Dr. Liz M. Quinlan

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.

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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...

Dammit Ingold

I'll note that we suspected it was denatured trypsin causing the noise/contamination-- along with maybe the impact of using an older model of MALDI-TOF? However, I'd be super curious to know if anyone has any other theories! #massspec #proteomics #archaeology

A mass spectrum for an Atlantic salmon, showing normal peaks and valleys

A noisy, poor quality spectrum for the same sample as the first photo

If you wondered what using denatured trypsin in your collagen (ZooMS) samples looks like, here you go. Dark teal blue on the left (an Atlantic salmon-- Salmo salar) is a normal mass spectrum, olive green on the is the same sample, but showing an incredibly noisy spectrum. #proteomics #archaeology

not me forgetting that BlueSky doesn't support uploaded gifs 😅

In the foreground is a laptop with several collagen sample spectra visible in the mMass program, next to it is a Watermelon Schofferhofer beer and a cafe bar visible in the background

Back in the ZooMS saddle...

The reality in the UK right is now the ideology of trans eradication is being given more legal protections than the reality of being trans.

And if you can't see that with everything that's going on, then you are part of the problem. Do better, listen to trans people, fight back against the bigots.

A vista showing a grassy field in the foreground, rows of grape vines, a collection of buildings and small towns scattered about behind, and in the distance is the Hottentots-Holland Mountain Range beneath a bright blue sky with puffy white clouds.

Not to brag, but this is the view from my hotel room...

I returned to my conference live-posting roots today for a session here in Stellenbsoch. Really amazing presentations on the development of a supervision seminar series, fostering communities of practice, and incorporating Indigenous Knowledge modes and relationality into PhD supervision.

A white woman, Liz Quinlan, stands smiling and holding up a conference badge with her name and an RSVP pin badge on it. In the background are vineyards and a mountain range.

It's Day 1 of the Postgraduate Supervision Conference here in beautiful Stellenbosch! We're excited to check out some papers on RSVP core topics like supervisor development and practice. If you spot me (Liz, RSVP postdoc) throughout the day, feel free to come up and say hello! #PSCStellenbosch2025

Photo of Dr Liz Quinlan, RSVP Postdoctoral Research Associate based at the University of York. Accompanying text from Liz: Over the course of three days, I’ll be representing RSVP at the Ninth Biennial Conference on Research Into Postgraduate Supervision in Stellenbosch where I’ll discuss some of the exciting empirical data gathered so far from RSVP research initiatives. I’ll be sharing my thoughts on LinkedIn and Bluesky. Come and say hello if you see me there!

RSVP is heading to Stellenbosch for the 9th Biennial Conference on Research into Postgraduate Supervision! Our Postdoctoral Research Associate @archaeoliz.bsky.social will be taking over to post on LinkedIn, as well as here on Bluesky, during next week's conference from 26 to 28 March 2025. (1/3)

Keep your eye's peeled on the RSVP account next week-- I'll be reporting in from a pretty exciting place 🐧🌺🌍

ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests Mahmoud Khalil was inside his university-owned apartment Saturday night when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered and took him into custody.

Mahmoud Khalil was inside his university-owned apartment Saturday night when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered and took him into custody.

We have published a new Open Research in Practice case study by @archaeoliz.bsky.social which describes FAIR and open practices in archaeological research, tracking the decline of salmon in the North Sea basin 🐟

Haha, thanks! We're all so serious in academia, I think it's my duty to bring a little whimsy to silly ceremonies sometimes 😂

Research supervision in the context of REF - time for a step change? Karen Clegg, Liz Quinlan, and Nicola Palmer take a look at REF and the implications for research supervision

My current postdoctoral work with the Next Generation RSVP project has centred around research supervision development and I'm really excited to share a first taster of some of our findings from the 2024 UKRSS, as well as focus groups with supervisors across England.

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