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Natalia Przelomska @natalia-asp.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

still figuring out what to attend at #SMBE2026 ? come check out our ancient plants session #aDNA #herbariomics #botany 🌾🌱🌻🌿🌸 🫛🧬

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Botanical University Challenge @bucbotany.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🧪🌳🐝 Botanical University Challenge #BUC2026. All this year's teams signed-up; a record 32 from around the UK and Ireland. Some new, some returning, some regular, two present in every competition since the start in 2016! Welcome to all! Which ones are you supporting?

Outline map UK and Ireland indicating approximate locations all Botanical University Challenge 2026 teams. Also logos of the 32 institutions.

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Birds of the World | The Cornell Lab @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

MAJOR NEWS! We just launched an awesome new tool! The illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer lets users trace any bird’s lineage, compare species relationships, and explore major evolutionary milestones with a click of a button. SHARE and EXPLORE! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/phy...

IMAGE SHOWS GRAPHIC OF CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY PHYLOGENY EXPLORER TOOL.

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Audrey Lin, DPhil @undeaddandy.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

📢 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!

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Some people think science is just for nerds, but science is the foundation of the modern world and science is what made America great. Even though many of us don’t work directly in space science, we were inspired to become scientists by NASA. Destroying it makes zero sense.

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NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts

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Greger Larson @gregerlarson.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

What's that? 5 ancient doggy papers in 10 days is too many dogs? Can I interest you in some cats? Perhaps a complete retelling of cat domestication, dispersal, and replacement across Eurasia? As you wish! Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Cell Genomics www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

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The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago

The domestic cat (Felis catus) descends from the African wildcat Felis lybica lybica. Its global distribution alongside humans testifies to its successful adaptation to anthropogenic environments. Unc...

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Audrey Lin, DPhil @undeaddandy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

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

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A legacy of genetic entanglement with wolves shapes modern dogs | PNAS

Dogs evolved through interactions between people and gray wolves during the Late Pleistocene and have been ubiquitous in human societies ever since...

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ICP2026 Stockholm @palaeogenomics.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

⏰ The clock is ticking❗ LESS THAN 10 DAYS LEFT to submit your abstracts (30th Nov). Do it here👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/abstracts/ Many of you are asking for the registration fees 💸. We are still working out the details, but we estimate 400-500€ for regular attendees and 300-400€ for students.

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Abstracts – International Conference on Palaeogenomics 2026

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Natalia Przelomska @natalia-asp.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

1/🧵 Today at #BOUasm25, I’m presenting on the ‘ō‘ū 🦜 a parrot billed-like #Hawaiian #honeycreeper, last seen in 1989. We dive into its population ecology and investigate – did it interbreed with other parrot-billed Hawaiian honeycreepers prior its extinction? doi:10.1098/rsbl.2025.0265 #ornithology

small, olive green passerine bird with a yellow head and parrot-like billed beak, perched on a lichen-covered tree branch

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Glen Hancocks @gleneth93.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

1/6 Today I will be presenting my masters research on the #phylogeny of the waterfowl family Anatidae via the #BOUasm25 conference on BlueSky. What came first, the duck, the goose or the swan? #ornithology #systematics #waterfowl #ducks #geese #swans 1/6

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Andrés Cuervo @amcuervo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Cassie Stoddard'a talk was really insightful and colorful: "sure, we're living exciting times to study the genome, but also to study the phenome, the birds' phenotypes using collections" #BOUasm25 #ornithology #evolution @bou.org.uk

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Anders Bergström @anders-bergstrom.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

A PhD project on historical genomics in the declining red squirrel in Britain is available in my group, through the @aries-dtp.bsky.social. Use historical genomes to track the effects of decline and genetic rescue in this charismatic species. aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships...

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Historical genomics of the declining red squirrel in Britain | Aries

Dr Anders Bergström, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia Professor Cock van Oosterhout, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia Dr Selina Brace…

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Natalia Przelomska @natalia-asp.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

looking forward to presenting at this NHM event next month! 🦜

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Trees DLA @treesdla.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

🌱 Applications are now open for the @ukri.org NERC TREES DLA! Join a vibrant research community tackling key challenges in environmental science, from climate change to biodiversity and geospatial analysis 🔗 Apply now: trees-dla.ac.uk/apply #PhD #EnvironmentalScience #Climate

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Apply | TREES DLA

TREES PhD applications are now open for the 2026 intake of students. The deadline for applications is 5pm on 17th December 2025. SEEDS internship applications are currently closed. TREES offers applic...

