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Palaeoproteomics Researcher at CENIEH 🧪👩‍🔬🦴🦷🌏 Building a brand new #palaeoproteomics laboratory here in Burgos, Spain. Exciting new things on the horizon! #archaeology #evolution #palaeolithic #ZooMS #proteins

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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm going to send out proper emails later in the week, but I wanted to quickly say a huge thank you to everyone who participated in IZAZ yesterday. So much incredible and thought provoking science crammed into one day! I'm very grateful to all who attended and presented!
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
SO EXCITED to meet everyone joining the tours of CENIEH @cenieh.bsky.social today ahead of the ESHE conference. My section of the tour is fairly hallway-centric but I'm preparing to fill it with unbridled enthusiasm for palaeoproteomics! See you soon!
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
You guys! The IZAZ Workshop is tomorrow! Today is the last day to register and join us to chat all things ZooMS and Zooarchaeology!
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We have four invited speakers joining us at IZAZ next week, to share their thoughts on the theme of our workshop, Integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology! They are Tiina Manne, Sharada Visweswara Channarayapatna, Anneke Janzen, and Britt Starkovich! 🦴🦬👩🏼‍🔬 Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
It's your last chance to vote on the next ISBA Trustees! Get your ballots in now!
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
There are two days left to submit your abstract for the Integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology Workshop #IZAZ3! Send us your abstracts here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Nominations close this Thursday, 30th April. If you're interested in joining the ISBA Board now is a fantastic time to nominate yourself, especially in the lead up to our next symposium!
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ISBA - Intl. Soc. for Biomolecular Archaeology @isbarchaeology.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
🚨 Interested in joining our board of trustees?🚨 4 trustees position will soon be vacated and we are seeking expression of interest! You can fill this form by the 30th of April: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Any question? Contact us at secretary@isbarch.org
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ISBA Trustee Expressions of Interest
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
We will hold two discussion sessions in the next #IZAZ workshop. In past workshops, these discussion sessions have been pivotal in advancing community efforts. So - what do you think the theme of these discussions should be? 🤔💭 Follow this link to make a suggestion: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Jules Berardini @julesberardini.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
this study provided some of the rhino bone fragments I tested for aDNA preservation within my MSc! without ZooMS they would’ve remained unidentified!
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I am SO EXCITED to announce that CENIEH in Burgos, Spain will be hosting the third installment of the IZAZ (Integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology) Workshop on the 15th – 16th September 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Join the mailing list to stay up-to-date: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
400 USD to have a paper written for you and submitted to an editor who is guaranteed to select reviewers who will only give minor reviews. The way that this makes my soul ache. So little money to erode confidence in scientific research. youtu.be/SEwiOykoXXc?...
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I tried to buy a scientific paper
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Our new paper is out! If you love caves, if you love archaeology, if you love ZooMS (and let's be honest, who doesn't?!) you'll LOVE this! #palaeoproteomics #ancientproteins #archaeology #ZooMS www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The influence of fragmentation on a combined ZooMS and zooarchaeological study at Geißenklösterle Cave in the Swabian Jura, Southwestern Germany
Geißenklösterle Cave, a Palaeolithic site located in the Swabian Jura of southern Germany, has yielded multiple Middle Palaeolithic strata and some of…
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
We have started CLEANING! One room down, 12 more to go! 🧹🧽🫧 (This is going to take a while 😅)
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
We have benches, we have sinks, and now we have LAMINAR FLOW CABINETS. Almost to the finish line of the new #palaeoproteomics and #aDNA laboratory @cenieh.bsky.social
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
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...
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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 ZooMS spectra has frequently been achieved using the q2e method due to its high-throughput capacity and ease of use. Despi…
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Construction on the NEW @cenieh.bsky.social Molecular Paleobiology laboratory starts TODAY 🤩 So excited for this next chapter to begin! 🎉👩🏻‍🔬
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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...
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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...
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I had the opportunity to interview @matthewcollins.bsky.social on his recent visit to @cenieh.bsky.social. The podcast is out now! It's a fun chat about #palaeoproteomics and the ways we can study ancient #proteins at Atapuerca! Thanks Matthew for the chat! www.ivoox.com/en/paleoprot...
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Paleoproteomics in Atapuerca - Diálogos Sapiens - Sapiens Dialogues - Podcast on iVoox
Listen and download Diálogos Sapiens - Sapiens Dialogues episodes for free. 22nd episode of Sapiens Dialogues. This is the fourth dialogue of the fourth season. The paleoproteomics specialist Prof. Ma...
