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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

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YouTube video by AaRC AaRCTikTalks September 2025: Zachary Nolen

The September #AaRCTikTalks by Zachary Nolen about the effect of agriculture on butterflies using #aDNA www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQN9...

Join us on 31st October to celebrate Día de los Muertos with some #ancientDNA from Mexico! Two very exciting talks on 🦣 and 🪴, by Federico Sánchez-Quinto and Marcela Sandoval-Velasco of LIIGH UNAM.

Note the later 3pm London time!

#aDNA @aarc-community.bsky.social

Zachary's talk is recorded, and will be up soon (hopefully today).

AaRC Channel of the Animal aDNA Research Community, an international and open community of animal ancient DNA researchers. Website: https://www.animal-adna.org/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/aarc-comm...

We upload those that do not include any unpublished results, with the permission of the authors, to our Youtube Channel: www.youtube.com/@AaRC-commun...

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 🧬

Link to the seminars are always distributed through the seminar's mailing list and our Element channel. In order to register, visit our webpage: www.animal-adna.org/events/2025/...

Come and join us this afternoon on our September's #AaRCTikTalks! This time we will have some great talks by Zachary Nolen and @alicedobinson.bsky.social, who will showcase their research on butterflies and ferrets.

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/...

YouTube video by AaRC AaRCTikTalks July 2025: Claudia Fontsere Alemany

You can now find the #AaRCTikTalks session from Claudia Fontsere Alemany on our youtube channel, in case you missed it #aDNA www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbM4...

Me representing AaRC at the ISBA11 AGM

Yesterday I had the honor of present what @aarc-community.bsky.social has been doing for the last year and a half at #ISBA11, and I can tell you, we have been busy! It was a blast to see all the other affiliate groups and how we all have grown from and since ISBA10 in Tartu.

Trying to catch up with more studied domestic animals 🐄🐕🐐🐎 and exploring cutting-edge tools, I was excited to present the first imputation tests in ancient & modern cat genomes 🐈 at the first in-person AaRC meeting in Turin.
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social @aarc-community.bsky.social

Thank you for presenting to us all, and congrats on your award Amanda!

Also presented at the Animal aDNA Research Community (AaRC) meeting @aarc-community.bsky.social just before #ISBA11 - such a wonderful way to introduce myself to the group and I’m looking forward to sharing research updates in the future!! 🫎

Shameless promotion from #isba11 - I'll be hiring PhDs to start early 2026 (plus postdocs starting later), using #adna to study livestock and pathogen coevolution, particularly looking at inbreeding and immune gene evolution!

Contact me at kevin[at]palaeome.org, full ad to come. Please share!

We also had some nice discussions on our round table, and we would like to extend some of those here. So let’s start with this one: how do you deal with the conflicts and the intersections between #aDNA and archaeology? #ISBA11 🧪🏺🧬

Are you ready?
@isba11.bsky.social

Boarding the AaRC cover

Amanda v. Meuser presenting her talk: Evolutionary dynamics of extinxt and extant moose in North America

William Marsh presenting Life of Dogs - Dogs were widely distributed in West Eurasia during the Palaelothic

Crowd’s view of Deon de Jager’s presentation of the MInAS project

We had a great time yesterday Boarding the AaRC at #ISBA11! Thanks everybody for coming to our first in-person event!

www.animal-adna.org/events/2025/...

We also wanted to send a reminder that we are organizing an event at #ISBA2025 in beautiful Torino! If you are there for the conference on August 26th, please join us! No need for registration. #aDNA

Link for registration can be found in our website: www.animal-adna.org/events/2025/...

Are you starting your #aDNA journey? Want to improve your paleogenomics data processing pipelines with state-of-the-art tools and understang what each step actually is for? Come join us at out first AaRCademy workshop with Nikolay Oskolkov on October 7th. Don't be a stranger!

📢 We're excited to launch our AaRCademy Workshop Series kicking off October 7th online!

🧬Our first session, "aDNA Data Processing", will be led by Nikolay Oskolkov from Lund University.

📅 Registration closes September 7th! Sign up via the QR code or link below.

#aDNA @aarc-community.bsky.social

Interested in animal #aDNA and attending #ISBA2025? Join us on August 26th at 2:30 in our event #BoardingTheAaRC! No registration needed (a link is provided in case you want to let us know)!

Have a look at our new 2025 Blog entry from @aarc-community.bsky.social where we interviewed Dr. Pascale Lubbe (@plubbe.bsky.social) about the research project she presented in July 2025 #AaRCTikTalks

www.animal-adna.org/blog/2025/08...

As always, links to join our mailing list or our slack and get a link to all the talks can be found in our website: www.animal-adna.org/events/2025/...

Join us today for our July's #AaRCTikTalks seminar! We are really happy to have A.B. Siegenthaler and Clàudia Fontserè Alemany with us to talks about ancient dogs and Whooping Cranes. 🧪 #aDNA

Join us THIS FRIDAY at 2pm GMT/3pm CET/9am ET to learn all about new super exciting research from Claudia Alemany and AB Siegenthaler!! Get the Zoom link by joining our Element channel tinyurl.com/47bcxakx OR our mailing list! tinyurl.com/555yxa6n
See you all there! 🧬🧬 @aarc-community.bsky.social

Don't miss the AaRC pre-ISBA event on the 26th of August - anyone interested in ancient DNA in animals is welcome to come along.

And if you didn't get a talk at ISBA itself, submit an abstract here!