Summary
Dear sedaDNA enthusiasts,
Hello and welcome to the November newsletter! This past month has also been productive in terms of eight new papers, and two preprints and one new Post-Doc position.
Wishing you a great month of November,
The organising board
New papers
Aloïs Revéret et al., (2026) published "Stadial–interstadial climate oscillations influence postglacial ecological succession at the southwestern margin of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet: insights from sedimentary ancient DNA" in Quaternary Science Reviews.
Xinjie Shi et al., (2026) published "Evolution of lake microbial structure and function under climatic and anthropogenic forcings: Insights from sedimentary ancient DNA" in iScience.
Emilie Bregendahl et al., (2026) published "Animal Bones from Danish Single Grave Contexts" in the Danish Journal of Archaeology.
Jaekyung Yoon et al., (2026) published "Novel Antarctic chemolithotroph drives iron biomineralization" in Microbiome.
Mingjian Shen et al., (2026) published "Advancing Research on Ancient Agriculture Through Ancient Environmental DNA" in Agronomy.
Pere Gelabert et al., (2026) published "Early Gravettian genomic data from Western Europe reveal population movements before the LGM" in Science Advances.
Yuxiao Xiang et al., (2026) published "Late Holocene transition from natural to anthropogenic forcing of lake archaeal community dynamics in semi-arid northern China" in Quaternary Science Reviews.
Nihan Dilşad Dağtaş et al., (2026) published "Rapid screening of ancient DNA extracts through uracil detection" in iScience.
Preprints
Inger Greve Alsos et al., (2026) submitted the preprint "The Muskox Way: Humans, plants and animals in northeast Greenland through the Holocene" available on BioRxiv.
Josefine Friederike Weiß et al., (2026) submitted the preprint "Microbial priming controls terrestrial carbon burial in marine sediments" available on BioRxiv.
New Positions
A position as Post-Doctoral Researcher in Palaeoecology with the DeepCattle environmental history project is available at University College Cork, Ireland. The position is 3 years fixed-term and will trace the expanding environmental footprint of cattle farming since the Middle Ages, by integrating palaeoecological data with historical and archaeological evidence. The Post-Doctoral Researcher will assist in lake and peatland coring in Ireland, Scotland and Sweden and be responsible for palynological analysis of the cores at UCC. In collaboration with the Centre for Palaeogenetics (CPG) in Stockholm University, the Post-Doctoral Researcher will also undertake sedimentary ancient DNA analysis on selected cores.
The full description of the position and links to apply can be found here by searching for "DeepCattle". Application deadline is the 20th November 2026, 12:00 GMT. If you'd like more information, please contact Prof. Eugene Costello.
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