Janet E Kay
@janetekay.bsky.social
Historian and archaeologist working on early medieval burial archaeology and plague
Really exciting, large scale, isotope data paper for medieval Britain!
🌟New Year exciting new OA paper🌟 doi.org/10.1080/0076... from myself @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social, @shakenbeck.bsky.social & TC O'Connell @cam-archaeology.bsky.social "Large-Scale Isotopic Data Reveal Gendered Migration into Early Medieval England c ad 400–1100" using #isotopes & #aDNA🧵⬇️ 1/
January 2, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Really exciting, large scale, isotope data paper for medieval Britain!
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🌟New OA Publication🌟 doi.org/10.1086/738364 🧪🏰 "Biomolecular Archaeology and Medieval Studies: A Graphic Article" in @medievalacademy.bsky.social w @janetekay.bsky.social & an awesome team of ECR #WomeninSTEM 🧵⬇️ @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social
December 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
🌟New OA Publication🌟 doi.org/10.1086/738364 🧪🏰 "Biomolecular Archaeology and Medieval Studies: A Graphic Article" in @medievalacademy.bsky.social w @janetekay.bsky.social & an awesome team of ECR #WomeninSTEM 🧵⬇️ @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social
Our team is delighted to announce the Open Access publication of our illustrated article on Biomolecular Archaeology and Medieval Studies in the medieval studies journal Speculum. It is intended not only as a research review article, but also as a teaching tool, so please share widely!
Biomolecular Archaeology and Medieval Studies: A Graphic Article | Speculum: Vol 101, No 1
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December 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Our team is delighted to announce the Open Access publication of our illustrated article on Biomolecular Archaeology and Medieval Studies in the medieval studies journal Speculum. It is intended not only as a research review article, but also as a teaching tool, so please share widely!
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The Society is happy to announce Amanda Boeing as the winner of the 2025 Magnusson Prize! She received the award for her insightful comparative essay on the Battle of Brunanburh poem and Egill Skalla-Grímsson's Höfuðlausn.
Many congratulations to Amanda!
Many congratulations to Amanda!
2025 Magnus Magnusson Prize Winner Announced - Scottish Society for Northern Studies
Congratulations to Amanda Boeing, who has been awarded this year's Magnus Magnusson Essay Prize
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November 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The Society is happy to announce Amanda Boeing as the winner of the 2025 Magnusson Prize! She received the award for her insightful comparative essay on the Battle of Brunanburh poem and Egill Skalla-Grímsson's Höfuðlausn.
Many congratulations to Amanda!
Many congratulations to Amanda!
Interested in learning more about how paleogenomics and biomolecular archaeology are changing the way we write late antique history? Check out the fantastic series of articles in this recent issue of Studies in Late Antiquity
New issue of Studies in Late Antiquity Vol. 9, No. 4 (2025) online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/9/4 Paleoscience and the Study of Late Antiquity @ucpress.bsky.social @janetekay.bsky.social @shakenbeck.bsky.social @r-c-jackson.bsky.social
Volume 9 Issue 4 | Studies in Late Antiquity | University of California Press
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November 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Interested in learning more about how paleogenomics and biomolecular archaeology are changing the way we write late antique history? Check out the fantastic series of articles in this recent issue of Studies in Late Antiquity
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New issue of Studies in Late Antiquity Vol. 9, No. 4 (2025) online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/9/4 Paleoscience and the Study of Late Antiquity @ucpress.bsky.social @janetekay.bsky.social @shakenbeck.bsky.social @r-c-jackson.bsky.social
Volume 9 Issue 4 | Studies in Late Antiquity | University of California Press
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November 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
New issue of Studies in Late Antiquity Vol. 9, No. 4 (2025) online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/9/4 Paleoscience and the Study of Late Antiquity @ucpress.bsky.social @janetekay.bsky.social @shakenbeck.bsky.social @r-c-jackson.bsky.social
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New book on early medieval medicine coming down the line: boydellandbrewer.com/book/early-m...
Early Medieval Medicine in Context
Fresh perspectives on how medical texts, broadly construed, were recorded, perceived and utilised.
