Dr Sam Leggett
@samleggs22.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Biomolecular & Medieval Archaeology at Edinburgh Uni - data viz & R enthusiast (she/her)
pinned post!
๐New Year exciting new OA paper๐
doi.org/10.1080/0076...
from myself
@hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
,
@shakenbeck.bsky.social
& TC O'Connell
@cam-archaeology.bsky.social
"Large-Scale Isotopic Data Reveal Gendered Migration into Early Medieval England c ad 400โ1100" using
#isotopes
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#aDNA๐งตโฌ๏ธ
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Edinburgh Archaeology
9 days ago
Fun fact about us for
#InternationalWomensDay
- our 1st graduating students were women - Margaret Crichton Mitchell (later Stewart), 1st ever class๐ฅin
#Archaeology
MA 1930, PhD 1934 (Childe's only PhD student) & Barbara Laidler our 1st ever BSc Archaeology (c. 1930s)!
@hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
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Honoured to be in such amazing company for
#InternationalWomensDay๐ฉ๐ป
โ๐ฌ check out everyoneโs research highlights ๐ mine features some exciting findings from
#ArchaeoFINS
including early nuns on Iona!
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Edinburgh Archaeology
10 days ago
Dr Sam Leggett
@samleggs22.bsky.social
featured here as one of the many inspirational women in research funded by
@leverhulme.ac.uk
#InternationalWomensDay
@hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
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Tom Booth
11 days ago
You asked for more mixed-up Goths, you got 'em!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Leverhulme Trust
12 days ago
Using multi-isotope analysis
@samleggs22.bsky.social
โs Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship
@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
focused on the role of food and diet and its link to mobility in early medieval Britain and Ireland.
media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/sleg...
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Molecular memories โ tracing early medieval migrations and diet
Using multi-isotope analysis, Sam Leggettโs fellowship focused on the role of food and diet and its link to mobility in early medieval Britain and Ireland
https://media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/sleggett
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Edinburgh Archaeology
13 days ago
Dr Gardnerโs research is featured in Archaeology Scotland Magazine (Winter 25/26)! It discusses how archaeology can be used to understand our historic & continued reliance on fossil fuels using the example of the oil industry in West Lothian 1851-1962. Check it out!
https://tinyurl.com/mrvp3dcd
๐ข๏ธ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
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Edinburgh Archaeology
13 days ago
TOMORROW's ArchSoc/Archaeology Research Seminar ๐ฐ๏ธ 16:15๐Meadows LT "Prehistoric Archaeology at Edinburgh University until about 1990" by Prof Ian Ralston
@hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
ahead of our ๐ฏ ๐ year as a department!
#EdinArch
#archaeology
#Edinburgh
#prehistory
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Dr Lizzie Swarbrick ๐ต๐ธ
27 days ago
I wrote a thing with Mark Hall on the wonderful late medieval chandelier in St Johnโs, Perth. Many simply do not know that Scotland has such ecclesiastical treasures and itโs more important than ever that we celebrate them at this time of mass church closures.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
27 days ago
Did people always pay their eel-rents? Hell no! In 1250 the abbot of Tupeholm sued the nuns Stykeswald. The nuns owed the abbot a yearly rent of 6 sticks of eels, but hadn't paid for 3 years! That's 450 eels, folks. Scandalous! The nuns agreed to pay a fine, and life went on. ๐๏ธ๐งช
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Fascinating โwhole townโ approach to medieval Cambridge with amazing isotopes by
@alicekensa.bsky.social
! Charting diet & social status from the 10th-16th century! ๐งชโ๏ธ๐ฐ
#MedievalSky
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Royal Irish Academy
about 1 month ago
The RIA's Archaeology Research Grants and Radiocarbon dates schemes are open to applications from now until 25 March. Archaeologists and archaeology students (undergrad, postgrad, PhD) who wants to carry out research based in Ireland (including NI) can apply:
www.ria.ie/2026/02/12/w...
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Rory Naismith
about 1 month ago
For anyone who's interested
@waterstones.bsky.social
is running a special pre-order offer (no pun intended) on my new book about King Offa of Mercia, valid from Friday 20 Feb.
eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Isabelle Marie
about 1 month ago
New study maps where wheat, barley and rye grew before the first farmers found them.
#Archaeology
phys.org/news/2026-02...
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New study maps where wheat, barley and rye grew before the first farmers found them
Using advanced machine learning and climate models, researchers have shown that the ancestors of crops like wheat, barley, and rye probably were much less widespread in the Middle East 12,000 years ag...
