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Alex Burnett @archaeoalex.bsky.social · 8d

Really excited to share the preprint for @halbevi.bsky.social and I’s new paper! Lithic tools from the Mesolithic and Neolithic were analysed with palaeoproteomics, use-wear, radiocarbon and optical microscopy residue analyses to find evidence of bovine butchery!

bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 9d

Palaeoproteomics reveals bovine carcass processing with 6,000-year-old flint tools https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679186v1

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Prof. Rhiannon Stevens @nannonstevens.bsky.social · 14d

New paper by Tamsin O’Connell:

This is a MUST read for all archaeologists who include isotopes in their projects.

“The signal and the noise: inherent challenges for isotopic studies in bioarchaeology”

doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

#stableisotopes

Redirecting

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Dr Alessio Veneziano @aveneziano.bsky.social · Aug 25

If you work in #archaeology or related, consider signing this letter to demand @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social to cut ties with Israel and take a position against ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and their heritage! 🧪 #science 🇵🇸 #FreePalestine #BoycottIsrael #eaa2025

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open letter to EAA calling for a boycott of Israel

Please fill out the form below and add your name to over 1200 others on this open letter*, calling on the European Association of Archaeologists to respond to ICOMOS Palestine's appeal for cultural h...

docs.google.com

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Jan Dekker @jaadekker.bsky.social · Aug 23

Happy to announce that the paper on the first of our experiments to better understand how foodcrusts can be used for investigating diet in the past is finally out! Huge thanks to @jessiehendy.bsky.social and @matthewcollins.bsky.social for their support!
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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An unclean slate, discrepancies between food input and recovered protein signal from experimental foodcrusts

Organic residues are a rich source of biomolecular information on ancient diets. In particular, foodcrusts, charred residues on ceramics, are commonly analysed for their lipid content and to a lesser ...

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Michael Haslam @twigtechnology.bsky.social · Aug 20

What if there was a job where you were paid £33,714 a year to play with Lego and work in an internationally renowned museum, with the aim of inciting curiosity and wonder about the natural world?

Applications close end of August.

@nhm-london.bsky.social 🧪🧸🏺

Creative Producer: LEGO Programme:South Kensington

jobs.nhm.ac.uk

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Zandra Fagernäs @zandraselina.bsky.social · Aug 18

Registration deadline is TOMORROW! 🍝 🏺

PAASTA Community @paastacommunity.bsky.social · Jul 30

✨✨Reminder that we are hosting a (virtual and in-person) pre-ISBA conference✨✨ on the 26th of August (13:00-17:00 CET) which will include talks from members of our community and the PAASTA Annual General Meeting. Additional details can be found here: paasta-community.github.io/events/2025/...

Pre-ISBA PAASTA Conference · PAASTA Community

paasta-community.github.io

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Pontus Skoglund @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social · Aug 16

Now recruiting for two positions in my lab:

Postdoc in computational analysis of ancient human genomes www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Bioarchaeology staff scientist supporting human aDNA projects www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Background: sites.google.com/view/skoglun...

Applications welcome!

Skoglund Lab - Ancient Genomics

Skoglund lab

sites.google.com

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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.

crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

(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...

crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com

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Center for the Human Past (CHP) @humanpastcenter.bsky.social · Aug 12

#Job alert: associate professor (universitetslektor) at the program in Human #Paleogenomics and #Population #Genomics. Please see the ad for more information. Application deadline: Sept 1st. #vacancy @haam-community.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social

www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-...

Universitetslektor i människans palaeo-och populationsgenomik - Uppsala universitet

Universitetslektor i människans palaeo-och populationsgenomik, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Faculty of Biology, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala universitet

www.uu.se

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National Trust Archaeology @nattrustarch.bsky.social · Aug 6

A great opportunity anyone aged 16 to 21 looking to get into archaeology, designed by the @archaeologyuk.bsky.social Youth Advisory Board - designed by young people, for young people!

Council for British Archaeology @archaeologyuk.bsky.social · Jul 30

Curious about archaeology but not sure where to start?

Join us on 13 September for Unearthing Futures, a FREE event created by young people, for young people at the Great North Museum: Hancock. Enjoy skills workshops, network, and have fun!

Travel + lunch covered 🍕

👉 shorturl.at/KYmHV

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Dr. Ventresca-Miller @ventrescamiller.bsky.social · Jul 28

The Ancient Protein and Isotope Laboratory at the University of Michigan is hiring a manager to start this fall.

@umich.edu @umichresearch.bsky.social

#archaeology #chemistry #michigan #annarbor

Lab Manager | U-M Careers

careers.umich.edu

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Lars S. Sørensen @handansken.bsky.social · Jul 15

This looks like a new Olympic event: "100 meter search trench, with a complete Harris" #Archaeology

Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · Jul 15

We made great progress today despite the fact that the director has a tooth abscess and has been in agony since yesterday.

The show must go on...

