I'm recruiting a PhD! Project will investigate ancient small ruminant pathogens and their hosts, digging into the consequences of domestication on herd health and zoonoses. Please share for interested EU & UK applicants, incl. final year undergraduates. bit.ly/3HNhHg6

When the bioinformatician wants to gain wet lab experience

The last paper from my thesis work - we report a previously-unknown lineage of the Capra genus, sister to both species/subspecies of Caucasian tur, found in the Taurus Mountains of S. Turkey, @ ~14,000 years ago. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our new paper; were ancient seaways actually highways? doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…

#Ryanair on the plane in Dublin, ready to take off. Just announced 1 hour and 40min delay. Going through security was fine so something else must spoil the departure!

For the morning crowd ans published in eLife! A novel lineage of the Capra genus discovered in the Taurus Mountains of Turkey using ancient genomics doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

Really happy to share this paper describing 2 (different!) mutations causing genetic bone tumours (Multiple Osteochondromas) in medieval Irish individuals: nature.com/articles/s4143…

#proudmum, Sara's first article, from her summer internship. ubique.americangeo.org/map-of-the-wee…

The "Host-pathogen co-evolutionary dynamics through the lens of paleogenomics" symposiums at #SMBE2023 is starting today with the poster session. Very interesting posters and great presenters are waiting for you! Miriam J. Bravo, PhD Federica Pierini Linda Ongaro OfficialSMBE

At #smbe2023 and want to talk ancient domestic sheep? Find me the Cloister indoor space (gulp)

Interested in improving the information content of your low coverage samples? Come talk to me about imputation! Poster #947 in the back room of the S.paolo Cloisters. #SMBE2023 #SMBE23

Come see the aDNA stand at TCD European Researchers Night Start Talking About Research Today #researchMATTERS Trinity College Dublin TCD Genetics & Microbiology

Very excited to say that we are hosting an SMBE Satellite Meeting on Ancient DNA Beyond Allele Frequencies (think haplotypic analysis, ARGs, imputation to facilitate these etc) Really would love researchers involved in ancient animal/non-human to apply!

Our next Plenary Speaker is Dr. Benjamin Peter Benjamin Peter ! Among many interest and achievements, Benjamin has developed methods to infer archaic ancestry segments in low coverage data.

Our last plenary speaker is Dr. Lara Cassidy! Lara has explored questions of recent demography, mating patterns, and kinship networks in the ancient past.

Very cool paper from the brilliant Jolijn Erven and VictoriaMullin !! Imputation of ancient cattle biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Studying ancient animal genomes? Stuck in allele frequency analysis but eager to explore new approaches? Share+discuss your ideas for applying novel methods to your study species. Together, let map out the future of palaeogenomic analyses. Submit your abstract! SMBEmeetings

🚨Deadline Reminder: Applications for "Ancient DNA: Beyond allele frequencies" close tomorrow at midnight (GMT). Don't miss out!

I am very honoured to be elected as FRS today. Thanks to all my wonderful co-workers over the years who made this possible.