I'm so proud of @adrianaleite.bsky.social for this paper! We show that dental enamel proteins can be present in dental calculus, and sometimes you can re-analyse published data instead of conducting new destructive analyses - but please remember to publish a proper metadata file with your raw data 😊

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Gotland and the neighbouring smaller island of Fårö is famous for its rock formations called Raukar. The remnants of coral reefs long gone, they are as striking as they are cool. A real gem of Swedish geography!

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Our paper is now out in Bioinformatics! 🎉 DNAharvester is a Nextflow pipeline for highly degraded ancient DNA, with metagenomic filtering, competitive mapping, auto read-length cutoffs, reference bias checks, and much more. 📄 doi.org/10.1093/bioi... 💻 github.com/NBISweden/DNAharvester

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It is time again to collect the metadata for your ancient metagenomic reference dataset? 💀💀 Do not fear, AncientMetagenomeDir is here! 🦸🦸 🚨🚨🚨Metadathon Alert! 🚨🚨🚨 On the 20th of November 2026, we are meeting to update AncientMetagenomeDir!

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Many thanks to @aidanva.bsky.social, @nihandd.bsky.social, @zoepochon.bsky.social, and @alexhbnr.bsky.social(🧵 5/5)

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