“There is danger in fictionalizing the past. The present ‘post-truth’ moment shows how easy it is for misinformation, propaganda, and conspiracy theories to thrive. Yet ... Without imagining the past, we can’t connect to it.” Read more: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...

Missed my kitchen and my kids <3

One very sweaty and very happy archaeobotanist at the poster session yesterday. Now I get to focus solely on all the amazing presentations to come! #IWGP2025

Find me and this poster at 13.30 at the IWGP. Feel free to always talk to me about plants and hunter-gatherer plant relationships 🌳

Very Dutch vibes at the IWGP conference in Groningen! I too happen to love Stroopwaffles!

University life during the two most popular vacation weeks! It’s a desert 🏜️ at least I have @sofiefh.bsky.social for lunch company ❤️

There has to be a scientific term for the complete halt in writing that happens every time you hit a new heading, right?

Ready to give this ‘out of office writing’ a try. So far not the worst view I’ve ever been subjected to!

The annual research celebration day at @auarcher.bsky.social is tomorrow and my poster is based on our JAS Reports paper, published earlier this year. Feel free to download the paper (open access) or take a peek at the poster 🔎 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Why did Palaeolithic artists decide to produce art on the same walls that someone else had decorated? Do rock art palimpsests reflect dialogues that occurred across tens-of-thousands of years? My new OA paper develops a conceptual framework to explore these dimensions! 👇🏺 doi.org/10.1007/s108...

Publication alert! Way outside my normal work scope, here is a paper on metal detecting and teaching it in universities! Jointly written by the students who participated in a course designed by @minosthearcher.bsky.social intarch.ac.uk/journal/issu...

The streets are bright with summer snow (cherry blossoms) ❄️☀️

Celebrating Mother’s Day the perfect way. Booking a tattoo appointment (courtesy of husband and kids) and drinking a mock-jito in the spring sun.

This month has been insane for thrift store finds 😍😍😍

Jeg gennemgår magasinkasser for tiden og nogle af dem er vidunderlige! Ildrød Ertebøllekultur 🔥

Until next time, Norway!

Fluberget 🎨🎨🖌️

My first archaeological cave experience! Vistehola ☀️☀️

Spending the week in beautiful Stavanger thinking about research design in environmental archaeology ❤️ Travelling alone is terrifying, but Norway is gorgeous!

Another day another plant talk! Today for the student run Medieval Garden at Moesgaard. Lots of fun ❤️

Tustrup ❤️

Tour des megaliths with the BA students and @neonoejo.bsky.social today. First stop Poskær Stenhus 😍☀️

Hey @handansken.bsky.social kan Stavanger noget vildt for en stenalderplantearkæolog som skal være der en halv uges tid på kursus? 😁

You can say a lot of good things about my office, but who even knew that the BEST of them is having a Common Kestrel and her chicks as my neighbours! Surely I am smarter when empowered by bird song ❤️

Next project is also all about plants. Come to Moesgaard next week if you want to support a student run association and would like to hear me wax poetic about archaeobotany!

"unexpectedly"

Please acknowledge source @rosemarymosco.com whose work is brilliant. Happy to do so (it was obscured)!

Kiel presentation over and done with! ❤️🌱 What an enjoyable session today, with lots of perspective on submerged landscapes. I call these pictures: 1) plant nerd gesticulates wildly and 2) is academia wildly biased against short people 😂

Next stop Kiel! Am (naturally) wearing the ‘brave bracelets’ the kids made for me to use, so I don’t get nervous when presenting. Also featuring excavation safe silicone wedding band!

Catkins are all well and good but is there honestly anything cuter than a female hazel (Corylus sp.) flower? For the non-plant nerds it’s the tiny pink thing on one of the green buds in this pic!

Find me at the Kiel Conference next week if you want to talk about old plants and hunter-gatherer plant use. Find me in my home office this week, trying to make a presentation 😅

The Vagina Museum is just one month away from closing. Forever. A perfect storm of circumstances means that we may have to close our doors permanently and cease all digital activities. But we're not going to go down without a fight. Save the Vagina Museum. www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2

The sweetest students ever picked flowers for me during a break in the lecture today! And like a complete dolt I forgot them in the classroom when we finished!

Anybody else a complete drink-goblin?

I feel slightly ridiculous with my train reading today 😅

Happy bibliophile ❤️❤️😍

Getting ready to teach my first (3 hour!) lectures is both a lot of fun and a liiiittle scary. Love being able to share that Stone Age joy with new people though, it’s not like I’m not constantly talking about it anyway 😂

So I guess I win the competition of having THE best librarians ever, who didn’t even blink an eye at making sure we have all the Archaeobotany books anyone could want 😍

Moved back into the office post Berlin. Who wouldn’t love working next to all these beauties. Makes me happy every day.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... One of the smartest and most wonderful women I know has a new article out. Hurry up and read it before your neighbour if you like beautiful pottery and new applications of network analysis! #archaeology

Look who’s going home to her family for christmaaaaas!

In case you were wondering @felixthehauskat.bsky.social i still drink my coffee iced in winter 😅 even in the country with the worst milk 😂

A new paper about plant use at Funnel Beaker Culture sites. You may think that we already knew everything about this classic topic – not the case. Which crops were cultivated, which plants collected, and what is the function of the grinding stones? #archaeology #archaeobotany #neolithic #TRB

Last day of work in Germany is celebrated with actual sunlight through the window. It has been amazing being at the @dai-weltweit.bsky.social for these past 3 months, but now I am definitely ready to go home and be a mom to my kids again ❤️☀️🎄

www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl... Jeg har brugt år på at forsvare computerspil som underholdningsform og jeg står stadig ved det. Ikke perfekt, men det er der ingenting der er, men det kan en masse ting og fortjener ikke det ry det har fået som kilde til alverdens ondskab. Ikke al skærm er farligt altid!

My biggest weakness! Craft tools 😭❤️

Okay guys, be real. Face talking or a man bending over to fart?

Want to try your hand in #Archeology in the most extreme conditions. The County Council of Finnmark (entire county is north of the Arctic Circle), are hiring. www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...

Me: Preparing for the second part of my research ethics and integrity PhD-course. The course texts: "Levinas’s philosophy is notoriously difficult. While “ethics” has emerged as his central concern, there is still little consensus about what this actually means." Me:

Stereo photo I took in the Boerhaave museum in Leiden last week. I find it works best on a phone in ‘portrait’. 1. Move the screen until it is close but in focus. 2. Stare at the 2 images. 🎑🎑 3. Allow your eyes to drift until you see 3 images (not everyone can). 🎑🎑🎑 Middle one should be in 3D.