🧬🦆 Our next PAASTA Seminar Series talk will be Wednesday 4 March at 16:00 CET! 🦢🧬

Katerina Carlotta Koukzelas will be presenting "Ancient Birds, Unexpected Dates: Zooarchaeological and Biomolecular Evidence of Avian Mobility and Human Interaction in Crete".

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Excited to share the new Steering Committee of PAASTA 🎉
An ECR-driven community working to foster an open, inclusive, and collaborative space for palaeoproteomics researchers worldwide.
Looking forward to building and growing this community together 🧬

Join us for the next PAASTA Talk Series!
Prof. Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social will talk on “ZooMS-3D: a work in progress. Can we think about ZooMS in a 3rd dimension?”

🗓 Wednesday, 4th February 2026
⏰ 16:00 CET
📍 Zoom

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PAASTA WINTER SCHOOL Now is your chance to provide input on our upcoming PAASTA Winter School on tools and topics you’re keen to learn and teach, please give your thoughts on this short form forms.gle/om48gkCKzTt9... before 9th Jan!

#MetagenomicsMonday A new study shares 174 archaeological dental calculus metagenomes from across the UK, spanning multiple periods. With rich metadata and rigorous quality control, the dataset opens new doors to exploring ancient microbiome through time.
doi.org/10.1016/j.di...

West African ancestry in seventh-century England: two individuals from Kent and Dorset | Antiquity | Cambridge Core West African ancestry in seventh-century England: two individuals from Kent and Dorset

#aDNA studies of two individuals buried in 7th century cemeteries in Kent and Dorset (#UK #Britain) have revealed genetic profiles consistent with recent sub-Saharan African ancestry.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#Archaeogenetics
#EarlyMedieval
#Africa
#Migration

This week I had the amazing opportunity to present my work at #SMBE25. I was honored to receive the Young Investigator Attendance Award to participate in the conference. A truly inspiring experience to see the excellent research by other participants! @official-smbe.bsky.social

@official-smbe.bsky.social

Non-destructive radiocarbon dating of bone Since the 1950s, radiocarbon measurements have anchored archaeological chronologies dating back to 50,000 years, with bone collagen being a commonly dated material. Despite advances in collagen extrac...

We are happy to share our pre-print on dating bone using a novel non-destructive protocol we developed. The paper is on the Biorxiv here (Luftensteiner et al. 2025):
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Job Vacancies: Two Laboratory Technician posts on AHRC RICHeS project The UCL Institute of Archaeology currently has two vacancies for Laboratory Technicians on the AHRC-funded RICHeS project (Refs.: B03-02282 and B03-02283). The deadline for applications is 1 January 2...

Double Job Alert!! We are recruiting an archaeobotany technician and an osteology (human & zooarchaeology) technician to help curate and improve access to our collections. Come join us at the Institute for Archaeology, University College London

www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/...

Death by Data Erasure - The American Anthropological Association

A New Present Tense is out: pieces by anthropologists meeting this moment featuring @anthrofuentes.bsky.social, Carolyn Rouse, Rayna Rapp, Faye Ginsburg, Gregory Warner, & me.

My piece, Binary Desires, on gender/sex, EOs, & queer joy, & the whole collection here:

americananthro.org/advocacy/pre...

Wonderful and great year 2024. Learned and developed so much. Thanks to SERB, India, EMBL- EMBO events @embl.org @heasvienna.bsky.social @bioanth.org Cheers!!

Lab outing to the Belvedere Palace Christmas market! 🍺🍺🎉🎉

I am deeply honored to have had this opportunity. The experience has been truly transformative. I am eagerly looking forward to the impactful outcomes of this visit and the contributions it will bring to paleo proteomics research in South Asia. Thankful to all the staff at Douka/higham Labs.