Need to identify viruses in ancient sequenced samples? You may want to try FALCON2 💻🦠🧬👨‍🔬👩‍🔬

doi.org/10.1093/bioi...

github.com/cobilab/FALC...

#bioinformatics #aDNA #viruses #metagenomics

Created a new file in my "Global History of Health" folder today for Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) as a "new" emerging disease. (Friends, it's an ancient disease, and we were just on the verge of getting it under control: link.springer.com/article/10.1...) #histmed #aDNA 🧪🗃️

Ancient biomolecules suggest a learned foraging strategy in extinct cave bears Studying the behavioral ecology of long-extinct species is challenging due to the difficulty in measuring the behavioral phenotype and correlating thi…

What did #cave #bears eat? 🐻 It seems that diet wasn’t shaped by #genetics, sex, or #environment. Instead, #ancient #DNA 🧬 + #isotopes suggest individuals learned their own #foraging strategies.
doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
#MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA

Analysis of medieval burials from Ibiza reveals genetic and pathogenic diversity during the Islamic period - Nature Communications Ibiza, an island in present-day Spain, was under Islamic rule between the 10th and 13th centuries CE. Here, the authors analyse the remains of thirteen individuals from medieval Islamic burials in Ibi...

#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...

Première conférence de la Communauté de Recherche en Archéologie Biomoléculaire et isotopique - Sciencesconf.org CRABi - Communauté de Recherche en Archéologie Biomoléculaire et isotopique - Bordeaux - Novembre 2026

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

Bond between dogs and humans dates back more than 15,000 years, study finds Research suggests hunter-gatherers were feeding dogs and giving them ritual burials as early as the last ice age

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...

How DNA in dirt is shaking up the study of human origins Researchers are pulling clues from genetic material in ice age soils and rewriting chapters of human history.

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

Legacy and Springboard: The Untapped Potential of Archaeological Archives for Scientific Innovation Archaeological archives form a public resource that enables the reinterpretation of original findings from archaeological investigations, provides the raw material for further research, informs mu...

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....

A 5500-year-old Treponema pallidum genome from Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia Treponematosis, a bacterial infection caused by Treponema pallidum subspecies and T. carateum (yaws, bejel, syphilis, pinta), has afflicted humans for millennia. Despite paleopathological evidence…

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

Ancient DNA from Palaeoloxodon naumanni in Japan reveals early evolution of Eurasian Palaeoloxodon Palaeoloxodon, the extinct genus of straight-tusked elephants, originated in Africa and dispersed across Eurasia. We analyzed ancient mitochondrial DN…

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...

Tracing 2500 years of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B diversity through ancient DNA First ancient HHV-6 genomes reveal 2500 years of phylogenetic continuity and provide insights into the endogenization of HHV-6A.

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

Research engineer - Uppsala University Research engineer, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University

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...

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

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!