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Zandra Fagernäs

@zandraselina.bsky.social
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Lab manager of the CODICUM.eu project and generally having fun with ancient proteins at the University of Copenhagen!

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ISBA - Intl. Soc. for Biomolecular Archaeology @isbarchaeology.bsky.social · 19h
And today, meet @ainashch.bsky.social, who has taken on the role of Charity Compliance and Liaison Officer in ISBA!
Introducing Ainash, who is an assistant professor based in Austin/Leipzig/Almaty. In ISBA, she is the Charity Compliance and Liaison Officer, and outside of work you can find her in a thrift store or reading a book somewhere cozy!
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ISBA - Intl. Soc. for Biomolecular Archaeology @isbarchaeology.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Today, we are introducing @undeaddandy.bsky.social, who has the role of Deputy Treasurer (Fundraising) in ISBA!
Introducing Audrey, who is an APART-USA Fellow in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna. Outside of work, you can find Audrey reveling in the joy that is musical theatre!
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ISBA - Intl. Soc. for Biomolecular Archaeology @isbarchaeology.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This week, we are introducing our new members of the Board of Trustees. First, meet @zandraselina.bsky.social, who is taking on the role as ombudsperson in ISBA!
A graphic introducing Zandra, who is based at the University of Copenhagen, where she works as a lab manager. In ISBA, she is an ombudsperson. Outside of work, you can find her in a burlesque class or a moshpit.
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Zandra Fagernäs @zandraselina.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have been temporarily put in charge of the ISBA social media accounts while the social media manager is away. Only time will tell if the rest of the Board should have trusted me with this or not 😅
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Bharath A. B. Nair (ഭരത് എ. ബി. നായർ) @bharathabnair.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1/n Chuffed to have contributed to this new study: We exposed mice to urban air pollution and aircraft noise, alone and combined, then used proteomics to map how the lungs, brain, and heart responded at the protein level. Link below: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Acute co-exposure to urban particulate matter and aircraft noise elicits lung-centered immune-redox proteomic remodeling in mice
Particulate air pollution and transportation noise frequently co-occur, but their combined molecular effects are poorly defined. We used data-independ…
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PAASTA Community @paastacommunity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Deadline reminder! Don’t miss your chance to submit your abstract for the PAASTA Annual Symposium. Submissions close 27 September 2026!
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HigherJobz @higherjobz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology – Aarhus University, Denmark Kalahari | Botswana | Ethnography | Archaeology 🐄 DFF project on cattle production, landscapes and anthropological knowledge of the Kalahari Desert higherjobz.com/postdoctoral... #Acadhiring #Academicjobs #Anthropology #Postdoc
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology | Aarhus University, Denmark
Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology at Aarhus University, Denmark. Open to PhD researchers with relevant ethnographic research experience.
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PAASTA Community @paastacommunity.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🚨DEADLINE EXTENDED!🚨 We are excited to announce that this year’s PAASTA symposium “Proteins beyond the Present” will be held on 1 December at the EuPA congress in Würzburg, Germany & virtually (hybrid event). 🗓️ Submission deadline: 27/09/26 🔗 Submission form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Biomolecular Insights into Human-Animal Ties in South Asia @bi-hatsa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New project, new beginnings! We’re excited to introduce BI-HATSA- our new project at University of Vienna, supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). @tommyhigham.bsky.social We’ll be exploring the biomolecular stories behind human–animal relationships in South Asia. Follow along for updates!
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PCI Archaeology @pciarchaeology.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Great news for archaeologists with a new PCI-Friendly journal! The Journal of Archaeological Science now accepts PCI Archaeology-recommended preprints, with fast feedback on *direct publication* or further evaluation. #OpenScience #Archaeology 🧪🏺 A new path for your next paper!
