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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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Robert C Power @robertcpower.bsky.social · Jul 14

Great start to #IMPR2025 in Barcelona with a very informative phytolith morphomtery workshop #archaeobotany #imfcsi

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Elisavet Stamataki @elliestam.bsky.social · Jul 11

🎉 Thrilled to share our new paper just published in @PLOSONE!

In this study we explored how weather & seasonality impact cremation conditions using experimental archaeology, FTIR-ATR, and isotope analysis.

👉 Read it here: journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

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Rosalie Hermans @rosaliehermans.bsky.social · May 20

@brusselsbioarch.bsky.social @amgc-vub.bsky.social @caestromberg.bsky.social

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Rosalie Hermans @rosaliehermans.bsky.social · May 20

Very exciting to organise this workshop together with @welmoedo.bsky.social, @jrphytoliths.bsky.social, Rand Evett, Marta Portillo Ramirez, Robert Power.

More information on the workshop and the IMPR can be found here: impr2025.imf.csic.es

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Rosalie Hermans @rosaliehermans.bsky.social · May 20

This stunning phytolith comes from Litachne pauciflora (a bamboo).

It’s part of the 3D phytolith collection by @stromberglab.bsky.social, used for fossil phytolith classification and shape evolution of grasses

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Rosalie Hermans @rosaliehermans.bsky.social · May 20

Prepping for the Phytolith Morphometry Workshop at #IMPR2025 in Barcelona this July!

We’ll dive into the some hands-on 3D modelling of phytoliths.

👉 For scholars attending the IMPR, please feel free to attend the workshop by registering before May 31!

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Rosalie Hermans @rosaliehermans.bsky.social · May 7

🔷 Join us on Friday (online)! 🔷

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Elisavet Stamataki @elliestam.bsky.social · Apr 22

Paper Alert 🔥
Want to learn more about Roman cremations?
Can’t sleep because you keep thinking about how the Romans burned their dead?
Then don't miss our latest paper & download it for free here: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1kzX5,rVDBnN…

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Rosalie Hermans @rosaliehermans.bsky.social · Apr 17

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Rosalie Hermans @rosaliehermans.bsky.social · Apr 17

🌿 I’m excited to be speaking at the upcoming Open Research Meeting.

Join us to discuss how we can share phytolith images more openly within the community.

🗓️ 9 May, 16:00–17:00 UTC+1
💻 Online
🔗 Register: turing-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Christophe Snoeck @christophe-fire.bsky.social · Apr 1

The LOCO project is looking for 2 PhDs and 2 Post-docs in (bio-)archaeology, history, geochemistry, and digital humanities. This joint project between VUB, KUL, and UGent looks at the mobility of people, materials, and ideas in the Low Countries. Apply before 30 April 2025 😀

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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · Mar 27

🎉 Good news! The paper ‘Phytoliths in dicotyledons occurring in Northwest Europe: establishing a baseline’ by R. Hermans et al. is now #free for a limited time 1/7

👉 doi.org/pdrp

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Next time you feel the sharp sting of a nettle (Urtica), think of its fascinating stinging microhairs - here around 150–200 µm in length - with irritating chemicals stored in their bulbous heads.
The study study investigates plant silica bodies (phytoliths), including these microhairs and other morphotypes, of extant dicotyledons prevalent in North-Western Europe, establishing a baseline for botanical, archaeobotanical, and palaeoecological research.

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Rosalie Hermans @rosaliehermans.bsky.social · Mar 12

(5/5) This work wouldn’t have been possible without my amazing co-authors and research groups:
👥 @christophe-fire.bsky.social @caestromberg.bsky.social @tloeffelmann.bsky.social
@amgc-vub.bsky.social @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social @stromberglab.bsky.social 🙌

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Rosalie Hermans @rosaliehermans.bsky.social · Mar 12

(4/5) One of the coolest parts? We built an open-access repository with 964 phytolith images—a digital reference collection for researchers to use! 📸

Check it out here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Phytoliths in dicotyledons occurring in North-western Europe: Establishing a baseline

This repository contains raw data tables, the R analysis script, plant tissue sample images, and 964 labeled microphotographs as part of the study "Phytoliths in dicotyledons occurring in North-wester...

