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Katia Bougiouri @katiabou.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Still time to register for the next AaRCademy workshop organized by @aarc-community.bsky.social! Come hear about metadata reporting, ENA data archiving and the metAaRCive database, a community-led initiative of curating ancient animal genomes.

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Louis Bliard @lbliard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

New preprint out with Michael Griesser and @ryangermain.bsky.social, for some comparative analyses in which we find that population growth rates of cooperative breeders are less sensitive to annual variation in precipitation and temperature doi.org/10.32942/X26...

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Katia Bougiouri @katiabou.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The next AaRCademy workshop is coming up on Thursday September 17th! This time @anders-bergstrom.bsky.social and @ddj-sa.bsky.social will dive into #aDNA metadata reporting, archiving data in the ENA and the metAaRCive database, a community-led initiative of curating ancient animal genomes.

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Louis Bliard @lbliard.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Do social bird species have more stable demographic histories? We do not find this to be the case in our new preprint doi.org/10.32942/X2N... Together with @ryangermain.bsky.social and many others

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Katia Bougiouri @katiabou.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Come check out our #SMBE2026 animal #aDNA session tomorrow organised by @aarc-community.bsky.social committee members @germanha.bsky.social, @jolijnerven.bsky.social, Laura Viñas Caron and me at 13:20 in Vandsalen!

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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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Torsten Günther @trstngnthr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I am recruiting a PhD student (fully funded, 4yrs) to analyze modern 🧬 and ancient 🦴 genomic data from humans and domestic animals 🐑 Please share, I am happy to chat at #ICP2026 or #SMBE2026 this summer www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

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PhD student position in Population Genomics - Uppsala University

PhD student position in Population Genomics , Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University

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AaRC @aarc-community.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Less than a week to go until ICP, and we can't wait to meet everyone! Here's the program for the 22nd, featuring an exciting lineup of animal-focused talks and plenty of networking opportunities. See you in Stockholm! Registration is still open.

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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

#SMBE2026 L03: Beyond limits: unlocking the potential of ancient animal genomics 🗓️ Wed Jul 1, 1:20pm 🔗 smbe2026.org/programme

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AaRC @aarc-community.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

As we get closer to ICP, here's a reminder that AaRC is hosting an in-person meet on the afternoon of the 22nd. There will be interesting talks, discussions, and networking opportunities. You can register / submit an abstract here: forms.gle/Kse1kPYnpsVg...

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Deon de Jager @ddj-sa.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The oldest DNA retrieved from an animal fossil is ~1.6 million years old - a mammoth from icy Siberia where cold temperatures preserve DNA well. But have you ever wondered how long #ancientDNA is preserved in animal remains from sunny & warm Africa? Well, wonder now more! doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...

A schematic where five circles are connected to a central bovid tooth with dotted lines. Each circle represents something done with the tooth: Photography, 3D scanning, DNA preseservation evaluation, collagen preservation evaluation , and recording of its occurrence on GBIF.

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Katia Bougiouri @katiabou.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Are you interested in doing local ancestry inference (LAI) using imputed #aDNA? Take a look at our preprint, together with @bodkan.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Katia Bougiouri @katiabou.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Still time to register and attend our next #AaRC virtual conference! We have a super interesting lineup of talks focusing on animal paleogenomics! #aDNA

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AaRC @aarc-community.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

In a little bit more than 15 minutes the recording of our last #AaRCademy series, focused on relatedness using #aDNA with @jolijnerven.bsky.social, will be available on our YT channel. Check it out if you missed it! 🧪🧬🏺https://youtu.be/M0Kd9M08H5U

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Katia Bougiouri @katiabou.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Still time to register and submit an abstract to our next online AaRC conference! #aDNA

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Katia Bougiouri @katiabou.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

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

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Lachie Scarsbrook @lachiescarsbrook.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

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...

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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Join us Friday 27th March at ** 9am GMT ** for our AaRC TikTalk seminar, given this month by two exciting Australian-based researchers Loukas Koungoulos (dingos!) and Siobhan Evans (cave sediment!) #adna @aarc-community.bsky.social

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Katia Bougiouri @katiabou.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Still time to sign up! Join us in this 3-hour workshop led by @jolijnerven.bsky.social to hear about methods and approaches to explore relatedness in #aDNA datasets.

