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Dr. Jessica Liu
@jessiliu.bsky.social
Project Manager @FaceLabLJMU. She/Her 🇭🇰 Forensic anthropology, anatomy, skull & face related research, 3D modelling and visualisation. BSAC scuba instructor 🐠

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Following our successful pilot scheme, SHAPE Involve and Engage programme has returned. If you are a UK-based researcher in the humanities and social sciences and would like to apply, you can find out more here: https://bit.ly/47XA41y
September 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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This evening we had the great pleasure of hosting @mrk87.bsky.social and @jessiliu.bsky.social from @facelabljmu.bsky.social. They showed us how to go from a skull to a digital avatar 💀 🫅. Thanks for coming along and the audience who joined us 🤩
September 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Join myself and @jessiliu.bsky.social tonight in Chester to hear more about @facelabljmu.bsky.social’s research!
Join us next week to hear from the research group that analyses, authenticates, & depicts the faces of significant historical figures using skeletal remains, death masks, and portraits!
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@storyhouselive.bsky.social

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📆9th Sept
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September 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Join us next week to hear from the research group that analyses, authenticates, & depicts the faces of significant historical figures using skeletal remains, death masks, and portraits!
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@storyhouselive.bsky.social

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@facelabljmu.bsky.social

📆9th Sept
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September 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Looking to do a PhD with Face Lab X Computing @ljmudoctoral.bsky.social?

Project Title: Prediction of the missing mandible from the cranium
Deadline: 1st Nov, 2025.
Interview date: the 25th Nov, 2025.

Application link: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Prediction of the missing mandible from the cranium at Liverpool John Moores University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Prediction of the missing mandible from the cranium at Liverpool John Moores University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
September 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Very interesting to hear all other scientific analysis of the masked skulls. We hope this multidisciplinary team continues to further study this interesting population and their cultural significance.
August 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Explore the Bolivian mummy collection on sketchfab: sketchfab.com/munarq
August 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Viv is a second year PhD @ljmuofficial.bsky.social @facelabljmu.bsky.social presenting some results from her fieldwork from Bolivia. Their project aims to produce representation of ancient Bolivian faces, through participatory co-design, involving local communities in the decision making process.
August 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
We have a whole session on the overmodeled skulls tomorrow afternoon at the World Mummy Congress! Not only facial depictions, but all other scientific analysis of the remains.
August 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Our PhD student Viviana Conti will be presenting her project “Integrating participatory praxis for ethical museum dissemination of ancient human remains: The case of the Bolivian National Museum of Archaeology - Munarq Mummy Collection.” www.eurac.edu/en/institute...
August 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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The latest project from LJMU's Face Lab ventures into the extraordinary funerary practice of fusing masks to the faces of the dead, practised by many pre-Columbian peoples of South America.

➡️https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/news/articles/2025/8/13/demasking-the-dead
August 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Colombia masked skulls:
Facial representation of an indigenous population from the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia, Cal 1216-1797 AD. Presented by @jessiliu.bsky.social at the World Mummy Congress in Cuzco, Peru this week.
August 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Exhibiting the facial representation of Colombia masked skulls at the World Mummy Congress in Cusco, Peru.
August 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Great day at Maidstone Museum with @mrk87.bsky.social doing some public engagement showcasing the process of facial depictions from skulls.
August 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Work trip ❤️
Face Lab is on tour! We will be in Helsingborg, Sweden Dunkers kulturhus between 16-17 May 2025 in the exhibition "About Helsingborg". We will be talking about the facial depiction of Peter Karlsson. Please do come see us if you are around. dunkerskulturhus.se/event/lar-di...
May 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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May 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Here at the @britishacademy.bsky.social #BAECRN #ECRNetwork event at Lancaster Uni.
February 6, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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The Face Lab team have produced a facial depiction of a medieval King from Portugal, and he was revealed on January 07, 2025 in the Monastery of Saint Dinis and Saint Bernard in Odivelas, Portugal, to commemorate the 700th anniversary of his death.
Ministério da Justiça - XXIV Governo on LinkedIn: #inmlcf | 10 comments
O INMLCF - Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal e Ciências Forenses conseguiu determinar, com precisão, algumas características do rosto do Rei D. Dinis, 700… | 10 comments on LinkedIn
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January 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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@facelabljmu.bsky.social Xmas Dinner - delicious!
December 10, 2024 at 10:51 PM