New Paper Alert 🔊 aDNA shows #LateIronAge Goth community of the #MasłomęczGroup were a genetically heterogenous population with interesting burial customs. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

@naturalice.bsky.social is now on Erasmus at Linnaeus University in Kalmar, Sweden, working with Prof. Markus Zöttl to study telomere dynamics in mole-rats. Here’s a great shot by Yannick Francioli of one of the target species—science abroad never looked so cute!

Sampling some #IronAge humans in Lublin

New paper on hamsters! 🐹 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🎉Congratulations🎉 @naturalice.bsky.social and Gabriela Damentka for receiving Preludium-24 Grants! For the next three years, the National Science Centre will support their research on Arvicolinae and Terricola! More details in the thread below

New PhD position with @martynamolak.bsky.social to research population genomics of an Iron Age Goth community from eastern Poland. You get a super supportive PI and fun lab to work with! Details linked. www.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/u...

Happy to share that our interdisciplinary research, exploring the participation of African big cats in provincial Roman amphitheatres, is now online! @lpcg.bsky.social link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

Here is this week's seminar with @mateuszbaca.bsky.social

@gnomoboleto.bsky.social hosted a super fun owl pellet workshop today! Owl pellets are regurgitated balls of indigestible material like bones, fur, and feathers. We found a few different voles and frogs in ours today.

How many scientists does it take to set up a new microscope? We'll let you know when we figure it out 😩

Join @martynamolak.bsky.social this Thursday!

Reminder: MInAS Ancient DNA metadata standards workshop is just around the corner. 30.10.2025, 9:00-12:00 CET; online www.mixs-minas.org

Join @martynamolak.bsky.social at the MIM UW seminar Oct. 29, 2025, 10:15 to hear about the bioinformatic challenges in investigating the past using DNA. www.mimuw.edu.pl/en/seminars/...

Brown bears participated in Roman spectacles, read more in our latest paper! @lpcg.bsky.social #BaBBe

Congratulations @mateuszbaca.bsky.social for being appointed head of the Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics! 🎉👑 Beer on your tab this weekend! 😌

@martynamolak.bsky.social at the 11th International Conference of the Polish Society for Human and Evolution Studies. #HomoMigrans. The Role of Migration and Mobility in Human History and Prehistory.

This #FestiwalNauki at CeNT, we have two aDNA sessions to feed your curiosity! Take this opportunity to learn about the methods and achievements in aDNA with @martynamolak.bsky.social and @mateuszbaca.bsky.social Register with [email protected] from the 15th of September. Details in 🧵

And the conferences continue! This week, Uni Warsaw is hosting the 11th Polish Evolutionary Conference #PCE. We are pitching in with organising, volunteering, and presenting too! Here's @naturalice.bsky.social on #MicrotusArvalis. Read her recent paper academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

Last week at the 7th conference on Species and genetic diversity of the Pleistocene and Holocene fauna in Eurasia in Smoleń, Poland.

What do you mean @isba11.bsky.social is over already?

Did you get a chance to look at @kaaviya.bsky.social and @mateuszbaca.bsky.social posters? @martynamolak.bsky.social had a great talk too! @isba11.bsky.social @isbarchaeology.bsky.social

Did you catch them by their posters today at @isba11.bsky.social? @popovicdani.bsky.social on the Sandomierz Chessmen and Barbara Bujalska on Late Pleistocene European small hamsters Posters up until Friday!

@isba11.bsky.social !!

Did you catch @kaaviya.bsky.social's vole talk? @aarc-community.bsky.social @isbarchaeology.bsky.social

Our phd student @kaaviya.bsky.social will give a flash talk on #OrkneyVoles. We apologies in advance for all the terrible puns she will make. It is inevitable 🥲

@popovicdani.bsky.social, Gabrysia Damentka and Aleksandra Żeromska at #SMBE2025 in Beijing!

