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Dr. Carly Ameen
@carlydigsit.bsky.social
Lecturer in Bioarchaeology and Director of SHArD 3D at Exeter. Bringing the ancient past to modern policy. she/her
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🚨Archaeo-Science Job Klaxon🚨Please Share!
We're hiring an interim Lab Manager here at @uclarchaeology.bsky.social. Would be esp suited to someone with experience of running Archaeobotany, Human Osteology or Zooarchaeology lab.
£53-64k in a great department.
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www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
June 19, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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after 6 years, finally out in @nature.com!
‪Huge expansion of the human #niche in Africa ~70kya likely equipped later #outofAfrica dispersals with unique ecological flexibility

co-led with Emily Hallett @eegcam.bsky.social & @elliescerri.bsky.social
#prehistory #humanevolution #paleoecology #SDM
Major expansion in the human niche preceded out of Africa dispersal - Nature
Analysis of species distribution models in a pan-African database comprising chronometrically dated archaeological sites over the past 120,000 years shows major expansion in the human niche from 70 ka...
www.nature.com
June 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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A new method developed by researchers at @ndm.ox.ac.uk could soon unlock the vast repository of biological information held in the proteins of ancient soft tissues.

Find out more ⬇️
New method provides the key to accessing proteins in ancient human
A new method developed by researchers at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, could soon unlock the vast repository of biological information held in the proteins of ancient
www.ox.ac.uk
May 29, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Lovely to see work done by @uoearchhist.bsky.social students in SHArD 3D out in the wild! Non-destructive microCT imaging of chicken bones at Fishbourne🐣
🥚🐓OFFICIAL EASTER POST!🐓🥚

Shortly before laying an egg, female birds grow a layer of bone in their skeletons, called medullary bone.

About 65% of bones at the Palace have medullary, so we're pretty sure Chickens were being kept at Fishbourne for egg production.

See: Eggs: Easter: Job done 🥚🐣👍
April 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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🧵 Is this a Dire wolf... 🤔?

No...

Our @erc.europa.eu Beasts to Craft team led by Élodie Lévêque uncovered the true identity of mysterious hairy covers on #medieval #Cistercian #manuscripts - they're ...
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April 9, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Brilliant way to end the term with some of our brilliant @exeter.ac.uk 3rd years and colleagues across the faculty showing off how Dead Important the humanities really are!!
March 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Job alert!
@katerinad.bsky.social and I are looking for an archaeologist/archaeological scientist to join us on a 4 year post-doc, helping to manage and participate in field and lab work on 2 ERC grants in our group. We would love to hear from you via the link! 👇
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct...
March 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Come to Sweden! Funded digital heritage PhD alert!

Come and work with us on Gotland. We have two fully funded 4-year PhD projects in Archaeology and Conservation (Heritage Science). Join the team (and me) focussing on Digital Innovations for Sustainable Heritage. Details below...
March 8, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Lovey to have students from across the University using our CT scanner for their amazing projects!
Spent the week #microCT scanning marmalade hoverfly muscles in the SHArD lab @uoearchhist.bsky.social! Getting good 3D reconstructions from the terabyte of data generated…

I’m trying to work out if #muscle morphology differs between #migrant and non-migrant types of this species through #ageing.
March 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Come join us! PALaEoScot is now offering a fully-funded PhD to work on ZooMS and sedaDNA studies at Scottish Late Glacial and Early Holocene sites. Closing 13/4/25. www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🦌 🐴 🦣 🦬 🦊 🐺 (please note, full funding only available for U.K. domiciled candidates only).
February 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Seems like now is a good a time as any to remind UK academias that they can mentor Ukrainian colleagues looking to continue their work through the on-going invasion via the @scienceforukraine.bsky.social initiative. #StandWithUkraine

scienceforukraine.eu/d/U3396
scienceforukraine
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March 1, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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It is impossible to get tired of talking about dogs and domestication. What a thrill to chat with Danny Nucci and Jason Burns on their What About... podcast. Enjoy all the serious silliness here:
thewhataboutpodcast.com/2025/02/13/w...
What About... Artificial Selection w/Greger Larson
Danny and Jason put their best traits forward in a conversation with evolutionary geneticist Greger Larson on the topic of ARTIFICIAL SELECTION.
thewhataboutpodcast.com
February 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Date for your diary 🇩🇰

Copenhagen from 14th - 17th October 2025

11th International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ)
Archaeozoology, Genetics, Proteomics, and Morphometrics (AGPM) Working Group Meeting
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January 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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We love Arlene Holmes-Henderson - read more about her brilliant work here!

