With another heatwave forecast next week, it's time to #ShowYourStripes to highlight the urgent need to tackle anthropogenic climate change. I study climate and environmental change our deep past, but nothing compares with the scale & pace of change we're witnessing today. @uniofreading.bsky.social

🚨Job alert🚨We are hiring a Laboratory Technician (24 months) to support our research in Archaeological Proteomics (ZooMS) at the University of Reading (UK), including our COEXIST project. More info here: tinyurl.com/bdfvawh8 #palaeoproteomics #ZooMS

📜HUMAN ORIGINS & SURVIVAL SECTION 📢Announcing the 2026 Editorial Board📢 We are excited to welcome Dr Patrick Mahoney as Section Editor and our international team of Editorial Board Members #HumanEvolution #Palaeoanthrolopy #OpenAccess www.tandfonline.com/journals/iah...

I am SO EXCITED to announce that CENIEH in Burgos, Spain will be hosting the third installment of the IZAZ (Integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology) Workshop on the 15th – 16th September 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Join the mailing list to stay up-to-date: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This Monday's 'Meet Your ICAZ Member' is our other Social Media Manager - Samantha! To be featured, please email answers to the questions provided to [email protected], along with a photo of yourself or your work. #ICAZ #zooarch

Analysis of archaeological and palaeontological dental enamel allows for study of taxonomy, phylogenetic relationships, and genetic sex of Pleistocene fauna and hominin remains Identification and removal of contamination in palaeoproteomic analysis of dental enamel 🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interested in maximising data from fragmented bone? Of course you are. Join our free online workshop. Registration closes March 4th. 🦣🧪🏺

Our workshop abstract booklet is live! 📘 Check out the upcoming talks and don’t miss your chance to join us online — registration closes this Wednesday, March 4. All info: research.reading.ac.uk/coexist/work...

Pokémon turns 30 — how the fictional pocket monsters shaped science www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Register now for our free online workshop hosted by the #COEXIST project and @archaeoprotein.bsky.social: Maximising data from #Palaeolithic bone. Exciting program on chronology, diet, taphonomy and method advancement: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🦣🧪🏺

Still time to submit an abstract for our free online workshop as part of COEXIST🧪🦣🏺

Still time to submit an abstract for our free online workshop as part of COEXIST🧪🦣🏺

🚨ONLINE WORKSHOP🚨 We will be hosting a free online workshop “Maximising Data from Palaeolithic Bone" as part of the the COEXIST project on 10th March 2026. Please submit abstract by 23rd January 2026. Further information in the flyer. See you there!

And there it is. Updated with the latest results from work with @thibaut-d.bsky.social & @cartapaniso.bsky.social & the @archaeobears.bsky.social #Boxofficebears , 50 mins of 🐻 from the lateglacial to present in Britain. So much more I could have said! Ta for the invite @geoffreymsmith.bsky.social!

Today the ICAZ-AGPM meeting begins - welcome to Copenhagen everyone, enjoy the sunshine 😊

Turns out #hippos 🦛 lived in Europe much more recently than we thought! Fossil & genetic evidence from Germany shows they roamed 50,000–31,000 years ago, right in the middle of the last #iceage 🥶🌨️ Same species as today’s African hippos, thriving during warmer periods. 🦣🧪🧬

AT ICAZ AGPM (Copenhagen) @wagneranna.bsky.social will give a talk contrasting her current #ZooMS results from Germany and Romania, while @geoffreymsmith.bsky.social will present his #ZooMS results from the British Middle Pleistocene site of Victoria Cave. @icaz-news.bsky.social

Fascinating analysis on grease-rendering at a warm-temperate Neanderthal "fat factory" near German lakes. Animal parts from cervids, equids & bovids were transported from kill sites, and maybe cached, for processing. Lutz Kindler, Sabine G-W, @geoffreymsmith.bsky.social et al. 🏺#zooarchaeology 🦣 🦌

Large-scale processing of within-bone nutrients by Neanderthals, 125,000 years ago 🏺🧪 Lutz Kindler, @geoffreymsmith.bsky.social, et al www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Grease rendering “fat factory” predating the Upper Paleolithic, is an important addition to our knowledge of Neanderthal adaptations

Write up in CNN on our Neumark-Nord 2 work with a quote from me edition.cnn.com/2025/07/04/s...