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PAASTA Community @paastacommunity.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🎓 Missed the PAASTA Bioinformatics Summer School? Good news! The recordings from our virtual Bioinformatics Summer School, held from 8–12 June 2026, are now available online. 🧬💻
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Alex Burnett @archaeoalex.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Delightful to see an important new Denisovan site and artefacts recognised. Even more pleasing personally to see that #ClassiCOL was used! Keep your eyes peeled for the new ClassiCOL 2, live on GitHub and with a brand new publication in the coming days. github.com/EngelsI/Clas...
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GitHub - EngelsI/ClassiCOL: Code and usersguide
Code and usersguide. Contribute to EngelsI/ClassiCOL development by creating an account on GitHub.
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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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Nature @nature.com · 09/09/2026
An abandoned quarry in southwestern China has given scientists an unprecedented glimpse into the lives and abilities of the mysterious ancient humans called Denisovans go.nature.com/46NsuVp
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Who were the Denisovans? Rich trove of fossils and tools paints new picture
Objects found in a cave in southwestern China suggest that these enigmatic ancient humans were accomplished hunters.
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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
@paastacommunity.bsky.social is developing #metadata standards for #palaeoproteomicis based upon ##USHUPO #Proteomics @us-hupo.org #mzPeak Join the debate on #PAASTA #element github.com/Palaeoprot/Z...
The Metadata Thread in the Paasta community
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
So (if I understand this correctly), the way AI (companies) will "solve" all the major problems in maths, biology, and medicine in the next 5 years will be by stealing and building on the ideas of researchers naive enough to think their chats with AI companies would be private.
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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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PAASTA Community @paastacommunity.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
✨ MEET & GREET: PAASTA STEERING COMMITTEE ✨ Meet Jan Dekker, Chair, PAASTA Community! @jaadekker.bsky.social Jan’s research explores bird remains, focusing on bone & eggshell biomarkers and improving bird species identification in archaeology. 🐦🥚🔬 Stay tuned to meet the rest of the committee! ✨
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Alison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
You said, "Sadly as I am not as creative as others, I used chat GBT to help me figure out how to do it and what I needed." I am one of your creative friends. I would have been delighted if you had asked me. If I could have shared what I know, with you. If we could have done this craft together.
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Rachel M. Winter @rachelmwinter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Have not been on BlueSky in (checks calendar...) quite some time so let's have a quick catch up! Earlier in 2026 I had some work out (exciting!) covering: Trace element distribution in muskox tissues: doi.org/10.1007/s120... Stable isotope values from fish in the Levant: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It's a royal surprise - check out our new work on the oral microbiome of King Richard III of England! Fun fact: he holds the record for the most ancient DNA we have ever recovered from any archaeological sample ever! doi.org/10.1002/ajpa...
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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 02/09/2026
Ancient parchments, covered in ancient disease DNA! Researchers led by @ucddublin.bsky.social's @gingerhowley.bsky.social recover the genes of a deadly animal pathogen from medieval manuscripts. @science.org
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Ancient sheep virus found hiding in medieval parchment
Newly recovered sheeppox sequences reveal when and how the virus emerged
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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Our paper on ancient sheeppox virus genomes, including many found from parchment samples, is now published af Science Advances. Congrats to all our co-authors and particularly first author Louis. #aDNA share.google/JqVOTB2lvxcO...
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Three thousand five hundred years of sheeppox virus evolution inferred from archaeological and codicological genomes
Sheeppox virus (SPPV) is a major livestock pathogen causing economic hardship through reduced production and death of vulnerable sheep, with written descriptions of sheeppox-like disease recorded sinc...
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PAASTA Community @paastacommunity.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
🚨CALL FOR ABSTRACTS🚨 We are excited to announce that this year’s PAASTA symposium “Proteins beyond the Present” will be held on 1 December at the EuPA congress in Würzburg, Germany & virtually (hybrid event). 🗓️ Submission deadline: 20/09/26 🔗 Submission form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence @humanorigins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
‼️ Here's another great Early Career opportunity within our cluster: ‼️ Come work with us as an Independent Junior Research Group Lead in the field of Archeo- and Paleoproteomics! #paleosky 🏺 uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/...
