Alex Burnett

Want to join the www.codicum.eu project?

3 year PostDoct at SDU (Odense, Denmark) for an Latin expert with palaeographical as well as text and book historical skills.

#Medieval #Manuscript

Inspired by current events. #proteomics

Really excited to share the preprint for @halbevi.bsky.social and I’s new paper! Lithic tools from the Mesolithic and Neolithic were analysed with palaeoproteomics, use-wear, radiocarbon and optical microscopy residue analyses to find evidence of bovine butchery!

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

Open letter to EAA calling for a boycott of Israel Please fill out the form below and add your name to over 1200 others on this open letter*, calling on the European Association of Archaeologists to respond to ICOMOS Palestine's appeal for cultural h...

If you work in #archaeology or related, consider signing this letter to demand @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social to cut ties with Israel and take a position against ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and their heritage! 🧪 #science 🇵🇸 #FreePalestine #BoycottIsrael #eaa2025

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An unclean slate, discrepancies between food input and recovered protein signal from experimental foodcrusts Organic residues are a rich source of biomolecular information on ancient diets. In particular, foodcrusts, charred residues on ceramics, are commonly analysed for their lipid content and to a lesser ...

Happy to announce that the paper on the first of our experiments to better understand how foodcrusts can be used for investigating diet in the past is finally out! Huge thanks to @jessiehendy.bsky.social and @matthewcollins.bsky.social for their support!
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Creative Producer: LEGO Programme:South Kensington

What if there was a job where you were paid £33,714 a year to play with Lego and work in an internationally renowned museum, with the aim of inciting curiosity and wonder about the natural world?

Applications close end of August.

@nhm-london.bsky.social 🧪🧸🏺

Registration deadline is TOMORROW! 🍝 🏺

Skoglund Lab - Ancient Genomics Skoglund lab

Now recruiting for two positions in my lab:

Postdoc in computational analysis of ancient human genomes www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Bioarchaeology staff scientist supporting human aDNA projects www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Background: sites.google.com/view/skoglun...

Applications welcome!

(Senior) Laboratory Research Scientist - Bioarchaeologist Salary for this Role: LRS level from £36,535 per annum plus benefits SLRS level from £45,700 per annum plus benefits Job Title: (Senior) Laboratory Research Scientist - Bioarchaeologist Reports to: Po...

Also - come and get my job! Which I’m still partially doing, but someone needs to take up the slack/ allow me to send them to far flung locations to retrieve mysterious ancient samples. See the World*!

*mainly Britain.

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Universitetslektor i människans palaeo-och populationsgenomik - Uppsala universitet Universitetslektor i människans palaeo-och populationsgenomik, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Faculty of Biology, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala universitet

#Job alert: associate professor (universitetslektor) at the program in Human #Paleogenomics and #Population #Genomics. Please see the ad for more information. Application deadline: Sept 1st. #vacancy @haam-community.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social

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A great opportunity anyone aged 16 to 21 looking to get into archaeology, designed by the @archaeologyuk.bsky.social Youth Advisory Board - designed by young people, for young people!

The Ancient Protein and Isotope Laboratory at the University of Michigan is hiring a manager to start this fall.

@umich.edu @umichresearch.bsky.social

#archaeology #chemistry #michigan #annarbor

This looks like a new Olympic event: "100 meter search trench, with a complete Harris" #Archaeology

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.

Stop using WeTransfer.

Earliest evidence of Neanderthal multifunctional bone tool production from cave lion (Panthera spelaea) remains - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Earliest evidence of Neanderthal multifunctional bone tool production from cave lion (Panthera spelaea) remains

new lab paper, lead by Dr. Greg Abrams! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Spoken by archaeologists and early historians alike 😎

Checklist of items researchers can do to improve the reproducibility of their code

Here is my checklist summarising a small set of some of the simplest tasks you can do that have high potential to improve the reproducibility of your analysis code.

