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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 18d

Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches.

This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists!

Archaeologists! Please volunteer
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

a woman is smiling and holding a cup that says help me .

Alt: a woman is smiling and holding a cup that says help me .

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Lucy Koster @lucyjkoster.bsky.social · 24d

Excited to be giving a talk this Thursday for the Badenoch Heritage Festival on Croftgowan (the sometimes-forgotten site from my PhD!

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Fragments of Life: Insights into Croftgowan

Following the archaeological dig at the Pictish barrow cemetery at Croftgowan in 2021, Lucy Koster will tell of the latest findings.

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Emma Legrand @emmalegrand.bsky.social · Sep 5

🗣️ New paper! 🗣️

The mobility patterns of the population of Gallo-Roman Tienen (Belgium) are keeping you up at night? Wondering if there is more than mobility reflected in these 87Sr/86Sr results? This is very relatable, and conveniently, I have the right paper for you! It's accessible right there 👇

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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ever wondered what life was like at the end of the Ice Age? What did people eat? How did they make tools? Come and meet the PALaEoScot team at Explorathon on Sept 14th 11am-4pm at UoA’s King’s College in Old Aberdeen and meet our living prehistorians at their camp! Link below ⬇️

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The Black Trowel Collective @blacktrowel.bsky.social · Sep 2

BTC Call for Action - EAA

EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns.

Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...

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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · Aug 25

We are on our way to @isba11.bsky.social 🚅 Ready for a week of archaeology and science
🏺🦴🦷🧪⚛️🥼🍝🍕

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Dr Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · Aug 14

A slightly more accessible route in to our research on Neolithic Ireland and the early breakdown of genetic kin as an organising principle for burial, as early at 3600 BC (from memory) - due to increasing mobility.

Thanks for the heads up @pennybickle.bsky.social 👍🏼

Penny Bickle @pennybickle.bsky.social · Aug 14

The last piece associated with the brilliant team effort to rethink aDNA results and social relations in Neolithic Ireland is in this month’s Current Archaeology magazine with an absolutely gorgeous cover image of Newgrange (credit: Ken Williams) archaeology.co.uk

Current Archaeology

Britain's favourite archaeology magazine

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Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · Aug 13

Also - come and get my job! Which I’m still partially doing, but someone needs to take up the slack/ allow me to send them to far flung locations to retrieve mysterious ancient samples. See the World*!

*mainly Britain.

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(Senior) Laboratory Research Scientist - Bioarchaeologist

Salary for this Role: LRS level from £36,535 per annum plus benefits SLRS level from £45,700 per annum plus benefits Job Title: (Senior) Laboratory Research Scientist - Bioarchaeologist Reports to: Po...

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Hannah James @toothdetective.bsky.social · Aug 11

Our bioavailable strontium baseline for Corsica is out! ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ranges from 0.7075 to 0.7169 and was established from 245 plant & soil leachate samples from 125 sites.

Check out the article here lnkd.in/e6pDJFCY
and the dataset can be downloaded from the IsoArcH database here lnkd.in/eFNS5Xbw

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Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project @sedgefordarch.bsky.social · Jul 8

Impromptu talk by @lucyjkoster.bsky.social on determining animal versus human bone on trench, following up on yesterday's training our volunteers had with our reference collection.

A group of volunteers stand rapt in attention as Lucy examines some charred bone recovered from a deposit.

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Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project @sedgefordarch.bsky.social · Jul 8

After a rainy few days, we're finally getting into the nitty gritty and delving into the silty sand.

Screenshot of an Instagram story. The camera looks out over a trench with a hive of activity hoeing and toweling to bring up features. A caption above in the beautiful blue sky says 'sun's out, trowels out'

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Lucy Koster @lucyjkoster.bsky.social · Jul 7

Photo description: Linus, me, and Kate (l to r) smile up as Linus takes a selfie. We are all wearing our academic robes and hats (mine is Aberdeen, theirs are Durham). We are grinning and holding prosecco, and Linus has managed to catch an excellent angle.

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Lucy Koster @lucyjkoster.bsky.social · Jul 7

I had a wonderful time celebrating my PhD and saying goodbye to @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social last week! Especially grateful to @flinklinus.bsky.social and @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social for being excellent supervisors and seeing me off!

