PhD in palaeogenomics & bioinformatics! Help me push non-model palaeogenomes beyond their limits @DTU in Denmark.

Start: Feb 2026 (flexible)
Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025

For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPhD

Reposts appreciated 😁

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Rosi Fregel @rfregel.bsky.social · Sep 8

Polygenic prediction of human complex traits using ancient DNA www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Polygenic prediction of human complex traits using ancient DNA

Ancient DNA has revolutionized our understanding of human history and clarified many aspects of human evolution on a molecular level. In this article,…

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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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Rosi Fregel @rfregel.bsky.social · Sep 4

Awesome news!!! Congrats Kevin!!

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ISBA - Intl. Soc. for Biomolecular Archaeology @isbarchaeology.bsky.social · Aug 29

What a week! 🎉 Big thanks to @isba11.bsky.social for hosting an incredible ISBA conference — so well organized and full of great science.

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Federico Sánchez Quinto @fsanchezquinto.bsky.social · Aug 29

Thrilled to share our study sequencing genetic data from tropical mammoths 🏝️🦣. First DNA recovered from Columbian mammoths southern than USA shorturl.at/xjIvy. Thanks to all collaborators, you were key to this success! See below a fantastic note covering the paper by the great @rpocisv.bsky.social 👇

Columbian mammoth mitogenomes from Mexico uncover the species’ complex evolutionary history

Paleogenomic studies suggest that Mammuthus columbi derives from an ancient hybridization between Mammuthus primigenius and Mammuthus trogontherii. While its habitat spanned from North to Central Amer...

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Palesa @palaeoprotpalesa.bsky.social · Aug 28

The science is amazing and what’s even more impressive is Ice lollies at #ISBA11 💕💕💕 😂😂😂

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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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ISBA11 Turin @isba11.bsky.social · Aug 25

ISBA11 starts tomorrow, and we have just one question for you... are you ready for it?

#ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #turin #Archaeology #Italy #conference #AreYouReady
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social

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Rosi Fregel @rfregel.bsky.social · Aug 22

The genetic history of Portugal over the past 5,000 years genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

The genetic history of Portugal over the past 5,000 years - Genome Biology

Background Recent ancient DNA studies uncovering large-scale demographic events in Iberia have presented very limited data for Portugal, a country located at the westernmost edge of continental Eurasi...

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Rosi Fregel @rfregel.bsky.social · Aug 21

The AADR Visualizer: An ArcGIS Online Visualizer for ancient human DNA from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

The AADR Visualizer: An ArcGIS Online Visualizer for ancient human DNA from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource

AbstractMotivation. The AADR Visualizer is designed to be a public, user-friendly, web-based graphical user interface for visualizing and filtering ancient

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Merve Nur Güler @meerf.bsky.social · Aug 18

Our genetic kinship estimation tool “DeepKin” is now available! Our neural network models trained on simulated data work effectively on real ancient data from diverse backgrounds and often outperform available tools. @compevohumang.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

DeepKin: Predicting Relatedness From Low‐Coverage Genomes and Palaeogenomes With Convolutional Neural Networks

DeepKin is a novel tool designed to predict relatedness from genomic data using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Traditional methods for estimating relatedness often struggle when genomic data i...

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Rosi Fregel @rfregel.bsky.social · Aug 14

Y-mer: a k-mer based method for determining human Y chromosome haplogroups from ultra-low sequencing depth data genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Y-mer: a k-mer based method for determining human Y chromosome haplogroups from ultra-low sequencing depth data - Genome Biology

Determining genetic ancestry of an individual is challenging from poorly preserved or mixed samples that permit only ultra-low coverage sequence at depths less than 0.1 × at target loci. Leveraging re...

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Rosi Fregel @rfregel.bsky.social · Aug 14

Power and Limitarions of Inferring Genetic Ancestry onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Power and Limitations of Inferring Genetic Ancestry

Background The recent emergence of technologies that capture and analyse genetic variation patterns obtained from a person's DNA sample has led to numerous academic and commercial endeavours to infe...

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Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de · Aug 11

Ancient Yersinia pestis genome discovered in 4,000-year-old sheep tooth sheds new light on a mysterious infectious disease that plagued prehistoric Eurasia. New research by @keyfm.bsky.social and @i-light-maka.bsky.social now published in @cellpress.bsky.social: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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

A Yersinia pestis genome from a Bronze Age domesticated sheep provides insight into the host range, evolution, and possible transmission scenarios of an ancient lineage of the plague-causing bacteria,...

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Torsten Günther @trstngnthr.bsky.social · Aug 12

The @scilifelab.se ancient DNA unit is looking for an bioinformatician placed at Uppsala University. This is a great way to be part of diverse #aDNA research projects as a staff scientist with permanent (!!) employment:

www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Bioinformatician - Uppsala University

Bioinformatician, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University

www.uu.se

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Harald Ringbauer @hringbauer.bsky.social · Aug 7

Our aDNA time transect centered on modern Georgia is out! 🧬

Genetic continuity over 5000 years, but some Bronze Age gene flow and urban outliers since Antiquity - including some with artificially deformed skulls 💀 linked by IBD segments to Asian nomads.

#aDNA #PopGen

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

The genetic history of the Southern Caucasus from the Bronze Age to the Early Middle Ages: 5,000 years of genetic continuity despite high mobility

Ancient DNA from the Southern Caucasus reveals remarkable genetic continuity, with some mixing from Anatolia/Iran and the Eurasian Steppe, and shows that even periods of urbanization and increased mob...

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