Ragnheiður Diljá Ásmundsdóttir

Evolutionary Biologist interested in human evolution. PhD Fellow in Palaeoproteomics at @GLOBE_UCPH @WelkerGroup

[PAASTA community @paastacommunity]

🍝Reminder that our next #PAASTACommunity seminar series talk is NEXT WEEK!🍝

See you Wednesday November 6th at 16:00 CET for @rdilja08's talk!

[Welker Group @WelkerGroup]

We are excited to share our publication "Middle and Late Pleistocene Denisovan subsistence at Baishiya Karst Cave" out today in Nature. Led by @HuanXia1994, Dongju Zhang, Jian Wang and @ZandraSelina, you can read the publication here: https://t.co/VItRD7s5Vq
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[Ragnheiður Diljá Ásmundsdóttir @rdilja08]

Have you ever debated if you should sample cortical or trabecular bone? Find out below our comparison and recommendations 👇

[Welker Group @WelkerGroup]

We're excited to share our study looking at differences in proteome preservation between cortical and trabecular bone, led by @rdilja08! You can find the paper here, and a summary of the results in the 🧵 below: https://t.co/bXXJB5DeSA

[Ragnheiður Diljá Ásmundsdóttir @rdilja08]

My first PhD paper and first first-author paper is out 🎉
Discover the preservation difference between cortical and trabecular bone proteomes 🦴and how it can affect species IDs through ZooMS and phyloproteomics 🔍
https://t.co/rv4p2OFviL

[Archaeological Proteomics Lab @archaeoprotein]

We are hiring 2 PhD students to work on bone fragments to study #Neanderthal-Homo sapiens coexistence:

1 in #zooarchaeology #ZooMS, with @geoffreymsmith and Britt Starkovich.

1 in #archsci #palaeoproteomics, with @HelsFewlass @FridoWelker

More info: https://t.co/5Sjr2YnSMm

[Welker Group @WelkerGroup]

1. As promised, a nerdy thread on an experiment we collectively performed and resulting in many, many non-significant results. It's focus? Carbon emissions in #palaeoproteomics. Quick access to the paper: https://t.co/UC6f2n7ARd

[Ragnheiður Diljá Ásmundsdóttir @rdilja08]

I’m extremely happy and grateful to have been awarded a research grant from @TheLeakeyFndtn! Exiting year ahead to study the human skeletal proteome 🦴 @WelkerGroup

[Ragnheiður Diljá Ásmundsdóttir @rdilja08]

I had so much fun teaching teenagers about human evolution today!

[Welker Group @WelkerGroup]

In the coming period, we will introduce some of our projects! Today we start with @loulemeillour’s #Lookingforconstraint project, funded by the #FyssenFoundation - a thread 🧵-

[Welker Group @WelkerGroup]

📢 Job alert 📢 We're looking for a postdoc in computational palaeoproteomics to join our PROSPER project! https://t.co/D81PKcOBTo

[Ragnheiður Diljá Ásmundsdóttir @rdilja08]

@ZandraSelina @FridoWelker Can I please be a part of this?!

[Welker Group @WelkerGroup]

The Welker Group is now on Twitter! Follow us to find out about our research into human evolution across the last one million years, through the study of ancient proteins and associated biomolecules preserved in the skeletal remains of hominins and associated fauna.

[Lee R Berger @LeeRberger]

https://t.co/jjcUR7YCS1

[Chris Stringer @ChrisStringer65]

#FossilFriday This Neanderthal woman’s cranium from Forbes’ Quarry was discovered in 1848 and is on display ⁦@NHM_London⁩. Her DNA has been analysed https://t.co/9yOW14V9mn

[Paige Madison @FossilHistory]

The gorgeous skull of Zinjanthropus was discovered #OnThisDay in 1959, by Mary Leakey in Tanzania. The big teeth of this 1.8 million-year-old relative earned it the nickname Nutcracker Man. #fossils #history

[PaleoAnthropology @Qafzeh]

DNA from dirt can offer new view of ancient life https://t.co/VYDqHHj1Tc

[Paige Madison @FossilHistory]

#OnThisDay in 2002, the face of the incredible, controversial fossil nicknamed Toumaï first appeared on the cover of @nature. The "new hominid from Chad" was named Sahelanthropus tchadensis. Toumaï means hope of life. #fossils

[Paige Madison @FossilHistory]

Remembering Ralph von Koenigswald #OnThisDay, paleoanthropologist who led excavations on Java and uncovered Homo erectus fossils. During WWII, he was interned in a prison camp and hid the fossils to keep them safe—some in friends' gardens and one in his wife's purse. #histsci