Big tech

K Birch, K Bronson - Science as Culture, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Big Tech is in the public and political spotlight. Usually defined as Apple, Amazon, Microsoft,
Google/Alphabet, and Facebook/Meta, Big Tech is becoming the watchword for corporate …

The late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions: Patterns, causes, ecological consequences and implications for ecosystem management in the Anthropocene

JC Svenning, RT Lemoine, J Bergman… - Cambridge Prisms …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Across the last~ 50,000 years (the late Quaternary) terrestrial vertebrate faunas have
experienced severe losses of large species (megafauna), with most extinctions occurring in …

Comparing extraction method efficiency for high-throughput palaeoproteomic bone species identification

D Mylopotamitaki, FS Harking, AJ Taurozzi… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
High-throughput proteomic analysis of archaeological skeletal remains provides information
about past fauna community compositions and species dispersals in time and space …

Waterfowl eggshell refines palaeoenvironmental reconstruction and supports multi-species niche construction at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in the Levant

L Yeomans, MC Codlin, C Mazzucato… - … Method and Theory, 2024 - Springer
Utilising multiple lines of evidence for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction improves our
understanding of the past landscapes in which human populations interacted with other …

Automated high-throughput biological sex identification from archeological human dental enamel using targeted proteomics

C Koenig, P Bortel, RS Paterson, B Rendl… - Journal of Proteome …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Biological sex is key information for archeological and forensic studies, which can be
determined by proteomics. However, the lack of a standardized approach for fast and …

Survival of mineral-bound peptides into the Miocene

B Demarchi, M Mackie, Z Li, T Deng, MJ Collins… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Previously, we showed that authentic peptide sequences could be obtained from 3.8-Ma-old
ostrich eggshell (OES) from the site of Laetoli, Tanzania (Demarchi et al., 2016). Here, we …

Digging deeper into ancient skeletal proteomes through consecutive digestion with multiple proteases

Z Fagernäs, G Troché, JV Olsen, F Welker - Journal of Proteomics, 2024 - Elsevier
An increasing number of studies utilise the recovery of ancient skeletal proteomes for
phylogenetic and evolutionary analysis. Although these studies manage to extract and …

Increasing sustainability in palaeoproteomics by optimizing digestion times for large-scale archaeological bone analyses

L Le Meillour, V Sinet-Mathiot, RD Ásmundsdóttir… - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
Palaeoproteomic analysis of skeletal proteomes is used to provide taxonomic identifications
for an increasing number of archaeological specimens. The success rate depends on a …

Molecular exploration of fossil eggshell uncovers hidden lineage of giant extinct bird

A Grealy, GH Miller, MJ Phillips, SJ Clarke… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The systematics of Madagascar's extinct elephant birds remains controversial due to large
gaps in the fossil record and poor biomolecular preservation of skeletal specimens. Here, a …

The 'Biomolecular Humanities'? New challenges and perspectives

E Oras, J de Groot, U Björkstén - iScience, 2025 - cell.com
Biomolecular humanities is a develo** transdisciplinary research area in which we see
natural sciences and humanities increasingly integrated and conceived of as data …