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-wheat-barley-rye-grew-farmers.html
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Prof Megan Leitch
3 months ago
Medievalist friends! Applications are open until end of Feb for a fully-funded PhD in Arthurian Literature with the brilliant Louise D'Arcens
@medievalafterlives.bsky.social
and myself, based between Sydney (Australia) and Groningen (The Netherlands). Please share widely!
tinyurl.com/f7su6urv
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Global PhD on Middle English Arthurian romance
The University of Groningen and Macquarie are offering a co-funded scholarship to support a student undertaking doctoral research in medieval literature.
https://tinyurl.com/f7su6urv
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Great new study on early medieval foodways, specifically a lack of fish in cooking pots! Glad it's not just our
#ArchaeoFINS
pots that lack ๐! Implication with the human isotopes is that the Vikings adapted to local cuisine & left their fishy ways behind!
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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Cuisine and culture-contact: lipid residue analysis reveals lack of aquatic products in pottery from Viking Age England | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Cuisine and culture-contact: lipid residue analysis reveals lack of aquatic products in pottery from Viking Age England
https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2026.10288
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Nina Willburger
about 1 month ago
In the early medieval period, colorful glass beads were a mark of prestige and fashion. This striking necklace, comprising over 60 beads in vibrant reds, blues, yellows, and intricate patterns, was discovered in the burial of a woman at Bissingen, southwest Germany, dating 7th century. ๐งต1/2 ๐บ
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Congratulations to our former MSc student Luisa and my amazing colleagues Sophie and
@drbutty.bsky.social
on a very cool CT method paper with some interesting implications about osteoporosis in medieval Scotland
#MedievalSky
#edinarch
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Catherine Frieman
about 1 month ago
Aus arch! there are two continuing, full time archaeology-adjacent professional staff jobs open at ANU! These are a collections coordinator for CASS and a lab coordinator primarily for my school
jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/collect...
jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/laborat...
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Edinburgh Archaeology
about 1 month ago
โผ๏ธPublished
@royalsociety.org
Open Scienceโผ๏ธ "From rugged isles to managed pastures: morphological changes in Soay sheep (Ovis aries) metacarpal bones following anthropogenic translocation"
@hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
๐๐
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
@soaysheep.bsky.social
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Awesome work from one of our PhD students Vera! Check out this mega isotope dataset! ๐งช โ๏ธ ๐ฆท๐ฆด
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Edinburgh Archaeology
about 1 month ago
๐ซ๐ท Thursdayโs Research Seminar 12/2/26 @16:15 in the Meadows LT will be given by Dr Florian Cousseau (Durham) โCentral
#Brittany
in the Middle
#Neolithic:
A Landscape Far from Emptyโ ๐https://hca.ed.ac.uk/news-events/events/research-seminars/archaeology-seminarsย @hcaatedinburgh
#edinarch
#archaeology
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Edinburgh Archaeology
about 1 month ago
โ ๏ธ The next Munro Lecture 12/03/26 is by Professor Sabrina C. Agarwalย
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
ย 'Necropolitics in the collection: From colonial legacy to antiracist futures' FREE but booking is essential ๐
http://hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-events/events/munro-lecture-necropolitics-in-the-collection
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Edinburgh Archaeology
about 1 month ago
๐ฆด This week's ArchSoc/One Health Archaeology Research Group seminar will be by Simon Mays (Historic England) 'Osteoporosis past and present: Age-related deterioration in the nano-platelets of bone hydroxyapatite'. ๐ฐ๏ธ๐ Thurs 5th February, Meadows LT, 16:15pm - all welcome!
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The Castle Studies Trust
about 1 month ago
Between 2018-21 we awarded Duncan Wright of
@newcastleuni.bsky.social
3 grants totalling less than 5k, to explore Laughton en le Morthen castle. This led to an AHRC grant to investigate the transition of power btwn Saxons & Normans. This is what they found:
castlestudiestrust.org/blog/2026/02...
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Aidan O'Sullivan
about 2 months ago
Early Medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100. The evidence from Archaeological excavations Only โฌ9.99 as an ebook from
@ria.ie
shop.ria.ie/products/ear...
