🦴🧬🦴🧬🦴 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

There are cave lion (Panthera spelaea) natural mummies so not sure this article is totally accurate but this looks interesting www.iflscience.com/perfectly-mu...

For years I have wondered if this could indeed be possible. But how much material and sequencing effort do you have to throw at it to get something meaningful? And the permissions just to attempt it! I would have never dared to try. It will be interesting to see the results.

🧬🧬🧬 🦣❤️🦣 🧬🧬🧬 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/...

Our new study is out! We analysed 40 Malaise trap samples collected across Sweden by the Insect Biome Atlas project using #metabarcoding and #metagenomics onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @cpgsthlm.bsky.social @tvdvalk.bsky.social

The tool that archaeogeneticists around the globe have been crying out for! No more months spent laboriously cross-referencing genetic relatedness, osteological attributes and archaeological context whilst scribbling endless iterations of circles and squares! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Ancient DNA analyzed in #ScienceAdvances adds new details to the mastodon family tree—potentially expanding it. https://scim.ag/4pdAasl

Polygenic prediction of human complex traits using ancient DNA www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This is so crazy 😶

The world's oldest bacterial DNA found in a million-year-old mammoth! New results from researchers at #CpgSthlm published in Cell! Paper: www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

I'm hiring a postdoc... By combining samples that are more than a million years old with the short generation time of small rodents, we hope to gain a unique window into evolution unfolding across millions of generations!

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

A very special paper where we did something NEW! 🔥combining a large genetic dataset 🧬, a large linguistic dataset 💬, and Bayesian multilevel logistic regressions 📈, counting the effects of areal contact (geographic constrains) 🌎. Genetic admixture explains higher levels of linguistic exchanges...

I was at ISBA 2025 ✌️

Thrilled to have a new paper out where we use 12+ years of monitoring data to document the impacts of inbreeding on fitness in eastern massasauga rattlesnakes! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Board The AaRC at @isba11.bsky.social ! Very excited to have a great mix of speakers at the animal #adna community meeting If you'd like to join us 26th August for talks, a roundtable discussion and networking, a link is in the threads (ignore mention of abstract!) @aarc-community.bsky.social

Our aDNA time transect centered on modern Georgia is out! 🧬 Genetic continuity over 5000 years, but some Bronze Age gene flow and urban outliers since Antiquity - including some with artificially deformed skulls 💀 linked by IBD segments to Asian nomads. #aDNA #PopGen www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

The genomic history of Iberian horses since the last Ice Age www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Somebody please tell them to look out for the ossicles while cleaning the skulls www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

New preprint 🎉! We explore the reliability of ancient DNA authentication, particularly cytosine deamination at fragment ends in metagenomic context. You can find the full results in our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Two useful new reviews on ancestry inference in population genetics: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

A wonderful look at the population history of the eastern Alps! While the Alps have often been a barrier to human movement, this paper highlights the Alps as a region of connection and interaction as well 🏔️🏺 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Two great new studies out in @nature.com today, pushing back the recovery of dental enamel proteins to 21+ million years in the Arctic (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) and 18+ million years in East Africa (www.nature.com/articles/s41...).

Benchmarking Imputed Low Coverage Genomes in a Human Population Genetics Context onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Not #gravy but garum. Our paper on ancient DNA of Roman era fish sauce is out on Antiquity https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/roman-atlantic-garum-dna-confirms-sardine-use-and-population-continuity-in-northwestern-iberia/9487347327F3724D1D2C4F72266DAEF3# #ancient #dna […]

🚨 New paper! 🧬 We explore ancestry shifts, kinship ties & Mediterranean links at Mas d’en Boixos (Catalonia), from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. 👨🏻‍🔬A long journey since my master’s! Huge thanks to Cristina, Assumpció & @dnatimetravel.bsky.social! @acadresearch.bsky.social shorturl.at/B8TlB

Been a proud sub of JotDown for years, nice to see the picked this up www.jotdown.es/2025/07/a-vu...

BEAST X v10.5.0 finally released – you can't just do beta releases forever. github.com/beast-dev/be... Details and instructions for installing on the BEAST website: beast.community

Researchers from the Crick and @ljmuofficial.bsky.social have extracted and sequenced DNA from an individual who lived in Egypt around 4,500 years ago, making it the oldest genome from ancient Egypt sequenced to date. www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-07...

I'm super excited to share our new paper on Norwegian lemming genomics just published in @pnas.org!! Read the paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.... Summary ⬇️

8,000 years ago, two babies were buried at Çatalhöyük West. Excavated and analyzed during our excavations, their DNA links them to East Mound — now part of this amazing paper. Very, very happy to contribute & huge thanks to the teams involved! 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Explore Wikipedia through a data map. Pages are grouped by semantic similarity, for topic clusters. Hover to see details, zoom to explore more fine-grained topics, click to go to a page. Search by page name to find interesting starting points for exploration. lmcinnes.github.io/datamapplot_...

1/5 Why do all non-Africans descended from a group that left Africa 50k ago? In @nature.com we model 120k years of human niche dynamics. From 70ka, a big expansion of the human niche in Africa likely equipped later OOA dispersals with a unique ecological flexibilty. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm on the local newspaper today www.levante-emv.com/comunitat-va...

Ullikummi! Ullikummi!

Did leprosy exist in the Americas before European invasion? Our lab #aDNA study at @institutpasteur.bsky.social supervised by @nrascovan.bsky.social in collab with @avanzich.bsky.social (CSU) finds M.lepromatosis in pre-colonial Ancestors from North and South America www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New Publication! New Article by #HEASVienna member #LauravanderSluis et al. on 'Late Paleolithic whale bone tools reveal human and whale ecology in the Bay of Biscay.' #HEASPublications

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...

Excited to announce our paper on ancient Borrelia genomes is finally out! 🦠💀We document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever, published today in @science.org‬ with @lucyvandorp.bsky.social and @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social #aDNA 🏺🧪🧬 Main findings and paper below: 🧵⬇️

Press release about our recent publication from my PhD at Huddersfield. Better late than never! Thanks Leverhulme Trust for funding me and the research! www.hud.ac.uk/news/2025/ma...

Happy to share a PhD opportunity in my new lab at the University of Zurich! Application deadline: June 30. Do not hesitate to contact me for any questions!

Good. Finally a hint of pushback. However stating that now “level of human suffering in Gaza is intolerable” implies that there is "tolerable" levels of human suffering in Gaza for western countries. The quiet part outloud. Shameful we even allow a fraction of it. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

If that isn't a mind blowing Figure 1 I don't know what is. It makes you think. If we've only barely scratched the surface for all that there is, imagine for all that was.

#MetagenomicsMonday🧬 Ancient DNA reveals that medieval Cistercian manuscript bindings often used sealskins sourced from the North Atlantic, highlighting unexpected material choices and extensive medieval trade networks. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Genomic map of the functionally extinct northern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Hernández-Alonso, @jazminrm.bsky.social @pachecoevolbio.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1093/molb...

I have to read this www.nature.com/articles/s41...