Dr. Ventresca-Miller
@ventrescamiller.bsky.social
Bioarchaeology / Isotopes / Proteomics / Nat Geo Explorer / RPCV Kazakhstan / Assist. Prof. & Curator @UMich / Director of the Ancient Protein and Isotope Lab @umichlsa /co-founder of @SteppeSistersNt / Bills Mafia / Buffalonian
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Republicans are fighting to ensure that Americans in Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and a raft of other red states pay DOUBLE what they paid before for healthcare.
October 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Republicans are fighting to ensure that Americans in Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and a raft of other red states pay DOUBLE what they paid before for healthcare.
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📣 Calling all archaeologists! 📣
***This call requires 10% of EAA members to sign***
🍉🍉🍉
EAA members: sign and share widely (you'll need your membership number)
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Not an EAA member? Please share widely around your networks!
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***This call requires 10% of EAA members to sign***
🍉🍉🍉
EAA members: sign and share widely (you'll need your membership number)
✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼
Not an EAA member? Please share widely around your networks!
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Call for a Special Meeting of the EAA
Recent events during the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists* have generated profound discontent and distrust toward the current Executive Board among members of the associati...
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September 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
📣 Calling all archaeologists! 📣
***This call requires 10% of EAA members to sign***
🍉🍉🍉
EAA members: sign and share widely (you'll need your membership number)
✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼
Not an EAA member? Please share widely around your networks!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
***This call requires 10% of EAA members to sign***
🍉🍉🍉
EAA members: sign and share widely (you'll need your membership number)
✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼
Not an EAA member? Please share widely around your networks!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Archaeologists Against Apartheid urgent call for action! We are not anonymous. We are members of both the EAA&global archaeological community and more committed than ever to holding our representative organisations to account and anti-democratic influences.
aaaeaastatementseptember3rd.tiiny.site
aaaeaastatementseptember3rd.tiiny.site
September 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Archaeologists Against Apartheid urgent call for action! We are not anonymous. We are members of both the EAA&global archaeological community and more committed than ever to holding our representative organisations to account and anti-democratic influences.
aaaeaastatementseptember3rd.tiiny.site
aaaeaastatementseptember3rd.tiiny.site
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BTC Call for Action - EAA
EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns.
Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns.
Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
September 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
BTC Call for Action - EAA
EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns.
Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns.
Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.
For the second straight day, Trump has mused about Americans preferring a dictatorship.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
August 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.
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
@umich.edu @umichresearch.bsky.social
#archaeology #chemistry #michigan #annarbor
Lab Manager | U-M Careers
careers.umich.edu
July 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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
@umich.edu @umichresearch.bsky.social
#archaeology #chemistry #michigan #annarbor
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Certainly encouraging public engagement in historical research, yet this @theguardian.com opinion piece, again, perpetuates an outdated notion:
🏺 #Archaeology is *not* about objects. Just digging up old stuff is of little help in understanding "the past" if contextual information is abandoned.
🏺 #Archaeology is *not* about objects. Just digging up old stuff is of little help in understanding "the past" if contextual information is abandoned.
July 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Certainly encouraging public engagement in historical research, yet this @theguardian.com opinion piece, again, perpetuates an outdated notion:
🏺 #Archaeology is *not* about objects. Just digging up old stuff is of little help in understanding "the past" if contextual information is abandoned.
🏺 #Archaeology is *not* about objects. Just digging up old stuff is of little help in understanding "the past" if contextual information is abandoned.
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📣 BREAKING NEWS:
Harvard sues Trump administration over foreign student ban, calling move unconstitutional and a threat to academic freedom.
“Harvard is not Harvard without its international students,” the university writes.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Harvard sues Trump administration over foreign student ban, calling move unconstitutional and a threat to academic freedom.
“Harvard is not Harvard without its international students,” the university writes.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
May 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
📣 BREAKING NEWS:
Harvard sues Trump administration over foreign student ban, calling move unconstitutional and a threat to academic freedom.
“Harvard is not Harvard without its international students,” the university writes.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Harvard sues Trump administration over foreign student ban, calling move unconstitutional and a threat to academic freedom.
“Harvard is not Harvard without its international students,” the university writes.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
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Re-advertising this post as no suitable applicants were found in the first round. If you are interested in an exciting PhD opportunity at the University of Sydney, do get in touch! Deadline 9 July. Updated information and link here:
www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
May 21, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Re-advertising this post as no suitable applicants were found in the first round. If you are interested in an exciting PhD opportunity at the University of Sydney, do get in touch! Deadline 9 July. Updated information and link here:
www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
Happy to announce that I am now tenured at U Michigan! Celebrated last night with my family and some champagne.
