Are you coming to IZAZ this year??? You should be! Let's talk about ZooMS and Zooarchaeology! ✨🦴🧪🥼 Registration here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Want to stay up to date with what’s happening in the PAASTA community? We share monthly talks, job & fellowship opportunities, events, conferences, & new articles Follow us and join the conversation! 🤝 Web: paasta-community.github.io Element: #paasta:archaeo.social Instagram: @paasta.community

If anyone is interested in accessing the Bristol NEIF facility to conduct compound-specific analyses, the deadline for the next application round is the 7th Oct 2026. Please get in touch to discuss projects prior to submission. Submissions via the application portal: www.isotopesuk.org/apply.html

Join us for the next PAASTA Talk Series! 🗓️ 2 September 2026 | 15:00 CET 🎙️Luise Ørsted Brandt, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen “ZooMS-identifying skins associated with the mummified individuals from Uunartoq, Greenland with local high school students” 👉Online via Zoom- DM for the link!

Applications for the Postdoctoral Fellowships are still open. The scheme gives researchers in the humanities and social sciences the opportunity to strengthen their experience of research and teaching in an academic environment. Find out more: https://bit.ly/4xWduAS

Friendly reminder that abstract submission for the ICAZ Conference in Vancouver, 2027 will close next Wednesday 25th of August! Make sure you get your abstract in before the deadline. You can find more details by following the link sway.cloud.microsoft/BFTVh4FAbfX6... #ICAZ #Zooarch #Vancouver2027

ZooMS identification of the earliest cattle bones from Ireland reveals that they belong to bear and wild boar instead. Read more: www.prehistoricsociety.org/publications...

University College Dublin@ucddublin.bsky.social · last wk.

🐻🦴 Bear, boar or cattle? New research led by UCD School of Archaeology has revealed that "cattle bones" long thought to mark the beginning of farming in Ireland actually belong to bear and wild boar, rewriting a key chapter in Irish prehistory. 🧵 @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @graemewarren.bsky.social

Come join us to learn how to contribute to, and use, metAaRCive, a community-curated database of published ancient animal genomes! We'll also cover best-practises for metadata reporting in #aDNA studies and how to archive sequence data on the ENA! Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1E4k...

AaRC@aarc-community.bsky.social · 4w ago

@anders-bergstrom.bsky.social and @ddj-sa.bsky.social are hosting a workshop on September 17th to walk you through metAaRCive—from what it is to how to contribute. Open for sign-ups: docs.google.com/forms/d/1E4k...

📢 Registration for #CRABi 2026 is now open! 📍 Bordeaux, France 📆 12–13 November 2026 Find the programme and practical information here: crabi.sciencesconf.org 📝 Registration deadline: 4 September 2026, 5:00 PM (Paris time). #BiomolecularArchaeology #Proteomics #AncientDNA #Isotopes

We warmly invite students, ECRs, experienced researchers working in zooarchaeology and related disciplines to submit an abstract for our session. 🦏🦓🦙 For session details and abstract submission information,visit: sway.cloud.microsoft/BFTVh4FAbfX6... @bharathabnair.bsky.social @icaz-news.bsky.social

The recording is now available on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/AosHIwDjNiI?...

PAASTA Seminar Series - Ioannis Patramanis

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PAASTA Community@paastacommunity.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our upcoming PAASTA Talk Series seminar by Ioannis Patramanis has been rescheduled. 🗓 New Date: Wednesday, 8 July 2026 🕒 Time: 15:00 CET 📍 Location: Zoom (DM us for the link) We apologize for any inconvenience and hope you can join us on the new date.

SPAAM belongs to its community! And now you have the chance to help shape its future. 💜 Voting for the first SPAAM Steering Committee elections is open until 15 August. Cast your vote and help build the community you want to be part of! www.spaam-community.org/assets/media... #SPAAM #AncientDNA

another Postdoc opportunity! 🦴🔬 Join Steve Ashby and @york-bioarch.bsky.social to study Northern European combs & combmaking using #ZooMS #proteomics. Seeking someone with proteomics/chemistry experience #viking and or #archaeology knowledge a plus. Apply: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

Copenhagen job alert 🚨 GLOBE (@ucph.bsky.social) is hiring a 21-mo Postdoc in #Bioinformatics & #ComputationalProteomics Work with @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social, @fridowelker.bsky.social, @brandtgroup.bsky.social & more mapping collagen/keratin diversity across 1000s of genomes. 📅 Deadline Aug 31

Postdoc of Bioinformatics and Computational Proteomics

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The first paper of my FWF-funded @humevcol.bsky.social project entitled 'Tiny Hopes - Assessing Protein Preservation in Collagen-Depleted Bones' is out! Read now (open access) in the Journal of Proteome Research: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Tiny Hopes─Assessing Protein Preservation in Collagen-Depleted Bones

Understanding human evolution relies on biomolecular data from ancient skeletal tissues, yet warm climates often cause complete collagen loss, excluding many regions from the study. This research inve...

