Matthew Collins
@matthewcollins.bsky.social
Archaeology, University of Cambridge | The Globe, University of Copenhagen
Ancient Proteins | Medieval Manuscripts | Proteomics and AI | 🇺🇦
Ancient Proteins | Medieval Manuscripts | Proteomics and AI | 🇺🇦
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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 👇
#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...
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We are awarding our President's Medal to 'In Our Time' as it has done so much to showcase humanities & social sciences. We'd decided this before the news of Melvyn Bragg stepping down, but glad we got our timing right & had a chance to celebrate with him!
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/renowne...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/renowne...
Renowned BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time receives prestigious British Academy President’s Medal for 2025
The British Academy has awarded its prestigious President’s Medal to the long-running and beloved BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time. Recognising its outstanding contribution to humanities and social s...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 8:23 AM
We are awarding our President's Medal to 'In Our Time' as it has done so much to showcase humanities & social sciences. We'd decided this before the news of Melvyn Bragg stepping down, but glad we got our timing right & had a chance to celebrate with him!
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/renowne...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/renowne...
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Next Thursday, 16 October, 2-5 p.m. ORB G.27
The McCarthy MSI project & The Department of Modern Irish @ucc.ie present:
The Quire and the Medieval manuscript
a seminar on how manuscripts are made
Fáilte roimh chách / All welcome
The McCarthy MSI project & The Department of Modern Irish @ucc.ie present:
The Quire and the Medieval manuscript
a seminar on how manuscripts are made
Fáilte roimh chách / All welcome
October 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Next Thursday, 16 October, 2-5 p.m. ORB G.27
The McCarthy MSI project & The Department of Modern Irish @ucc.ie present:
The Quire and the Medieval manuscript
a seminar on how manuscripts are made
Fáilte roimh chách / All welcome
The McCarthy MSI project & The Department of Modern Irish @ucc.ie present:
The Quire and the Medieval manuscript
a seminar on how manuscripts are made
Fáilte roimh chách / All welcome
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Hole-y Books! A fantastic @bodleian.ox.ac.uk lecture and workshop yesterday on early medieval Insular and Continental parchment by Jiří Vnouček for the ‘INSULAR: Insular manuscripts in the age of Charlemagne’ project! 📜🎉
October 9, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Hole-y Books! A fantastic @bodleian.ox.ac.uk lecture and workshop yesterday on early medieval Insular and Continental parchment by Jiří Vnouček for the ‘INSULAR: Insular manuscripts in the age of Charlemagne’ project! 📜🎉
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There is a position open in our lab, within this network. Our project deals with assessing identification and quantification errors for MS-based proteomics. www.protaiomics.eu/project/dc13...
Please check out all the project descriptions at the site below:
Please check out all the project descriptions at the site below:
October 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
There is a position open in our lab, within this network. Our project deals with assessing identification and quantification errors for MS-based proteomics. www.protaiomics.eu/project/dc13...
Please check out all the project descriptions at the site below:
Please check out all the project descriptions at the site below:
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⚠️Paper Alert!⚠️
Excited to share this paper with @roccoro.bsky.social where we examined whether ceramic technology in Saharan Africa was the result of a single or multiple episodes of innovation & diffusion
rdcu.be/eJi3g
Excited to share this paper with @roccoro.bsky.social where we examined whether ceramic technology in Saharan Africa was the result of a single or multiple episodes of innovation & diffusion
rdcu.be/eJi3g
Bayesian analyses of radiocarbon dates suggest multiple origins of ceramic technology in Early Holocene Africa
Nature Communications - Several possible points of origin have been proposed for the spread of ceramic technology in Saharan Africa between 11–10,000 years ago. Here, the authors...
rdcu.be
October 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
⚠️Paper Alert!⚠️
Excited to share this paper with @roccoro.bsky.social where we examined whether ceramic technology in Saharan Africa was the result of a single or multiple episodes of innovation & diffusion
rdcu.be/eJi3g
Excited to share this paper with @roccoro.bsky.social where we examined whether ceramic technology in Saharan Africa was the result of a single or multiple episodes of innovation & diffusion
rdcu.be/eJi3g
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We're recruiting an avian ecologist working with @danc-eco.bsky.social and our AviArch team! More info: archaeobiomics.com/aviarch-avif...
