Proud to share that I’ve been awarded the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen Prize for Interdisciplinarity for my PhD research 🎉

A wonderful recognition! I’m excited for what’s next.

Read my interview here (in Dutch): lnkd.in/e7PATG-J

Next Thursday (April 16th) the @aarc-community.bsky.social is hosting an online workshop on #ancientDNA #imputation and #relatedness with @jolijnerven.bsky.social!
Keen to sign up? Here's the link! docs.google.com/forms/d/1kUg...

Don't forget to submit an abstract! Looking forward hearing from you!

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 30 March 2026 Derek Mooney and guests explore the natural world in all its forms.

I was on Mooney Goes Wild talking goats! Cannot describe how sleep deprived I was recording this.

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 30 March 2026 - Mooney Goes Wild share.google/I4GNDt7kF2bF...

Out today is our paper 'Genomic history of early dogs in Europe', in which we uncover the identity of the dogs that lived in Europe before agriculture—during the Paleolithic & Mesolithic periods: doi.org/10.1038/s415.... A thread ⬇️ (10)

@biouea.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social

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...

Come join us on both!

The online conference will have keynotes from Torsten Günther and He Yu!

We would love to know what you are working on! Submit an abstract and see you then

The Seychelles warbler is found on Cousin Island in the Seychelles. | Image Claire Lok Sze Tsui, UEA Reference: Chuen Zhang Lee, Sarah F. Worsley, Charli S. Davies, Jan Komdeur, Falk Hildebrand, Hannah L. Dugdale and David S. Richardson: Host immunogenetic variation and gut microbiome functionality in a wild vertebrate population. Microbiome, 12 March 2026

🐦What can we learn about our own health from the Seychelles warbler?

Dr Chuen Zhang Lee & his team @rug.nl @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social have uncovered a hidden link between gut health and the immune system, thanks to this small songbird.🎵

Curious? Read more👇
🔗 www.rug.nl/fse/news/cli...
🧪 #SciComm

Wanna learn how to explore your genomic data to know how related your samples and populations are to each other? Come and join us and @jolijnerven.bsky.social on our next #AaRCademy workshop! April 16h at 14:00 CET!

Old goats: 3,000 years of genetic connectivity of the domestic goat in Ireland The domestic goat likely first arrived to the island of Ireland as part of the introduction of agriculture approximately 5900 years ago, and remains a…

Our paper "Old goats: 3,000 years of genetic connectivity of the domestic goat in Ireland", is now online at the Journal of Archaeological Science! #aDNA

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...

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

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

Please RT to share the word! 🧪

Genetic analysis of 7,000 year old preserved goat leather from Cueva de los Murciélagos (Albuñol, Spain). Advances in ancient DNA research have expanded the range of materials from which genetic information can be recovered, enabling the analysis of atypical materials. These often preserve both host and e...

Another #aDNA preprint! We recovered DNA from 7,000 year old (!) goat leather from Cueva de los Murciélagos - and see a genetic link with Bermeya goats today!

Credit to Francisco Martínez-Sevilla for seeing me on Youtube(?!) + reaching out to collaborate - there's still value in the internet.

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...

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/...

I'll be presenting at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social at the School of Biological Sciences, 2nd December, 1pm - please come along to hear about #aDNA, domestication, and disease!

Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past - Uppsala University Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University

Become our colleague! - 2yr Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past (UU) @humanpastcenter.bsky.social 🧪

Great place to work at (ok, I am biased), integration with archaeologists and linguists + pretty flexible research topic

www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Check out our paper, we now included a comparison between glimse1 and glimpse2!

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Chimeric Reference Panels for Genomic Imputation Abstract. Despite transformative advances in genomic technologies, missing data remains a fundamental constraint that limits the full potential of genomic

Excited to share our new paper in
@GeneticsGSA
! We developed "Retriever," a novel method that enables high-quality genotype imputation in non-model organisms. 🧬 Congratulations to Charles on his first PhD paper!

Paper: doi.org/10.1093/gene...

A thread 🧵👇

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...

🦠💀🦠 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...

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Water Buffalo Population Genomics The Department of Biology, Faculty of Science at University of Copenhagen is offering a post doc position to work on population genomic analyses in water buffal

🚀 We’re hiring a #Postdoc!
🔬 Join our group in Copenhagen to study Water Buffalo 🐃 #Population #Genomics
Highly motivated & enthusiastic candidates are welcome!

👉 **Apply:** candidate.hr-manager...

⏰Deadline Oct 15th 2025
#WaterBuffalo #Conservation #EvolutionaryBiology

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

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!

My student Louis L'Hôte presenting his work on ancient sheeppox virus at #isba11 #aDNA

Cell Press: STAR Protocols STAR Protocols is an open access, peer-reviewed journal from Cell Press. We offer structured, transparent, accessible, and repeatable step-by-step experimental and computational protocols from all are...

Interested in measuring genetic load? We have a new paper out providing a modified version of GERP which is more user friendly in wildlife species and with scripts to automate making input files and pulling out derived alleles in your species #consgen #popgen star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/4202

Postdoctoral Position in Wildlife Palaeogenomics!

Come join us in beautiful Stockholm!

su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Inferring domestic goat demographic history through ancient genome imputation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04....

Our results demonstrate that genotype imputation is a valuable tool for maximizing information from low-coverage goat palaeogenomes.

This approach offers new opportunities to investigate the genetic impacts of early domestication and herd dispersal—directions we will be continuing to explore!