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Matthew Collins

@matthewcollins.bsky.social

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Archaeology, University of Cambridge | The Globe, University of Copenhagen Ancient Proteins | Medieval Manuscripts | Proteomics and AI | 🇺🇦

Matthew Collins, is a professor at the University of Copenhagen, formerly as a Niels Bohr professor, and also holds a McDonald Chair in Palaeoproteomics at the University of Cambridge. .. more

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Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social · 1d

Hole-y Books! A fantastic @bodleian.ox.ac.uk lecture and workshop yesterday on early medieval Insular and Continental parchment by Jiří Vnouček for the ‘INSULAR: Insular manuscripts in the age of Charlemagne’ project! 📜🎉

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Lukas Käll @lukaskall.bsky.social · 2d

There is a position open in our lab, within this network. Our project deals with assessing identification and quantification errors for MS-based proteomics. www.protaiomics.eu/project/dc13...
Please check out all the project descriptions at the site below:

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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 7d

⚠️Paper Alert!⚠️
Excited to share this paper with @roccoro.bsky.social where we examined whether ceramic technology in Saharan Africa was the result of a single or multiple episodes of innovation & diffusion
rdcu.be/eJi3g

Bayesian analyses of radiocarbon dates suggest multiple origins of ceramic technology in Early Holocene Africa

Nature Communications - Several possible points of origin have been proposed for the spread of ceramic technology in Saharan Africa between 11–10,000 years ago. Here, the authors...

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Beatrice Demarchi @beademarch.bsky.social · 13d

We're recruiting an avian ecologist working with @danc-eco.bsky.social and our AviArch team! More info: archaeobiomics.com/aviarch-avif...

Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 18d

Opportunity for an AI expert @ University of Namur, Belgium. 🇧🇪
blending AI with cultural heritage, studying coins and parchments

Details & application: arc-projects.unamur.be/phoenix/index

Please share/boost!
#AIjobs #Postdoc #CulturalHeritage #DigitalHumanities #AcademicChatter

PHOENIX | Can Physics and Artificial Intelligence Induce New Paradigms in History?

arc-projects.unamur.be

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Lisa Briggs @lisaarchaeology.bsky.social · 19d

Big announcement! I’m excited to embark on a tour of America-land with National Geographic Live: A Pirate’s Life. Join me as we dive into the world of pirates from the ancient Mediterranean to the Golden Age of piracy in the Caribbean! live.nationalgeographic.org/event/pirate...

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 20d

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of listening to Dorothy Bishop emphasize the responsibility of editors during the 12th PCI Webinar! If you weren't able to join, you can catch her talk and the following Q&A session at this link: youtu.be/0NJ87tYE8_s

PCI Webinar-Dorothy Bishop-How negligent publishers subvert quality control in scientific publishing

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Torsten Günther @trstngnthr.bsky.social · 23d

I have funding for a 2-year dry-lab postdoc to join our team @humanevouu.bsky.social 🧪 (Deadline Oct 21st)

The project will utilize modern and #aDNA data from humans and sheep to study environmental adaptation (including method development and simulations).

Please share!
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Postdoctoral position in Population Genomics - Uppsala University

Postdoctoral position in Population Genomics, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · 24d

PhD Studentship alert!
I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia.
Details in the link below!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

University assistant predoctoral 1

University assistant predoctoral 1

jobs.univie.ac.at

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Mick Westbury @mick2474.bsky.social · 28d

☠️🧬 2-yr Postdoc in in Genomic Simulations and Extinction Risk Modelling!
Let's figure out the Genomic signs of Extinction @DTU in Denmark.

Start: Feb 2026 (flexible)
Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025

For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPD

Reposts appreciated 😁

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Frido Welker @fridowelker.bsky.social · 28d

🐑Just a few days left!🐐 Registration for the #ICAZ-AGPM Archaeozoology, Genetics, Proteomics, and Morphometrics working group meeting @icaz-news.bsky.social 🐃 is open until ⚠️Monday September 15th⚠️!
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sites.google.com/palaeome.org....

ICAZ AGPM 2025 - Registration

Conference registration has opened as of 04 July 2025; the deadline to register is 15 September 2025. The registration fee includes: access to all sessions, welcome reception, coffee breaks, lunches, ...

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Mick Westbury @mick2474.bsky.social · Sep 9

🦣🍖🧬 Fully funded 3-yr PhD in palaeogenomics & bioinformatics! Help me push non-model palaeogenomes beyond their limits @DTU in Denmark.

Start: Feb 2026 (flexible)
Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025

For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPhD

Reposts appreciated 😁

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PAASTA Community @paastacommunity.bsky.social · Sep 8

For those not at our General Meeting, we have self-nominations for our next Steering Committee open until the end of the month (30 September)! For more details and to nominate yourself: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

With many thanks to @isma-rgz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy for overseeing this!

PAASTA steering committee self-nomination

Hello! I am Ismael Rodríguez Palomo, a postdoc at the University of Copenhagen. I have volunteered to conduct the formation of the next PAASTA steering committee. We will try to avoid formal elections...

