My extra radical far loony left position is that no one should ever be allowed to make a profit from academic publishing. It is a public good. See also: education, healthcare (on a good day, public transport…)
Thankyou for such a glowing review!
Thankyou!
Isotope analysis of medieval Cambridge skeletons indicates that social status strongly influenced diet, with wealthier individuals consuming more animal protein than poorer townspeople.
📰 Chemical signatures preserved in human bones show how social inequality in medieval England could be "measured at the dinner table" 🍽️
🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @medievalists.bsky.social
www.medievalists.net/2026/02/medi...
The research was carried out as part of the Wellcome Trust–funded ‘After the Plague’ project. I’m incredibly grateful to my ATP co-authors and colleagues for their support and guidance throughout. If you’re interested, you can learn more about the wider project here: www.aftertheplague.org 4/4
Among other findings, the results suggest that friars consumed more meat and/or fish, while other groups appear to have had more limited access to animal protein. These differences offer new insight into lived experience in a medieval town 3/4
By analysing ‘ordinary’ townspeople, friars, and individuals buried at the medieval Hospital of St John, we were able to identify dietary differences between social groups 2/4
My first proper first-author paper has been published in Antiquity! The article is fully open access, so it’s free for anyone to read and share. The research came out of my PhD and uses a “whole-town” isotopic analysis approach to explore diet in Medieval Cambridge🏺 1/4
tinyurl.com/mu8a38zb
New paper out, possibly one of the most tedious projects of my life... it's working name was Project ARDUOUS and boy howdy did it live up to its name 🧪🏺
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Incredible article which points out that it often collectively costs more to apply for scarce research funding than the funds awarded to the successful proposals.
What an absurd system we've built in the service of efficiency and competition.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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'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
howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2024/12/08/m...
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
howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2024/12/08/m...
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...
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...
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...
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!
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/
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... 🏺