Great opening plenary by Prof Matt Fox about the role of intuition in epidemiology - some key takeaways were that intuition can be helpful, but also detrimental. Quantifying uncertainty can be a good strategy to avoid making readers (and yourself) not have to use intuition! #AEA2025

A couple of present and former ANU Archaeology students have been working to develop a board game inspired by the Deep Past called Cultivaria. They've (quite literally) just launched their kickstarter and I know a few of you love games so... #archaeogaming 🏺

Hey, a first gen scholar here reaching out to more senior #bioarchaeology colleagues! If I’m reaching out to a potential PhD supervisor, do I need to have a concrete research idea in mind? Or is it acceptable to be like “hey, my research interests run parallel to yours, can we discuss?”

🏺 Interesting joint statement/response on human remains in museums in Britain making the case for keeping (for research) and sometimes displaying (sensitively) human remains excavated ethically from archaeological sites in Britain.

Look what just arrived 😍 My copy of @maxhuibai.bsky.social game Publish or Perish! Any of my academic pals up for a game night?

Bite marks on a 1,800-year-old skeleton from Roman Britain suggest that a gladiator was mauled to death by a large cat, possibly a lion www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Super exciting to see our article "Fragmentary and dispersed: Preadult personhood and social memory in a Southeast Asian forager cemetery" in this awesome special issue!

Calling out to all my #archaeology and #bioarchaeology peeps: does anyone have any resources (or even examples) on how to write a cover letter for an academic article? I'm First Gen and a little clueless on this front!

Fantastic article from @theconversation.com on being trans 🏳️‍⚧️ in Medieval Europe! theconversation.com/trans-people...

As the transgender community continues to fight for civil rights in the U.S., one of the most common arguments against progress is that transgender people are a recent phenomenon. But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️

⚠️ Iron Age OPEN ACCESS research klaxon alert⚠️ Our joint @tcddublin.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social article *Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain* published in @nature.com today can be found here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... #bioarchaeology #archaeology #southeastasia #SEAsia #prehistory #SEAsiaprehistory

Created a whole bunch of stencils for some cyanotype test prints tomorrow - hope they work! 😍

Used my Christmas book voucher to get a copy of The Best Australian Science Writing 2024 - super excited to give it a read!

In slightly belated (although no less exciting news) I have a new #bioarchaeology publication with Hunter Gatherer Research! "Fragmentary and dispersed: Preadult personhood and social memory in a Southeast Asian forager cemetery" - doi.org/10.3828/hgr....

NEW Analysis of over 3000 human bones from Charterhouse Warren, England, indicates they were massacred, butchered, and likely partly consumed by enemies as a means to dehumanise them, questioning the idea that Early Bronze Age Britain was peaceful. #AntiquityThread 1/18 🧵

Okay, I'm going to try to be more active over here, since there seems to be a vibrant academic community on the rise! Follow me for #bioarchaeology content!

With abortion bans back in the news, here’s a reminder that abortion has a deep history, and that abortion bans have historically been about controlling women’s bodies. www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...

Excited to have finally gotten an invite code for this app! Now to find the archaeology / bioarchaeology / biological anthropology communities here.