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congrats to Dan Nana Osei Bonsu on this new paper, and #4 from his PhD. Dan found that tin contamination in DNA extracts leads to massive overestimates of DNA concentration in human forensic DNA qPCR onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/8…

your finance team emails a PO to a company, a month later you query when product will be delivered, sales rep replies “oh you had to log into our website and place the order yourself”, faaaaaaark, thanks for nothing

huge congrats to Australian Centre for Ancient DNA Doctors Xavier Roca-Rada, PhD Dan Nana Osei Bonsu Isabelle Rose Onley, PhD who won 3 of the four awards for postgrad excellence at tonights School of Biol Scoc student awards !!!

Surprisingly, the university library does not want a copy of your papers when you retire.

Quiz night is coming up very soon! Remember to book in your table ASAP! 🏆 🧠

350 student assignments, tests and essays marked in the last 4 weeks. Less than 3 weeks till semester 2 starts…..

🎉 NEW PREPRINT DAY 🎉 We find significant allelic bias in human ancient DNA data generated using the new 'Prime Plus' 1240k enrichment kit from Daicel Arbor Biosciences, when compared with the original 1240k and shotgun-generated data. 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

help! I’ve got a couple of hundred microsat genotypes and want to cluster them into groups of identical genotypes, and then show groups that are 1 or 2 alleles different. Anyone know any software that can do this?

the MorphoDNAologists killing it at School of Biological Sciences Postgrad Association quiz night! @InvasionEcology

thanks to the @sobspa crew for a great quiz night, and our younger team members who knew all the answers. Go Team MorphoDNAologists!

Congrats to ⁦Dan Bonsu Dan Nana Osei Bonsu⁩ for this paper published today! Dan studied how self-cleaning glass can affect DNA recovery- From clean spaces to crime scenes: exploring trace DNA recovery from titania-coated self-cleaning substrates - ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Your DNA could be the missing link. Visit missingpersons.gov.au/support/nation… to learn more about how to upload your DNA file to GEDmatch and potentially help solve unidentified human remains cases. #DNAProgram #missingpersons

the week has started well - all my library prep enzymes ($1000 worth) delivered to a room temp store room and have been sitting warm for > 3 days

Who lived at Machu Picchu? DNA analysis shows surprising diversity at the ancient Inca palace theconversation.com/who-lived-at-m… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

So many things wrong. Firstly, it’s not UV light as it’s highly nonspecific to #semen and will light up under shitloads of different contaminants. Secondly, Kyle and Jackie O should get their eyes checked after the numpty with a UV light pointed it the eyes #dontfuckwithscience

amazing talk by Prof Rob Knight on microbiome effects on human health, today at SAHMRI

ARC Linkage project funded! Three years trying to find lost mammals in Aussie dirt. Some awesome partners involved including Bush Heritage WWF_Australia Australian Museum Australian Wildlife Conservancy and NSW Dept Env. Great lead by Damien Fordham