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Katia Bougiouri @katiabou.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

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

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AaRC @aarc-community.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

For those of you who were not able to attend our #AaRCademy workshop on Demographic History analysis with the great Pablo Librado, the recording will be available on our YT channel today at 12:00 CET though this link: youtu.be/41YNBIiFZl0

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Katia Bougiouri @katiabou.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Still time to send an abstract! Deadline is February 3rd. #aDNA

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AaRC @aarc-community.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

It's already January 2026, and that means we have a new year of #AaRCTikTalks! Join us on January 30th at 3pm CET to attend 2 amazing talks with @tatianafeuerborn.bsky.social and Arianna Weingarten.

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Katia Bougiouri @katiabou.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

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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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

❗ 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

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Katia Bougiouri @katiabou.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Still time to register for the our next AaRCademy workshop on demographic history! Deadline is December 5th! #aDNA

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Katia Bougiouri @katiabou.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

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/...

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Imputation of ancient canid genomes reveals inbreeding history over the past 10,000 years | PNAS

The multi-millennia-long history between dogs and humans has placed them at the forefront of archaeological and genomic research. Despite ongoing e...

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Evan Irving-Pease @evanirvingpease.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Delighted to see our paper characterising the inbreeding history of dogs and wolves over the past 10,000 years published this week in @pnas.org. Work led by the excellent @katiabou.bsky.social, and co-supervised by me, Laurent Frantz and Fernando Racimo www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

(A) Genomic inbreeding coefficient (FROH) of imputed and modern dogs plotted as a function of time, calculated based on ROH. Imputed samples are colored based on their geographic grouping, while modern samples are colored in gray. A loess regression was applied with each colored shaded area depicting the SE. (B) Total number of ROH segments plotted against total ROH length for the imputed dogs. Colors correspond to age of imputed samples in years before present (ybp)., while modern samples belonging to each dog group are colored in gray. (C) Map of imputed dog samples colored by their inbreeding coefficient (FROH). Samples with FROH values above 0.1 are indicated.

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Greger Larson @gregerlarson.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

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/...

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Imputation of ancient canid genomes reveals inbreeding history over the past 10,000 years | PNAS

The multi-millennia-long history between dogs and humans has placed them at the forefront of archaeological and genomic research. Despite ongoing e...

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Katia Bougiouri @katiabou.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Registration is now open for our next online AaRCademy workshop focusing on demographic history! Sign up by December 5th. #aDNA

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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Join us on 31st October to celebrate Día de los Muertos with some #ancientDNA from Mexico! Two very exciting talks on 🦣 and 🪴, by Federico Sánchez-Quinto and Marcela Sandoval-Velasco of LIIGH UNAM. Note the later 3pm London time! #aDNA @aarc-community.bsky.social

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Katia Bougiouri @katiabou.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Still one week left to register to our first AaRCademy workshop! Link to registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/1c_c... #aDNA @aarc-community.bsky.social

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AaRC @aarc-community.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

We had a great time yesterday Boarding the AaRC at #ISBA11! Thanks everybody for coming to our first in-person event!

Amanda v. Meuser presenting her talk: Evolutionary dynamics of extinxt and extant moose in North America

William Marsh presenting Life of Dogs - Dogs were widely distributed in West Eurasia during the Palaelothic

Crowd’s view of Deon de Jager’s presentation of the MInAS project

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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Board The AaRC at @isba11.bsky.social ! Very excited to have a great mix of speakers at the animal #adna community meeting If you'd like to join us 26th August for talks, a roundtable discussion and networking, a link is in the threads (ignore mention of abstract!) @aarc-community.bsky.social

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Katia Bougiouri @katiabou.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

📢 We're excited to launch our AaRCademy Workshop Series kicking off October 7th online! 🧬Our first session, "aDNA Data Processing", will be led by Nikolay Oskolkov from Lund University. 📅 Registration closes September 7th! Sign up via the QR code or link below. #aDNA @aarc-community.bsky.social

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Nikolay Oskolkov @oskolkov.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I am starting a computational lab at LIOS, Riga, Latvia, and going to recruit a few people. Please DM if you are interested in a postdoc or PhD position in my Metabolic Research Group within the TARGETWISE project. I can highly recommend Riga, it is a beautiful city with very good living conditions.

