Kevin Daly
@gingerhowley.bsky.social
Ad Astra-Assist. Prof 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).
Ancient DNA, goats, sheep (begrudgingly), pathogens, climate, MTG, Traitors.
I watch too many films: http://letterboxd.com/GingerHowley
He is openly gay (citation needed).
Pinned
Patrick Freyne: From the removal of joy to global destruction, 16 reasons I hate AI
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Patrick Freyne: AI’s weird billionaires want us all to be atomised units of labour and consumption
The weird billionaires behind artificial intelligence are desperately trying to shoehorn AI chatbots into every bit of technology you own
www.irishtimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Patrick Freyne: From the removal of joy to global destruction, 16 reasons I hate AI
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Boys are having a good Christmas.
December 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Boys are having a good Christmas.
After eight (a.m.)
December 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
After eight (a.m.)
Sick as a dog but have The Boys looking after me
December 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Sick as a dog but have The Boys looking after me
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While stories of singular DNA changes that drove evolution of human brain/behaviour remain seductive, advances across multiple fields of biology cast doubt on such simplistic narratives of our origins. A new paper from my lab shows how biobanks may speak to this fundamental question.🧪
Explainer🧵👇1/n
Explainer🧵👇1/n
Evaluating the effects of archaic protein-altering variants in living human adults
Promise and pitfalls of using large biobanks to study impacts of archaic protein-coding variants in living humans.
www.science.org
December 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
While stories of singular DNA changes that drove evolution of human brain/behaviour remain seductive, advances across multiple fields of biology cast doubt on such simplistic narratives of our origins. A new paper from my lab shows how biobanks may speak to this fundamental question.🧪
Explainer🧵👇1/n
Explainer🧵👇1/n
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
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2000 yr old rotavirus!
RNA virus genomes from centuries- to millennia-old Adelie penguin mummies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.17.693957v1
December 19, 2025 at 7:37 AM
2000 yr old rotavirus!
The Cordis page for my ERC project HERDPATH is live! cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1...
The genomic consequences of domestication for ruminant pathogen evolution and herd diversity across ten millennia | HERDPATH | Project | Fact Sheet | HORIZON | CORDIS | European Commission
Palaeogenomics has transformed our understanding of the genetic consequences of domestication, particularly for livestock species, first brought into the anthropological sphere ~10,000 years ago in So...
cordis.europa.eu
December 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The Cordis page for my ERC project HERDPATH is live! cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1...
I love my brain and I love my insomnia <3
December 18, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I love my brain and I love my insomnia <3
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Disappointingly after great campaigning the Dáil has voted down a Bill to ban fox hunting.
This barbaric, cruel, colonial practice will continue for now.
But the campaign against it will grow. The will of the people will ultimately be heard and we will succeed in stopping it.
This barbaric, cruel, colonial practice will continue for now.
But the campaign against it will grow. The will of the people will ultimately be heard and we will succeed in stopping it.
December 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Disappointingly after great campaigning the Dáil has voted down a Bill to ban fox hunting.
This barbaric, cruel, colonial practice will continue for now.
But the campaign against it will grow. The will of the people will ultimately be heard and we will succeed in stopping it.
This barbaric, cruel, colonial practice will continue for now.
But the campaign against it will grow. The will of the people will ultimately be heard and we will succeed in stopping it.
Tapering down the caffeine intake (off the wagon btw) so I don't OD when home next week.
December 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Tapering down the caffeine intake (off the wagon btw) so I don't OD when home next week.
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We will have about 13,000 in 2025. About half will be allowed stay. I don't think 6,500 extra people in a population of 5 million is a threat to "social cohesion". Not being able to afford a home or to see a doctor or not having to wait 3 years for my kid's needs to be assessed is.
High asylum seeker numbers are a threat to ‘social cohesion’, says Jim O’Callaghan
High asylum seeker numbers are a threat to ‘social cohesion’, says Jim O’Callaghan
Minister ‘not setting any numbers’, but says population growth is too high, putting services under pressure
www.irishtimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:35 AM
We will have about 13,000 in 2025. About half will be allowed stay. I don't think 6,500 extra people in a population of 5 million is a threat to "social cohesion". Not being able to afford a home or to see a doctor or not having to wait 3 years for my kid's needs to be assessed is.
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I wrote about the bizarre case of Herasight, the embryo selection company going all in on eugenics.
Embryo selection company Herasight goes all in on eugenics
...
open.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I wrote about the bizarre case of Herasight, the embryo selection company going all in on eugenics.
Reposted by Kevin Daly
"It’s harder to date. Harder to think about having children. It’s harder to come to your own conclusions about what you earnestly want from life. It’s harder to realise who you are. It’s impossible to feel as though you are meeting your potential."
This week's column, more personal than usual.
This week's column, more personal than usual.
Surrealing in the Years: 'How To Suffer Indignity' - a documentary by the Department of Housing
Narrated by Liam Neeson.
www.thejournal.ie
December 13, 2025 at 9:20 AM
"It’s harder to date. Harder to think about having children. It’s harder to come to your own conclusions about what you earnestly want from life. It’s harder to realise who you are. It’s impossible to feel as though you are meeting your potential."
This week's column, more personal than usual.
This week's column, more personal than usual.
Coop is enjoying the @aarc-community.bsky.social mutually event, despite his Cone Of Shame.
December 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Coop is enjoying the @aarc-community.bsky.social mutually event, despite his Cone Of Shame.
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These two stories are somehow connected. Apparently, if you lobby tirelessly for more pollution & ecological wreckage, that’s exactly what you get.
December 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
These two stories are somehow connected. Apparently, if you lobby tirelessly for more pollution & ecological wreckage, that’s exactly what you get.
One last push for the #aDNA crowd for our event at 3pm GMT!