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October 31, 2025 at 9:39 AM
New book on early medieval medicine coming down the line: boydellandbrewer.com/book/early-m...
🤣 IYKYK… Happy Halloween! 🎃👻🧙
October 31, 2025 at 6:55 PM
🤣 IYKYK… Happy Halloween! 🎃👻🧙
Brand new podcast appearance on Infectious Historians! We discussed our team’s recent burial archaeology article in Speculum, as well as the methods and applications of bioarchaeology
Episode 136 is up on Bioarchaeology with @janetekay.bsky.social and Jordan Wilson. We talk about what bioarchaeology is, how it works, and collaboration with other disciplines. Plus our recent article: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/.... Listen: infectioushistorians.com/2025/05/02/b...
Burial Archaeology and the First Plague Pandemic | Speculum: Vol 100, No 2
Abstract Archaeological evidence from funerary contexts is largely ignored in current scholarship on the First Plague Pandemic, despite the important information that burials and cemeteries can provid...
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June 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Brand new podcast appearance on Infectious Historians! We discussed our team’s recent burial archaeology article in Speculum, as well as the methods and applications of bioarchaeology
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New timely episode (#135 for those of you keeping track) on "Avian Flu." Lee and I talked to Natalie Porter about her work on outbreaks in Vietnam as an anthropologist and also her move to a non-academic career. Listen: infectioushistorians.com/2025/04/13/a....
Episode 135 – Avian Flu with Natalie Porter, Infectious Historians
Marian Devotion and Plague in Late Medieval Italy with Bianca Lopez Episode 134 - March 7, 2025 Bianca Lopez (Southern Methodist University) joins the...
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May 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
New timely episode (#135 for those of you keeping track) on "Avian Flu." Lee and I talked to Natalie Porter about her work on outbreaks in Vietnam as an anthropologist and also her move to a non-academic career. Listen: infectioushistorians.com/2025/04/13/a....
Watching Disney’s Atlantis for the first time in probably a decade. As an archaeologist and historian familiar with both Iceland and Ireland, I am blown away by how well-researched this movie is (they even utilized the fact that Iceland is volcanic). I wish I had known this as a kid!
May 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Watching Disney’s Atlantis for the first time in probably a decade. As an archaeologist and historian familiar with both Iceland and Ireland, I am blown away by how well-researched this movie is (they even utilized the fact that Iceland is volcanic). I wish I had known this as a kid!
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With vol. 55 of our journal, Northern Studies, having been out for a little while, you can now read the previous volume (54) for free in Open Access! 🔓
www.ssns.org.uk/journal/nort...
www.ssns.org.uk/journal/nort...
April 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
With vol. 55 of our journal, Northern Studies, having been out for a little while, you can now read the previous volume (54) for free in Open Access! 🔓
www.ssns.org.uk/journal/nort...
www.ssns.org.uk/journal/nort...
To friends and colleagues in #archaeology, @naturecities.bsky.social is looking for articles that combine archaeology and history! 6k word limit, more details at website. Submit and/or spread the word! www.nature.com/natcities/
Nature Cities
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April 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
To friends and colleagues in #archaeology, @naturecities.bsky.social is looking for articles that combine archaeology and history! 6k word limit, more details at website. Submit and/or spread the word! www.nature.com/natcities/
Reminds me very much of Jasper Fforde’s excellent novels, he was onto something!
@jasperfforde.bsky.social
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Hue new? Scientists claim to have found colour no one has seen before
Contested discovery achieved by experiment firing laser pulses into eyes, stimulating retina cells
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April 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Reminds me very much of Jasper Fforde’s excellent novels, he was onto something!
@jasperfforde.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
@jasperfforde.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Worth reading this thread in full. The only thing I can see positively is that at least the Guardian didn't write about the even more problematic idea in the article that connected this one event to the "fall" of Rome 100 years later. But, anyway, huge problems.
Regret to report that Buntgen Honeydew and his cronies are at it again. Absolutely historically illiterate.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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British rebellion against Roman legions caused by drought, research finds
The pivotal ‘barbarian conspiracy’ of AD367 saw Picts, Scotti and Saxons inflicting crushing blows on Roman defences
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April 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Worth reading this thread in full. The only thing I can see positively is that at least the Guardian didn't write about the even more problematic idea in the article that connected this one event to the "fall" of Rome 100 years later. But, anyway, huge problems.