September 27, 2025 at 7:26 AM
We're recruiting an avian ecologist working with @danc-eco.bsky.social and our AviArch team! More info: archaeobiomics.com/aviarch-avif...
Opportunity for an AI expert @ University of Namur, Belgium. 🇧🇪
blending AI with cultural heritage, studying coins and parchments
Details & application: arc-projects.unamur.be/phoenix/index
Please share/boost!
#AIjobs #Postdoc #CulturalHeritage #DigitalHumanities #AcademicChatter
blending AI with cultural heritage, studying coins and parchments
Details & application: arc-projects.unamur.be/phoenix/index
Please share/boost!
#AIjobs #Postdoc #CulturalHeritage #DigitalHumanities #AcademicChatter
PHOENIX | Can Physics and Artificial Intelligence Induce New Paradigms in History?
arc-projects.unamur.be
September 22, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Opportunity for an AI expert @ University of Namur, Belgium. 🇧🇪
blending AI with cultural heritage, studying coins and parchments
Details & application: arc-projects.unamur.be/phoenix/index
Please share/boost!
#AIjobs #Postdoc #CulturalHeritage #DigitalHumanities #AcademicChatter
blending AI with cultural heritage, studying coins and parchments
Details & application: arc-projects.unamur.be/phoenix/index
Please share/boost!
#AIjobs #Postdoc #CulturalHeritage #DigitalHumanities #AcademicChatter
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Big announcement! I’m excited to embark on a tour of America-land with National Geographic Live: A Pirate’s Life. Join me as we dive into the world of pirates from the ancient Mediterranean to the Golden Age of piracy in the Caribbean! live.nationalgeographic.org/event/pirate...
September 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Big announcement! I’m excited to embark on a tour of America-land with National Geographic Live: A Pirate’s Life. Join me as we dive into the world of pirates from the ancient Mediterranean to the Golden Age of piracy in the Caribbean! live.nationalgeographic.org/event/pirate...
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Yesterday, we had the pleasure of listening to Dorothy Bishop emphasize the responsibility of editors during the 12th PCI Webinar! If you weren't able to join, you can catch her talk and the following Q&A session at this link: youtu.be/0NJ87tYE8_s
PCI Webinar-Dorothy Bishop-How negligent publishers subvert quality control in scientific publishing
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September 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Yesterday, we had the pleasure of listening to Dorothy Bishop emphasize the responsibility of editors during the 12th PCI Webinar! If you weren't able to join, you can catch her talk and the following Q&A session at this link: youtu.be/0NJ87tYE8_s
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I have funding for a 2-year dry-lab postdoc to join our team @humanevouu.bsky.social 🧪 (Deadline Oct 21st)
The project will utilize modern and #aDNA data from humans and sheep to study environmental adaptation (including method development and simulations).
Please share!
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
The project will utilize modern and #aDNA data from humans and sheep to study environmental adaptation (including method development and simulations).
Please share!
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Postdoctoral position in Population Genomics - Uppsala University
Postdoctoral position in Population Genomics, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University
www.uu.se
September 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
I have funding for a 2-year dry-lab postdoc to join our team @humanevouu.bsky.social 🧪 (Deadline Oct 21st)
The project will utilize modern and #aDNA data from humans and sheep to study environmental adaptation (including method development and simulations).
Please share!
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
The project will utilize modern and #aDNA data from humans and sheep to study environmental adaptation (including method development and simulations).
Please share!
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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PhD Studentship alert!
I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia.
Details in the link below!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia.
Details in the link below!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
University assistant predoctoral 1
University assistant predoctoral 1
jobs.univie.ac.at
September 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
PhD Studentship alert!
I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia.
Details in the link below!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia.
Details in the link below!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
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🐑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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sites.google.com/palaeome.org....
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sites.google.com/palaeome.org....
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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sites.google.com/palaeome.org....
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sites.google.com/palaeome.org....
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☠️🧬 2-yr Postdoc in in Genomic Simulations and Extinction Risk Modelling!
Let's figure out the Genomic signs of Extinction @DTU in Denmark.
Start: Feb 2026 (flexible)
Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025
For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPD
Reposts appreciated 😁
Let's figure out the Genomic signs of Extinction @DTU in Denmark.