This is based on my year of reproducibility reviews for the J. of Archaeological Science:

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM... 🧪🏺

These are SO fun. We had a class during my undergrad at the University of York (Archaeology) where we had to make memes - I remember it well. I’m sure I still have the one I made saved somewhere…

Typos and slang spur AI to discourage seeking medical care AI models change their medical recommendations when people ask them questions that include colourful language, typos, odd formatting and even gender-neutral pronouns

Typos, gender-neutral pronouns and even emotional language in patient messages make large language models more likely to recommend people stay home instead of seek medical care.

This AI bias could be especially problematic for certain patient populations. 🧪

www.newscientist.com/article/2486...

I’ve been living in fearful anticipation of this situation for all of my doctorate so far - and have awe for those who pull through it all! Including colleagues who defended grant applications and #PhD in the same week! #academia

Today the reconstruction of the 10.000 year old Mesolitic woman has been presented in Dinant (BE) by Isabelle de Groote van UGent
#Margaux #Mesolitic #UGent #reconstruction

Isn’t she just! There weren’t any material goods found in Grotte Margaux itself, we based the badger tooth pendant and other objects on finds and animals from other Mesolithic sites. I don’t think any of the ochre from the cave made it onto the bust, but having ochre on her forehead was considered!

A human cranium sits on a round black table next to a bust of a woman with tanned light brown skin, wearing a necklace made of a perforated badger tooth, and a headdress with upright feathers. She has dark hair wrapped up around the sides of the headdress, and the front of her hair is shaven. Her expression is intriguing, with pursed lips, prominent cheekbones, and eyes seeming to squint in the sunlight. In the background, the Meuse river flows between green fields and tree-covered hills and cliffs.

Great fun yesterday in the Meuse Valley where we showcased the fantastic Kennis brothers and @roam-ugent.bsky.social team's reconstruction of cranium 1 from the #Mesolithic Grotte Margaux! Don't forget to join the public vote - will she be called Margo, Freyà, or Mos'anne? www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

Doctoral fellow

📣Job opening: funded PhD position 📣
Interested in Finale Paleolithic and Mesolithic lithic assemblages in the Belgian Meuse Valley and their evolution across time?
Apply before the 27th of June 2025 to be part of an interesting project! All information in the link below www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...

Meet the Lady from Grotte Margaux! How should we name her? Join the vote ugent.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
📸 copyright 2025: roam-ugent

If you're doing a Google search and want to get rid of the annoying and usually wildly wrong AI summary at the start of the list of hits, put "-ai" (without the quotes) after a space at the end of whatever you've put in the search box.

Archaeologists having fun at Durotriges 25

Aerial photo of Durotriges 25

Archaeologists working on Durotriges 25

⚠️🚨 SAVE THE DATE ALERT 🚨⚠️

We are having a Durotriges Big Dig OPEN DAY on:

SUNDAY 29 JUNE

Free entry - Everyone welcome!!! 🎉🤹💃🕺🎉

Details to follow - watch this space

#Durotriges25 #Dorset #Archaeology

Researcher (Research Professor) Position in Archaeology at University of Bologna, Italy Apply for the full-time tenure-track Researcher position in Archaeology at University of Bologna, Italy. Specializing in Prehistory and Protohistory, this role is open to PhD-qualified candidates. Collaborate with leading experts in a dynamic academic environment. Application deadline: 27 June 2025.

Researcher (Research Professor) Position in Archaeology at University of Bologna, Italy

Apply for the full-time tenure-track Researcher position in Archaeology at University of Bologna, Italy. Specializing in Prehistory and Protohistory, this role is open to PhD-qualified candidates. Collaborate…

Happy to see this out and it was a treat to work with the co-authors involved!

It was also my first time publishing via @pciarchaeology.bsky.social and it's a very clear, transparent, collegial process that I would heartily recommend!

And finally, publish your raw data (please!)!!