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Just like modern goths, ancient goths came in all different kinds of shapes and sizes.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Just like modern goths, ancient goths came in all different kinds of shapes and sizes.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🦙🧬Pleased to present our new paper out in @natcomms.nature.com 🧬🦙
Palaeogenomics of early camelid use in the Atacama Desert (Chile).
We used ancient DNA to revisit animals being hunted/herded >3,000 years ago.
Manuscript here: rdcu.be/eVwwl
#aDNA #popgen
Thread below🧵
Reposts appreciated :)
A shorthair domestic cat gazes upward.
The domestic cat may be a far more recent arrival to Europe than previously thought, a new Science study. finds. The results offer new insight into one of humanity’s most enigmatic animal companions and identify North Africa as the cradle of the modern housecat.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/44kov1S
New PhD position with @martynamolak.bsky.social to research population genomics of an Iron Age Goth community from eastern Poland.
You get a super supportive PI and fun lab to work with! Details linked.
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Happy to share that our interdisciplinary research, exploring the participation of African big cats in provincial Roman amphitheatres, is now online! @lpcg.bsky.social link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
19.11.2025 07:56 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Deadline for this PhD position is coming on Friday. Please apply and/or share
19.10.2025 05:28 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0Brown bears participated in Roman spectacles, read more in our latest paper! @lpcg.bsky.social #BaBBe
10.10.2025 05:19 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
"According to a study published in @antiquity.ac.uk, the skull belonged to a six-year old brown bear from the Balkans, who chewed on the bars of its cage between fights against gladiators."
#AncientBluesky
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
I'm also glad to have met you - see you here and at the next conference! 😀
14.08.2025 06:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#SMBE2025 in Beijing and @lpcg.bsky.social is here to present our work on small and big mammals! Come to poster sessions 1 and 3 to learn more. #BaBE
22.07.2025 04:11 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Pictures of a woolly mammoth molar dated to 216kya. The earliest in North America.
New paper 🧵
A team co-led by #cpgsthlm 's researcher @jcchacond.bsky.social has analysed DNA from a large number of mammoths across a million-year timescale 🦣🧬
The findings include the discovery and analysis of the oldest known woolly #mammoth in North America!
👉 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
Did llamas make it to southeast South America before Europeans? 🦙
Our manuscript used #archaeology, isotopes, and palaeogenomics #aDNA to find out 🦙🦴🧬
In summary, nope. Just guanacos hanging on into early historical times.
Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1kvQy,rVDB...
Reposts appreciated 😁
We are seeking a PhD student to join our team on an exciting new project focused on the study of brown bears in the Balkans. If you’re interested in ancient DNA and wildlife conservation, come to work with us! @lpcg.bsky.social #NCN #OPUS27 #ancientDNA
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#ECM9 is ongoing, and we are here, the first conference of the #BaBBe project! We will be discussing our new project and hope to meet new collaborators and to get new samples for the analysis! Stay tuned!
02.04.2025 14:08 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We are seeking a PhD student to join our team on an exciting new project focused on the study of brown bears in the Balkans. If you’re interested in ancient DNA and wildlife conservation, come to work with us! @lpcg.bsky.social #NCN #OPUS27 #ancientDNA
www.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/u...
This is going to be good!
Free conference from @aarc-community.bsky.social
AaRConference 2025
30 May 2025 Online
Laurent Frantz (LMU) and Evon Hekkala (Fordham University) are headlining.
Abstracts opening soon
www.animal-adna.org/events/2025/...