Nice recent article in Nature about sediment DNA and its impacts on human evolution and archaeology, featuring two of our great colleagues here in Vienna, Pere Gelabert and Ben Vernot @heasvienna.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If you're in Vancouver BC in June and love woolly dogs (who doesn't?!), come to our event -- "The Woolly Dog: An Evening of Story, Film, and Coast Salish Knowledge". There will also be a screening of the short film "Threads That Bind: The Story of the Woolly Dog"!! So excited!! tinyurl.com/yckcdxct

I'm pleased to present with my fellow APART-USA colleague @mattminich.bsky.social at Pint of Science Wien next week! We will be speaking on our research & why science needs freedom. Our event sold out! See ya'll there! Pub quiz!!! tinyurl.com/wynn557p

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...

#HEASMember @undeaddandy.bsky.social introducing @niallcooke.bsky.social for a #HEASTalk taking place now online and in-person in the #UBB @univie.ac.at

We (with @gatag.bsky.social) are happy to share our discussion, where we explore three cases of matrilocality and genetic matriline connections identified with ancient DNA. You can find the open access paper published in evolutionary human sciences: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Thx @gatag.bsky.social for the excellent photo 🔥

@undeaddandy.bsky.social from #HEASVienna introducing #KevinDaly for a #HEASTalk taking place now online and in-person in the #UBB @univie.ac.at

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Still time to sign up! Register on our website: animal-adna.org/events/2026/...

Lovely story by David Grimm at Science too: www.science.org/content/arti...

Oh hey. Look at that! So many fabulous ancient doggies! We love our dogs and so did our palaeolithic ancestors. Huge congrats to the amazing people who contributed to the sister studies revealing the deep time of fuzzy tummies. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This month's #AaRCTikTalks goes to the Land DownUnder! Join us on March 27th for a matinee (9am CET time) with Loukas Koungoulos and Shioban Evans.

Two upcoming events with one sign up! AaRC Online Conference – Tuesday, May 19 (virtual) ICP In-Person Meet-Up – Monday, June 22 in Stockholm (in person) Here is a link to register/submit an abstract forms.gle/Kse1kPYnpsVg...

Thanks to all the speakers who participated in our symposium today! If you weren’t able to make it ,watch this account for a thread 🧵 coming soon linking to our speakers’ work and discussing all we learned about domestication, metagenomes, tapeworms, woolly dogs and more! 🤓 #AABA2026 #aaba2026

Brb I’m quitting baby anthropology and becoming a dog anthropologist 🥹🥹🥹

I'm at #AABA2026 & will give a talk Fri 8:15AM in Session 20 AAAG/AABA Joint Symposium: Human-Associated Genomes in Anthropological Genetics! Even tho my abstract says 1 thing I'm instead talking Coast Salish woolly dogs & my current community-led research instead of just dog genomics. Enjoy!!!!

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

Registration is now open for our next online AaRCademy workshop focusing on relatedness! #aDNA

Can safely way this is the craziest and coolest study I have led. We chart the evolution of sheeppox virus, finding it in the Eurasian steppe ~3700 years ago, and also in a LOT of parchment from medieval Europe (made from a range of animals skins!) #aDNA

Myself and authors 1 & 2 of our SPPV pre-print at Cambridge, where several of the sheeppox-positive parchment are conserved. @louis-lhote.bsky.social and Luisa Sacristán. (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...)

In order to register, follow the link in our website: animal-adna.org/events/2026/...

#AaRCademy is back with another animal #aDNA workshop. This time, @jolijnerven.bsky.social will showcase the state-of-the-art methods to explore the relatedness between our samples. Join us online on April 16th, 14:00 CET!

"I’ve spent almost a decade of my life training and working on my research, & this is what I’ve chosen to dedicate my life to. And I have to go where I can do this." - @undeaddandy.bsky.social in this #TIME piece on the Austrian #APARTUSA program Glad to have you, Audrey! time.com/7379376/scie...

Please spread the word, and get in touch with me if you are interested or have questions! We have a great team here, and we're looking for great people to join. :) We will be reviewing applications as the come in, so apply soon, and please by March 1st.

We are seeking two students: One would develop computational methods for the analysis of ancient DNA from sediments, and apply these tools to novel datasets. The second would generate and analyze aDNA data from archaeological sediments at a number of Holocene sites.

Are you interested in human DNA from ancient sediments? Do you want to do a PhD in Vienna? We have two open positions in our group! You can learn more and apply here (scroll down to the very bottom, ours are the last two listings): careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/s...

Welcoming University of Vienna's first #APARTUSA fellow: Audrey Lin. 🥳 @undeaddandy.bsky.social She is an evolutionary molecular biologist who studies animals and viruses. 🦠 Thanks to the APART-USA fellowship program she will be able to bring her project from the @amnh.org in New York to #univie. ⤵️

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

New #AaRC Blog entry from @aarc-community.bsky.social where we interviewed Dr. @tatianafeuerborn.bsky.social about her research project on the genetic legacy of Greenland's sled dogs (Qimmit) she presented in January 2026 #AaRCTikTalks. #Greenland #Dog #aDNA www.animal-adna.org/blog/2026/01...

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Home for the next 4 years! Thank you to @univie.ac.at & @oeaw.bsky.social 🧬

📢 Announcing the speakers for the @aarc-community.bsky.social TikTalk seminar for January 2026! Look forward to hearing from @tatianafeuerborn.bsky.social and Arianna Weingarten, presenting on their work on Greenland Sled Dog 🐶 and Middle Pleistocene (!) horses 🐴 respectively. Exciting! Join us!

New York Times, January 16, 1995. For as long as there has been diversity in Star Trek, straight white men have been complaining that it's too woke / PC / whatever. This phenomenon predates VOYAGER, of course, but it hit that series especially hard.

THANKYOU to our amazing #PAG33 OneHealth Hologenomics speakers @keyfm.bsky.social @dsussfeld.bsky.social @annakovalenko.bsky.social @akang3705.bsky.social Kristina Kordova & Anders Götherström! Ancient plague & parvovirus! AMR genes! Bat ectoparasite microbiomes! & the clap is thriving in the USA! 🎉

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...