Inspired by current events. #proteomics

Really excited to share the preprint for @halbevi.bsky.social and I’s new paper! Lithic tools from the Mesolithic and Neolithic were analysed with palaeoproteomics, use-wear, radiocarbon and optical microscopy residue analyses to find evidence of bovine butchery!

New paper by Tamsin O’Connell: This is a MUST read for all archaeologists who include isotopes in their projects. “The signal and the noise: inherent challenges for isotopic studies in bioarchaeology” doi.org/10.1016/j.ja... #stableisotopes

If you work in #archaeology or related, consider signing this letter to demand @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social to cut ties with Israel and take a position against ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and their heritage! 🧪 #science 🇵🇸 #FreePalestine #BoycottIsrael #eaa2025 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Happy to announce that the paper on the first of our experiments to better understand how foodcrusts can be used for investigating diet in the past is finally out! Huge thanks to @jessiehendy.bsky.social and @matthewcollins.bsky.social for their support! doi.org/10.1371/jour... 1/2

What if there was a job where you were paid £33,714 a year to play with Lego and work in an internationally renowned museum, with the aim of inciting curiosity and wonder about the natural world? Applications close end of August. @nhm-london.bsky.social 🧪🧸🏺

Registration deadline is TOMORROW! 🍝 🏺

Now recruiting for two positions in my lab: Postdoc in computational analysis of ancient human genomes www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud... Bioarchaeology staff scientist supporting human aDNA projects www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud... Background: sites.google.com/view/skoglun... Applications welcome!

Also - come and get my job! Which I’m still partially doing, but someone needs to take up the slack/ allow me to send them to far flung locations to retrieve mysterious ancient samples. See the World*! *mainly Britain. crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

#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-...

A great opportunity anyone aged 16 to 21 looking to get into archaeology, designed by the @archaeologyuk.bsky.social Youth Advisory Board - designed by young people, for young people!

The Ancient Protein and Isotope Laboratory at the University of Michigan is hiring a manager to start this fall. @umich.edu @umichresearch.bsky.social #archaeology #chemistry #michigan #annarbor

This looks like a new Olympic event: "100 meter search trench, with a complete Harris" #Archaeology

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

new lab paper, lead by Dr. Greg Abrams! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Spoken by archaeologists and early historians alike 😎

Here is my checklist summarising a small set of some of the simplest tasks you can do that have high potential to improve the reproducibility of your analysis code. This is based on my year of reproducibility reviews for the J. of Archaeological Science: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM... 🧪🏺

These are SO fun. We had a class during my undergrad at the University of York (Archaeology) where we had to make memes - I remember it well. I’m sure I still have the one I made saved somewhere…

Typos, gender-neutral pronouns and even emotional language in patient messages make large language models more likely to recommend people stay home instead of seek medical care. This AI bias could be especially problematic for certain patient populations. 🧪 www.newscientist.com/article/2486...

I’ve been living in fearful anticipation of this situation for all of my doctorate so far - and have awe for those who pull through it all! Including colleagues who defended grant applications and #PhD in the same week! #academia

Today the reconstruction of the 10.000 year old Mesolitic woman has been presented in Dinant (BE) by Isabelle de Groote van UGent #Margaux #Mesolitic #UGent #reconstruction

Great fun yesterday in the Meuse Valley where we showcased the fantastic Kennis brothers and @roam-ugent.bsky.social team's reconstruction of cranium 1 from the #Mesolithic Grotte Margaux! Don't forget to join the public vote - will she be called Margo, Freyà, or Mos'anne? www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

📣Job opening: funded PhD position 📣 Interested in Finale Paleolithic and Mesolithic lithic assemblages in the Belgian Meuse Valley and their evolution across time? Apply before the 27th of June 2025 to be part of an interesting project! All information in the link below www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...

Meet the Lady from Grotte Margaux! How should we name her? Join the vote ugent.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 📸 copyright 2025: roam-ugent

If you're doing a Google search and want to get rid of the annoying and usually wildly wrong AI summary at the start of the list of hits, put "-ai" (without the quotes) after a space at the end of whatever you've put in the search box.

