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Another #aDNA preprint! We recovered DNA from 7,000 year old (!) goat leather from Cueva de los Murciélagos - and see a genetic link with Bermeya goats today! Credit to Francisco Martínez-Sevilla for seeing me on Youtube(?!) + reaching out to collaborate - there's still value in the internet.

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/...

I'll be presenting at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social at the School of Biological Sciences, 2nd December, 1pm - please come along to hear about #aDNA, domestication, and disease!

Become our colleague! - 2yr Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past (UU) @humanpastcenter.bsky.social 🧪 Great place to work at (ok, I am biased), integration with archaeologists and linguists + pretty flexible research topic www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Check out our paper, we now included a comparison between glimse1 and glimpse2!

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Excited to share our new paper in @GeneticsGSA ! We developed "Retriever," a novel method that enables high-quality genotype imputation in non-model organisms. 🧬 Congratulations to Charles on his first PhD paper! Paper: doi.org/10.1093/gene... A thread 🧵👇

🦠💀🦠 Happy to share our (with @gunnar-u-neumann.bsky.social) new preprint on ancient Salmonella enterica genomes! We analysed 53 new genomes along with published ancient and modern datasets to learn about lineage replacements and host adaptation in prehistory: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚀 We’re hiring a #Postdoc! 🔬 Join our group in Copenhagen to study Water Buffalo 🐃 #Population #Genomics Highly motivated & enthusiastic candidates are welcome! 👉 **Apply:** candidate.hr-manager...#Postdoc!#Population⏰Deadline Oct 15th 2025 #WaterBuffalo #Conservation #EvolutionaryBiology

Interested in goats 🐐? Read our pre-print on ancient Irish goats and their connection to the Old Irish goat breed Just look at this dashing individual, courtesy of the Old Irish Goat society

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!

My student Louis L'Hôte presenting his work on ancient sheeppox virus at #isba11 #aDNA

Interested in measuring genetic load? We have a new paper out providing a modified version of GERP which is more user friendly in wildlife species and with scripts to automate making input files and pulling out derived alleles in your species #consgen #popgen star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/4202

Postdoctoral Position in Wildlife Palaeogenomics! Come join us in beautiful Stockholm! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Inferring domestic goat demographic history through ancient genome imputation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.18.649576v1

🐐 New preprint out with @gingerhowley.bsky.social The VarGoats Consortium and many others! We explore how genotype imputation can enhance low-coverage ancient goat/Capra🐐 genomes, shedding light on early domestication and herd management. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #aDNA #Domestication​

A final request for those involved in the Ancient Biomolecule Communities: If you follow the activities of AaRC, HAAM, PAASTA, SPAAM and LAARD, help us improve our understanding of our communities with this short survey! #aDNA #palaeoproteomics #biomoleculararchaeology #ZooMS #ancientDNA

@jolijnerven.bsky.social @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social unlocks the origins of domesticated pigs how they related to wild boar and people in the Dutch wetlands 6000 years ago An nwo project @unigroningen.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social W implications for #morethanhuman life

Interested in human-pig-boar interactions? Read our new paper on human-pig-boar relationships in Neolithic Europe 🐷🐗🧬. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

How did Europe's first farmers interact with their pigs and local wild boar? @jolijnerven.bsky.social has a new paper addressing just that using 11 ancient suis genomes! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...