seafront-project.com/post/calibra... Largest dataset on Mg/Ca in shells yet (+100 and over a dozen sites)🐚 Again, we found tightly correlated but shell-specific relationships between temperature and Mg/Ca. Lots of potential for future archaeological studies🏺 @leizarchaeology.bsky.social

check out this new issue of PaleoAnthropology including a special issue on late Middle and Late Pleistocene hominin systematics paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...

And check out the Chibanian puzzle SI in there too!! 😎😎 @mroksand.bsky.social

Are you interested in human evolution? Would you like to work in palaeoproteomics 👩🏻‍🔬 and live in Copenhagen 🇩🇰🚴🏽‍♀️? So, apply to these advertised positions. More info 👇

⚠️Just a quick reminder, there are a few days left to apply for these two positions in #palaeoproteomics.

This week, www.thoca.org celebrates years of new research in Central Asia, with researchers convening in Copenhagen to discuss the state-of-art and new questions to address next! Exciting days, and exciting science ahead!

#Palaeoproteomics of Middle and Late Pleistocene hominin fossils and associated zooarchaeological assemblages from Central Eurasia with @fridowelker.bsky.social! Postdoc: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli... Research Assistant: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

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

New findings in Science offer insights into Wyoming’s “dinosaur mummies,” revealing that the stunningly preserved skin, spikes, and hooves of duck-billed dinosaurs are not fossilized flesh at all, but delicate clay molds formed by microbes as the creatures decayed. https://scim.ag/47DYjBi

And that was it, the 11th @icaz-news.bsky.social AGPM meeting here in Copenhagen is over! Lots of interesting talks and posters on genetics, proteomics and morphometrics in zooarchaeological reseeach, with attendees from 5 different continents! Thanks to everyone for such an enjoyable meeting :).

📄 New paper 📣 of @matrixerc.bsky.social & @welkergroup.bsky.social! We show that microstratigraphic-scale #paleoproteomics works in intact sediments - opening new ways to explore ancient ecosystems & hominin behaviour 🌍🦴 @erc.europa.eu @icarehb.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Palaeoproteomics goes micro! In our latest publication, we demonstrate that taxonomic identifications can be obtained using shotgun proteomic approaches on microscopic bone fragments in resin-embedded sediment blocks!

🔁Please share - we remind the SMBE community that the Call for Symposia for #SMBE2026 in Copenhagen is open. We invite you to submit a symposium proposal to help shape the scientific content of our annual meeting. 🗓️Deadline: October 15th More info: smbe2026.org/symposia @official-smbe.bsky.social

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Paris and @welkergroup.bsky.social are ready for #ESHE2025!

🚨🚨Today is the last day to register to join us in October!! 🚨🚨 (See further details in the note and link below)!

🐑Just a few days left!🐐 Registration for the #ICAZ-AGPM Archaeozoology, Genetics, Proteomics, and Morphometrics working group meeting @icaz-news.bsky.social 🐃 is open until ⚠️Monday September 15th⚠️! ⬇️ sites.google.com/palaeome.org....

There is still time to apply to these great early career opportunities!! Three Junior Research Group leader positions at the new University of Tübingen Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS' (in biomechanics, phenotype-genotype interactions, experimental archaeology - see links) Deadline Sept. 10!

📣 The Call for Symposia for the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) 2026 Annual Meeting is now open. 🌍 The meeting will be in Copenhagen June 28th to July 2nd 🖊️ We invite you to submit a symposium proposal and help shape the scientific content of SMBE 2026 Best the organisers

⚠️ Don't forget to register folks! ⬇️

Thanks to @isbarchaeology.bsky.social and @isba11.bsky.social for a great conference. I mentioned the legacy of Henk Kars of VU who established ISBA Geoarchaeology closed. Here is the link to the petition to save Earth Sciences @vuamsterdam.bsky.social www.change.org/p/red-aardwe...

Ready for #ISBA11 meeting. Starting with the pre-conference #PAASTA 🤩 and the welcoming. It’s already being great to connect with peers from Huerta-Sánchez lab @lindaongaro.bsky.social @marcocapo.bsky.social and more (not all in this network). And remember to visit me at my poster No.254 on Friday.

Are you interested in doing a PhD in Copenhagen? Interested in studying Neanderthals and Denisovans which live on in our genomes? Than you are more than welcome to apply to join my group starting Jan 2026 :) candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI... Please reach out if you have any questions!

We have arrived in Turin for @isba11.bsky.social and are very excited for the week! Don't miss the following talks and posters from the Welker Group:

#Job alert: associate professor (universitetslektor) at the program in Human #Paleogenomics and #Population #Genomics. Please see the ad for more information. Application deadline: Sept 1st. #vacancy @haam-community.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-...

For the last six months, @adrianaleite.bsky.social has been visiting us from @icarehb.bsky.social. Thank you for this time Adriana, it has been a joy to have you in our group and we hope to see you again soon!

For the last six months, we've had Lucas Siero from Utrecht University visiting us for an internship, working on some #palaeoproteomics method development. It was a joy to have you join our group Lucas, and good luck with the rest of your studies!

