www.abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/teac...

Safe the date!
Evening lecture on 12 February 2026 by Rick Schulting @leizarchaeology.bsky.social
on an all too timely topic...

⏳ 1-week countdown to the Postgraduate Fair!
📍 Elphinstone Hall
📅 Tue 17 Feb

Hear from staff & students, ask questions, and visit school stands to plan your next step.
Register: www.abdn.ac.uk/study...

#AberdeenPGFair #AberdeenPostgrad #NextStepAberdeen

Excited and proud 😊 to share the final chapter of @hjorvik.bsky.social 's PhD thesis:

Seven Millennia of Human Exploitation drove genomic Changes in Iberian Sheep

Comments welcome! 🧬🧪🏺🐑

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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📣 The @scilifelab.se #ddls postdoc (2yrs) offers a great community + training + all social benefits!

Happy to discuss your own project ideas! I also have some ideas on ARGs, pangenomes or biobank-scale datasets 🧬🐏🧪🖥️

Deadline is Mar 31 but some admin things need to be handled well in advance!

A new year is here and there’s just 10 days to apply for the new #SEA4FUTURE #S4F #postdoc position to work with us on #eDNA and #Sustainability of #Mediterranean #Fisheries (link below!)
🐟 🧬 🦐
Don’t miss out on the opportunity!
@thefsbi.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social @icesmarine.bsky.social

QUARTILES DLA: Oak genetics through time: ancient DNA analysis of sub-fossil oak for woodland management and conservation at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - QUARTILES DLA: Oak genetics through time: ancient DNA analysis of sub-fossil oak for woodland management and conservation at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

We’re excited to offer a fully-funded PhD position (NERC & BBSRC-funded QUARTILES) focusing on oak conservation and restoration. The project features ancient DNA analysis of archeological oak specimens as a key element of the research. @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social #ancientDNA #conservation

Genomic study reveals how people moved pigs across the Pacific A new study, published in the journal Science, reveals how millennia of human migration across Pacific islands led to the introduction of invasive pig species all over the Asia-Pacific region.

Genomic study reveals how people moved pigs across the Pacific 🐖⛵️🌏 phys.org/news/2025-12...

Senior Research Technician at University of Exeter Explore professional services job openings, including the Senior Research Technician position, on jobs.ac.uk. Apply today and discover more about this role.

Senior Research Technician post in our department at Exeter! Closing date 4 Jan - be quick! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV452/s...

What did people in China eat for 8,000 years after the arrival of farming? Meng Zhang, Andrew Millard and I used c. 6,500 isotope samples from humans and animals to find out. Open Access article here: doi.org/10.1016/j.qu... Come for the C3 plants, stay for the pig husbandry...

QUARTILES DLA: Oak genetics through time: ancient DNA analysis of sub-fossil oak for woodland management and conservation at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - QUARTILES DLA: Oak genetics through time: ancient DNA analysis of sub-fossil oak for woodland management and conservation at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

We’re excited to offer a fully-funded PhD position (NERC & BBSRC-funded QUARTILES) focusing on oak conservation and restoration. The project features ancient DNA analysis of archeological oak specimens as a key element of the research. @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social #ancientDNA #conservation

Were Ancient Wolves And Bronze Age Humans Each Other’s Friends? Wolf bones unearthed on a tiny island in the Baltic Sea were found to be thousands of years old, and bore multiple signs of living alongside ancient humans.

“We found that the wolf with the most complete genome had low genetic diversity, lower than any other ancient wolf we’ve seen,”

“This is similar to what you see in isolated or bottlenecked populations – or in domesticated organisms.” @anders-bergstrom.bsky.social

www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...

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...

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/...

Ancient wolves on remote Baltic Sea island reveal link to prehistoric humans Cave discovery of wolf remains tells a tale of an unexpected relationship with humans.

Researchers discovered early signs of domestication by analysing the remains of two wolves who lived in modern-day Sweden 3-5,000 years ago.

www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-11...

