Dr Ross Barnett
@deepfrieddna.bsky.social
Invernessian palaeogeneticist and stay-at-home dad. Knows a thing or two about the aDNA of extinct lions, sabretooths and megafauna. Author of The Missing Lynx.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Missing-Lynx-Future-Britains-Mammals/dp/1472957350
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Missing-Lynx-Future-Britains-Mammals/dp/1472957350
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this is amazing news - the HPV vaccine promises to eliminate cervical cancer in countries where uptake is high.
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
this is amazing news - the HPV vaccine promises to eliminate cervical cancer in countries where uptake is high.
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🚨 PNAS Special Feature 2 🐕
We used ancient DNA and dietary isotopes to show that landscape modification and the introduction of European dogs impacted dingo populations across Australia.
🔗 Full paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We used ancient DNA and dietary isotopes to show that landscape modification and the introduction of European dogs impacted dingo populations across Australia.
🔗 Full paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
🚨 PNAS Special Feature 2 🐕
We used ancient DNA and dietary isotopes to show that landscape modification and the introduction of European dogs impacted dingo populations across Australia.
🔗 Full paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We used ancient DNA and dietary isotopes to show that landscape modification and the introduction of European dogs impacted dingo populations across Australia.
🔗 Full paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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🚨 PNAS Special Feature 🐕
We analysed genomes of historical German Shepherds to reveal how bottlenecks linked to WWII and the use of popular sires led to significant declines in genomic health. We also found an early 20th century wolf-dog hybrid!
🔗 Full paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We analysed genomes of historical German Shepherds to reveal how bottlenecks linked to WWII and the use of popular sires led to significant declines in genomic health. We also found an early 20th century wolf-dog hybrid!
🔗 Full paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
🚨 PNAS Special Feature 🐕
We analysed genomes of historical German Shepherds to reveal how bottlenecks linked to WWII and the use of popular sires led to significant declines in genomic health. We also found an early 20th century wolf-dog hybrid!
🔗 Full paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We analysed genomes of historical German Shepherds to reveal how bottlenecks linked to WWII and the use of popular sires led to significant declines in genomic health. We also found an early 20th century wolf-dog hybrid!
🔗 Full paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Nice piece on the Hillsborough mastodon from New Brunswick, Canada.
Fun fact: a replica of this mastodon is on display at the Museum of the Middle Appalachians in Saltville, Virginia.
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
Fun fact: a replica of this mastodon is on display at the Museum of the Middle Appalachians in Saltville, Virginia.
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
Unearthing 75,000-year-old mastodon bones
A mammoth-like creature that once roamed Hillsborough in the southeastern area of the province now lives packed away in a New Brunswick Museum research centre.
www.cbc.ca
November 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Nice piece on the Hillsborough mastodon from New Brunswick, Canada.
Fun fact: a replica of this mastodon is on display at the Museum of the Middle Appalachians in Saltville, Virginia.
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
Fun fact: a replica of this mastodon is on display at the Museum of the Middle Appalachians in Saltville, Virginia.
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
Fucks' sake! There's been a significant increase in blatant bigotry since the reporting of Cameron Barracks plan. Racism has no place here. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Inverness school's Christmas show cancelled after 'racist' abuse
Highland Council says some of the online messages were directed at staff at the primary.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Fucks' sake! There's been a significant increase in blatant bigotry since the reporting of Cameron Barracks plan. Racism has no place here. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.
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Delighted to see our paper characterising the inbreeding history of dogs and wolves over the past 10,000 years published this week in @pnas.org. Work led by the excellent @katiabou.bsky.social, and co-supervised by me, Laurent Frantz and Fernando Racimo www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Delighted to see our paper characterising the inbreeding history of dogs and wolves over the past 10,000 years published this week in @pnas.org. Work led by the excellent @katiabou.bsky.social, and co-supervised by me, Laurent Frantz and Fernando Racimo www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Beautiful piece about a group of young people who ignored the cynics, critics and gatekeepers and just cracked on restoring nature, bringing as many people as they could along for the ride.
"Action, access and agency".
You want a rural revival? This is it.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"Action, access and agency".
You want a rural revival? This is it.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement
At Maple Farm, nature is returning in droves: nightingales, grass snakes, slowworms, bats and insects. All due to the vision of a group determined to accelerate its recovery
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Beautiful piece about a group of young people who ignored the cynics, critics and gatekeepers and just cracked on restoring nature, bringing as many people as they could along for the ride.
"Action, access and agency".
You want a rural revival? This is it.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"Action, access and agency".
You want a rural revival? This is it.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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During the earliest stages of domestication, dogs in archaeological sites would be indistinguishable from wolves.
