On the Factor Fexcectorn and autism bicycle AI slop study: I got an answer from Springer Nature this morning that this scientific paper will be retracted! 🧪 Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...

🚨 PNAS Special Feature 🐕 We analysed genomes of historical German Shepherds to reveal how bottlenecks linked to WWII and the use of popular sires led to significant declines in genomic health. We also found an early 20th century wolf-dog hybrid! 🔗 Full paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Delighted to see our paper characterising the inbreeding history of dogs and wolves over the past 10,000 years published this week in @pnas.org. Work led by the excellent @katiabou.bsky.social, and co-supervised by me, Laurent Frantz and Fernando Racimo www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Wonderful days at #SVP2025, where I presented my work on the phylogeography and paleodiet of Iberian brown bears, and was a co-author on Dario Estraviz’s poster about Portugal’s bears. I absolutely loved the conference (best logo ever!) and the chance to visit Birmingham #2025SVP

Something lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️ Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

1,400-year-old ice storage from Baekje Kingdom unearthed beneath Busosanseong Fortress in South Korea Archaeologists in South Korea have uncovered the first ice storage facility ever recorded from the Baekje Sabi period at the Busosanseong Fortress... More info: archaeologymag.com/2025/10/1400...

Early Neolithic farmers in Central Europe diversified cereal cultivation earlier than expected, study finds A new study has revealed that early farming communities in Central Europe began diversifying their cereal crops much earlier than previously thought... archaeologymag.com/2025/10/neol...

Let's have a little séance so we can thank the dead vultures who saved all these historical artefacts by nicking them for their nests! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Amazing results!

🦴🧬🦴🧬🦴 Abstract submission is now open for the 1st International Conference on Palaeogenomics! June 23–26 2026, in Stockholm. Join researchers from across the field for 4 days and >100 talks (+ poster sessions)! Submit abstracts here 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/abstracts/ Deadline: Nov 30th

The study of Tell Sultana-Malu Roșu (Chalcolithic, Romania), result of the collaboration between Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeoloy (Kiel University) and the ArchaeoSciences Platform (ASp) (University of Bucharest), is now published!🏺 doi.org/10.12766/jna...

I regret to announce that the collection has been cancelled, as STAR will cease publication 😔📚

78,000-year-old footprints from Neanderthal man, child and toddler discovered on beach in Portugal 🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... At Monte Clérigo, dated to 78 ± 5 ka, trackways of three individuals demonstrate how Neanderthals navigated dune landscapes.

#EAA2025 Tomorrow at 14:45 (session 169, room 19) I’ll be talking about "Subsistence strategies in Copper Age Southeastern Europe: insights from δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N isotope analysis at Tell Yunatsite (Bulgaria)". See you there!

Essential reading. Neanderthals, hypercarnivores, and maggots: Insights from stable nitrogen isotopes | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I am pleased to present my new Article Collection, "Stable Isotope Approaches to Human–Aquatic Interactions in Archaeological Contexts.” invt.io/1txbh73aizn