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#AaRCademy is back with another animal #aDNA workshop. This time, @jolijnerven.bsky.social will showcase the state-of-the-art methods to explore the relatedness between our samples. Join us online on April 16th, 14:00 CET!
I am looking for prospective Bachelor/MSc students willing to embark in the development of new methods for the extraction, processing, sequencing and analysis of historical and ancient RNA molecules from museum-preserved animal specimens.
Read below and apply!!
ucph.jobteaser.com/en/job-offer...
🗃️ Also this one is gorgeous: Louise, held by her mother Meave, who is holding - with Richard - a hominin skull.
Technosocial hominin worlds connected through time 😍
Screen grab of photo, showing a slightly flattened skull on sandy ground with living humans' hands near it. Concretions are visible on the skull including its orbits.
🧪 A remarkable photo from Leakey archives of Paranthropus boisei skull being discovered, still with its concretions adhering.
Pic taken from this video 👇 (a nice historical-to-present-day review of Leakey-led scientific discoveries)
#Fossil #palaeoanthropology
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoOT...
Job alert: open position for a Professor or Associate Professor of Computational Genomics in Health and Disease at University College London.
Based in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment of UCL, and UGI, and funded by the UCL Health Strategy.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... 🧪
🚨 PhD opportunity in evolutionary genomics
Interested in working with ancient DNA and genomics of carnivores to study adaptation to human-dominated landscapes?
I’m looking for a candidate to apply for an FCT PhD fellowship (Portugal).
📅 Deadline: 31 March
Feel free to contact me for details! 🐺🐻🦊🧬
New preprint! with @a-solernunez.bsky.social
Rethinking a textbook example of human adaptation "AMY1 copy number evolution in light of demographic history"
Once population structure is accounted for, the classic starch–agriculture narrative becomes much less clear
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Ancient walnuts 🌰 tell a Silk Road story! Genome-wide data 🧬 from Tang Dynasty Xinjiang walnuts reveal a transitional genetic stage linking Central Asia and China in a new study published in Cell Reports.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
#MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #ancientDNA #silkroad #paleobotany
🧬SedaDNA Postdoc position💥 2 years Starts 2026, apply by 1st March.
Join Aleks Pluskowski at Reading & me at NHM. jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
The dream
Our new study is out!
We analysed DNA preserved in buried river sediments and Neolithic sites (Serbia), uncovering past landscapes and traces of sturgeon populations. Read more about our findings and the challenges in such complex and dynamic contexts: doi.org/10.1038/s415... @mikkelwp.bsky.social
Job alert! 3 year post doc in my research group at University College London working on Roman Leather via biomolecular archaeology. #ZooMS #stableisotopes
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ187/r...
Buena peli
The Allen Ancient DNA Resource (AADR v62), a visual summary:
Read our new paper in Genome Biology & Evolution to learn more about how sequencing the genome from a 14,000 year old wolf puppy's last meal yielded novel insights into the woolly rhino's extinction:
academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
📷 Mietje Germonpré
The genome of one of the last woolly rhinoceros sequenced from a chunk of meat extracted from the stomach of a mummified Late Pleistocene wolf puppy 🤯🦏🐺
Absolute cinema 🎥⬇️⬇️⬇️
Researchers recover a woolly rhino genome from inside a frozen wolf's stomach. The work marks the first time an Ice Age animal’s complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ancient animal.
New study from @cpgsthlm.bsky.social
www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
Genetic and historical perspectives on the early medieval inhumations ... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I’ve been waiting for something like this to come along! One for the bone diagenesis nerds. Preprint comparing patterns or bacterial bioerosion in ancient bones with metagenomic analysis of associated microbiomes. More diverse microbiomes in well-preserved bone.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Happy solstice! 🌍❄️ Today (Dec 21) at 16:03 (CET or UTC+1) winter officially begins. Shortest day of the year, but your noon shadow will be the longest. From now on, days slowly start getting longer again. Animation by NAAP labs (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) 🧪⚛️🔭#astronomy
Information on registration fees for ICP2026
Picture of Stockholms City Hall.
Early Bird registration for #ICP2026 is now OPEN 🐦📝
IMPORTANT: places for the Conference Dinner at Stockholm City Hall (free of charge) are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
Secure your spot by registering soon 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/registration/
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Genetic study of Middle Bronze Age individuals from the Grotta della Monica cave site in the southwestern Italian peninsula finds sporadic patterns of relatedness and the first conformance ancient instance of a person whose parents were father and daughter.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Image shows worked bones on the left, graphs and science equipment related to the study of Archaeology and specifically: "Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection" Photo: https://www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/human-or-animal-biomolecular-analysis-upper-palaeolithic-bone-artefacts-explore-raw
🚨 @ucl.ac.uk IoA PhD alert!
"Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection"
More info: bit.ly/48Bgffm
TREES PhD applications open 2026 intake of students.
Application deadline is 5pm on 17th Dec 2025.
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/apply
Ancient metagenomics people might also be interested in the authentication and visualization toolkit that we wrote to do this. Just published a few days ago!
GitHub
github.com/bdesanctis/b...
Paper
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Big!
Our paper in the PNAS Special Feature on 🐕 is out!
We demonstrated the accuracy of imputing ancient canid genomes, looked at inbreeding levels over the past 10,000 years and found genomic regions resistant to ROH which were enriched for immunity and chemosensory genes.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
WOW❗🤯
The amount and quality of the abstracts we've received have completely blown us away! More than 300 abstracts from researchers at all levels and from 33 countries.
We will communicate the selected talks and open registration soon 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
#ICP2026 will be UNMISSABLE 😍💪