#SMBE2025 in Beijing and @lpcg.bsky.social is here to present our work on small and big mammals! Come to poster sessions 1 and 3 to learn more. #BaBE

And it's finally up! www.hce.uni-heidelberg.de/en/education...

NEW PAPER ALERT! @naturalice.bsky.social @popovicdani.bsky.social @mateuszbaca.bsky.social academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

🎉 Big congratulations to our very own Gabriela Damentka for receiving the Young Investigator Attendance Award for SMBE 2025 in Beijing! We're proud to see our students recognized on the global stage! Say hi to her in China! #SMBE2025

New #SedaDNA paper alert! doi.org/10.5194/bg-2...

A bit about what we do! www.facebook.com/share/v/195Z...

Thanks to #NationalMuseumofScotland for being such wonderful hosts to our students and fantastic collaborators. Your support makes research like this possible!

@mateuszbaca.bsky.social at the CeNT Symposium yesterday, following the ceremonial naming of the main auditorium as the Piotr Węgleński Auditorium, in honor of the late Prof. Piotr Węgleński. A meaningful tribute to a remarkable scientist and mentor.

During last week’s #LPCGJournalClub, PhD students @kaaviya.bsky.social and Gabriela Damentka shared highlights from the policy brief they're developing with 4EU+ Spring School Collegio Futuro. How do we incorporate disturbance regimes into ecosystem restoration and management strategies?

Catch @martynamolak.bsky.social on Polish Radio 357 today at 17:40 CEST! She’ll be talking about those headline-making dire wolves and what all the buzz is about. Don’t miss it! #direwolves #deextinction #scientisttalk #radio357

Huge congratulations to @naturalice.bsky.social, one of our PhD students, for winning the Best Oral Presentation at Młodzi w Paleontologii XIII in Kraków last week! Her talk on bats🦇stole the show, and we couldn’t be prouder. Way to go! #WomenInScience #BatScience #LPCG

@mateuszbaca.bsky.social at #ECM9 Did you catch his talk on field voles?

Wrapped up an amazing public outreach event at UW! Our lab ran a hands-on workshop on aDNA for #DOKO —starting with a lecture by @naturalice.bsky.social and then some real lab work with Gabriela and @kaaviya.bsky.social Introducing aDNA to curious minds! #ScienceForEveryone

At this week's #LPCGJournalClub, @martynamolak.bsky.social from Max Planck, Leipzig, shared fascinating plots tracing the genetics of Polish people. Nearly 300 ancient samples have been analyzed—so, was there a 'Chinese' migrant in Bronze Age Poland? We’ll find out soon!

We’re thrilled to announce that our PhD student @naturalice.bsky.social has received an UW IDUB Microgrant for her fascinating research on bats! 🦇 This grant will support her work in the paleobiology of long-eared bats and their role in the ecosystems of the past. Huge congratulations!

For this weeks #LPCGJournalClub, PhD student Michał Golubiński presented genetic insights on the Zlocka culture. Paper coming soon!

A new PhD position is open at our lab! You'll get to work under the amazing supervisory @popovicdani.bsky.social (no she did not pay us to say that) Get in touch with her to know more about brown bears in the Balkans!

For this week's #LPCGJournalClub, we welcomed archaeologist and small mammal specialist @gnomoboleto.bsky.social for a fascinating introduction to climate, environments, and small mammal fossils. If you're in Warsaw, ask him about #SortingFriday!

New preprint alert🚨 We posted the first version our reconstruction of the evolutionary history of field vole species complex. We generated more than a 100 mitochondrial and 26 nuclear genomes from ancient and modern field voles. Here is what we found, a 🧵 #ancientDNA t.co/hHy1vakGr0

For this week's #LPCGJournalClub, Aleksandra Deron presented a fascinating paper on Cholera in Malawi. A topic far from our usual ancient DNA work, but a great opportunity for new discussions and perspectives! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hello, Bluesky! We’re the Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics, Uni Warsaw where ancient DNA meets modern science! Follow us as we dig into the past to help understand and protect the future! #AncientDNA #ConservationGenetics #ScienceSky