Jules Berardini
@julesberardini.bsky.social
Animal aDNA PhD, University College Dublin // gnc
We're still absorbing tons of inspiring notes from #ICP2026, and already planning the next one. #ICP2028 is coming to Dublin 🍀 and we can't wait to welcome the ancient DNA 🧬 community in Ireland. We'll do our best to build on the outstanding work of the Stockholm committee. More info coming soon!
ICP2026 Stockholm@palaeogenomics.bsky.social · 2mo ago#ICP2026 Stockholm is over, but ICP will return... in 2028! #ICP2028 will be hosted by Trinity College Dublin 🎉☘️🇮🇪
Our investigation of mass mortality burial of sheep is published at @royalsociety.org Open Science! Evidence of sheeppox in seventeenth- to nineteenth-century France: a multi-disciplinary investigation of a sheep mass mortality assemblage
Evidence of sheeppox in seventeenth- to nineteenth-century France: a multi-disciplinary investigation of a sheep mass mortality assemblage
Abstract. Epizootic outbreaks posed major threats to food security, economic stability and animal welfare in past communities. While these events and their
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Tune in if you wanna hear me yap (as well as a lot of smarter and more qualified people than me talk about their work on animal aDNA!)
AaRC@aarc-community.bsky.social · 3mo agoHere's the amazing lineup of speakers for our upcoming virtual conference. There’s still time to register and join us online. We look forward to seeing you there! forms.gle/Kse1kPYnpsVg...
Another group activity! This isn't even the entire Daly group. Crazy.
this study provided some of the rhino bone fragments I tested for aDNA preservation within my MSc! without ZooMS they would’ve remained unidentified!
Sam Brown@drsambrown.bsky.social · 5mo agoOur new paper is out! If you love caves, if you love archaeology, if you love ZooMS (and let's be honest, who doesn't?!) you'll LOVE this! #palaeoproteomics #ancientproteins #archaeology #ZooMS www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our new paper (with @biotay.bsky.social) is out and on the cover story of @currentbiology.bsky.social !!!! Veronika, a Carinthian mountain cow flexibly uses a “multi-purpose tool” to scratch herself. A video and more information will follow in the comments. www.cell.com/current-biol...
Read our new paper in Genome Biology & Evolution to learn more about how sequencing the genome from a 14,000 year old wolf puppy's last meal yielded novel insights into the woolly rhino's extinction: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... 📷 Mietje Germonpré
Starting 2026 strong with the first #MetagenomicsMonday 🧬post this year! Its 1976, deer remains are found in a Toronto subway and its antlers look.. well, different! 🦌 Is it an extinct megafauna species that disappeared by the end of ice age?📄 doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... #SPAAM #aDNA #paleogenomics
Ancient DNA of the Toronto Subway Deer adds to the extinction list of ice age megafauna
Abstract. The Late Pleistocene was a time of global megafaunal extinctions that were particularly severe in North America. The continent lost many mammal t
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The Cordis page for my ERC project HERDPATH is live! cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1...
The genomic consequences of domestication for ruminant pathogen evolution and herd diversity across ten millennia | HERDPATH | Project | Fact Sheet | HORIZON | CORDIS | European Commission
Palaeogenomics has transformed our understanding of the genetic consequences of domestication, particularly for livestock species, first brought into the anthropological sphere ~10,000 years ago in So...
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aDNA from 14 Roman cattle uncovers Group I Clostridium related to toxigenic botulinum producers and an opportunistic Mycolicibacterium. 🐂🧬 Blind spot in ancient livestock health studies? doi.org/10.1080/2150... #MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #bioarchaeology #pathogens
Detection of Clostridium sporogenes in a Roman-era cattle mass grave at Vilauba
In the ancient Roman world, cattle played an integral role in daily agricultural tasks, providing the means necessary to plow fields, mill grains, and transport goods. The research presented here d...
