What a wonderful week of learning and discussion at the PAASTA Bioinformatics Summer School 2026! 🧬💻🌍 Thanks to all the instructors for generously sharing their expertise. Thanks to the participants whose enthusiasm, questions, and discussions made the summer school a vibrant event.
Jan Dekker
@jaadekker.bsky.social
Postdoc in the AviArch project, University of Turin
Happy to announce that registrations are open for PAASTA's first summer school! Completely free and open to all it is the perfect opportunity for anyone who would like to learn more about palaeoproteomics!
Applications are now open for the PAASTA Bioinformatics Summer School 💻 Lessons will cover theory and practical exercises on a variety of palaeoproteomic analyses, including ZooMS, amelogenin sex estimation and shotgun proteomics. Deadline: 1 June 2026 Registration form: forms.gle/pqmecUpD7Xay...
Dear archaeologists, would you mind answering this very short survey so that we know better how to improve again our platform and process in the future?
Please let us know your thoughts on PCI and Peer Community Journal (PCJ) by taking this five-minute survey! form.typeform.com/to/CO4KpWgi
PAASTA WINTER SCHOOL Now is your chance to provide input on our upcoming PAASTA Winter School on tools and topics you’re keen to learn and teach, please give your thoughts on this short form forms.gle/om48gkCKzTt9... before 9th Jan!
Happy to announce that the paper on the first of our experiments to better understand how foodcrusts can be used for investigating diet in the past is finally out! Huge thanks to @jessiehendy.bsky.social and @matthewcollins.bsky.social for their support! doi.org/10.1371/jour... 1/2
An unclean slate, discrepancies between food input and recovered protein signal from experimental foodcrusts
Organic residues are a rich source of biomolecular information on ancient diets. In particular, foodcrusts, charred residues on ceramics, are commonly analysed for their lipid content and to a lesser ...
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Also - come and get my job! Which I’m still partially doing, but someone needs to take up the slack/ allow me to send them to far flung locations to retrieve mysterious ancient samples. See the World*! *mainly Britain. crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
(Senior) Laboratory Research Scientist - Bioarchaeologist
Salary for this Role: LRS level from £36,535 per annum plus benefits SLRS level from £45,700 per annum plus benefits Job Title: (Senior) Laboratory Research Scientist - Bioarchaeologist Reports to: Po...
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The importance of open science cannot be overstated and I'm very grateful and proud to have been able to play a part in this community-led paper by PAASTA to provide guidelines and recommendations for improving accessibility and reproducibility in palaeoproteomic research!
Delighted to be bringing you the following PAASTA community-led paper outlining our recommendations for best practices and open science in palaeoproteomics! Congratulations to the authors and for anyone keen to read the paper, it can be found #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.24072/pcj...
I am offering two 4-year PhD positions (fully funded) and a 57 month combined post-doc / project manager position as part of my NWO-Vici grant, which starts in September.