Dr Alice Rose

This #PromoWednesday, share job vacancies for whatever position could be relevant for someone active in #Zooarchaeology: PhDs, post-docs, technician, lecturer, collection manager, etc. 📜

Dear headline writers. Could you consider substituting 'delighted' fur 'shocked' and 'intrigued' for 'baffled' - thanks, archaeologists.

“Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT)” Research Scientist, UCD School of Archaeology
Applications are sought for a 19-month Research Scientist position as part of the project “Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT)”

Search for “Archaeology” at
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Mortuary Memes: Advances in the Digital Public Archaeology of Death This post provides a compilation of the in-person and digital contributions to the Theoretical Archaeology Group 46th Annual Meeting session ‘Mortuary Memes: Advances in the Digital Public Ar…

'Mortuary Memes: Advances in the Digital Public Archaeology of Death'. Here's a blog post containing the session abstract, paper abstracts + slides for the in-person talks + videos/links for the digital contributions for Friday's TAG session
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Today our BABAO Trade and Sale of Human Remains Taskforce has published a poster at #TAG25 about digital sales of the dead. Check out @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social blog to learn more, including how you can help! #archaeology #anthropology #scicomm

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The closure of Archaeology: an open wound for the University and the city In 2021, the University announced the closure of the Department of Archaeology. Learn more about how this decision has damaged the University’s reputation, and impacted its staff and students.

As Uni management continues to disrupt our work, important to remember the background. Part of UCU series State of the Uni 24-5, here's a summary of the vandalistic act that led to the closure of the Archaeo Dept at Sheff Uni. Share! @sheffielducu.bsky.social ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/campaigns/st...

MP calls for government to ban human remains sales: A deep dive An MP has called on the government to ban the sale of human remains. Here's what happened and why it matters.

Great to see BABAO making an impact and maybe some progress on the sale of human remains in the UK.

www.patrickpester.com/post/mp-call...

MP calls for government to ban human remains sales: A deep dive An MP has called on the government to ban the sale of human remains. Here's what happened and why it matters.

Great to see the impact the #BABAO #saleofhumanremainstaskforce is having. Shout out to Dr Lauren McIntyre @noddinggoth.bsky.social for laying the issues out so clearly in the interview www.patrickpester.com/post/mp-call...

MP calls for ban on sales of human remains Labour’s Bell Ribeiro-Addy said she has been told of human remains frequently auctioned "disguised as modified items or replicas".

Important ethical issues surrounding the trade and sale of human remains were raised at PMQs today by Bell Ribeiro-Addy following discussions with BABAO:

www.bbc.com/news/article...

presentation slide titled 'The RATTUS project and the role of ZooMS in large multidisciplinary studies' is displayed at the University of York. The slide features a rat image and logos from ERC and UK Research and Innovation. Below the projection screen, a speaker in a light-coloured t-shirt (David Orton) stands at a podium with a laptop, while another presenter (Sam Presslee) in a white shirt is seated at the table.

Kicking off #IZAZ Integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology (IZAZ) 2nd workshop Day2

The @archaeorattus.bsky.social project and the role of ZooMS in large multidisciplinary studies presented David Orton and Sam Presslee

Just started a new pack for #isotope bioarchaeologists, ecologists and so on.😀🧪

Let me know if you would like to be in/out!

Hope it can help.🙌

go.bsky.app/FpHPMC6

Thankyou!

Could I be added too please?

Thankyou!

Could I be added too please!

RATTUS Project Rats and the Archaeology of Trade, Urbanism, and Disease in Past European Societies 2023 – 2027

So here we are. A lot's changed since I (David) stepped back from Twitter a few years ago. For a start my rat work has grown into a major research project, RATTUS, thanks to the ERC & UKRI - see sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/rattus/

Meet the team - Alice Hi all! I am Alice and I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the RATTUS project. I am working with Michelle Alexander and Eric Guiry to ...

More new followers- hello! As an introduction, I am currently a PDRA on the RATTUS project (@archaeorattus.bsky.social), applying isotope analysis to archaeological rats. If you want to find out more, heres an intro post I wrote for the RATTUS blog: the-rattus-project.blogspot.com/2024/09/meet... 🏺

Wondered why I suddenly had lots of new followers! Great idea, hello all 👋

Photograph of the exhibition booklet for the 'Beneath our Feet: Archaeology of the Cambridge Region' exhibition at the MAA in Cambridge. The cover shows a facial reconstruction of a early medieval female found buried at Trumpington.

Photograph of the author, Alice Rose, standing in front of an information board in the 'Beneath our Feet' exhibition. The board describes scientific work that Alice Rose and Sam Leggett carried out on the Trumpington burial.

A photograph of a display of Roman and early medieval artefacts found at Girton College. The display includes a quote from Emma Brownlee.

A photograph of an exhibit displaying medieval artefacts from an Augustinian Friary found in the centre of Cambridge. The display includes a map and further information about medieval Cambridge 1066-1539.

Very happy that I managed to visit the 'Beneath our Feet' exhibition at the MAA in Cambridge just before it finished. It was exciting (and humbling) to see so many things on display that myself and lots of my amazing colleagues have worked on! @samleggs22.bsky.social @ecbrownlee.bsky.social 🏺

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More bed burials, this time a deep-dive on the Trumpington girl! Featuring Sam Leggett and @alicekensa.bsky.social
on their amazing isotope work, some broader context from me, and what it was like bringing everything together for the
MAA Cambridge 'Beneath our feet' exhibition.

New paper alert!
"A radiocarbon-based model of changing burial rites in early medieval England" Published today in Radiocarbon
Using big data to answer the question of what happens to grave goods in the 7th century, and more.
Summary🧵
doi.org/10.1017/RDC....

Research Assistant (Bioarchaeologist) - Rewilding Later Prehistory Project – Oxford at Oxford Arch... An academic position as a Research Assistant (Bioarchaeologist) - Rewilding Later Prehistory Project – Oxford is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional...

🚨JOB KLAXON: Research Assistant (Bioarchaeologist) on the fascinating Rewilding Later Prehistory Project. Isotopes and aDNA your thing? Interested in early horses? The role is based on Oxford, but some time spent here at Exeter:

Join the Archaeosnack team to:
a) Expand your 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 and academic writing skills
b) Get experience with peer 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸
c) Promote your research
d) Build your science outreach 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 and enrich your CV
e) Be part of a 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 of early career researchers!

The Archaeosnack scicomm writing group starts its 2023-2024 meetings on 11 Dec and is inviting new members! See www.scisnack.com/groups/archa... for meeting dates and joining info. See examples of previous snacks at: www.scisnack.com/category/arc... 🏺

And you can read the full osteobiographies, view the beautiful reconstruction illustrations and find out more about the project by visiting our brand new website here: www.aftertheplague.org

Pathways to the medieval hospital: collective osteobiographies of poverty and charity | Antiquity | ... Pathways to the medieval hospital: collective osteobiographies of poverty and charity - Volume 97 Issue 396

You can read the fully Open Access article here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Archaeologists reveal life stories of hundreds of people from medieval Cambridge Examination of remains in hospital grounds uses DNA analysis and other disciplines to build ‘biographies’

A new 'After the Plague' project paper is out today! It features some isotope research from my PhD, which I used to find out more about the origins and diet of those buried in the Medieval hospital. It was such a pleasure to work with such a lovely project team 🏺 www.theguardian.com/science/2023...

Oooh yes! When will you be up north?!