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Sharon DeWitte @sharondewitte.bsky.social · Jul 30

This paper was a long time coming - includes data gathered over many years via support from multiple #NSF and #WennerGren grants.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Childhood nutritional stress and later-life health outcomes in medieval England: Evidence from incremental dentine analysis

Childhood malnutrition may have led to poor adult health in medieval England and became less common after the Black Death.

www.science.org

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · Jul 28

I'm also concerned about why they asked him if he's autistic - in what way is that relevant?

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Kevin Wood @drkevinwood.bsky.social · Jul 17

The Global Wetland Outlook 2025 is now online.

Glad to have contributed to this new report on the state of #wetlands worldwide, their value, and their future.

www.global-wetland-outlook.ramsar.org

🌍 🧪 🦤

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · Apr 25

Science friends are the best - I'm so lucky to have you as one of mine too!

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · Mar 1

It absolutely should not be. In my own family, multiple children were lost to measles - short memories are making us foolish.

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · Jan 21

Semi-supination, not pronation, was the relaxed natural position. I tested this with two other people. Try it yourself and see what you think. Achieving pronation doesn't come naturally and triggers forearm tension which is slightly uncomfortable. So whatever this was, I think it was intentional.

Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · Jan 21

The one thing I don't think this is: awkwardness. Not only because it was repeated, but because - being myself awkward and uncoordinated - I tried an experiment this morning. I pounded my chest and threw my arm out and up as if in enthusiasm. The thing is, my palm ended up facing upward/inward.

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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · Jan 17

Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · Jan 18

She lost two of them within days of each other, from measles. I think she would be outraged, demanding to know why, when we have so much power to prevent and decrease suffering like hers, we throw it away. I wonder if people who romanticise a mythic "healthier" past are really prepared for reality.

Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · Jan 18

In particular, I'd love to hear my great-great grandmother's thoughts, but she died in 1912 at the age of only 32, after years of suffering from a disease that's now fully treatable in most cases with antibiotics. She also buried 4 of her 9 children before the age of 5.

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · Jan 18

Discouraging.

I wonder what my ancestors would have made of all of this, how incredible privilege combined with ignorance has enabled the metastasis of conspiracy thinking and distrust of medicine more generally.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · Jan 18

Brilliant substack by @bob-hawkins.bsky.social on the worrying rise of vaccine hesitancy over last 5 years
open.substack.com/pub/bhawkins...

What is happening to vaccine confidence?

This article examines data for the Spring 2024 Covid booster campaign in England to see if any progress was made to improve coverage amongst the eligible groups.

open.substack.com

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · Dec 19

I'm so sorry, what timing too.

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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · Dec 11

New paper using 7,000 burial records to track population changes in Iron Age Norway. Shows 75% population decline after 536/540 CE volcanic winter! Viking Age recovery linked to warmer climate, agricultural advances & trade networks. 🌋📊 #Archaeology #ClimateHistory #Viking

doi.org/10.1080/0029...

The Impact Of The 6th Century Crisis – Exploring Burials as a Proxy For Population Dynamics in Iron Age Scandinavia

This study examines population dynamics in South Norway during the Iron Age, focusing on the mid-6th century crisis and its aftermath. Analysis of nearly 7,000 dated burials reveals a substantial d...

doi.org

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · Dec 9

CFP for session at 2025 EAA meeting in Belgrade:

"Out of their element: novel methods of isotope analysis to investigate health and disease in the past"

Organizers:
Noel Hincha [email protected]
Naomi Kilburn [email protected]
Sangyu Shen [email protected]

Call for papers and posters for a session of the the 2025 EAA meeting entitled "Out of their element: novel methods of isotope analysis to investigate health and disease in the past".

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Siân Halcrow @ancientchildren.bsky.social · Nov 28

My amazing colleague and friend Becky Gowland gave a public talk recently. Check it out youtu.be/Bnml0j-6_aM?... #childhood #bioarchaeology #osteoarchaeology

Joan Pye Lecture 2024: "Life In Roman Britain: A View From The Skeleton" with Rebecca Gowland

YouTube video by Cotswold Archaeology

youtu.be

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · Dec 4

Looking forward to reading this - tuberculosis is a topic of both professional and personal relevance for me.

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Dec 4

💥💥💥

Coming soon, from @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social!!

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · Dec 2

theconversation.com/peatlands-ur...

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · Dec 2

For someone as keen on wetlands as I am, it seems odd that I only recently tried samphire for the first time. It's so delicious!

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The Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past @sscipchildhood.bsky.social · Nov 30

📢 NEWS 📢 We are delighted to announce that the 2025 SSCIP Annual Conference will take place in Aarhus, Denmark from 24th - 26th June 🥳

The conference theme is 'Children and Climate Change' 🌏 Call for Papers and further information will be circulated soon #childhood #archaeology #history Please RT!

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · Nov 29

Mobility isotopes are really good at excluding (to a reasonable degree) where someone isn't from, and then we're left with probabilities. But you're totally right, it's incredibly cool! New data is always so exciting. 😁

Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · Nov 29

Ooh, we're usually woolier than that! You'll hear a lot of "possible/probable" and "is consistent with childhood origin in x", and it's a bit of a struggle with media, who like to report things with a degree of certainty we generally don't have!

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · Nov 29

And project number two:

Refining dietary interpretation of archaeological humans in the Holocene of northwestern Europe using paired apatite and collagen carbon isotopes iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...

Refining dietary interpretation of archaeological humans in the Holocene of northwestern Europe using paired apatite and collagen carbon isotopes

iapetus2.ac.uk

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · Nov 29

Not one, but TWO archaeological isotope PhD studentships on offer at Durham!

Project number one:

Landscapes of resilience? Archaeobotanical and stable isotope analysis of archival material from the First Millennium CE in the Anglo-Scottish borders iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...

Landscapes of resilience? Archaeobotanical and stable isotope analysis of archival material from the First Millennium CE in the Anglo-Scottish borders

iapetus2.ac.uk

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · Nov 29

Excellent streak! I love the weird sentences. Favourites over the years have been "my belt is a real one" and "I desire not to kill any more".

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · Nov 29

Okay, this took me out! There's so much here.

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