🧬SedaDNA Postdoc position💥 2 years Starts 2026, apply by 1st March. Join Aleks Pluskowski at Reading & me at NHM. jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

The dream

Our new study is out! We analysed DNA preserved in buried river sediments and Neolithic sites (Serbia), uncovering past landscapes and traces of sturgeon populations. Read more about our findings and the challenges in such complex and dynamic contexts: doi.org/10.1038/s415... @mikkelwp.bsky.social

Job alert! 3 year post doc in my research group at University College London working on Roman Leather via biomolecular archaeology. #ZooMS #stableisotopes www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ187/r...

The Allen Ancient DNA Resource (AADR v62), a visual summary:

Read our new paper in Genome Biology & Evolution to learn more about how sequencing the genome from a 14,000 year old wolf puppy's last meal yielded novel insights into the woolly rhino's extinction: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... 📷 Mietje Germonpré

The genome of one of the last woolly rhinoceros sequenced from a chunk of meat extracted from the stomach of a mummified Late Pleistocene wolf puppy 🤯🦏🐺 Absolute cinema 🎥⬇️⬇️⬇️

Researchers recover a woolly rhino genome from inside a frozen wolf's stomach. The work marks the first time an Ice Age animal’s complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ancient animal. New study from @cpgsthlm.bsky.social www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

Genetic and historical perspectives on the early medieval inhumations ... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I’ve been waiting for something like this to come along! One for the bone diagenesis nerds. Preprint comparing patterns or bacterial bioerosion in ancient bones with metagenomic analysis of associated microbiomes. More diverse microbiomes in well-preserved bone. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Happy solstice! 🌍❄️ Today (Dec 21) at 16:03 (CET or UTC+1) winter officially begins. Shortest day of the year, but your noon shadow will be the longest. From now on, days slowly start getting longer again. Animation by NAAP labs (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) 🧪⚛️🔭#astronomy

Early Bird registration for #ICP2026 is now OPEN 🐦📝 IMPORTANT: places for the Conference Dinner at Stockholm City Hall (free of charge) are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Secure your spot by registering soon 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/registration/

🏺 Genetic study of Middle Bronze Age individuals from the Grotta della Monica cave site in the southwestern Italian peninsula finds sporadic patterns of relatedness and the first conformance ancient instance of a person whose parents were father and daughter. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Side quest completed ✅ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🚨 @ucl.ac.uk IoA PhD alert! "Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection" More info: bit.ly/48Bgffm TREES PhD applications open 2026 intake of students. Application deadline is 5pm on 17th Dec 2025. www.trees-dla.ac.uk/apply

Ancient metagenomics people might also be interested in the authentication and visualization toolkit that we wrote to do this. Just published a few days ago! GitHub github.com/bdesanctis/b... Paper link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Big!

Our paper in the PNAS Special Feature on 🐕 is out! We demonstrated the accuracy of imputing ancient canid genomes, looked at inbreeding levels over the past 10,000 years and found genomic regions resistant to ROH which were enriched for immunity and chemosensory genes. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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 😍💪

We’re excited to offer a fully-funded PhD position (NERC & BBSRC-funded QUARTILES) focusing on oak conservation and restoration. The project features ancient DNA analysis of archeological oak specimens as a key element of the research. @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social #ancientDNA #conservation

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

What an incredible resource for those starting out in ancient DNA! Thanks once again @oskolkov.bsky.social for being our first #AaRCademy speaker

New map produced by RTVE, Spanish national TV, of the 6000 mass graves in Spain. In the last 25 years some 17,000 bodies of men, women and children have been exhumed out of the ~120,000 dumped in mass unmarked graves by the Franco regime. www.rtve.es/noticias/fos...

🦣🧬🦣🤯💥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:

#Vacancies: we are looking for not just one but three #postdoctoral researchers interested in bridging #genetics, #archaeology and #linguistics in exploring the #humanpast. shorturl.at/B3Qdd @haam-community.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social

Our paper on imputation of ancient goat genomes is now available at GBE - congratulations to @jolijnerven.bsky.social #aDNA

How does life evolve to adapt to modern cities? Out now in Science, my PhD work with @lindymcbr.bsky.social uncovers the ancient origin of the “London Underground mosquito” – one of the most iconic examples of urban adaptation. 🧵(1/n) @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4515

Same story, three different headlines… 🧪👩‍🔬🏺

Amazing PhD opportunity to come work at the Centre for Palaeogenetics and the Swedish Museum of Natural History with Tom van der Valk! recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...

In a new paper led by Jiaqi Yang we trace the distribution of Denisovan introgressed DNA in ancient modern human genomes over time. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Join @SapienzaRoma! The Dept. of Environmental Biology is hiring an Associate Professor Systematic Botany (SSD BIO/01-B) 🌿Research areas: biodiversity, taxonomy, phylogeny, genetics & evolution of terrestrial plants. Apply now 👉 web.uniroma1.it/trasparenza/...

🦴🧬🦴🧬🦴 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