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‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network Nature - A high-resolution digital map nearly doubles the known length of the ancient road network.

A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire

go.nature.com/4nHZmoM

Collagen fingerprinting and sequence analysis provides a molecular phylogeny of extinct Australian megafauna | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences During the Late Pleistocene, Sahul—the former land mass of Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea—faced one of the greatest waves of megafaunal extinctions on the planet, for reasons that remain highly de...

Collagen fingerprinting and sequence analysis provides a molecular phylogeny of extinct Australian megafauna

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Uncertainty I now realize Heisenberg and Schrödinger are less like physicists and more like therapists.

Morning read
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Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past - Uppsala University Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University

Become our colleague! - 2yr Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past (UU) @humanpastcenter.bsky.social 🧪

Great place to work at (ok, I am biased), integration with archaeologists and linguists + pretty flexible research topic

www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past - Uppsala University Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University

#Vacancies: we are looking for not just one but three #postdoctoral researchers interested in bridging #genetics, #archaeology and #linguistics in exploring the #humanpast. shorturl.at/B3Qdd @haam-community.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social

How much phylogenetic information is in a small sample of proteins? Pastramanis et al answer this question and also discover a puzzle: each protein added to an analysis of modern and archaic humans increases support for a single implausible hypothesis. evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...

Peptide Mass Fingerprinting of South American Xenarthrans: A New Resource for Zooarcheology and Palaeontology Xenarthrans─armadillos, anteaters, and sloths─are endemic to the Americas, primarily inhabiting the Neotropics, where they represent a key component of faunal diversity. They have essential functions ...

Peptide Mass Fingerprinting of South American Xenarthrans: A New Resource for Zooarcheology and Palaeontology

⚠️Just a quick reminder, there are a few days left to apply for these two positions in #palaeoproteomics.

Full Professorship(s) in Archaeology - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University

Deadline approaches for our open professorship here at @au.dk @auarcher.bsky.social. Get in touch if you have q

international.au.dk/about/profil...

Associate Lecturer in Archaeology (Education and Scholarship) at University of Exeter An academic position as a Associate Lecturer in Archaeology (Education and Scholarship) is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunit...

Come join us (for a little while at least)! Associate Lecturer job at Exeter in archaeology (especially people with human osteology, zooarch or forensic skills), until 30 April 2026: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI165/a...

ARC grant scheme timetable, including open, close and anticipated outcome announcement dates for Expressions Of Interest and full applications, plus rejoinder periods and selection meeting dates.

#ARCschedule Nov25

Outcomes expected for DECRA, LIEF & presumably(?) Centres of Excellence ("postponed" on 3 Nov).

Other events:
🔹Open: Discovery Projects EOI
🔹Close: ITRP & Future Fellowships
🔹Selection meeting: Linkage Projects (2025 round 2)

Data ▶️ docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Screenshot of ARC "network messages" webpage stating that Centres of Excellence outcomes are "postponed". Blue text on white background as a heading, above an image of concentric part circles, to make a sort-of whirlpool pattern, above black text on white background.

#CentresOfExcellence #CE26

ARC has "postponed" announcement of Centres of Excellence outcomes!

It says "due diligence checks" are still being carried out on some applications.

www.arc.gov.au/news-publica...

7 basic science discoveries that changed the world Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.

Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Postdoc in Paleoproteomics

#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...

So proud to see our new paper out in PNAS spearheaded by @emilypigott.bsky.social She found a tiny 46,000 yr old Neanderthal bone at Starosele (Crimea). DNA work revealed long-distance connections across Eurasia, supported by stone tool evidence @heasvienna.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨 #LinkageProjects #LP25r1 announcement:

❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Linkage Projects 2025 round 1❗️

See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...

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#LinkageProjects #LP25r1

My poor old bot is feeling poorly today*, so I've switched to my backup system & will post ASAP (probably within 2mins) when outcomes are released on RMS.

It's possible there'll be duplicate posts. Apologies.

(*It's run almost non-stop on a $10 computer for 10 years, so…)

🚨 #DiscoveryProjects #DP26 announcement:

❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Projects 2026❗️

See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...

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Bone Adhered Sediments as a Source of Target and Environmental DNA and Proteins Abstract. In recent years, sediments from cave environments have provided invaluable insights into ancient hominids, as well as past fauna and flora. Unfor

In this new paper, researchers extended the sedaDNA analysis beyond cave sediments: bone-adhered deposits preserved human, microbial, plant & animal sequences. #MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #sedaDNA #metagenomics #cave #sediment

Cover of the book reviewed, depicting the surface of the sea, with the text 'Book Review, Antiquity'.

📕 #BookReview

How did prehistoric people settle islands? Did the first humans have the cognitive and behavioural traits to develop seafaring?
Explore John F. Cherry & Thomas P. Leppard's 'Human dispersal, human evolution, and the sea' in Antiquity:

(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Sinner d. Zverev 3-6 6-3 7-5

Jannik wins bid 22nd title.

An incredible number at just 24 years old.

He started cramping in the 3rd set, but refused to fade away.

✅2nd Vienna title
✅10th consecutive win in Vienna

Impossibly clean hitting.

Indomitable mindset.

Jannik Sinner in a nutshell.

🇮🇹❤️

Screenshot of tweet from the ARC saying they will announce DP26 outcomes on Tuesday 28th Oct, and LP25r1 outcomes on Wednesday 29th.

ARC says Discovery Projects outcomes will be tomorrow (Tuesday). Linkage Projects (2025, round 1) on Wed. Over past ~year, it's often been at about 11am (Canberra).

My bot will pick up the change to RMS & post immediately.

ARC should email outcomes to lead CIs, but might take an 1hr or so for DPs

Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.

New rules for a rat-race. I my opinion, all this micro-accounting (= internal author struggles), inhibits effective collaboration. Science increasingly turns to a goal-oriented bureaucracy, away from an open art-like exploration, curiosity and thruth-seeking.
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Characterizing the American Upper Paleolithic Tool similarities link Late Pleistocene American and Northeast Asian lithic traditions.

Characterizing the American Upper Paleolithic

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Great to see that Australia has some of the happiest PhD students globally.

What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.

"...researchers who invest time in their students tend to lead more-productive, more-collaborative groups and attract stronger future students than those who do not." "Time spent with the next generation of scientists is an investment."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🌿✨ New Book Out! ✨🌿
Our new volume #Scents_of_Arabia: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Olfactory Worlds is now published with
@archaeopress.bsky.social

Thank you to all contributors who made this book possible!
@dai-weltweit.bsky.social
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#PastScents #Heritage #Archaeology

First successful detection of oestrogen, progesterone and testosterone in multiple human hard tissues, and their use as potential biomarkers of pregnancy The sex steroid hormones oestrogen, progesterone, and testosterone have never been detected in modern or archaeological human skeletal tissues using e…

First successful detection of oestrogen, progesterone and testosterone in multiple human hard tissues, and their use as potential biomarkers of pregnancy