A little while ago my very first publication came out - a chapter in a book on life in Amsterdam through the ages. It's based on a bit of my master's research on dogs in the Dutch capital. It explores methods of uncovering animal history and shows a glimpse of dogs' lives. Open access is pending!

The move to a new desk begins...

After two weeks of travel I'm finally reunited with my rats :D

Dutch insurance advertisements used to hit different (translations in the alt texts)

No sleep till Breukelen

All geared up for a weedy, verminy and ratty discussion at session 12-06 this afternoon at #ESEH2025 🌱🐀🐾

Rapt multispecies audience this morning at the histories of soils and pesticides session at #ESEH2025

An amazing pair of keynotes to kick off #ESEH2025 excited for the rest of the conference!

Last month was the @archaeorattus.bsky.social project's annual meeting and we realised that we're halfway through the project!

Read all about it on our blog! sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/r...

Rat-nap

Back home with my boys 🐀🐀❤️

From Zeeland to Scotland, Middelburg to St Andrews, conference to conference to learn all about histories of animal-borne diseases

I got to speak about rat history with some amazing people at the RIAS-DEHN conference in Middelburg this week! (Thanks to @chrmeijer.bsky.social for the photo!)

My beautiful sign and I have become the face of #antifa in English rightwing media this weekend after a peaceful protest against #ReformUK in #York! I couldn't be more proud :)

Today marks one year since I moved to the UK to start my ratty PhD journey! Since you can't do a PhD alone, I finally decided to get a friend! Meet Gilgamesh! (Don't worry, he has a brother - bonus points if you can guess his name) #rats