Anahit Hovhannisyan
@anahit19.bsky.social
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Gerda Henkel Fellow; prev: Marie Curie Fellow in Trinity College Dublin
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Anahit Hovhannisyan
Kevin Daly
27 days ago
Our work on ancient Irish goat was covered in the Irish Times.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
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The old Irish goat is a living link to Irelandβs Bronze Age
Study shows distinct breed has genetic links to goats that lived in Ireland 3,000 years ago
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/education/2026/02/26/the-old-irish-goat-is-a-living-link-to-irelands-bronze-age/
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Anahit Hovhannisyan
Matthew Collins
27 days ago
Biopathocodicology?? π¦ π§¬π (1/4) Check out this groundbreaking new
#aDNA
#pathology
paper by
@louis-lhote.bsky.social
@gingerhowley.bsky.social
and colleagues!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Anahit Hovhannisyan
Kevin Daly
4 months ago
Despite my insomnia, I'm very happy to share our preprint: a multi-disciplinary assessment of a sheep mass mortality event from ~18th century France. We report the first ancient sheeppox virus (think smallpox) and the Taenia hydatigena (nasty roundworm) genomes.
#aDNA
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Evidence of sheeppox in 17th-19th century France: a multi-disciplinary investigation of a sheep mass mortality assemblage
Epizootic outbreaks posed major threats to food security, economic stability, and animal welfare in past communities. While these events and their impacts are well documented in historical records, ve...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.24.690131v1
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Anahit Hovhannisyan
Kevin Daly
4 months ago
Our paper on imputation of ancient goat genomes is now available at GBE - congratulations to
@jolijnerven.bsky.social
#aDNA
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Inferring Domestic Goat Demographic History Through Ancient Genome Imputation
Abstract. Goats were among the earliest managed animals, making them a natural model to explore the genetic consequences of domestication. However, a chall
https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/gbe/evaf181/8317779?utm_source=advanceaccess&utm_campaign=gbe&utm_medium=email
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Huge congratulations to Zhe and everyone involved! π
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6 months ago
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Anahit Hovhannisyan
Kevin Daly
7 months ago
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
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Ruminant Palaeogenomics - Kevin G. Daly: Ruminant Palaeogenomics
https://kevingdaly.github.io
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Our new paper shows how a multidisciplinary approach (ancient proteins + DNA) reveals the long history of dairy in Armenia! π₯π
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Palaeoproteomic and genetic insights into millennial-scale dairy consumption in Armenia
Dairy products are a key component of the diet in Armenia today, yet the origins of milk consumption, its historical development, and genetic adaptations related to milk digestion in the region remain...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.26.672348v1?fbclid=IwY2xjawMlA49leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHpKC_LJrD85xRoM1rXPA9Mf-HTiI-ZIXbyWcWBXDSxFAR88AEDVQg0bKZmDd_aem_PDMGXKbkFeGnuGmkbrkgpA
7 months ago
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Anahit Hovhannisyan
Kevin Daly
7 months ago
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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Anahit Hovhannisyan
Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge
8 months ago
Check the package website for more information, example workflows, benchmarking and ideas on how to use tidygenclust:
github.com/EvolEcolGrou...
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GitHub - EvolEcolGroup/tidygenclust: R package providing a tidy interface to clustering in population genetics, building on top of `tidypopgen`
R package providing a tidy interface to clustering in population genetics, building on top of `tidypopgen` - EvolEcolGroup/tidygenclust
https://github.com/EvolEcolGroup/tidygenclust
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Anahit Hovhannisyan
Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge
8 months ago
π¨π§¬New
#preprint
and R package from the lab out in
@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
π§¬π¨: 'tidygenclust' combines the functionality of ADMIXTURE, fastmixture and Clumppling into R - allowing for reproducible clustering analyses and plotting all in one place!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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tidygenclust: Clustering for Population Genetics in R
Background Population structure analysis is crucial for evolutionary research and medical genomics. Clustering methods, broadly categorized as model-based (e.g. ADMIXTURE) or non-model-based (e.g. SCO...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.29.667403v1
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Anahit Hovhannisyan
Marco Capodiferro
8 months ago
Turns out imputation of introgressed archaic regions in aDNA works really well β sometimes even better than for the rest of the genome. More on this (and other cool results) in our new preprint π
#aDNA
#ArchaicIntrogression
#imputation
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Archaic ancestry inference in imputed ancient human genomes
When modern humans expanded from Africa into Eurasia, they interbred with archaic hominins such as Neanderthals and Denisovans. This groundbreaking discovery, made in part possible through the genomic...
https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.23.664192
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Anahit Hovhannisyan
Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge
9 months ago
We are excited to announce that tidypopgen β a new package for rapid population genetic workflows in R β is now available atΒ
evolecolgroup.github.io/tidypopgen/
Β π§¬π»Β Read more in the preprint describing its features here:Β
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#popgen
#Rpackage
#genetics
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Tidy Population Genetics
We provide a tidy grammar of population genetics, facilitating the manipulation and analysis of data on biallelic single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). `tidypopgen` scales to very large genetic data...