A reminder of the @aarc-community.bsky.social annual event this Thursday, 3pm GMT - join us for discussions on the science of interrelatedness and mutualism!
❗ Our RemAaRCs: on Mutualism - The Science of Interrelatedness has a new date and time ❗
3-5pm London time / 4-6pm CET / 10-12am ET
@aarc-community.bsky.social #aDNA
3-5pm London time / 4-6pm CET / 10-12am ET
@aarc-community.bsky.social #aDNA
December 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
One last push for the #aDNA crowd for our event at 3pm GMT!
Reposted by Kevin Daly
Is the government's hollowing out of RTE an abrogation of duty in the face of a democratic onslaught? On Morning Ireland this morning, Fianna Fáil TD Malcolm Byrne said RTÉ is moving towards a publisher–broadcaster model like Channel 4 or TG4, .
December 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Is the government's hollowing out of RTE an abrogation of duty in the face of a democratic onslaught? On Morning Ireland this morning, Fianna Fáil TD Malcolm Byrne said RTÉ is moving towards a publisher–broadcaster model like Channel 4 or TG4, .
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Happy to hare that the preprint I was advertising below has been published by the Journal of Evolutionary Biology:
academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...
Thanks @jevbio.bsky.social for supporting responsible publishing!
academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...
Thanks @jevbio.bsky.social for supporting responsible publishing!
December 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Happy to hare that the preprint I was advertising below has been published by the Journal of Evolutionary Biology:
academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...
Thanks @jevbio.bsky.social for supporting responsible publishing!
academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...
Thanks @jevbio.bsky.social for supporting responsible publishing!
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I am very excited to present this work to the (sed)aDNA community - and I am looking forward to some cool applications!
If you want to use quicksand, I recommend following supplementary section 8, which demonstrates several use-cases :)
see github.com/mpieva/quicksand for more details
If you want to use quicksand, I recommend following supplementary section 8, which demonstrates several use-cases :)
see github.com/mpieva/quicksand for more details
December 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I am very excited to present this work to the (sed)aDNA community - and I am looking forward to some cool applications!
If you want to use quicksand, I recommend following supplementary section 8, which demonstrates several use-cases :)
see github.com/mpieva/quicksand for more details
If you want to use quicksand, I recommend following supplementary section 8, which demonstrates several use-cases :)
see github.com/mpieva/quicksand for more details
A reminder of the @aarc-community.bsky.social annual event this Thursday, 3pm GMT - join us for discussions on the science of interrelatedness and mutualism!
❗ Our RemAaRCs: on Mutualism - The Science of Interrelatedness has a new date and time ❗
3-5pm London time / 4-6pm CET / 10-12am ET
@aarc-community.bsky.social #aDNA
3-5pm London time / 4-6pm CET / 10-12am ET
@aarc-community.bsky.social #aDNA
December 9, 2025 at 6:48 AM
A reminder of the @aarc-community.bsky.social annual event this Thursday, 3pm GMT - join us for discussions on the science of interrelatedness and mutualism!
It was a pleasure to present at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social School of Biological Sciences in a talk spanning agriculture, the evolution of domesticates, and disease! Injured foot out of sight.
A big thank you to Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social who came to us last week and presented his lab’s exciting work on using aDNA to study livestock domestication and pathogen ecology!
December 9, 2025 at 6:47 AM
It was a pleasure to present at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social School of Biological Sciences in a talk spanning agriculture, the evolution of domesticates, and disease! Injured foot out of sight.
Reposted by Kevin Daly
After a four-year journey, my PhD work is out in @science.org
Endless gratitude to the amazing @felix-erc.bsky.social team, all coauthors and collaborators, and my loved ones. Without you all this couldn't be real! 💛🐱✨
@erc.europa.eu @nationalgeographic.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Endless gratitude to the amazing @felix-erc.bsky.social team, all coauthors and collaborators, and my loved ones. Without you all this couldn't be real! 💛🐱✨
@erc.europa.eu @nationalgeographic.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago
The domestic cat (Felis catus) descends from the African wildcat Felis lybica lybica. Its global distribution alongside humans testifies to its successful adaptation to anthropogenic environments. Unc...
www.science.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
After a four-year journey, my PhD work is out in @science.org
Endless gratitude to the amazing @felix-erc.bsky.social team, all coauthors and collaborators, and my loved ones. Without you all this couldn't be real! 💛🐱✨
@erc.europa.eu @nationalgeographic.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Endless gratitude to the amazing @felix-erc.bsky.social team, all coauthors and collaborators, and my loved ones. Without you all this couldn't be real! 💛🐱✨
@erc.europa.eu @nationalgeographic.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Another #aDNA preprint! We recovered DNA from 7,000 year old (!) goat leather from Cueva de los Murciélagos - and see a genetic link with Bermeya goats today!
Credit to Francisco Martínez-Sevilla for seeing me on Youtube(?!) + reaching out to collaborate - there's still value in the internet.
Credit to Francisco Martínez-Sevilla for seeing me on Youtube(?!) + reaching out to collaborate - there's still value in the internet.
Genetic analysis of 7,000 year old preserved goat leather from Cueva de los Murciélagos (Albuñol, Spain).
Advances in ancient DNA research have expanded the range of materials from which genetic information can be recovered, enabling the analysis of atypical materials. These often preserve both host and e...
www.biorxiv.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Another #aDNA preprint! We recovered DNA from 7,000 year old (!) goat leather from Cueva de los Murciélagos - and see a genetic link with Bermeya goats today!
Credit to Francisco Martínez-Sevilla for seeing me on Youtube(?!) + reaching out to collaborate - there's still value in the internet.
Credit to Francisco Martínez-Sevilla for seeing me on Youtube(?!) + reaching out to collaborate - there's still value in the internet.