Start: Feb 2026 (flexible)
Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025
For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPD
Reposts appreciated 😁
September 12, 2025 at 11:52 AM
☠️🧬 2-yr Postdoc in in Genomic Simulations and Extinction Risk Modelling!
Let's figure out the Genomic signs of Extinction @DTU in Denmark.
Start: Feb 2026 (flexible)
Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025
For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPD
Reposts appreciated 😁
Let's figure out the Genomic signs of Extinction @DTU in Denmark.
Start: Feb 2026 (flexible)
Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025
For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPD
Reposts appreciated 😁
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🦣🍖🧬 Fully funded 3-yr PhD in palaeogenomics & bioinformatics! Help me push non-model palaeogenomes beyond their limits @DTU in Denmark.
Start: Feb 2026 (flexible)
Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025
For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPhD
Reposts appreciated 😁
Start: Feb 2026 (flexible)
Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025
For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPhD
Reposts appreciated 😁
September 9, 2025 at 7:37 AM
🦣🍖🧬 Fully funded 3-yr PhD in palaeogenomics & bioinformatics! Help me push non-model palaeogenomes beyond their limits @DTU in Denmark.
Start: Feb 2026 (flexible)
Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025
For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPhD
Reposts appreciated 😁
Start: Feb 2026 (flexible)
Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025
For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPhD
Reposts appreciated 😁
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For those not at our General Meeting, we have self-nominations for our next Steering Committee open until the end of the month (30 September)! For more details and to nominate yourself: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
With many thanks to @isma-rgz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy for overseeing this!
With many thanks to @isma-rgz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy for overseeing this!
PAASTA steering committee self-nomination
Hello!
I am Ismael Rodríguez Palomo, a postdoc at the University of Copenhagen. I have volunteered to conduct the formation of the next PAASTA steering committee.
We will try to avoid formal elections...
docs.google.com
September 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
For those not at our General Meeting, we have self-nominations for our next Steering Committee open until the end of the month (30 September)! For more details and to nominate yourself: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
With many thanks to @isma-rgz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy for overseeing this!
With many thanks to @isma-rgz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy for overseeing this!
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Excited to share that I’ve started as Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark! 🧑🎓
I also received an a NNF Emerging Investigator grant to use genomics + machine learning to study extinction.
👉 PhD & Postdoc positions coming soon — follow for updates!
Reposts appreciated 🙏
I also received an a NNF Emerging Investigator grant to use genomics + machine learning to study extinction.
👉 PhD & Postdoc positions coming soon — follow for updates!
Reposts appreciated 🙏
September 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Excited to share that I’ve started as Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark! 🧑🎓
I also received an a NNF Emerging Investigator grant to use genomics + machine learning to study extinction.
👉 PhD & Postdoc positions coming soon — follow for updates!
Reposts appreciated 🙏
I also received an a NNF Emerging Investigator grant to use genomics + machine learning to study extinction.
👉 PhD & Postdoc positions coming soon — follow for updates!
Reposts appreciated 🙏
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I will be recruiting two PhDs for my ERC Project HERDPATH - let's discover out how livestock and pathogens evolved together using #aDNA. Projects will be animal or pathogen focused but will be in dialogue.
Details at my quaint website below. Deadline 3rd October.
kevingdaly.github.io
Details at my quaint website below. Deadline 3rd October.
kevingdaly.github.io
Ruminant Palaeogenomics - Kevin G. Daly: Ruminant Palaeogenomics
kevingdaly.github.io
September 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I will be recruiting two PhDs for my ERC Project HERDPATH - let's discover out how livestock and pathogens evolved together using #aDNA. Projects will be animal or pathogen focused but will be in dialogue.
Details at my quaint website below. Deadline 3rd October.
kevingdaly.github.io
Details at my quaint website below. Deadline 3rd October.
kevingdaly.github.io
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Advanced Technician (Archaeological Laboratories) – Durham University, UK
Permanent archaeology lab technician role
Eligibility: Degree in Archaeology
Deadline: 17 Sept 2025
Details: higherjobz.com/archaeology-...
#AcademicJobs #ArchaeologyCareers #UKJobs #PermanentRole #ResearchJobs
Permanent archaeology lab technician role
Eligibility: Degree in Archaeology
Deadline: 17 Sept 2025
Details: higherjobz.com/archaeology-...
