The poll for selecting the host city of the Radiocarbon 26 in 2028 is closed. The winner is Tokyo, receiving 58% of all votes! Congratulations to Tokyo team! Thanks to the Cologne and Ottawa teams for their excellent proposals. Thanks to Kim from @14cjournal.bsky.social for running the poll.

🚨SAVE THE DATE for two 14C conferences happening in Santiago, Chile 🇨🇱, next year: 4th 14C & Diet: 6-8 July 3rd Latin American 14C: 8-10 July Plus, the 11th 14C & Archaeology will be in Brazil just before on 30 June-3 July 🇧🇷 Details for 🇨🇱 below👇 Please share widely! @fransantanas.bsky.social

Very excited to receive an ERC Starting Grant to study the earliest archaeological and biomolecular evidence of Homo sapiens in NW Europe Watch this space for new positions in Bristol in 2026! 🎉 #HorizonEurope #ERCStG

Excited to say we’re hiring 😊. We’re looking for a post-doc in ancient pathogen genomics to join our friendly supportive team in London at @ugiatucl.bsky.social. Start date January 2026. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Interested in studying archaeology at university? JOIN US in person or virtually on Monday 27th October 2025 at the British Academy bsky.app/profile/brit... to find out more about what it's like to study archaeology at university! More info and booking links here: linktr.ee/University_A...

Excited to announce our paper on ancient Borrelia genomes is finally out! 🦠💀We document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever, published today in @science.org‬ with @lucyvandorp.bsky.social and @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social #aDNA 🏺🧪🧬 Main findings and paper below: 🧵⬇️

@whatkatiedigs.bsky.social has a funded PhD opportunity @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social Using #ZooMS and #sedaDNA #ancientDNA, #radiocarbon dating and #geoarchaeology to find Scotland's lost Ice Age animals 🦣❄️ #PhDposition #archaeology #paleontology #biomolecular

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Ancient DNA)- University of York - Department of #Archaeology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML043/p...

It's Friday so happy news! Excited to share my new @naturecomms.bsky.social paper, published today! Thanks to the @leverhulme.bsky.social for funding this work! Grateful also to Linacre College (Oxford) and @bristolantharch.bsky.social for the support. Click and check it out! 👇 rdcu.be/eeu3Y

Very happy to share our new paper on human facial development and evolution out today in JHE 🎉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵👇

Really happy to see this paper out, using field biomechanics we show that wild chimpanzees don't just randomly select plants materials for termite fishing tools – they use a little “folk physics” choosing materials with specific properties! Study in iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful.... 1/5

The Tai Chimpanzee Project is making available microCT scans from their collections on human-fossil-record.org. All proceeds are used to support their mission of conservation and non-invasive research in Tai National Park (taichimpproject.org).

Hi We contributed towards the South African Journal of Science Taung Centennial! some links; the special issue: issuu.com/sajs/docs/so... our paper: sajs.co.za/article/view... and I got featured on where I work from Nature Africa if you are interested in that: www.nature.com/articles/d44...

The University of Oslo is hiring an Associate Professor in Zoology for its Natural History Museum, starting January 2026. Candidates should have a strong research track in zoology and curatorial experience. De… https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/268410/associate-professor-in-zoology #job

I am very happy to share our new paper on the genetics of some of the first modern humans who ever lived in Europe! We sequenced nuclear DNA from 13 specimens from Ranis in Germany, and found that they belonged to at least 6 individuals. www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/n)

I wrote a short piece for @geolsoc.bsky.social Geoscientist Magazine 🌋 🌍 ✏️ Learn how to draw audiences into your science through illustration > geoscientist.online/sections/une...

Are you an Early Career Research (PhD, postdoc, new group leader) working in Animal Ancient DNA? Want to present your work to the @aarc-community.bsky.social community? Express your interest in participating in our AaRC TikTalk Seminar series with the link below! #aDNA

We are looking for two new Senior Geoarchaeologists to join out team at Archaeology South-East (UCL). This would be as part of a friendly team with scope to focus on your own specialisms. I’m happy to answer any questions about this if you’d like to know more. www.bajr.org/Employment/U...

(1/11) I am very happy to announce that I have been awarded a European Research Council ‘Consolidator Grant’. The TerraForm project (‘The Rise and Fall of Maltese Terraced Landscapes’) will begin in the spring of 2025.

