🚨Deadline: this Thursday, November 30th! We need some abstracts for SPAAM5 Part 2 (online) to happen!🌍Ancient metagenomicists from all over the world, this is your occasion to shine and present your research!🧬Time zone-friendly, just like SPAAM4! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

🚨⏰Save the date for our last #spaamtisch meeting of 2023 on the 15th of December 4-5pm CET ! For all the pathogens and pipelines aficionados, we’ll close this year’s seminar series with Nikolay Oskolkov who will be presenting the aMeta paper genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

👩‍🏫Also don't forget that you can sign yourself up at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… and present a work you have recently published, a paper you want to discuss, or a work in progress you need feedback on.

Anthropology at University of Kent risks closing ☠️ despite being very successful and a stronghold of #BioAnth research! Consider signing the petition to avoid this mistake! #HumanEvolution #BioArch #FairAcademia #PaleoAnth #AEADsup change.org/p/save-anthrop…

The most exciting session at #EAA2024 we are looking forward to reading your abstracts! Submit one by the 12th of February!

🧬#SPAAMDilemma Weekly polls exploring ancient metagenomics choices. Vote, discuss, and share your research preferences with peeps from the SPAAM-community

Following up on the results of our last poll, why do you prefer shotgun metagenomics in ancient metagenomics studies? 🧬🔍 #SPAAMDilemma #AncientDNA #AncientMetagenomics

👇I did it 2 years ago and it was super helpful to start navigating the immensity of metagenomics data! SPAAM-community summer school 2024 🛠️💀🦠🧬

🚨 New release of AncientMetagenomeDir! (v24.03.0, Monticello) github.com/SPAAM-communit… #AncientMetagenomeDir is a community resource of #metadata of >2K shotgun-sequenced #AncientMetagenome or ancient microbial genome enriched samples & >5K libraries. Stats below (🧵1/4)

What would be the minimum amount of reads needed for proper ancient damage estimation? Tell us about your experience in the comments. 👇 #SPAAMDilemma #ancientDNA

A new initiative from SPAAM-community to not miss if you are interested in networking with #aDNA PIs, an interesting lineup is waiting to talk with you! 👇

What if you have 200bp fragments that look authentic? Help us clarify this #aDNA #SPAAMDilemma

Representing the Microbial Paleogenomics Unit lead by Nico Rascovan at #SMBE2024 to show case some exciting work on microbes and more! INSTITUT PASTEUR

#JOParis2024 is not only about athletes and games, but also about microbes and how the Parisian microbiome will change during this massive event! INSTITUT PASTEUR microbial paleogenomics unit and Chris Mason lab for the MetaSUB Research #olympiome. More info 👇

We are all here #EAA2024 Kicked off with SPAAM-community #spaam6 conference followed by opening ceremony at the beautiful site of Roman Fori. Don't miss out on tomorrow's session #854 👇 we are super excited to see you all!!!

And that’s a wrap for this #EAA2024 🙌🏻 After one year of planning, we did it, bringing together many different people and engaging in challenging discussions, in my city!! Grateful for having shared the journey with these 4 amazing human beings 🦠🏛️♥️ Maxime Borry European Association of Archaeologists

Best talk prize at EAA2024 European Association of Archaeologists, session #854 last week in Rome. Very honored, was fantastic to meet my colleagues, thank you very much for the great organization Mary ThePeople Biancamaria Bonucci Maxime Borry Aleksandra Laura Pach Andrea Quagliariello!

Ciao a tutti! Hello everyone! Hola todos! SPAAM-community is recruiting the new steering committee members for the next two years! Apply by the 31st of October 👇 and feel free to talk to any of us members of the current team for clarifications! spaam-community.org/steering_commi…