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Job advertisment: Independent Junior Research Group Leader (m/f/d, 100 %)
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Zandra Fagernäs @zandraselina.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I'm very proud of everyone in the @matthewcollins.bsky.social group - we now have silver certification in the LEAF programme! 🎉
Screenshot of part of our LEAF certificate
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Mikkel Winther Pedersen @mikkelwp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We’re hiring in Copenhagen! Join our CAEG and AEGIS projects as a Staff Scientist/Research Consultant in Bioinformatics, working with ancient environmental genomics. Three years; apply by 8 Sept. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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Staff Scientist or Research Consultant in Bioinformatics at Globe Institute
Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences University of Copenhagen   We are looking for a highly motivated bioinformatician with strong experience in data sci
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PAASTA Community @paastacommunity.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Want to stay up to date with what’s happening in the PAASTA community? We share monthly talks, job & fellowship opportunities, events, conferences, & new articles Follow us and join the conversation! 🤝 Web: paasta-community.github.io Element: #paasta:archaeo.social Instagram: @paasta.community
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PAASTA Community @paastacommunity.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Join us for the next PAASTA Talk Series! 🗓️ 2 September 2026 | 15:00 CET 🎙️Luise Ørsted Brandt, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen “ZooMS-identifying skins associated with the mummified individuals from Uunartoq, Greenland with local high school students” 👉Online via Zoom- DM for the link!
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Many centuries ago, people would boil down cattle hide, pig bones, fish scales and chicken gristle to make a paste that women would smear onto their faces, believing it contained the elixir of eternal youth. Oh sorry - that’s TODAY! Watch out for the collagen peddlers!
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Zandra Fagernäs @zandraselina.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Lab manager: WHY IS THERE A RANDOM CUP OF UNLABELLED LIQUID HERE?! WHO DID THIS?!?!
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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
National Museum of Denmark (@nationalmuseet.dk and @thehem.bsky.social) is hiring a 2.5-year Postdoc for the Viking Age project 'Bag Sejlet'. Explore textile networks, multispecies worlds, or everyday life. 📍 Copenhagen 📅 Deadline: Sept 9, 2026 #VikingAge #Archaeology #Postdoc #ArchSky
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Two and a half-year Post.doc. position - ‘Bag Sejlet’ (‘Behind the sail’)
This is an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled and motivated researcher to join the National Museum’s emerging centre for Viking Age Research, in a 2.5 ye
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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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PAASTA Community @paastacommunity.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The recording is now available on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/AosHIwDjNiI?...
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PAASTA Seminar Series - Ioannis Patramanis
YouTube video by PAASTA community
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Bhavna Ahlawat @bhavnaahlawat.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
We warmly invite students, ECRs, experienced researchers working in zooarchaeology and related disciplines to submit an abstract for our session. 🦏🦓🦙 For session details and abstract submission information,visit: sway.cloud.microsoft/BFTVh4FAbfX6... @bharathabnair.bsky.social @icaz-news.bsky.social
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Simon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"If the scientific community fails to address the influence of AI, then authentic research and validated findings will slow down to an expensive trickle into established knowledge, and the opportunities for flawed or fabricated info to be seen as reality will grow—all while AI profiteers cash in."
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AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive
There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...
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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
another Postdoc opportunity! 🦴🔬 Join Steve Ashby and @york-bioarch.bsky.social to study Northern European combs & combmaking using #ZooMS #proteomics. Seeking someone with proteomics/chemistry experience #viking and or #archaeology knowledge a plus. Apply: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...
