Combined analytical approach identifies plant tissues in Northern and Eastern European hunter-gatherer-fisher pottery foodcrusts journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

This publication is the largest Organic Residue Analysis study of early-medieval pottery we know of, and is an interdisciplinary piece that brings together involving ceramic analysis and textual research too, showcasing the breadth of research we do in the department.

Vikings! Bioarchaeology! Artefacts! New publication from Steve Ashby, Gareth Perry, Alexandre Lucquin, Oliver Craig and Anita Radini at @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social shows culinary differences between Viking-Age England and Denmark. www.york.ac.uk/archaeology/...

My first proper first-author paper has been published in Antiquity! The article is fully open access, so it’s free for anyone to read and share. The research came out of my PhD and uses a “whole-town” isotopic analysis approach to explore diet in Medieval Cambridge🏺 1/4 tinyurl.com/mu8a38zb

Get stuck in this Sustainability Week! Join us from Monday 2 March as we host a series of talks, events and workshops open to students, alumni, staff and local residents. We'd love to see you there! See the full Sustainability Week calendar at: https://tinyurl.com/jebcjumw

📢📢📢Lectureships at Bristol!📢📢📢 We're hiring 3 x lecturers (=assistant professor) in Biological Sciences, across the discipline. Great department, great colleagues, great building, great city Details here: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Applications welcome to be a PhD-student in my ancient DNA research programme at @crick.ac.uk: 🏰 Ancient human history in Europe and beyond. ⚕️ Statistical genetics to understand human biology with ancient genomes. 🦠 Pathogen genomics of past infections. Apply at www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...

🌟Funding news🌟 The E-RIHS (European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science) 2nd call for access is open now for researchers and professionals in Heritage Science. Find out more and apply by 30th March 2026 here: www.e-rihs.eu/call-for-acc...

🏺 The HSDS Guides to Good Practice are here! 🎉 We have recently made a comprehensive update to the ADS Guides to Good Practice, recognising how effective data management can transform heritage science research. To find our more and explore the guides, visit: buff.ly/43HL9YB

Casting UK based Scholars! For a new series (Smithsonia) on the history of ruins. We need experts on: 🔹 Ancient Rome/Greece 🔹 Medieval England 🔹 WWII & Nazi Remains 🔹 Native American Sites 🔹 US Civil War ​📅 Shoots mid-March. 📧 [email protected] ​#History #UKBased

Are you a student or ECR working in palaeoproteomics or a related field? Sign up to give a PAASTA talk 🍝💬 🔗Sign-up form: forms.gle/PbvmzPfzLhHB...

Further job announcements! As part of the FORAGER project, (1) a PDRA position is open at the University of Montana apply.interfolio.com/180545, (2) a PDRA position at the University of Cambridge www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54411/ and (3) a Research Project Manager jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

As part of the Medieval Green Revolution project, a postdoctoral position is available at the University of Reading on sedaDNA. jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Funding news: RICHeS Access Fund is now open for Full Applications, supporting heritage science and conservation researchers, museums and organisations to access world-class equipment, specialist facilities, nationally important collections and expertise across the UK. tinyurl.com/ymjxzhye @ukri.org

📺 Streaming tip: Coastal #archaeology & the future of the oceans. What can sunken settlements and ancient coastlines teach us about climate change? Watch @niklashausmann.bsky.social talk, now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/x82KOsN... #VoicesForClimate #LEIZArchaeology

Research Fellow in Biomolecular Archaeology as part of the AHRC-funded PELLIS (Investigating the manufacture, trade, and economy of Roman leather via multi-analytical approaches) project co-led by Rhiannon Stevens. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

👋 I’m historian Lucy Worsley! Join me for a live online history talk on Sunday, 7 pm, London time. I’ll be speaking to historian Jacqueline Riding about working-class lives in Victorian London. It's totally free - just subscribe to MY LIFE IN THE PAST 👇 lucyworsley.substack.com

Job alert! 3 year post doc in my research group at University College London working on Roman Leather via biomolecular archaeology. #ZooMS #stableisotopes www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ187/r...

