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HAAM-community @haam-community.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 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!

⚠ HAAM Election 2025 ⚠ · HAAM Community

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PAASTA Community @paastacommunity.bsky.social · Sep 8

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!

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...

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Lucy van Dorp @lucyvandorp.bsky.social · Sep 1

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/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Katia Bougiouri @katiabou.bsky.social · Sep 2

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

Katia Bougiouri @katiabou.bsky.social · Aug 19

📢 We're excited to launch our AaRCademy Workshop Series kicking off October 7th online!

🧬Our first session, "aDNA Data Processing", will be led by Nikolay Oskolkov from Lund University.

📅 Registration closes September 7th! Sign up via the QR code or link below.

#aDNA @aarc-community.bsky.social

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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · Aug 27

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!

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Miren Iraeta Orbegozo @mireniraorb.bsky.social · Aug 20

✨ 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

Open call: Become member of the HAAM-community steering committee

Two years have passed since the foundation of the Human Ancient DNA, Ancestry, and Mobility (HAAM-) community and its first public appearance at ISBA10 in Tartu (Estonia). We are announcing our first ...

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HAAM-community @haam-community.bsky.social · Aug 26

🏛️ 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

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HAAM-community @haam-community.bsky.social · Aug 18

🎶📣 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/...

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Center for the Human Past (CHP) @humanpastcenter.bsky.social · Aug 12

#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-...

Universitetslektor i människans palaeo-och populationsgenomik - Uppsala universitet

Universitetslektor i människans palaeo-och populationsgenomik, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Faculty of Biology, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala universitet

www.uu.se

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HAAM-community @haam-community.bsky.social · Jul 22

🎶📣 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!

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Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias @ceciliapad.bsky.social · Jul 9

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

HAAM-community @haam-community.bsky.social · Jun 27

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

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Marina Silva @marinasdsilva.bsky.social · Jul 9

📣 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

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HAAM-community @haam-community.bsky.social · Jun 27

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

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Leo Speidel @leospeidel.bsky.social · Jun 25

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

Seeking a few Postdoctoral Researchers at Mathematical Genomics RIKEN ECL Research Unit (25-695)

www.riken.jp

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PAASTA Community @paastacommunity.bsky.social · Jun 26

🍝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!

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HAAM-community @haam-community.bsky.social · Jun 24

📯 [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

Open call for new steering committee members · HAAM Community

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PAASTA Community @paastacommunity.bsky.social · Jun 23

🚨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/...

Pre-ISBA PAASTA Conference · PAASTA Community

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HAAM-community @haam-community.bsky.social · Jun 23

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...

HAAM-community @haam-community.bsky.social · Apr 11

🧬 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

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Marina Silva @marinasdsilva.bsky.social · Jun 14

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. 👩‍💻🧬

Photos and names of the volunteer TAs: Alicia Muriel, Anna-Lena Titze, Chen Leibson, Elisa Bella, Jennifer Zhu.

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Marina Silva @marinasdsilva.bsky.social · Jun 14

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! 💙

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HAAM-community @haam-community.bsky.social · Jun 11

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

HAAM-community @haam-community.bsky.social · Jun 3

🔬 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

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HAAM-community @haam-community.bsky.social · Jun 9

🫶 This year's Summer School is only possible thanks to our sponsors! @adelphigenetics.bsky.social @isbarchaeology.bsky.social @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social @denbi.bsky.social

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HAAM-community @haam-community.bsky.social · Jun 9

🧵14/n Eirini Skourtanioti is a postdoctoral researcher at #LudwigMaximilianUniversity of Munich, specializing in ancient human genomics and its integration with historical and bioarchaeological evidence. She will be teaching how to run hapROH.

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HAAM-community @haam-community.bsky.social · Jun 9

🎶📣 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)

HAAM-community @haam-community.bsky.social · Jun 9

✨ 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.

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HAAM-community @haam-community.bsky.social · Jun 9

🧵13/n Originally from Portugal, Bárbara Sousa da Mota is a postdoctoral researcher in David Reich Lab @harvard.edu. For her PhD (University of Lausanne) she assessed how imputation tools can reliably be applied in the field of ancient human DNA. Bárbara will give a lecture on imputation.

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