After a summer packed with events, including our first in-person-only event at #ISBA11 in beautiful Torino, we are back with our regular #AaRCTikTalks online seminar series. If you are not yet registered, follow the link to our webpage: www.animal-adna.org/events/2025/...

You can now find the #AaRCTikTalks session from Claudia Fontsere Alemany on our youtube channel, in case you missed it #aDNA www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbM4...

Yesterday I had the honor of present what @aarc-community.bsky.social has been doing for the last year and a half at #ISBA11, and I can tell you, we have been busy! It was a blast to see all the other affiliate groups and how we all have grown from and since ISBA10 in Tartu.

Trying to catch up with more studied domestic animals 🐄🐕🐐🐎 and exploring cutting-edge tools, I was excited to present the first imputation tests in ancient & modern cat genomes 🐈 at the first in-person AaRC meeting in Turin. @isbarchaeology.bsky.social @aarc-community.bsky.social

Also presented at the Animal aDNA Research Community (AaRC) meeting @aarc-community.bsky.social just before #ISBA11 - such a wonderful way to introduce myself to the group and I’m looking forward to sharing research updates in the future!! 🫎

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!

We also had some nice discussions on our round table, and we would like to extend some of those here. So let’s start with this one: how do you deal with the conflicts and the intersections between #aDNA and archaeology? #ISBA11 🧪🏺🧬

Are you ready? @isba11.bsky.social

We had a great time yesterday Boarding the AaRC at #ISBA11! Thanks everybody for coming to our first in-person event!

We also wanted to send a reminder that we are organizing an event at #ISBA2025 in beautiful Torino! If you are there for the conference on August 26th, please join us! No need for registration. #aDNA

Are you starting your #aDNA journey? Want to improve your paleogenomics data processing pipelines with state-of-the-art tools and understang what each step actually is for? Come join us at out first AaRCademy workshop with Nikolay Oskolkov on October 7th. Don't be a stranger!

📢 We're excited to launch our AaRCademy Workshop Series kicking off October 7th online! 🧬Our first session, "aDNA Data Processing", will be led by Nikolay Oskolkov from Lund University. 📅 Registration closes September 7th! Sign up via the QR code or link below. #aDNA @aarc-community.bsky.social

Interested in animal #aDNA and attending #ISBA2025? Join us on August 26th at 2:30 in our event #BoardingTheAaRC! No registration needed (a link is provided in case you want to let us know)!

Have a look at our new 2025 Blog entry from @aarc-community.bsky.social where we interviewed Dr. Pascale Lubbe (@plubbe.bsky.social) about the research project she presented in July 2025 #AaRCTikTalks www.animal-adna.org/blog/2025/08...

Join us today for our July's #AaRCTikTalks seminar! We are really happy to have A.B. Siegenthaler and Clàudia Fontserè Alemany with us to talks about ancient dogs and Whooping Cranes. 🧪 #aDNA

Join us THIS FRIDAY at 2pm GMT/3pm CET/9am ET to learn all about new super exciting research from Claudia Alemany and AB Siegenthaler!! Get the Zoom link by joining our Element channel tinyurl.com/47bcxakx OR our mailing list! tinyurl.com/555yxa6n See you all there! 🧬🧬 @aarc-community.bsky.social

Don't miss the AaRC pre-ISBA event on the 26th of August - anyone interested in ancient DNA in animals is welcome to come along. And if you didn't get a talk at ISBA itself, submit an abstract here!

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Come and Board the AaRC at #ISBA2025 in Torino, Italy. Are you presenting a poster and want more people to see it? Come and share it with us! We'll have a set of Short Talks, a Round Table and some time for networking. If you are in Torino on the 26th of August, please drop by!

Join us on the 26th of August on #ISBA11 in beautiful Torino for our hybrid in-person/online event Board the AaRC! We will have short presentations, a round table to discuss the current state of the field and a chance to network and meet members of the community. Come join us!

Are you attending ISBA & working on ancient animal DNA? On Tuesday 26th ~2-4pm we will Board the AaRC with an in-person event! Join us for seminars, a round table event, and of course networking! If you'd like to attend and/or present, sign up below @isba11.bsky.social @aarc-community.bsky.social

🦄 Join our amazing team! DM me if you're interested to know me :)

Forgot the date - this Friday, 27th June!! #adna

Join us for the @aarc-community.bsky.social TikTalk Seminar this Friday at the earlier time of 8am - for two New Zealand-based research talks! Alex Verry and Pascale Lubbe will speak on this research on the NZ bush wren and changing faunal communities in Aotearoa respectively. #adna

IMPORTANT NEWS: following the lead of other ancient biomolecules communities, AaRC is moving from Slack to Element. More info and a guide to join the new platform can be found here: www.animal-adna.org/news/2025/06...