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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
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...
biorxiv.org
I hereby declare war on premature Christmassing. Any shop caught doing this before 1st December must be shut down and turned into affordable housing. Choose sanity. Vote Binface. (Photo dated 9th October 2025)
Congrats to Arianna and co. for a fab paper! Posth lab animal aDNA crew going strong 😋 Some nice damage correction software for non-UDG treated samples is also presented here- which I have had the pleasure of using in my thesis 🤩🧬🐎
Nature Ecology & Evolution@natecoevo.nature.com · 11mo agoMitochondrial DNA from horses at the Middle Pleistocene archaeological site of Schöningen reveals insight into the evolutionary history of horses, and advances techniques for the analysis of ancient DNA retrieved from highly degraded samples 🧪🐴 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The quickest way to finish an article is to start it. It also helps if you can stay away from social media, tv and the internet. And your cell phone. And other people. You should also fight urges to clean and organise spaces, and to cook big meals. In other words, it’s difficult to finish articles.
The dragon's out of the bag: #aDNA gives 146,000 y/o unusual sized and shaped skull of #HomoLongi (a.k.a. #DragonMan), originally found in 1933 in #China and rediscovered in 2018, away as actually: #Denisovan! www.livescience.com/archaeology/... by @killgrove.bsky.social via @livescience.com
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#AllMetalMonday The extraordinary 57.5cm tall C3 BC Etruscan figure, called (in recent times anyway) Ombre della Sera, as it recalls long shadows cast at the end of day. Inspiration for Giacometti is pretty clear..... Now in Volterra's Guarnacci Etruscan Museum, stopping people in their tracks.
INTERVIEWER: If you could be any animal, what would it be? ME: A horse INTERVIEWER: Because you work intelligently and quickly? ME: No because I want a stable job
Last week, @elife.bsky.social posted the version of record of our #aDNA study on Iberian aurochs/cattle. We found a lot of hybridization, probably sex-biased, stabilizing at ~20% about 4000 years ago (co-author Colin Smith coined the term 'cowrochs'). Read more: elifesciences.org/articles/93076
The genomic legacy of aurochs hybridisation in ancient and modern Iberian cattle
After their introduction to the Iberian peninsula, domestic cattle hybridised with mostly male wild aurochs for millennia until human actions likely ended this process about 4000 years ago.
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🧵 Thread: 1️⃣ New paper by@jessiehendy.bsky.social Blacka et al. presents breakthrough in rapid proteomic amelogenin sex estimation using Evosep-timsTOF MS. Slashes analysis time to under 20 mins per sample (including prep)! #palaeoproteomics #ZooMS doi.org/10.1002/rcm....
Rapid Proteomic Amelogenin Sex Estimation of Human and Cattle Remains Using Untargeted Evosep‐timsTOF Mass Spectrometry
Rationale Sex estimation by analysis of amelogenin peptides in archaeological and fossil material has recently been gaining great traction within the fields of archaeology and palaeontology. Current.....
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Happy International Women's Day! Despite the efforts, while much more women enter scientific fields, due to numerous factors, few manage to remain in the field or secure senior positions. Support your coworkers, call out harmful systemic behaviour. 😘
A mammoth circus of macabre fantasy and moral bankruptcy. I got my views on mammoths down. Enjoy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reviving the woolly mammoth isn’t just unethical. It’s impossible | Adam Rutherford
At a time when US scientists are under attack from their own government, the illiteracy around these elephantine fantasies is dangerous, says geneticist Adam Rutherford
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clip i took frok the exhibition “oltre terra” at the stedelijk museum, amsterdam, discussing the multifaceted interactions (past and present) between humans and sheep
🏺 Many issues have been flagged with AI, including its environmental footprint. What about the potential impact of AI for archaeology ? Colleen Morgan alerts that it "remains imperative that archaeologists engage with and critique all visualisations." #Archaeology
How AI imagery could be used to develop fake archaeology
Even before the use of AI, it was widely accepted within archaeology that visualisations of the past are highly fraught and should be treated with caution.
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A high-throughput aDNA extraction method for large-scale sample screening 🦣🦬🧬 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A High‐Throughput Ancient DNA Extraction Method for Large‐Scale Sample Screening
Large-scale DNA screening of palaeontological and archaeological collections remains a limiting and costly factor for ancient DNA studies. Several DNA extraction protocols are routinely used in ancie...
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Thread and open access version to come- Ancient genomics and the origin, dispersal, and development of domestic sheep | Science search.app/gtSKYHF5HqRa... #adna
Ancient genomics and the origin, dispersal, and development of domestic sheep
The origins and prehistory of domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are incompletely understood; to address this, we generated data from 118 ancient genomes spanning 12,000 years sampled from across Eurasia. Ge...
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from my time excavating at hohle fels! such wonderful scenery 🍀⭐️
