Good news everyone, _Nature_ has published 66 Open Access articles to date in 2026!
This means Springer-Nature has gobbled up USD$837,540 of science funding this year.
I'm sure we couldn't think of anything better to do with that money.
#OpenScience
The International Council of Archaeozoology www.alexandriaarchive.org/icaz/ has published a statement to condemn the Gaza genocide. You can download it here (Newsletter p.7): www.alexandriaarchive.org/icaz/publica...
@archagainstaparth.bsky.social
@blacktrowel.bsky.social
@icaz-news.bsky.social
📣 Work with us! 📣
We are seeking to appoint a part-time, permanent Biomolecular Research Laboratory Technician!
Hear a bit more about the role from @matthewcollins.bsky.social
📅 Closing date: 2 February
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/biomole...
Infographic titled "ZooMS: Unlocking the Past with Protein Fingerprinting." The top section illustrates the Peptide Mass Fingerprinting process: extracting collagen from a sample, using trypsin enzymes to digest it into peptides, and analyzing it via MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry to create a unique spectrum for species identification. The bottom left section shows how ZooMS identifies fragmented archaeological bones (like Neanderthal remains). The bottom right section depicts the non-destructive "eZooMS" technique for medieval parchment, using a PVC eraser to collect protein samples without damaging manuscripts to identify calf, sheep, or goat skins.
#ZooMS infographic and ALT generated from a spoken prompt "Can you explain what zooms is and how this is used to identify archaeological bone? and medieval parchment?" 🦴📜 #Archaeology. Slightly scary, as while it is clearly AI, my net intellectual contribution was 18 spoken words.
Monk 1: What are you drawing? Monk 2: A poor soul being dragged to hell by demons Monk 1: Cool! And what are you planning to use as a border? Monk 2: I'm thinking freshwater mussels. Monk 1: That's really perfect
This is brilliant.
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✅ Free registration is mandatory!
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Massive congratulations @marcdickinson.bsky.social 🎉
Thanks for the reminder :)
Remember, once in a Blue Moon, to visit Pastel BioScience's resource pages ...
https://t.ly/EP3hr to see updated list of new #proteomics software packages (153) in 2025 &,
https://t.ly/Mlk39 for Conferences/Symposia/Webinars etc (11) already available in 2026
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#proteomics #prot-other
Scientists against Milei's cuts of funds for basic science. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The MALDI Deamidation Score is now published! Congratulations @bharathabnair.bsky.social @isma-rgz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy and Fei Yang! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The Python script reported in Mackie et al. 2018 (Angew Chem Int 57:736–7374) for calculating N and Q deamidation rates from proteomic results has now been ported to the R environment.
GitHub
github.com/tsutatsuta/r...
Zenodo
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Vladimir Gorshkov manage to put in place the first release for #ThermoRawFileParser (TRFP) with dotnet support, not need for mono anymore. This is TRFP 2.0dev, if you are using this tool, please test/test, we want to release 2.0 including #bioconda and #biocontainer github.com/CompOmics/Th...
Looking for feedback. How do you guys does feature intensity normalization? Median across entire experiment? Median by sample, it depends of the experiments?
Struggling to compare Bruker timsTOF methods or extract window schemes from raw .d files? I developed a free desktop tool to solve this: timsCompare! 🚀
It automates the manual work of extracting method parameters, presenting them in a structured and comparable view.
(A thread 🧵)
lol what?
This just tells me how bad Marriott's reading and media consumption habits are, because it feels like more academics are doing public scholarship than ever!
Maybe they're not all "Great White Scholar" types, but they're there, and doing the work.
Alright, help from my "wider" mass tolerance peeps ( @pwilmarth.bsky.social @ypriverol.bsky.social @michaellazear.bsky.social): I have confirmed what you all said that 1.25 Da MS1 and 20 ppm MS2 is a winning DDA combination. But I see in MSFragger I can do an upper and lower. Do +- 1.25 Da on MS1?
While journal publishing has always been deeply problematic, hurting both the pace and trajectory of science, something is happening in this moment that is finally causing the system to crumble under its own weight and cost.
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Advanced Technician (Archaeological Laboratories) – Durham University, UK
Permanent archaeology lab technician role
Eligibility: Degree in Archaeology
Deadline: 17 Sept 2025
Details: higherjobz.com/archaeology-...
#AcademicJobs #ArchaeologyCareers #UKJobs #PermanentRole #ResearchJobs
Congrats 🎉
Chuffed to have participated in the Nordic Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics 2025 in Odense - "the birth place of proteomics". Also, massive congrats to Amalie to winning the Best Poster Award. @markersofpollution.bsky.social - grateful for the support!
We would like to inform you that only four seats are left for the in-person course, “Machine Learning for Multi-Omics Integration,” with @oskolkov.bsky.social taking place on 15–17 December at the University of Barcelona @irbio-ub.bsky.social
www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
The SMBE 2026 Annual Meeting in Copenhagen is open for symposium proposals from Sept 1 to Oct 15, 2025. Details at https://smbe2026.org/symposia/. Looking forward to your submissions! #conference
Following a marvelous time at ISBA11 and our PAASTA conference, we're back to sharing the work of our community with you here!
@ipatramanis.bsky.social PAASTA talk from March about PaleoProPhyler a tool for #phylogenies from ancient proteins is now live on our YouTube youtu.be/2gVEQyinL4A
More than 500 international scholars attended ISBA 11. Here are many of them looking up at the camera in a large group shot
Thanks to @isbarchaeology.bsky.social and @isba11.bsky.social for a great conference.
I mentioned the legacy of Henk Kars of VU who established ISBA
Geoarchaeology closed. Here is the link to the petition to save Earth Sciences @vuamsterdam.bsky.social
www.change.org/p/red-aardwe...
Picture of the roll-up presenteing PCI Archaeology during the congress, and of the ISBA11 tote bag.
PCI Archaeology was at @isba11.bsky.social in Turin last week! Stay tuned for new #openaccess biomolecular papers soon with full transparency in the editorial process!
Thank you @matthewcollins.bsky.social and Marta Arzarello for sharing our initiative!
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social 🧪🏺🦣
Fun working with @archaeosheep (not on bsky yet... xD) @isma-rgz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy and @drsambrown.bsky.social. Do check it out!!!
(JASMS) [ASAP] Simulating Collision-Induced Dissociation Tandem Mass Spectrometry (CID-MS/MS) for the Blood Exposome Database Using Quantum Chemistry Methods - A Pilot Study: Journal of the American Society for Mass SpectrometryDOI: 10.1021/jasms.5c00179 (RSS) #MassSpecRSS #JASMS
