New aDNA research from #Poland on the #Piasts identity remains in Płock & Warsaw, traces the Y-haplogroups of #Konrad I’s line, and reveals new European dynasty links.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
An opportunity to join our lab and work with the amazing @popovicdani.bsky.social (🥳) on brown bears!
#ancientDNA #BBB #PhD
Got to present a poster at the #MuseomicsSymposium in Vienna and eat lunch at the dinosaur exhibition. Can’t decide what was the better part of the day.
Join @popovicdani.bsky.social today to hear about human animal interaction through time!
Sampling for the @BaBBe project at the University of Belgrade! New Pleistocene and Holocene brown bear samples are heading to Warsaw. 🐻🧬 @lpcg.bsky.social
Something to look forward to this Monday! @lovedalen.bsky.social
New #aDNA Paper Alert from @martynamolak.bsky.social and team!
In the #LateRomanPeriod #Masłomęcz, now in eastern Poland, gathered people from all corners of Europe!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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!
Gabriela Damentka will investigate the evolutionary history of Terricola in Southern Europe from the Late Pleistocene to the early Holocene, using both ancient and modern DNA. She aims to clarify taxonomy and reveal responses to past climate change. This will be part of her doctoral dissertation!
@naturalice.bsky.social will be researching the climate-driven population dynamics of Arvicolinae in the Caucasus and Middle East using ancient DNA. This extends @mateuszbaca.bsky.social and Ola Deroń's previous work on the species.
🎉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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKmZ...
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.
Both sessions will be in Polish. No prior knowledge or experience required. Join us in CeNT (ul. Banacha 2c, 02-097 Warszawa) on the 27th and bring science to everyone!
