Come see Michael Campana's final transformation!! 🦁
AaRC@aarc-community.bsky.social · 2w agoJoin us this 31st to hear Michael Campana and Molly Cassatt-Johnstone talk about some big cats!
Audrey Lin, DPhil
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👻 molecular evolution, doggies, viruses. Vienna 🇦🇹 https://linktr.ee/undeaddandy
AaRC@aarc-community.bsky.social · 2w ago
Nice recent article in Nature about sediment DNA and its impacts on human evolution and archaeology, featuring two of our great colleagues here in Vienna, Pere Gelabert and Ben Vernot @heasvienna.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How DNA in dirt is shaking up the study of human origins
Researchers are pulling clues from genetic material in ice age soils and rewriting chapters of human history.
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If you're in Vancouver BC in June and love woolly dogs (who doesn't?!), come to our event -- "The Woolly Dog: An Evening of Story, Film, and Coast Salish Knowledge". There will also be a screening of the short film "Threads That Bind: The Story of the Woolly Dog"!! So excited!! tinyurl.com/yckcdxct
The Woolly Dog: An Evening of Story, Film, and Coast Salish Knowledge | Canine Science Society
This public evening event will explore the story of the Woolly Dog through story telling, film, and panel discussion. Tickets ($15 USD; ~$20.5CAD) are open to the public. Conference attendees do not n...
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I'm pleased to present with my fellow APART-USA colleague @mattminich.bsky.social at Pint of Science Wien next week! We will be speaking on our research & why science needs freedom. Our event sold out! See ya'll there! Pub quiz!!! tinyurl.com/wynn557p
No Democracy, No Discovery: why science needs freedom
Curiosity thrives where questioning is welcome. Join us to understand why science flourishes under a functioning democracy. We will listen to the stories o...
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Here'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...
#HEASMember @undeaddandy.bsky.social introducing @niallcooke.bsky.social for a #HEASTalk taking place now online and in-person in the #UBB @univie.ac.at
HEAS@heasvienna.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe are looking forward to welcoming #NiallCooke to #HEASVienna for a #HEASTalk. More information and registration is on our website 👇🔗
We (with @gatag.bsky.social) are happy to share our discussion, where we explore three cases of matrilocality and genetic matriline connections identified with ancient DNA. You can find the open access paper published in evolutionary human sciences: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Exploring matrilocality in history: insights from ancient DNA | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
Exploring matrilocality in history: insights from ancient DNA - Volume 8
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@undeaddandy.bsky.social from #HEASVienna introducing #KevinDaly for a #HEASTalk taking place now online and in-person in the #UBB @univie.ac.at
HEAS@heasvienna.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe are looking forward to welcoming #KevinDaly for a #HEASTalk taking place online and in-person at the #UBB at @univie.ac.at this Friday. Registration is on our website 👇🔗 www.heas.at/events/heas-...
New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Still time to sign up! Register on our website: animal-adna.org/events/2026/...
AaRC@aarc-community.bsky.social · 5mo agoWanna learn how to explore your genomic data to know how related your samples and populations are to each other? Come and join us and @jolijnerven.bsky.social on our next #AaRCademy workshop! April 16h at 14:00 CET!
Oh hey. Look at that! So many fabulous ancient doggies! We love our dogs and so did our palaeolithic ancestors. Huge congrats to the amazing people who contributed to the sister studies revealing the deep time of fuzzy tummies. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dogs were widely distributed across western Eurasia during the Palaeolithic - Nature
Analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial genomes from archaeological canid remains found across Europe and Anatolia shows that a genetically homogeneous dog population was already widely distributed acro...
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This month's #AaRCTikTalks goes to the Land DownUnder! Join us on March 27th for a matinee (9am CET time) with Loukas Koungoulos and Shioban Evans.
Two upcoming events with one sign up! AaRC Online Conference – Tuesday, May 19 (virtual) ICP In-Person Meet-Up – Monday, June 22 in Stockholm (in person) Here is a link to register/submit an abstract forms.gle/Kse1kPYnpsVg...
Brb I’m quitting baby anthropology and becoming a dog anthropologist 🥹🥹🥹
Audrey Lin, DPhil@undeaddandy.bsky.social · 5mo agoI'm at #AABA2026 & will give a talk Fri 8:15AM in Session 20 AAAG/AABA Joint Symposium: Human-Associated Genomes in Anthropological Genetics! Even tho my abstract says 1 thing I'm instead talking Coast Salish woolly dogs & my current community-led research instead of just dog genomics. Enjoy!!!!
