Emergency bulletin! 14 journals have co-published an urgent call for the deployment of microbial solutions against climate catastrophe, by Raquel Peixoto et al. nature.com/articles/s4156…

The 3rd Ancient Environmental Genomics PhD course (2025) is now open for registration. This has been a true pleasure to teach (and hard work) both times. Come join us and have a week of in-depth hands-on work with ancient metagenomic data and latest tools. phdcourses.dk/Course/124659

Really happy to share a mini-review article exploring aDNA perspectives on the historical plague pandemics - published today! 🦠🎉cell.com/trends/microbi…

JOB ALERT📢 postdoc position #BIOINFORMATICS and #POPGEN, in Zurich University of Zurich with Kentaro K. Shimizu　清水健太郎 and my co-supervision to work with GeLaTo database, gene-language comparisons and human+plant history! 🧬 job starting ASAP! jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancies/…

Last week’s AncientMetagenomeDir hackathon was a great success 📷! Many thanks to all the participants who made it possible. To access this resource visit: github.com/SPAAM-communit…. If you would like to contribute, join us on archaeo.social (isbarch.org/chat).

Registrations are now open for our new course on Ancient Metagenomics with Nikolay Oskolkov 🧬🦣 We will explore the key challenges and analytical methods in ancient metagenomics and implement the ancient metagenomic workflow, aMeta. physalia-courses.org/courses-worksh…

aDNA/aeDNA folks: tired of eyeballing hundreds of damage plots? I am excited to introduce AdDeam—a tool to rapidly generate damage profiles, cluster them, and spot outliers. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

In 1945, six women pulled off a computing miracle. They programmed the world’s first computer—with no manuals, no training. Then, a SINGLE assumption erased them from tech history for decades. The story of how ONE photo nearly deleted computing’s female founders: 🧵

#WithoutNSF my lab won’t receive the critical funding it needs to continue studying how ancient pathogens adapted to human hosts. #NSF supports our country's leadership in science and innovation. #SupportNSF #SaveNSF youtube.com/watch?v=XxOE75…

Sauvons le patrimoine archéologique ! - Signez la pétition ! chng.it/tBpBM5DhLb via Change.org France

Tribune collective dans Le Monde du 30/04/25, signée par 18 archéologues (liste en ligne), et alertant sur les dangers que les projets de "simplification de la vie économique" font courir à notre patrimoine archéologique, par nature non renouvelable et en constante érosion.

Great news ! 🥳 The #SPAAM7 abstract submission is extended to May 18th! Submit your abstract before its too late ! ⌛️ Click here to submit your abstact: forms.gle/sRcqmBft2xgWj2…

This course offers a deep dive into the unique challenges and computational methods used for analyzing ancient microbial, animal, and plant DNA — with a focus on practical implementation using the aMeta workflow. physalia-courses.org/courses-worksh… with Nikolay Oskolkov

🚨 Still thinking about submitting your abstract? You have time until June 1st 🗓️ We have had great submissions so far and can’t wait to see more. If you’ve been meaning to submit, now’s your chance! 🔗 Submit here: forms.gle/GL3uxax7MYoBBi…

🚨 We want to remind you about the DEADLINE for the upcoming virtual summer school "INTRODUCTION TO ANCIENT METAGENOMICS" (4-8 Aug 2025). DEADLINE: May 30th 2025 To apply visit: spaam-community.org/wss-summer-sch… ❓ Contact: J Fellows Yates (James Fellows Yates | @[email protected]) or Prof. C Warinner (Warinner Group)

🚨We're thrilled to announce that the FIRST International Conference on Palaeogenomics will happen in Stockholm, Sweden, June 23-26, 2026 Topics will span from humans to wildlife and sediments 🧬🦣💀🦠 bring it on! RT, save the dates, and check icp2026.palaeogenomics.org for news.

Did leprosy exist in the Americas before European invasion? Our lab #aDNA study supervised by Nico Rascovan with Dr Charlotte Avanzi (CSU) finds M.lepromatosis in pre-colonial Ancestors from North and South America. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

#MetagenomicsMonday While it's long been assumed that leprosy came to the Americas with Europeans, new evidence shows that a different species, Mycobacterium lepromatosis, was already infecting people here long before that! doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

Happy to share our new study from my PhD on the spread of farming across Anatolia and into the Aegean and then into Europe. CompEvo & HumanG Labs science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 👇🏽

1/ In two articles published today, we used ancient genomes to better understand Neolithic Anatolian societies. The first study investigates Neolithization in the Aegean: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…