Our investigation of mass mortality burial of sheep is published at @royalsociety.org Open Science! Evidence of sheeppox in seventeenth- to nineteenth-century France: a multi-disciplinary investigation of a sheep mass mortality assemblage

Here's the amazing lineup of speakers for our upcoming virtual conference. There’s still time to register and join us online. We look forward to seeing you there! forms.gle/Kse1kPYnpsVg...

In under two weeks, AaRC will be hosting our 2026 Online Conference! This will be taking place on Tuesday, 19 May, from 10:00 to 13:35 CEST (GMT+1). We've got an incredible lineup of speakers, so sign up while you can: forms.gle/Kse1kPYnpsVg...

Only a couple of days left to register! Don't forget to submit an abstract.

Proud to share that I’ve been awarded the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen Prize for Interdisciplinarity for my PhD research 🎉 A wonderful recognition! I’m excited for what’s next. Read my interview here (in Dutch): lnkd.in/e7PATG-J

Next Thursday (April 16th) the @aarc-community.bsky.social is hosting an online workshop on #ancientDNA #imputation and #relatedness with @jolijnerven.bsky.social! Keen to sign up? Here's the link! docs.google.com/forms/d/1kUg...

Don't forget to submit an abstract! Looking forward hearing from you!

I was on Mooney Goes Wild talking goats! Cannot describe how sleep deprived I was recording this. Mooney Goes Wild Monday 30 March 2026 - Mooney Goes Wild share.google/I4GNDt7kF2bF...

Out today is our paper 'Genomic history of early dogs in Europe', in which we uncover the identity of the dogs that lived in Europe before agriculture—during the Paleolithic & Mesolithic periods: doi.org/10.1038/s415.... A thread ⬇️ (10) @biouea.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social

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...

Come join us on both! The online conference will have keynotes from Torsten Günther and He Yu! We would love to know what you are working on! Submit an abstract and see you then

🐦What can we learn about our own health from the Seychelles warbler? Dr Chuen Zhang Lee & his team @rug.nl @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social have uncovered a hidden link between gut health and the immune system, thanks to this small songbird.🎵 Curious? Read more👇 🔗 www.rug.nl/fse/news/cli... 🧪 #SciComm

Wanna learn how to explore your genomic data to know how related your samples and populations are to each other? Come and join us and @jolijnerven.bsky.social on our next #AaRCademy workshop! April 16h at 14:00 CET!

Our paper "Old goats: 3,000 years of genetic connectivity of the domestic goat in Ireland", is now online at the Journal of Archaeological Science! #aDNA

Our work on ancient Irish goat was covered in the Irish Times. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

It's that time again... AaRCTikTalk this Friday!! Anne Runge will talk about microbial/pathogen DNA from prehistoric faunal remains🦠🦴🧬, & Anna Nagel will explore multispecies time calibrations! 🧬🕰️ Hurray! Don't miss it! 🕺 @aarc-community.bsky.social

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

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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/...