Leire Torres-Iglesias

You still can submit your abstract to join our session at #UISPP ⬇️

Deadline for abstract submission: 28th February.

Oral and poster presentations are welcome.

A day later but… Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!
This year I celebrated it talking about Prehistory to a couple of classes of very enthusiastic high school students! I also enjoyed seeing how the youngest children at the school were learning about Atapuerca and Prehistory

📢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

Enamel proteins reveal biological sex and genetic variability in southern African Paranthropus Paranthropus robustus is a morphologically well-documented Early Pleistocene hominin species from southern Africa with no genetic evidence reported so far. In this work, we describe the mass spectrome...

Hello,

Our paper on enamel proteins from Paranthropus robustus has finally been peer reviewed, please have a read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Paranthropus robustus has been puzzling scientists since its discovery in 1938 in South Africa, where a high number of fossils have been found.

Graphical abstract of the publication.

New publication! 🎉 Here you can read all about dog drool, bleach, and a probable Central Asian Neanderthal child:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

A male Denisovan mandible from Pleistocene Taiwan Denisovans are an extinct hominin group defined by ancient genomes of Middle to Late Pleistocene fossils from southern Siberia. Although genomic evidence suggests their widespread distribution through...

Incredibly proud that our paper on the #palaeoproteomics analysis of the Penghu mandible, led by @tsutatsuta.bsky.social and in collaboration with Chun-Hsiang Chang, Enrico Cappellini and co, is out now in
@science.org! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Image fo a seal - by someone that has not seen one - from Valenciennes, ms 0320, Thomas de Cantimpré, Albert le Grand. Liber de natura rerum, vers 1280, 230 × 156 mm. Folio 116, Image : IRHT https://patrimoine-numerique.ville-valenciennes.fr/ark:/29755/B_596066101_ms_0320 (http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/7876).

The original colour of the skin (before it degraded) - but what is it? (image Elodie Leveque)

Mock-up of the original book binding by Elodie Leveque. Note that the fur is too dark in this mockup (image Elodie Leveque).

In 2016, the team in 2016 first confronted the collection at Troyes - but what are the bindings made of? Image of five people, one sitting, discussing a large bound medieval text held by supports in a modern library.

🧵 Is this a Dire wolf... 🤔?

No...

Our @erc.europa.eu Beasts to Craft team led by Élodie Lévêque uncovered the true identity of mysterious hairy covers on #medieval #Cistercian #manuscripts - they're ...
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🥳Ya puedes visitar la exposición El declive neandertal hace 45 000 años.

Este proyecto es el resultado de años de investigación de EvoAdapta y SUBSILIENCE.

¡No te la pierdas!
📅Hasta el 15 de junio.

#ExpoNeandertal

ICAZ AGPM 2025 Exploring the Past, Informing the Future: Two Decades of Interdisciplinary Approaches in Archaeozoology

The next ICAZ-AGPM meeting (Archaeozoology, Genetics, Proteomics and Morphometrics) will take place 14-17 October 2025 in Copenhagen, Denmark 🐘🐐🦈🦜

Abstract are due 25 April!
More info: sites.google.com/palaeome.org...

This from Adam, & French article quoting @toriherridge.bsky.social, worth reading.
Colossal's "de-extinction" similar to Musk's impossible claims re colonising Mars, and all serving to reduce trust in science & scientists, while making lots of 💰
#StandUpForScience

www.france24.com/fr/%C3%A9co-...

Heard that VCWAP is only for women? Let’s clear that up! 🧵👇

🔗 Register now (it’s FREE!) framaforms.org/virtual-conf...

#VCWAP2025 #womeninstem #womeninscience #paleoart #paleontology #archeology

Women are credited less in science than men - Nature The difference between the number of men and women listed as authors on scientific papers and inventors on patents is at least partly attributable to unacknowledged contributions by women scientists.

On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience let me remind you that we are NOWHERE NEAR parity. A few examples.

1. Women are credited less in science than men.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Enhorabuena Mónica!! 👏🏻🥳

Alt text: Picture of cave mouth with three figures: Palaeoproteomics review showing how protein analysis of fossils is expanding beyond ancient DNA's limits to study Middle & Late Pleistocene hominin evolution. Covers methods from protein mass fingerprinting to detailed sequence analysis, illustrating applications in species identification, sex determination & phylogenetics.

🧬 Review by @welkergroup.bsky.social (incl @zandraselina.bsky.social @loulemeillour.bsky.social)
lays out how ancient protein analysis is revolutionising our understanding of human evolution! #Palaeoproteomics can retrieve molecular data from fossils too old/tropical for ancient DNA #teammassspec
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Screenshot of the paper title. It's published in the special issue "Special Issue: What’s in a Name? Late Middle and Early Late Pleistocene Hominin Systematics" and the title of the paper is "Paleoproteomic Contributions, and Current Limitations, to Understanding Middle and Late Pleistocene Human Evolution".

📣 Paper alert! 📣 In this review, available as early view in @paleoanthjourn.bsky.social, we discuss "Paleoproteomic Contributions, and Current Limitations, to Understanding Middle and Late Pleistocene Human Evolution". Thanks to all coauthors! paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...

(PDF) Emerging Researchers Network (ERN) of the University of Copenhagen School of Archaeology PDF | The Emerging Researchers Network (ERN) was established in 2023 as an extension of the University of Copenhagen's School of Archaeology (SoA),... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...

Here's our new preprint about our Emerging Researchers Network (ERN) in the UCPH School of Archaeology fostering a culture of mutual ECR support within and across institutes and faculties, breaking down structural barriers, our deeds, vision, and future plans.

www.researchgate.net/publication/...