UCD School of Archaeology PhD/MLitt Research Day kicks off, an exciting range of topics being explored by our researchers

It was a really brilliant first day of the Bronze Age Forum yesterday! Thoroughly enjoyed all the talks on Bronze age animal worlds and materials. Some pics of @ansoc-erc.bsky.social colleagues presenting on ongoing and exciting new projects!

@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social This week the #ANSOC team are putting the final touches to the Bronze Age Forum 2025, which takes place @ucddublin.bsky.social on 14-16 November. Final programme and abstracts are now on bronzeageforum2025.wordpress.com A few final tickets remain #BronzeAge

The team is ready ✅ The venues are still standing ✅ The programme is live ✅ The tickets are on sale (and selling fast!) ✅ Then join us @ucddublin.bsky.social forthe Bronze Age Forum 2025! #BronzeAge #BAF2025 Spread the word and we'll see you in November! bronzeageforum2025.wordpress.com

Pour celles et ceux que ça intéresse, voici un article qui résume fort bien la débâcle des derniers jours au congrès de l'EAA. Il semblerait que prendre position contre un génocide passe après ses petits intérêts personnels pr pas mal de personnes, qui l'eût cru. thepipeline.info/blog/2025/09...

Just over a week to go! We have a full day of presentations, a mini-career fair, an amazing keynote speaker and a pub quiz all planned for Saturday. On Sunday there will be illustration workshops and an experimental archaeology ‘field day’. Reserve your spot at tinyurl.com/ayiatickets

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...

Today’s the last day for abstract submission! There’s a €50 bursary available for student presenters travelling from outside the Dublin area, as well as great prizes for the best presentations.

Décès de Jean-Marie Le Pen : mort d’un antisémite, tortionnaire et patriarche de l’extrême droite ➡️ l.humanite.fr/eAs

The AYIA conference submission deadline has been extended to the 24th of January 2025! To submit your abstract, please visit tinyurl.com/ayia2025. Thank you to everyone who has submitted so far - we are delighted to read such a wide range of submissions! 🏛️📚🤎 #AYIA2025

Happy New Year! Calling all animal-interested-prehistorians! Join the grad students of @ansoc-erc.bsky.social Nóra, Ollie, Gywain, @alexsiekmann.bsky.social, and I for our session #111 at #EAA2025 @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social. Submit by 08/02/25 🐑🐎🐷🐮🫎

Tweets racistes, messages homophobes, pseudos néonazis... Derrières leurs écrans, plusieurs collaborateurs de députés Rassemblement national se lâchent sans jamais être inquiétés. La plupart d’entre eux sont toujours en poste à l’Assemblée. https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/281224/ces-assista…

C'est en forgeant qu'on devient... forgeronne ! Eh oui, au Moyen Âge, on rencontre des femmes forgeronnes dans les sources : pas dans la fiction, dans la vraie vie. Des femmes qui travaillent le fer et le feu, fabriquant armes et outils... Un fil ⬇️! #medievalists #medievalsky

“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...

Very excited (and a bit nervous) to announce that I will be hiring two Postdocs for my new group(!) in Copenhagen to study the Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA which survives in present-day humans. Retweet will be much appreciated :) Link for application: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

The AYIA undergraduate poster session is a great opportunity for those who may not be in the research stages of their degree but would like to gain conference experience! To submit your abstract, please visit: tinyurl.com/ayia2025 🦴🛖🏺🏛️📚🤎

Thoroughly enjoyed today's UCD SoA Research Day! Dr Kate Kanne, resident zooarch of @ansoc-erc.bsky.social, gave a brilliant presentation with research updates from ANSOC.🐎🐮🐑🐐🐷

Had a lovely day at the UCD Archaeology PhD Research day today! A great chance for all of us to talk through some thoughts from our work so far, and an excuse to show off my romano-british bestie (the hand turkeys on the chalkboard were paid actors)

Merci le Lama

Les universités sont en danger, il faut se mobiliser ! chng.it/FhSTDHDxR7

We are delighted to release a call for papers for the upcoming AYIA conference titled Emerging Voices in Archaeology, on 15–16 February 2025 at UCD! This is an exciting opportunity for archaeology students and recent graduates from universities across the island to share their work 🏛️📚🤎 #AYIA2025

“Emerging Voices in Archaeology” Association of Young Irish Archaeologists (AYIA) conference 15-16 Feb 2025, University College Dublin. The AYIA invites undergraduate, postgraduate and recent graduate archaeology students from Irish universities to share their research. TINYURL.COM/AYIA2025

Brilliant new book featured here from our UCD #Archaeology colleague and Marie Curie Postdoc Mark Haughton available here: doi.org/10.4324/9781...