WOW❗🤯 The amount and quality of the abstracts we've received have completely blown us away! More than 300 abstracts from researchers at all levels and from 33 countries. We will communicate the selected talks and open registration soon 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org #ICP2026 will be UNMISSABLE 😍💪

LAST CALL ☎️ Abstract submission for #ICP2026 closes on November 30th❗ Don't miss the opportunity to showcase your exciting ancient DNA research next summer 🦴🦣🐕👨‍🔬🧬 Abstract submission and more info here 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org We are looking forward to welcoming you to beautiful Stockholm!

Final call for abstracts for ICP2026! 🧬 Submit here: icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/abstracts/ ⏰ 4.5 hrs remaining... ⏰

Cool work from my colleagues @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social just dropped! Merlin Szymanski, @janetk.bsky.social et al. developed quicksand, a fast, accurate and beautifully designed Nextflow pipeline for taxonomic classification of mammalian mtDNA from ancient sediment DNA. doi.org/10.1093/molb...

Really enjoyed hosting @palaeopete.bsky.social yesterday for an excellent departmental seminar on applications of sedimentary ancient DNA, and a subsequent PhD viva. I learnt many things! What a fascinating and fast moving field 🧬 Thanks Pete! 🌍 🧪 ⚒️

Deadline for abstract submissions for the International Conference on Palaeogenomics (Stockholm, 23–26 June 2026) is 30 November. Submit your abstract via the link below icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/abstracts/ #aDNA #archaeology #proteomics

@alexgilardet.bsky.social et al. recovered ancient DNA from bovine bones in the Denisova cave to characterize Pleistocene bovine diversity, identifying the Altai Mountains as a hotspot for bovine diversity. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf206 #genome #evolution #aDNA #denisova

9 days left until the abstract deadline for #icp2026! 🧬 See below for our current estimates of the registration fee, which some folks have been enquiring about... ⬇️ Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!

Our manuscript on bovine deep-time paleogenomics at Denisova Cave and in the broader mid-latitude Asia is online! doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... 🦬🦴🧬 Main findings in the 🧵 below ⬇️ @cpgsthlm.bsky.social @genomebiolevol.bsky.social #aDNA

🦣🧬🦣🤯💥We are pleased to share our new paper about ancient RNA expression profiles from the Woolly Mammoth, now published in Cell @cellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... If you want to know more, read the 🧵 below:

✅ RNA? ✅ Ancient RNA? ✅ Ancient RNA from woolly mammoth! #FossilFriday 🦣 🧪 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

🦴🧬🦴🧬🦴 Abstract submission is now open for the 1st International Conference on Palaeogenomics! June 23–26 2026, in Stockholm. Join researchers from across the field for 4 days and >100 talks (+ poster sessions)! Submit abstracts here 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/abstracts/ Deadline: Nov 30th

Application deadline in less than a week! Apply to join the Uppsala Human Evolution team!

🧬🧬🧬 🦣❤️🦣 🧬🧬🧬 New #CpgSthlm paper led by @maridehasque.bsky.social published in Biology Letters! Genomic and morphological analysis reveals long-term mammoth hybridization in British Columbia, Canada royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

🧵 Exciting news from our lab #CpgSthlm! 🥳 Thousands of years ago, mammoths roamed, and so did their fascinating microbial companions. Our latest study, published in 𝘊𝘦𝘭𝘭, brings them to light 🦣🦠🧬 Read the full paper here 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

What a week! 🎉 Big thanks to @isba11.bsky.social for hosting an incredible ISBA conference — so well organized and full of great science.

Uh oh. What's this? Two unabashed extroverts given guitars and a remit to roast the field of ancient DNA? Sounds like trouble. One can only hope that if there is video footage, the people responsible have the good sense not to upload it for public viewing. No one wants to see this!

What an incredible time we had last week at the Nobel Symposium "Palaeogenomics: Charting the Future of Ancient DNA" 💀🦣🦠🧬🧪 Connecting with so many leading international researchers in #ancientDNA at beautiful Villa Aske and Stockholm was inspiring ✨🤩 Thank you to all participants!

We're thrilled to announce that the FIRST International Conference on Palaeogenomics will happen in Stockholm, Sweden, June 23-26 2026! Topics will span from humans to wildlife and sediments 🧬🦣💀🦠 bring it on! Save the dates! Follow @palaeogenomics.bsky.social for news 👉icp2026.palaeogenomics.org

The FIRST International Conference on Palaeogenomics will happen in Stockholm, Sweden, June 23-26, 2026! Topics will encompass all corners of ancient DNA research, from humans to wildlife and sediments🧬🦣💀🦠 Save the dates ✅ Check the website icp2026.palaeogenomics.org and follow us for updates!

New review paper on the evolution of cold-adapted species during the Pleistocene, focusing on mammals (but with nods to plants and beetles)! 🦣🐴🦬🦌🐭🌿🪲 By John Stewart, Inger Alsos (‪‬@arcecogen.bsky.social), Tony Brown, @lovedalen.bsky.social, and myself www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

New review paper in TREE out! The Progressive Evolution of Cold-Adapted Species By John Stewart, @lovedalen.bsky.social, @palaeopete.bsky.social and others www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#SedaDNA shows that transhumance of domestic herbivores has enhanced plant diversity over the Holocene in the Eastern European Alps journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Whales, Greenland, and some really old mud. My first PhD chapter now published in @natcomms.nature.com reveals 12,000 years of marine mammal history around Northern Greenland through DNA hidden in marine mud. Check it out: rdcu.be/emdYS #sedaDNA #Greenland #Arctic #whales #seals

NOBEL SYMPOSIA We are delighted to announce two exciting public talks on Ancient DNA at Aula Magna (Stockholm University) on May 30th, 10:00-12:30h. 🦣⬅️ ”Can we bring back the woolly mammoth?” by Beth Shapiro. 🐎✋”The taming of the horse” by Ludovic Orlando. Free entrance. All welcome!

