Come to Stockholm! #SPAAM8

📢 Registration now open for SPAAM8! Join us for the ICP2026 satellite hybrid meeting on 22 June 2026 in Stockholm 🇸🇪 🧬 Ancient metagenomics community gathering in person or online! 🔗 Register here before June 10th: forms.gle/Z1AK5MHaFEfb... We look forward to seeing you! 🔥

Don't forget to submit your abstract for #SPAAM8 ! 🚀 Come share your work and join us in Stockholm on June 22nd 🇸🇪 Online presentations are also possible! 👩🏻‍💻 www.spaam-community.org/events/news/... Deadline: May 1st #aDNA #Metagenomics #seDNA

Come join us in beautiful Stockholm or online! #SPAAM8

New preprint looking at the associations between maternal mortality and having sons in preindustrial Finland from work with León van Dorp during his master’s project. Also with Mirkka Lahdenpera, @lummaalab.bsky.social, and @hannahdugdale.bsky.social

Mothers face immediate, but family-size dependent, costs of sons in preindustrial Finland https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.08.717249v1

Abstract submission for #SPAAM8 is now officially OPEN! 🚀 Don't miss the opportunity to share your work and join us in Stockholm on June 22nd 🇸🇪 Online presentations are also possible! 👩🏻‍💻 Submit your abstract: forms.gle/psw9GS3ZyrLV... Deadline: May 1st #aDNA #Metagenomics #seDNA

Come join us in Stockholm!

Thanks to @mireniraorb.bsky.social for the invaluable training in archaeological sampling and aDNA processing. This work would have not possible without you ❤️

Congratulations to my former lab at @pasteuredu.bsky.social @nrascovan.bsky.social lead authors @ramiro-arqueo.bsky.social and #pierreLuisi and last but not least thanks @bitesizedna.bsky.social for hosting me at Copenhagen Uni for hours of drilling, extractions, and preps! 👩‍🔬

How did farming reach the Southern Andes? Through migration or cultural transmission? Our new paper in @nature.com combines ancient DNA, isotopes, archaeology & paleoclimate to reconstruct 2,000+ years of history in Uspallata, Mendoza. www.nature.com/articles/s41... A Thread🧵 (1/25+)

Amazing work! Congratulations everyone! Be sure to give this one a read ⬇️

🚨 Save the Date! We’re thrilled to announce #SPAAM8 – a gathering of experts in ancient metagenomics research! 🌎 📅 When: June 22nd 2026 📍Where: Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪 (and online) Stay tuned for updates and registration details!

Life-history traits as predictors of expected genetic contributions 15 years later in a cooperatively breeding bird https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.19.695490v1

13/ And since I have you here, it's time for some shameless plugging! I defend my PhD ( :O ) next week, and if you are interested in more of what I got up to over the past few years, you can check out an @nrc.nl here: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

12/ You can also read the @newscientist.com article here: www.newscientist.com/article/2503...

1/13 New paper out! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Historical records across thousands of women showed that mothers with more children had shorter lifespans during a famine, fitting an evolutionary explanation for why we age @hannahdugdale.bsky.social @lummaalab.bsky.social @erikpostma.bsky.social

Hoe meer kinderen een moeder krijgt, hoe minder lang ze zelf leeft. Tenminste, dat gold voor Finse moeders ten tijde van de Grote Finse Hongersnood. Deze en andere opmerkelijke feiten destilleerde Euan Young uit grote historische bevolkingsregisters. buff.ly/Y1VNbQO

DNA from Napoleon’s 1812 army identifies the pathogens likely responsible for the army’s demise during their Russian retreat. www.cell.com/current-biol... Nicolás Rascovan & colleagues @currentbiology.bsky.social

1/10 Genome maintenance by telomerase is a fundamental process in nearly all eukaryotes. But where does it come from? Today, we report the discovery of telomerase homologs in a family of antiviral RTs, revealing an unexpected evolutionary origin in bacteria. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🎓 Applications for Institut Pasteur's PhD programs open Sept 1-Oct 20, 2025 for October 2026 entry. Apply to up to 4 projects across 6 programs: PPU, PPU-IMAGINE @institutimagine.bsky.social, [email protected], PPU-EID @upcite.bsky.social & more 🧬 Register now ✍️ www.pasteur.fr/en/education...

Well that’s the “highlight” of my week for sure! Thrilled to see our recent paper covered in Nature’s Research Highlight: www.nature.com/articles/d41... Also see @markspa.bsky.social’s neat explainer below.

Had a great time at #ISBA11 and #SPAAM7 in beautiful Turin! Exciting science and amazing people! @isbarchaeology.bsky.social @spaam-community.bsky.social

Great experience with amazing people!

After a week of intense population genomics, lots of tired but still smiley faces. Thank you @embo.org for funding another edition of our Population Genomics course in Naples. And thank you to the trainers and participants for making this eight edition another success! #EMBOpopgen

#AncientMetagenomeDir is expanding to include C14 dating & detailed archaeological/historical info for all samples! 📜✨ 🗓️ Join our Hackathon on April 29th from 10-17 CEST and contribute to this groundbreaking project! 🙌

Don't miss out! Deadline is today!

🚨Last day to register for our speed-networking event! Dont' miss out on this great opportunity ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Still a few days left to register! Don't miss out!

The SPAAM community needs YOU! We are gathering demographics and statistics on our community which will help the SPAAM Steering Committee to drive the community according to everyone’s needs! It only takes a few minutes to complete the form: 👉 Form link: forms.gle/uTKJwtEquNSD... Thank you!

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🚨 The ancient biomolecules communities (HAAM, LAARD, PAASTA, AaRC and SPAAM) have put together a short survey to understand if and how they are helping researchers deal with the challenges in their research fields and how we can improve their benefits. ⬇

Thrilled to share my 1st PhD's 1st publication at @liigh-unam.bsky.social. Anecdotally it is also my 1st paper as corresponding author from my group / the "Paloegenomics and Evolutionary Biology". shorturl.at/VumOq Let us know what you think about it.

Come join us on Element!

1/11 New preprint out with @hannahdugdale.bsky.social, @lummaalab.bsky.social, and @erikpostma.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Why do we age? And can a “natural experiment” during the Great Finnish Famine with long-term data help provide some answers?

! IMPORTANT ! SPAAM is moving from Slack to Element (Matrix)! You can find our SPAAM space at matrix.to#/#spaam:arch... Please, follow this link for more information and instructions www.isbarch.org/chat See you there!

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