Using a very recent result of Calderon and Salter, we relate small type Artin groups defined by Coxeter diagram which are trees to mapping class groups. This gives information on both the Artin groups with respect to commensurability and hyperbolicity of the parabolic subgroup graph as well as information on the mapping class group and its associated geometric spaces, namely generating sets of finite index subgroups and fundamental groups of strata of abelian differentials. I'll try to highlight the many ways in which this reflects various aspects of Mladen's work.[-]

A spin structure on a closed surface $S$ of genus $g \geq 2$ is a covering of the unit tangent bundle of $S$ witch restricts to a standard covering of the fiber. Such a spin structure has a parity, even or add. The spin mapping class is the stabilizer of such a spin structure in the mapping class group of $S$. We use a subgraph of the curve graph to construct an explicit generating set of the spin mapping class group consisting of Dehn twists about a system of $2g-1$ simple closed curves.[-]