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DNA and tomb styles suggest they might have been communal rather than dynastic burial spots. 🧪🏺
Stone Age tombs for Irish royalty aren't what they seem, new DNA analysis reveals
A reanalysis of ancient DNA shows that a major cultural change took place in Ireland after four centuries of farming.
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April 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
DNA and tomb styles suggest they might have been communal rather than dynastic burial spots. 🧪🏺
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New Episode alert: "Marian Devotion and Plague in Late Medieval Italy." Lee and I spoke with Bianca Lopez (SMU) about her book on plague, piety and power in late medieval Italy. A great convo on Santa Maria di Loreto & the impact of the Black Death. Listen: infectioushistorians.com/2025/03/07/m...
April 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
New Episode alert: "Marian Devotion and Plague in Late Medieval Italy." Lee and I spoke with Bianca Lopez (SMU) about her book on plague, piety and power in late medieval Italy. A great convo on Santa Maria di Loreto & the impact of the Black Death. Listen: infectioushistorians.com/2025/03/07/m...
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Congratulations to Merle Eisenberg @merleeisenberg.bsky.social
on winning yesterday's contest for best map for teaching the Carolingian Empire! The image will be featured in a gallery on the MAFE website with any commentary Merle would like to append to it.
on winning yesterday's contest for best map for teaching the Carolingian Empire! The image will be featured in a gallery on the MAFE website with any commentary Merle would like to append to it.
April 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Congratulations to Merle Eisenberg @merleeisenberg.bsky.social
on winning yesterday's contest for best map for teaching the Carolingian Empire! The image will be featured in a gallery on the MAFE website with any commentary Merle would like to append to it.
on winning yesterday's contest for best map for teaching the Carolingian Empire! The image will be featured in a gallery on the MAFE website with any commentary Merle would like to append to it.
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An invaluable guide for scholars stifled by the traditional academic route.
Ilana M. Horwitz's The Entrepreneurial Scholar: A New Mindset for Success in Academia and Beyond is out now.
Explore a free sample and save 30% with code PUP30: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Ilana M. Horwitz's The Entrepreneurial Scholar: A New Mindset for Success in Academia and Beyond is out now.
Explore a free sample and save 30% with code PUP30: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
April 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
An invaluable guide for scholars stifled by the traditional academic route.
Ilana M. Horwitz's The Entrepreneurial Scholar: A New Mindset for Success in Academia and Beyond is out now.
Explore a free sample and save 30% with code PUP30: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Ilana M. Horwitz's The Entrepreneurial Scholar: A New Mindset for Success in Academia and Beyond is out now.
Explore a free sample and save 30% with code PUP30: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
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A new book just published by Ian Wood; it may not have a fancy cover but I'll bet it'll be good and useful. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
April 11, 2025 at 8:57 AM
A new book just published by Ian Wood; it may not have a fancy cover but I'll bet it'll be good and useful. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Exciting discovery at Abydos! penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-mu...
Penn Museum and Egyptian archaeologists unearth a 3,600-year-old tomb from the lost Abydos dynasty | Penn Today
The excavation will continue through 2025, which includes protection, site management, and conservation of the structures. "This discovery is a new window to understanding the origins of the enigmatic...
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April 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Exciting discovery at Abydos! penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-mu...
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Lectures and an exhibition in Sherborne next month for anyone interested in early medieval Wessex
April 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Lectures and an exhibition in Sherborne next month for anyone interested in early medieval Wessex
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The AHA is compiling resources developed by historians in response to recent actions by the federal governments. We welcome submissions from our members about op-eds, media appearances, or other resources they've contributed offering historical context and insight to the public. 🗃️
Historians Respond to Federal Actions - AHA
AHA members are providing important historical context and insight to the public on the recent actions by the federal government.
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April 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The AHA is compiling resources developed by historians in response to recent actions by the federal governments. We welcome submissions from our members about op-eds, media appearances, or other resources they've contributed offering historical context and insight to the public. 🗃️