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Doctoral focal award: environmental evidence synthesis Apply for funding to deliver a doctoral focal award in environmental evidence synthesis.

NERC and ESRC are launching the Doctoral Focal Award in Environmental Evidence Synthesis.

Help equip the next generation of researchers with a strong foundation in advanced evidence synthesis methodologies, to inform effective evidence based environmental policy and practice👇

National Museum’s collection at ‘significant risk’ due to inadequacy of storage building Dublin centre ‘at full capacity’ and lacks ‘environmental and structural standards’

National Museum’s collection at ‘significant risk’ due to inadequacy of building

‘The building housing the National Museum of Ireland’s collection … is “at full capacity” and not at the standard required to safely preserve the items, the museum board’s chair has said.’

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🚨Job alert! Our new @erc.europa.eu funded project 'MEMELAND' needs a #palynologist Postdoctoral Research Associate #PDRA for 3.5 years. You'll help transform our understanding of the impact of #medieval farming on biodiversity! Full details & to apply 👇 #archaeobotany www.arch.ox.ac.uk/job-vacancies

Palaeoecology Research Fellow (Landscapes of Catastrophe) at Queen's University Belfast Apply for the Palaeoecology Research Fellow (Landscapes of Catastrophe) role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

Landscapes of Catastrophe, our @ukri.org AHRC project in the Great Irish Famine is recruiting: 30 month Palaeoecology PDRA to look at environmental context of the Famine working with some brilliant labs and colleagues www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRB941/p...

A picture of St Kevin's Church at Glendalough with the overlaid text 'Glendalough Have Your Say!' with a QR code

We are currently working with a collaborative team on a Conservation Management Plan for Glendalough.

If you've visited the site in recent years, we would love to hear your thoughts:
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#Ireland #Glendalough #Wicklow @nationalmons.bsky.social @opwireland.bsky.social

Palaeoecology Research Fellow (Landscapes of Catastrophe) - Belfast, Northern Ireland job with QUEENS UNIVERSITY BELFAST | 409353 Successful applicants will have responsibilities for independent and directed research, supervision of technical analysis ...

30 month palaeocology Research Fellow on our new Famine Project, Landscapes of Catastrophe, open for applications. Get in touch and please circulate; successful person will be doing some really cutting edge multi-proxy analyses www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

AHRC Executive Chair to extend tenure Professor Christopher Smith will continue as Executive Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

Today, UKRI has announced that Professor Christopher Smith will continue as Executive Chair of AHRC.

After being appointed as Executive Chair in 2020, his term had been due to conclude in August 2026, but he will now remain in post while a succession plan is developed.

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A woman looking down at an animal bone in her hands which she excavated from Hyaena Land, Castlepook Cave.

The RIA is working to ensure our Archaeology Grants are accessible and supportive for women. In recent years, we have seen fewer applications from eligible women & we want to understand why.

Please take our short survey: www.jotform.com/251114411909...

📷Cave archaeologist Emma Hawkes at work.

Very excited to get up and running with this one: awarded £1.5m AHRC Standard Grant for Landscapes of Catastrophe, a project examining the context and impact of the Great Irish Famine www.qub.ac.uk/schools/NBE/...

3D model of a wooden pillar from the front and sides (both with and without a texture), engraved with a depiction of a human face.

NEW Wooden beam from late 10th-century-AD Ostrów Lednicki, Poland, depicting a human face.
Part of a preserved fortification, it sheds light on the construction of early-medieval defensive fortifications during the formation of the Polish state.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

The Corleck Head on display in the National Museum of Ireland, with text reading: Celtic Ireland with Professor John Waddell, Amplify Archaeology Podcast

We have a new episode of Amplify Archaeology Podcast out today!

I was delighted to be joined by Professor John Waddell, who discusses how our understanding of the Celts has developed, Celtoscepticism, the politics of the past and present, and how the story of the Celts is told today

#Archaeology 🏺

Trade Union Unite is seeking a Sectoral Employment Order (SEO) to raise pay for Archaeologists working in development in Ireland to €45k pa, a level broadly equivalent to building workers in skilled trades.

