I am so excited for this new project to start. Dream team of Jesse Hannekem, Sandra Van der Geer, @nannonstevens.bsky.social, two post-docs (and me), all lead by my absolute fave @drphilcox.bsky.social to crack island giants 🏝️🐭 Phil has written all about it here👇 media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/pcox

Delighted to share this new study of seasonality and mobility in the fascinating Kura-Araxes culture (3500-2500 BC) of the Caucasus and surrounding regions, led by Gwendoline Maurer. @uclarchaeology.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Our new paper led by Gwendoline Maurer is out! Seasonality and mobility at the Kura-Araxes site of Maxta I #stableisotopes #zooarchaeology journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Very excited to announce that our Leverhulme grant on insular gigantism was successful! 3 year project with @toriherridge.bsky.social @nannonstevens.bsky.social and Jesse Hennekam. Postdoc advert coming soon, but feel free to contact me via email for more details.

Job alert! 3 year post doc in my research group at University College London working on Roman Leather via biomolecular archaeology. #ZooMS #stableisotopes www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ187/r...

Interested in applying for this funded PhD with me at UCL Institute of Archaeology? Get in touch to discuss this project or to develop your own idea! Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection. www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/hum...

What to know more about radiocarbon or chronological modelling? Our 2026 short course is now open for registration. 17th - 19th March in Oxford/online. @isotopesuk.bsky.social @philascough.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/shor...

👋 Hello, Bluesky! We’re Radiocarbon, an international peer-reviewed journal (since 1959) dedicated to advancing radiocarbon research, from calibration and chronology to applications across archaeology, geology, environmental science, and more. We’re glad to be here. #Radiocarbon #Geochronology

New paper by Tamsin O’Connell: This is a MUST read for all archaeologists who include isotopes in their projects. “The signal and the noise: inherent challenges for isotopic studies in bioarchaeology” doi.org/10.1016/j.ja... #stableisotopes

New paper by Tamsin O’Connell: This is a MUST read for all archaeologists who include isotopes in their projects. “The signal and the noise: inherent challenges for isotopic studies in bioarchaeology” doi.org/10.1016/j.ja... #stableisotopes

We are seeking a new Editor for the Archaeological Journal to succeed @nannonstevens.bsky.social. #archaeology #editor #journal @royalarchinst.bsky.social Please share to your networks! ✍️

Our new paper is out: Sulfur as a proxy for identifying coast-inland human mobility in Northern Iberia during Late Prehistory #stableisotopes journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Sharing our new paper on the climate during the last years of the Classic Maya civilisation - for the first time we can tell the exact length of the severe droughts the Maya faced. cam.ac.uk/stories/mexi... science.org/doi/10.1126/... @earthscicam.bsky.social

Now with correct link: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Our new Nature Geoscience paper funded by @Leverhulme.ac.uk is finally out! “Major excursions in sulfur isotopes linked to permafrost change in Eurasia during the last 50,000 years” nature.com/articles/s4156…#stableisotopeses Don’t forget to delve into the supplementary info!

Our new #openaccess paper is out: Wetland sulfur isotope signals and dynamic isotope baselines: implications for archaeological research #stableisotopes doi.org/10.3389/fear...

Our new paper is out! #stableisotopes #cavebears new data from Serbia and a wide reviews of late Pleistocene cave bear isotope data!

We’re continuing to explore the potential of #δ¹³C metabolic proxy. This time, we showed that δ¹³C values in vertebral carbonate can reflect metabolic rates. More possibilities in the future. Big credit to Eric @erichsieh15206.bsky.social! aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The palaeoenvironmental potential of bioarchaeological isotope data 🏺🧪 Margaux Depaermentier, Rhiannon Stevens @nannonstevens.bsky.social ‪, et al pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40612709/ Potential avenues for the integration and interpretation of archaeological isotope data into environmental studies.

Our new paper is out: The palaeoenvironmental potential of bioarchaeological isotope data nature.com/articles/s4324…#stableisotopeses

Our new paper is out “Cold and arid climates experienced by Central European hunter-gatherers at Stránská skála IV during the Last Glacial Maximum” #14Cdating #multi-isotopeanalysis #stableisotopes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

UCL Institute of Archaeology lab managers role, initially for 1 year. Deadline 1st July. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Our special issue on Chronological Modelling is out now! This issue features 9 articles that provide a snapshot of current research on approaches to chronology in archaeology. buff.ly/ITt4x5n

Any early career researchers out there interested in reviewing a UK Bronze Age archaeology paper (not isotopes). As a journal editor I am always looking for new people to assist with reviews!