🚨The early bird deadline is ending May 7th! 🚨 Spread the word, and make sure to register now to benefit from the reduced rate! isba11.com/registration #archaeology #biomoleculararchaeology #ISBA11 #archaeologists @isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social

April issue: Review led by @amandalindahl.bsky.social and @indianadiez.bsky.social on the utility of palaeogenomics for exploring past biodiversity trends and exosystem responses to a changing world. 🧪🌎 Web link: go.nature.com/4io2V0K Readcube: rdcu.be/eh0v5

Our study just published in Molecular Ecology Resources presents a probe set for target enrichment of uniparental haplotypes from ancient domesticated animals. Tested on samples spanning 43k years : bones, cave sediments, and farm soils! #eDNA #sedaDNA onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We just doubled the number of mammoth individuals with #million-year-old DNA! 🎉🦣🧬 Our new study reports 11 new #mammoth mitogenomes that are greater than 126,000 years old, of which two are more than one million years old! Congrats, Camilo (@jcchacond.bsky.social) and everyone! See thread below 👇

I am happy to share that our review has now been published in @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social!🎉 @indianadiez.bsky.social @lovedalen.bsky.social @palaeopete.bsky.social Laura Epp @sanneboessenkool.bsky.social @mikkelwp.bsky.social @selinabrace.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

New paper 🚨 This review led by #CPGstlhm researchers @amandalindahl.bsky.social @indianadiez.bsky.social @lovedalen.bsky.social and @palaeopete.bsky.social explores how #ancientDNA 🧬 can be used to investigate all hierarchical levels of #biodiversity across time ⌚ 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🌍 Hello #AncientPathogens community! 🦴🧬🦠 APG's Preliminary Program is up! Registration waivers for LMIC trainees (thanks to Novogene & Twist Bioscience)! 🙌Abstract deadline extended! ⏳ 🔗 Details: liigh.unam.mx/apg/ 🇲🇽 ¡Nos vemos en Querétaro! 🌮🪅 Please RT!

📣 We are hiring! 📣 Are you a #microbiome enthusiast? And would you like to explore the deep biosphere in #Arctic marine sediments? Then we hope you apply! 🧪🦑🧬 candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Congrats to Samantha López Clinton for the successful half-time PhD seminar 🎉

A high-throughput ancient DNA extraction method for large-scale sample screening! Without using robots! Read the new methods paper (Open Access) by our PhD student @alexgilardet.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Congrats on your first first-author paper, @alexgilardet.bsky.social! 🥳

Some news cover on it! (in Spanish) www.eldiario.es/tecnologia/d...

This was a fun collaboration that I am thankful to have had the opportunity to be a part of. Congrats to Irene, Penélope, @gilromera.bsky.social, and the rest of the team!

[please share widely!] We have two PhD positions available at the Swedish Museum of Natural History: [Position 1] Birds, hybridization, genomes, island biology, biogeography, sexual selection 🦚, w/ me, Knud Jønsson, Martin Iredstedt and @stelkens.bsky.social et al recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...

It was happy to see all these humans at #AGU24 @neveb.bsky.social @kisielinski.bsky.social @cwanket.bsky.social @palaeopete.bsky.social @lauren-t-clark.bsky.social

Last reminder of our celebration of the 40th anniversary of the first #aDNA paper. Come join us and our amazing panel to discus the impact of the Quagga paper, how the field of animal paleogenetics have evolved and where are we heading in the future. 🧪🏺#evosky

This is not a drill, a mummified sabretooth cat has been published from the #Pleistocene permafrost of Russia. It's a Homotherium cub! The team (Lopatin et al.) reckon it's Homotherium latidens. It's too young to have enlarged upper canines. Paper is OA ... www.nature.com/articles/s41... cont...

With all the new people migrating into BlueSky, we have created a small starter pack for aDNA (and other molecules) researchers. go.bsky.app/F4EPLJh 🧪🏺 #evosky #PaleoSky

Hello, Bluesky!

Stockholm University is hiring three assistant professors in the broad field of Biodiversity. Positions would be SciLifeLab fellows with a generous starting package. #AssistProf #SciLifeLab #Biodiversity #AcademicJobs #Evolution #Genomics #StockholmUniversity su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Come join @lovedalen.bsky.social, myself, and the rest of the gang at the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm! Three postdoc projects available on 🐭🐴🐻 Apply here: www.su.se/english/abou...

🚨 Postdoc position 🚨 Excited to be recruiting a postdoc to use sedimentary #ancientDNA 🧬 to better understand climate-associated impacts on an Arctic coastal ecosystem Deadline: 15th June 2024 Based at the Centre for Palaeogenetics & Stockholm Uni Come join us! 😀 www.su.se/english/abou...

One week left until the abstract deadline (9 April) for the Ancient Biomolecules of Plants, Animals and Microbes conference in Cambridge (UK), 3–5 June 2024: coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/ancien...

Really nice paper showcasing the redeposition of ancient DNA into much younger sediments. #TaphonomyMatters by Peter Seeber, Beth Shapiro, Laura Epp et al. (and great to see this application of Sam Vohr's mixemt for deconvoluting the mito-haplotypes!) elifesciences.org/articles/89992