⚠️🚨 SAVE THE DATE ALERT 🚨⚠️ We are having a Durotriges Big Dig OPEN DAY on: SUNDAY 29 JUNE Free entry - Everyone welcome!!! 🎉🤹💃🕺🎉 Details to follow - watch this space #Durotriges25 #Dorset #Archaeology

Researcher (Research Professor) Position in Archaeology at University of Bologna, Italy Apply for the full-time tenure-track Researcher position in Archaeology at University of Bologna, Italy. Specializing in Prehistory and Protohistory, this role is open to PhD-qualified candidates. Collaborate…

Happy to see this out and it was a treat to work with the co-authors involved! It was also my first time publishing via @pciarchaeology.bsky.social and it's a very clear, transparent, collegial process that I would heartily recommend! And finally, publish your raw data (please!)!!

📢 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

Definitely Parasaurolophus🥇 or Archaeopteryx🥈 ! 🦕 🦖 Happy Dino Day!

Today is the final excavation day at Skipsea in East #Yorkshire, and we’ve dug our way into the Early Mesolithic. And here - an elegant flint point, a razor-thin slash through time, found lying exactly where it had been dropped, some 10,000 years ago. 🏺 #FlintFriday #FindsFriday

Example of the Flemish guidelines for designation as a ‘forest’ 🤭

A permanent job here at @archsoton50.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social in #Palaeolithic Archaeology and/or #Palaeoanthropology 🏺🧪 Please share widely! jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

We're thrilled to announce that the FIRST International Conference on Palaeogenomics will happen in Stockholm, Sweden, June 23-26 2026! Topics will span from humans to wildlife and sediments 🧬🦣💀🦠 bring it on! Save the dates! Follow @palaeogenomics.bsky.social for news 👉icp2026.palaeogenomics.org

Here’s a CNRS offer to come to PACEA. It’s a multi-year contract that at the end will turn into a permanent Senior Researcher position if objectives are met. So if you’re a several years post PhD and a specialist in paleoenvironments, geoarchaeology, and human adaptation give it a look!

Luxembourg have been robbed #Eurovision

Only 3 days left to help us create a gigantic mosasaur statue in Liège! promethea.koalect.com/project/43722

Please, click on that link & reflect on this astonishing number *48,657* to realise the monumentality of the act of cultural vandalism committed by the the University of Sheffield management. We must never forget. @sheffielducu.bsky.social @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social www.change.org/p/university...

🚩 #jobarchéo Job offers in the #ERCPollutedPast at Santiago de Compostela, deadline 31st of May 3-year postdoc in #isotopeanalyses, 3-year postdoc in #ancienttexts, 3-year postdoc in #zooarchaeology, a PhD position, #archaeological #humanremains pollutedpast.zuir.es/job-offers/

JOB VACANCY We are recruiting for a 2-year full-time Research Fellowship in Biocultural Heritage, in partnership with the School of Geography and the Environment. Grade 7: £38,674-£46,913. Closing date: Midday on Friday 16 May. More info and application details at: bit.ly/42ARi1U

I was very saddened to hear the news about Pierre Noiret this week. Lots of sadness here in Ghent from those who knew him, and those who did not but who admired his work.

Bordeaux Summer School on Advanced #MassSpec for Cultural Heritage 16-20 June 2025 bridges #MassSpec & cultural heritage application deadline May 23rd, 2025 Proteins, Lipids & Carbohydrates Perfect for PhDs, post-docs, academics & museum professionals! bss-appliedchemistry.u-bordeaux.fr/en/

For UK-based writers, statements from @societyofauthors.bsky.social societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t... @alcs.co.uk www.alcs.co.uk/news/alcs-co... on illegal (in UK) use by #Meta of the #LibGen dataset Search LibGen from the @theatlantic.com article here www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

We have passed the first objective of our campain to build a lifesize mosasaur in Liège! 🎉🎉🎉 Check the video and the link below to learn more about the project and make it come true! Help the project: promethea.koalect.com/project/43722 @universitedeliege.bsky.social

Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK. Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽 www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

Issues with commercial DNA companies’ ancestry claims notwithstanding, part of me feels very uncomfortable with advice to limit the public’s access to scientific data by stopping open access availability of ancient genetic data. Perhaps I’m misinterpreting the final lines?

1 of 4 We're hiring a Laboratory Manager for the CODICUM project at @UniCopenhagen to help explore medieval manuscript fragments using cutting-edge biomolecular methods! Apply by April 13, 2025! Link: employment.ku.dk/staff?show=1... #LabJobs #BiomolecularScience #AncientDNA 👇

✨Our next talk is this week by the brilliant @archaeoalex.bsky.social, see you this Wednesday at 16:00 CET✨