🧪 First proteomic sex assessment in Spanish Middle Pleistocene hominin, suggested male. #HumanOrigins www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Webinar alert! Join us for a project introduction, some early findings & find out how you can get involved. When: Fri 5th Dec, 10am (GMT) Where: Online (Teams) Schedule: 20-30 minute presentation + Q&A Interested? DM for a link to join!

Our call for Abstracts & ECR Funding Award submissions are OPEN for the OPI XI Conference! 📍 University of Victoria, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada 📅 15-19 June, 2026 Closing date for abstracts: 19 December 2025 See our website oceanspast.org/2026-opi-xi/ to explore conference sub-themes & submit!

We have a couple of spots for our SAAs symposium on Marine resources exploitation in the preindustrial Americas. We welcome papers that builds long-term baselines of human–marine interactions, blending methodological approaches, zooarchaeology, GMM, geochemistry, ZooMS, and aDNA!

Our latest newsletter is here! This month features new projects, special research issues, OPI conference information and more 🐟 If you'd like to keep up to date with current research in the field, join our mailing list by emailing [email protected]. #marinehistoricalecology #oceanspast

We're thrilled to announce the next OPI XI! Stay tuned for updates!

We are hosting a free online ‘Ask Us Anything’ event as part of the Integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology workshop series. For more info and to submit questions: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 📅 Date: June 30, 2025 🕒 Time: 15:00 CET 📍 Location: Online (link: univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/9775805212...)

Welcome to the #ges4seas #mooc on Tipping Points #tipp Well, what is a Tipping Point? It is a point after which an ecosystem suddenly shifts from one state to another, Going back to the original state is difficult: SOMETIMES IMPOSSIBLE. See the thread for more details👇

🧵 1/5: I'm THRILLED to see Jiří Vnouček's paper on the Hamburg Bible's parchment finally published with such stunning illustrations (73 in all)! This research shows how a careful reading of parchment tells a rich story of its creation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I was invited to give a talk at @ucsantacruz.bsky.social , I had a great time and met with wonderful colleagues and women in science!

Come join us! PALaEoScot is now offering a fully-funded PhD to work on ZooMS and sedaDNA studies at Scottish Late Glacial and Early Holocene sites. Closing 13/4/25. www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🦌 🐴 🦣 🦬 🦊 🐺 (please note, full funding only available for U.K. domiciled candidates only).

Since January, I started my new position at @ucsandiego.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology of Climate Change. I’m thrilled to begin combining zooarchaeology, marine historical ecology, and ZooMS in my new role. Excited to see everything is taking shape, students welcome!

You don't want to miss it 🙌 Our Jan 2025 newsletter has just landed. Keep up to date with current research in #MarineHistoricalEcology by joining us! Get in touch at [email protected].

AFS is searching for the next TAFS editor-in-chief! If you're a scientist with a broad perspective on fisheries with ideas about the future of AFS journals, consider applying. See full details at https://fisheries.org/2024/12/editor-in-chief-sought-for-transactions-of-the-american-fisheries-society/

New article out in @uk.theconversation.com covering new research on Europe's forgotten oyster reefs! Link to article: theconversation.com/oysters-once... Read the #OpenAccess paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I used to say “humbug” about Coelacanth Discovery Day, when a fish that had been presumed extinct since the time of the dinosaurs was found alive in 1938, but last night I was visited by the spirits of three coelacanths who showed me, um, a variety of fish-related things, and now I’m a big fan.

🎓 Not updated yet ... archaeo.peercommunityin.org/PCIArchaeology ... but, thrilled to join Managing Board of @pciarchaeology.bsky.social, a free, transparent platform for research recommendations. Join a community of scholars making science more open & accessible! 🌟 #OpenScience #Archaeology

See you on Tuesday for more fish and methods in #ichthyoarchaeology at the SAA's ZIG Journal Club 🐟🐠🐡

☕️ Back from coffee at #IZAZ2024 for Nayeli Jiménez Cano's talk on creating reliable fish reference collections. Combining DNA barcoding with collagen analysis is crucial for accurate species identification in archaeological fish remains 🐟 #archaeology