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Tatiana Feuerborn @tatianafeuerborn.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Happy to announce that our study examining the genetic history of the Qimmeq (Greenland Sled Dog) came out today in Science. @mhssinding.bsky.social #qimmeq #dogs #palaeogenetics #greenland #greenlandsleddog @science.org #Ilisimatusarfik #globeinstitute #ucph #nih

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Katia Bougiouri @katiabou.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Are you attending ISBA and work with animal aDNA? Sign up and join us at our ISBA networking event happening on Tuesday August 26th brought to you by @aarc-community.bsky.social @isbarchaeology.bsky.social. #adna

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Katia Bougiouri @katiabou.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

If you are at #ISBA11, feel free to join us on August 26th for an AaRC in-person networking event, with short talks and round table discussion. Use the following link if you would like to attend and/or present: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Katia Bougiouri @katiabou.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Still time to sign up for the #AaRConference2025 brought to you by ‪@aarc-community.bsky.social. Join us this Friday May 30th, 13:00-17:00 CET to listen to the latest research in #aDNA of animals 🐊🐕🐂🐋🐖🦎🐑🐪

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AaRC @aarc-community.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

May 30th is fastly approaching, so it is time now to register for the #AaRConference2025! Come and learn about new cool science on animal #aDNA and how it is being used for varied and interesting applications.

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Katia Bougiouri @katiabou.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Exciting opportunity to do a 3 year postdoc with the amazing Katerina Guschanski! Highly recommend applying #aDNA

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Katia Bougiouri @katiabou.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Just over a week left to submit your abstract for the online #AaRConference! We're especially encouraging early career researchers to present their work on #aDNA in animals of all shapes and sizes 🦌🐈🐕🐷🐋🦎🐝🐙🪲🦤🦣🐢🧪🧬. Deadline is March 7th: www.animal-adna.org/events/2025/...

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AaRC @aarc-community.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Abstract submission is open for the online #AaRConference! Join us and invited speakers Laurent Frantz and Evon Hekkala on May 30th to present your research about animal #aDNA and discuss them with the community. All topics #aDNA related are welcomed! 🧪🧬🏺

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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

AaRC is having a half day online conference to celebrate our one year anniversary! With plenary speakers Laurent Frantz and Evon Hekkala. Keep an eye out for abstract submissions in the coming days. Event page below. www.animal-adna.org/events/2025/... #aDNA @aarc-community.bsky.social

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AaRC @aarc-community.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

It´s already February, and that means we have a new #AaRCTikTalks. This month we'll focus on museomics, or the use of museum collections as sources of #aDNA data. Come and check out our amazing speakers on Friday 28th! Save the date!

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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

If you like hearing about #aDNA of animals by Early Career Researchers - join us at AaRC for our seminar series, on the last Friday of every month!

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AaRC @aarc-community.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Next week we will got back to our schedule of #AaRCTikTalks, and this year starts strong with a talk about the population genomics of the extinct Darwin ground sloths of Chile and another about the salmon fisheries of the Coast Salish #aDNA 🧪🏺🧬

AaRC Talks, Friday 31st January 4pm GMT, 5pm CET, 11am EST

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Laurits Skov @lauritsskov.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Very excited (and a bit nervous) to announce that I will be hiring two Postdocs for my new group(!) in Copenhagen to study the Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA which survives in present-day humans. Retweet will be much appreciated :) Link for application: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Join us for the @aarc-community.bsky.social AaRC TikTalk this Friday November 26th, to hear about ancient chickens and genomic erosion of mammoths. Sign up www.animal-adna.org/projects/#er... #ancientDNA #mammoths #chickens

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