Helene Benkert
@helenebenkert.bsky.social
Zooarchaeologist with a particular fondness for equids
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🎉 Free Open Access Days!
Explore Sheffield’s 🌾 Archaeobotany & 🦴 Zooarchaeology collections through the SHEFF BIOARCH RICHeS (UKRI) project.
Consult, learn & photograph heritage materials — booking info below 👇
Explore Sheffield’s 🌾 Archaeobotany & 🦴 Zooarchaeology collections through the SHEFF BIOARCH RICHeS (UKRI) project.
Consult, learn & photograph heritage materials — booking info below 👇
October 20, 2025 at 8:28 AM
🎉 Free Open Access Days!
Explore Sheffield’s 🌾 Archaeobotany & 🦴 Zooarchaeology collections through the SHEFF BIOARCH RICHeS (UKRI) project.
Consult, learn & photograph heritage materials — booking info below 👇
Explore Sheffield’s 🌾 Archaeobotany & 🦴 Zooarchaeology collections through the SHEFF BIOARCH RICHeS (UKRI) project.
Consult, learn & photograph heritage materials — booking info below 👇
It’s a disgrace is what it is. And so very senseless. People who make (big) decisions should at the very least attempt to understand what they are making decisions about and the impact those decisions will have on people other than themselves.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bEv... For decades we've worked to enhance the Sheffield Zooarch Lab & to see years of dedication destroyed by corporate executives who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing is heart breaking @watchingbrief.bsky.social #savesheffieldarchaeology
The destruction of the Zooarch laboratories in Sheffield
YouTube video by Sheffield Zooarchaeology Lab
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September 23, 2025 at 9:39 AM
It’s a disgrace is what it is. And so very senseless. People who make (big) decisions should at the very least attempt to understand what they are making decisions about and the impact those decisions will have on people other than themselves.
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Excited to share that I’ve started as Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark! 🧑🎓
I also received an a NNF Emerging Investigator grant to use genomics + machine learning to study extinction.
👉 PhD & Postdoc positions coming soon — follow for updates!
Reposts appreciated 🙏
I also received an a NNF Emerging Investigator grant to use genomics + machine learning to study extinction.
👉 PhD & Postdoc positions coming soon — follow for updates!
Reposts appreciated 🙏
September 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Excited to share that I’ve started as Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark! 🧑🎓
I also received an a NNF Emerging Investigator grant to use genomics + machine learning to study extinction.
👉 PhD & Postdoc positions coming soon — follow for updates!
Reposts appreciated 🙏
I also received an a NNF Emerging Investigator grant to use genomics + machine learning to study extinction.
👉 PhD & Postdoc positions coming soon — follow for updates!
Reposts appreciated 🙏
I’m back! 🥳
Happy to report that I have returned to Sheffield to explore the history of zoos among my Sheffield zooarch family. I will post updates here as regularly as I can manage, so watch this space if you’re curious what I’ll get up to with this project. 😎 @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social
Happy to report that I have returned to Sheffield to explore the history of zoos among my Sheffield zooarch family. I will post updates here as regularly as I can manage, so watch this space if you’re curious what I’ll get up to with this project. 😎 @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social
August 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I’m back! 🥳
Happy to report that I have returned to Sheffield to explore the history of zoos among my Sheffield zooarch family. I will post updates here as regularly as I can manage, so watch this space if you’re curious what I’ll get up to with this project. 😎 @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social
Happy to report that I have returned to Sheffield to explore the history of zoos among my Sheffield zooarch family. I will post updates here as regularly as I can manage, so watch this space if you’re curious what I’ll get up to with this project. 😎 @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social
So happy it’s out!! Well done to everyone involved! 🥳🥳🐴
Thanks @sidestone.bsky.social for having and supporting us!
Thanks @sidestone.bsky.social for having and supporting us!
ANSOC's Kate Kanne, with @helenebenkert.bsky.social & Camille M.L. Vo Van Qui are very pleased & proud to announce that our edited volume "Harnessing Horses from Prehistory to History" from the amazing @sidestone.bsky.social is officially published open access!
www.sidestone.com/books/harnes... 👇
www.sidestone.com/books/harnes... 👇
Harnessing Horses from Prehistory to History @ Sidestone Press
The human past is unimaginable without the horse. From our ancestors hunting and painting horses in the Upper Palaeolithic, to the earliest riders, the rise of equestrian empires, and the critical rol...
www.sidestone.com
May 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
So happy it’s out!! Well done to everyone involved! 🥳🥳🐴
Thanks @sidestone.bsky.social for having and supporting us!
Thanks @sidestone.bsky.social for having and supporting us!
Very proud and excited to share our upcoming book, due in May! 🥳 Lots of horse-y goodness spanning disciplines, periods and continents. Co-edited with my wonderful colleagues Kate Kanne @ansoc-erc.bsky.social and Camille Vo Van Qui.
February 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Very proud and excited to share our upcoming book, due in May! 🥳 Lots of horse-y goodness spanning disciplines, periods and continents. Co-edited with my wonderful colleagues Kate Kanne @ansoc-erc.bsky.social and Camille Vo Van Qui.
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Have/nearly have a PhD?
≤7 years post-doc experience?
Working outside UK?
Not a UK citizen?
BA & Royal Society offering 2-yr Fellowships for early career researchers to come to the UK!
💷 Includes:
Research expenses £12k
Relocation up to £8k
🗓️ Deadline: Mar 18, 2025 (17:00 GMT)
#ResearchFunding
≤7 years post-doc experience?
Working outside UK?
Not a UK citizen?
BA & Royal Society offering 2-yr Fellowships for early career researchers to come to the UK!
💷 Includes:
Research expenses £12k
Relocation up to £8k
🗓️ Deadline: Mar 18, 2025 (17:00 GMT)
#ResearchFunding
International Fellowships 2025
The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
February 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Have/nearly have a PhD?
≤7 years post-doc experience?
Working outside UK?
Not a UK citizen?
BA & Royal Society offering 2-yr Fellowships for early career researchers to come to the UK!
💷 Includes:
Research expenses £12k
Relocation up to £8k
🗓️ Deadline: Mar 18, 2025 (17:00 GMT)
#ResearchFunding
≤7 years post-doc experience?
Working outside UK?
Not a UK citizen?
BA & Royal Society offering 2-yr Fellowships for early career researchers to come to the UK!
💷 Includes:
Research expenses £12k
Relocation up to £8k
🗓️ Deadline: Mar 18, 2025 (17:00 GMT)
#ResearchFunding
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Save the Cardiff Ancient History petition has now over 3400 signatures. Sign, share and join @flintdibble.bsky.social at 6pm for a discussion with @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social on YouTube to hear more. www.change.org/p/save-cardi...
Sign the Petition
Save Cardiff University Ancient History Degree
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February 2, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Save the Cardiff Ancient History petition has now over 3400 signatures. Sign, share and join @flintdibble.bsky.social at 6pm for a discussion with @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social on YouTube to hear more. www.change.org/p/save-cardi...