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HigherJobz @higherjobz.bsky.social · Sep 6

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

Archaeology Lab Technician Job at Durham University | HigherJobz

Apply now for Archaeology Lab Technician at Durham University, UK. Full-time permanent role in Archaeology. Deadline: 17 Sept 2025.

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Mick Westbury @mick2474.bsky.social · Sep 5

Excited to share that I’ve started as Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark! 🧑‍🎓

I also received an a NNF Emerging Investigator grant to use genomics + machine learning to study extinction.

👉 PhD & Postdoc positions coming soon — follow for updates!
Reposts appreciated 🙏

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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · Sep 5

I will be recruiting two PhDs for my ERC Project HERDPATH - let's discover out how livestock and pathogens evolved together using #aDNA. Projects will be animal or pathogen focused but will be in dialogue.

Details at my quaint website below. Deadline 3rd October.

kevingdaly.github.io

Ruminant Palaeogenomics - Kevin G. Daly: Ruminant Palaeogenomics

kevingdaly.github.io

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PAASTA Community @paastacommunity.bsky.social · Sep 2

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

PAASTA Seminar Series - Ioannis Patramanis

YouTube video by PAASTA community

Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · Sep 1

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...

More than 500 international scholars attended ISBA 11. Here are many of them looking up at the camera in a large group shot

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PCI Archaeology @pciarchaeology.bsky.social · Sep 1

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 🧪🏺🦣

Picture of the roll-up presenteing PCI Archaeology during the congress, and of the ISBA11 tote bag.

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ISBA - Intl. Soc. for Biomolecular Archaeology @isbarchaeology.bsky.social · Aug 29

From one great ISBA team to the next — thank you to our past organizers for building such a strong and connected community!

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ISBA - Intl. Soc. for Biomolecular Archaeology @isbarchaeology.bsky.social · Aug 29

What a week! 🎉 Big thanks to @isba11.bsky.social for hosting an incredible ISBA conference — so well organized and full of great science.

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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · Aug 28

Looking for a new approach to quantification of #deamidation in your MALDI-TOF data? Then you need to check out our new preprint!!! Fei Yang will be speaking about it at ISBA11_Torino tomorrow in Methods 5 at 16:00! #palaeoproteomics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

MALDI Deamidation Score (MDS): A Fast and Flexible Method for Assessing Deamidation in ZooMS Data and Its Application to the Denisova Cave Bone Assemblage

Estimating deamidation from MALDI-TOF MS spectra of bones has most frequently been achieved using the q2e method due to its high-throughput capacity and ease of use. Despite this accessibility, q2e is...

www.biorxiv.org

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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · Aug 27

Shameless promotion from #isba11 - I'll be hiring PhDs to start early 2026 (plus postdocs starting later), using #adna to study livestock and pathogen coevolution, particularly looking at inbreeding and immune gene evolution!

Contact me at kevin[at]palaeome.org, full ad to come. Please share!

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Jan Dekker @jaadekker.bsky.social · Aug 23

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...
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An unclean slate, discrepancies between food input and recovered protein signal from experimental foodcrusts

Organic residues are a rich source of biomolecular information on ancient diets. In particular, foodcrusts, charred residues on ceramics, are commonly analysed for their lipid content and to a lesser ...

Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · Aug 21

RANT Warning...

This is how #UCAS explains what #archaeology is!
To cap it all the iStock image is of a 'fossil dinosaur* from the Guizhou museum in China' (sic).

www.ucas.com/explore/subj...

Drafted this revised text - fit of pique!
claude.ai/public/artif...

*looks more marine reptile to me🤔

UCAS Archaeology Page - Modernized Version | Claude

Discover modern archaeology careers in biotech, gaming & heritage. No prerequisites required - all backgrounds welcome. Built with Claude AI.

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · Aug 20

Rethinking where and how we publish in health sciences doi.org/10.51224/SRX...

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Lukas Käll @lukaskall.bsky.social · Aug 13

The last day for registering for the Nordic Conference in Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics 2025 in Odense, Denmark, 1-3rd September 2025, is closing in. Please sign up before Friday!
www.nordicmsp2025.com

Nordic MSP 2025 – Mass Spectrometry & Proteomics Conference in Odense

Join leading scientists at Nordic MSP 2025 at ODEON in Odense, Denmark. A premier conference on mass spectrometry and proteomics.

www.nordicmsp2025.com

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Agent of Chaos @fionacoward.bsky.social · Aug 8

Archaeometry editorial coordinator
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOE911/a...

Archaeometry Editorial Coordinator at University of Oxford

Apply for the Archaeometry Editorial Coordinator job on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for professional services positions in higher education.

Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · Aug 6

📢 @paastacommunity.bsky.social paper is live!

"Open science, communication, and collaboration for the future of #palaeoproteomics"

now published in @PeerCommunityJ 😀

A collaborative ECR-driven effort outlining how our field can benefit from #openscience principles and increased collaboration.

Open science, communication, and collaboration for the future of palaeoproteomics

peercommunityjournal.org

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PCI Archaeology @pciarchaeology.bsky.social · Aug 6

8/5 And the article is now published in the Diamond Open Access journal @peercomjournal.bsky.social : doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

Open science, communication, and collaboration for the future of palaeoproteomics