A collection of articles from The Genetics of Canine Domestication, Migration, and Behavior Special Feature highlights research on the evolutionary history of dogs and the genetic basis of dog behavior. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/vLlW50XAO6A

This is Logan Kistler's dog Tilly on the cover of the PNAS this week!!!!

One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “A legacy of genetic entanglement with wolves shapes modern dogs.” Explore the article here: https://ow.ly/o7mB50XC7F4 For more trending articles, visit https://ow.ly/TAVp50XC7F1.

❗ 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

So excited for this!!!!!

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

🚨 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/...

🚨 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/...

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/...

Our paper is out! Although wolves and dogs can interbreed and produce fertile offspring, hybridization between the two is rare. We found that most dogs today have low but detectable levels of post-domestication wolf ancestry that has shaped their evolution in human environments. tinyurl.com/yt4x4r7n

Come and join us on our special event RemAaRCs: on Mutualism on December 5th! We'll have 2 great speakers showing us how humans and animals can life together and thrive. Registration on the QR code.

And the registration is open for our next AaRCademy workshop! Join us on February 3rd to learn how to reconstruct the demographic history of a population with Pablo Librado. Registration through the QR code or following this link: tinyurl.com/2nysdwhv

The Animal #aDNA Research Community is looking for new members to its steering committee! If you are an ECR and interested in the field, we would love to have you on board. We particularly would value committee representation from outside of Europe. @aarc-community.bsky.social

Just a reminder that we have our monthly seminar, the #AaRCTikTalks, this Friday at 4pm CET. Come and hear 2 amazing talks on this special edition where we focus on the amazing work being done by our peers in Mexico. #aDNA 🧪🧬🏺

New funded PhD opportunity at Kew Gardens/LSE: Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century. Closes 14/1/26: www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

Our new paper on Indonesian cattle #genomics is out on @natcomms.nature.com 🎉 Did you know Indonesian #cattle 🐂 were a mix of two species? 🧵 Great work by Xi, @sagitaninta.bsky.social, Casia, Rasmus & co-authors Read 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #popgen #evolution #agriculture

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

Tomorrow!!!

After a summer packed with events, including our first in-person-only event at #ISBA11 in beautiful Torino, we are back with our regular #AaRCTikTalks online seminar series. If you are not yet registered, follow the link to our webpage: www.animal-adna.org/events/2025/...

Join us @aarc-community.bsky.social this Friday 26 Sep. 2pm GMT/3pm CET/9am ET for new exciting research on butterflies and ferrets! Get the Zoom link by joining our Element channel tinyurl.com/2upt6e7s OR our mailing list! tinyurl.com/3rm7s2aj This seminar is sponsored by @arborbio.bsky.social 🧬

I have funding for a 2-year dry-lab postdoc to join our team @humanevouu.bsky.social 🧪 (Deadline Oct 21st) The project will utilize modern and #aDNA data from humans and sheep to study environmental adaptation (including method development and simulations). Please share! www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

This was an amazing experience, so grateful for the opportunity to go to Congress and advocate for science funding and increased support for early career researchers!

Interested in giving a talk at the Plant and Animal Genome conference (PAG 33) in San Diego? Together with several colleagues, we are arranging 5 interconnected sessions. To submit an abstract, please fill out this Google Form before Oct 12th, 2025: forms.gle/q7j275Di6umY...

Kevin is amazing! Go work with Kevin!!

Excited to share that I’ve started as Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark! 🧑‍🎓 I also received an a NNF Emerging Investigator grant to use genomics + machine learning to study extinction. 👉 PhD & Postdoc positions coming soon — follow for updates! Reposts appreciated 🙏

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

Our first UGI seminar of the year welcomed Audrey Lin @undeaddandy.bsky.social telling us all about how a legacy of genetic entanglement with wolves shapes modern dogs. Thanks Audrey for a great talk and visit!

Gonzalo Oteo finishes our talks with his #aDNA work on small animal remains from Columbretes.

Zara Evans spoke on the extinct Mallorcan dwarf goat (i need to learn more) #aDNA

We've just heard from Marco Di Martino on his testing of imputation in modern and ancient cat genomes.

Kaaviya Balakrishnan (@kaaviya.bsky.social) vole'd us about her PhD work on voles in Britain.

Deon De Jager (@ddj-sa.bsky.social) speaks on the MIXS-MInAS project to establish #aDNA and C14 reporting templates.

Amanda Meuser telling us about her PhD work on North American Moose #aDNA

We have boarded the AaRC at ISBA! @aarc-community.bsky.social @isba11.bsky.social #aDNA

It's Moose!

Audrey Lin's analysis on wolf-dog admixture! Featuring Moose. @undeaddandy.bsky.social

Columbia bought them a ballroom! 💃🏽

"The administration is in talks with several universities, including Cornell, Duke, Northwestern and Brown... The White House hopes to extract hundreds of millions of dollars from Harvard, in a deal that would make Columbia’s $200 million payment look like peanuts"

1/ THREAD: It’s with deep regret we share the news that SAPIENS will halt publication of new content by the end of this year. We are so proud of everything SAPIENS has achieved and for our role in furthering public anthropology. Wenner-Gren’s letter to our community. wennergren.org/important-ne...

Join us THIS FRIDAY at 2pm GMT/3pm CET/9am ET to learn all about new super exciting research from Claudia Alemany and AB Siegenthaler!! Get the Zoom link by joining our Element channel tinyurl.com/47bcxakx OR our mailing list! tinyurl.com/555yxa6n See you all there! 🧬🧬 @aarc-community.bsky.social

Attendance and abstract submission link! We'd like to prioritize those who aren't already presenting at ISBA. Expect 2 x 20 minute presentations. And tell us what topics which would be useful to discuss in the round table!

Are you attending ISBA & working on ancient animal DNA? On Tuesday 26th ~2-4pm we will Board the AaRC with an in-person event! Join us for seminars, a round table event, and of course networking! If you'd like to attend and/or present, sign up below @isba11.bsky.social @aarc-community.bsky.social

At this point, these NASA employees fully understand that signing a letter like this means the Trump administration will likely fire them and even perhaps go after them personally Yet rather than remain silent, they chose to speak up They are heroes, one and all

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

One more thing: you could argue that science is INHERENTLY inefficient! Performing experiments and refining hypotheses is an iterative, repetitive process, especially when you are starting to try and understand a biological process from first principles

recognizing science as a creative endeavor could totally reframe the conversation about optimization and scientific process, placing the emphasis on providing some degree of security and time to allow for failure and produce innovation, similar to what we have had in our most recent history

Finally, I don't know why we resist defining scientific research as a creative endeavor. Any scientist who has achieved some degree of professional success recognizes the creativity and the bursts of conceptual understanding that accompany major innovation.

The manager for the Downey Animal Care Center, urges people who are in a position to adopt to stop by to visit dogs like Canela, a five-year-old Belgian Malinois. A total of 18 animals have been turned in due to the deportations. By @janettev.bsky.social 🐕 lataco.com/ice-raids-pe...

Let’s be clear: This is political censorship. Just as CBS’ parent company handed Trump $16 million to settle a spurious lawsuit, this decision is about preemptively bowing to a regime that demands obedience. We stand with Stephen Colbert and every voice that Trump wants silenced.