Really good write up of our work at Neumark-Nord 2. Such a great project to work on during my time @paleomonrepos.bsky.social

Cool! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Nachweise für umfangreiche Fettgewinnung durch Neandertaler vor 125.000 Jahren am Fundplatz Neumark-Nord. #Archäologie in #SachsenAnhalt... weiterlesen

Nachweise für umfangreiche Fettgewinnung durch Neandertaler vor 125.000 Jahren am Fundplatz Neumark-Nord. Ein internationales Forscherteam legt neue Untersuchungen an den im Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt verwahrten Funden vor. Weitere Informationen: idwf.de/-DQszAA

Neanderthals ran "fat factories" 125,000 years ago: Groundbreaking discovery in Germany reveals large-scale fat processing by Neanderthals 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/neanderthals...

#Neanderthals Ran “Fat Factories” 125,000 Years Ago. Groundbreaking discovery by @paleomonrepos.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social @leizarchaeology.bsky.social and the LDA in Saxony reveals large-scale fat processing by Neanderthals: idw-online.de/de/news854632 #archaeology #paleolithic #prehistory

New paper in #ScienceAdvances led by @paleomonrepos.bsky.social and @unileiden.bsky.social on #Neanderthal adaptation 125ka years ago at Neumark-Nord 2, Germany. Our study shows large-scale grease rendering thousands of years earlier than previously thought: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🦣🧪🏺

Spotting her first MALDI plate! Thanks to @archaeoprotein.bsky.social for offering this wonderful training opportunity to @sarahbarakat.bsky.social and helping us further develop our ZooMS capacity in Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social - and for running our first PALaEoScot samples with us!

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

A nice update on the chronology of Denisova Cave! I wish more sites had this type of resolution 🥹⏳️🏺🦣🧪

This interactive 1.5 hour webinar allows students and researchers from around the world to ask questions from our panel of #ZooMS and #Zooarchaeology experts: @geoffreymsmith.bsky.social, Camilla Speller, @abigaildesmond.bsky.social, Emmanuel Discamps, @mcodlin.bsky.social and Naihui Wang.

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...)

New publication! 🎉 Here you can read all about dog drool, bleach, and a probable Central Asian Neanderthal child: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

2025 @nhsf.bsky.social 1st annual conference 10th July 2025 Call for Posters! Deadline 30th April 2025. Excellent opportunity for #palaeoproteomics, #ZooMS researchers. A diverse range of heritage science. Great for PhD students and ECRs. www.heritagescienceforum.org.uk/what-we-do/2...

🅦🅞🅡🅓🄸🄿🄻🅈 #849 🌟 Length Score: 100% 💫 Rare long word found! 🚀 Letter Score: 61 🔗 Play Wordiply: www.wordiply.com 🎬 Today's starter: 🄵🅁🄰🄶

Editorial on archaeological science www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Our paper on the #palaeoproteomic identification of a male Denisovan mandible from Taiwan is out in @science.org ! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

In @nature.com we report the presence of the Mesolithic on Malta - upending everything we knew about the seafaring capabilities of late European hunter-gatherers and pushing back Maltese prehistory by 1000 years. Watch the clip, link to open access paper is below. 1/5 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fascinating new information on Denisovans and exciting #palaeoproteomics. Can’t wait to read the paper in detail. Changing our understanding of human evolution again.

Incredibly proud that our paper on the #palaeoproteomics analysis of the Penghu mandible, led by @tsutatsuta.bsky.social and in collaboration with Chun-Hsiang Chang, Enrico Cappellini and co, is out now in @science.org! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

ESHE 2025 goes to Paris, France! Join us in person for talks and posters from Sept 25–27, with a public keynote on Sept 24. Excursion details are coming soon. More info on the meetings page this March! #ESHE2025

Congratulations on the excellent research. Can’t wait to read the paper fully.

My summary of the exciting new excavations by @elliescerri.bsky.social and her colleagues, showing Mesolithic hunter gatherers arrived to Malta by sea

We’re deeply concerned about the disappearance of our colleague Pierre Noiret. Please share and help us spread the word. For more information please check: www.police.be/avis-de-rech...

🧵 Thread: 1️⃣ Excited to announce the next ICAZ Archaeozoology, Genetics, Proteomics & Morphometrics (AGPM) working group meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, Oct 14-17, 2025! #palaeoproteomics #ZooMS #archaeology sites.google.com/palaeome.org...

Exciting new approach to sexing using proteomics.

🧵 Thread: Comparing mass analyzers for ZooMS on poorly preserved collagen 1/5 Raymond et al. @palaeocdf.bsky.social @archaeoprotein.bsky.social test MALDI-TOF vs MALDI-FTICR for ZooMS analysis on Palaeolithic bone fragments (37-34 ka BP). Paper: doi.org/10.1002/rcm.... #ZooMS

Our new paper 🥲 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New #HumanEvolution find from 🇪🇸 🦣🏺🧪Bone fragments of oldest known human face in western Europe found in Spain: www.theguardian.com/science/2025... congratulations to @whiterabbit36.bsky.social and all the other authors.