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Postdoc researching ancient pathogen genomics 🦠⏳💀| Interested in ancient genomes and disease genetics | she/her 🏳️‍🌈

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Victoria Mullin @victoriaemullin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A century of moss carder bee genomes. It's great to see this work published. Thanks to all our collaborators :)
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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A huge congratulations to Tessa Zeibig for her first dissertation publication about ancient parvovirus B19! It was such a pleasure to collaborate on this study!
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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Maika Nguyen @maikanguyen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We were talking about life in Leipzig and moving back to Ireland just the other day. Then AfD wins elections in Saxony-Anhalt and Ireland proposes to restrict access to citizenship "to be more in line with other European Union member states".
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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I'm hiring a postdoc as part of my ERC project - the deadline is tomorrow noon GMT, apologies for the little notice If you have interest but can't make the deadline, please DM/email me immediately and i can try extend the deadline a few days
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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I'm actually disgusted by this.
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Rules for seeking Irish citizenship to be tightened under proposals due to go to Cabinet
Candidates would have to be resident in the country for eight years and undertake language test under proposed overhaul
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Marco Capodiferro @marcocapo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Our paper on archaic introgression in imputed ancient genomes is out. Imputation performs better in archaic regions, making Neanderthal and Denisovan segments detectable in low-coverage data. Thousands of archived genomes become usable. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Archaic ancestry inference in imputed ancient human genomes - Nature Communications
Genotype imputation enables accurate detection of Neanderthal and Denisovan ancestry in low-coverage ancient genomes and allows the identification of introgressed haplotypes as well as candidate genes...
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Louis L'Hôte @louis-lhote.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Extremely happy to share our new study on Sheeppox virus (SPPV) ! We notably found many genomes in Medieval parchments🦠📖 A short thread about it : share.google/JqVOTB2lvxcO...
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Three thousand five hundred years of sheeppox virus evolution inferred from archaeological and codicological genomes
Sheeppox virus (SPPV) is a major livestock pathogen causing economic hardship through reduced production and death of vulnerable sheep, with written descriptions of sheeppox-like disease recorded sinc...
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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Day 3 of #ICP2026 with these lovely people.
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Mateja Hajdinjak @matejahajdi.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Ancient human DNA from the cave walls! 🤯 Wonderful new paper led by Alba Bossoms Mesa and a great team of people that made this work possible.
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Niall Cooke @niallcooke.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
A highlight of the Leipzig running calendar every year! www.eva.mpg.de/press/news/a...
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Success at the 2026 Leipzig Firmenlauf
On 17 June, colleagues from across MPI-EVA joined more than 22,000 participants in one of Leipzig’s biggest company running events, achieving strong results in the team rankings
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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
If you're you have experience in working in animal / pathogen #aDNA and are interested in a postdoctoral position as part of my ERC Project HERDPATH, please DM/email me kevin[at]palaeome.org
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Margherita Colucci @margheritac17.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
🦟 Out and on a shiny new cover of Science Advances: we use a novel approach to study malaria impact on early human groups - malaria wasn't just a threat, it shaped human habitat choice in sub-Saharan Africa in the past 74,000 years. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Malaria shaped human spatial organization for the past 74 thousand years
Malaria has shaped human habitat choice, exchange, and dispersal since the late Pleistocene in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Victoria Mullin @victoriaemullin.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Come join our aDNA community at Trinity College Dublin and explore medieval ruminant genomes! Funded PhD studentship in ancient animal genomics at Trinity College Dublin. Deadline 27th May 2026 Please see the information attached for full description and application process.
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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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
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Evidence of sheeppox in 17th-19th century France: a multi-disciplinary investigation of a sheep mass mortality assemblage
Epizootic outbreaks posed major threats to food security, economic stability, and animal welfare in past communities. While these events and their impacts are well documented in historical records, ve...