I'm at #AABA2026 & will give a talk Fri 8:15AM in Session 20 AAAG/AABA Joint Symposium: Human-Associated Genomes in Anthropological Genetics! Even tho my abstract says 1 thing I'm instead talking Coast Salish woolly dogs & my current community-led research instead of just dog genomics. Enjoy!!!!
Our work on ancient Irish goat was covered in the Irish Times. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
The old Irish goat is a living link to Ireland’s Bronze Age
Study shows distinct breed has genetic links to goats that lived in Ireland 3,000 years ago
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Registration is now open for our next online AaRCademy workshop focusing on relatedness! #aDNA
AaRC@aarc-community.bsky.social · 5mo ago#AaRCademy is back with another animal #aDNA workshop. This time, @jolijnerven.bsky.social will showcase the state-of-the-art methods to explore the relatedness between our samples. Join us online on April 16th, 14:00 CET!
Can safely way this is the craziest and coolest study I have led. We chart the evolution of sheeppox virus, finding it in the Eurasian steppe ~3700 years ago, and also in a LOT of parchment from medieval Europe (made from a range of animals skins!) #aDNA
bioRxiv Genetics@biorxiv-genetic.bsky.social · 5mo ago3,500 years of sheeppox virus evolution inferred from archaeological and codicological genomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.23.707469v1
Myself and authors 1 & 2 of our SPPV pre-print at Cambridge, where several of the sheeppox-positive parchment are conserved. @louis-lhote.bsky.social and Luisa Sacristán. (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...)
In order to register, follow the link in our website: animal-adna.org/events/2026/...
AaRCademy - Relatedness · AaRC
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#AaRCademy is back with another animal #aDNA workshop. This time, @jolijnerven.bsky.social will showcase the state-of-the-art methods to explore the relatedness between our samples. Join us online on April 16th, 14:00 CET!
"I’ve spent almost a decade of my life training and working on my research, & this is what I’ve chosen to dedicate my life to. And I have to go where I can do this." - @undeaddandy.bsky.social in this #TIME piece on the Austrian #APARTUSA program Glad to have you, Audrey! time.com/7379376/scie...
Inside the Growing Scientist Migration to Europe
For decades, the U.S. has attracted talented scientists from all over the world. That may be changing.
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Universität Wien / University of Vienna@univie.ac.at · 5mo agoWelcoming University of Vienna's first #APARTUSA fellow: Audrey Lin. 🥳 @undeaddandy.bsky.social She is an evolutionary molecular biologist who studies animals and viruses. 🦠 Thanks to the APART-USA fellowship program she will be able to bring her project from the @amnh.org in New York to #univie. ⤵️
Please spread the word, and get in touch with me if you are interested or have questions! We have a great team here, and we're looking for great people to join. :) We will be reviewing applications as the come in, so apply soon, and please by March 1st.
We are seeking two students: One would develop computational methods for the analysis of ancient DNA from sediments, and apply these tools to novel datasets. The second would generate and analyze aDNA data from archaeological sediments at a number of Holocene sites.
Are you interested in human DNA from ancient sediments? Do you want to do a PhD in Vienna? We have two open positions in our group! You can learn more and apply here (scroll down to the very bottom, ours are the last two listings): careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/s...
Vienna Doctoral School of Ecology and Evolution
The Vienna Doctoral School of Ecology and Evolution is dedicated to educating students to advance our understanding of the ecology and evolution of extant and ancestral organisms, populations, and communities. In Ecology, the focus is on uncovering the mechanistic and evolutionary drivers of patterns and processes across biological scales, from gene regulation to ecosystem structure and function, including the role of communities in biogeochemical cycles and their adaptive responses to environmental change. In Evolution, we investigate the processes shaping changes in organization and dynamics of organisms, populations, and species at molecular, developmental, morphological, and physiological levels.
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Welcoming University of Vienna's first #APARTUSA fellow: Audrey Lin. 🥳 @undeaddandy.bsky.social She is an evolutionary molecular biologist who studies animals and viruses. 🦠 Thanks to the APART-USA fellowship program she will be able to bring her project from the @amnh.org in New York to #univie. ⤵️
Audrey Lin joins Faculty of Life Sciences through APART-USA Fellowship
Audrey Lin is one of six U.S. researchers from leading American universities who will soon continue their work at the University of Vienna. Their relocation has been made possible by the APART-USA fel...
lifesciences.univie.ac.at
It's that time again... AaRCTikTalk this Friday!! Anne Runge will talk about microbial/pathogen DNA from prehistoric faunal remains🦠🦴🧬, & Anna Nagel will explore multispecies time calibrations! 🧬🕰️ Hurray! Don't miss it! 🕺 @aarc-community.bsky.social
