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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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Xavier Roca-Rada, PhD @xavierrocarada.bsky.social · Sep 3

🇵🇹Our paper on Portugal's genetic history is now published in Genome Biology. We present Portugal’s largest ancient genome collection, with deeper analyses than our pre-print, revealing migrations, admixture & continuity shorturl.at/TcErC
@acadresearch.bsky.social @dnatimetravel.bsky.social

The genetic history of Portugal over the past 5,000 years - Genome Biology

Background Recent ancient DNA studies uncovering large-scale demographic events in Iberia have presented very limited data for Portugal, a country located at the westernmost edge of continental Eurasi...

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ISBA - Intl. Soc. for Biomolecular Archaeology @isbarchaeology.bsky.social · Aug 29

What a week! 🎉 Big thanks to @isba11.bsky.social for hosting an incredible ISBA conference — so well organized and full of great science.

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Federico Sánchez Quinto @fsanchezquinto.bsky.social · Aug 29

La historia de cómo secuenciamos los mamtus 🦣 más tropicales 🏝️ secuenciados al momento la pueden leer aquí 👇https://shorturl.at/KE6Ux. Redactadó por el gran @rpocisv.bsky.social. Muchas gracias Rodrigo por cubrir con tanto entusiasmo la nota sobre nuestro trabajo.

Mammoths in Mexico? Huge bone trove reveals giant beasts thrived in warmth, too

Fossils found while building airport contain first mammoth DNA from tropical location

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Marina Silva @marinasdsilva.bsky.social · Aug 21

📣 #HAAMcommunity is looking for early career researchers working on human #aDNA & #popgen for the upcoming elections 🌎🌍🌏

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or want to chat about this. Apply here (ignore the deadline in the form): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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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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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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Xavier Roca-Rada, PhD @xavierrocarada.bsky.social · Jul 8

🚨 New paper!
🧬 We explore ancestry shifts, kinship ties & Mediterranean links at Mas d’en Boixos (Catalonia), from the Neolithic to the Iron Age.
👨🏻‍🔬A long journey since my master’s! Huge thanks to Cristina, Assumpció & @dnatimetravel.bsky.social! @acadresearch.bsky.social
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Genetic transitions in the Neolithic and Bronze Age at Mas d’en Boixos (Catalonia, Spain)

Human genetics; Biological sciences; Paleobiology

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Xavier Roca-Rada, PhD @xavierrocarada.bsky.social · Jul 4

Thank you, Bastien 🙏 Grateful for your mentorship and trust from the start. It’s always a pleasure working with you and I'm proud of what we built together as a team

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Xavier Roca-Rada, PhD @xavierrocarada.bsky.social · Jul 3

Excited to share our new paper! We benchmarked the Twist Ancient DNA kit for in-solution enrichment. It’s cost-effective, robust, and shows no allelic bias, even when pooling libraries!
@acadresearch.bsky.social @dnatimetravel.bsky.social @twistbioscience.com
doi.org/10.1186/s130...

Optimized in-solution enrichment of over a million ancient human SNPs - Genome Biology

Background In-solution hybridization enrichment of genetic markers is a method of choice in paleogenomic studies, where the DNA of interest is generally heavily fragmented and contaminated with enviro...

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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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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 · May 19

🚨 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

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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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HAAM-community @haam-community.bsky.social · Mar 17

🎶📣 Apply here for our summer school 2025: haam-community.github.io/haam-summer-...
📅 Application deadline: 17th of April
#aDNA #HAAMsummerschool

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