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Natural History Museum. Apply for Principal Researcher in Human Evolution jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Photo of two hands in blue nitrile gloves, shaving fur off a small piece of wallaby skin with a scalpel blade. Just another Thursday in our lab :D
- What did you do at work today Zandra?
- I shaved a wallaby with a scalpel.
Life as the lab manager of @matthewcollins.bsky.social is so wonderfully weird sometimes 😄
The number of covered amino acid positions of ameloblastin (AMBN), amelogenin (AMEL*) and enamelin (ENAM) after different decontamination methods for each replicate. Horizontal lines indicate statistically significant differences between methods. Cont. = Contaminated.
Analysis of archaeological and palaeontological dental enamel allows for study of taxonomy, phylogenetic relationships, and genetic sex of Pleistocene fauna and hominin remains
Identification and removal of contamination in palaeoproteomic analysis of dental enamel 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
*bursts in, sweating, out of breath*
“Drop everything, fish doorbell’s back”
visdeurbel.nl/en/
The final chapter of my PhD thesis, is finally published in GBE!
academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
You can also read the earlier recommendation by PCI in a nice little summary here: evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...
#palaeoproteomics #phylogenetics
Phylogenetic and dating analysis of ancient and modern sheeppox virus. A. Maximum-likelihood phylogeny of ancient and modern SPPV genomes with ≥5× coverage, rooted using LSDV and GTPV. Nodes with bootstrap support of 100 are indicated by blue circles; other bootstrap values are shown at the corresponding nodes. Clades composed exclusively of modern genomes are collapsed and shown as triangles, and branches corresponding to ancient genomes are highlighted in pink. The grey box delineates the SPPV clade. B. Maximum-likelihood phylogeny of SPPV genomes with placement of low-coverage ancient samples using PathPhynder (Martiniano et al., 2022). For clarity, only the SPPV portion of the phylogeny is shown. Samples are coloured by material type, and low-coverage genomes (<5×) placed using PathPhynder are indicated by red triangles. Nodes with bootstrap support of 100 are marked with blue circles; other values are shown at the corresponding nodes. Tip labels indicate sampling location and calibrated historical date. Host species, sequencing coverage, and sample age are shown as a heatmap adjacent to the tips. C. Time-calibrated Bayesian phylogeny of the SPPV clade, with samples coloured according to material type.
Biopathocodicology?? 🦠🧬🐑 (1/4)
Check out this groundbreaking new #aDNA #pathology paper by @louis-lhote.bsky.social @gingerhowley.bsky.social and colleagues!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🧬🦆 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!
3,500 years of sheeppox virus evolution inferred from archaeological and codicological genomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.23.707469v1
Amazing news for the end of the week! 🤩
Are you a researcher working in ancient DNA or proteins? 🧬
Are you from Latin America or work with Latin American samples in an ethical way?
Would you like to share your reasearch and expand your network?
Want to help solve the mystery of why Neanderthals disappeared?
I’m hiring a postdoc to work on Neanderthal extinction using ancient environmental multiomics + serious computational firepower.
Details 👇
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Register now for our free online workshop hosted by the #COEXIST project and @archaeoprotein.bsky.social: Maximising data from #Palaeolithic bone. Exciting program on chronology, diet, taphonomy and method advancement:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🦣🧪🏺
www.codicum.eu/news-and-eve...
Tuomas Heikkilä is hiring a 4-year fully funded PhD in Medieval Manuscript Studies at the University of Helsinki within the ERC Synergy Project CODICUM. Interested in medieval studies, philology, history, art history, etc!
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...
poster with photos from Roca dels Bous, a Neanderthal site in Spain, indicating that 2026 excavations will run from 1st to 20th August
Keen on excavating some Neanderthal sites in Spain?
Well, today is your lucky day!
Call for participants at Roca dels Bous site just opened. Excavations on this unique Neanderthal site will run 1-20th August (both inclusive). For further information and details, contact me!
Job alert! 3 year post doc in my research group at University College London working on Roman Leather via biomolecular archaeology. #ZooMS #stableisotopes
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ187/r...
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 🧬
🚨 Job alert! The University of Tübingen announces a W3 (Full) Professorship in Early Hominin Evolution in the framework of the DFG Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS':
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
Application deadline: 11.03.2026 🚨
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.
📢Call for Papers #UISPP 2026
Join our session with Emilie Berlioz, @fridowelker.bsky.social & @wagneranna.bsky.social :
Multidisciplinary approaches to reconstruct human-environment relationships in the Pleistocene
📍Poznań (Poland)
📆31 Aug - 4 Sep 2026
Deadline: 28 Feb
uispp2026.syskonf.pl
We are less than a week away from the deadline 🤯
Remember to submit your abstracts to SMBE2026
Registration OPEN for Practical Palaeoproteomics Summer School Copenhagen! 🦴🧪
🗓️ Aug 12–21, 2026 📍 Copenhagen (In-person + 3-day remote option) 🎓 6 ECTS credits ⏳ Deadline: April 1st
Apply here: phdcourses.ku.dk/detailkursus...
#Palaeoproteomics #BioArch #Archaeology #Proteomics #PhDLife
Join us in the CODICUM project! A 4-year fully funded position as a doctoral researcher in medieval manuscript studies is open at the University of Helsinki: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
The Textile Resources in Viking Age Landscapes-project is coming to an end and we’re celebrating four years og sheep, textiles, and landscape studies with a three day conference in Copenhagen this May!
neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now
Current protein analysis is costly, complex & risks damaging proteins.
We’re developing a protein barcoding method that's scalable, accessible & protein-friendly.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/4pzmIhI
📣 Work with us! 📣
We are seeking to appoint a part-time, permanent Biomolecular Research Laboratory Technician!
Hear a bit more about the role from @matthewcollins.bsky.social
📅 Closing date: 2 February
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/biomole...
Once upon a time, @fridowelker.bsky.social and I had an argument about if we need to decontaminate our samples or not. I'm not saying that I took things a bit too far with proving that I was right, but we have now published two papers on the topic 😬😂
This project was part of my MSCA project #MSCA_PROMISE, through funding from @leakeyfoundation.org and @erc.europa.eu, among others 🎉
Huge thanks to my coauthors on this project, including @fridowelker.bsky.social, @jespervolsen.bsky.social, Gaudry, Jan, and our amazing intern Sofie who performed the lab work with me. And of course also the Contaminator, Tjorven!