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ISBA - Intl. Soc. for Biomolecular Archaeology @isbarchaeology.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Nominations are now open for the ISBA Distinguished Article Award! ISBA members are encouraged to nominate their own articles for these awards or those of others. Deadline for nominations is 29th June and the winners will be announced at ISBA11 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Distinguished Article Award
The Distinguished Article Award is awarded by the International Society for Biomolecular Archaeology for the best research article on the topic of biomolecular archaeology. The award is made to the fi...
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ISBA - Intl. Soc. for Biomolecular Archaeology @isbarchaeology.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Nominations are now open for the ISBA Outstanding Publication Student Prize! ISBA members are encouraged to nominate their own articles for these awards or those of others. Deadline for nominations is 29th June and the winners will be announced at ISBA11 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Outstanding Publication Student Prize
The Outstanding Publication Student Prize is awarded by the International Society for Biomolecular Archaeology for an outstanding publication of the highest distinction by a student in a first author ...
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ISBA - Intl. Soc. for Biomolecular Archaeology @isbarchaeology.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Would you like to help shape the future of ISBA? We are taking expressions of interest to become a trustee of the International Society for Biomolecular Archaeology. Nominations are open for members at any stage of their career! The deadline is the 26th April 2025 docs.google.com/forms/d/18jx...
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Pere Gelabert @peregx9.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
PhD position in archaeozoology and omics at the University of Vienna! 🤠🦊🐯🦁🐱🐰🐍🦬🐂🦣🐄 The student will be based in Vienna and co-supervised in Santander!
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
🥹 that's beautiful
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I'm so glad you think so! Thanks!
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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 12/02/2025
Interested in giving an editorial career a try? We're hiring a locum (for 9-12 months) full-time editor in the USA, Germany, or China, preferably with expertise in biogeochemistry and/or atmospheric chemistry. *Application deadline 2 March* springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...
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Locum Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Geoscience
Job Title: Locum Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Geoscience Locations: New York, Philadelphia, Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, or Berlin (Hybrid Working) Application Deadline: March 2nd, 2025 About Spr...
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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 12/02/2025
Are you a climate scientist looking to change to an editorial career? We're hiring a full-time editor in the USA or China with expertise in an area of modern climate science. *Closing date 10 March* springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...
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Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Geoscience
Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Geoscience Locations: New York, Philadelphia, Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing (Hybrid Working) Application Deadline: March 10th, 2025 About Springer Nature Gro...
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Oh thank goodness, I was worried about the resin community
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Week 11 – Pottery and Residues This week is all about how ancient people did not wash their pottery very well and how grateful we should all be about that. Take a look at these studies from Çatalhöyük, Turkey (dx.doi.org/10.1038/s414...) and Baħrija, Malta (dx.doi.org/10.1007/s007...)
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Ancient proteins from ceramic vessels at Çatalhöyük West reveal the hidden cuisine of early farmers - Nature Communications
Ancient diets have been reconstructed from archaeological pottery based on lipid remains, but these can lack specificity. Here, Hendy and colleagues analyze ancient proteins from ceramic vessels up to...
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Week 10 – Ancient Textiles The precious nature of textiles makes them such a unique view point into the archaeological world. Here are two papers on how ancient proteins can help us understand Pre-Columbian textiles (dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...) and Viking clothing (dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...)
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Week 9 – Dental Calculus If you don’t finish this week’s readings with a powerful urge to brush your teeth, then I am not doing my job. Welcome to the wonderful world of dental calculus, from the Neolithic link.springer.com/article/10.1... to the Bronze Age www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New insights into Neolithic milk consumption through proteomic analysis of dental calculus - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
There has long been debate over the origins of dairy consumption within European populations. Whilst it was previously assumed that lactase persistence (LP) was under positive selection following the ...
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Week 8 – Enamel Enamel might be the hardest tissue in the body but it will hold a tender place in your heart… too much? Check out enamel proteins for sex estimation (dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa...) And this (very advanced - sorry 😅) paper on a Rhino tooth from Dmanisi (dx.doi.org/10.1038/s415...)
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Sex estimation of teeth at different developmental stages using dimorphic enamel peptide analysis
Mandible and developing teeth of a perinatal infant.
