Safe the date! Evening lecture on 12 February 2026 by Rick Schulting @leizarchaeology.bsky.social on an all too timely topic...

⏳ 1-week countdown to the Postgraduate Fair! 📍 Elphinstone Hall 📅 Tue 17 Feb Hear from staff & students, ask questions, and visit school stands to plan your next step. Register: www.abdn.ac.uk/study... #AberdeenPGFair #AberdeenPostgrad #NextStepAberdeen

Excited and proud 😊 to share the final chapter of @hjorvik.bsky.social 's PhD thesis: Seven Millennia of Human Exploitation drove genomic Changes in Iberian Sheep Comments welcome! 🧬🧪🏺🐑 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵(1/8)

📣 The @scilifelab.se #ddls postdoc (2yrs) offers a great community + training + all social benefits! Happy to discuss your own project ideas! I also have some ideas on ARGs, pangenomes or biobank-scale datasets 🧬🐏🧪🖥️ Deadline is Mar 31 but some admin things need to be handled well in advance!

A new year is here and there’s just 10 days to apply for the new #SEA4FUTURE #S4F #postdoc position to work with us on #eDNA and #Sustainability of #Mediterranean #Fisheries (link below!) 🐟 🧬 🦐 Don’t miss out on the opportunity! @thefsbi.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social @icesmarine.bsky.social

We’re excited to offer a fully-funded PhD position (NERC & BBSRC-funded QUARTILES) focusing on oak conservation and restoration. The project features ancient DNA analysis of archeological oak specimens as a key element of the research. @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social #ancientDNA #conservation

Genomic study reveals how people moved pigs across the Pacific 🐖⛵️🌏 phys.org/news/2025-12...

Senior Research Technician post in our department at Exeter! Closing date 4 Jan - be quick! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV452/s...

What did people in China eat for 8,000 years after the arrival of farming? Meng Zhang, Andrew Millard and I used c. 6,500 isotope samples from humans and animals to find out. Open Access article here: doi.org/10.1016/j.qu... Come for the C3 plants, stay for the pig husbandry...

We’re excited to offer a fully-funded PhD position (NERC & BBSRC-funded QUARTILES) focusing on oak conservation and restoration. The project features ancient DNA analysis of archeological oak specimens as a key element of the research. @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social #ancientDNA #conservation

“We found that the wolf with the most complete genome had low genetic diversity, lower than any other ancient wolf we’ve seen,” “This is similar to what you see in isolated or bottlenecked populations – or in domesticated organisms.” @anders-bergstrom.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...

A PNAS Special Feature exclusively about dogs? Woof! Here are 3 of the 8 that we were involved with. Congrats to @lachiescarsbrook.bsky.social & @undeaddandy.bsky.social Dingoes! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... German Shepherds! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Imputation! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Researchers discovered early signs of domestication by analysing the remains of two wolves who lived in modern-day Sweden 3-5,000 years ago. www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-11...

During the earliest stages of domestication, dogs in archaeological sites would be indistinguishable from wolves. Unless you find them on a small island where no wolves would survive on their own, eating things wolves normally don’t eat. Such as here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

“Let me get this straight, you want me to sail over the Baltic to Gotland with a full-grown wolf in my boat?” “Don’t worry, he’s pescatarian.”

🐺 Wolves in dog's clothing 🐺 Our latest in @pnas.org uncovers a surprise three to five thousand years ago: 2 canids in human contexts on a tiny island in the middle of the Baltic Sea, that ate marine food—but had 100% gray wolf ancestry. Where they tame wolves, or even an incipient domestication?

Det är akut läge för fisken i Östersjön. Utan kraftfulla politiska åtgärder kommer fisket att slås ut och havets ekosystem skadas, i värsta fall permanent. Vågar vi hoppas att regeringen kan sluta gynna industritrålarna och börja förvalta havet för framtiden? www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/a/kw2...

Dogs are humanity's best friend—but how long has it been that way? 🐕 This Science study investigated ancient dog genomes, revealing a complicated genetic legacy that reflects a long, shared history with humans. Learn more on #InternationalDogDay: https://scim.ag/41mQvR6

Scientists who began their doctoral studies in 2020 found their feet during a global pandemic and are graduating into an uncertain and chaotic future go.nature.com/45asSNK

Our new paper is out! #stableisotopes #cavebears new data from Serbia and a wide reviews of late Pleistocene cave bear isotope data!

