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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
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Paper
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Imputation of ancient canid genomes reveals inbreeding history over the past 10,000 years | PNAS The multi-millennia-long history between dogs and humans has placed them at the forefront of archaeological and genomic research. Despite ongoing e...

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/...

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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 😍💪

Shells found in Spain could be among oldest known musical instruments Conch-shell trumpets discovered in Neolithic settlements and mines in Catalonia make tone similar to french horn, says lead researcher

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

QUARTILES DLA: Oak genetics through time: ancient DNA analysis of sub-fossil oak for woodland management and conservation at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - QUARTILES DLA: Oak genetics through time: ancient DNA analysis of sub-fossil oak for woodland management and conservation at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

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

Paleogenomics Reveals a Loss of Bovine Lineages in Mid-latitude Asia Over the Last 200,000 Years Abstract. Bovines have a complex yet poorly understood evolutionary history that is characterized by admixture and diversity loss during the Late Pleistoce

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:

Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past - Uppsala University Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University

#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

Inferring Domestic Goat Demographic History Through Ancient Genome Imputation Abstract. Goats were among the earliest managed animals, making them a natural model to explore the genetic consequences of domestication. However, a chall

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

Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito Understanding how life is adapting to urban environments represents an important challenge in evolutionary biology. In this work, we investigate a widely cited example of urban adaptation, Culex pipie...

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.

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@science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4515

Three newspaper clippings from 3rd August 1932 reporting on Gertrude Caton Thompson’s talk on her (and Elinor Gardner’s) work at Kharga Oasis, given at the International Congress for the Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences held at Bedford College, London. The headlines read as follows: Sheffield Independent: Women’s Desert Discoveries York Post Leeds: Intrepid Woman Explorer Daily Dispatch Manchester: Blushes During Talk

Same story, three different headlines…

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PhD student to the Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics Using new samples as well as already generated high-coverage genomes, the project will develop and apply novel methods to detect structural variants in ancient DNA and explore their functional consequ...

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...

An early East Asian lineage with unexpectedly low Denisovan ancestry Yang et al. study Denisovan ancestry in ancient and present-day humans. In contrast to other East Asians, genomic comparisons suggest that the Jomon derived most of their ancestry from a deep lineage ...

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/...

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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

Perfectly Mummified Cheetahs Are The First Naturally Mummified Big Cats Ever Found The oldest date back over 4,000 years.

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.

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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/...

Small Bugs, Big Data: Metagenomics for Arthropod Biodiversity Monitoring We used metagenomic sequencing of 40 bulk arthropod samples collected across Sweden to classify taxa and compare results with metabarcoding from the same samples. While metabarcoding was more sensiti...

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

Fault-tolerant pedigree reconstruction from pairwise kinship relations Pedigrees reconstructed from biologically related ancient genomes have revealed many insights into (pre)history. To our knowledge, all reported ancient pedigrees have been manually reconstructed, as e...

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...

An adult mastodon (Mammut sp.) consuming a spruce branch set against a backdrop illustrating their cyclical continental migrations linked to climate fluctuations.

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 Ancient DNA has revolutionized our understanding of human history and clarified many aspects of human evolution on a molecular level. In this article,…

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...