Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years

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/...

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World’s oldest dog identified at ancient hunter-gatherer site Bones of 15,800-year-old puppy push confirmed origin of our canine companions back nearly 5000 years

Lovely story by David Grimm at Science too:

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Dogs were widely distributed across western Eurasia during the Palaeolithic - Nature Analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial genomes from archaeological canid remains found across Europe and Anatolia shows that a genetically homogeneous dog population was already widely distributed acro...

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...

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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!!!!

The old Irish goat is a living link to Ireland’s Bronze Age Study shows distinct breed has genetic links to goats that lived in Ireland 3,000 years ago

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

AMAZING WORK, ALL!!!

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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!
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Happy to be here❣️

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...

Thanks Pedro!!

Audrey Lin joins Faculty of Life Sciences through APART-USA Fellowship Audrey Lin is one of six U.S. researchers from leading American universities who will soon continue their work at the University of Vienna. Their relocation has been made possible by the APART-USA fel...

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

bb goatboy!

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!