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PAASTA talk by @giuliagallo.bsky.social already this Wednesday! 🤩 DM us for the link.

Optimizing ancient DNA recovery from archaeological plant seeds - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Optimizing ancient DNA recovery from archaeological plant seeds

Recovering DNA from ancient plants is tough, but this new method makes it work! A new extraction workflow improves recovery of fragmented endogenous plant aDNA while preserving library complexity and read yield.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #archaeobotany

MALDI Deamidation Score (MDS): A fast and flexible method for assessing deamidation in ZooMS data and its application to the Denisova Cave bone assemblage Estimating deamidation from ZooMS spectra has frequently been achieved using the q2e method due to its high-throughput capacity and ease of use. Despi…

The MALDI Deamidation Score is now published! Congratulations @bharathabnair.bsky.social @isma-rgz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy and Fei Yang! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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!

🤩 We are excited to announce that you can now also find us on Instagram (@paasta.community) 🥳

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🦴🔥Our next PAASTA Seminar Series talk will be Wednesday 10 December at 17:00 CET! 🦴🔥

@giuliagallo.bsky.social will be presenting "Interpreting staining and burning in archaeological bone colors: equifinality, challenges, and new solutions."

As always, DM us for the Zoom link to join!

Want to join the www.codicum.eu project?

3 year PostDoct at SDU (Odense, Denmark) for an Latin expert with palaeographical as well as text and book historical skills.

#Medieval #Manuscript

Proteomic Methods for Species Identification of Archaeological and Palaeontological Materials Uncover the secrets of the past with our Transmitting Science course on Palaeoproteomics and Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS).

Join the course "Proteomic Methods for Species Identification" by Transmitting Science, taught by Dr. Michael Buckley from Dec 12-19. Learn peptide mass fingerpr… https://www.transmittingscience.com/courses/genetics-and-genomics/palaeoproteomics-and-zooarchaeology-by-mass-spectrometry-zooms/ #course

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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

ICAZ AGPM 2025 - Programme Preliminary programme

For those of you attending, or interested, in the 11th ICAZ-AGPM meeting (International Council for Archaeozoology-Archaeozoology, Genetics, Proteomics, and Morphometrics) October 14-17 in Copenhagen, the preliminary programme is available on our website! sites.google.com/palaeome.org...

Still time to self-nominate if you're looking to get more actively involved with the PAASTA Community!

PAASTA steering committee self-nomination Hello! I am Ismael Rodríguez Palomo, a postdoc at the University of Copenhagen. I have volunteered to conduct the formation of the next PAASTA steering committee. We will try to avoid formal elections...

For those not at our General Meeting, we have self-nominations for our next Steering Committee open until the end of the month (30 September)! For more details and to nominate yourself: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

With many thanks to @isma-rgz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy for overseeing this!

A photo of me giving a talk at ISBA last week. One day I will learn how to talk without gesturing wildly, but apparently that day has not yet arrived. Photo by Leire Torres Iglesias.

What an amazing time both @isba11.bsky.social and the @paastacommunity.bsky.social pre-ISBA conference last week were! Not entirely sure what I was doing here, but the rest of the time I thoroughly enjoyed chatting with old and new colleagues, listening to amazing science, and eating delicious food.

YouTube video by PAASTA community PAASTA Seminar Series - Ioannis Patramanis

Following a marvelous time at ISBA11 and our PAASTA conference, we're back to sharing the work of our community with you here!

@ipatramanis.bsky.social PAASTA talk from March about PaleoProPhyler a tool for #phylogenies from ancient proteins is now live on our YouTube youtu.be/2gVEQyinL4A

More than 500 international scholars attended ISBA 11. Here are many of them looking up at the camera in a large group shot

Thanks to @isbarchaeology.bsky.social and @isba11.bsky.social for a great conference.

I mentioned the legacy of Henk Kars of VU who established ISBA

Geoarchaeology closed. Here is the link to the petition to save Earth Sciences @vuamsterdam.bsky.social

www.change.org/p/red-aardwe...

🚨Here is your reminder to register by the *15 September* for the 11th ICAZ-AGPM (Archaeozoology, Genetics, Proteomics, and Morphometrics) happening the 14-17th of October in Copenhagen!! eventsignup.ku.dk/11th-icazagp...

Our PhD student did a great job presenting her poster at ISBA 11 @isbarchaeology.bsky.social 🌟
A big thank you to the organising committee for the outstanding event in the lovely city of Turin, and to all the participants for the inspiring talks ✨
We also thank @paastacommunity.bsky.social

Arrived in the beautiful Turin for the @isba11.bsky.social conference where I’m presenting a poster (and presented a talk at the @paastacommunity.bsky.social pre meeting yesterday) on my research on cattle proteomic amelogenin sex estimation

Registration deadline is TOMORROW! 🍝 🏺

8/5 And the article is now published in the Diamond Open Access journal @peercomjournal.bsky.social : doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

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...

There's still time to register to join us virtually or in person later this month!

Registration will remain open until the 19th of August!!

✨✨Reminder that we are hosting a (virtual and in-person) pre-ISBA conference✨✨ on the 26th of August (13:00-17:00 CET) which will include talks from members of our community and the PAASTA Annual General Meeting. Additional details can be found here: paasta-community.github.io/events/2025/...

YouTube video by Integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology (IZAZ) IZAZ 'Ask Us Anything' Online Forum June 2025

📢 The recording of the Integrating #ZooMS and #Zooarchaeology "Ask Us Anything" forum held on 30 June 2025 is now available on YouTube: youtu.be/loAgeUuK08g?...

📄 We also created a summary document that can be downloaded on the IZAZ website: izaz2024.sciencesconf.org

Eighteen million years of diverse enamel proteomes from the East African Rift - Nature The isolation of dental proteins from fossils deposited 1.5 million to 18 million years ago in the Turkana Basin in Kenya, a tropical region, demonstrate the promise of dental enamel for palaeoproteom...

Two great new studies out in @nature.com today, pushing back the recovery of dental enamel proteins to 21+ million years in the Arctic (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) and 18+ million years in East Africa (www.nature.com/articles/s41...).

Remember to sign up and join us, either in person or online! We have a great series of ECR #palaeoproteomics talks lined up 🍝