Pooja Swali

Excited to share our new pre-print from my PhD @pontus_skoglund & Post-doc with @LucyvanDorp ✨Ancient Borrelia genomes document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever 🧐 💀 🦠biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Out now! Screening great apes from museum collections to find viruses! with @PinhasiL @MarquesBonetLab @Meriam_MG @kguschan et al. rdcu.be/d1UsZ

PhD position in archaeozoology and omics at the University of Vienna! 🤠🦊🐯🦁🐱🐰🐍🦬🐂🦣🐄 The student will be based in Vienna and co-supervised in Santander!

What I get from this is that we should all be more data-mining of published data. There are still hidden gems in there, and as the data is growing faster than people can analyze, the rate of unpublished gems may be growing! 5/6

Temporarily breaking our platform hibernation to break this story on @tcddublin @bournemouthuni work on Iron Age DNA and rewriting the story of the Durotriges !!!!! 👇👇👇👇 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Interested in getting involved with the British Science Festival 2025 in Liverpool?! 🎉 We are now accepting applications for event proposals and nominations for our award lecture programme🎙️ Full details including deadlines can be found here: ow.ly/U9j850UfIcI #BSF25

📢Did you supervise or know of an outstanding master dissertation in biological anthropology or osteoarchaeology?🐒🦍🦴🦷🔬🔍🩻 Nominate them for the Holger Schutkowski award for excellence in a master's thesis! Deadline: 06/01/2025 More info here 👉babao.org.uk/grants-and-pri…

Very excited to be talking at the @Ri_Science in spring🧬💀 Dusting off my museum presenter skills with a show for children in the morning: rigb.org/whats-on/dna-t… and adults in the evening: rigb.org/whats-on/histo… all with the help of the lovely RI team🤩!

Our spring programme of science talks is officially open for booking! 🎟️ You can now grab tickets for events all the way in April 2025. What are you excited to learn about? rigb.org/whats-on?type=…

🚨Job Alert: Are you a bioinformatics geek? familiar with ancient/historical DNA data? Do you want to join Kew Mycology to analyse fungal genomes of very old specimens? check our vacancies! careers.kew.org/vacancy/bioinf… careers.kew.org/vacancy/senior… #fungal #genomics #museomics

Bonobo is not bonobo - new paper out by Sojung Han, @AidaAndres et al! doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…

Interested in sedaDNA, aDNA, or forensic genetics? Join me in Copenhagen! I'm hiring a PhD and a Postdoc to start in 2025. Application deadline 28 November employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=1626… employment.ku.dk/all-vacancies/…

🚨new radiocarbon dates klaxon 🚨 Three radiocarbon dates from dogs (3) and humans (3) further suggest a rather short window of deposition at Fishmonger’s Swallet during the Late Iron Age. CW: Contains photos of human remains PDF available here 👇 bcra.org.uk/pub/docs/downl…

My time at @TheCrick is coming to an end! I’ll be starting my PhD in the @archaeoprotein lab later this year 🎉 I’m very lucky to undertake my research in the setting of Karen Ruebens’ COEXIST project, and learn from her and my co-supervisors @HelsFewlass and @FridoWelker 👩‍🔬🦴

Very excited to start working with this amazing team 🥼

PyDamage new version, packed with new features, including super fast base quality rescaling for #aDNA reads ! github.com/maxibor/pydama…

I wrote something swift with Dig It! about ancient DNA, migration and genetic change in prehistoric Britain, and specifically how to interpret ‘population replacement.’ Hint: it is not synonymous with ‘invasion’.

Excited to share the second paper of my PhD, published in @SciAdvances! We made the cover 🏅! Medieval #smallpox 🦠, #zoonoses 🐷, #kinship and #ancestry 🧬 from the Las Gobas necropolis in Northern Spain. A thread 🧶! doi.org/10.1126/sciadv… #AncientPathogens #aDNA

A position is available in my research group at UEA for a wet-lab research assistant, for 3 years, to work on data generation for exciting new genomics projects in urban and rural foxes and other mammals. vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/1191…