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Jobs - The University of York
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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Copenhagen job alert 🚨 GLOBE (@ucph.bsky.social) is hiring a 21-mo Postdoc in #Bioinformatics & #ComputationalProteomics Work with @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social, @fridowelker.bsky.social, @brandtgroup.bsky.social & more mapping collagen/keratin diversity across 1000s of genomes. 📅 Deadline Aug 31
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Postdoc of Bioinformatics and Computational Proteomics
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Mann Lab @mannlab.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
New preprint: Cell-type-resolved spatial proteogenomics, matched genome AND proteome of the same cells. The trick: the flowthrough we normally discard after loading peptides onto an Evotip contains genomic DNA at 85–95% yield. One tip, two molecular layers. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Cell-type-resolved spatial proteogenomics from matched genome and proteome of the same cells
The genome and proteome of the same cells are rarely measured together, which is especially consequential in cancer, where somatic mutations vary across clones and drive disease. We show that a single...
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Virginie Sinet-Mathiot @sinet-mathiot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
📢 Registration for #CRABi 2026 is now open! 📍 Bordeaux, France 📆 12–13 November 2026 Find the programme and practical information here: crabi.sciencesconf.org 📝 Registration deadline: 4 September 2026, 5:00 PM (Paris time). #BiomolecularArchaeology #Proteomics #AncientDNA #Isotopes
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Première conférence de la Communauté de Recherche en Archéologie Biomoléculaire et isotopique - Sciencesconf.org
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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Time for the joke I bring out for visiting groups. Q: How do you work out how many animal skins are needed to make [wave hand at large volume in display] this vellum manuscript? A: You use a cowculator. I am a bad spec colls librarian, apologies.
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Magnus Palmblad @magnuspalmblad.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Tired of AI-generated figures? I asked our talented scientific illustrator Manon Zuurmond to draw some of the instruments and lab equipment we missed in NIH's otherwise fantastic BioArt resource. First batch now available as CC BY. Free for everyone to use in publications: github.com/Center-for-P...
Drawings of various laboratory equipment (liquid chromatography system, mass spectrometers and a centrifuge).
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PAASTA Community @paastacommunity.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
REMINDER: Next 🍝PAASTA🍝 talk this Wednesday! Message us for the link 🔗
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Palesa @palaeoprotpalesa.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Hello Hello, If you have some downtime and want to read something excitingly odd, read on the enamel proteins of Homo naledi: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Working closely with Alberto, @clairekoenig.bsky.social, @ipatramanis.bsky.social, and the rest of our collaborators was just so wonderful.
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Proteomic analysis of dental enamel from 20 Homo naledi individuals shows no male markers
The morphological homogeneity of the middle Pleistocene hominin Homo naledi is reflected in its dental proteome, with no evidence supporting confident identification of male individuals, and the detec...
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Mateja Hajdinjak @matejahajdi.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Our late Neandertal paper is officially out! 💀❤️🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41... It was years in the making, a tremendous feat spearheaded by our PhD student Alba Bossoms Mesa and co-led by @janetk.bsky.social and @benmpeter.bsky.social
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ellie_ancient @elenaessel.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
So happy and proud to see this paper out in @natcomms.nature.com today! We show that traces of human DNA can persist on cave walls for thousands of years. Absolutely fantastic work by the wonderful Alba Bossoms Mesa at @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social and a great team! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Investigating ancient human DNA preservation on cave walls and in rock art - Nature Communications
Ancient DNA can be preserved on materials from archaeological floor deposits such as bones, sediments and artifacts. Here, the authors investigate whether Palaeolithic wall art can preserve human DNA ...
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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
If you're you have experience in working in animal / pathogen #aDNA and are interested in a postdoctoral position as part of my ERC Project HERDPATH, please DM/email me kevin[at]palaeome.org
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Archaeological Proteomics Lab @archaeoprotein.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
🚨Job alert🚨We are hiring a Laboratory Technician (24 months) to support our research in Archaeological Proteomics (ZooMS) at the University of Reading (UK), including our COEXIST project. More info here: tinyurl.com/bdfvawh8 #palaeoproteomics #ZooMS
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Zandra Fagernäs @zandraselina.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Go vote! You might even find a familiar name among the candidates 😊
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