Miranda Evans
@mirandaevans.bsky.social
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Postdoc on Ancient Antibodies project. Interested in ancient cuisine, protein preservation, osteo, taphonomy. PhD from @cam-archaeology.bsky.social
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mirandaevans.bsky.social
Please join us online or in person for this term's Garrod Seminar Series 'Consumed by time: Past foodways in practice' @cam-archaeology.bsky.social.
We are delighted to have an amazing line up of experts in their field speaking. More details here: talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/1...
mirandaevans.bsky.social
Thank you! I love making posters. The skull is a flap, which reveals CT scans when raised.
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Having a blast at BABAO! @babao2025meeting.bsky.social
Thanks everyone who came and saw our poster "The Curious case of the Candia skull: demography revealed by minimally invasive methods" @drtrishbiers.bsky.social
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pciarchaeology.bsky.social
1/3 New recommendation: Miranda A. Evans‬ (2025) The Demodifier: a tool for screening modification-induced alternate peptide taxonomy in palaeoproteomics. ver.4 recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🧪🏺🦣
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Delighted to report that my manuscript "The Demodifier: a tool for screening modification-induced alternate peptide taxonomy in palaeoproteomics" has been recommended by PCI.

The Demodifier, an open source tool, screens for inaccurate taxonomic matches caused by PTMs www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Thank you @isba11.bsky.social for a fantastic conference!!! I can't wait to find out where the next one is.
And thank you to everyone who came to my talk "The Demodifier: a tool for screening modification-induced alternate peptide taxonomy in ancient protein studies".
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paastacommunity.bsky.social
🍝Our next PAASTA Seminar Series talk will be next week Wednesday 02 July at 15:00 CET! 🍝

@mirandaevans.bsky.social will be presenting "The Proteomics of Pottery: What can dirty dishes tell us about ancient diet and cuisine?"

As always, DM us for the Zoom link to join!
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matthewcollins.bsky.social
New review paper by @mirandaevans.bsky.social
explores how #palaeoproteomicis is revolutionizing our understanding of how ancient people cooked 🏺

Future directions include developing minimally invasive sampling methods, better authentication techniques, and understanding preservation.
A typical shotgun proteomic pipeline including protein extraction, analysis by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry, and data analysis
mirandaevans.bsky.social
New paper out now📣

In this paper, now published in the Next Generation Archaeological Science special issue in JAS, I review the development and current state of the field of metaproteomic approaches to ancient foodways. 🏺🦷🥛🍲🧪 #palaeoproteomics
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Metaproteomic approaches to ancient foodways: A review
Proteomic approaches to understanding ancient foodways have rapidly expanded in recent years, addressing diverse questions, regions and sample types. …
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mirandaevans.bsky.social
3/3: In archaeology this is important because we are often trying to answer questions about which species were used by ancient people. The results show that this issue occurred 15% more frequently than currently reported.
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2/3: This is an issue in #palaeoproteomics because it can make it look like there is evidence for one taxon when in fact it could actually be a completely different one.

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bharathabnair.bsky.social
Congratulations @isma-rgz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy on your first 1st-author paper.

Gets even better because it's with our favourite protein ever @matthewcollins.bsky.social @mirandaevans.bsky.social, eh!?
paastacommunity.bsky.social
Congratulations @isma-rgz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy et al. on the recent publication in @peercommunityin.bsky.social: Benchmarking the identification of a single degraded protein to explore optimal search strategies for ancient proteins!

If you missed the corresponding talk:
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PAASTA Seminar Series Ismael Rodriguez Palomo : Benchmarking the ID of a single degraded protein
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mirandaevans.bsky.social
Apparently I talk with my hands. Thanks for having me to present on "The Proteomics of Pottery: what can dirty dishes tell us about ancient diet and cuisine?" at the Pudding Seminar, @Newnham_College!
mirandaevans.bsky.social
Great Job Ismael, Bharath and others!
Fantastic insights into optimal search strategies in palaeoproteomics.
bharathabnair.bsky.social
Check out our recent preprint where we explore optimal search strategies for ancient proteins by benchmarking the identification of a single degraded protein biorxiv.org/content/10.1...