This evening I will be talking about the development of densely populated Bronze Age hillforts in Ireland and Temperate Europe for @tuatha.ie @neiljackman.bsky.social, a topic which has recieved some press after our @antiquity.ac.uk paper on Brusselstown Ring, a massive 41ha site with 600+ houses!

‘Decolonising’ medieval Irish history? The (im)possibility of challenging existing practice The ‘Decolonial’ turn has come to the discipline of Irish history. How will it be used? As a liberal metaphor or decolonial praxis? As the turn proceeds through the discipline to pre-modern studies...

New article out by Stephen Hewer et al on decolonising medieval Irish history www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #history #medievalsky #ireland

Come hear me speak about my book

Exciting news! I'm the incoming Executive Editor for 'World Archaeology' and here is my first CfP!

Call for Papers for ‘World Archaeology’: Debates and Emerging Issues in Archaeology

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Direct link here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

The NERC Peer Review College is now always open. With broader, more inclusive criteria and a quick 10–20 minute self-nomination process.

We welcome academic and non-academic experts, at all career stages, in the UK and internationally.

Apply now: engagementhub.ukri.org/nerc-funding...

Fieldwork Research Associate at Newcastle University Discover an exciting academic career path as a Fieldwork Research Associate at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

Come join our Ecologies of Governance team: we have a 30 month fieldwork based PDRA advertised @newcastleuni.bsky.social as a part of our AHRC funded project. Will work at Rendelsham, Dunadd, Navan Fort, Llangorse, Milfield royal palace sites for project. Pls RT: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQM271/f...

Cuisine and culture-contact: lipid residue analysis reveals lack of aquatic products in pottery from Viking Age England | Antiquity | Cambridge Core Cuisine and culture-contact: lipid residue analysis reveals lack of aquatic products in pottery from Viking Age England

Congrats to our own Dr Anita Radini and her colleagues on their paper

“Cuisine and culture-contact: lipid residue analysis reveals lack of aquatic products in pottery from Viking Age England”

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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You’ll get by panel and scheme here and can work out, recently updated to dec25

AHRC - Executive Chair AHRC Executive Chair | Band X | London or Swindon

The AHRC are looking for a new executive chair, as Christopher Smith's term comes to an end. An amazing, and hugely important, role fa-evzn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

NEW member benefit: An Taisce is delighted to have a special reciprocal membership arrangement with Tuatha
As a member of An Taisce, you can enjoy 30% off Tuatha membership, or if you're a member of Tuatha, you can enjoy a 30% discount to join An Taisce
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Palaeoecology Research Fellow (Ecologies of Governance) at Queen's University Belfast An opportunity for an academic position as a Palaeoecology Research Fellow (Ecologies of Governance) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

Come join the Ecologies of Governance team, working with Andy Seaman, Duncan Wright, Rich Madgwick and me on our AHRC project. 30 month Palaeoecology postdoc to work on our five case study landscapes based at QUB - Archaeology at Queen's www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ146/p...

Charlie’s Boy Medieval High Cross at dusk, Sleaty Church, Co. Laois One of the first things you noticed about Charlie Doherty was that everyone had, or wanted to have, a word with him. He appeared to know almost…

Ah, I hadn’t seen this.

A wonderful tribute to Charlie Doherty, UCD early Irish historian and one of nature’s gentlemen, by one of his former students @voxhib.bsky.social

(I was one of Charlie’s too, but not as good as Vox)

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Minimally Destructive Radiocarbon Dating of Bone Rationale Bone is commonly used in radiocarbon dating in archaeology and other disciplines. Despite advances in collagen extraction protocols, the process remains destructive, requiring sawing, dril.....

We have a new paper out in Rapid Comms in Mass Spectrometry about 14C dating bone using a minimally destructive approach.
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my.corehr.com/pls/ulivrecr... New job in Irish Studies