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Early Medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100
How did people create and live in their own worlds in early medieval Ireland? What did they actually do? And to what end did they do it? This book investigates and reconstructs from archaeological evi...
https://shop.ria.ie/products/early-medieval-ireland-ad-400-1100-the-evidence-from-archaeological-excavations
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This absolute behemoth of a book landed on my doorstep this week, excited to dive into it - but itโs so huge it might take me a good long while! But I spy lots of C14, isotopes & aDNA! โ๏ธ๐งฌThe much awaited tome on Llanbedrgoch! ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ โ๏ธ
#medievalsky
#archaeology
@oxbowbooks.bsky.social
about 2 months ago
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If youโre in/around London next week & want to hear me speak about lots of fun early medieval isotopes + aDNA come along on Tuesday! โ๏ธ๐งฌโ ๏ธ
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Edinburgh Archaeology
about 2 months ago
โ ๏ธ This weekโs OHA/ArchSoc research seminar is by Dr Jess Thompson (National Museums Scotland) โCurating Scotlandโs Archaeological Human Remains: Past, Present & Futureโ 22/01 @ 16:15 in the Meadows LT ๐ท Credit: Neil Hanna
https://hca.ed.ac.uk/news-events/events/research-seminars/archaeology-seminars
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Sarah E. Bond
about 2 months ago
๐ฆท โanalysis of tooth enamel samples collected from the remains of people buried in England b/w the end of Roman rule in Britain around A.D. 400 & the arrival of the Normans around 1100 indicates that migration to the island was continuous throughout the periodโ ๐ฆท
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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News - Medieval Migration to England Tracked in Tooth Enamel Study - Archaeology Magazine
EDINBURGH, SCOTLANDโAccording to a statement released by the University of Edinburgh, analysis of tooth enamel [โฆ]
https://archaeology.org/news/2026/01/13/medieval-migration-to-england-tracked-in-tooth-enamel-study/
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Edinburgh Archaeology
2 months ago
โ ๏ธ Our seminar 15/01 @ 4:15pm is by Prof
@ancientchildren.bsky.social
"Forgotten Children: The fetal and infant skeletal remains from the W.D. Trotter Anatomy Museum, New Zealand"
@universityofotago.bsky.social
NB: this seminar is online only.
#edinarch
#archaeology
#osteologyย
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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
2 months ago
The Young Investigator Travel Award provides support for young researchers (postdoctoral researchers and graduate students) to attend SMBE2026. ๐จ Award applications
smbe2026.org/abstracts
#SMBE2026
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Taylor & Francis Research
2 months ago
Calling all medieval scholars - uncover the gendered, continuous migration that shaped early England! โ๏ธ๐งฌ This
#OpenAccess
study presents the results of a large-scale isotopic meta-analysis of early medieval England which reveals migration patterns from c. AD 400โ1100 ๐
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Tom Booth
2 months ago
๐บ โThe cathedral says findings on the likely identities of those interred are expected later in 2026, while the wider project is planned to reach its conclusion by 2027.โ Wellโฆfancy that.
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Cambridge Archaeology
2 months ago
A new study by
@samleggs22.bsky.social
,
@shakenbeck.bsky.social
& Tamsin O'Connell 'Large-Scale Isotopic Data Reveal Gendered Migration into Early Medieval England c ad 400โ1100'
arch.cam.ac.uk/news/roots-of-medieval-migration-into-england-uncovered-in-new-study
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Chiara Bonacchi
2 months ago
Really excited that our *new paper* is finally out ๐ฅ This study is the first to quantitatively investigate museum visitorsโ perceptions of historical analogies that compare concepts from the deep past to modern political ideas.
doi.org/10.1057/s415...
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Durotriges Dig
2 months ago
More on the stunning Iron Age carnyx found in
#Norfolk
with boar standard and shield bosses ๐๐๐
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Found by PreConstruct Archaeology and featuring in episode 2 of the new series of
#DiggingForBritain
with
@profaliceroberts.bsky.social
on BBC2 Wowzers ๐คฉ
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Durotriges Dig
2 months ago
Good to wake up to a news headline that has the words
#IronAge
#WarTrumpet
and
#Boudicca
in it
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
PreConstruct Archaeology reveals a complete carnyx plus other martial objects from
#Norfolk
Wow ๐ฒ We need a lie down
@theguardian.com
@theduncanmackay.bsky.social
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Medievalist.net
2 months ago
Early Medieval England Saw Continuous Migration, Study Finds
www.medievalists.net/2026/01/earl...
