Join the course "Proteomic Methods for Species Identification" by Transmitting Science, taught by Dr. Michael Buckley from Dec 12-19. Learn peptide mass fingerpr… https://www.transmittingscience.com/courses/genetics-and-genomics/palaeoproteomics-and-zooarchaeology-by-mass-spectrometry-zooms/ #course

A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire go.nature.com/4nHZmoM

Collagen fingerprinting and sequence analysis provides a molecular phylogeny of extinct Australian megafauna

Morning read nautil.us/how-i-learne...

Become our colleague! - 2yr Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past (UU) @humanpastcenter.bsky.social 🧪 Great place to work at (ok, I am biased), integration with archaeologists and linguists + pretty flexible research topic www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

#Vacancies: we are looking for not just one but three #postdoctoral researchers interested in bridging #genetics, #archaeology and #linguistics in exploring the #humanpast. shorturl.at/B3Qdd @haam-community.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social

How much phylogenetic information is in a small sample of proteins? Pastramanis et al answer this question and also discover a puzzle: each protein added to an analysis of modern and archaic humans increases support for a single implausible hypothesis. evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...

Peptide Mass Fingerprinting of South American Xenarthrans: A New Resource for Zooarcheology and Palaeontology

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

Deadline approaches for our open professorship here at @au.dk @auarcher.bsky.social. Get in touch if you have q international.au.dk/about/profil...

Come join us (for a little while at least)! Associate Lecturer job at Exeter in archaeology (especially people with human osteology, zooarch or forensic skills), until 30 April 2026: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI165/a...

#ARCschedule Nov25 Outcomes expected for DECRA, LIEF & presumably(?) Centres of Excellence ("postponed" on 3 Nov). Other events: 🔹Open: Discovery Projects EOI 🔹Close: ITRP & Future Fellowships 🔹Selection meeting: Linkage Projects (2025 round 2) Data ▶️ docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

#CentresOfExcellence #CE26 ARC has "postponed" announcement of Centres of Excellence outcomes! It says "due diligence checks" are still being carried out on some applications. www.arc.gov.au/news-publica...

Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#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...

So proud to see our new paper out in PNAS spearheaded by @emilypigott.bsky.social She found a tiny 46,000 yr old Neanderthal bone at Starosele (Crimea). DNA work revealed long-distance connections across Eurasia, supported by stone tool evidence @heasvienna.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨 #LinkageProjects #LP25r1 announcement: ❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Linkage Projects 2025 round 1❗️ See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D... /bot

#LinkageProjects #LP25r1 My poor old bot is feeling poorly today*, so I've switched to my backup system & will post ASAP (probably within 2mins) when outcomes are released on RMS. It's possible there'll be duplicate posts. Apologies. (*It's run almost non-stop on a $10 computer for 10 years, so…)

🚨 #DiscoveryProjects #DP26 announcement: ❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Projects 2026❗️ See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D... /bot

In this new paper, researchers extended the sedaDNA analysis beyond cave sediments: bone-adhered deposits preserved human, microbial, plant & animal sequences. #MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #sedaDNA #metagenomics #cave #sediment

📕 #BookReview How did prehistoric people settle islands? Did the first humans have the cognitive and behavioural traits to develop seafaring? Explore John F. Cherry & Thomas P. Leppard's 'Human dispersal, human evolution, and the sea' in Antiquity: (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Sinner d. Zverev 3-6 6-3 7-5 Jannik wins bid 22nd title. An incredible number at just 24 years old. He started cramping in the 3rd set, but refused to fade away. ✅2nd Vienna title ✅10th consecutive win in Vienna Impossibly clean hitting. Indomitable mindset. Jannik Sinner in a nutshell. 🇮🇹❤️

ARC says Discovery Projects outcomes will be tomorrow (Tuesday). Linkage Projects (2025, round 1) on Wed. Over past ~year, it's often been at about 11am (Canberra). My bot will pick up the change to RMS & post immediately. ARC should email outcomes to lead CIs, but might take an 1hr or so for DPs

New rules for a rat-race. I my opinion, all this micro-accounting (= internal author struggles), inhibits effective collaboration. Science increasingly turns to a goal-oriented bureaucracy, away from an open art-like exploration, curiosity and thruth-seeking. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Characterizing the American Upper Paleolithic

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Great to see that Australia has some of the happiest PhD students globally.