🏺 We're Hiring! ✨️ We are excited to announce we are looking for a new Digital Archives Assistant to join our team! 🕓️ Apply by 15th February! 👉To find out more and apply visit: buff.ly/S1Ozc59

We are looking for a research project manager for the upcoming FORAGER ERC Synergy Project. Based at the University of York, this is an exciting opportunity to work in a team of 37 researchers from the UK, the US, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia and Japan. Join us! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

The York Open Research Awards are back for 2026! 🎉 The call for submissions is open until Monday 27 April 📆 We are keen to recognise and reward a diverse range of projects, and this year we are offering additional prizes to ensure that all researchers at York have the opportunity to participate...

🚨 Job alert! The University of Tübingen announces a W3 (Full) Professorship in Early Hominin Evolution in the framework of the DFG Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS': uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... Application deadline: 11.03.2026 🚨

Join us for the next PAASTA Talk Series! Prof. Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social will talk on “ZooMS-3D: a work in progress. Can we think about ZooMS in a 3rd dimension?” 🗓 Wednesday, 4th February 2026 ⏰ 16:00 CET 📍 Zoom DM us for the link.

If anyone is interested in applying to access NEIF facilities, the deadline for the next application round is the 25th of March 2026. Please discuss projects with relevant NEIF laboratory prior to submission. Applications are submitted via the NEIF Application Portal - www.isotopesuk.org/apply.html

SMBE is now calling for nominations for recipients of the Faculty Awards for Early-Career Excellence, Mid-Career Excellence, Lifetime Contribution, and Community Service. ℹ️ Informations smbe.org/faculty-awards 📝 Applications members.smbe.org/membersurvey/Fill/Lz3MnUjr 🗓️ Deadline February 20, 2026

@ukri.org RICHeS (Research Infrastructure for conservation and Heritage Science) Access fund now open for applications from research organisations including museums & galleries: www.riches.ukri.org/news-and-eve... Can fund analyses with @york-bioarch.bsky.social and us! Closing date 8th April 🧪🐚🦣

Currently advertising: PhD project on Neolithic waste, based with Henny Piezonka. Project focuses on spatial analysis and the Neolithic. Deadline is 9th Feb. A chance to work with a cool range of sites from Serbia to Poland and you get to live in Berlin, so what's not to like! Link in next post.

The #CallforPapers is open for the Digital Humanities Congress at the University of Sheffield from 2-3rd September 2026 Proposals are welcome on all aspects of the digital humanities #DHC2026 🔜 Deadline: 2nd March ℹ️ More info: www.dhi.ac.uk/congress

Reminder: the second call is still open for Engagement & Collaboration - ECHOES Cascading Grants Programme. This call will support 20 projects, with up to €29,800 available per project. 🔷 Deadline: January 30th ➡️ Find out more: www.dariah.eu/2025/11/17/e...

A study in Nature Communications shows southern right whale, humpback whale, and dolphin were exploited 5000 years ago by Sambaqui groups in Brazil to manufacture whale-bone harpoons and other artefacts. go.nature.com/3YL5EtL 🏺 🧪

Do you need to clean your teeth? And if so, how? 🦷 The answer is YES, at least for Pleistocene teeth. Here, we show you why that is the case, and find a couple of good methods: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📣 We are seeking a postdoctoral research fellow in ancient metagenomics. Join us at the Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu. ⏳ 01.04.2026–31.03.2028 📚 1.0 position 📍 Riia 23b, Tartu, Estonia ℹ️ Project: lnkd.in/dQARuBxM ℹ️ Application: lnkd.in/dFR8DQxH ⏰ Deadline 02.02.2026