During the earliest stages of domestication, dogs in archaeological sites would be indistinguishable from wolves.

Unless you find them on a small island where no wolves would survive on their own, eating things wolves normally don’t eat.

Such as here:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

“Let me get this straight, you want me to sail over the Baltic to Gotland with a full-grown wolf in my boat?”

“Don’t worry, he’s pescatarian.”

🐺 Wolves in dog's clothing 🐺

Our latest in @pnas.org uncovers a surprise three to five thousand years ago: 2 canids in human contexts on a tiny island in the middle of the Baltic Sea, that ate marine food—but had 100% gray wolf ancestry.

Where they tame wolves, or even an incipient domestication?

Handlingskraft eller ett fortsatt förfall – ni väljer DEBATT. Östersjöns fiskpopulationer är i fritt fall. Tre av fyra sillbestånd ligger under fastställda bevarandenivåer, skarpsillen har pressats ner till en reko

Det är akut läge för fisken i Östersjön. Utan kraftfulla politiska åtgärder kommer fisket att slås ut och havets ekosystem skadas, i värsta fall permanent. Vågar vi hoppas att regeringen kan sluta gynna industritrålarna och börja förvalta havet för framtiden?
www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/a/kw2...

Figure showing ancestry of global dogs.

Dogs are humanity's best friend—but how long has it been that way? 🐕

This Science study investigated ancient dog genomes, revealing a complicated genetic legacy that reflects a long, shared history with humans.

Learn more on #InternationalDogDay: https://scim.ag/41mQvR6

Class of 2025: five PhD students reveal realigned priorities in wake of COVID and cuts Scientists who began their doctoral studies in 2020 found their feet during a global pandemic and are graduating into an uncertain and chaotic future.

Scientists who began their doctoral studies in 2020 found their feet during a global pandemic and are graduating into an uncertain and chaotic future

go.nature.com/45asSNK

Our new paper is out! #stableisotopes #cavebears new data from Serbia and a wide reviews of late Pleistocene cave bear isotope data!

Interesting stuff from Rapa Nui. You can read the whole paper below, and my short take in the Spectator here (much of the argument feels realistic, though I'm not convinced it's - yet? - supported by the data)
www.spectator.co.uk/article/was-...

Research Fellow Archaeological Science (RICHeS Scientist) at Queen's University Belfast An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Fellow Archaeological Science (RICHeS Scientist) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

Research Fellow, Archaeological Sciences
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU880/r...

Graduation time, congrats again @lucyjkoster.bsky.social! With @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social

Researchers sequence first genome from Ancient Egypt Egypt, anthropology, archaeology, history, Ancient Egypt, Biology, Genomics, Genome, Genes, Migration, Research, Nature

LJMU and Francis Crick Institute Researchers have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from a man who lived around 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, the age of the first pyramids.

www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/new...

First human genome from ancient Egypt sequenced from 4,800-year-old teeth Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ancient Egyptian.

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ancient Egyptian

https://go.nature.com/44bHYCh

Researchers sequence first genome from ancient Egypt Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from an individual who lived around 4,500 to 4,800...

Researchers from the Crick and @ljmuofficial.bsky.social have extracted and sequenced DNA from an individual who lived in Egypt around 4,500 years ago, making it the oldest genome from ancient Egypt sequenced to date.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-07...

Whole-genome ancestry of an Old Kingdom Egyptian - Nature Whole-genome sequencing of an ancient male Egyptian revealed a mixture of North African Neolithic and eastern Fertile Crescent ancestry, suggesting human migration between Egypt and Mesopotamia by the...

Forty years after Svante Pääbo kicked off this extraordinary field of science, today sees report of the first whole-genome sequence of an ancient Egyptian (from 2855–2570BCE). Exciting work from @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social, @flinklinus.bsky.social, & co at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social, @crick.ac.uk.🧬🧪