🦣🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦣 What was the cause of all those mass accumulations of mammoth bones that have been found across Europe and Siberia??? Natural traps or humans? Answers here: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Love Dalén
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Palaeogenomics of mammoths, lemmings and everything inbetween. Professor of Evolutionary Genomics at the Department of Zoology, Stockholm University. Webpage: https://palaeogenetics.com/ld
What a fantastic conference dinner we had yesterday at the Golden Hall 🪙 of Stockholms City Hall! 🏫 Even the full-delegate (>380) conference group picture we thought we couldn't pull out, happened organically 📸🎉
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 🦬🧬🦴🧪
Thanks for making yesterday's Welcome Reception a thoroughly enjoyable event! Today's program includes a Plenary talk by Ian Barnes and sessions on Human Evolution and Museomics #ICP2026 See you there!
We are looking forward to welcoming you all to Stockholm next week for #ICP2026! We have updated our webpage with some important practical info, as well as some hints and tips to get the most out of Stockholm 🇸🇪 Check it out: tinyurl.com/yyyfjh7z
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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
Looking for a postdoc to join my group at the NHM London & work on aDNA of dogs/wolves! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Postdoctoral Researcher ancient DNA:South Kensington
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Funded PhD studentship with me and Dan Bradley @brad-dan.bsky.social at TCD. Medieval cattle and sheep genomics utilising parchment and bones! Deadline to apply is 27th May 🧬🐄🐑🧬 #aDNA
Victoria Mullin@victoriaemullin.bsky.social · 4mo agoCome join our aDNA community at Trinity College Dublin and explore medieval ruminant genomes! Funded PhD studentship in ancient animal genomics at Trinity College Dublin. Deadline 27th May 2026 Please see the information attached for full description and application process.
#ICP2026 Programme Update! 📢 You can now find the latest version of the full programme here 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/program We are also thrilled to announce that we now have >400 registered participants joining us in Stockholm! 🦴🧬 We can't wait to see you all soon!
Program – International Conference on Palaeogenomics 2026
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A preliminary, but complete, conference programme is now available on the ICP2026 website: tinyurl.com/3rhp5u6m Some 140 talks on everything ancient DNA! There is still time to register!
ICP2026 Stockholm@palaeogenomics.bsky.social · 3mo agoOnly ONE WEEK left to register for #ICP2026sthlm 👀 Deadline: 8th May Join us for an amazing week full of talks and networking on all things ancient DNA! Check the FULL conference program 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/wp-content/u... Register here 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/registration/
Congratulations Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social on being elected into the National Academy of Sciences 🎉🎉🎉 Incredibly well deserved!
Meet our keynote speakers 💁♀️ VICTORIA MULLIN (@victoriaemullin.bsky.social) Victoria is a leader in using ancient DNA to study the origins of domestication, tracing the genomic changes driven by the interactions between humans and animals. Conference info & registration👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
Meet our keynote speakers 💁♂️ HE YU (@sls-pku.bsky.social) He Yu is a specialist in using ancient DNA to reconstruct the evolutionary trajectories of modern and extinct, wild and human-commensal species. Conference info & registration 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
🧬 NEW JOB: @york-bioarch.bsky.social is hiring a Postdoc in Ancient DNA Work on the RoBMobS project to explore mobility and diversity in Roman Britain using genomic data. 💰 £37k - £39k ⏳ 34 months 📍 York, UK 📅 Apply by 24 March 2026 jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...
Jobs - The University of York
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Come join our aDNA community at Trinity College Dublin and explore medieval ruminant genomes! Funded PhD studentship in ancient animal genomics at Trinity College Dublin. Deadline 27th May 2026 Please see the information attached for full description and application process.
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 💁♂️ 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
Can you believe that until now there were more genomes sequenced for the woolly mammoth than for living African elephants? Today, we bring you the first genomic, continent-scale analyses of 232 high-quality genomes of both species, the savanna and forest elephant. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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/...
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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A single wandering male bear has provided crucial insights into the history of brown bears in Scandinavia after the last ice age. This is shown by DNA analysis of clay from a lake. New study from @cpgsthlm.bsky.social & @zoologysthlm.bsky.social published in @pnas.org www.su.se/english/news...
New @cpgsthlm.bsky.social paper! Unofficial title according to me: "Lemmings mirror geography within Fennoscandia" Wink, wink 🤓
Whole genomes reveal subpopulations and isolation-by-distance patterns in the Norwegian lemming - BMC Biology
Background The Norwegian lemming (Lemmus lemmus) is a small rodent endemic to the Fennoscandian alpine and arctic tundra. The species is known for cyclic population outbreaks and mass movements during peak years. Previous research based on microsatellites revealed high genetic variation but a weak population structure in the Norwegian lemming. Results In this study, we revisit the population structure of the species using genome-wide data. To do this, we generated a high-quality de novo reference genome for Lemmus lemmus, and resequenced genomes to 2.5–5 × coverage, from 86 lemmings sampled across the species’ entire geographic distribution. Our results reveal that the population is geographically structured into distinct subpopulations, with an overall pattern characterised by isolation-by-distance among subpopulations. Furthermore, our results are consistent with earlier work suggesting that the species survived the last ice age within a northern refugium. Conclusions Together, these findings provide a genome-wide perspective on today’s population structure of the Norwegian lemming. In addition, we provide a de novo reference genome, which we believe will be a valuable resource to the research community.
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🚨PhD opportunity! Study brown bears in the Balkans using ancient DNA 🧬🐻 Interested in paleogenomics & conservation? Apply! @lpcg.bsky.social 🔗 Details here: www.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/u... #PhD #AncientDNA #Paleogenomics #ConservationGenomics #WildlifeConservation
Mixtum out now! A graphical tool for two-way admixture analysis in population genetics based on f-statistics. Our small contribution to make admixture modelling simpler for everyone. Includes software with user friendly GUI. We open to feeback for mid-term support. doi.org/10.1093/bioi...
Meet our keynote speakers 💁♂️ KATERINA GUSCHANSKI (@kguschan.bsky.social) Katerina is expert in using genomics of museum collections to explore primate evolution, conservation genetics, and the historical impact of environmental change. Conference info & registration 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
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/...
Meet our keynote speakers 💁♂️ MIKKEL WINTHER PEDERSEN (@mikkelwp.bsky.social) Mikkel is a pioneer in the use of sedimentary ancient DNA to reconstruct past ecosystems and track changes in biodiversity. Conference info & registration 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
We are looking forward to welcoming you to Stockholm in only 83 days 😍 Our conference will be packed with exciting oral presentations 💁♂️, poster sessions 🧾, coffee breaks ☕, and pre-conference workshops 👷♀️ Take a look at the preliminary program ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Abstract submission for #SPAAM8 is now officially OPEN! 🚀 Don't miss the opportunity to share your work and join us in Stockholm on June 22nd 🇸🇪 Online presentations are also possible! 👩🏻💻 Submit your abstract: forms.gle/psw9GS3ZyrLV... Deadline: May 1st #aDNA #Metagenomics #seDNA
