During the earliest stages of domestication, dogs in archaeological sites would be indistinguishable from wolves.

Unless you find them on a small island where no wolves would survive on their own, eating things wolves normally don’t eat.

Such as here:
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✅ RNA?

✅ Ancient RNA?

✅ Ancient RNA from woolly mammoth!

#FossilFriday 🦣 🧪

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Interested in giving a talk at the Plant and Animal Genome conference (PAG 33) in San Diego?

Together with several colleagues, we are arranging 5 interconnected sessions.

To submit an abstract, please fill out this Google Form before Oct 12th, 2025:
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One week left to apply for our postdoc position on Deep-Time Small Rodent Palaeogenomics!

This is a 2-year full-time position that includes Swedish employment benefits, as well as funding for research expenses and work-related travel.

More info and application link:
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Attending #ESEB2025 has been an amazing experience!

If you are interested in more ancient DNA and museomics, please consider joining us in Stockholm for the first International Conference on Palaeogenomics (June 23-26 2026)!

Follow @palaeogenomics.bsky.social

👉icp2026.palaeogenomics.org

Mammoth tusk on the Old Crow River!
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Digging out ancient (>250,000 year old) bones from a section on the Old Crow River (Yukon). 🦣🐭🐴

Just back from the first 8-day trip at the CRH47 section. Now on to other sites 😁

Hello everyone,

Are you interested in news about research findings, jobs, PhD positions, etc, from the Centre for Palaeogenetics?

Or do you simply want to see lots of cool photos from our work (like the 28,000 year old cave lion cub below)?

If yes, please give @cpgsthlm.bsky.social a follow!

Macroevolutionary insights from million-year-old mammoth mitogenomes:

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The #CoolGenes team from @cpgsthlm.bsky.social is in place in Alicante!

Very excited to start the kick-off meeting for our HFSP-funded project, with colleagues from Spain, UK and USA, aimed at disentangling the molecular basis of animal cold adaptation!

At Stockholm University, we are now starting a 2-year Master’s programme in Evolutionary Genomics!

Topics include population genetics, phylogenetics, molecular & genome evolution, DNA sequencing, bioinformatics, and palaeogenetics.

Please spread the word!

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The third project on 🐻 aims to recover genome-wide data from brown bear remains spanning hundreds of thousands of years to disentangle how past climate change, human activities, and hybridization with polar and cave bears, have shaped the brown bear’s range dynamics and present-day gene pool.

The second project is with @palaeopete.bsky.social on Equids (🐴), a classic model where earlier aDNA work has unravelled evolutionary histories & led to discovery of previously unknown lineages. The aims are to explore population histories, admixture events, & diversity over the last million years.

One of the projects aims to analyze aDNA from small rodent remains up to >2 million years old. The high evolutionary rates in rodents imply that we can test hypotheses related to deeper evolutionary histories compared to large mammals, such as on speciation, adaptive evolution, and diversity change.

The Swedish Museum of Natural History is recruiting a Senior Curator in Palaeontology (with a later possibility of promotion to Professor).

Come join the vibrant palaeo-community in Stockholm!!

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🧬🐭🐴🐻Job Alert🐻🐴🐭🧬

We are hiring 3 postdoctoral researchers in DeepTime Palaeogenomics!

All positions are for 2 years (extension possible), & are fully funded both in terms of employment and project costs.

Deadline: 2 Dec 2024

Please RT!

Apply:
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Just published a paper with Adrian Lister on ”Mammoths, DNA and morphology”

palaeo-electronica.org/content/2024...

🚨Job alert 🚨

I’m looking for a Postdoc to join us in Stockholm, on a project that aims to use palaeogenomics to investigate cold adaptation in several different Arctic animals!

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I am hiring two PhD students on #DeepTime mammalian palaeogenomics.

Please spread the word!

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More info on methods and questions to address are outlined in our recent paper:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...