1/5🧵 🚨 New open access paper out today🚨 The Demodifier: a tool for screening modification-induced alternate peptide taxonomy in palaeoproteomics. doi.org/10.1371/jour... #palaeoproteomics

Join us this Thursday for ‘An Archaeology of Food Security in West Africa’ with Amanda Logan from Northwestern University 📅 Thursday 4 December 2025 ⏰ 4pm bit.ly/garrodseminars2025 Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide

Join us this Thursday for ‘The Transition Revisited: Exploring the Culinary Origins of Agriculture in Southwest Asia’ with Amaia Arranz Otaegui from @ehu.eus 📅 Thursday 27 November 2025 ⏰ 4pm bit.ly/garrodseminars2025 Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide

Join us for ‘Beyond Faith? Biomolecular Insights into Foodways in Multifaith Medieval Mediterranean Societies’ with Michelle Alexander from University of York 📅 Thursday 20 November 2025 ⏰ 4pm bit.ly/garrodseminars2025 Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide

Join us this Thursday for ‘Tasting the Past: Sensory Archaeology and Roman Foodways’ with Erica Rowan from Royal Hollaway, University of London 📅 Thursday 13 November 2025 ⏰ 4pm 👉 More info and how to join online: bit.ly/garrodseminars2025

Join us this Thursday for ‘Meat Consumption and the Shaping of a Romano-British Culture’ with Umberto Albarella from @sheffielduni.bsky.social 📅 Thursday 6 November 2025 ⏰ 4pm 👉 More info and how to join online: bit.ly/garrodseminars2025

Join us this Thursday for ‘Pots, Bones and Biomolecules: Multiproxy Dietary Reconstructions in the Baltic Region’ with Ester Oras from University of Tartu 📅 Thursday 23 October 2025 ⏰ 4pm 👉 bit.ly/garrodseminars2025 Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide

Please join us online or in person for this term's Garrod Seminar Series 'Consumed by time: Past foodways in practice' @cam-archaeology.bsky.social. We are delighted to have an amazing line up of experts in their field speaking. More details here: talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/1...

Having a blast at BABAO! @babao2025meeting.bsky.social Thanks everyone who came and saw our poster "The Curious case of the Candia skull: demography revealed by minimally invasive methods" @drtrishbiers.bsky.social

1/3 New recommendation: Miranda A. Evans‬ (2025) The Demodifier: a tool for screening modification-induced alternate peptide taxonomy in palaeoproteomics. ver.4 recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🧪🏺🦣

Delighted to report that my manuscript "The Demodifier: a tool for screening modification-induced alternate peptide taxonomy in palaeoproteomics" has been recommended by PCI. The Demodifier, an open source tool, screens for inaccurate taxonomic matches caused by PTMs www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thank you @isba11.bsky.social for a fantastic conference!!! I can't wait to find out where the next one is. And thank you to everyone who came to my talk "The Demodifier: a tool for screening modification-induced alternate peptide taxonomy in ancient protein studies".

🍝Our next PAASTA Seminar Series talk will be next week Wednesday 02 July at 15:00 CET! 🍝 @mirandaevans.bsky.social will be presenting "The Proteomics of Pottery: What can dirty dishes tell us about ancient diet and cuisine?" As always, DM us for the Zoom link to join!

New review paper by @mirandaevans.bsky.social explores how #palaeoproteomicis is revolutionizing our understanding of how ancient people cooked 🏺 Future directions include developing minimally invasive sampling methods, better authentication techniques, and understanding preservation.

New paper out now📣 In this paper, now published in the Next Generation Archaeological Science special issue in JAS, I review the development and current state of the field of metaproteomic approaches to ancient foodways. 🏺🦷🥛🍲🧪 #palaeoproteomics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

3/3: In archaeology this is important because we are often trying to answer questions about which species were used by ancient people. The results show that this issue occurred 15% more frequently than currently reported. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

2/3: This is an issue in #palaeoproteomics because it can make it look like there is evidence for one taxon when in fact it could actually be a completely different one. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

1/3: Excited to share my new preprint, out today! In it I share a tool I have created which screens for potentially spurious peptide taxonomies caused by post translational modifications. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congratulations @isma-rgz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy on your first 1st-author paper. Gets even better because it's with our favourite protein ever @matthewcollins.bsky.social @mirandaevans.bsky.social, eh!?

Apparently I talk with my hands. Thanks for having me to present on "The Proteomics of Pottery: what can dirty dishes tell us about ancient diet and cuisine?" at the Pudding Seminar, @Newnham_College!

Great Job Ismael, Bharath and others! Fantastic insights into optimal search strategies in palaeoproteomics.