"...researchers who invest time in their students tend to lead more-productive, more-collaborative groups and attract stronger future students than those who do not." "Time spent with the next generation of scientists is an investment." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🌿✨ New Book Out! ✨🌿 Our new volume #Scents_of_Arabia: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Olfactory Worlds is now published with @archaeopress.bsky.social Thank you to all contributors who made this book possible! @dai-weltweit.bsky.social 🏺🧪👩‍🔬👃 #PastScents #Heritage #Archaeology

First successful detection of oestrogen, progesterone and testosterone in multiple human hard tissues, and their use as potential biomarkers of pregnancy

It's mid-October & ARC haven't updated us since mid-July on the Brand New Grants System. When will we be told? What schemes will even run? ARC "paused" (cancelled?) the only Indigenous scheme, plus Laureates & all Industry Fellowships, and so far there's no replacements. ARC? Anyone?

New Collection Study Grants for students and postdocs to come visit the @burkemuseum.bsky.social! Applications due 12/15/25. www.burkemuseum.org/collections-...

Australia in the Anthropocene: Linking Past, Present and Future. Wonderful project workshop yesterday exploring the diverse methods our students and ECRs are using to examine how Australia's ecosystems have been shaped by people over the long-term and why it matters today.

I'm hiring! 4 year post doc on my Wellcome Trust grant -- come be inventive about isotopes in teeth with me in PPN Turkiye :) www.lancashire.ac.uk/jobs/post-do... please share!

Just out, our new paper "The state of the late Quaternary megafauna extinction debate...". We review the various perspectives, methods, and datasets which have been used to explore the extinction of many large animals. Was it humans, climate, or a mix of both? The debate continues!

Just out in @frontiersin.bsky.social our systematic review of the late Quaternary megafauna extinction debate. We analyzed and coded 360 articles to trace the development of the debate, identify key themes in the literature, and propose a forward-looking research agenda.

A sneak peak of our forthcoming article! Led by Mathew Stewart and @huwgroucutt.bsky.social. www.frontiersin.org/journals/mam...

🚨 New paper out today in PNAS! We report the discovery of prehistoric hunting megastructures on the Karst Plateau (Slovenia/Italy) – several-kilometre-long dry-stone systems used to trap wild herds doi.org/10.1073/pnas....

Had not come across this paper before. Such a cool use of precisely known shipwreck dates to track the introduction of rats to North America. 🐀🚢

Ancient microbial DNA and proteins preserve in concretions covering human remains

#ARCschedule Oct25 Outcomes expected for Discovery Projects, Linkage Projects (2025 round 1), and Centres of Excellence. Other events: 🔹Rejoinders close: Linkage Projects (2025 round 2) already closed 1 Oct. Data ▶️ docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

A library of avian proteins improves palaeoproteomic taxonomic identification and reveals widespread intraspecies variability

Hunter-gatherers may have used engravings to find water in the parched deserts of the Arabian Peninsula 12,000 years ago. https://scim.ag/4nql413

Press release for our recent article on the Big Questions in palaeontology (and link to the original study published in #Paleobiology)

Had some fun with this one! Based on a publication by @mariaguagnin.bsky.social and our terrific team! 🐪 m.youtube.com/shorts/7Pcec...

Excellent article in #NatGeo on our new findings of monumental rock art in the Arabian Desert. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

Just out in @natcomms.nature.com ! We provide evidence for monumental rock art in the Arabian Desert during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, around 12,000 years ago. One of my favourite fieldwork seasons to date. Excellent work led by @mariaguagnin.bsky.social and Ceri Shipton. rdcu.be/eIWWX

About 12,000 years ago, high up on a cliff in the desert of northern Arabia, an artist – or perhaps artists – was hard at work. @mariaguagnin.bsky.social theconversation.com/12-000-year-...