🚨 A #CPGSthlm -led study uses a large-scale ancient DNA dataset to uncover the origins of Upper Paleolithic mammoth bone accumulations 🦣🦴🦴🦴🦴🧬 In contrast to dispersed sites, accumulations are female-biased, suggesting they resulted from human exploitation! 🏹🍖 OA paper👉 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Our #CPGSthlm delegation had great presentations and posters at #SMBE2026! 👏👏👏 ♥️🧬🦣🫎🦠🦋🐝🐀💀🦬🧪

Centre for Palaeogenetics@cpgsthlm.bsky.social · last mo.

After #ICP2026, #CPGsthlm has officially landed in Copenhagen for #SMBE2026! 🇩🇰🧬 We are bringing a delegation from Stockholm to share our latest research. Here is a breakdown of every CPG presentation happening this week 🧵👇 Don't miss out!

After #ICP2026, #CPGsthlm has officially landed in Copenhagen for #SMBE2026! 🇩🇰🧬 We are bringing a delegation from Stockholm to share our latest research. Here is a breakdown of every CPG presentation happening this week 🧵👇 Don't miss out!

♥️ THANK YOU ♥️ We are overwhelmed by the positive comments and are incredibly happy that everyone enjoyed their time in Stockholm! #ICP2026 was only possible with the hard work of the organizing committee and a marvellous team of ECR volunteers 🟠 at @cpgsthlm.bsky.social

Wake up you sleepy heads, rub your eyes and get out of bed! 😴 Our final plenary talk is by the great Beth Shapiro, on the use of ancient DNA to reconstruct the bison's evolutionary history. #ICP2026 🦬🧬🦴🧪

Welcome to #ICP2026 🎉 Registration is open today at Aula Magna until 18:00. The Welcome Reception🥂 at the Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet) 🦴🏛️ will start at 18:00. Don't miss it!! Full conference info 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org #ancientDNA 🧪🦣🧬🦴🦠

Isabelle Feinauer is currently defending their PhD thesis on the genomic consequences of postglacial recolonization of Scandinavian mammals with Morten Tange Olsen as the opponent. Good luck, Isa!

Meet our keynote speakers 💁‍♂️ MATTIAS JAKOBSSON (@humanevouu.bsky.social) Mattias is a leader in employing large-scale genomic datasets to reconstruct the demographic history and evolutionary processes of past human populations. Check the full conference program👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/program/

🧬 New paper in Cell! Analysis of 12 cave lion genomes shows that cave lions and modern lions may have diverged more than three times earlier than previously thought – as early as 1.7 million years ago! AND…they interbred when temperatures dropped! Paper: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵 1/9

#CPGStlhm 's PhD candidate @officialernst.bsky.social is currently defending his thesis on using metagenomics sedimentary DNA to reconstruct past ecosystems 🧬🏞️ in Sweden with Laura Epp as opponent. Good luck, Ernst!

Grattis till Anders Götherström professor i molekylär arkeologi vid Stockholms universitet och forskningsledare vid @cpgsthlm.bsky.social som har valts in som ny ledamot i KVA. @gotherstrom.bsky.social @scienceacademyswe.bsky.social www.su.se/nyheter/nyhe...

For more than a century, vast mammoth bone deposits in Central Europe have puzzled scientists. Now EU-funded researchers are revealing what they tell us about how Ice Age humans hunted and survived. Research project including @cpgsthlm.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @horizoneu.bsky.social bit.ly/4uko4PN

Mammoth bones reveal secrets of Ice Age hunters

Shortly before the peak of the last Ice Age, herds of woolly mammoths roamed across Central Europe, following seasonal routes through a vast, frigid landscape of grassland and tundra. Across the regio...

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What do mammoth bone accumulation sites scattered across Europe tell about ancient humans? 🦴🦣🧬 Check this nice piece about our MAMBA project in the Horizon Magazine. Article ➡️ bit.ly/4uko4PN

Mammoth bones reveal secrets of Ice Age hunters

Shortly before the peak of the last Ice Age, herds of woolly mammoths roamed across Central Europe, following seasonal routes through a vast, frigid landscape of grassland and tundra. Across the regio...

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New paper alert 🚨 A study led by #CPGSthlm researchers found DNA from a bear in 9.6k year old lake sediments. This potentially rewrites the history of brown bears in Scandinavia! 🧬🐻🐾🏔️🧊 Check @officialernst.bsky.social thread 👉 bsky.app/profile/offi... OA article 👉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Ancient environmental genome reveals a migratory brown bear individual in Early Holocene Scandinavia | PNAS

After the last ice age, species migrated into a newly deglaciated Scandinavia. Brown bear recolonization is thought to have occurred from two direc...

