Ellen Kendall
@ellenkendall.bsky.social
Wellcome Fellow. Researching climate and human health in wetlands @durham_uni | Bioarchaeologist, stable isotopes and palaeopathology. Perennially curious Anglo-American.
You can never get a cup of tea large enough, or a book long enough, to suit me.
You can never get a cup of tea large enough, or a book long enough, to suit me.
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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/...
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
July 30, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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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
🌍 🧪 🦤
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
🌍 🧪 🦤
July 17, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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
🌍 🧪 🦤
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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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-...
January 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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-...
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.
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.
Brilliant substack by @bob-hawkins.bsky.social on the worrying rise of vaccine hesitancy over last 5 years
open.substack.com/pub/bhawkins...
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
January 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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.
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.
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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...
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
December 11, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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...
doi.org/10.1080/0029...
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 noel.j.hincha@durham.ac.uk
Naomi Kilburn naomi.n.kilburn@durham.ac.uk
Sangyu Shen sangyu.shen@mail.utoronto.ca
"Out of their element: novel methods of isotope analysis to investigate health and disease in the past"
Organizers:
Noel Hincha noel.j.hincha@durham.ac.uk
Naomi Kilburn naomi.n.kilburn@durham.ac.uk
Sangyu Shen sangyu.shen@mail.utoronto.ca
December 9, 2024 at 11:12 AM
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 noel.j.hincha@durham.ac.uk
Naomi Kilburn naomi.n.kilburn@durham.ac.uk
Sangyu Shen sangyu.shen@mail.utoronto.ca
"Out of their element: novel methods of isotope analysis to investigate health and disease in the past"
Organizers:
Noel Hincha noel.j.hincha@durham.ac.uk
Naomi Kilburn naomi.n.kilburn@durham.ac.uk
Sangyu Shen sangyu.shen@mail.utoronto.ca
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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
November 28, 2024 at 8:17 PM
My amazing colleague and friend Becky Gowland gave a public talk recently. Check it out youtu.be/Bnml0j-6_aM?... #childhood #bioarchaeology #osteoarchaeology
Looking forward to reading this - tuberculosis is a topic of both professional and personal relevance for me.
December 4, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Looking forward to reading this - tuberculosis is a topic of both professional and personal relevance for me.
December 2, 2024 at 2:47 PM
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!
December 2, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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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📢 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!
The conference theme is 'Children and Climate Change' 🌏 Call for Papers and further information will be circulated soon #childhood #archaeology #history Please RT!
November 30, 2024 at 9:45 PM
📢 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!
The conference theme is 'Children and Climate Change' 🌏 Call for Papers and further information will be circulated soon #childhood #archaeology #history Please RT!
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...
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
November 29, 2024 at 3:19 PM
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...
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...
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#SSCIP2024
One year of organization and already over 😌
Thanks very much to the @sscipchildhood.bsky.social for their trust in organizing it !!
One year of organization and already over 😌
Thanks very much to the @sscipchildhood.bsky.social for their trust in organizing it !!
November 23, 2024 at 2:21 PM
#SSCIP2024
One year of organization and already over 😌
Thanks very much to the @sscipchildhood.bsky.social for their trust in organizing it !!
One year of organization and already over 😌
Thanks very much to the @sscipchildhood.bsky.social for their trust in organizing it !!
Signing off from #SSCIP2024. Big thanks to the organisation team at Bordeaux for a wonderful job! And if you have an interest in childhood research please consider joining @sscipchildhood.bsky.social and getting involved with the Society.
November 22, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Signing off from #SSCIP2024. Big thanks to the organisation team at Bordeaux for a wonderful job! And if you have an interest in childhood research please consider joining @sscipchildhood.bsky.social and getting involved with the Society.
For our final presentation of the conference, Maya Krause presents a bioarachaeological study of weaning, diet, and locality in a Middle Horizon (600-1000CE) Andean population. #SSCIP2024
November 22, 2024 at 4:22 PM
For our final presentation of the conference, Maya Krause presents a bioarachaeological study of weaning, diet, and locality in a Middle Horizon (600-1000CE) Andean population. #SSCIP2024
Following the theme of colonialism and structural violence, next we have Abucar Fofana Léon presenting research on the complex relationship between medicine and enslavement for enslaved children in 18th century "Mozambique". #SSCIP2024
November 22, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Following the theme of colonialism and structural violence, next we have Abucar Fofana Léon presenting research on the complex relationship between medicine and enslavement for enslaved children in 18th century "Mozambique". #SSCIP2024
Opening our last session of the conference is Kristin De Lucia, talking about children's burials and structural violence in colonial Mexico. #SSCIP2024
November 22, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Opening our last session of the conference is Kristin De Lucia, talking about children's burials and structural violence in colonial Mexico. #SSCIP2024
The last paper of our afternoon session will be presented by Linda Vilumets on multidisciplinary analysis of child skeletal remains from an 18th century garrison hospital cemetery in Estonia. #SSCIP2024
November 22, 2024 at 2:58 PM
The last paper of our afternoon session will be presented by Linda Vilumets on multidisciplinary analysis of child skeletal remains from an 18th century garrison hospital cemetery in Estonia. #SSCIP2024
Next up: Selene Caraballo presents bioarchaeological data on four 15th century children buried at the first European settlement in the Canary Islands. #SSCIP2024
November 22, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Next up: Selene Caraballo presents bioarchaeological data on four 15th century children buried at the first European settlement in the Canary Islands. #SSCIP2024
Following a coffee break, our next presentation is by Juliana de Mello Moraes on the place of children in the Portugese colonisation of South America. #SSCIP2024
November 22, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Following a coffee break, our next presentation is by Juliana de Mello Moraes on the place of children in the Portugese colonisation of South America. #SSCIP2024
We now return to tooth development in early life histories with a paper presented by Julia Estivals on tooth enamel hypomineralisation in modern and archaeological children's teeth. #SSCIP2024
November 22, 2024 at 1:40 PM
We now return to tooth development in early life histories with a paper presented by Julia Estivals on tooth enamel hypomineralisation in modern and archaeological children's teeth. #SSCIP2024
Our next paper is presented by Isabelle Souquet, on mother-child double burials in Protestant and Catholic cemeteries of 18th century Rochelle, France. #SSCIP2024
November 22, 2024 at 1:25 PM
Our next paper is presented by Isabelle Souquet, on mother-child double burials in Protestant and Catholic cemeteries of 18th century Rochelle, France. #SSCIP2024
Back after a lovely lunch and some wonderful sunshine, our first paper in the next session is presented by Elizabeth Peacock on coffined foetal burials in 18-19th century Swedish churches
November 22, 2024 at 1:03 PM
Back after a lovely lunch and some wonderful sunshine, our first paper in the next session is presented by Elizabeth Peacock on coffined foetal burials in 18-19th century Swedish churches
We're returning after our coffee break for our second keynote lecture, by Joëlle Provasi. She's speaking today on maternal influences on foetal learning and cognition. #SSCIP2024
November 22, 2024 at 10:33 AM
We're returning after our coffee break for our second keynote lecture, by Joëlle Provasi. She's speaking today on maternal influences on foetal learning and cognition. #SSCIP2024
The last talk of our morning session is by Corinne Feuillatre, whose research focuses on understanding growth and nutrition through stable isotopes in populations past and present. #SSCIP2024
November 22, 2024 at 9:44 AM
The last talk of our morning session is by Corinne Feuillatre, whose research focuses on understanding growth and nutrition through stable isotopes in populations past and present. #SSCIP2024