#GlobalMiddleAges #MedievalSky #aDNA Paleogenomic study on Islamic Ibiza. 2 individuals suggest Sub-Saharan origins (Senegambia & southern Chad), "providing direct evidence of trans-Saharan connections via military & slave networks." #OpenAccess www.nature.com/articles/s41...
6 days left!
Submit your abstract for the 1st #CRABi Conference
📍 Bordeaux | 🗓️ Nov 12–13, 2026
Ancient DNA, isotopes, proteomics, organic residues & more — all approaches welcome!
crabi.sciencesconf.org
A unique opportunity to connect the francophone research community #Archaeology #aDNA #Isotopes
Abstract submission for #SPAAM8 is now officially OPEN! 🚀
Don't miss the opportunity to share your work and join us in Stockholm on June 22nd 🇸🇪
Online presentations are also possible! 👩🏻💻
Submit your abstract: forms.gle/psw9GS3ZyrLV...
Deadline: May 1st
#aDNA #Metagenomics #seDNA
We are delighted to share our new #aDNA preprint on population continuity and shifts in the Early #Medieval Altai region: 91 new ancient individuals associated with successive cultures in a ca. 1400-year-long time transect.
doi.org/10.64898/202...
#AncientGenomics #ancientDNA #popgen
Hot off the press!🔥🗞️🚨 Congratulations to @gregerlarson.bsky.social & @lachiescarsbrook.bsky.social on this fascinating research. Like & see your your feed fill with #dogs 🐕🦺& 🧬! #DogsofBluesky #aDNA #prehistory
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
This was an interesting lunchtime read: How DNA in dirt is shaking up the study of human origins www.nature.com/articles/d41... including a gorgeous artwork by Pawel Patyk. #aDNA #SedimentaryDNA #archaeologicalscience
New in IA72: Legacy and Springboard: The Untapped Potential of Archaeological Archives for Scientific Innovation
by Barney Sloane
#archaeology 🏺 #archives #research #innovation #science #aDNA #health
doi.org/10.11141/ia....
Ancient #DNA 🧬 uncovers hidden diversity in #treponemal disease. A 5,500-year-old #genome from Colombia reveals a previously unknown T. pallidum lineage 🦠, reshaping our understanding of its early #evolution.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA
Poster announcing a talk titled "SPATIAL INFERENCE OF POPULATION STRUCTURE AND PREHISTORIC HUMAN MOBILITY FROM ANCIENT AND MODERN GENOMES" at the HEAS Seminar Series by Stephan Schiffels (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany), March 23rd 2026 at 10:30 CET. Location: UBB 5.1 University of Vienna.
On my way to Vienna (with punctual trains!) to visit University of Vienna. I will give a talk in the Human Evolution and Archaeological Sciences seminar (HEAS) series tomorrow.
#adna #populationgenetics
These days I am attending #AABA2026 in Denver! Super excited to give a talk this afternoon on our recent work! Come to Plaza A at 3.45 PM if you are interested 🧬🦠🎙️
#aDNA #yersiniapestis
What Did Beachy Head Lady Look Like? A Crucial Case Study
w/ @andybrockman.bsky.social & @judeseal.bsky.social
#archaeology #archaeologynews #aDNA
🐳🧬8 years in the making! 🐳🧬
Our new paper in Cell explores how bowhead whales responded to past climate change - and how commercial whaling reshaped their future.
Check it out here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
#aDNA #PopGen
The applications to this year's HAAM-Summer School are officially open until the 13th of April! #aDNA #ancientDNA #HAAMSummerSchool #HAAM-community #SummerSchool
Applications now open for the 3rd edition of the HAAM summer school! #aDNA 🧬⬇️
Free online aDNA summer school🧬🌎
Learn new methods, train with amazing instructors, and meet students from around the world!
#HAAM-community #aDNA #SummerSchool
Straight-tusked #elephants once roamed across #Eurasia, but one lineage became stranded in Japan?! 🐘🧬 Ancient #mtDNA reveals Palaeoloxodon naumanni as an early-diverging lineage that survived in island isolation.
doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
#MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #palaeogenetics #ancientDNA
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
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.
From #Genes to #History: between February 25–27, 2026, participants of the #HistoGenes #ERC Synergy Project—including our colleagues— met in Vienna at a final conference to share their most important findings.
Read more: bit.ly/4re8DGJ
#AncientGenomics #ancientDNA #aDNA #anthropology #archaeology
New #preprint with Carina Schlebusch
@cschlebu.bsky.social
as one of the co-authors: #Ancient #Pathogen #Genomics in #Africa–Current Evidence and Future Directions. #humanpast #genetics #paleogenomics #aDNA www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...
It's #MetagenomicsMonday again! 🧬🧬🧬Ancient #HHV-6 #genomes revealed that modern HHV-6 diversity was already established centuries ago and that germline integrations stem from ancient founder events.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#SPAAM #aDNA #sixthdisease #roseola #pathogens #viruses #evolution
The @scilifelab.se Ancient DNA Unit is recruiting a (permanent) Research Engineer for planning user projects and generating #aDNA 🧬 data:
Application deadline: March 25th 🧪🏺
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Phylogenetic and dating analysis of ancient and modern sheeppox virus. A. Maximum-likelihood phylogeny of ancient and modern SPPV genomes with ≥5× coverage, rooted using LSDV and GTPV. Nodes with bootstrap support of 100 are indicated by blue circles; other bootstrap values are shown at the corresponding nodes. Clades composed exclusively of modern genomes are collapsed and shown as triangles, and branches corresponding to ancient genomes are highlighted in pink. The grey box delineates the SPPV clade. B. Maximum-likelihood phylogeny of SPPV genomes with placement of low-coverage ancient samples using PathPhynder (Martiniano et al., 2022). For clarity, only the SPPV portion of the phylogeny is shown. Samples are coloured by material type, and low-coverage genomes (<5×) placed using PathPhynder are indicated by red triangles. Nodes with bootstrap support of 100 are marked with blue circles; other values are shown at the corresponding nodes. Tip labels indicate sampling location and calibrated historical date. Host species, sequencing coverage, and sample age are shown as a heatmap adjacent to the tips. C. Time-calibrated Bayesian phylogeny of the SPPV clade, with samples coloured according to material type.
Biopathocodicology?? 🦠🧬🐑 (1/4)
Check out this groundbreaking new #aDNA #pathology paper by @louis-lhote.bsky.social @gingerhowley.bsky.social and colleagues!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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
Registration is now open for our next online AaRCademy workshop focusing on relatedness! #aDNA
#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!
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
Lopopolo et al. 2026, statement on clinical significance of establishing M. lepromatosis' historical depth and geographic distribution: "From a biomedical standpoint, the most immediate implication of these findings is that M. lepromatosis is not a recent or geographically marginal agent, but a deeply diversified pathogen whose lineages reflect long-term persistence and dispersal across the Americas. This matters because deep genomic divergence, within M. lepromatosis and between M. lepromatosis and M. leprae, can plausibly translate into phenotypic differences relevant to clinical care, including variation in virulence, immune recognition, host range, and possibly response to treatment."
Overview study on Mycobacterium lepromatosis--the "new" species of leprosy-- by @marialopopolo.bsky.social Charlotte Avanzi, & @nrascovan.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... Important observations on the clinical implications of these historical findings. #OneHealth #histmed #aDNA
New #aDNA Paper Alert from @martynamolak.bsky.social and team!
In the #LateRomanPeriod #Masłomęcz, now in eastern Poland, gathered people from all corners of Europe!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
