Short snouts and big claims! @beebrookshire.bsky.social does an excellent job of explaining why raccoons aren’t on a path into our homes! brookshire-team-trash.beehiiv.com/p/raccoons-d...

European colonisation didn’t just redraw maps, it rewrote ecosystems! Read our article in @theconversation.com to learn how hybridisation between indigenous and introduced dogs has reshaped an Australian icon 🇦🇺 🐕 theconversation.com/how-european...

🚨 PNAS Special Feature 2 🐕 We used ancient DNA and dietary isotopes to show that landscape modification and the introduction of European dogs impacted dingo populations across Australia. 🔗 Full paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨 PNAS Special Feature 🐕 We analysed genomes of historical German Shepherds to reveal how bottlenecks linked to WWII and the use of popular sires led to significant declines in genomic health. We also found an early 20th century wolf-dog hybrid! 🔗 Full paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

What an incredible resource for those starting out in ancient DNA! Thanks once again @oskolkov.bsky.social for being our first #AaRCademy speaker

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Our research, published today in Science, reveals remarkable concordance between human and dog genomes through time, highlighting how deeply intertwined our evolutionary histories have been over the past 11,000 years. 🔗 Read the full paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Interested in knowing more about how dogs became our best friend? Then check out the latest podcast episode of @scienceofthetimes.bsky.social, where Greger Larson and I chat about all things domestication! scienceofthetimes.transistor.fm/episodes/how...

Get your abstracts in before March 7th! www.animal-adna.org/events/2025/...

After successfully defending my DPhil thesis on ancient dog genomics, I’m now officially a Doctor! Thanks to everyone who’s been a part of this almost 10-year academic journey, which started in Ōtepoti and finished in Oxford!