Excited to have been a small part of this amazing project lead by @marialopopolo.bsky.social and headed by @nrascovan.bsky.social My part was #ancientDNA labwork for one ancestor that had M. lepromatosis - a form of leprosy present in the US before European contact. Out in #Science -link in thread

Maria Lopopolo@marialopopolo.bsky.social · last yr.

Did leprosy exist in the Americas before European invasion? Our lab #aDNA study at @institutpasteur.bsky.social supervised by @nrascovan.bsky.social in collab with @avanzich.bsky.social (CSU) finds M.lepromatosis in pre-colonial Ancestors from North and South America www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Back into the ancient DNA lab this morning 🦴🧬

This is an amazing resource for ECR, please consider adding your grant apps!

Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra@jrossibarra.bsky.social · 2y ago

New! @jenncoughlan.bsky.social kindly shared their MIRA NIH award with our github repo. If you have a successful grant app you're willing to share, please contribute! github.com/RILAB/statem...

One highlight of this semester was getting to go-develop ancient DNA methodologies with @twinanthro.bsky.social

Using hair found in the teeth of the infamous lions named the "Tsavo Man-Eater's," scientists uncover their diet consisted of humans, giraffes, and more. @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

Out this week! We review recent developments in landscape ecology computational methods! topics=spatial patterns, connectivity, landscape genetics, sampling, simulations and modeling, and spatial planning: doi.org/10.1007/s408...

Computational Methods in Landscape Ecology - Current Landscape Ecology Reports

Purpose of Review Landscapes can be defined as mosaics of different land covers, habitats, ecosystems, or land-use systems. The link between spatial heterogeneous patterns and ecological processes is ...

doi.org

@adeflamingh.bsky.social and I just made a new releas of Numt Parser: github.com/adeflamingh/.... The main software hasn't changed--alignments to MT and NUMT refs are used to find NUMT contamination. We mostly added some behind-the-scene checks when processing CIGAR strings and improved logs!

GitHub - adeflamingh/NuMt_parser: This repository is dedicated to code and associated metafiles for the NuMt_parser program (c) 2020 Angel G. Rivera-Colon & Alida de Flamingh

This repository is dedicated to code and associated metafiles for the NuMt_parser program (c) 2020 Angel G. Rivera-Colon & Alida de Flamingh - adeflamingh/NuMt_parser

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A piece I wrote yesterday on the antiquity of the Blackfoot Confederacy and how scholars are praising Indigenous-led research. 🏺🧪

Ancient Indigenous lineage of Blackfoot Confederacy goes back 18,000 years to last ice age, DNA reveals

A new DNA study of living and historical members of the Blackfoot Confederacy in the U.S. and Canada suggests that they share a lineage with people from the last ice age.

livescience.com

Cool article by @killgrove.bsky.social covering a recent research partnership that I was part of: www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Read more about our recent Cape lion paper here: Cape Lion was genetically diverse prior to extinction, researchers find www.igb.illinois.edu/article/cape...

It’s kind of weirdly sad walking around right now and knowing that there used to be lions here. First pub out this year!

The American Genetic Association@theaga.bsky.social · 3y ago

Work on Cape Lions featuring indigenous perspectives offers valuable insights into the species' life histories: Once roaming the Cape Flats, these lions faced eradication post-European colonization. See the paper here: doi.org/10.1093/jher... graphic: extinctanimals.org 1/2

I legit just found myself googling "fancy word for when cats lick themselves" 🤣 working on a lion manuscript and jet lag got me like 🫠

9km hike through a magical forest enjoying nature and looking for fresh elephant poop 🐘 good to be back in this piece of the pretty-world for a while 💚 And I feasted on waterblommetjiebredie (yes that's one word) at dinner made by a family friend ♥️

Here’s a Friday challenge for you… can you guess the species? (Hint: Mammal phylogenetic relationships are sometimes just plain weird)…

When you know that only your eyes are going by to be visible for most of the day, you make it count 😝 ancient DNA lab “problems”

One of my favorite things about my job is mentorship and training the next generation of molecular biology scientists. This month has been very rewarding working in the ancient lab with undergrad Lauren Moy who has such impressive lab skills. Lauren drilled samples today like a pro💪🧬🦴very proud!

Blows my mind how rapidly biotech advances 🤯 on the right is a NovaSeq 6000 S4 flowcell, on the left is the new 10B NovaSeq X plus flowcell

Non-science Sunday post: feast your eyes on this pretty pink cosmos in my small pollinator garden 💗

My entry into Bluesky with proof of my "accurate" profile description - it's been a week y'all. Are things on here more serious or more casual than previous places (aka should I post professional, fun, or ridiculous stuff - or a combination of all 😋)...?