What a wonderful week of learning and discussion at the PAASTA Bioinformatics Summer School 2026! 🧬💻🌍 Thanks to all the instructors for generously sharing their expertise. Thanks to the participants whose enthusiasm, questions, and discussions made the summer school a vibrant event.

Our upcoming PAASTA Talk Series seminar by Ioannis Patramanis has been rescheduled. 🗓 New Date: Wednesday, 8 July 2026 🕒 Time: 15:00 CET 📍 Location: Zoom (DM us for the link) We apologize for any inconvenience and hope you can join us on the new date.

Join us for the next PAASTA Talk Series seminar by Ioannis Patramanis from the University of Copenhagen, who will present his talk: “Assessing the potential of ancient protein sequences in the study of hominid evolution” 📅 Wednesday 3rd June 2026 🕒 15:00 CET 📍 Zoom (DM us for the link)

Applications are now open for the PAASTA Bioinformatics Summer School 💻 Lessons will cover theory and practical exercises on a variety of palaeoproteomic analyses, including ZooMS, amelogenin sex estimation and shotgun proteomics. Deadline: 1 June 2026 Registration form: forms.gle/pqmecUpD7Xay...

🐘 Our next PAASTA Seminar Series talk will be Wednesday 6 May at 17:00 CET! 🐘 Elena Armaroli will be presenting "Elephant ecology in a Neanderthal landscape: Life histories of straight-tusked elephants from Neumark-Nord (~125 ka, Germany)". DM us for the Zoom link to join!

🧬 Our next PAASTA Seminar Series talk will be Wednesday 1 April at 17:00 CET! 🧬 Fei Yang will be presenting "Refining Deamidation Estimation in MALDI-TOF Data: development and application of the MALDI Deamidation Score (MDS)". DM us for the Zoom link to join!

🧬🦆 Our next PAASTA Seminar Series talk will be Wednesday 4 March at 16:00 CET! 🦢🧬 Katerina Carlotta Koukzelas will be presenting "Ancient Birds, Unexpected Dates: Zooarchaeological and Biomolecular Evidence of Avian Mobility and Human Interaction in Crete". DM us for the Zoom link to join!

Are you a student or ECR working in palaeoproteomics or a related field? Sign up to give a PAASTA talk 🍝💬 🔗Sign-up form: forms.gle/PbvmzPfzLhHB...

Excited to share the new Steering Committee of PAASTA 🎉 An ECR-driven community working to foster an open, inclusive, and collaborative space for palaeoproteomics researchers worldwide. Looking forward to building and growing this community together 🧬

Join us for the next PAASTA Talk Series! Prof. Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social will talk on “ZooMS-3D: a work in progress. Can we think about ZooMS in a 3rd dimension?” 🗓 Wednesday, 4th February 2026 ⏰ 16:00 CET 📍 Zoom DM us for the link.

PAASTA WINTER SCHOOL Now is your chance to provide input on our upcoming PAASTA Winter School on tools and topics you’re keen to learn and teach, please give your thoughts on this short form forms.gle/om48gkCKzTt9... before 9th Jan!

🤩 We are excited to announce that you can now also find us on Instagram (@paasta.community) 🥳

🦴🔥Our next PAASTA Seminar Series talk will be Wednesday 10 December at 17:00 CET! 🦴🔥 @giuliagallo.bsky.social will be presenting "Interpreting staining and burning in archaeological bone colors: equifinality, challenges, and new solutions." As always, DM us for the Zoom link to join!

Delighted to be bringing you the following PAASTA community-led paper outlining our recommendations for best practices and open science in palaeoproteomics! Congratulations to the authors and for anyone keen to read the paper, it can be found #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

🍝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!

The next talk in our #PAASTACommunity seminar series will be next week Wednesday 06 June at 16:00 CET! And while none of these talks are to be missed, Meaghan will be broaching a really important topic for working in palaeproteomics!

We are extending our #PAASTAConference deadline by a week! New deadline for abstracts is 07 May! You can also submit an abstract if you applied for a poster @isba11.bsky.social, just ensure to mention this in the abstract.

Join us next week (Wed 07 May at 17:00 CET) for Jakob Hansen's talk: "Taxonomic selection strategies in the production of Early Neolithic bone objects, NE Iberian Peninsula" as part of the #PAASTACommunity seminar series!

🍝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!

Our next #PAASTACommunity seminar series is coming up on *Wed 02 April at 16:00 CET* with @archaeoalex.bsky.social presenting a tutorial on ClassiCOL!

🍝MARK YOUR CALENDARS🍝 The next talk in our monthly seminar series is next week Wednesday (05 March) at 15:00 CET from @ipatramanis.bsky.social on 'PaleoProPhyler: a reproducible pipeline for phylogenetic inference using ancient proteins' Associated paper: peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

✨ After a brief break for the holidays and new year ✨, we will be back next week *Weds 5th Feb at 16:00 CET* to resume our monthly #PAASTACommunity Talk Series with Pauline Raymond ! Hope to see you there!

💀❗️MARK YOUR CALENDARS❗️💀 Join us next Wednesday (Dec 4th) at 16:00 CET for @gentforanth.bsky.social's talk "The Highs and Lows of Proteomics in Forensics: my PhD Odyssey" as the next talk in our #PAASTACommunity seminar series!

In case you haven't already, be sure to mark your calendars for 06 November at **16:00** CET for Ragnheiður Diljá Ásmundsdóttir's talk, which is the next talk in our #PAASTACommunity talk series! (Apologies for the wrong time in a prior post!)

In case you haven't already, be sure to mark your calendars for 06 November at 15:00 CET for Ragnheiður Diljá Ásmundsdóttir's talk, which is the next talk in our #PAASTACommunity talk series!

Curious to hear about how the #PAASTACommunity has evolved in the past year and what we have to look forward to in the coming year(s)? Then join us later this month on October 16th at 15:00 CET for our Annual General Meeting!

✨Our *first* #PAASTACommunity conference is fast approaching! (26 September)✨ The full programme is now live on our website and registration will remain open until the 20th of September! And trust us, it's not an event you will want to miss! ;) paasta-community.github.io/events/2024/...

📣Join us next Wednesday at 16:00 CET for Emese Végh's talk on SpecieScan, an open-access algorithm for automating taxa identification from raw MALDI-ToF mass spectrometry (MS) data! And before the talk check out the associated paper here: academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

WE ARE BACK. Join us next week for the next talk in our #PAASTA Seminar Series!! (DM us for a link to join)

📢MARK YOUR CALENDARS AND SAVE THE DATE(S)📢 We have a bunch of great speakers and exciting topics lined up in the coming months as part of our #PAASTA talk series!