This month the #AaRCTikTalks comes early in the morning to accomodate to the schedule of our peers from the land down under, as we'll have a session focused on the unique conditions and evolutionary history of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Two days to register for the #AaRConference! Come and learn about the state-of-the-art on animal #aDNA research from our amazing lineup of speakers!

Have a look at our new 2025 Blog entry from @aarc-community.bsky.social where we interviewed PhD Fellow Lydia Hildebrand Furness about the research project she presented in March 2025 #AaRCTikTalks animal-adna.org/blog/2025/05... #aDNA #Dugong #conservation

Check out the new two entries on our blog, where our speakers for February's seminar talk a little bit more about them and their work: www.animal-adna.org/blog/2025/05...

🥳 We're back with a new edition of our HAAM-radio webinar series! Come and be part of the development from a reporting scheme for aDNA samples & seqdata! #aDNA #workshop #humanDNA #sequencing

May 30th is fastly approaching, so it is time now to register for the #AaRConference2025! Come and learn about new cool science on animal #aDNA and how it is being used for varied and interesting applications.

On May 30th we will have our first #AaRConferece! Come join us on a half-day online event to discuss some awesome advances on animal #aDNA 🧬🌍🧪🏺🦤 #consgen #popgen #ecoevo

Join us for the AaRConference on animal #adna ! Half day event Friday 30th May. Sign up at the @aarc-community.bsky.social seminar page!

For those of you who missed this month's #AaRCTikTalks, we have you covered. Here's the first talk, by Dr. Paige Byerly: Leveraging museum genomics for conservation of endangered bird species. #aDNA 🧪🧬🌎🦤 www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6ti...

One last push for our #adna talks on museumics tomorrow! Sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Just a reminder we have this seminar on Friday. Register and don't miss it! #aDNA 🏺🧬🧪🦴

Excited for this talk!

Hi Bluesky! While some of you are already on holidays (and others waiting to start them), here is a reminder about our awesome #AaRCTikTalks for this month. Save the date!

Quick survey for members of any or all communities within the Ancient Biomolecules environment! Help us help all of us!

Want to hear some exciting #aDNA research on animals? How we can use #ancientDNA to inform conservation efforts? Join us for our April AaRC TikTalk seminar with Ana Maria Agapito Vera and Paige Byerly. Friday 25th April 2pm GMT, link below! @paigebyerly.bsky.social @aarc-community.bsky.social

On Friday 28th we'll have our monthly #AaRCTikTalks seminar with 2 awesome talks about using #aDNA to study the past of dugongs (aka the cutests of sirenids) and the best boys ever. So please, save the date! 🧪🏺🧬

Have a look at our second 2025 Blog entry from @aarc-community.bsky.social where we interviewed Jesse Morin about the research project he presented in January 2025 #AaRCTikTalks. www.animal-adna.org/blog/2025/03... #ancientDNA #aDNA #salmon #Tsleil_Waututh

Applications are OPEN for the HAAM-community Summer School: "Connecting the Past, the Present, and Future". 📅 Dates: June 9-13 📍 Location: Online 🎯 For: Students & ERCs, esp. from underfunded labs, neighbour disciplines & new to the field 🔗 Apply by April 17: rb.gy/bxtb8v #aDNA #HAAMsummerschool

This may be interesting for the #aDNA feed.

We have a new entry in our blog! Come to learn a little bit more about Jesse Morin and his research on historical salmon exploitation in the Coast Salish area: www.animal-adna.org/blog/2025/03...

The deadline for the abstract submission's new deadline is MARCH 14th (tomorrow), and not April 14th, as previously stated. Sorry for the confusion.

We are looking forward to welcoming #MehmetSomel to Vienna as part of the #HEASSeminar in #AncientGenomics next Monday the 17th March at 10:30 CET. Registration and information is on our website 🔗👇

Join @aarc-community.bsky.social for our AaRC TikTalk Friday 28th March, 2pm GMT. Here about ancient dogs and dugongs! Dynamite. Signup to the talk mailing list here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Working in animal #aDNA? Present your research at our first AaRConference!

On 21st of March we'll have a feedback session with MInAS to talk about animal #aDNA metadata and reporting. If you are producing ancient animal data, please join @ddj-sa.bsky.social and Ophélie Lebrasseur on the conversation to set up proper metadata standards. www.animal-adna.org/events/2025/...