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Had the opportunity to chat about @poojaswali.bsky.social's study on louse-borne relapsing fever on the French radio today 🧬🦠 www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur... @franceculture.fr @radiofrance.fr @crick.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk

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Our @ucl.ac.uk @crick.ac.uk work, out this week in @science.org, traces a genetic time series of bacterial infections to reveal when and how Borrelia recurrentis jumped from ticks to humans—via our body lice. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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New UCL-Crick led paper out this week in @science.org on the evolution of louse-borne relapsing fever led by @poojaswali.bsky.social. See below for her thread explaining the work and it's relevance to when and how this bacteria has adapted to louse-borne human infection. tinyurl.com/76vzy4tn

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Scientists used to think diseases that jump from animals to people really took off when people started domesticating cattle, sheep and goats 11,000 years ago. A new look at ancient bacterial DNA in @science.org by @poojaswali.bsky.social and colleagues suggests the pivotal moment came much later.

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And sharing this BBC Science in Action podcast featuring my amazing supervisor @lucyvandorp.bsky.social (from 24:00) discussing the paper www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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I love this site so much, and our understanding of it has been enhanced in ways we couldn’t have imagined thanks to the hard work of @poojaswali.bsky.social and colleagues! Thanks for letting us be a part of this incredible research! 🥰

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Congratulations @poojaswali.bsky.social (and everyone else involved) for this amazing achievement! Very excited to have been a part of this ancient pathogen research🦠🧬

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And a wonderful article covering our new paper written by @spoke32.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

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Excited to announce our paper on ancient Borrelia genomes is finally out! 🦠💀We document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever, published today in @science.org‬ with @lucyvandorp.bsky.social and @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social #aDNA 🏺🧪🧬 Main findings and paper below: 🧵⬇️

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Today @ugiatucl.bsky.social explored the use of #AI in biology through a special seminar event. Great talks from @mariasecrier.bsky.social, Chris Barnes, Cedric Tan and Alexei Yavlinsky spanning bacterial pangenomes, cancer biology and viral evolution. Thanks to Marina Escalera and UGI seminar team.

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Come join us at the Bioinformatics Research Centre at Aarhus University. Tenure track/associate professor position available. The application deadline is approaching, June 1, 2025. Application details here: international.au.dk/about/profil...

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🚨 Excited to share our new paper! 🧬 #aDNA from Sint-Truiden (BE) reveals 1,000 years of change from diverse medieval roots including Scottish and Irish ancestry to modern Limburg-like genetics. 🧫 Yersinia pestis found in 5 of 58 XIV-century burials. #AcademicSky link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Happy to announce an open call for a funded PhD position! 📊 Research project: Elucidating the fine-scale demographic history of the Eastern Baltic by incorporating haplotype-based analyses and modelling 📍 Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu 📩 Application period: 1st–15th May 2025

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Keen to work on the co-evolution of domesticates, humans and their pathogens? Come join us at Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen! We're hiring a postdoc in ancient genomics for a super cool project on Neolithic Sweden: employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... Please share! #AcademicJobs #AncientDNA

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PhD opportunity on ancient humans and pathogens 🦠👀 🤩 #aDNA www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Our updated AaRConference flyer! Sign up to seminar mailing list for this and our other monthly seminar at www.animal-adna.org/projects/ #adna

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Solidarity with trans women after today’s Supreme Court ruling. The rollback of LGBT rights — especially trans rights — is global, bankrolled by billionaires and the far-right. Trans rights are human rights. We must defend the Equality Act and its protections for trans people.

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For my first-ever bsky post, I’m thrilled to share our latest #ancientDNA research, which I co-led with @jessthorpemas.bsky.social OA: doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf065 We recovered and analysed mitochondrial genomes from many #mammoths spanning the last million years 🦣🧬⌛ Check this 🧵 we wrote ⬇️

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🚨 New release of #AncientMetagenomeDir! (v25.03.0, Historic Centre of Cordoba) github.com/SPAAM-commun... It is a community resource of #metadata of >2K shotgun-sequenced #AncientMetagenome or ancient microbial genome enriched samples & >5K libraries. Stats below (🧵 1/5)

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The orange-bellied parrot is predicted to go extinct by 2038. We tracked >200 years of genomic erosion. Here’s what we found 🧬🦜 #ConservationGenomics #consgen #popgen onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... pic by Marc Gardner

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🚨Last day to register for our speed-networking event! Dont' miss out on this great opportunity ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Interested in a starting PI position at University College London to work on Genetics, Evolution or the Environment? My department has opened the call for expressions of interest for sponsorship of independent fellowship applications. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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A science AMA, but in real life!? And with 5 scientists instead of just one!?!?!?! Kaboom Come to @crick.ac.uk on 28th March to ask questions of @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social, @poojaswali.bsky.social and @adamrutherford.bsky.social and me with noted keyboardist Brian Cox. www.lostintv.com/aqos.htm

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3-y postdoc position in (meta)Genomics of Population Declines elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid.... If you have experience with low-coverage genomic data, care about biodiversity loss, want to understand host-microbiomes interactions, this post is for you! #museomics #ancientDNA #mammals

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🌍 Join us in the ERC Last Neanderthals! We're hiring: 1️⃣ PhD: Digital approaches for the study of Paleolithic human remains 🖥️ 2️⃣ PhD: Taxonomic discrimination of Late Pleistocene bone fragments through paleoproteomics 🦴

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🦠 1/6 Big new study alert on old animal diseases! Team analyzed 346 ancient animal bones & teeth spanning 6,000 years across Eurasia, hunting for traces of ancient pathogens. Found 68 signatures, including some nasty zoonotic diseases we still deal with today! 🤢

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I’ll be talking about ancient DNA at the wonderful @ri-science.bsky.social on the 1st of March 🧬 🦴Interactive afternoon show for young explorers 💀Evening talk for any adults fascinated by the secrets hidden in ancient genomes! 👇 #Scicomm

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New paper out! 📄 My first adventures in (ancient) metagenomics. 🦠 “Exploring DNA degradation in situ and in museum storage through genomics and metagenomics” www.nature.com/articles/s42... Curious about the water color painting (see ALT text)? 🦌 Thread (Bluetorial?) with findings! 🧶👇 (1/n)

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We are making a brand new #Museomics Lab at NHM Denmark, University of Copenhagen - working with DNA from museum & herbarium specimens. We are looking for a lab manager to join us - unlocking the amazing potential of our collections for global change 🌐 and #conservationgenomics research

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