@gingerhowley.bsky.social
Associate Professor at UCD. Young Academy Ireland. https://t.co/ZQ4XYYxM7H
Ancient DNA, goats, sheep (begrudgingly), pathogens, climate, MTG, Traitors.
I watch too many films: http://letterboxd.com/GingerHowley
He is openly gay (citation needed).
@saoirsemc.bsky.socialReposted by @gingerhowley.bsky.socialThe gambling addiction and dead dog factory that is greyhound racing is the lifeblood of rural Ireland no doubt
@gingerhowley.bsky.socialPetition to try to regulate some of the high-impact culling of feral goats in Scotland, such as killing pregnant females or nursing females with kids
petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...
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@gingerhowley.bsky.socialMy colleauges & myself are launching the Young Academy Ireland's Sustainability statement - hear from rising experts across different fields about the challenges and solutions to sustainability.
@gingerhowley.bsky.socialWe've [with @louis-lhote.bsky.social] published an article on @theconversation.com about our work on #adna of sheeppox virus.
@gingerhowley.bsky.socialI rarely say "hang 'em" but oh my god
@patschloss.bsky.socialReposted by @gingerhowley.bsky.socialLet me get this straight. There's a title. There's a commentary article. There's an abstract. There's a set of bullet point highlights. There's a graphical abstract. AND YOU STILL THINK I NEED YOUR AI AGENT TO SUMMARIZE THE ARTICLE FOR ME?
@molbioevol.bsky.socialReposted by @gingerhowley.bsky.socialMullin et al. use WGS from 101 museum specimens of British/Irish moss carder bumblebees from 1894-2019 to reveal a dramatic drop in genetic diversity: ∼24.6% decrease in heterozygosity and a 2.86-fold increase in ROH
🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
📷 Gavin Broad
@gingerhowley.bsky.socialDon't bait me into reading it.
@gingerhowley.bsky.socialThe brilliant Jack Scullion made wonderful art for my group and the HERDPATH project! He's on Linked-In:
www.linkedin.com/in/jack-scul...
@gingerhowley.bsky.socialOur sheeppox virus research was covered by Le Figaro!
@cathalmalone.bsky.socialReposted by @gingerhowley.bsky.social
@gingerhowley.bsky.socialI'm actually disgusted by this.
@helmholtz-hioh.bsky.socialReposted by @gingerhowley.bsky.social🔬Exciting research on the history of the deadly sheeppox virus (SPPV):hidden DNA from medieval manuscripts shows that capripoxviruses diverged after their hosts were domesticated. Prof. Calvignac-Spencer contributed to this collaborative effort, supporting Louis L’Hôte during a 3-month stay at HIOH🤝
@carlkinsella.bsky.socialReposted by @gingerhowley.bsky.socialunless you're waking up early to get the bus, Luas or DART, in which case you'll soon be paying 30% more per journey
@gingerhowley.bsky.social@gingerhowley.bsky.socialI'm hiring a postdoc as part of my ERC project - the deadline is tomorrow noon GMT, apologies for the little notice If you have interest but can't make the deadline, please DM/email me immediately and i can try extend the deadline a few days
@parkerlibcccc.bsky.socialReposted by @gingerhowley.bsky.socialVIRUS ALERT! Sheeppox virus found in our parchment! Luckily, it is the ancient kind, so no extra precautions needed 😅
What a multidisciplinary effort - congrats to everyone involved!
(Incidentally, the culprit MS is currently on display in our exhibition)
@marcocapo.bsky.socialReposted by @gingerhowley.bsky.socialOur paper on archaic introgression in imputed ancient genomes is out.
Imputation performs better in archaic regions, making Neanderthal and Denisovan segments detectable in low-coverage data. Thousands of archived genomes become usable.
@louis-lhote.bsky.socialReposted by @gingerhowley.bsky.socialExtremely happy to share our new study on Sheeppox virus (SPPV) !
We notably found many genomes in Medieval parchments🦠📖
A short thread about it :
share.google/JqVOTB2lvxcO...
