We’re expanding! 🎉 💙📸 HAAM is now on Instagram! Follow us there for updates and community highlights. Find us at: www.instagram.com/haam_communi...

Please welcome the HAAM steering committee for the period 2025-2026 🎊. We are looking forward to the following year!

And the registration is open for our next AaRCademy workshop! Join us on February 3rd to learn how to reconstruct the demographic history of a population with Pablo Librado. Registration through the QR code or following this link: tinyurl.com/2nysdwhv

I'm hiring!⭐ As part of the DFF Sapere Aude-funded project MiddleEarth, I am looking for 1 postdoctoral researcher and 1 research assistant.

🚨 The first HAAM elections are now open! 👥 Meet the candidates: haam-community.github.io/election2025/ 🗳️ Cast your vote: forms.gle/6PKTRkqKn57J... 🔒 Voting closes 10 Oct, 23:59 CET!

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!

Excited to say we’re hiring 😊. We’re looking for a post-doc in ancient pathogen genomics to join our friendly supportive team in London at @ugiatucl.bsky.social. Start date January 2026. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Still one week left to register to our first AaRCademy workshop! Link to registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/1c_c... #aDNA @aarc-community.bsky.social

Shameless promotion from #isba11 - I'll be hiring PhDs to start early 2026 (plus postdocs starting later), using #adna to study livestock and pathogen coevolution, particularly looking at inbreeding and immune gene evolution! Contact me at kevin[at]palaeome.org, full ad to come. Please share!

✨ Hello hello! ✨ We’re working to make the HAAM Steering Committee more diverse 🌍 and we’d love for you to apply in the upcoming elections 📩 📝 Apply here (it’s quick!);https://shorturl.at/un2eR And please share with others in your circles who might be interested 💌 Thank you! #HAAM #aDNA

🏛️ Still unsure how to spend your afternoon in Turin 🇮🇹 before @isba11.bsky.social starts, come to our #HAAMmeeting @Complesso Aldo Moro and meet young & inspiring researchers! 💻 If you're not in Turin, you can join us online, too. 📖 DM us! #aDNA #HAAMcommunity @isbarchaeology.bsky.social

🎶📣 ONE WEEK until our #HAAMmeeting 📅 Register here until 23/08/25: forms.gle/6eR2GPkM2fuE... Agenda: 🧬 HAAM updates 💼 Career panel w/ @lehtisaag.bsky.social, Monica Kelly, @eadaoinharney.bsky.social & @zhofmanova.bsky.social ⚡ Flash talks Find updates here: haam-community.github.io/events/2025/...

#Job alert: associate professor (universitetslektor) at the program in Human #Paleogenomics and #Population #Genomics. Please see the ad for more information. Application deadline: Sept 1st. #vacancy @haam-community.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-...

🎶📣 Registration is now open for our #HAAMmeeting in Turin 🏛️ & online 💻 link: forms.gle/6eR2GPkM2fuE... 📅 Closes 23rd of August ❗Registration to attend via ZOOM is required!

Submit your flash talks! You’re still on time 🏃🏽‍♀️🧬

📣 Are you an early-career researcher working on human #aDNA or #popgen? Less than one week to register your interest to become part of HAAM steering committee in preparation for the public elections later this year. 🚨Deadline 15th July 2025🚨 Submit your details here: tinyurl.com/HAAMelections

We’re excited to share more about the 1st Annual HAAM Meeting — a hybrid pre-ISBA event! 📅 Aug 26 | 🏛️ Turin & 💻 online 🧬 HAAM updates 💼 Career panel w/ Lehti Saag, Monica Kelly, Éadaoin Harney & Zuzana Hofmanová ⚡ Flash talks — submit your abstract by July 11 (extended deadline‼️) 👉 shorturl.at/8LZsr

Postdoc position in my group in Tokyo! Please get in touch if you are interested. And happy to discuss projects - these would range from developing new methods to analysis of new genomes that we are now sequencing in the lab. Job Ad: www.riken.jp/en/careers/r... Lab page: speidellab.github.io

🍝Our next PAASTA Seminar Series talk will be next week Wednesday 02 July at 15:00 CET! 🍝 @mirandaevans.bsky.social will be presenting "The Proteomics of Pottery: What can dirty dishes tell us about ancient diet and cuisine?" As always, DM us for the Zoom link to join!

📯 [Announcement]: Open call for new members of the steering committee. We're looking for ambitious people who are interested in shaping the future of the community and being actively involved in our projects. 📖 check our website: haam-community.github.io/news/2025/06... #aDNA #HAAMcommunity

🚨Registration has been opened and a preliminary programme are now available on our website for those of you keen to join us in person or virtually on the 26th of August for the pre-ISBA PAASTA Conference!🍝 paasta-community.github.io/events/2025/...

Eager to highlight your poster in a flash talk at our meeting prior to ISBA11? We have extended our deadline to ✨11th of July✨ Submit your abstract here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

And a big thank you to the volunteer TAs! They are all alumni of the HAAM Summer School and returned this year to help us with the 2025 edition. 👩‍💻🧬

Huge thanks to Beatriz Amorim @capitasonecas.bsky.social & Thiseas C. Lamnidis for all the support with website, VMs and for hosting/TAing during the summer school. And a special thank you for all the coffees and snacks! 💙

👇 Make sure to register for our webinar happening next week!

