Dr Sam Leggett

📣 Thurs 27 Nov 2025 17:15 the Munro Lecture will be given by Dr Ricardo Fernandes @maxplanck.de "Isotopic snapshots: a 15,000-year journey through the human story" 🧪 book your FREE ticket here: https://tinyurl.com/3sx4rspn @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social #isotopes #archsci #EdinArch #MunroLecture

graphs and tables for treasure finds from 2014-2024

Guess what I've spent the morning doing??

TLDR it's all getting worse: number of Treasure finds up, number of donations and acquisitions down.

#Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting

❗Seminar Thurs 13 Nov "Residues of Life: Microanalysis of Activity & Climate Change at #Roman #Vindolanda" Vanessa Reid @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk📍 Sydney Smith lecture room (Doorway 1) 🕰️ 4.15pm All Welcome! #EdinArch #Archaeology #geoarch #IronAge @vindolandatrust.bsky.social

Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

University of Leicester to consult on redundancies University bosses are also planning to stop a number of courses.

... and Leicester... Languages, History...
It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Migrations into early medieval England: integrating isotopes and aDNA The next event in the 2025-26 UCL Institute of Archaeology/British Museum Medieval Seminar Series, will be given by Sam Leggett (University of Edinburgh) on 27 January.

The next talk in the @uclioabmmedieval.bsky.social Medieval Archaeology Seminar Series will be given by @samleggs22.bsky.social on 'Migrations into early medieval England: integrating isotopes and aDNA.'

🗓️ : 27 Jan 2026, 6:15-7:15pm
📍 : UCL

More info: buff.ly/eQyGGI1

#HSResearch #NHSFMembers

🎃 ☠️ Our MSc Human Osteoarchaeology students have been #felting up a storm making vertebrae recently! A fun #mindful way of learning skeletal #anatomy led by Dr Linda Fibiger 🧶 #halloween #osteology #osteo #archaeology #EdinArch #Edinburgh #bones #EdinburghUni #craft @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

Our seminar this Thurs 30th Oct 16:15 in the SSLT is "Of rocks and hard places: from geopractices to extractivism in late prehistoric Europe" by Dr Beatrijs de Groot @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social #Neolithic #pottery #Anthropocene #geology #lithics #prehistory #archaeology #EdinArch #Edinburgh 🏺🪨⛰️

Screenshot of the Viabundus website.

A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments.

#medievalsky

www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...

2/3 Recommended by @samleggs22.bsky.social based on reviews by Alexandra Johnson and 2 anonymous reviewers. All editorial work accessible here for full transparency: doi.org/10.24072/pci...

Tesco Recalls Free From Breadcrumbs Due to Undeclared Gluten Tesco have recalled gluten and wheat free Free From Breadcrumbs due to the presence of undeclared gluten making them a health risk for Coeliacs.

⚠️Recall⚠️

Please be vigilant with this one guys, Tesco have just recalled in the last hour or so their Free From Breadcrumbs due to undeclared wheat! Details in the blog.

www.coeliacsanctuary.co.uk/blog/tesco-r...

Had such a great time taking the students to the Cathedral and talking them through biomolecular techniques 🧬🧪💀

So incredible! Her passion for conservation work and saving the planet was even more inspirational in person. Rare to get to meet your role models like that!

Such sad news! So lucky to have been able to meet her back in the before times. We’ve lost a legend who paved the way for so many and did such incredible work.

This week's seminar Thurs 2nd Oct 4:15pm in Sydney Smith LT " #Atapuerca archaeological sites (Burgos, #Spain), from #Palaeolithic to 2025" from our own @michaelbones95.bsky.social All Welcome! #EdinArch #prehistory #bioanth #archaeology #Edinburgh #UNESCO #OneHealthArchaeo @iphes-cerca.bsky.social

It’s fascinating how often those who appeal to history are woefully ignorant of history! “Saxon forefathers” is a classic 19th century racial dogwhistle.

Moreover, the “ancient liberties” thing is utter tosh.

Also some great late-Roman and early medieval archaeology too 😊

Is there anything better when dissertation marking than seeing your supervisees absolutely BOSS IT with beautiful graphs & maps? SO PROUD 📊🗺️ some STUNNING raincloud plots 👏

Please repost and amplify !

We are hiring a faculty position in Evolutionary Genetics in the Biology Department at U of South Carolina!

Check us out and come be our colleague!
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Deadline for applications is Oct 1

#AcademicJobs #EvoBio

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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Amazing news! Well deserved! Congratulations Jess!!! Very excited & proud supervisor! ⚔️ 🏆 🎉

So awesome to see this out! Congrats to my amazing colleagues! Vera is an absolute super star 🌟 great to see all the filming of her work in the labs in such a great output 🥼 🧪 🦷

Student and Early Careers Conference 2025: Jessica Nutt Poster Presentation

🛡️ Think Vikings skipped Wales? Think again!

Jessica Nutt’s poster dives into overlooked Viking conflicts in early medieval Wales, uncovering battlefields, movement, and surprising alliances through a predictive model.

A must-read for anyone interested in conflict archaeology! 👉 shorturl.at/DExym

Always lovely to see my colleague, @samleggs22.bsky.social's work @maacambridge.bsky.social!

The puppy is bored but I’m having a great time writing about the 11th century in the ☀️ @liabetti.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social #normans #earlymedieval #EdinArch #archsci

And a podcast episode to accompany the article! 🎧

📣 New FREE access article out from our Dr Sam Leggett & Dr Emma Smith, with @robin-f.bsky.social @bostoncollege.bsky.social using biomolecular archaeology on a cemetery in Alton Hampshire to help reframe the transition to the Early Middle Ages @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social #edinarch

Rethinking Grand Narratives: Mobility, Diet, and Health in a Small Corner of Early Medieval Hampshire | Speculum: Vol 100, No 3

Our new article is out in Speculum! @robin-f.bsky.social called it “ #isotopes for poets” it’s a fab ongoing interdisciplinary project on a late #Roman & #EarlyMedieval cemetery in Hampshire read more 🔗 https//doi.org/10.... @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social #archsci

Perfect reading for St Alban’s Day on Sunday ;)

Dust jacket of 'The Anglo-Saxon Agricultural Revolution in Norfolk', edited by Richard Hogget and Neil Faulkner. The front page shows a drone shot of our early medieval complex trench, with the modern village of Sedgeford in the background. The back page contains a photo of a complete pot, with the blurb discussing the contributions made in the book towards the topic.

SHARP is pleased to announce that our publication 'The Anglo-Saxon Agricultural Revolution in Norfolk' based on the 25th Anniversary conference held in 2020 is off to the printers!

We are aiming for a book launch on the first Tuesday lecture, and it will be available to purchase during the season.