Linus Girdland Flink @flinklinus.bsky.social · Jul 4

Graduation time, congrats again @lucyjkoster.bsky.social! With @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social

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Lucy Koster @lucyjkoster.bsky.social · Jul 7

Taking a couple of weeks away from @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social for fieldwork at @sedgefordarch.bsky.social in Norfolk! Our human remains volunteers have made an excellent start so far and I will be spamming updates as we go 😊💀💀

George, our anatomical model skeleton, is stood in at the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Sedgeford where human remains is based. He appears to be shrugging with his right arm. Some of our admin tables are visible behind him. He is excited for the wonderful osteology we will get to record this year.

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Lucy Koster @lucyjkoster.bsky.social · Jun 2

I've had the best time in Aberdeen! I'm sad to be leaving but excited for everything to come in Belgium ☺️

Linus Girdland Flink @flinklinus.bsky.social · May 27

Last day in Aberdeen! Wishing you all the best in your new postdoctoral job Lucy @lucyjkoster.bsky.social @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social

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SHOC VUB @shoc-vub.bsky.social · Apr 24

Meet Patxi Pérez Ramallo, new SHOC member! Patxi will be working as a postdoctoral researcher on the Make-Up of the cities project under the supervision of Bart Lambert. Click on the link below to read his bio.
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PATXI PEREZ RAMALLO JOINS SHOC

SHOC welcomes new member Patxi Pérez Ramallo! Patxi will be working as a postdoctoral researcher on the Make-Up of the cities project under the supervision of Bart Lambert.

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · Apr 18

Honestly, same.

People are like "well you *must* be smart with a PhD!". Absolutely not, I am merely obsessively interested in an extremely niche topic and far more stubborn than is good for my health, and otherwise I am content to bumble through my life, occasionally walking into walls.

jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · Apr 18

One of the best parts of getting old has been the realization that I am much less smart and competent than I was led to believe when I was younger and accepting that fact has reduced my stress level so much. I think everyone should embrace their stupidity

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · Apr 17

This is useful, from Scientific American

Biology doesn’t give us a simple binary model of sex

Society, law and infrastructure needs to catch up so that everybody can have privacy, dignity and safety

www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic

Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male

www.scientificamerican.com

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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · Apr 16

Biological sex is messy. It’s isn’t a simple case of XX and XY. It’s far more complicated than that. So how can you define a woman based on biological sex? What is meant by ‘biological sex’? This ruling by the UK Supreme Court is just so stupid, dangerous and a travesty for trans women, 1/

A diagram that shows all of the different combinations of possible biological sex outcomes from conception through puberty. There are many and are dependent on a whole raft of factors not just XX and XY. I don’t know who to credit as I copied this without taking the name. Grrrrrr. Apologies, and if someone knows who did this, please let me know.

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Bess @bettytomsdottir.bsky.social · Apr 16

I would like to say that I have never felt that trans women's rights in any way reduce my rights as a cis gendered woman.

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · Apr 16

The law needs to catch up with our understanding of human biology - this book is out early next month and is v illuminating: if we can cope as a society with the embodied complexities of how people develop and experience a spectrum of sexualities, then we can cope with a gender-sex spectrum

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Dr Martin Roberts @robertsmartino.bsky.social · Apr 16

Solidarity with the trans community from this ally today! With those ace, intersex, & all who see themselves LGBTQIA+, too! I expected the SC ruling tbh (it's not a liberally minded outfit) but I'm also putting this out there because even biological sex is massively complex & certainly not binary.

Biological sex is complicated. Document explaining why. Source unknown.

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · Apr 15

'What’s the problem? Well, pretty much everything. These aren’t species returned from extinction.'

@oxfordgeography.bsky.social's Dr Richard Grenyer argues that extinction is, for the time being, a symptom of our global economic system ⬇️

Why ‘de-extinct’ dire wolves are a Trojan horse to hide humanity’s destruction of nature

Extinction is, for the time being, forever – and a symptom of our global economic system.

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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · Apr 8

Inside me there are two wolves. One of them has a 15 genome edits the other 20 genome edits. Neither of them is a dire wolf.

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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · Apr 8

NO THEY ARE NOT DIRE WOLVES.

These animals do not have their ecosystem to return to.

These animals do not have a real pack to rear them.

And DO NOT BE BAMBOOZLED- storing and archiving animal's genetic material is NOT an effective bulwark against the human-driven planetary extinction crisis.

a couple of wolves are playing with each other on the ground .

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