Unless you find them on a small island where no wolves would survive on their own, eating things wolves normally don’t eat.
Such as here:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Unless you find them on a small island where no wolves would survive on their own, eating things wolves normally don’t eat.
Such as here:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
During the earliest stages of domestication, dogs in archaeological sites would be indistinguishable from wolves.
Unless you find them on a small island where no wolves would survive on their own, eating things wolves normally don’t eat.
Such as here:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Unless you find them on a small island where no wolves would survive on their own, eating things wolves normally don’t eat.
Such as here:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Metazooa
Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!
metazooa.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's landmark book 'On the Origin of Species' was first published. The work is one of the foundations of evolutionary biology, and one of the most important scientific works of the 19th century. #HistoryOfScience
November 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's landmark book 'On the Origin of Species' was first published. The work is one of the foundations of evolutionary biology, and one of the most important scientific works of the 19th century. #HistoryOfScience
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#OTD in 1859 'On the Origin of Species' was published. We have a few different editions in the library @thembauk.bsky.social but we are privileged to be custodians of an early edition gifted to (a mystery) someone by Charles #Darwin himself
📖BS.15/D
📖BS.15/D
November 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM
#OTD in 1859 'On the Origin of Species' was published. We have a few different editions in the library @thembauk.bsky.social but we are privileged to be custodians of an early edition gifted to (a mystery) someone by Charles #Darwin himself
📖BS.15/D
📖BS.15/D
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do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
#Finland will begin to #Russia - proof its rail network, integrate with EU train infrastructure.
The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
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#rewilding milestone. A #wolf pack has been seen in the Spanish #Pyrenees, the first in 100 years. I look at the influence of Félix Rogrígez de la Fuente, an early advocate of predators. www.wildingthepyrenees.com/wolf-pack/
Wolf pack
The first wolf pack seen in the Pyrenees for a century.
www.wildingthepyrenees.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 AM
#rewilding milestone. A #wolf pack has been seen in the Spanish #Pyrenees, the first in 100 years. I look at the influence of Félix Rogrígez de la Fuente, an early advocate of predators. www.wildingthepyrenees.com/wolf-pack/
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This is the oldest known family photo taken at Stonehenge. c 1865, back when you could picnic on the great sarsens themselves.
The original photo is owned by Queen Guitarist Brian May!
#stonehenge #wiltshire #stonecircle
The original photo is owned by Queen Guitarist Brian May!
#stonehenge #wiltshire #stonecircle
November 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This is the oldest known family photo taken at Stonehenge. c 1865, back when you could picnic on the great sarsens themselves.
The original photo is owned by Queen Guitarist Brian May!
#stonehenge #wiltshire #stonecircle
The original photo is owned by Queen Guitarist Brian May!
#stonehenge #wiltshire #stonecircle
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November 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Video of woolly mammoth leg discovered in the Siberian permafrost!
Researchers from #CpgSthlm and SciLifeLab have now, for the first time ever, identified signatures of gene activity in frozen mammoth remains!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Video of woolly mammoth leg discovered in the Siberian permafrost!
Researchers from #CpgSthlm and SciLifeLab have now, for the first time ever, identified signatures of gene activity in frozen mammoth remains!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
November 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Video of woolly mammoth leg discovered in the Siberian permafrost!
Researchers from #CpgSthlm and SciLifeLab have now, for the first time ever, identified signatures of gene activity in frozen mammoth remains!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Video of woolly mammoth leg discovered in the Siberian permafrost!
Researchers from #CpgSthlm and SciLifeLab have now, for the first time ever, identified signatures of gene activity in frozen mammoth remains!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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On today's episode we've invited Dr. Carlton Shield Chief Gover from the Great Plains Archaeology Podcast on @archpodnet.bsky.social to review Prey (2022), a prequel to the Predator franchise in which the eponymous alien hunter meets his match on the Great Plains of 1719
youtu.be/VpYvxP3LUGU
youtu.be/VpYvxP3LUGU
Episode 115: Prey (2022) with Dr. Carlton Shield Chief Gover | Screens of the Stone Age Podcast
YouTube video by Screens of the Stone Age
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November 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
On today's episode we've invited Dr. Carlton Shield Chief Gover from the Great Plains Archaeology Podcast on @archpodnet.bsky.social to review Prey (2022), a prequel to the Predator franchise in which the eponymous alien hunter meets his match on the Great Plains of 1719
youtu.be/VpYvxP3LUGU
youtu.be/VpYvxP3LUGU
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Happy Birthday Dr Who! Still a quote I find more and more resonant. #doctorwho
November 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Happy Birthday Dr Who! Still a quote I find more and more resonant. #doctorwho