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🚨Job alert🚨We are hiring a Laboratory Technician (24 months) to support our research in Archaeological Proteomics (ZooMS) at the University of Reading (UK), including our COEXIST project. More info here: tinyurl.com/bdfvawh8 #palaeoproteomics #ZooMS

REMINDER: Next 🍝PAASTA🍝 talk this Wednesday! Message us for the link 🔗

PAASTA Community@paastacommunity.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our upcoming PAASTA Talk Series seminar by Ioannis Patramanis has been rescheduled. 🗓 New Date: Wednesday, 8 July 2026 🕒 Time: 15:00 CET 📍 Location: Zoom (DM us for the link) We apologize for any inconvenience and hope you can join us on the new date.

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.

The summer school has started, with 100+ participants already for the introductory talks! We have a very exciting week ahead 🤩 For those who registered, check your email for details.

PAASTA Community@paastacommunity.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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...

Our upcoming PAASTA Talk Series seminar by Ioannis Patramanis has been rescheduled. 🗓 New Date: Wednesday, 8 July 2026 🕒 Time: 15:00 CET 📍 Location: Zoom (DM us for the link) We apologize for any inconvenience and hope you can join us on the new date.

The recording of the talk is now available on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/sejUDEL2MZE?...

PAASTA Seminar Series - Elena Armaroli

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PAASTA Community@paastacommunity.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🐘 Our next PAASTA Seminar Series talk will be Wednesday 6 May at 17:00 CET! 🐘 Elena Armaroli will be presenting "Elephant ecology in a Neanderthal landscape: Life histories of straight-tusked elephants from Neumark-Nord (~125 ka, Germany)". DM us for the Zoom link to join!

The program and schedule for the PAASTA Bioinformatics Summer School are now available: paasta-community.github.io/events/2026/...

PAASTA Community@paastacommunity.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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...

Need metadata for published ancient animal genomes? The metAaRCive project has recently made its first public release, containing metadata for 1518 published genomes across a range of species, curated by members of @aarc-community.bsky.social Find the release here: github.com/AaRC-Animal-...

Release v26.05.08 · AaRC-Animal-aDNA-Research-Community/metAaRCive

This is the first release of metAaRCive, containing 1518 complete entries. metAaRCive: Overview metAaRCive is a resource of metadata for published ancient animal genomes, curated by members of AaRC...

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🚨7th HAAM-RADIO Webinar next month! 🧬Advances in bioinformatics methods for paleogenomic analysis: Testing the limits of low coverage and imputation! 🗓️Mon, 15 June 2026 Two fantastic speakers and a Q&A specifically designed for ECRs to engage in the topic! Register here: forms.gle/9KGQXWVBZj2t...

Proteins recovered from 400,000-year-old fossils show humans living today may have inherited genes from Homo erectus: "There’s far greater complexity in terms of hominins across Eurasia than previously recognized," says @york.ac.uk geochemist Kirsty Penkman. @science.org

Ghost of long-extinct ancestor lives on in people today

Ancient Homo erectus teeth from China yield protein variants seen in Denisovans—and us

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Join us for the next PAASTA Talk Series seminar by Ioannis Patramanis from the University of Copenhagen, who will present his talk: “Assessing the potential of ancient protein sequences in the study of hominid evolution” 📅 Wednesday 3rd June 2026 🕒 15:00 CET 📍 Zoom (DM us for the link)

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...

🚨Professor Emeritus Mark Pollard's key text 'Analytical #Chemistry in #Archaeology' now thoroughly revised in its second edition is now out! 🧪🧑‍🔬📕Twice as nice! @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org

REMINDER: The next 🍝PAASTA🍝 talk is coming up! As always, message us for the link 🔗

PAASTA Community@paastacommunity.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🐘 Our next PAASTA Seminar Series talk will be Wednesday 6 May at 17:00 CET! 🐘 Elena Armaroli will be presenting "Elephant ecology in a Neanderthal landscape: Life histories of straight-tusked elephants from Neumark-Nord (~125 ka, Germany)". DM us for the Zoom link to join!

🐘 Our next PAASTA Seminar Series talk will be Wednesday 6 May at 17:00 CET! 🐘 Elena Armaroli will be presenting "Elephant ecology in a Neanderthal landscape: Life histories of straight-tusked elephants from Neumark-Nord (~125 ka, Germany)". DM us for the Zoom link to join!