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Skeleton in an ill-fitting skin suit | Ad Astra PhD Researcher in Bioarchaeology of Disability @ UCD dublin | she / her 🌈 🍉✨ 💀 mariaserranoruber.wixsite.com/home

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María Serrano @mserranor.bsky.social · Dec 2

What's up bluesky! I think it's about time for an introduction: I'm María, a PhD student in bioarchaeology 🦴🔍 studying the lived experiences and perceptions of disability in Roman Britain 🧑‍🦽🏺
Stick around to witness my descent into writing madness !

Maria and Jill standing by a plastic hanging skeleton, and behind a sign advertising an osteology drop-in session at Chester House Estate's Roman Fest event.

Maria giving a presentation titled Deciphering Disability Narratives in Roman Britain at UCD.

Maria standing in front of a digital poster titled "Detecting Disability: An Interdisciplinary Osteoarchaeological Pilot Study Applying the Index of Care to a Romano-British Population". She is wearing a lanyard that denotes she is at the EAA conference. Behind the screen and her is a marble relief depicting what look like humans and horses

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Interdisciplinary Seminar for Medieval Studies @ecrmedieval.bsky.social · 1d

Don't miss our career roundtable event tomorrow afternoon!
It's set to be a great discussion with loads of good advice for early career researchers.

See post below for details ⬇️

Interdisciplinary Seminar for Medieval Studies @ecrmedieval.bsky.social · 12d

📣Next event! 📣
Join us on 14 October at 12 PM in the UCD Global Lounge for a roundtable on Navigating a Career in Medieval Studies! 📚 The panel will include professionals from a variety of subjects, and will provide advice and guidance relevant to careers in and outside of academia.
See you there!

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María Serrano @mserranor.bsky.social · 22d

Thank you @babao2025meeting.bsky.social for a great conference! Thoroughly enjoyed all the fascinating presentations, the great discussions, and the chance to present my poster on a few case studies from my PhD research 🦴✨

Maria stands next to her poster entitled Deciphering Disability Narratives in the 3rd to 4th Century Roman Irchester: Looking Past Mobility Impairments. The poster has a purple colour scheme and features two censored images of skeletal elements, and a drawn figure of a classical statue containing the thoracic skeleton of a young woman.

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Archaeologists Against Apartheid and Genocide @archagainstaparth.bsky.social · Sep 5

Response from the BDS-movement (Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel) on the EAA. If you are a member, go to the AMBM today and voice your opinion!

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · May 20

Please share - Spark Space has gotten virtually no support in 2 weeks 🚨

This space serves 40+ students with internet, electricity, & shelter. It’s $17/day to sponsor one student.

Can you sponsor 1 student today?💡 66/400. chuffed.org/project/spar...

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In Gaza, war has destroyed homes, blocked roads, and left countless people without work. Yet, amidst the rubble, hope remains. Students and remote workers face daily struggles—power outages, broken…

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María Serrano @mserranor.bsky.social · Apr 12

ooh great shout, I'll send her an email!

María Serrano @mserranor.bsky.social · Apr 11

Q for the hivemind: what's the best place to find archaeological reconstruction illustrations? Struggling to find any online repositories

I'm specifically looking for examples of inclusive/intersectional depictions of Roman society (especially Roman Britain) would love any leads!
🏺 #AncientBlueSky

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María Serrano @mserranor.bsky.social · Apr 11

🏺Exciting conference next month in Dublin for environmental archaeologists!

Environmental Archaeology in Ireland @eaireland.bsky.social · Apr 11

Hi everyone! Our conference is in 29 days! Reserve your spot and please reshare !!😊 @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.ie/e/1319914021...

Environmental Archaeology in Ireland (EAI) Conference 2025

Join us in supporting our researchers and engaging in a discussion on perspectives of resilience, sustainability, and historic landscapes.

www.eventbrite.ie

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Peopling The Past @peoplingthepast.bsky.social · Mar 8

In honor of #InternationalWomensDay, our #ImageOfTheMonth is a marble relief commemorating two female gladiators —Amazon and Achillia.
Found in Halicarnassus, this relief was acquired through donation by the British Museum (1847,0424.19) in 1846, but prior provenience is murky.

Marble relief commemorating either the release from service or the discharge after a draw of two female gladiators, Amazon and Achillia. They are armed, and advancing to attack, with swords and shields. The figure on the right is missing the head. They stand on a platform, and below on each side is the head of a spectator. Inscribed above and on the platform. They are shown with the same equipment as male gladiators, but without helmets.

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Marc Martucci Morris @marchaeologist.bsky.social · Jan 8

Environmental archaeologist? Work in Ireland or with Irish material? Exploring questions of sustainability, past, present and future?

Calling papers for this year’s Environmental Archaeologists in Ireland Conference in Dublin on 10th May!

Submission link: tinyurl.com/eai2025

Submit by 10/2/2025.

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Eleanor Swallow @eswallow.bsky.social · Jan 6

Happy New Year!

Calling all animal-interested-prehistorians! Join the grad students of @ansoc-erc.bsky.social Nóra, Ollie, Gywain, @alexsiekmann.bsky.social, and I for our session #111 at #EAA2025 @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social.

Submit by 08/02/25 🐑🐎🐷🐮🫎

A call for papers poster for session #111 at the European Association of Archaeologists conference 2025. Titled "Let's address the other-than-human animal in the room: moving forward with multispecies archaeologies of prehistory".

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María Serrano @mserranor.bsky.social · Dec 10

Really loved this lecture by @jldraycott.bsky.social last week on assistive technology in antiquity, and it's now available online! Check it out for a fascinating discussion on how and why prosthetics were used in the past 🏺🦿👨‍🦽

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fXo...

Prosthetics and Assistive Technology in Ancient Greece and Rome - Jane Draycott

YouTube video by York Ideas

www.youtube.com

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María Serrano @mserranor.bsky.social · Dec 7

Very happy to! It won't let me attach PDF files to posts on here, but you can download a copy from my website: mariaserranoruber.wixsite.com/home/publica... - it's the first poster on the page 😊

PROJECTS | personal-resume

mariaserranoruber.wixsite.com

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María Serrano @mserranor.bsky.social · Dec 5

Would love to be added! 🦴💕

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Sam Tipper @sntipper.bsky.social · Nov 17

Started up a bioarch starter pack 🤩
Let me know if you want to be added or have suggestions 😊
#archaeology #bioarchaeology

go.bsky.app/N5yfURb

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María Serrano @mserranor.bsky.social · Dec 3

monsieur llama guided us all 🙏✨

María Serrano @mserranor.bsky.social · Dec 3

More of the amazing work presented today!

Eleanor Swallow @eswallow.bsky.social · Dec 3

Lovely day at SoA PhD Research Day! Presentations on everything from Viking ring pins @jp1331.bsky.social to Roman osteoarchaeology @mserranor.bsky.social

María Serrano @mserranor.bsky.social · Dec 3

Had a lovely day at the UCD Archaeology PhD Research day today!
A great chance for all of us to talk through some thoughts from our work so far, and an excuse to show off my romano-british bestie

(the hand turkeys on the chalkboard were paid actors)

Maria stands off the the side of a pull down screen. The screen shows a slide from her presentation, showing a cartoon woman with a walking stick, an image from a greek vase, and two images of medicinal plants. Maria is standing in front of a chalkboard (which sits behind the pull-down screen) on which two hand turkeys have been drawn.

a close-up of the cartoon woman with a cane from the previous image. A speech bubble to her right reads "salve!" - or hello in Latin.

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María Serrano @mserranor.bsky.social · Dec 2

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