How we use game mechanics to explore and educate about archaeology in our board game Cultivaria- a thread. #archaeology #boardgame

We published a new paper on enamel paleoproteomics from teeth up to 18 million years old from the Turkana Basin in Kenya. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The record for the oldest protein ever found has been smashed five-fold after analyzing ancient fossilized teeth 🦷 @paleoproteomicist.bsky.social @fridowelker.bsky.social @harvardpress.bsky.social @smithsonianmag.bsky.social @newscientist.com www.newscientist.com/article/2487...

Two great new studies out in @nature.com today, pushing back the recovery of dental enamel proteins to 21+ million years in the Arctic (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) and 18+ million years in East Africa (www.nature.com/articles/s41...).

Woo-Hoo! This has been a long time coming, and in much testing (beta testing) but the integrated beta more functionality - smooth genome scrolling, nice uploads, and gene + function pages.

Registration is open for the 11th #ICAZ-AGPM meeting taking place this October in Copenhagen! We're looking forward to four days of #archaeozoology #aDNA #morphometrics & #palaeoproteomics. sites.google.com/palaeome.org...

⚠️registration is now open for the ICAZ-AGPM meeting in Copenhagen this coming October⬇️ We're looking forward to welcoming you to @ucph.bsky.social @ucph-soa.bsky.social for four days of research on interdisciplinary archaeozoology.

✨REGISTRATION IS OPEN✨ for the 11th International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ) Archaeozoology, Genetics, Proteomics, and Morphometrics (AGPM) Working Group Meeting taking place this autumn in Copenhagen the 14-17th of October! eventsignup.ku.dk/11th-icazagp... @icaz-news.bsky.social

Mysterium om Dragemandens kranium er løst: Han var et denisova-menneske #dkvid #dkforsk

I am proud that I've been awarded a DFF Sapere Aude grant by the 🇩🇰 DFF/Independent Research Fund Denmark to conduct #palaeoproteomics research in Central Eurasia for the next 3 years! #MiddleEarth. Soon more information on #postdoc/#researchassistant positions! dff.dk/om-fonden/ny...

A couple of present and former ANU Archaeology students have been working to develop a board game inspired by the Deep Past called Cultivaria. They've (quite literally) just launched their kickstarter and I know a few of you love games so... #archaeogaming 🏺

6 years ago, we predicted what Denisovans probably looked like. Since then, every new Denisovan specimen💀 - Harbin, Penghu, Xiahe - matched it beautifully. ☑️ Xiahe: 4/4 features match the profile ☑️ Penghu: 5/6 ☑️ and now: Harbin with 16/18! See 🧵 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31539495/

So nice to be a small part of this extensive reference book on deer! 🦌 🦌 🦌 🦌 🦌 🦌 🦌 🦌 🦌 #mammals #deer #RuminantsRule link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

My latest story is based on papers in @science.org and @cp-cell.bsky.social revealing Homo longi aka 'Dragon Man' was a Denisovan - or is it the other way around? Featuring @benceviola.bsky.social, @fridowelker.bsky.social and @chrisbstringer.bsky.social. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

1/5 Why do all non-Africans descended from a group that left Africa 50k ago? In @nature.com we model 120k years of human niche dynamics. From 70ka, a big expansion of the human niche in Africa likely equipped later OOA dispersals with a unique ecological flexibilty. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

As China continues its scientific ascent, the rest of the world should keep engaging. In what appears to be science’s new era decoupling would be a regressive step, we argue in this week’s editorial @nature.com 🧪 #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨 Has PRIDE helped your research? Take 15 mins to tell funders why open data matters! 📊 Fill out the EMBL-EBI 2025 survey 👉 www.surveymonkey.com/r/QGFMBH8?ch... Your feedback helps keep PRIDE open, FAIR & impactful. 🙏 Please share! #FAIR #OpenData #Proteomics #MassSpectrometry #PRIDE

1/5 New recommendation: Dekker et al. & @zandraselina.bsky.social‬ (2025) Open science, communication, and collaboration for the future of palaeoproteomics. V4 recommended by @PCI_Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno.... #Archaeology #opendata #openscience @paastacommunity.bsky.social‬ #Palaeoproteomics

📢 Join us for the seminar Advanced Mass Spectrometry in Cultural Heritage 🏺 📅20 June 2025 📍In person – University of Bordeaux 🍸Free registration + networking cocktail 📩[email protected] #MassSpectrometry #CulturalHeritage

🧬NEW: Our Dr Palesa Madupe & colleagues retrieved some of the oldest human genetic data from #Africa They identify 2million year-old protein remains from Paranthropus robustus to reveal its biological sex & genetic variability Read about this breakthrough in human evolution studies: bit.ly/3HiOgqP

Hello, Our paper on enamel proteins from Paranthropus robustus has finally been peer reviewed, please have a read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Paranthropus robustus has been puzzling scientists since its discovery in 1938 in South Africa, where a high number of fossils have been found.

Lovely publication on #ZooMS, #radiocarbon, and #stableisotopes of Late Palaeolithic whale bone tools! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our work on the Penghu #Denisovan mandible is now featured in a special exhibition at the National Museum of Natural Science, Taiwan: web3.nmns.edu.tw/Exhibits/114...