Dr Sam Neil
@drsamneil.bsky.social
Uses biomolecular science to study human biological and social evolution: ancient DNA, stable isotopes and radiocarbon dating.
Research Fellow @pacea.bsky.social University of Bordeaux and @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social University of Oxford
Research Fellow @pacea.bsky.social University of Bordeaux and @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social University of Oxford
Amazing presentations at the meeting on Ancient Genomes: perspectives on human biology and medicine at the Royal Society today
November 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Amazing presentations at the meeting on Ancient Genomes: perspectives on human biology and medicine at the Royal Society today
Currently writing up the results of new radiocarbon dating from this amazing Neolithic monument, Le Déhus, on the Channel Islands. With thanks to @isotopesuk.bsky.social and @oxradiocarbon.bsky.social for funding radiocarbon dating.
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Currently writing up the results of new radiocarbon dating from this amazing Neolithic monument, Le Déhus, on the Channel Islands. With thanks to @isotopesuk.bsky.social and @oxradiocarbon.bsky.social for funding radiocarbon dating.
is back at one of my favourite places in the whole world, The Oxford University Museum of Natural History @morethanadodo.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
is back at one of my favourite places in the whole world, The Oxford University Museum of Natural History @morethanadodo.bsky.social
Is all alone early a very quiet radiocarbon lab, freeze drying things..hey, who put the sign in the pie oven...no Frey Bentos in here
November 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Is all alone early a very quiet radiocarbon lab, freeze drying things..hey, who put the sign in the pie oven...no Frey Bentos in here
At the Treasure exhibition, Museum of Liverpool
October 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
At the Treasure exhibition, Museum of Liverpool
Has just emerged from below ground in central Bordeaux looking at some beautifully carved 4th-6th century sarcophagi
September 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Has just emerged from below ground in central Bordeaux looking at some beautifully carved 4th-6th century sarcophagi
Made it from Oxford to Bordeaux... just before the transport chaos started here in France
September 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Made it from Oxford to Bordeaux... just before the transport chaos started here in France
Busy in the labs working on isotope samples to link these to our palaeogenomic data. Better linking these datasets will help us directly study changes in population diet, mobility and genomics over time.
September 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Busy in the labs working on isotope samples to link these to our palaeogenomic data. Better linking these datasets will help us directly study changes in population diet, mobility and genomics over time.
Escaped the DNA lab for a day to climb Europe's largest sand dune
July 26, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Escaped the DNA lab for a day to climb Europe's largest sand dune
Bastille Day in Bordeaux...
July 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Bastille Day in Bordeaux...