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Maika Nguyen @maikanguyen.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
🖋️ really happy to be a part of @the4facedliar.bsky.social's upcoming issue - can't believe I was highly commended! I'm looking forward to reading the rest 📖
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Jolijn Erven @jolijnerven.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
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
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Iseult @iseultjackson.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
🦠💀🦠 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...
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Evolutionary history and recurrent host adaptation in ancient Salmonella enterica
Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica is an extremely diverse bacterial pathogen causing frequent infections and foodborne disease among human populations. More than 1500 different bacterial strains (se...
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Iseult @iseultjackson.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Second craziest thing you'll read today: from 2026 I will be leading an @erc.europa.eu Starter Grant project. HERDPATH will explore how livestock and their pathogens co-evolved during the last 10,000 years. PhD advertisements to come! Press release below with one of the few good photos of me.
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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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!
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Marco Capodiferro @marcocapo.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Turns out imputation of introgressed archaic regions in aDNA works really well — sometimes even better than for the rest of the genome. More on this (and other cool results) in our new preprint 👇 #aDNA #ArchaicIntrogression #imputation doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Archaic ancestry inference in imputed ancient human genomes
When modern humans expanded from Africa into Eurasia, they interbred with archaic hominins such as Neanderthals and Denisovans. This groundbreaking discovery, made in part possible through the genomic...
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Pooja Swali @poojaswali.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Excited to announce our paper on ancient Borrelia genomes is finally out! 🦠💀We document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever, published today in @science.org‬ with @lucyvandorp.bsky.social and @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social #aDNA 🏺🧪🧬 Main findings and paper below: 🧵⬇️
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Pooja Swali @poojaswali.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
PhD opportunity on ancient humans and pathogens 🦠👀 🤩 #aDNA www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Ancient human and pathogen genomics at the insular edges of Eurasia at Trinity College Dublin on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Ancient human and pathogen genomics at the insular edges of Eurasia at Trinity College Dublin, listed on FindAPhD.com
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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Séamas O'Reilly: Trans people have spent a decade being attacked in a moral panic
The poor provision of unisex children’s facilities— which reinforces gender stereotypes and inconveniences women and men both — was, incidentally, an issue I remember being quite talked-about a decade...
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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The way the algorithms keep us hemmed into a handful of news stories has really been bothering me recently www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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Patrick Freyne: Returning home from Chad, I feel there’s a glitch in western empathy
The Sudan war is the world’s biggest humanitarian disaster, but it seems our human compassion is taken up by other conflicts
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Jolijn Erven @jolijnerven.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
🐐 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​
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Inferring domestic goat demographic history through ancient genome imputation
Goats were among the earliest managed animals, making them a natural model to explore the genetic consequences of domestication. However, a challenge in ancient genomic analysis is the relatively low ...
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SPAAM @spaam-community.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
#AncientMetagenomeDir is expanding to include C14 dating & detailed archaeological/historical info for all samples! 📜✨ 🗓️ Join our Hackathon on April 29th from 10-17 CEST and contribute to this groundbreaking project! 🙌
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SPAAM @spaam-community.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
🚨 New release of #AncientMetagenomeDir! (v25.03.0, Historic Centre of Cordoba) github.com/SPAAM-commun... It is a community resource of #metadata of >2K shotgun-sequenced #AncientMetagenome or ancient microbial genome enriched samples & >5K libraries. Stats below (🧵 1/5)
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Release v25.03: Historic Centre of Cordoba · SPAAM-community/AncientMetagenomeDir
Release v25.03.0 includes 8 new publications, representing 132 new ancient host-associated metagenome samples, 33 new ancient microbial genomes, and 0 new ancient environmental samples. This brings...
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Nada Salem @nadasalem.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I'm beyond excited to share our new paper in Nature! We sequenced the first ancient human autosomal genomes from the Central Sahara, two ~7,000-year-old individuals from Takarkori in Libya, revealing a long-isolated North African lineage: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here's a short thread: (1/n)
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Ancient DNA from the Green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage - Nature
Pastoralism spread through cultural diffusion into the Green Sahara, where an isolated, distinct North African ancestry persisted.
