Brianna Muir

Great opening plenary by Prof Matt Fox about the role of intuition in epidemiology - some key takeaways were that intuition can be helpful, but also detrimental. Quantifying uncertainty can be a good strategy to avoid making readers (and yourself) not have to use intuition!
#AEA2025

Thank you so much!

Just backed it! I’m so excited for this 😍

Cultivaria Bringing Archaeology to the table.

A couple of present and former ANU Archaeology students have been working to develop a board game inspired by the Deep Past called Cultivaria. They've (quite literally) just launched their kickstarter and I know a few of you love games so... #archaeogaming 🏺

To be more specific as well, this is for the UK/European system

Hey, a first gen scholar here reaching out to more senior #bioarchaeology colleagues! If I’m reaching out to a potential PhD supervisor, do I need to have a concrete research idea in mind? Or is it acceptable to be like “hey, my research interests run parallel to yours, can we discuss?”

Fantastic resource! Are you accepting students into it?

Looks fantastic! Will add it to my weekend reading list 😍

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Interesting joint statement/response on human remains in museums in Britain making the case for keeping (for research) and sometimes displaying (sensitively) human remains excavated ethically from archaeological sites in Britain.

Look what just arrived 😍 My copy of @maxhuibai.bsky.social game Publish or Perish!

Any of my academic pals up for a game night?

Lion mauled gladiator to death in Roman Britain A skeleton in England may have belonged to a gladiator who died fighting a large cat, possibly a lion, a new study finds.

Bite marks on a 1,800-year-old skeleton from Roman Britain suggest that a gladiator was mauled to death by a large cat, possibly a lion
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Absolutely fantastic article! Thank you for taking the time to write this up - this will (hopefully) make it easier to persuade other academics to move towards the “new statistics” 😍

A photo of two domestic rats (one black and white, one grey and white) inside a cage.

My research assistants Peachy and Yersinia keep me company during data analytics and article writing 🐀❤️

Thank you for the link! I'm currently writing an isotopes article, with explicit discussion of ethics in SI research in bioarchaeology. This will be very helpful!

The poster looks fantastic! I always love seeing alternative poster designs 😍

Super exciting to see our article "Fragmentary and dispersed: Preadult personhood and social memory in a Southeast Asian forager cemetery" in this awesome special issue!

Calling out to all my #archaeology and #bioarchaeology peeps: does anyone have any resources (or even examples) on how to write a cover letter for an academic article? I'm First Gen and a little clueless on this front!

Trans people affirmed their gender without medical help in medieval Europe − history shows how identity transcends medicine and law Surgery was rare and risky in the medieval period. Though medical options were limited, trans people were able to take transitioning into their own hands.

Fantastic article from @theconversation.com on being trans 🏳️‍⚧️ in Medieval Europe!

theconversation.com/trans-people...

A photo of a cyanotype print that has been sewn to the front of a brown paper notebook.

A photo of a cyanotype print that has been sewn to the front of a brown paper notebook.

For those new to my page I also sometimes turn these #cyanotypes into notebooks for gifts 😍 if anyone has any other ideas I’m always looking for suggestions 🤔

Three cyanotype prints - each a different version of a human rib cage with florals growing within.

*Marge Simpson voice* “ribcages? I just think they’re neat!”

Some more #cyanotypes from my last weekend - the ribcage is a stencil, but the florals are from the garden!

People Have Had Non-Binary Genders for Thousands of Years It's nothing new.

As the transgender community continues to fight for civil rights in the U.S., one of the most common arguments against progress is that transgender people are a recent phenomenon.

But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️

Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain - Nature An analysis of ancient mitochondrial and nuclear DNA shows evidence of matrilocal communities in Iron Age Britain.

⚠️ Iron Age OPEN ACCESS research klaxon alert⚠️

Our joint @tcddublin.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social article

*Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain*

published in @nature.com today can be found here:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology Call for Papers Advances in the Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia International Journal of Osteoarchaeology covers the study of human & animal bones, from archaeological contexts, for archaeologists, anthropologists & bone specialists.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... #bioarchaeology #archaeology #southeastasia #SEAsia #prehistory #SEAsiaprehistory

Awesome, I’ll have to check it out! I’ve been tinkering with some games too, mostly with Bitsy and RPGMaker - I’m always on the lookout for other tools though!

Looks delightful! Do you mind if I ask which program/engine you’re using to build your game?

Thank you! I’m looking forward to another batch this weekend if the weather can stay sunny!

There are five cyanotypes - three of an acheulean stone handaxe, and two of Chauvet cave rock art

Here is the first batch of cyanotypes! I’m not sure why the stencils blur in some places - and I can’t decide it it makes it better or not 🤔 I’m also open to ideas for other archaeological prints!

Created a whole bunch of stencils for some cyanotype test prints tomorrow - hope they work! 😍

A photo of the cover of Best Australian Science Writing 2024.

Used my Christmas book voucher to get a copy of The Best Australian Science Writing 2024 - super excited to give it a read!