🚨 I am hiring! Join me at Masaryk University as a postdoc researcher in human #bioarchaeology & #isotope analysis. Work on past mobility, diet & funerary practices using cutting-edge lab facilities. ⏳ Apply by 1 June 2025 📍Brno, CZ 🔗 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/339250

Had an amazing time in India with @nannonstevens.bsky.social visiting colleagues at the Anthropological Survey of India to formalise our collaboration and begin our research @uclarchaeology.bsky.social

This issue of Quaternary Science Reviews comprises reviews on stable isotopes in different types of records. This is an update of the 2004 issue on “Isotopes in Quaternary Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction (ISOPAL)”, volume 23, issue 7–8, pages 739–992. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My thoughts on the Tinshemet discoveries in Israel (Nature Human Behaviour)

Only two days left to apply for IsoCamp 2025! Go to isocamp.org for more details and join us in New Mexico June 16th-27th!

Just starting our fieldwork at Pegwell bay for Palaeo-Thaw project. Sampling the Late Pleistocene Loess sequence

The Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit have joined BlueSky! Very happy to be here. We'll continue to post a little on the other place (esp. NEIF deadlines and jobs), but hope to transition over here.

Final call !! Apply for this funded PhD at University College London @UCLarchaeology.bsky.social on Establishing limits of Neanderthal presence in Britain. Deadline 20th Jan 5pm Uk time www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/est...

Final call!! Apply for a funded PhD at University College London @UCLarchaeology.bksy.social to be supervised by me. Apply to specific projects (Route 1) , or suggest your own research project to work up with (Route 2). trees-dla.ac.uk/apply DEADLINE 20th Jan 20th 5pm (UK Time)

Final call! Apply for this funded PhD at University College London. @uclarchaeology.bsky.social on : Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection. Deadline 20th January 5pm Uk time www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/hum...

Hi there! This is the account for the International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ). We are a non-profit 🤓promoting excellent research in #zooarchaeology 🫂fostering an international community. If you are interested in past human-animal relationships, follow us and/or become a member (1/2)

Here's to meeting friends in new places under blue skies! Ciao! Hallo! Hola! Xin chào! Nǐ hǎo! Bonjour! Konnichiwa! Jambo! Kia ora! Namaste! Salve!

The GREPAM (Groupe de Recherche et d'Etude du Patrimoine Archéologique Méditerranéen ) launches his bluesky account! Here you can follow our latest news on archaeological research, mainly prehistoric 🦣💀🦴🦌🪨, in the South of France! #GREPAM #ResearchGroup #Achaeology #Palaeolithic #Mediterranea

3. How old is slash-and-burn in Amazonia? @ioa-earthlab.bsky.social More info and how to apply: 📲 bit.ly/49IBE6z

2. Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection. @nannonstevens.bsky.social More info and how to apply: 📲 bit.ly/3OXazD5

*PHD NEWS!* Competitively funded PhD projects [route 1 of the Trees-DLA]. 1. Establishing Limits of late Neanderthal Presence in Britain. @mattpope.bsky.social More info and how to apply: 📲 bit.ly/3BGRMsn

Another new @treesdla.bsky.social PhD project funded by NERC, supervised by Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social and Rhiannon Stevens @nannonstevens.bsky.social at the UCL Institute of Archaeology www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/est...

Delighted to announce a funded PhD project in geoarchaeology/archaeobotany at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/how.... The research will take place as part of the Brazil-UK project "Voices of Indigenous Amazonia" www.amazoniamaisdez.org.br/en/post/with...

Apply for this funded PhD with me, Selina Brace and Silvia Bello at UCL & the Natural History Museum: Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection. #ZooMs #ancientDNA #stableisotopes www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/hum...

Double Job Alert!! We are recruiting an archaeobotany technician and an osteology (human & zooarchaeology) technician to help curate and improve access to our collections. Come join us at the Institute for Archaeology, University College London www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/...

Props to Rainer Cramer and Lily Adair! Our new method of sex identification using tooth 🦷 amelogenin based on #MALDI-MS or more accurately #LAP-MALDI-MS Guess what we call it internally? 🤔 First you had #ZooMS, now meet...?

Integrating Morphology and ZooMS-Identified Fauna Provides Insights Into Species Diversity and Neanderthal - Carnivores Interactions in Shared Landscapes: Evidence from Picken's Hole, Britain 🏺🧪 Delphine Frémondeau, R. Stevens @nannonstevens.bsky.social et al paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...

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...

A combination of #microCT and #ZooMS suggests... ... trapping and production of fur clothing at 12,900 BP La Prele site (Wyoming).

There is still time to apply for a funded PhD at UCL but funding deadlines are approaching fast. I am keen to supervise students on Palaeolithic archaeology, palaeoecology, ZooMS, stable isotopes, radiocarbon dating projects. Get in touch soon! www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/...

Our new paper is out in a Palaeoanthropology special issue on ZooMS: Integrating Morphology and ZooMS-Identified Fauna Provides Insights Into Species Diversity and Neanderthal - Carnivores Interactions in Shared Landscapes: Evidence from Picken's Hole, Britain paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...