Frido Welker
@fridowelker.bsky.social
Interested in ancient proteins & Human Evolution | @Welkergroup.bsky.social | Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen | 🦷🦴💀
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SMBE2026 Symposium L01 | Insights into the past through the lens of palaeoproteomics
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#SMBE2026
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#SMBE2026
January 5, 2026 at 8:38 AM
SMBE2026 Symposium L01 | Insights into the past through the lens of palaeoproteomics
📨 Abstract submission
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📋 Programme details
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#SMBE2026
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📋 Programme details
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#SMBE2026
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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:
https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1
Apply here no later than February 11 2026:
https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1
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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December 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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:
https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1
Apply here no later than February 11 2026:
https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1
This is an amazing figure, showing the power of ZooMS taxonomic corrections in isotopic study design.
Sulfur isotope analysis shows differences in range use between ungulates with known differences in home range sizes today. This is shown well in reindeer compared to all other fauna. We also integrate important ZooMS data to optimise palaeoecological interpretations.
December 18, 2025 at 7:22 AM
This is an amazing figure, showing the power of ZooMS taxonomic corrections in isotopic study design.
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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
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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
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#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.
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.
December 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
#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.
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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In case you missed it, my story about Lucy's first-ever European showing:
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
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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December 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
In case you missed it, my story about Lucy's first-ever European showing:
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
Yesterday was quite the day for 🐕🦺canid folks, over at PNAS:
www.pnas.org/topic/type/r...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Yesterday was quite the day for 🐕🦺canid folks, over at PNAS:
www.pnas.org/topic/type/r...
www.pnas.org/topic/type/r...
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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
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
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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November 2, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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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
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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check out this new issue of PaleoAnthropology including a special issue on late Middle and Late Pleistocene hominin systematics
paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...
paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...
PaleoAnthropology
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November 7, 2025 at 4:09 AM
check out this new issue of PaleoAnthropology including a special issue on late Middle and Late Pleistocene hominin systematics
paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...
paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...
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The latest issue of PaleoAnthropology is out now!
Volume 2025, Issue 2 #openaccess
📖Read Here: paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...
#paleoanthropology #humanevolution
Volume 2025, Issue 2 #openaccess
📖Read Here: paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...
#paleoanthropology #humanevolution
November 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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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 👇
⚠️Just a quick reminder, there are a few days left to apply for these two positions in #palaeoproteomics.
I'm hiring!⭐ As part of the DFF Sapere Aude-funded project MiddleEarth, I am looking for 1 postdoctoral researcher and 1 research assistant.
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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 👇
⚠️Just a quick reminder, there are a few days left to apply for these two positions in #palaeoproteomics.
I'm hiring!⭐ As part of the DFF Sapere Aude-funded project MiddleEarth, I am looking for 1 postdoctoral researcher and 1 research assistant.
November 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
⚠️Just a quick reminder, there are a few days left to apply for these two positions in #palaeoproteomics.
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!
November 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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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#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...
Postdoc: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Research Assistant: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Postdoc in Paleoproteomics
jobportal.ku.dk
October 30, 2025 at 2:43 AM
#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...
Postdoc: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Research Assistant: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
I'm hiring!⭐ As part of the DFF Sapere Aude-funded project MiddleEarth, I am looking for 1 postdoctoral researcher and 1 research assistant.
October 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I'm hiring!⭐ As part of the DFF Sapere Aude-funded project MiddleEarth, I am looking for 1 postdoctoral researcher and 1 research assistant.
Reposted by Frido Welker
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. https://scim.ag/47DYjBi
October 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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. https://scim.ag/47DYjBi
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 :).
October 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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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📄 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...
@erc.europa.eu @icarehb.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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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October 14, 2025 at 10:28 AM
📄 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...
@erc.europa.eu @icarehb.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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!
📣Paper alert📣 Is it possible to use #palaeoproteomics to identify the taxonomy of bone fragments in resin-embedded sediment blocks, enabling study of past faunal community composition at a microstratigraphic scale? 🦴🐮 🦌 We decided to test this, and the results are now out: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
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
doi.org
October 14, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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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🔁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
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
October 3, 2025 at 8:15 AM
🔁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
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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This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
October 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
Paris and @welkergroup.bsky.social are ready for #ESHE2025!
September 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Paris and @welkergroup.bsky.social are ready for #ESHE2025!
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🚨🚨Today is the last day to register to join us in October!! 🚨🚨 (See further details in the note and link below)!
🐑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⚠️!
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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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September 15, 2025 at 7:54 AM
🚨🚨Today is the last day to register to join us in October!! 🚨🚨 (See further details in the note and link below)!
🐑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⚠️!
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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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September 12, 2025 at 7:44 AM
🐑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⚠️!
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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!
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!
Job Alerts!🚨 We are looking to fill three Independent Junior Research Group Leader positions in the 'HUMAN ORIGINS' Cluster of Excellence at the University of Tübingen
Application deadline: Sept. 10, Starting Jan. 1, 2026
1. Genotype-Phenotype interactions:
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
Application deadline: Sept. 10, Starting Jan. 1, 2026
1. Genotype-Phenotype interactions:
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
Independent Junior Research Group Leader (m/f/d, 100%)
uni-tuebingen.de
September 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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!
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!