The Archaeosnack online scicomm writing group starts its 2025-26 meetings on 27th Oct and is inviting new members! See archaeosnack.org for meeting dates and joining info. See examples of previous snacks at: archaeosnack.org/read/%F0%9F%...

This #PromoWednesday, share job vacancies for whatever position could be relevant for someone active in #Zooarchaeology: PhDs, post-docs, technician, lecturer, collection manager, etc. 📜

Dear headline writers. Could you consider substituting 'delighted' fur 'shocked' and 'intrigued' for 'baffled' - thanks, archaeologists.

“Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT)” Research Scientist, UCD School of Archaeology Applications are sought for a 19-month Research Scientist position as part of the project “Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT)” Search for “Archaeology” at my.corehr.com/pls/ucdrecru...

'Mortuary Memes: Advances in the Digital Public Archaeology of Death'. Here's a blog post containing the session abstract, paper abstracts + slides for the in-person talks + videos/links for the digital contributions for Friday's TAG session howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2024/12/08/m...

Today our BABAO Trade and Sale of Human Remains Taskforce has published a poster at #TAG25 about digital sales of the dead. Check out @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social blog to learn more, including how you can help! #archaeology #anthropology #scicomm howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2024/12/08/m...

As Uni management continues to disrupt our work, important to remember the background. Part of UCU series State of the Uni 24-5, here's a summary of the vandalistic act that led to the closure of the Archaeo Dept at Sheff Uni. Share! @sheffielducu.bsky.social ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/campaigns/st...

Great to see BABAO making an impact and maybe some progress on the sale of human remains in the UK. www.patrickpester.com/post/mp-call...

Great to see the impact the #BABAO #saleofhumanremainstaskforce is having. Shout out to Dr Lauren McIntyre @noddinggoth.bsky.social for laying the issues out so clearly in the interview www.patrickpester.com/post/mp-call...

Important ethical issues surrounding the trade and sale of human remains were raised at PMQs today by Bell Ribeiro-Addy following discussions with BABAO: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Kicking off #IZAZ Integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology (IZAZ) 2nd workshop Day2 The @archaeorattus.bsky.social project and the role of ZooMS in large multidisciplinary studies presented David Orton and Sam Presslee

Just started a new pack for #isotope bioarchaeologists, ecologists and so on.😀🧪 Let me know if you would like to be in/out! Hope it can help.🙌 go.bsky.app/FpHPMC6

So here we are. A lot's changed since I (David) stepped back from Twitter a few years ago. For a start my rat work has grown into a major research project, RATTUS, thanks to the ERC & UKRI - see sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/rattus/

More new followers- hello! As an introduction, I am currently a PDRA on the RATTUS project (@archaeorattus.bsky.social), applying isotope analysis to archaeological rats. If you want to find out more, heres an intro post I wrote for the RATTUS blog: the-rattus-project.blogspot.com/2024/09/meet... 🏺

Wondered why I suddenly had lots of new followers! Great idea, hello all 👋

Very happy that I managed to visit the 'Beneath our Feet' exhibition at the MAA in Cambridge just before it finished. It was exciting (and humbling) to see so many things on display that myself and lots of my amazing colleagues have worked on! @samleggs22.bsky.social @ecbrownlee.bsky.social 🏺

Cornish? Or live in Cornwall? Take this anonymous survey to help @uniofexeter.bsky.social Institute of Cornish Studies find out more about people’s cultural identity and what would be most important to support Cornish culture over the next decade: exeteruni.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

More bed burials, this time a deep-dive on the Trumpington girl! Featuring Sam Leggett and @alicekensa.bsky.social on their amazing isotope work, some broader context from me, and what it was like bringing everything together for the MAA Cambridge 'Beneath our feet' exhibition.

New paper alert! "A radiocarbon-based model of changing burial rites in early medieval England" Published today in Radiocarbon Using big data to answer the question of what happens to grave goods in the 7th century, and more. Summary🧵 doi.org/10.1017/RDC....

🚨JOB KLAXON: Research Assistant (Bioarchaeologist) on the fascinating Rewilding Later Prehistory Project. Isotopes and aDNA your thing? Interested in early horses? The role is based on Oxford, but some time spent here at Exeter:

The Archaeosnack scicomm writing group starts its 2023-2024 meetings on 11 Dec and is inviting new members! See www.scisnack.com/groups/archa... for meeting dates and joining info. See examples of previous snacks at: www.scisnack.com/category/arc... 🏺

A new 'After the Plague' project paper is out today! It features some isotope research from my PhD, which I used to find out more about the origins and diet of those buried in the Medieval hospital. It was such a pleasure to work with such a lovely project team 🏺 www.theguardian.com/science/2023...