doi.org

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Rosalie Hermans @rosaliehermans.bsky.social · Mar 12

(3/5) 💡 Key findings:
✅ Some phytolith morphotypes & features are taxonomically diagnostic
✅ Phytolith production varies, but phytolith assemblage composition are consistent
✅ Plant part & taxonomy influence phytolith presence with high production in leaves and certain plant families

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Rosalie Hermans @rosaliehermans.bsky.social · Mar 12

(2/5) Why does this paper matter? 🤔
Until now, there was no systematic dicotyledon phytolith reference for NW Europe, making it hard to interpret phytolith records in archaeology & palaeoecology. We tackled this by analyzing phytoliths from 117 plant specimens! 🌿

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Rosalie Hermans @rosaliehermans.bsky.social · Mar 12

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨
(1/5) Excited to share that our latest paper on dicotyledon phytoliths in NW Europe can now be found here! 🌱🔬 This study fills a gap by documenting and analyzing phytoliths from 74 dicot species.

If you want a free access link to the paper, contact us! 📩

Phytoliths in dicotyledons occurring in Northwest Europe: establishing a baseline

AbstractBackground and Aims. The absence of a modern plant-based ‘dicotyledon’ phytolith reference baseline impedes the accurate interpretation of fossil p

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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · Jan 6

Massive congrats to @Christophe-fire.bsky.social on winning a VUB Brussel Excellent PhD Supervisor Award. Your support and enthusiasm mean the 🌍 to the team 🔥

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Rosalie Hermans @rosaliehermans.bsky.social · Dec 17

So excited to share our accepted manuscript! It sets up a dicot phytolith baseline for NW Europe.

Phytolith researchers working on reference materials know how time-consuming this type of work is 🥵, I hope it will be useful to many.

Happy reading soon and feel free to reach out!

Phytoliths in dicotyledons occurring in North-western Europe: Establishing a baseline

AbstractBackground and Aims. The absence of a modern plant-based ‘dicotyledon’ phytolith reference baseline impedes the accurate interpretation of fossil p

academic.oup.com

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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · Dec 11

The first Belgium’s strontium isoscape is out now!
Amanda Sengeløv & the team provide the first 604 plant samples from 220 locations, with more data coming soon!

Paper here👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dataset available on @isoarch.bsky.social 👇https://doi.org/10.48530/ISOARCH.2024.001

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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · Dec 3

New BB-LAB paper out 👍🏻 Marta Hlad and the team identified and characterised patterns in cremation analysis practices through an online survey of those working on cremated human remains 👇
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Practitioner preferences in the analysis of cremation deposits in archaeology and biological anthropology: An overview of current osteoarchaeological practices with a focus on sex estimation

Osteological data, such as biological sex, constitute a base for research in paleodemography and palaeopathology, as well as for understanding past socio-cultural practices. Despite extensive research...

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Archaeology, Environmental Changes & Geo-Chemistry @amgc-vub.bsky.social · Nov 26

Time & Space! At this years Wetenschapfestival Brussel, our @amgc-vub.bsky.social team presented themes of both archaeology and cosmo chemistry under one roof, presenting samples, creating art, and giving out free (temporary) tattoos 🦷🦴🔥☄️🌘🪨🚀

Well done to the whole team!

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Francisco Nares @frvnico.bsky.social · Nov 26

Hello! Brand new to Bluesky so I thought I'd make a post sharing a new-ish paper of ours in IJPS on unraveling a bit more of the deceptively complex diversity of sycamores/planetrees in ancient western North America.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Print version out January 2025! 🍂🍁

Compound-Leaved Platanaceae in the Eocene of Western North America | International Journal of Plant Sciences

Premise of research. The genus Platanites, an extinct platanoid distinctive because of its trifoliolate compound leaves, has previously been documented only from the late Cretaceous and Paleocene of w...

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Chad Yost @phytolithologist.bsky.social · Nov 25

PHYTO-CHAT-L, the new email discussion list for anything #phytolith related is now up and running. Fill out the subscription form with your name, affiliation, and email address, and you will be subscribed to the list:

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Hello and thank you for your interest in the PHYTO-CHAT discussion list! In an effort to block spam messages, subscribers to PHYTO-CHAT-L will be added manually by the list owner. Once added to the l...

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