A journey into the sensory world of ancient Arabia: incense, ritual, trade, memory & scent 🌿🔥🏺🧪 www.dainst.org/en/newsroom/...

Really nice coverage on our research on ancient scents by @sciam.bsky.social and @gayoung.bsky.social 🏺🧪👩‍🔬 www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

I'm hiring!⭐ As part of the DFF Sapere Aude-funded project MiddleEarth, I am looking for 1 postdoctoral researcher and 1 research assistant.

Interested in the kinds of information archaeologists can gain from metabolic profiling? Check out this wonderful new book and our chapter on the ancient oasis of Tayma. This work builds on our 2022 paper on reconstructing ancient scents in Nature Human Behaviour: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌿✨ New Book Out! ✨🌿 Our new volume #Scents_of_Arabia: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Olfactory Worlds is now published with @archaeopress.bsky.social Thank you to all contributors who made this book possible! @dai-weltweit.bsky.social 🏺🧪👩‍🔬👃 #PastScents #Heritage #Archaeology

So looking forward to ISBA11!! See you in Turin 💚

Our latest paper is out now in Frontiers in Mammal Science: www.frontiersin.org/journals/mam... We characterized ZooMS peptide markers for three extinct Australian megafauna species 🦴🧪

Metabolic profiling of Iron Age residues from the oasis of Qurayyah reveals the earliest material evidence for the fumigation of the drug plant Peganum harmala, used for medicinal and hygienic purposes, according to a paper in Communications Biology. go.nature.com/3HhFV6D 🏺 🧪

"Metabolic profiling of Iron Age residues from the oasis of Qurayyah, Northwest Arabia, reveals the earliest material evidence for the fumigation of the drug plant Peganum harmala, used in domestic contexts for medicinal and hygienic purposes. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Smoke and Memory: How Iron Age Arabia Burned Plants to Heal and Cleanse www.anthropology.net/p/smoke-and-...

Nice media coverage about our new study on psychoactive and medicinal plants in the past 🌿🧪 @diepressecom.bsky.social www.diepresse.com/19717652/sch...

Earliest use of psychoactive and medicinal plant ‘harmal’ identified in Iron Age Arabia | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

🧪 New Research Alert! 🧪 Our latest study, published in @commsbio.nature.com uncovers the earliest known evidence of the medicinal and psychoactive plant Peganum harmala (harmal) in ancient Arabia. 🏺 www.nature.com/articles/s42... #Metabolomics 🧪 #BiomolecularArchaeology #AncientMedicine

Paper alert, @nature.com. Our study reveals 8 million years of #GreenArabia. We document environmental variability - ranging over the entire course of human evolution. Arabia is a key bridge at the cross-roads of continents. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌿✨ I’m so happy to share that I’ve been awarded the #GNAA_Science_Award 2025 for Excellence in Archaeological Science and Archaeometry. A heartfelt thank you to all my mentors, collaborators, and colleagues along the way ☺️ www.gea.mpg.de/140806/barba...

🌿 Excited to share our new Research Topic: Biomolecular Insights into Food, Medicine, and Scent in Environmental Archaeology 👇🏼 Check out the full Research Topic here: www.frontiersin.org/research-top... @ancientproteins.bsky.social

📣 Paper alert! 📣 In this review, available as early view in @paleoanthjourn.bsky.social, we discuss "Paleoproteomic Contributions, and Current Limitations, to Understanding Middle and Late Pleistocene Human Evolution". Thanks to all coauthors! paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...

Very interesting preprint from @matthewcollins.bsky.social @jessiehendy.bsky.social and others on experimental foodcrusts and recovered proteins to identify the ingredients. It's complicated. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excellent book review on "The trouble with ancient DNA" by my colleague Kathrin Nägele at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #adna #books #science

🧬 Game-changer for ancient bone analysis: AutoZooMS automates species ID using robotics & mass spec! Study at Grotte Mandrin (42-44Ka) ID'd 1200+ samples, revealing new taxa (bears, mammoths) & human remains. Future of archaeology = robots doing the heavy lifting 🦴🤖 #archaeology #ZooMS

Simple, but simply scary? Anonymising job applications achieved gender parity in 🇨🇦 Biochemisty Dept from 17% in the previous 10 years (5 hires) to 80% in the subsequent 4 years (5 hires). Christian, S. L. et al. Preprint at biorXiv doi.org/10.1101/2024... (2024). Report in Nature

Now that we have this amazing new Smell Studies list (fantastic initiative, Will @willtullett.bsky.social!), I’m resharing some of my earlier work here for researchers interested in the fascinating world of past scents and smells. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our paper on fluorogenic triacylglycerols as sensor molecules for lipid oxidation is now published in Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry!! Very pleased to see this finally out and grateful to all co-authors for making this possible! Chemsky

NatureRevMCB by Ryan Paterson, Palesa Madupe & Enrico Cappellini 3.8M year old horse 🐎 tooth 🦷 yielded 60+ proteins covering ~10k amino acids. Single-molecule sequencing tech a game-changer? 💀 Decolonization & democratization of human evolution studies 🦕 ? #paleoproteomics #evolution

Have you ever thought about digesting your Pleistocene skeletal proteomes with not just one, but two proteases, consecutively? Turns out, it's not as crazy of an idea as it sounds! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our research is featured on @SciShow 😍😍 Check out what immortality smells like!

🎥 Check out this nice video showcasing our work! We've recreated the ancient fragrance used in the mummification of an ancient Egyptian noblewoman, Senetnay, dating back to around 1,450 BC. This smell can be experienced at the Moesgaard Museum and is a great blend of science and sensory experience!