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Frido Welker

@fridowelker.bsky.social
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Interested in ancient proteins & Human Evolution | @Welkergroup.bsky.social | Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen | 🦷🦴💀

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(Y|G)iannis P. @ipatramanis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
We have a new preprint out :D www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Did Denisovans inherit their AMBN gene from Homo erectus? We have released a short preprint trying to answer this question! @lauritsskov.bsky.social @fridowelker.bsky.social ~Summary below~
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Frido Welker @fridowelker.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
We're looking for a new colleague! Interested in #AncientProteins #proteomics, have a look, reach out with questions, and don't hesitate to apply!
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Frido Welker @fridowelker.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Very proud to have completed this study on proteome composition variation in adult, archaeological human skeletal material. Many exciting directions to take this further. Check it out below⬇️ Congratulations to Diljá as well for leading on this important work! Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
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EcoArch - ERC Synergy Project @ecoarch-project.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Head engineer position advertised in ancient DNA lab at the University of Oslo associated with the EcoArch project: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Head Engineer in ancient DNA (298943) | University of Oslo
Job title: Head Engineer in ancient DNA (298943), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, May 12, 2026
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EcoArch - ERC Synergy Project @ecoarch-project.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
New postdoctoral position adverstised in ancient sedimentary DNA and palaeoecology: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in palaeoecology and sedimentary ancient DNA (298945) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in palaeoecology and sedimentary ancient DNA (298945), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, May 12, 2026
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HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence @humanorigins.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
📢 Another #jobalert from the new Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS, University of Tübingen. 💼 Independent Junior Group Leader in Ethics Laboratory. 📅Deadline: April 6th, 2026 🔗 Link: shorturl.fm/EXRxc Please forward to interested potential candidates!🔄
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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
My latest game: Whack-a-Reviewer! jenteottie.github.io/Whack-a-Revi... Vent your frustration at reviewer #2 and get your paper accepted. 😉 Made using vibe-coding in Claude.
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Virginie Sinet-Mathiot @sinet-mathiot.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
📢 Appel à communications Premières Journées de la CRABi - Communauté de Recherche en Archéologie Biomoléculaire et Isotopique. 📍 Bordeaux | 📆 12–13 nov. 2026 📝 Soumissions ouvertes jusqu’au 2 avril, 23h59 (CET). 👉 Infos : crabi.sciencesconf.org #ArchéologieBiomoléculaire #Conférence #CRABi
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VVillaIslas @vvillaislas.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The first meeting in Ancient Biomolecules in Latin America is here! 🤩 and it will be held in Peru 🇵🇪 on Nov 2026 . More info 👇
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Selina Brace @selinabrace.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
🧬SedaDNA Postdoc position💥 2 years Starts 2026, apply by 1st March. Join Aleks Pluskowski at Reading & me at NHM. jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Ancient Environmental DNA:Whiteknights Reading UK
We are seeking a highly motivated Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to join our research team at Reading, focusing on sedimentary DNA (sedaDNA / environmental DNA) from soils and sediments from the project’s case study regions in Spain and North Africa. You will contribute to the reconstruction of past landscapes and human-environment interactions through the analysis of sedimentary DNA. This includes analysing samples from terraces, irrigated fields and archaeological sites, and using eDNA metagenomics and metabarcoding approaches for multi-species detection, with the aim of characterising changing plant and animal species diversity and richness over time. The position will involve fieldwork, laboratory work, data analysis, and collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists, palaeoecologists and historians.
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PAASTA Community @paastacommunity.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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 🧬
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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
🚨 Job alert! The University of Tübingen announces a W3 (Full) Professorship in Early Hominin Evolution in the framework of the DFG Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS': uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... Application deadline: 11.03.2026 🚨
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Leire Torres-Iglesias @leireti.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
📢Call for Papers #UISPP 2026 Join our session with Emilie Berlioz, @fridowelker.bsky.social & @wagneranna.bsky.social : Multidisciplinary approaches to reconstruct human-environment relationships in the Pleistocene 📍Poznań (Poland) 📆31 Aug - 4 Sep 2026 Deadline: 28 Feb uispp2026.syskonf.pl
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Frido Welker @fridowelker.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Part 2 of our research on decontamination in #palaeoproteomics is out now, this time on dental enamel proteomes! Proud of @zandraselina.bsky.social for all this work. ⬇️ Check out the paper and some main conclusions below.