Congratulations to Michelle Alexander and colleagues on their new open access book "Landscapes of (Re)Conquest: Frontier Dynamics in Medieval Iberia and Occitania" www.jstor.org/stable/jj.36... featuring isotopic analyses from Michelle & Maite García-Collado from BioArCh 🧪

Working with animal #aDNA? 🧬 Apply to our #SMBE2026 symposium by February 3rd and join us in Copenhagen to hear, share, and discuss the latest research and methodological advances in animal #palaeogenomics 🦎🐕🐷🐋🐝🐂🦤🦣🐟🪲🦌🐈 @aarc-community.bsky.social

It's already January 2026, and that means we have a new year of #AaRCTikTalks! Join us on January 30th at 3pm CET to attend 2 amazing talks with @tatianafeuerborn.bsky.social and Arianna Weingarten.

1/5🧵 🚨 New open access paper out today🚨 The Demodifier: a tool for screening modification-induced alternate peptide taxonomy in palaeoproteomics. doi.org/10.1371/jour... #palaeoproteomics

Attention all Viking and Medieval specialists! Our brilliant Artefact Technical Specialist, Gareth Perry, has a new paper out titled: Aceramic Revolution? Understanding Technological Continuity and Change in Viking Age England. 🎉 @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0076...

ZooMS helps to identify domesticated sheep and goat at early Neolithic sites in northern Europe onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

January is here, and that can only mean one thing: Winter Graduation is just around the corner! 🎓 If you're joining us on campus this week, you'll find all the info you need at: york.ac.uk/graduation We can't wait to celebrate with you!

Are you working on ancient plant DNA? 🌿 We are organising a symposium on Ancient plant genomics at #SMBE2026 in beautiful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 Join Nathan Wales, Shuya Zhang, Marcela Sandoval Velasco, me, and our fantastic speaker Logan Kistler from the Smithsonian Institution. Help us spread the word!

Why is AAR (Amino Acid Racemisation; by implication #palaeoproteomics) so often overlooked for #geochronology? New paper by @neaarlab.bsky.social, using Bithynia snails 🐌 to date the last 1Ma: 4 new reference sets for climate & Quaternary Science 🌍 open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-396

🚨ONLINE WORKSHOP🚨 We will be hosting a free online workshop “Maximising Data from Palaeolithic Bone" as part of the the COEXIST project on 10th March 2026. Please submit abstract by 23rd January 2026. Further information in the flyer. See you there!

Come work with us! #PhD studentship with us on deep sea coral biomineralisation: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... based @york.ac.uk with Uni of Bristol; part of ACCE+ DLA accedtp.ac.uk Apply by 7th January 2026

Early career researchers or PhD students, could £500 develop your career? Our Researcher Development and Travel Grant can help you organise a scientific meeting and more. Apply by 26 January: https://rsc.li/3YjLkiN #ChemSky

And just like that, the winter break is upon us ❄️ Whether you're leaving York or staying on campus, student support continues over the winter break. We've rounded up everything you need to know about accessing support over the break: https://tinyurl.com/muv6ctk9

A quick reminder of the Trust's current open funding rounds and schemes opening in January! Read more and apply: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/schemes-at-a...

An exciting line-up of talks this week at @tag2025york.bsky.social! tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/programme/ If you're in York, come along to hear some of our speakers from BioArCh 🧵 (1/6)

Applications open: New Generation Thinkers 2026 AHRC is partnering with BBC Radio 4 to offer five early-career researchers the opportunity to work with programme makers, appear on air, and gain first-hand experience of how ideas make it to broadcast. Apply by Jan 2026

I realised I hadn't shared this link here, so for those that haven't seen this on the other place, here it is. I am conducting a survey on public perceptions transgender archaeology for my PhD. The survey takes about 5 mins. Open to all. Thanks in advance ☺️! york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

The website for UKAS2026 in Bristol is live! www.ukas2026.co.uk. Save the date - 30th March to 2nd April.