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Week 7 – Eggshell Welcome to the fascinating world of eggs! #Darwin would have loved this one. Look how far back in time we can recover eggshell proteins in this paper (dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLif...) and PMF approaches to their study in this paper (dx.doi.org/10.1080/2054...)
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Protein sequences bound to mineral surfaces persist into deep time
A chemically unstable ostrich eggshell peptide survives for at least 3.8 million years at the equator, stabilized by strong mineral interactions.
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Week 6 – Archaeological bone You need to read this absolute STUDENT FAVOURITE paper on Iroquoian bone points (dx.doi.org/10.1038/s415...) and (OK this is not really an intro paper) but this multi-protease study highlights so many possibilities in studying bones (dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...).
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Identifying Archaeological Bone via Non-Destructive ZooMS and the Materiality of Symbolic Expression: Examples from Iroquoian Bone Points - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Identifying Archaeological Bone via Non-Destructive ZooMS and the Materiality of Symbolic Expression: Examples from Iroquoian Bone Points
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Weeks 4 and 5 – Post Translational Modifications Let me convince you that the way proteins degrade in the archaeological record is actually the most FASCINATING thing on the planet with these papers on Herculaneum and Pompei (dx.doi.org/10.1038/s415...) and Milk! (dx.doi.org/10.1038/s415...)
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Molecular signatures written in bone proteins of 79 AD victims from Herculaneum and Pompeii - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Molecular signatures written in bone proteins of 79 AD victims from Herculaneum and Pompeii
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Week 3 – Shotgun Proteomics! Since it’s Darwin Day take a look at the evolutionary history of his fav ungulates (dx.doi.org/10.1038/natu...) and this paper on birds (dx.doi.org/10.1093/zool...) to dip your toes into shotgun proteomics on ancient specimens
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Ancient proteins resolve the evolutionary history of Darwin’s South American ungulates - Nature
Protein sequences preserved in two Quaternary taxa, Macrauchenia and Toxodon, resolve the evolutionary history of South American native ungulates.
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Week 2 – ZooMS! It feels impossible to choose only two papers but I think you have to read the OG ZooMS paper (dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcm....). And this study on domestication in southern Africa is a really nice example of what ZooMS can do! (dx.doi.org/10.1038/s415...)
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Species identification by analysis of bone collagen using matrix‐assisted laser desorption/ionisation time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry
Species identification of fragmentary bone, such as in rendered meat and bone meal or from archaeological sites, is often difficult in the absence of clear morphological markers. Here we present a ro...
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Week 1 – What is #Palaeoproteomics These review papers on Palaeoproteomics and ZooMS from @JessieHendy (dx.doi.org/10.1038/s415...) Kristine Richter (dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas...) and their fabulous co-authors are a fantastic way to get your head around the field!
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A guide to ancient protein studies - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Palaeoproteomics is an emerging field at the intersection of evolutionary biology, archaeology and anthropology. This Perspective provides a best practice primer for researchers, reviewers and editors...
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
To celebrate #DarwinDay I thought I’d share some of the papers from my Intro to #Palaeoproteomics course (in my previous life as a lecturer). If you’re interested in the study of ancient proteins these are some fun papers to start with! (Don’t worry, this is not just a list of my own research😊🤣)
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CENIEH @cenieh.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
#ICTSNews Con motivo del Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia, hemos celebrado un encuentro virtual entre 4 científicas y estudiantes de ESO Y BACH, organizado por la UCC+I del CENIEH y @ubuinvestiga.bsky.social
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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
3 year PostDoc Tuebingen (+Sam Brown) #ZooMS in Southern Africa Project. Deadline March 15th 2025
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Three-year position for a researcher in Archaeo- and Palaeoproteomics (m/f/d, E 13 TV-L, 39,5 h/week)
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I feel like I need a computer science degree to figure out how to print in colour 🖨️😵‍💫 First I turned off "print in grayscale". Then I went into properties and turned on colour printing. THEN I went into advanced and did the same... It's still printing in B&W
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Thank you to everyone who has shared the post!
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
My first post on here and it's for a JOB ANNOUNCEMENT! 📣 The University of Tübingen is seeking to find a post-doctoral researcher for a 3-year position, funded through the DFG (13 TV-L, 39,5 h/week). More info here: tinyurl.com/4xbdya5t #archaeology #palaeoproteomics #job #ZooMS
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Three-year position for a researcher in Archaeo- and Palaeoproteomics (m/f/d, E 13 TV-L, 39,5 h/week)
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