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Ernst Johnson@officialernst.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Very excited to share our study of an ancient environmental genome extracted from lake sediment! It originates from a brown bear that lived around 9,600 years ago close to the last ice-sheet remains in northern Sweden, and has an unexpected mitochondrial haplogroup. 1/7 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Meet our keynote speakers 💁‍♂️ CRISTINA VALDIOSERA (@universidadburgos.bsky.social) Cristina is a leading expert in ancient human DNA, focusing on the genomic history of past populations and the impact of cultural shifts on human evolution. Conference info & registration 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org

📢 Next #HAAMeeting at #ICP2026! @palaeogenomics.bsky.social 🗓 June 22 📍Stockholm 🇸🇪 (hybrid) 🎤 Poster presenters + no-talk attendees: apply for a flash talk by May 27: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... More info coming soon 👀 haam-community.github.io/events/2026/... #ancientDNA #paleogenomics

Submission form for a flash talk at the Second HAAMeeting (ICP 2026 Pre-Conference meeting)

Did you NOT get a talk at ICP2026 scheduled from 23rd to 26th of June in Stockholm (Sweden) and you're focusing on anything related to human (modern or ancient) DNA, mobility, demographic history, or ...

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We present DNAharvester 🎉🦴🚜🧬 A pipeline to process highly degraded ancient DNA data that integrates metagenomic filtering, competitive mapping, multiple alignment strategies, reference bias evaluation and much more. GitHub: github.com/NBISweden/DN... Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Meet our keynote speakers 💁‍♂️ RICHARD GREEN (UCSC Paleogenomics Lab) Ed is a pioneer in developing novel molecular and computational approaches to recover, sequence, and analyze DNA from challenging, low-quality samples. Conference info & registration 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org

Come join us in Stockholm as a PhD student for the next 4 years!

Love Dalén@lovedalen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

How did catastrophic black death and myxomatosis outbreaks on an isolated island affect the genomes of humans & rabbits, respectively? And how did the microbes evolve in response to this? PhD position @cpgsthlm.bsky.social with Anders Götherström and me as supervisors! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

How did catastrophic black death and myxomatosis outbreaks on an isolated island affect the genomes of humans & rabbits, respectively? And how did the microbes evolve in response to this? PhD position @cpgsthlm.bsky.social with Anders Götherström and me as supervisors! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

New paper alert 🚨 Researchers at #CPGStlhm have analyzed ancient genomes from an Islamic cemetery in Ibiza (950–1150 CE) 🏖️ They found a highly diverse community with ancestry from Europe and North Africa! The paper was published in @natcomms.nature.com OA link www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dogs were established as distinct species already during Ice Age. New study in Nature has uncovered earliest genetic evidence for the existence of dogs and indicates that dogs were widely distributed by 14,000 years ago across large geographic areas. @cpgsthlm.bsky.social www.su.se/english/news...

Trots att brunbjörnen nästan utrotades i början på 1900-talet så har varken inavelsgraden eller individernas genetiska variation påverkats. Detta överraskande resultat kan troligtvis förklaras med genetiskt utbyte via vandrande hanbjörnar. Studie från @cpgsthlm.bsky.social www.su.se/nyheter/nyhe...

Check out our bear-y cool paper about Scandinavian brown bears published today in Royal Society Open Science!🐻 More about it in the thread🧵 @cpgsthlm.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Temporal genomics reveals widespread but unexpected consequences of a bottleneck in the Scandinavian brown bear

Abstract. After the last ice age, the brown bear (Ursus arctos) recolonized Scandinavia, likely from two different source populations, resulting in two sub

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Two palaeogeneticists traveling to Northern Yukon's wilderness in search of extremely old DNA 🧊🧬🧪 A mysterious permafrost mummy hidden in the collections 🦴🕵️ An Agatha Christie book 📖 @gog1693.bsky.social behind-the-scenes story on his paper has EVERYTHING! Paper 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Oteo García, G.@gog1693.bsky.social · 5mo ago

As promised, what follows is a behind-the-scenes story of how we came across this permafrost-mummified tissue and tried to determine which species it belonged to.

Meet our keynote speakers 💁‍♂️ PONTUS SKOGLUND (@crick.ac.uk) Pontus is a leader in developing cutting-edge computational methods and statistical tools for the analysis of highly degraded ancient DNA. Conference info & registration 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org

Meet our keynote speakers 💁‍♂️ LUCY VAN DORP (@ugiatucl.bsky.social) Lucy is a leading expert in ancient microbe research, using ancient DNA to reconstruct the origins, evolution, and spread of major human pathogens throughout history. Conference info & registration 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org

Congrats to Alicia Muriel and Michael Mitschke for successfully presenting their research in Half-Time PhD seminars!! 🎉🐑🐝🧬

@knmoreland.bsky.social and @mootspoints.bsky.social are currently presenting their mammoth research at the International Conference of Mammoths and their Relatives (ICMR) 🦣🐘🧬 in Nairobi, Kenya.

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