#AcademicJobs #ArchaeologyCareers #UKJobs #PermanentRole #ResearchJobs
Archaeology Lab Technician Job at Durham University | HigherJobz
Apply now for Archaeology Lab Technician at Durham University, UK. Full-time permanent role in Archaeology. Deadline: 17 Sept 2025.
higherjobz.com
September 6, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Advanced Technician (Archaeological Laboratories) – Durham University, UK
Permanent archaeology lab technician role
Eligibility: Degree in Archaeology
Deadline: 17 Sept 2025
Details: higherjobz.com/archaeology-...
#AcademicJobs #ArchaeologyCareers #UKJobs #PermanentRole #ResearchJobs
Permanent archaeology lab technician role
Eligibility: Degree in Archaeology
Deadline: 17 Sept 2025
Details: higherjobz.com/archaeology-...
#AcademicJobs #ArchaeologyCareers #UKJobs #PermanentRole #ResearchJobs
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Following a marvelous time at ISBA11 and our PAASTA conference, we're back to sharing the work of our community with you here!
@ipatramanis.bsky.social PAASTA talk from March about PaleoProPhyler a tool for #phylogenies from ancient proteins is now live on our YouTube youtu.be/2gVEQyinL4A
@ipatramanis.bsky.social PAASTA talk from March about PaleoProPhyler a tool for #phylogenies from ancient proteins is now live on our YouTube youtu.be/2gVEQyinL4A
PAASTA Seminar Series - Ioannis Patramanis
YouTube video by PAASTA community
youtu.be
September 2, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Following a marvelous time at ISBA11 and our PAASTA conference, we're back to sharing the work of our community with you here!
@ipatramanis.bsky.social PAASTA talk from March about PaleoProPhyler a tool for #phylogenies from ancient proteins is now live on our YouTube youtu.be/2gVEQyinL4A
@ipatramanis.bsky.social PAASTA talk from March about PaleoProPhyler a tool for #phylogenies from ancient proteins is now live on our YouTube youtu.be/2gVEQyinL4A
Thanks to @isbarchaeology.bsky.social and @isba11.bsky.social for a great conference.
I mentioned the legacy of Henk Kars of VU who established ISBA
Geoarchaeology closed. Here is the link to the petition to save Earth Sciences @vuamsterdam.bsky.social
www.change.org/p/red-aardwe...
I mentioned the legacy of Henk Kars of VU who established ISBA
Geoarchaeology closed. Here is the link to the petition to save Earth Sciences @vuamsterdam.bsky.social
www.change.org/p/red-aardwe...
September 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Thanks to @isbarchaeology.bsky.social and @isba11.bsky.social for a great conference.
I mentioned the legacy of Henk Kars of VU who established ISBA
Geoarchaeology closed. Here is the link to the petition to save Earth Sciences @vuamsterdam.bsky.social
www.change.org/p/red-aardwe...
I mentioned the legacy of Henk Kars of VU who established ISBA
Geoarchaeology closed. Here is the link to the petition to save Earth Sciences @vuamsterdam.bsky.social
www.change.org/p/red-aardwe...
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From one great ISBA team to the next — thank you to our past organizers for building such a strong and connected community!
August 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
From one great ISBA team to the next — thank you to our past organizers for building such a strong and connected community!
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PCI Archaeology was at @isba11.bsky.social in Turin last week! Stay tuned for new #openaccess biomolecular papers soon with full transparency in the editorial process!
Thank you @matthewcollins.bsky.social and Marta Arzarello for sharing our initiative!
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social 🧪🏺🦣
Thank you @matthewcollins.bsky.social and Marta Arzarello for sharing our initiative!
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social 🧪🏺🦣
September 1, 2025 at 8:52 AM
PCI Archaeology was at @isba11.bsky.social in Turin last week! Stay tuned for new #openaccess biomolecular papers soon with full transparency in the editorial process!
Thank you @matthewcollins.bsky.social and Marta Arzarello for sharing our initiative!
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social 🧪🏺🦣
Thank you @matthewcollins.bsky.social and Marta Arzarello for sharing our initiative!
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social 🧪🏺🦣
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What a week! 🎉 Big thanks to @isba11.bsky.social for hosting an incredible ISBA conference — so well organized and full of great science.
August 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
What a week! 🎉 Big thanks to @isba11.bsky.social for hosting an incredible ISBA conference — so well organized and full of great science.