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

"In Aotearoa New Zealand, hapori Māori (tribal groups) are the kaitiaki (guardians) of many threatened taonga (treasured) species. There is growing international interest in the resurrection of some of New Zealand’s extinct birds...despite Māori concerns." theconversation.com/return-of-th...

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Return of the huia? Why Māori worldviews must be part of the ‘de-extinction’ debate

There is nothing to stop de-extinction companies using specimens from museum collections, despite little Māori support for reviving lost native species.

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

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...

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LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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Dave Hemprich-Bennett @davehb.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

This is extremely cool: 700 years worth of archaeological artefacts being collected from old nests of bearded vultures (strong contender for the best vulture) www.popsci.com/environment/...

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Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

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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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Natalia Przelomska @natalia-asp.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

grateful for the opportunity to present in this fantastic session on plants animals and epidemics at ISBA last month @isbarchaeology.bsky.social

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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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ISBA - Intl. Soc. for Biomolecular Archaeology @isbarchaeology.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

What a week! 🎉 Big thanks to @isba11.bsky.social for hosting an incredible ISBA conference — so well organized and full of great science.

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AaRC @aarc-community.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Hi Bluesky! While some of you are already on holidays (and others waiting to start them), here is a reminder about our awesome #AaRCTikTalks for this month. Save the date!

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Phil Stevenson @philstevenson.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Tackling climate crisis will increase economic growth, OECD research finds. Well who knew. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Tackling climate crisis will increase economic growth, OECD research finds

Third of global GDP could be lost this century if climate crisis runs unchecked, says report

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 21/03/2025

Scientists used archaeological remains to reconstruct Atlantic sturgeon populations from 200 CE to today. The findings show stark genetic differences between fall and spring spawning groups. buff.ly/tofO1HL @natalia-asp.bsky.social & Logan Kistler, Smithsonian Institution #archaeology

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Atlantic sturgeon were fished almost to extinction − ancient DNA reveals how Chesapeake Bay population changed over centuries

Research that combined archaeology, history and ecology provides a nuanced understanding of the past that could help conservationists better plan for the future.

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Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society @botjlinnsoc.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

This #TaxonomistAppreciationDay we're celebrating the long list of taxonomists that have worked hard to name and classify plants the world over. Without #Taxonomy, species #Conservation would be impossible.

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School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick @warwicklifesci.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

PRESS RELEASE 👇 A research collaboration between Professor Robin Allaby and colleagues, has shown that thousands of years of farming myths and cultural traditions have been key to the survival of the cassava crop (the source of tapioca). bit.ly/4i8aqcB

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Botanical University Challenge @bucbotany.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

🌾🌱🌍🍄🌺🌳🧪 Less than a week to go for #BUC2025! The 31 - YES, THIRTY-ONE teams in Round 1 will meet Dr Chris Dixon asking multiple-choice questions. Streamed YouTube botanicaluniversitychallenge from 14:00 GMT Weds 12 Feb. Watch live or later recording! @thebotanist.bsky.social

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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

🔬 Exciting postdoc opportunity at @NHM_Denmark! Working on reconstructing ocean plastics history (1950s-70s) through sediments & foraminifera. 2-year position in geology dept. Deadline Jan 17! Details: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli... Please boost! 🌊 🔬

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Postdoctoral researcher on ‘Unveiling the Ocean’s plastic time capsule"

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Natalia Przelomska @natalia-asp.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

prospective PhD students: curious about grasses? 🌾 keen to gain skills in population genetics? 🧬 and to explore the past as context to the climate transition? 🌍 with @vorontsovams.bsky.social we are advertising for a TREES PhD project www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/und... please share!

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Understanding grasses to support Madagascar’s livelihoods for the climate transition | TREES DLA

The grasses of Madagascar are an overlooked resource. The early inhabitants of the island herded livestock, supporting pastoral food systems with a diversity of zebu breeds and forages. Like the Holoc...

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