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Marco Capodiferro @marcocapo.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🎓 PhD Position Available in the Population and Evolutionary Genetics group at Trinity College Dublin ☘️ . More details👇
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Jolijn Erven @jolijnerven.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Interested in human-pig-boar interactions? Read our new paper on human-pig-boar relationships in Neolithic Europe 🐷🐗🧬. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Archaeogenomic insights into commensalism and regional variation in pig management in Neolithic northwest Europe | PNAS
The relationship between humans and pigs has changed dramatically since their domestication in southwest Asia and subsequent human-induced introduc...
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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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/...
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Archaeogenomic insights into commensalism and regional variation in pig management in Neolithic northwest Europe | PNAS
The relationship between humans and pigs has changed dramatically since their domestication in southwest Asia and subsequent human-induced introduc...
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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
We really want this to be an event that ECRs can share their research in front of a friendly audience of other animal palaeogenomics enthusiasts. Please, the more weird and wonderful the submissions the better! #aDNA
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i-light-maka.bsky.social @i-light-maka.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Finally getting some of my research for my PhD out there! Hopefully soon in a journal near you ;) Ancient Y. pestis infection from a sheep falls on the LNBA lineage, previously only known from humans! +molecular evolutionary analysis to leverage the ever increasing number of ancient genomes known!
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 10/02/2025
“So why would I go through the pretense of peer review if the process is ultimately outsourced to an algorithm? I do not care for the aesthetics of peer review. We are not children playing academics. We are supposed to be doing substantive, not performative work.”
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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Very cool work on recent demographic history in Ireland and Britain - congratulations Ashwini Shanmugam and Ross Byrne! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A genetic perspective on the recent demographic history of Ireland and Britain - European Journal of Human Genetics
European Journal of Human Genetics - A genetic perspective on the recent demographic history of Ireland and Britain
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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Thread and open access version to come- Ancient genomics and the origin, dispersal, and development of domestic sheep | Science search.app/gtSKYHF5HqRa... #adna
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Ancient genomics and the origin, dispersal, and development of domestic sheep
The origins and prehistory of domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are incompletely understood; to address this, we generated data from 118 ancient genomes spanning 12,000 years sampled from across Eurasia. Ge...
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Dan Bradley @brad-dan.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Delighted that our new paper on female-centred kinship in Celtic Britain is out in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Arev P. Sümer @arevsumer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I am very happy to share our new paper on the genetics of some of the first modern humans who ever lived in Europe! We sequenced nuclear DNA from 13 specimens from Ranis in Germany, and found that they belonged to at least 6 individuals. www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/n)
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Earliest modern human genomes constrain timing of Neanderthal admixture - Nature
Nature - Earliest modern human genomes constrain timing of Neanderthal admixture
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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Are you an Early Career Research (PhD, postdoc, new group leader) working in Animal Ancient DNA? Want to present your work to the @aarc-community.bsky.social community? Express your interest in participating in our AaRC TikTalk Seminar series with the link below! #aDNA
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AaRC TikTalk Seminars - Expression of Interest
Please let us know if you are interested in presenting at the AaRC TikTalks Seminars. The seminars are held on the last Friday of every month. Speakers are currently open to graduate students (PhDs an...
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Linda Ongaro @lindaongaro.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I am happy to share my latest article published on @uk.theconversation.com, written for a broad audience, where I summarise our review about the Denisovans! 🧬✨ Discover their fascinating genetics and how they shaped human history. theconversation.com/their-dna-su...
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Their DNA survives in diverse populations across the world – but who were the Denisovans?
The discovery of a finger bone in a cave in Siberia some 15 years ago kicked off a race to unravel the mysteries of an entirely new group of humanoids.
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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Armenian demographic history from @anahit19.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex...
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Demographic history and genetic variation of the Armenian population
A whole-genome study of Armenians shows homogeneous genetic structure across the region, with a recent bottleneck explaining the distinctiveness of the Sasun population. Our findings reject the Balkan...
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