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘They see it is living’: Durham professor’s mission to get more pupils into classics
Arlene Holmes-Henderson wants all children in UK to have equal access to classical education
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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🏺 British Academy & heritage orgs push for archaeology in UK schools! Prof Collins: "It bridges STEM & humanities while teaching crucial skills." Heritage sector's £15.3B impact shows growing career opportunities. Proposal includes new modules & assessment frameworks 🔍📚
#Education #Heritage #UKNews
British Academy Calls for Greater Role of Archaeology in School Curriculum
www.arch.cam.ac.uk
December 22, 2024 at 6:10 AM
Come join us at @uofearch.bsky.social in the Biocultural HIVE, part of our AHRC RICHeS award! Application deadline 5 January 2025.
🎯 Database Manager at University of Exeter | 15-month| Digital Humanities
Lead data management for archaeology/heritage digital repository. Master's/PhD + programming skills (Python) required. Focus: research data, workflows & open science. Work the awesome @naomisykes.bsky.social Start Jan 2025.
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December 19, 2024 at 11:06 AM
If you’re looking for some post-Christmas telly, you’ll find @suegreaney.bsky.social, our amazing 1st Years, (and hopefully not me!) on this season of #DiggingForBritain from early January!
The 12th series of BBC’s #DiggingforBritain is back on our screens in the New Year!

We’re very excited to share that our excavations with @exeter.ac.uk at Killerton in Devon, will be featured.

@uofearch.bsky.social @nationaltrust.bsky.social
December 18, 2024 at 7:44 AM
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Dr Julia Cussans presented a well-received paper on the animal bone assemblage at the Ness at the 44th Association for Environmental Archaeology conference in Oxford.
#Neolithic #Orkney #Archaeology #Excavation #NessOfBrodgar #ThinkUHI #UHIResearch
Counting cattle – Ness paper presented at Oxford environmental archaeology conference
Dr Julia Cussans presented a well-received paper on the animal bone assemblage at the Ness at the 44th Association for Environmental Archaeology conference in Oxford.
www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk
December 16, 2024 at 9:30 AM
Thrilled to be at Oxford for the annual Association of Environmental Archaeology conference hosted at the beautiful @kebleoxford.bsky.social. The wildlife session on Friday is filled with cool talks from our amazing HumAnE bioarch PhD students at Exeter!
December 12, 2024 at 1:43 PM
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Double Job Alert!! We are recruiting an archaeobotany technician and an osteology (human & zooarchaeology) technician to help curate and improve access to our collections. Come join us at the Institute for Archaeology, University College London

www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/...
Job Vacancies: Two Laboratory Technician posts on AHRC RICHeS project
The UCL Institute of Archaeology currently has two vacancies for Laboratory Technicians on the AHRC-funded RICHeS project (Refs.: B03-02282 and B03-02283). The deadline for applications is 1 January 2...
www.ucl.ac.uk
December 11, 2024 at 12:50 PM
The cataloging of shape is central to archaeology, so we’re editing a special issue of World Archaeology about it! Get in touch if you’re working on anything from pots to landscapes!

think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
The Shape of Archaeology
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September 19, 2024 at 5:22 PM
New publication led by my excellent masters student on osteological sexing of the greater sciatic notch using GMM techniques. What a joy to write this with some of my favourite people!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Estimating osteological sex using predictive geometric morphometric analyses of the greater sciatic notch
Accurately estimating the biological sex of human skeletal remains is crucial in both forensic and archaeological contexts for constructing biological…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 31, 2024 at 1:52 PM
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Please share. We're looking for a Cultural Anthropologist with a specialty in Native North America at UMass Boston.

employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...
October 23, 2023 at 7:00 PM