Audrey Lin, DPhil

Home for the next 4 years! Thank you to @univie.ac.at & @oeaw.bsky.social 🧬

📢 Announcing the speakers for the @aarc-community.bsky.social TikTalk seminar for January 2026! Look forward to hearing from @tatianafeuerborn.bsky.social and Arianna Weingarten, presenting on their work on Greenland Sled Dog 🐶 and Middle Pleistocene (!) horses 🐴 respectively. Exciting! Join us!

New York Times, January 16, 1995. For as long as there has been diversity in Star Trek, straight white men have been complaining that it's too woke / PC / whatever. This phenomenon predates VOYAGER, of course, but it hit that series especially hard.

THANKYOU to our amazing #PAG33 OneHealth Hologenomics speakers @keyfm.bsky.social @dsussfeld.bsky.social @annakovalenko.bsky.social @akang3705.bsky.social Kristina Kordova & Anders Götherström! Ancient plague & parvovirus! AMR genes! Bat ectoparasite microbiomes! & the clap is thriving in the USA! 🎉

You gotta show the internet now!

A German Shepherd and a chihuahua relax together in the grass. Stock photo.

A collection of articles from The Genetics of Canine Domestication, Migration, and Behavior Special Feature highlights research on the evolutionary history of dogs and the genetic basis of dog behavior. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/vLlW50XAO6A

This is Logan Kistler's dog Tilly on the cover of the PNAS this week!!!!

Deep discordance between dog and wolf phylogenies according to uniparental markers.

One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “A legacy of genetic entanglement with wolves shapes modern dogs.” Explore the article here: https://ow.ly/o7mB50XC7F4

For more trending articles, visit https://ow.ly/TAVp50XC7F1.

❗ Our RemAaRCs: on Mutualism - The Science of Interrelatedness has a new date and time ❗

3-5pm London time / 4-6pm CET / 10-12am ET

@aarc-community.bsky.social #aDNA

So excited for this!!!!!

Evidence of sheeppox in 17th-19th century France: a multi-disciplinary investigation of a sheep mass mortality assemblage Epizootic outbreaks posed major threats to food security, economic stability, and animal welfare in past communities. While these events and their impacts are well documented in historical records, ve...

Despite my insomnia, I'm very happy to share our preprint: a multi-disciplinary assessment of a sheep mass mortality event from ~18th century France. We report the first ancient sheeppox virus (think smallpox) and the Taenia hydatigena (nasty roundworm) genomes.
#aDNA

🚨 PNAS Special Feature 🐕

We analysed genomes of historical German Shepherds to reveal how bottlenecks linked to WWII and the use of popular sires led to significant declines in genomic health. We also found an early 20th century wolf-dog hybrid!

🔗 Full paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨 PNAS Special Feature 2 🐕

We used ancient DNA and dietary isotopes to show that landscape modification and the introduction of European dogs impacted dingo populations across Australia.

🔗 Full paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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/...

A legacy of genetic entanglement with wolves shapes modern dogs | PNAS Dogs evolved through interactions between people and gray wolves during the Late Pleistocene and have been ubiquitous in human societies ever since...

Our paper is out! Although wolves and dogs can interbreed and produce fertile offspring, hybridization between the two is rare. We found that most dogs today have low but detectable levels of post-domestication wolf ancestry that has shaped their evolution in human environments. tinyurl.com/yt4x4r7n

Come and join us on our special event RemAaRCs: on Mutualism on December 5th! We'll have 2 great speakers showing us how humans and animals can life together and thrive. Registration on the QR code.

And the registration is open for our next AaRCademy workshop! Join us on February 3rd to learn how to reconstruct the demographic history of a population with Pablo Librado. Registration through the QR code or following this link: tinyurl.com/2nysdwhv

The Animal #aDNA Research Community is looking for new members to its steering committee!

If you are an ECR and interested in the field, we would love to have you on board. We particularly would value committee representation from outside of Europe.

@aarc-community.bsky.social

AaRCTikTalks, Friday 31st October 2025 at 3pm GMT, 4pm CET, 8am UTC-6. Federico Sánchez Quinto: Mammoth paleogenomic data from Mexico reveasl a complex arrival of the Columbian mammoth to the Americas. Marcela Sandoval Velasco: Agave Palaeogenomics: studying the Human-Agave relationship through time in Mesoamerica.

Just a reminder that we have our monthly seminar, the #AaRCTikTalks, this Friday at 4pm CET. Come and hear 2 amazing talks on this special edition where we focus on the amazing work being done by our peers in Mexico. #aDNA 🧪🧬🏺

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

New funded PhD opportunity at Kew Gardens/LSE: Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century. Closes 14/1/26: www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

The genetic diversity of Indonesian cattle has been shaped by multiple introductions and adaptive introgression - Nature Communications Indonesian cattle are unique due to their history of admixture involving both zebu and banteng. Here, Wang et al. identify ~3.5 million novel introgressed SNP variants and provide a genomic map of banteng introgression within and across many cattle breeds, each with unique introgression histories.

Our new paper on Indonesian cattle #genomics is out on @natcomms.nature.com 🎉
Did you know Indonesian #cattle 🐂 were a mix of two species?
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Great work by Xi, @sagitaninta.bsky.social, Casia, Rasmus & co-authors
Read 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#popgen #evolution #agriculture

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

Tomorrow!!!

AaRTikTalks Friday September 26th, 2pmGMT/London Time, 3pm CET Speakers: Zachary Nolen: Increases in inbreeding and isolation following agricultural intensification in grassland butterflies. Alice Dobinson: Reconstructing the Evolutionary History of Domestic Ferrets.

After a summer packed with events, including our first in-person-only event at #ISBA11 in beautiful Torino, we are back with our regular #AaRCTikTalks online seminar series. If you are not yet registered, follow the link to our webpage: www.animal-adna.org/events/2025/...

Join us @aarc-community.bsky.social this Friday 26 Sep. 2pm GMT/3pm CET/9am ET for new exciting research on butterflies and ferrets! Get the Zoom link by joining our Element channel tinyurl.com/2upt6e7s OR our mailing list! tinyurl.com/3rm7s2aj

This seminar is sponsored by @arborbio.bsky.social 🧬

Postdoctoral position in Population Genomics - Uppsala University Postdoctoral position in Population Genomics, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University

I have funding for a 2-year dry-lab postdoc to join our team @humanevouu.bsky.social 🧪 (Deadline Oct 21st)

The project will utilize modern and #aDNA data from humans and sheep to study environmental adaptation (including method development and simulations).

Please share!
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This was an amazing experience, so grateful for the opportunity to go to Congress and advocate for science funding and increased support for early career researchers!

Interested in giving a talk at the Plant and Animal Genome conference (PAG 33) in San Diego?

Together with several colleagues, we are arranging 5 interconnected sessions.

To submit an abstract, please fill out this Google Form before Oct 12th, 2025:
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Kevin is amazing! Go work with Kevin!!

Excited to share that I’ve started as Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark! 🧑‍🎓

I also received an a NNF Emerging Investigator grant to use genomics + machine learning to study extinction.

👉 PhD & Postdoc positions coming soon — follow for updates!
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