We're looking for a post-doc in mathematical modelling to join us on the RATTUS project here in York! Come and model rat populations in networks of historical settlements, working with @anaspene.bsky.social and colleagues in archaeology, biology, and history. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

If you like maths, space, time, data, rats and medieval Europe, this postdoc is for you! Apply to join me and the RATTUS team in York for two years of interdisciplinary modelling fun: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

PhD position on protein-based sexing at York, Faunal sex-selectivity in ancient hunter-gatherer societies: insights from protein-based sex identification, see further information here www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

For those of you who (wisely) haven’t been on Twitter lately and may not know, I recently had an article come out in the EHR on early medieval British plague and its broader historiographical implications. Just message me if you don’t have access and need a pdf!

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🌅 Day 3 of #IZAZ2024 kicks off with Rachel Winter discussing the use of palaeoproteomics for understanding marine historical ecology. Your correspondent battled Paris RER delays and only made it for the final slide! 🐟 #archaeology #ZooMS Luckily she is heading to Copenhagen to work with in 2025!

🐟 Now at #IZAZ2024: Teodora Mladenović presents groundbreaking work on sturgeon identification using #ZooMS. These endangered ancient fish have been crucial in European history, but their archaeological remains are notoriously hard to identify to species level.

🐟 Fascinating talk coming up at #IZAZ2024 by Carli Peters et al. on fish exploitation along the Ancient Silk Road! Looking forward to seeing this research when it's published. #archaeology #ZooMS.

A fascinating large piece of archaeological detective work: using ZooMS to identify whale species from worked artifacts across European coastal sites. Each specimen helps reconstruct historical whale populations and human-whale interactions! 🐋 #archaeology #IZAZ2024

If you have any bones for @archaeorattus.bsky.social to build their database, let them know!

Sam & David are heading to the ‘Integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology’ workshop in Paris, to talk about how ZooMS collagen fingerprinting fits into our workflow for studying tiny rat bones - alongside zooarchaeology, radiocarbon, aDNA, and isotopes.
Here we are doing our homework on the train...

SEACHANGE is now here! @seachange-erc.bsky.social
Very cool ERC-Synergy project looking at human impact on marine environments, via archaeological & historical datasets on the one hand and offshore coring & palaeoecology on the other.

More new followers- hello! As an introduction, I am currently a PDRA on the RATTUS project (@archaeorattus.bsky.social), applying isotope analysis to archaeological rats. If you want to find out more, heres an intro post I wrote for the RATTUS blog: the-rattus-project.blogspot.com/2024/09/meet... 🏺

So here we are. A lot's changed since I (David) stepped back from Twitter a few years ago. For a start my rat work has grown into a major research project, RATTUS, thanks to the ERC & UKRI - see sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/rattus/

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