This paper was a long time coming - includes data gathered over many years via support from multiple #NSF and #WennerGren grants. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The Global Wetland Outlook 2025 is now online. Glad to have contributed to this new report on the state of #wetlands worldwide, their value, and their future. www.global-wetland-outlook.ramsar.org 🌍 🧪 🦤

Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

Discouraging. I wonder what my ancestors would have made of all of this, how incredible privilege combined with ignorance has enabled the metastasis of conspiracy thinking and distrust of medicine more generally.

New paper using 7,000 burial records to track population changes in Iron Age Norway. Shows 75% population decline after 536/540 CE volcanic winter! Viking Age recovery linked to warmer climate, agricultural advances & trade networks. 🌋📊 #Archaeology #ClimateHistory #Viking doi.org/10.1080/0029...

CFP for session at 2025 EAA meeting in Belgrade: "Out of their element: novel methods of isotope analysis to investigate health and disease in the past" Organizers: Noel Hincha [email protected] Naomi Kilburn [email protected] Sangyu Shen [email protected]

My amazing colleague and friend Becky Gowland gave a public talk recently. Check it out youtu.be/Bnml0j-6_aM?... #childhood #bioarchaeology #osteoarchaeology

Looking forward to reading this - tuberculosis is a topic of both professional and personal relevance for me.

For someone as keen on wetlands as I am, it seems odd that I only recently tried samphire for the first time. It's so delicious!

📢 NEWS 📢 We are delighted to announce that the 2025 SSCIP Annual Conference will take place in Aarhus, Denmark from 24th - 26th June 🥳 The conference theme is 'Children and Climate Change' 🌏 Call for Papers and further information will be circulated soon #childhood #archaeology #history Please RT!

Not one, but TWO archaeological isotope PhD studentships on offer at Durham! Project number one: Landscapes of resilience? Archaeobotanical and stable isotope analysis of archival material from the First Millennium CE in the Anglo-Scottish borders iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...

#SSCIP2024 One year of organization and already over 😌 Thanks very much to the @sscipchildhood.bsky.social for their trust in organizing it !!

Signing off from #SSCIP2024. Big thanks to the organisation team at Bordeaux for a wonderful job! And if you have an interest in childhood research please consider joining @sscipchildhood.bsky.social and getting involved with the Society.

For our final presentation of the conference, Maya Krause presents a bioarachaeological study of weaning, diet, and locality in a Middle Horizon (600-1000CE) Andean population. #SSCIP2024

Following the theme of colonialism and structural violence, next we have Abucar Fofana Léon presenting research on the complex relationship between medicine and enslavement for enslaved children in 18th century "Mozambique". #SSCIP2024

Opening our last session of the conference is Kristin De Lucia, talking about children's burials and structural violence in colonial Mexico. #SSCIP2024

The last paper of our afternoon session will be presented by Linda Vilumets on multidisciplinary analysis of child skeletal remains from an 18th century garrison hospital cemetery in Estonia. #SSCIP2024

Next up: Selene Caraballo presents bioarchaeological data on four 15th century children buried at the first European settlement in the Canary Islands. #SSCIP2024

Following a coffee break, our next presentation is by Juliana de Mello Moraes on the place of children in the Portugese colonisation of South America. #SSCIP2024

We now return to tooth development in early life histories with a paper presented by Julia Estivals on tooth enamel hypomineralisation in modern and archaeological children's teeth. #SSCIP2024

Our next paper is presented by Isabelle Souquet, on mother-child double burials in Protestant and Catholic cemeteries of 18th century Rochelle, France. #SSCIP2024

Back after a lovely lunch and some wonderful sunshine, our first paper in the next session is presented by Elizabeth Peacock on coffined foetal burials in 18-19th century Swedish churches

We're returning after our coffee break for our second keynote lecture, by Joëlle Provasi. She's speaking today on maternal influences on foetal learning and cognition. #SSCIP2024

The last talk of our morning session is by Corinne Feuillatre, whose research focuses on understanding growth and nutrition through stable isotopes in populations past and present. #SSCIP2024

Returning to the theme of teeth and early life, Julia Beaumont is now presenting life history data from siblings in the Bradford Tooth Fairy Project. #SSCIP2024

Our next speaker is Marina Lourenco, presenting research on challenges to early life survival in Lisbon during the 17-19th centuries. #SSCIP2024

Next up is Mona Le Luyer, continuing the theme of dental research. Her presentation covers data from the STRONG study and offers insights on deciduous teeth as biomarkers of childhood growth. #SSCIP2024

Good morning! First up in the morning session is Olga Nechyparenka talking about evidence of early life stress through dental histology. #SSCIP2024

Postdoc opportunity at Aauhus U. with @loopdlupien.bsky.social. If you’re interested in isotopes, biomarkers, paleoclimate, and human evolution, check it out!

I love seeing how amazing wetlands are quantified.

That's it for today! Back tomorrow for another great day in Bordeaux listening to research on past childhoods.

Our final paper of the day is given by Marta Licata on children buried in the 18th century cathedral of Santa Maria Maggiore, Vercelli, Italy. #SSCIP2024

Next up: Csilla Libor on child burials from Avar-period Hungary

Now speaking: Santiago Juarez on children of the Preclassic Maya community of Noh K'uh. #SSCIP2024

Opening the final session of our first day is Vilma Losyte, presenting research on the roles of toys in Ancient Greek children's rites of passage from childhood to citizens. #SSCIP2024

In the final installment of our post-lunch session we have Alex Ireland delivering today's keynote lecture on the role of musculature in shaping the growing skeleton. #SSCIP2024

Next up: Karen Swan talking about the functional advantages of critical bone frontloading during early human growth and locomotion development. #SSCIP2024

For our first paper in the after-lunch session, Lorina Coiffard presenting a bioarchaeological study of boys of the 18th and 19th centuries in the British Royal Navy. #SSCIP2024

For the last paper of this session, Olivier Dutour aims to add nuance to the osteological paradox through three case studies in palaeopathology. #SSCIP2024

Now up: Povilas Blaževičius presenting a postmedieval bioarchaeological case study from Lithuania. #SSCIP2024

Now up: Kirsty Squires talking about challenges and benefits of interdisciplinary non-adult mummy research #SSCIP2024

First presentation by Anthony Volk from Brock University, talking about life history theory from a historical perspective #SSCIP2024

Ready for the first full day of papers at #SSCIP2024 in Bordeaux

Gearing up for the beginning of ##SSCIP2024 at Université Bordeaux Montaigne!

SSCIP Bordeaux starts tomorrow! #SSCIP2024 @sscipchildhood.bsky.social

Choked on this.

This weather brings out Yorkshire's 'Snow Mummers', who put on their traditional costumes and stand outside houses looking judgemental.

In addition to being more evidence of the bonkers-ness of giving up on infection mitigation in the present, this has some interesting implications for antenatal health during past pandemics, especially in regard to "better" pop health for survivors in the wake of events like the Black Death.

Exciting PhD studentship opportunity at Durham University