Interesting stuff from Rapa Nui. You can read the whole paper below, and my short take in the Spectator here (much of the argument feels realistic, though I'm not convinced it's - yet? - supported by the data) www.spectator.co.uk/article/was-...

Research Fellow, Archaeological Sciences www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU880/r...

Graduation time, congrats again @lucyjkoster.bsky.social! With @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social

LJMU and Francis Crick Institute Researchers have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from a man who lived around 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, the age of the first pyramids. www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/new...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ancient Egyptian https://go.nature.com/44bHYCh

Researchers from the Crick and @ljmuofficial.bsky.social have extracted and sequenced DNA from an individual who lived in Egypt around 4,500 years ago, making it the oldest genome from ancient Egypt sequenced to date. www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-07...

Forty years after Svante Pääbo kicked off this extraordinary field of science, today sees report of the first whole-genome sequence of an ancient Egyptian (from 2855–2570BCE). Exciting work from @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social, @flinklinus.bsky.social, & co at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social, @crick.ac.uk.🧬🧪

Who were the ancient Egyptians? It is expressed in the extraordinary historical and archaeological record, but what about ancestry links to other ancient individuals? Today we report the successful sequencing of the whole genome of an individual who lived in Egypt about ~4700 years ago.

50,000 years of evolutionary history of India: Impact on health and disease variation: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

"Denisovan mitochondrial DNA from dental calculus of the >146,000-year-old Harbin cranium" http://dlvr.it/TLR7X9 #ChineseAcademyofSciences Qiaomei Fu @cp-cell.bsky.social

UCL Institute of Archaeology lab managers role, initially for 1 year. Deadline 1st July. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

A 4-year postdoc position in population genomics is available in my group at the University of East Anglia, to work on a project sequencing a thousand fox genomes across rural and urban environments in the UK. vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/15...

Last day in Aberdeen! Wishing you all the best in your new postdoctoral job Lucy @lucyjkoster.bsky.social @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social

Hello! We are Archaeologists Resisting Far-Right Appropriation (ARFA for short). You can learn more about us at our website here: archaeologistsrfa.wordpress.com Watch this space for blog posts, events, and commentary on the co-option and misuse of heritage in the near future.

UK ARCHAEOLOGISTS Please sign this open letter to UK Archaeological associations to urge solidarity with trans archaeologists and action in light of the horrendous EHRC guidance: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

[NEW VIDEO] Archaeology is under siege from popular anti-intellectual influencers. I document threats and harassment and provide actionable strategies for promoting public educational content Watch, like, comment, and share to boost visibility 🧪🏺 #AncientBlueSky youtu.be/F5PvwzgfKKw

‘Socio-economic status is a social construct with heritable components and genetic consequences’ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Here’s the last version I’ve done…

Published on this day 40 years ago! www.nature.com/articles/314...

Publication day for our @pnas.org Special Feature on inequality in the deep past bit.ly/WInqSF How do the transitions to agriculture, urbanisation and hierarchy impact wealth inequality? What social forces produced sustainable, equal societies in the past? Some answers (and more questions) inside!

A funded PhD at Aberdeen, forming part of @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social’s ERC funded project on Late Glacial Scotland. Application deadline April 13: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The LOCO project is looking for 2 PhDs and 2 Post-docs in (bio-)archaeology, history, geochemistry, and digital humanities. This joint project between VUB, KUL, and UGent looks at the mobility of people, materials, and ideas in the Low Countries. Apply before 30 April 2025 😀

PDRA aDNA www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML043/p...

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...

Intriguing preprint on the population history of the wider Rhine-Meuse region from 9th-2nd Millennium BC. Backs up arguments from the archaeological evidence that there is a greater continuity of Mesolithic populations in these wetland regions compared to other parts of Europe.

Interested in pursuing an MSc in Biomolecular Archaeology? Check out our programme! We also offer a substantial tuition fee waiver for international students for the September 2025 intake.