Looking forward to this new phase in my career as an Associate Prof of Anthropology and the Associate Curator of Archaeological Sciences 😊
@umich.edu
Looking forward to this new phase in my career as an Associate Prof of Anthropology and the Associate Curator of Archaeological Sciences 😊
@umich.edu
May 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Happy to announce that I am now tenured at U Michigan! Celebrated last night with my family and some champagne.
Looking forward to this new phase in my career as an Associate Prof of Anthropology and the Associate Curator of Archaeological Sciences 😊
@umich.edu
Looking forward to this new phase in my career as an Associate Prof of Anthropology and the Associate Curator of Archaeological Sciences 😊
@umich.edu
The Huns were not the Xiongnu, they were only distant descendants.
Amazing work by an interdisciplinary team - including Guido Gnecchi Ruscone and Bryan Miller. Great comments by Ursula Brosseder!
Amazing work by an interdisciplinary team - including Guido Gnecchi Ruscone and Bryan Miller. Great comments by Ursula Brosseder!
Attila’s Huns were a motley crew of central European locals and East Asian immigrants
A genetic analysis reveals some Huns descended from pillagers in East Asia
www.science.org
February 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The Huns were not the Xiongnu, they were only distant descendants.
Amazing work by an interdisciplinary team - including Guido Gnecchi Ruscone and Bryan Miller. Great comments by Ursula Brosseder!
Amazing work by an interdisciplinary team - including Guido Gnecchi Ruscone and Bryan Miller. Great comments by Ursula Brosseder!
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Great write up of the relevance of archaeology and science to address contemporary global health challenges (research by Jane Buikstra and @grschug.bsky.social) Ancient DNA could help to understand recent tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas news.asu.edu/20250210-hea...
Ancient DNA could help to understand recent tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas | ASU News
For over a year, Wyandotte and Johnson counties in Kansas City, Kansas, have been fighting an outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) that has claimed two lives and infected nearly 150 residents.
news.asu.edu
February 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Great write up of the relevance of archaeology and science to address contemporary global health challenges (research by Jane Buikstra and @grschug.bsky.social) Ancient DNA could help to understand recent tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas news.asu.edu/20250210-hea...
Are you a student at the University of Michigan? Apply to participate in our archaeological field school in Kazakhstan!
@umichresearch.bsky.social
#CentralAsia #Archaeology #Excavation #Science #BronzeAge #Kazakh #Kazakhstan
@umichresearch.bsky.social
#CentralAsia #Archaeology #Excavation #Science #BronzeAge #Kazakh #Kazakhstan
Summer Field School: U-M Training Program in Archaeology | U-M LSA Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
lsa.umich.edu
February 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Are you a student at the University of Michigan? Apply to participate in our archaeological field school in Kazakhstan!
@umichresearch.bsky.social
#CentralAsia #Archaeology #Excavation #Science #BronzeAge #Kazakh #Kazakhstan
@umichresearch.bsky.social
#CentralAsia #Archaeology #Excavation #Science #BronzeAge #Kazakh #Kazakhstan
My grandmothers were forged by volcanoes. They lived tumultuous early lives, before they became the women that I knew and respected.
January 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
My grandmothers were forged by volcanoes. They lived tumultuous early lives, before they became the women that I knew and respected.
I just called bioarchaeology 'Barchaeology' by accident and that is how it will now be known
#archaeology #bioarchaeology #tired
#archaeology #bioarchaeology #tired
January 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I just called bioarchaeology 'Barchaeology' by accident and that is how it will now be known
#archaeology #bioarchaeology #tired
#archaeology #bioarchaeology #tired
Before we put this on our lawn, we need to test it inside 😳
December 9, 2024 at 10:59 PM
Before we put this on our lawn, we need to test it inside 😳
It’s freezing today, so we skipped school to sit by the fire and work from home ❤️
December 5, 2024 at 3:02 PM
It’s freezing today, so we skipped school to sit by the fire and work from home ❤️
Go Bills!!!
November 18, 2024 at 12:32 AM
Go Bills!!!
Gobi the cat, loving our new counter stools so she can oversee food production
November 17, 2024 at 1:48 PM
Gobi the cat, loving our new counter stools so she can oversee food production
Loving this gorgeous stained glass fleur de lis window
….that I lovingly repaired by spraying glue all over the other side 😬
….that I lovingly repaired by spraying glue all over the other side 😬
November 16, 2024 at 1:37 AM
Loving this gorgeous stained glass fleur de lis window
….that I lovingly repaired by spraying glue all over the other side 😬
….that I lovingly repaired by spraying glue all over the other side 😬
Another Ancient Protein and Isotope Laboratory brunch! Scones, cinnamon rolls, and puppies!! 🐾
November 10, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Another Ancient Protein and Isotope Laboratory brunch! Scones, cinnamon rolls, and puppies!! 🐾