Dr. Liz M. Quinlan

Image of a workspace with two sheets of paper in the foreground that have fish bones separated out by type, and a set of digital calipers. In the background is a computer with a spreadsheet visible, as well as various bags of bones and other tools.

It always tickles me when @alieward.bsky.social says something like "enjoy washing dishes or whatever you're doing while listening to @ologies.bsky.social" and I'm doing silly nerd nonsense like measuring mullet bones in a Belgian ichthyoarchaeology lab 😅

Fueled by podcasts, this work is 🐟

View of a cozy living room with a large TV visible in the background, showing the title screen to Blue Planet II. In the foreground is a laptop screen which has the landing page for the Oceans Past Initiative conference on the left and a Google doc with several bullet points and paragraphs on the right.

Locking in to finally finish this abstract for the @oceanspast.bsky.social 🐟

In spite of the Safe Space Policy being clearly stated at the beginning of the meeting, Prof. XXXXX targeted me by name, calling for my resignation from my position as Editor of the society's journal. Furthermore, his misuse of my title, referring to me as "Miss Kamash", felt deliberately demeaning. This intimidating behaviour explicitly contravenes the EAA Safe Space Policy. Although he was muted, for which I was grateful, I experienced a panic attack following his comments and did not feel safe to speak for the remainder of the meeting. This was further compounded by not only Prof. XXXXX being allowed to remain in the online meeting, but also being invited to take the floor again after the break. This gives me strong concerns about the effectiveness of the Safe Space Policy. On a broader point about the effectiveness of the Safe Space Policy, I also note that members whose position aligned with that of Concerned EAA were repeatedly and persistently accused of anti-Semitism throughout the meeting. This is a serious accusation that should not be levelled without due care and evidentiary support. Its use as a blanket accusation seems to have been designed with the explicit aim of silencing and intimidating members aligned with Concerned EAA, which again contravenes the Safe Space Policy and should have been dealt with more robustly during the meeting.

Following yesterday's EAA Special Meeting, I have submitted a complaint to the EAA Appeal and Anti-Harassment Committee. I post it here, with names redacted, for any members who were not present. Thank you so much to everyone who has reached out with messages of solidarity and support 🙏💓🙏

Duane Kearns Puryear, holding his panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt. It reads, in block letters: "My name is Duane Kearns Puryear. I was born on December 20, 1964. I was diagnosed with AIDS on September 7, 1987 at 4:45 PM. I was 22 old. Sometimes, it makes me very sad. I made this panel myself. If you are reading it, I am dead..." There are several great resources to learn about Duane, his advocacy, his family, his panel, and the politics of memory and re-creation, especially this one by The Dallas Way: http://www.thedallasway.org/stories/written/2021/9/19/duane-puryears-and-the-quilt-panel Duane Puryear died in 1991.

It's your birthday, Duane.

Im genuinely so befuddled by this; I DON'T LACK IDEAS.
I have so MANY ideas and plans--its time, money, and energy I lack. I don't need genAI to make up stuff for me, my brain does that perfectly well, and I actually love that my brain does that for me.

Engagement bait meme Low quality image, the text says "repost to spread 2kb of christmas joy" and there is a picture of the winter spheal wearing a scarf from pokemon go

yah, I've had at least 5 over the last week alone 🫠

I've got a stress twitch developing in my left eye and there's a persistent flicker in all of the overhead lighting of the room I'm working from right now. If anyone sees me lying face first on the cobbles in the middle of the Exeter Christmas Market today just leave me, I'm doing fine.

Also, to be clear, when a trans instructor at OU is being punished and targeted for quite fairly grading a terrible essay, it’s bizarre to see academics online debating the rubrics.

That’s…not the problem.

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

Medieval manuscript illustration of a man using an axe to chop branches from leafless tree or bush; a goat-snail hybrid creature watches him from beside a fire.

bisig, adj: busy, occupied. (BIH-zih / ˈbɪ-zɪj)
Image: Calendar page for December in the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg; France (Paris), before 1349; @metcloisters.bsky.social object 69.86.
#OldEnglish #WOTD

Lucy's been inspiring me ever since I met her-- read more about her work improving Wikipedia here!

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Image of Liz sitting on a speed boat. The ocean and sky are visible in the background, and Liz is smiling while looking out to the side.

Image of a shallow reef and sandy beach on Giftun Island.

Image of Liz and her friend Jenni standing holding two baby goats. The goats are touching noses.

Some more photos from the trip to Hurghada-- I had an absolutely amazing time snorkelling, going out into the desert, and, yes, even relaxing for a bit!

Dr. Liz M. Quinlan - Infographics Taxonomic families of reef-associated fish spotted on four separate snorkelling trips near Hurghada, Egypt in November of 2025. A total of 81 species were recorded by two divers (myself and my friend ...

What's the point of going on holiday if you can't be incredibly annoying about it?

I'm completely incapable of switching off my brain while having fun, so I recorded all the fish species my friend and I saw on our snorkelling trips in the Red Sea.

Check out the infographic here: shorturl.at/hh7bB

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

Friday feels, finding out the North Atlantic right whale, one of the rarest whales on the planet, is finally showing the first signs of slow recovery.

Amazing photos by Deluna Vision

#NorthAtlanticRightWhale #RightWhales #WhaleConservation

Photo of a laptop with a split screen showing a map of Austria and Hungary and a 2015 paper by Galik et al. on the left, and a notes document on the right

Revisiting some classic ichthyoarchaeology papers on the train as I desperately try to race Storm Claudia out of the country ⛈️😅

Against my better judgement I love this silly island!

A screenshot of an email from UK Visas and Immigration that says 'Your Life in the UK Test is booked".

With any luck I'll soon have indefinite leave to remain and therefore indefinite leave to be even more annoying ✨

I dunno about Trump but I sure hope these emails take down the NYT

every night I go to bed as an American immigrant abroad knowing that I’m gonna wake up to the wildest shit having just happened back in my country overnight 😮‍💨

Beyond Stockfish - Blog November 10, 2025

Head on over to our project website to read all about the recent conference and data collection trip which had me zigzagging across northwestern Europe via train all the way from Copenhagen to Exeter! #researchupdate #archaeology #datacollection

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THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY

THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY

Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago

A very good Watson obit here, written, though obviously not published, years before he died.

Beyond Stockfish

I'll be applying variety of research methods to ichthyoarchaeological assemblages from Exeter, Lubeck and Bergen, including #zooarchaeology, #osteometrics, #palaoeproteomics, and #morpohometrics. You can learn more about the project, and follow updates, at our website.

shorturl.at/5daXQ

l left York for Exeter in September to start as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University's Centre for HuManE Bioarchaeology, where I'm leading a @ukri.org AHRC-funded project called "Beyond Stockfish: Migratory and Freshwater Fisheries during the Rise of Early Modern Trading Companies".

Image of Liz, a white woman with blue hair, smiling and standing on a beach. Visible behind her are red cliffs, a stretch of open sand, and crashing waves.

In the spirit of sharing more research updates (and posting more in general), I realized I forgot to mention a pretty big life/research change-- I've moved Down South 🫨 #archaeology #researchupdate #lifeupdate

Oceans Past Initiative (@oceanspast.bsky.social) Our latest newsletter is here 🐟 This month we're celebrating two decades of OPI, with special features & reflections from Prof. Cristina Brito and Prof. Daniel Pauly, plus lots more! Keep up to date…

Very excited to share that I've been given a ECR Spotlight in Volume 34 of the @oceanspast.bsky.social Quarterly Newsletter to discuss my "Beyond Stockfish" project and research journey (so far 😊!) bsky.app/profile/ocea...

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