https://evolecolgroup.github.io/tidypopgen/
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Anahit Hovhannisyan
Margherita Colucci
10 months ago
π¨ NEW preprintπ¨ Our latest study @HPS MPI-GEA
@elliescerri.bsky.social
&
@eegcam.bsky.social
models
#malaria
risk over the past 74,000 years revealing its powerful role in shaping human habitat choice and dispersal since the late Pleistocene in sub-Saharan Africa π¦π
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Malaria shaped human spatial organisation for the last 74 thousand years
The mechanisms driving the spatial organisation of early human societies in Africa are typically addressed through climate variables [1][1]-[3][2]. However, genetic and archaeological studies have als...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.04.657870v1
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Massive congrats to the team on this amazing paper! So happy for everyone involved!!π
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9 months ago
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Check out our new paper providing new insights into the Chalcolithic Armenia through a multiproxy approach (and more to come!)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A biomolecular perspective on mobile pastoralism and its role in wider socioeconomic connections in the Chalcolithic South Caucasus
Mobile pastoralism is widely evoked when discussing technological developments, resource procurement, trans-regional interactions, and exchange networβ¦
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004225008053#sec6
10 months ago
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A huge congratulations to
@ceciliapad.bsky.social
and
@eegcam.bsky.social
! π€π
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10 months ago
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I have officially started my new scholarship. Grateful to
@gerda-henkel-stiftung.de
for funding and to
@brad-dan.bsky.social
for the support!
10 months ago
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Apply to become part of an amazing team! π
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12 months ago
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New insights on the domestication of sheep from
@gingerhowley.bsky.social
! π
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about 1 year ago
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Anahit Hovhannisyan
Marco Capodiferro
about 1 year ago
Science, future and Guinness!
@lindaongaro.bsky.social
@anahit19.bsky.social
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Anahit Hovhannisyan
Dan Bradley
about 1 year ago
Delighted that our new paper on female-centred kinship in Celtic Britain is out in Nature
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08409-6.pdf
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Thank you
@ajhgnews.bsky.social
for the opportunity to talk about our recent paper and also share my story!
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about 1 year ago
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Anahit Hovhannisyan
Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge
over 1 year ago
#ICYM
we recently took part in a cool
@science.org
#paper
about population connectivity and
#cumulativeculture
in chimpanzee! Congratulations to the authors including our postdoc
@ceciliapad.bsky.social
!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#anthropology
#popgen
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Population connectivity shapes the distribution and complexity of chimpanzee cumulative culture
Although cumulative culture is a hallmark of hominin evolution, its origins can be traced back to our common ancestor with chimpanzees. Here, we investigated the evolutionary origins of chimpanzee cum...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk3381
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Thank you to everyone from
@eegcam.bsky.social
! Nothing would be possible without you π
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over 1 year ago
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Anahit Hovhannisyan
Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge
over 1 year ago
Hello world! We are the Evolutionary Ecology Group at the University of Cambridge (UK). We work on various organisms, from humans to invertebrates, from mammals to birds and from reptiles to fish, to study how they respond and adapt to variable environments. Find more here:
eeg.zoo.cam.ac.uk
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Evolutionary Ecology Group |
https://eeg.zoo.cam.ac.uk/
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Anahit Hovhannisyan
Linda Ongaro
over 1 year ago
I am happy to share my latest article published on
@uk.theconversation.com
, written for a broad audience, where I summarise our review about the Denisovans! π§¬β¨ Discover their fascinating genetics and how they shaped human history.
theconversation.com/their-dna-su...
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Their DNA survives in diverse populations across the world β but who were the Denisovans?
The discovery of a finger bone in a cave in Siberia some 15 years ago kicked off a race to unravel the mysteries of an entirely new group of humanoids.
https://theconversation.com/their-dna-survives-in-diverse-populations-across-the-world-but-who-were-the-denisovans-244441
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My first post on Bluesky is about our just-published paper! π¦ The first whole-genome study on Armenian population, aiming to check the Balkan theory on their origins proposed by Herodotus, as well as their demographic history and genetic variation, is finally out!
www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex...
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Demographic history and genetic variation of the Armenian population
A whole-genome study of Armenians shows homogeneous genetic structure across the region, with a recent bottleneck explaining the distinctiveness of the Sasun population. Our findings reject the Balkan...
https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(24)00391-4
over 1 year ago
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Anahit Hovhannisyan
Marco Capodiferro
over 1 year ago
It's finally outβthe first whole-genome study on the Armenian population! A huge congratulations to
@anahit19.bsky.social
for all the hard work that led to this amazing paper. π
www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex...
#PopGen
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Demographic history and genetic variation of the Armenian population
A whole-genome study of Armenians shows homogeneous genetic structure across the region, with a recent bottleneck explaining the distinctiveness of the Sasun population. Our findings reject the Balkan...
https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(24)00391-4
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Anahit Hovhannisyan
Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias
over 1 year ago
Yay! Great paper! Massive congrats to
@anahit19.bsky.social
& the rest π€
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Anahit Hovhannisyan
Kevin Daly
over 1 year ago
Armenian demographic history from
@anahit19.bsky.social
!
www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex...
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Demographic history and genetic variation of the Armenian population
A whole-genome study of Armenians shows homogeneous genetic structure across the region, with a recent bottleneck explaining the distinctiveness of the Sasun population. Our findings reject the Balkan...
https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(24)00391-4
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