As we get closer to ICP, here's a reminder that AaRC is hosting an in-person meet on the afternoon of the 22nd. There will be interesting talks, discussions, and networking opportunities. You can register / submit an abstract here: forms.gle/Kse1kPYnpsVg...

The oldest DNA retrieved from an animal fossil is ~1.6 million years old - a mammoth from icy Siberia where cold temperatures preserve DNA well. But have you ever wondered how long #ancientDNA is preserved in animal remains from sunny & warm Africa? Well, wonder now more! doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...

Are you interested in doing local ancestry inference (LAI) using imputed #aDNA? Take a look at our preprint, together with @bodkan.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Still time to register and attend our next #AaRC virtual conference! We have a super interesting lineup of talks focusing on animal paleogenomics! #aDNA

In a little bit more than 15 minutes the recording of our last #AaRCademy series, focused on relatedness using #aDNA with @jolijnerven.bsky.social, will be available on our YT channel. Check it out if you missed it! 🧪🧬🏺https://youtu.be/M0Kd9M08H5U

Still time to register and submit an abstract to our next online AaRC conference! #aDNA

Still time to sign up! Register on our website: animal-adna.org/events/2026/...

Yesterday in @nature.com, we presented the earliest evidence of dogs anywhere in the world — three puppies that were buried by Stone Age hunter-gatherers in Türkiye almost 16,000 years ago. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Join us Friday 27th March at ** 9am GMT ** for our AaRC TikTalk seminar, given this month by two exciting Australian-based researchers Loukas Koungoulos (dingos!) and Siobhan Evans (cave sediment!) #adna @aarc-community.bsky.social

Still time to sign up! Join us in this 3-hour workshop led by @jolijnerven.bsky.social to hear about methods and approaches to explore relatedness in #aDNA datasets.

Registration is now open for our next online AaRCademy workshop focusing on relatedness! #aDNA

For those of you who were not able to attend our #AaRCademy workshop on Demographic History analysis with the great Pablo Librado, the recording will be available on our YT channel today at 12:00 CET though this link: youtu.be/41YNBIiFZl0

Still time to send an abstract! Deadline is February 3rd. #aDNA

It's already January 2026, and that means we have a new year of #AaRCTikTalks! Join us on January 30th at 3pm CET to attend 2 amazing talks with @tatianafeuerborn.bsky.social and Arianna Weingarten.

Working with animal #aDNA? 🧬 Apply to our #SMBE2026 symposium by February 3rd and join us in Copenhagen to hear, share, and discuss the latest research and methodological advances in animal #palaeogenomics 🦎🐕🐷🐋🐝🐂🦤🦣🐟🪲🦌🐈 @aarc-community.bsky.social

❗ Our RemAaRCs: on Mutualism - The Science of Interrelatedness has a new date and time ❗ 3-5pm London time / 4-6pm CET / 10-12am ET @aarc-community.bsky.social #aDNA

Still time to register for the our next AaRCademy workshop on demographic history! Deadline is December 5th! #aDNA

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/...

Delighted to see our paper characterising the inbreeding history of dogs and wolves over the past 10,000 years published this week in @pnas.org. Work led by the excellent @katiabou.bsky.social, and co-supervised by me, Laurent Frantz and Fernando Racimo www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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/...

Registration is now open for our next online AaRCademy workshop focusing on demographic history! Sign up by December 5th. #aDNA

Join us on 31st October to celebrate Día de los Muertos with some #ancientDNA from Mexico! Two very exciting talks on 🦣 and 🪴, by Federico Sánchez-Quinto and Marcela Sandoval-Velasco of LIIGH UNAM. Note the later 3pm London time! #aDNA @aarc-community.bsky.social

Still one week left to register to our first AaRCademy workshop! Link to registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/1c_c... #aDNA @aarc-community.bsky.social

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

Board The AaRC at @isba11.bsky.social ! Very excited to have a great mix of speakers at the animal #adna community meeting If you'd like to join us 26th August for talks, a roundtable discussion and networking, a link is in the threads (ignore mention of abstract!) @aarc-community.bsky.social

📢 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

I am starting a computational lab at LIOS, Riga, Latvia, and going to recruit a few people. Please DM if you are interested in a postdoc or PhD position in my Metabolic Research Group within the TARGETWISE project. I can highly recommend Riga, it is a beautiful city with very good living conditions.

Happy to announce that our study examining the genetic history of the Qimmeq (Greenland Sled Dog) came out today in Science. @mhssinding.bsky.social #qimmeq #dogs #palaeogenetics #greenland #greenlandsleddog @science.org #Ilisimatusarfik #globeinstitute #ucph #nih

Are you attending ISBA and work with animal aDNA? Sign up and join us at our ISBA networking event happening on Tuesday August 26th brought to you by @aarc-community.bsky.social @isbarchaeology.bsky.social. #adna

If you are at #ISBA11, feel free to join us on August 26th for an AaRC in-person networking event, with short talks and round table discussion. Use the following link if you would like to attend and/or present: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Still time to sign up for the #AaRConference2025 brought to you by ‪@aarc-community.bsky.social. Join us this Friday May 30th, 13:00-17:00 CET to listen to the latest research in #aDNA of animals 🐊🐕🐂🐋🐖🦎🐑🐪

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.

Exciting opportunity to do a 3 year postdoc with the amazing Katerina Guschanski! Highly recommend applying #aDNA

Just over a week left to submit your abstract for the online #AaRConference! We're especially encouraging early career researchers to present their work on #aDNA in animals of all shapes and sizes 🦌🐈🐕🐷🐋🦎🐝🐙🪲🦤🦣🐢🧪🧬. Deadline is March 7th: www.animal-adna.org/events/2025/...

Abstract submission is open for the online #AaRConference! Join us and invited speakers Laurent Frantz and Evon Hekkala on May 30th to present your research about animal #aDNA and discuss them with the community. All topics #aDNA related are welcomed! 🧪🧬🏺

AaRC is having a half day online conference to celebrate our one year anniversary! With plenary speakers Laurent Frantz and Evon Hekkala. Keep an eye out for abstract submissions in the coming days. Event page below. www.animal-adna.org/events/2025/... #aDNA @aarc-community.bsky.social

It´s already February, and that means we have a new #AaRCTikTalks. This month we'll focus on museomics, or the use of museum collections as sources of #aDNA data. Come and check out our amazing speakers on Friday 28th! Save the date!

If you like hearing about #aDNA of animals by Early Career Researchers - join us at AaRC for our seminar series, on the last Friday of every month!

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: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Join us for the @aarc-community.bsky.social AaRC TikTalk this Friday November 26th, to hear about ancient chickens and genomic erosion of mammoths. Sign up www.animal-adna.org/projects/#er... #ancientDNA #mammoths #chickens

With all the new people migrating into BlueSky, we have created a small starter pack for aDNA (and other molecules) researchers. go.bsky.app/F4EPLJh 🧪🏺 #evosky #PaleoSky