A line of archaeology trainees mattocking in a trench

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · Jul 14

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.

Stop using WeTransfer.

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Prof. Valentin Fischer @val-fisch.bsky.social · Jul 6

new lab paper, lead by Dr. Greg Abrams! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Earliest evidence of Neanderthal multifunctional bone tool production from cave lion (Panthera spelaea) remains - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Earliest evidence of Neanderthal multifunctional bone tool production from cave lion (Panthera spelaea) remains

www.nature.com

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Alex Burnett @archaeoalex.bsky.social · Jul 6

Spoken by archaeologists and early historians alike 😎

Fucking Every Word @everyword.bsky.social · Jul 6

fucking archaeology

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Ben Marwick @benmarwick.bsky.social · Jul 6

Here is my checklist summarising a small set of some of the simplest tasks you can do that have high potential to improve the reproducibility of your analysis code.

This is based on my year of reproducibility reviews for the J. of Archaeological Science:

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM... 🧪🏺

Checklist of items researchers can do to improve the reproducibility of their code

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Alex Burnett @archaeoalex.bsky.social · Jul 1

These are SO fun. We had a class during my undergrad at the University of York (Archaeology) where we had to make memes - I remember it well. I’m sure I still have the one I made saved somewhere…

Krystle J McLaughlin @biophyskrys.bsky.social · Jul 1

Fro the last few years, as part of a final assignment in my senior biophysical chem class I ask students to share a class-related memes, with ones they make themselves highly encouraged!
For everyone's enjoyment, here are some of my favorites!
#chemistry #biochemistry #sigfigs #units 🧪

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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · Jul 1

Typos, gender-neutral pronouns and even emotional language in patient messages make large language models more likely to recommend people stay home instead of seek medical care.

This AI bias could be especially problematic for certain patient populations. 🧪

www.newscientist.com/article/2486...

Typos and slang spur AI to discourage seeking medical care

AI models change their medical recommendations when people ask them questions that include colourful language, typos, odd formatting and even gender-neutral pronouns

www.newscientist.com

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Alex Burnett @archaeoalex.bsky.social · Jul 1

I’ve been living in fearful anticipation of this situation for all of my doctorate so far - and have awe for those who pull through it all! Including colleagues who defended grant applications and #PhD in the same week! #academia

Dr Emily Drabek-Maunder 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🧑‍🔬 @edrabek.bsky.social · Jul 1

Recently, many people have commented on how hard it must be to simultaneously finish analyses, write my PhD thesis, and apply for fellowships/grants/jobs. It is hard. But it is also nice to be validated by other scientists, particularly those at a higher level. Thank you for the empathy. ❤️🧠⚛️🧑‍🔬🧪

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Kennis&Kennis Reconstructions @adriekennis.bsky.social · Jun 16

Today the reconstruction of the 10.000 year old Mesolitic woman has been presented in Dinant (BE) by Isabelle de Groote van UGent
#Margaux #Mesolitic #UGent #reconstruction

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Alex Burnett @archaeoalex.bsky.social · Jun 17

Isn’t she just! There weren’t any material goods found in Grotte Margaux itself, we based the badger tooth pendant and other objects on finds and animals from other Mesolithic sites. I don’t think any of the ochre from the cave made it onto the bust, but having ochre on her forehead was considered!

Alex Burnett @archaeoalex.bsky.social · Jun 17

Great fun yesterday in the Meuse Valley where we showcased the fantastic Kennis brothers and @roam-ugent.bsky.social team's reconstruction of cranium 1 from the #Mesolithic Grotte Margaux! Don't forget to join the public vote - will she be called Margo, Freyà, or Mos'anne? www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

A human cranium sits on a round black table next to a bust of a woman with tanned light brown skin, wearing a necklace made of a perforated badger tooth, and a headdress with upright feathers. She has dark hair wrapped up around the sides of the headdress, and the front of her hair is shaven. Her expression is intriguing, with pursed lips, prominent cheekbones, and eyes seeming to squint in the sunlight. In the background, the Meuse river flows between green fields and tree-covered hills and cliffs.

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Ghent Archaeology Department / Archeologie Ugent @archeougent.bsky.social · Jun 16

📣Job opening: funded PhD position 📣
Interested in Finale Paleolithic and Mesolithic lithic assemblages in the Belgian Meuse Valley and their evolution across time?
Apply before the 27th of June 2025 to be part of an interesting project! All information in the link below www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...

Doctoral fellow

www.ugent.be

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ROAM- Regional Outlook on Ancient Migration @roam-ugent.bsky.social · Jun 16

Meet the Lady from Grotte Margaux! How should we name her? Join the vote ugent.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
📸 copyright 2025: roam-ugent

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · Jun 12

If you're doing a Google search and want to get rid of the annoying and usually wildly wrong AI summary at the start of the list of hits, put "-ai" (without the quotes) after a space at the end of whatever you've put in the search box.

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