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Miranda Evans @mirandaevans.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
1/5🧵 🚨 New open access paper out today🚨 The Demodifier: a tool for screening modification-induced alternate peptide taxonomy in palaeoproteomics. doi.org/10.1371/jour... #palaeoproteomics
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Dr Geoff M Smith @geoffreymsmith.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Still time to submit an abstract for our free online workshop as part of COEXIST🧪🦣🏺
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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
SMBE2026 Symposium L01 | Insights into the past through the lens of palaeoproteomics 📨 Abstract submission smbe2026.org/abstracts 📋 Programme details smbe2026.org/programme #SMBE2026
SMBE2026 Symposium L01 | Insights into the past through the lens of palaeoproteomics
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Erik Svensson @evolodonata.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2025
Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity. Apply here no later than February 11 2026: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:8487…
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Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity
The Department of Biology was established in 2010 through the merger of the Departments of Ecology, Cell and Organism Biology, Biological Undergraduate Education, and the Biological Museums. The depar
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Frido Welker @fridowelker.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
This is an amazing figure, showing the power of ZooMS taxonomic corrections in isotopic study design.
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 11/12/2025
Wir freuen uns sehr, dass Klaus Blaum, Christian Doeller und Johannes Krause in diesem Jahr mit Leibniz-Preisen geehrt werden. Die #LeibnizPreise der DFG gelten als wichtigste deutsche Forschungspreise. 👏 @dfg.de
Die Leibniz-Preisträger 2025 von links nach rechts: Klaus Blaum, Christian Doeller und Johannes Krause. Fotos: © Stefanie Aumiller, Steffen Roth, Thomas Victor
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Ben Neely @benneely.com · 04/12/2025
#AminoAcidAdvent Day 1: Proline The kinkiest of amino acids (NSFW!), synthesized from glutamic acid, and some even call it the simplest "enzyme". Regardless, its a pro move to include the hydroxyproline variable mod if your abundant proteins have collagen domains... really, do this.
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Paige Madison @fossilhistory.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
In case you missed it, my story about Lucy's first-ever European showing: www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
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Meeting Lucy: How a World-First European Exhibition Brought Visitors Face to Face With the Fossil That 'Shrinks Time'
Two Australopithecus fossils named Lucy and Selam made a rare trip out of Ethiopia for a 60-day display at the National Museum in Prague
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Frido Welker @fridowelker.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Yesterday was quite the day for 🐕‍🦺canid folks, over at PNAS: www.pnas.org/topic/type/r...
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Niklas Hausmann @niklashausmann.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
seafront-project.com/post/calibra... Largest dataset on Mg/Ca in shells yet (+100 and over a dozen sites)🐚 Again, we found tightly correlated but shell-specific relationships between temperature and Mg/Ca. Lots of potential for future archaeological studies🏺 @leizarchaeology.bsky.social
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Calibrating the limpet | SeaFront
Our new study delivers the most extensive calibration to date of <i>Patella caerulea</i> (the Mediterranean limpet) as a recorder of sea surface temperatures (SSTs) across the Central and Eastern Medi...
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Erella Hovers @ehovers.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
check out this new issue of PaleoAnthropology including a special issue on late Middle and Late Pleistocene hominin systematics paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...
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PaleoAnthropology
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Christopher J. Bae @paleobae.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
And check out the Chibanian puzzle SI in there too!! 😎😎 @mroksand.bsky.social
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VVillaIslas @vvillaislas.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Are you interested in human evolution? Would you like to work in palaeoproteomics 👩🏻‍🔬 and live in Copenhagen 🇩🇰🚴🏽‍♀️? So, apply to these advertised positions. More info 👇
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Frido Welker @fridowelker.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
⚠️Just a quick reminder, there are a few days left to apply for these two positions in #palaeoproteomics.
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Frido Welker @fridowelker.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
This week, www.thoca.org celebrates years of new research in Central Asia, with researchers convening in Copenhagen to discuss the state-of-art and new questions to address next! Exciting days, and exciting science ahead!
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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
#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...
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Postdoc in Paleoproteomics
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Frido Welker @fridowelker.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I'm hiring!⭐ As part of the DFF Sapere Aude-funded project MiddleEarth, I am looking for 1 postdoctoral researcher and 1 research assistant.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 23/10/2025
New findings in Science offer insights into Wyoming’s “dinosaur mummies,” revealing that the stunningly preserved skin, spikes, and hooves of duck-billed dinosaurs are not fossilized flesh at all, but delicate clay molds formed by microbes as the creatures decayed. scim.ag/47DYjBi
Mummy of the juvenile duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus annectens preserved as a dried carcass resting on its ribcage some 66 million years ago. Large areas of scaly, wrinkled skin and a tall fleshy crest over its back were preserved as in a thin layer of clay over its fossilized skeleton.
