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Thrilled to announce that I have successfully defended my thesis at University of Padova, Italy! I couldn’t be happier with this milestone. As I look forward to new academic opportunities, I’m excited to continue exploring ZooMS and Isotope Analysis. Here’s to the next chapter!🍾

Bir süredir bir yaz okulunda görevli olduğum için İngiltere'deyim. Avrupa'nın her yerinden insanlar var. Bize aşırı normal gelen bir şeyden cümle içinde bahsedince gözleri fal taşı gibi açılıyor. "Cumhurbaşkanına hakaret etmek" diye bir suç olduğunu ve bundan dolayı hapse…

🔥🛖 Why were prehistoric houses burned down? Our new paper in Journal of Anthropological Archaeology explores the burning, destruction, and rebuilding of an Iron Age house in Iberia. @ULL @invest_ull @CienciaULL @AMBI_Lab @UBUinvestiga sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 👇

Middle Palaeolithic Human occupations, cultural behaviours and demographic dynamics during MIS 5a to late 3 in the Bawa Yawan Rockshelter, Kermanshah, West-Central Zagros Mountainshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/.../pii/S0277379125003439

A study by Dominik Macak, Hugo Zeberg,@MPI_EVA_Leipzig and colleagues identifies a #gene variant coming from #Neandertals that reduces AMPD1 activity in muscle. While #health effects are moderate, the enzyme is crucial for human #athletic #performance. mpg.de/25039233/0709-…

🐻🔬 How can paleolithic cave bears help modern conservation? Our study reveals Serbian bears’ dietary flexibility—a resilience lesson for protecting species today. 👉Full research doi.org/10.1080/146141…

📢 The recording of the Integrating #ZooMS and #Zooarchaeology "Ask Us Anything" forum held on 30 June 2025 is now available on YouTube: youtu.be/loAgeUuK08g?si… 📄 We also created a summary document that can be downloaded on the IZAZ website: izaz2024.sciencesconf.org

Big news from Paris! The Khorramabad Valley Prehistoric Sites have just been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List — Iran’s first Paleolithic WH site! As an archaeologist involved in this nomination, I’m proud to see decades of work recognized.

Very happy to announce that a new postdoctoral position on the New ERC funded Western Rift Archaeology and Palaeoenvironment Project is open - if you're a geologist or geochronologist come and join us at @ICArEHB euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/358068

Registration is open for the 11th #AGPM @ICAZ_News meeting taking place this October in Copenhagen! We're looking forward to four days of #archaeozoology #aDNA #morphometrics & #palaeoproteomics. ⬇️Register here: sites.google.com/palaeome.org/1…

#ICTSNews Prof. Matthew Collins receives a sculture of CENIEH biface for celebrating CENIEH bulding 16 th anniversary with a lecture on paleoproteomics

We’ll be hosting the Bioinformatics Summer Workshop from August 11–15. The workshop is completely free and held 100% online. If you are interested, please go ahead and register: sites.google.com/view/bioinfowo…

Two important papers for understanding the way of life (paleoecology and diet) in the Middle Pleistocene (pre-Neanderthals and Neanderthals) have been published today — one of them is ours. 🦴🦴🍗🍖☠️ Links below 🔽

We're hiring postdocs! Fully funded positions in catalysis & stereoselective synthesis, organometallic chemistry. Learn more at our group website (cataleesis.kaist.ac.kr). Interested? Send your CV to [email protected] — we’ll follow up with additional documents (e.g.…

I am honored to join the Schöningen Project as a research fellow under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Nicholas Conard at the University of Tübingen– Institute for Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology. Cheers!

📢 Please retweet! We’re hiring 4 fully funded PhD students for the ERC Synergy project Last Neanderthals on Geoarchaeology, Sedimentology, Archaeobotany, Fire Proxies at key Neanderthal–H. sapiens sites. 🧑‍🔬🗿🔥 @URPA_unisi @SienaUniversity

Congratulations to our PhD student Raija Heikkilä and @Sarah_Barakat_ from University of Aberdeen for being awarded Best Student Conference Talk for their joint presentation at the ICAZ Stable Isotopes in Zooarchaeology Working Group meeting held in Reading last week!

Join us! We are looking for a new team member (PhD student) with strong background in organic chemistry. 🙏 RETWEET (We want to recruit internationally) Organic chemistry meets #DirectedEvolution Highly interdisciplinary & passionate research group uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/4339/…

🧬 Çatalhöyük'te aile kan bağıyla değil sosyal bağ ile kurulmuş! Genetik analizler gösteriyor ki, zamanla aynı evde yaşayanlar biyolojik akraba olmaktan çıkıyor. Kız çocukları mezarlarda 5 kat daha fazla hediyeyle gömülüyor. 🔍 Neolitik sosyal yapının şaşırtıcı hikayesi.

🎓PhD/Post-Doc Opportunity – University Hospital Münster (UKM), Germany To explore postnatal germline development in marmosets using single-cell transcriptomics. 🔗Apply Now: tinyurl.com/6xw52d3j 📅Deadline: 6th August, 2025 📢Stay Connected: lnkd.in/gFbYvDDK