🎶📣 special shout-out to our amazing organisation team: @mireniraorb.bsky.social (Postdoc @ #UniversityofLausanne) @marinasdsilva.bsky.social (Postdoc @crick.ac.uk) and @epifaniaarango.bsky.social (Postdoc at #UniversityofWisconsin-Madison)

🧵1/n ✨🔮✨ Meet (y)our instructors of this year's #HAAMsummerschool 👇 #aDNA #course #humanpopgen

✨ This year's #HAAMsummerschool starts with an introduction to bash and continues with a week of existing and deep diving sessions into the studies of human genetic studies.

🔬 Uploading or finding ancient DNA data a headache? Help fix it! Join our Standards in Human ancient DNA metadata workshop 🧬 🗓️ June 19, 2025 🕐 13:00–16:00 CET 💻 Online | 💰 Free 💬 Feedback = co-authorship possible! 👉 Register: shorturl.at/D3j6i

Ancient Manuscripts, Modern Science! What links medieval monks, secret ink recipes & ancient cow DNA? Learn how Scientists used X-ray technology and genetic sequencing to uncover the secrets of 1,200-year-old Irish manuscripts in Switzerland Read more: museum.ie/en-IE/Collec... #NMIBlog #MuseumBlog

🚨 Registration Deadline TONIGHT! #aDNA #HumanDNA #Research #Ethics

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! Save the dates! Follow @palaeogenomics.bsky.social for news 👉icp2026.palaeogenomics.org

🚨 Don’t miss the 1st HAAM-radio symposium: "Ethics in Human DNA Research" 📅 May 29 (next week!) 🕒 LA (7am) l Berlin (4pm) | Singapore (10pm) 🎙️ With @paleogenomics.bsky.social @jenniferraff.bsky.social @marisolespitia.bsky.social & Tomás Gozález Zarzar 📝 Register by May 28 🔗 shorturl.at/1VScZ

⏰ - Less than 100 days until our first (virtual) HAAM-meeting during the @isbarchaeology.bsky.social symposium in Turin 🇮🇹 ✅ check out our website and feel free to submit your abstract for a flash talk at our meeting: tinyurl.com/haam-meeting... #aDNA #ISBA #conference #humanDNA #popgen

📣 Our next HAAM-radio focuses on the development of a standardised and dedicated metadata reporting schemes for ancient DNA samples and sequencing data presented by MInAS! 📅 When: 19th of June via ZOOM 🧑‍💻 Check our website to register: haam-community.github.io/events/2025/... #aDNA #course #humanDNA

Join us for the AaRConference on animal #adna ! Half day event Friday 30th May. Sign up at the @aarc-community.bsky.social seminar page!

📣 Open PhD position at @UniTartu Deadline: 15th of May 2025

Explore the fascinating early medieval Irish depictions of Christ on the Cross. Discover the beautifully illustrated Gospel-book (Cod. Sang. 51) & the Crucifixion plaque from Rinnagan, Co. Roscommon. #NMIBlog #CuratorBlog #Archaeology www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...

🧬 The First Annual HAAM Meeting is coming on August 26, 2025 in Turin🇮🇹 (and online)! ✨ Flash talks, career panel & community updates. 📅 Submit your abstract for a flash talk by June 15 📢 We're looking for volunteers to join the organizing team #HAAM #ISBA2025 @isbarchaeology.bsky.social

Would you like to help shape the future of ISBA? We are taking expressions of interest to become a trustee of the International Society for Biomolecular Archaeology. Nominations are open for members at any stage of their career! The deadline is the 26th April 2025 docs.google.com/forms/d/18jx...

Nominations are now open for the ISBA Outstanding Publication Student Prize! ISBA members are encouraged to nominate their own articles for these awards or those of others. Deadline for nominations is 29th June and the winners will be announced at ISBA11 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Nominations are now open for the ISBA Distinguished Article Award! ISBA members are encouraged to nominate their own articles for these awards or those of others. Deadline for nominations is 29th June and the winners will be announced at ISBA11 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A final request for those involved in the Ancient Biomolecule Communities: If you follow the activities of AaRC, HAAM, PAASTA, SPAAM and LAARD, help us improve our understanding of our communities with this short survey! #aDNA #palaeoproteomics #biomoleculararchaeology #ZooMS #ancientDNA

Interested in learning how to process and analyse human aDNA? Join our #HAAM summer school! 📝 Application deadline is in 10 days (17th of April). ❌ No extension ❌ #aDNA #course #popgen

🍝Excited to announce the next PAASTA Conference and our Annual General Meeting will take place on 26 August in Turin, Italy prior to the start of ISBA11 (@isba11.bsky.social)!🍝 Additional details are provided in the attached figure!

#opportunity alert! Two fully funded 3-year #PhDpositions at Uni Auckland, New Zealand to revolutionize our understanding of #human #linguistic and #cultural #diversity. www.findaphd.com/phds/project... @cschlebu.bsky.social @haam-community.bsky.social

🔍 Looking for research groups/institutes working with (ancient) human DNA. Check out our starter pack (continuously growing 🥜🌱🌿🌴) link: go.bsky.app/S53sS5N 👋 Want to be added? - DM us. #aDNA #humanPopGen #research

Our guest speaker at the next #ToP #seminar, Outi Vesakoski (University of Turku) will talk about "Uralic spread, Seima-Turbino, and flower pots". Book the time in the calendar now! centerforthehumanpast.se/index.php/ev... @haam-community.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social #humanpast #linguistics

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!

📣 Call for volunteers for a career panel informal discussion at our HAAM meeting at @isba11.bsky.social! 🔍 looking for researchers in different career stages (postdocs, junior PIs, people who moved fields or changed career paths) working with (ancient) human DNA. #aDNA #ancientDNA #humanPopGen