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Frido Welker @fridowelker.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
And that was it, the 11th @icaz-news.bsky.social AGPM meeting here in Copenhagen is over! Lots of interesting talks and posters on genetics, proteomics and morphometrics in zooarchaeological reseeach, with attendees from 5 different continents! Thanks to everyone for such an enjoyable meeting :).
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Vera Aldeias @veraaldeias.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
📄 New paper 📣 of @matrixerc.bsky.social & @welkergroup.bsky.social! We show that microstratigraphic-scale #paleoproteomics works in intact sediments - opening new ways to explore ancient ecosystems & hominin behaviour 🌍🦴 @erc.europa.eu @icarehb.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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New methods on the block: Taxonomic identification of archaeological bones in resin-embedded sediments through paleoproteomics
Abstract. The integration of biomolecular studies of past organisms with geoarchaeological studies can significantly improve our understanding of the relat
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Frido Welker @fridowelker.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Palaeoproteomics goes micro! In our latest publication, we demonstrate that taxonomic identifications can be obtained using shotgun proteomic approaches on microscopic bone fragments in resin-embedded sediment blocks!
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Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics @hologenomics.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
🔁Please share - we remind the SMBE community that the Call for Symposia for #SMBE2026 in Copenhagen is open. We invite you to submit a symposium proposal to help shape the scientific content of our annual meeting. 🗓️Deadline: October 15th More info: smbe2026.org/symposia @official-smbe.bsky.social
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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first 

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.
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Frido Welker @fridowelker.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Paris and @welkergroup.bsky.social are ready for #ESHE2025!
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Rachel M. Winter @rachelmwinter.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
🚨🚨Today is the last day to register to join us in October!! 🚨🚨 (See further details in the note and link below)!
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Frido Welker @fridowelker.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
🐑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⚠️! ⬇️ sites.google.com/palaeome.org....
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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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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
There is still time to apply to these great early career opportunities!! Three Junior Research Group leader positions at the new University of Tübingen Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS' (in biomechanics, phenotype-genotype interactions, experimental archaeology - see links) Deadline Sept. 10!
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Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics @hologenomics.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
📣 The Call for Symposia for the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) 2026 Annual Meeting is now open. 🌍 The meeting will be in Copenhagen June 28th to July 2nd 🖊️ We invite you to submit a symposium proposal and help shape the scientific content of SMBE 2026 Best the organisers
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Symposia - SMBE 2026 - Copenhagen Denmark
SMBE 2026 Symposia Check deadlines and important dates below.  Days Hours Minutes Seconds Conference Symposia We are now accepting proposals for symposium for the 2026 Annual meeting taking place in C...
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Frido Welker @fridowelker.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
⚠️ Don't forget to register folks! ⬇️
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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
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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VVillaIslas @vvillaislas.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Ready for #ISBA11 meeting. Starting with the pre-conference #PAASTA 🤩 and the welcoming. It’s already being great to connect with peers from Huerta-Sánchez lab @lindaongaro.bsky.social @marcocapo.bsky.social and more (not all in this network). And remember to visit me at my poster No.254 on Friday.
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Laurits Skov @lauritsskov.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Are you interested in doing a PhD in Copenhagen? Interested in studying Neanderthals and Denisovans which live on in our genomes? Than you are more than welcome to apply to join my group starting Jan 2026 :) candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI... Please reach out if you have any questions!
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Welker Group @welkergroup.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
We have arrived in Turin for @isba11.bsky.social and are very excited for the week! Don't miss the following talks and posters from the Welker Group:
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Center for the Human Past (CHP) @humanpastcenter.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
#Job alert: associate professor (universitetslektor) at the program in Human #Paleogenomics and #Population #Genomics. Please see the ad for more information. Application deadline: Sept 1st. #vacancy @haam-community.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-...
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Universitetslektor i människans palaeo-och populationsgenomik - Uppsala universitet
Universitetslektor i människans palaeo-och populationsgenomik, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Faculty of Biology, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala universitet
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Welker Group @welkergroup.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
For the last six months, @adrianaleite.bsky.social has been visiting us from @icarehb.bsky.social. Thank you for this time Adriana, it has been a joy to have you in our group and we hope to see you again soon!
Parts of the group out enjoying some Copenhagen sun and iced tea!
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Welker Group @welkergroup.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
For the last six months, we've had Lucas Siero from Utrecht University visiting us for an internship, working on some #palaeoproteomics method development. It was a joy to have you join our group Lucas, and good luck with the rest of your studies!
Parts of the Welker Group taking a boat ride around the canals of Copenhagen, all looking very happy!
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