I am thrilled to share the news that I was awarded #ERC_Consolidator Grant for studying the problem of Initial Upper Palaeolithic in Central Asia. Stay tuner for #INASIA project erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Funded #PhD opportunity to work with us on deep sea coral biomineralisation: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Webinar Q&A session on Wednesday 4th December, 11 am GMT: if you're interested, just sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Very excited (and a bit nervous) to announce that I will be hiring two Postdocs for my new group(!) in Copenhagen to study the Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA which survives in present-day humans. Retweet will be much appreciated :) Link for application: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

🦣🦣🦣🦣🦣🦣🦣🦣🦣 I have made a new list about all things ICE AGE! Pin this to your feed if you love Quaternary Science, Ice Age beast, and the Stone Age. It combines starter packs by me, @chslane.bsky.social & @bluerehn.bsky.social & is your one stop shop for the Pleisto Scene bsky.app/profile/did:...

We are currently advertising two fully-funded PhD scholarships to work on a new project preventing extinctions of Australia’s threatened mammals with ancient DNA. #sediments #aDNA #eDNA For further details, please see: scholarships.adelaide.edu.au/Scholarships...

I have created a #palaeoproteomics and #ZooMS starterpack - please DM if you want to be added to the list.

Interested in the use of ancient DNA for reconstructing population dynamics during historical periods? Check out this superb podcast with @mootspoints.bsky.social ! Thoroughly enjoyed the listen! wondery.com/shows/tides-...

I couldn’t find one, so I have started a Quaternary/Ice Age starter pack. It’s a real faff 😹 and so it is da work in progress, so please message me if you want to be added. 🧪🏺🦣 go.bsky.app/HqWL4Bp

Following the success of 1st "Integrating ZooMS and ZooArch www.palaeozooarch.com/workshops, a 2nd edition will take place this Tue - Thur in Paris The workshop coincides with the 15th anniversary of the introduction of ZooMS (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry)... izaz2024.sciencesconf.org

We are looking forward to welcoming @christophe-fire.bsky.social from @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social to #HEASVienna as part of the #HEASSeminar in #ArchaeologicalScience next Monday. Registration for online and in-person participation is on our website 🔗 👇 www.heas.at/events/heas-...

🚨New paper! Towards a deeper integration of #ZooMS & #Zooarchaeology at #Palaeolithic sites 🦴. We discuss optimising study designs, sample recording, lab protocols and data analyses. Great work with Karen Ruebens, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot & Frido Welker. tinyurl.com/mr3dx4cu. 🧪🏺

We have seemingly gained quite a few new followers this week! So for those of you that are new welcome to the #PAASTACommunity and for those that have been around, here are some refreshers on some of our resources, many of which can be found on our website: paasta-community.github.io/about/

Job posting for a 2.5 year postdoc with Dr. Felix Riede in Aarhus on Palaeolithic gene-culture coevolution: international.au.dk/about/profil... 🏺

Last reminder of our celebration of the 40th anniversary of the first #aDNA paper. Come join us and our amazing panel to discus the impact of the Quagga paper, how the field of animal paleogenetics have evolved and where are we heading in the future. 🧪🏺#evosky

Job Klaxxon: Permanent full-time post as Lecturer in History of Medicine and/or Health at the Centre for the History of Science Technology and Medicine (CHSTM), University of Manchester www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

🧬🐭🐴🐻Job Alert🐻🐴🐭🧬 We are hiring 3 postdoctoral researchers in DeepTime Palaeogenomics! All positions are for 2 years (extension possible), & are fully funded both in terms of employment and project costs. Deadline: 2 Dec 2024 Please RT! Apply: www.su.se/english/abou...

This thread 🧵 collects all the #archaeology 🏺 starter packs Share far & wide. We could all use a little more archaeology in our lives @cjfrieman.bsky.social made the OG Archaeology and heritage list with first wave Twitter refugee scholars & orgs. Go follow Catherine now! bsky.app/starter-pack...

🚨Job Klaxon🚨 Q: What links biomechanics, human evolution and apes? A: This 2-year post-doc position available in my new Human and Ape Biomechanics group in the Department of Human Origins @MPI_EVA_Leipzig 👇 www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...

@paastacommunity.bsky.social (Palaeoproteomics And Archaeology, Society for Techniques and Advances) an open, collaborative ECR-driven community for palaeoproteomics researchers now has a YouTube channel

A recording of the 2023 Huxley Lecture 🏺🧪 given by Huxley Memorial Medal winner Prof Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social is now available from the RAI youtu.be/0O6l-PjMgBs

Just a few hours until we’re live on Channel 4! Here’s a sneak peak from above one of the sets as we prepare to host tonight’s #StandUpToCancer special, starting at 7pm.

Comparing extraction method efficiency for high-throughput palaeoproteomic bone species identification Dorothea Mylopotamitaki, Florian S. Harking, …Frido Welker