- research by
@samleggs22.bsky.social
@shakenbeck.bsky.social
and Tamsin C OโConnell
#medieval
#England
#history
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Early Medieval England Saw Continuous Migration, Study Finds - Medievalists.net
A major bioarchaeological study combining tooth-enamel isotopes and ancient DNA finds migration into early medieval England was continuous from AD 400โ1100, with regional and gendered patterns andโฆ
https://www.medievalists.net/2026/01/early-medieval-england-saw-continuous-migration-study-finds/
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Marc Morris
2 months ago
So far in 1066: โข Edward the Confessor has died. โข Harold Godwineson has been named king instead of Edgar รtheling. โข Edward has been buried. โข Harold has been crowned. It's still only 6 January.
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The Society of Antiquaries of London
2 months ago
Are you a Post-Graduate Researchers, Early Career Researchers or someone starting out in a field involving the past? Join us on 16 Jan for a free event to consider how the Society could contribute to early career support!
www.sal.org.uk/event/early-...
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Early Career Antiquaries - Society of Antiquaries of London
We welcome Post-Graduate Researchers, Early Career Researchers and those starting out in fields involving the past to join us in considering how the Society of Antiquaries could contribute to early ca...
https://www.sal.org.uk/event/early-career-antiquaries/
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Francis Taylor
4 months ago
It's been a pleasure being on the great organising team at York and Northumbria for next year's NEHN meeting - a collaborative worksop on the many histories of 'unwanted life'. Do see the CFP below, and send in a submission if it appeals!
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Edinburgh Archaeology
2 months ago
๐ฃ Published Open Access! ๐ฃย "Large-Scale Isotopic Data Reveal Gendered Migration into Early Medieval England c AD 400-100" ๐ https://doi.org/10.1080/00766097.2025.2583016 byย
@samleggs22.bsky.social
ย
@shakenbeck.bsky.social
ย & O'Connell
@cam-archaeology.bsky.social
ย ๐งฌโ๏ธ๐งช๐ฆท
#EdinArch
#archaeology
#medieval
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PCI Archaeology
2 months ago
Not an easy task for sure to study the real impact of
#openscience
but difficult to find cons except for the insane APCs. So let's make free open science with
@peercommunityin.bsky.social
and
@peercomjournal.bsky.social
OPEN SCIENCE IS JUST GOOD SCIENCE
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Is โopen scienceโ delivering benefits? Major study finds proof is sparse
Itโs hard to measure social and economic impacts of making papers and data free, researchers say
https://www.science.org/content/article/open-science-delivering-benefits-major-study-finds-proof-sparse
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David Brear ๐ฌ๐ง
3 months ago
๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ด๐ฒ-๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐๐ผ๐๐ผ๐ฝ๐ถ๐ฐ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฎ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ ๐ถ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ผ ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐น๐ ๐บ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฒ๐๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ป๐ด๐น๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฐ ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฌ-๐ญ๐ญ๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐๐ค๐ค๐ฆ๐ด๐ด This study presents the results of a large-scale isotopic meta-analysis of early medieval England which reveals migration patterns from c AD 400โ1100.
doi.org/10.1080/0076...
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๐New Year exciting new OA paper๐
doi.org/10.1080/0076...
from myself
@hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
,
@shakenbeck.bsky.social
& TC O'Connell
@cam-archaeology.bsky.social
"Large-Scale Isotopic Data Reveal Gendered Migration into Early Medieval England c ad 400โ1100" using
#isotopes
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#aDNA๐งตโฌ๏ธ
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Dr Huw Groucutt
3 months ago
Nice use of stable isotopes to explore past human mobility. Rather than the old myths of mass migrations of 'Anglo Saxons' into Britain, such scientific studies provide valuable data.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Tom Booth
3 months ago
Stupendous stuff from
@samleggs22.bsky.social
- meta analysis of human strontium and oxygen stable isotope data from southern Britain in 2nd half of 1st Millennium AD. Too rich to summarise but if your are into complex early medieval mobility, this oneโs for you.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Large-Scale Isotopic Data Reveal Gendered Migration into Early Medieval England c ad 400โ1100
THIS STUDY PRESENTS THE RESULTS of a large-scale isotopic meta-analysis of early medieval England which reveals migration patterns from c ad 400โ1100. These patterns are gendered, regionally distin...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00766097.2025.2583016
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๐New OA Publication๐
doi.org/10.1086/738364
๐งช๐ฐ "Biomolecular Archaeology and Medieval Studies: A Graphic Article" in
@medievalacademy.bsky.social
w
@janetekay.bsky.social
& an awesome team of ECR
#WomeninSTEM
๐งตโฌ๏ธ
@hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
@edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social
@cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social
3 months ago
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