Article in the Journal of Historical Geography with @mudderofpearl.bsky.social and @lizgabbett.bsky.social detailing preliminary findings from the project 'Locating Bench Marks, Preserving Heritage'

doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

@heritagecouncil.ie @ulresearch.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social

oprah winfrey is holding a microphone and saying `` you get a spreadsheet and you get a spreadsheet . '' Alt: oprah winfrey is holding a microphone and saying `` you get a spreadsheet and you get a spreadsheet . ''

The amount of spreadsheets I have on my phone to track “weird” things I’ve noticed so I can prove it is a pattern is greater than 1. Today’s new addition-a spreadsheet to track number of people at the bus stop in my village so I can prove it does drop off during the semester and pinpoint when.

Image of laptop desktop showing numerous open files

This is a totally fine amount of files to have open on a Friday. Shoutout if you can figure out which movie is playing in the background (top middle window).

A visual timeline of employment and education

One of the job apps I’m filling out creates a timeline of your work history which is kind of fun but also shows the varying levels of precarity that come with trying to find an academic job! (Jobs on left, education on right)

@dri.ie petition to rename repositories to menageries.

Learning that you like White Castle is kind of phenomenal.

Hashtag blessed. But for real yay!

woody from toy story is angry and says after all we 've been through Alt: woody from toy story is angry and says after all we 've been through

Forced to read it with the general populace … how will I recover from this?!

Screenshot of title PowerPoint slide for Jesse Wolfhagen’s talk Rethinking Human-Cattle Interactions at Neolithic Çatalhöyük (Türkiye) for the Archaeological Institute of America

Screenshot of graphs showing biometric Modelling indicating sexual dimorphism in adult pig tibias.

Screenshot showing skewing towards more female cattle in later period deposits at Çatalhöyük

Screenshot of graphs showing stable isotope analysis tgat indicate high variability in the environments cattle came from.

Great @archaeological.org talk looking at new analyses of cattle material from Çatalhöyük by @uncertainarch.bsky.social from @harvard.edu. Modelling shows skew towards female cattle in later periods, shifts to Konya(?) plain, and the suggestion of garden hunting as a strategy. Lots to think about.

does anyone know what happened to the website Digitised Diseases? I wanted to run a paleopathology lab in my archaeology class but it doesn't seem to be working. Any good alternatives for looking at 3D models of skeletal pathologies?

Anyone know what is up with the excavations.ie website? It was down all weekend. Came back for a bit but sometime loaded random ad pages instead and now seems to be down again?

Screenshot showing a list of folders in a folder called applications. The individual folders represent job applications with most dated to 2021 or 2025

Slightly humored by how my job applications folder really shows the roller coaster of postdoc precarity.

How many books should one have for the field? Currently have a pile of 10 but you never know what you’re going to want to read!

Photo of European, American, and British coins in hand.

Please, for the love of Pete, make the monies look different. Sincerely, someone trying to sort their field wallet.

Postcard of ceremonial flint mace head from Knowth passage tomb with two googly-eyes taped to it.

Game on.

Will you accept drafts using shenanigans measurements with the provision they’ll be converted to tomfoolery units for publication?

This is the kind of mischief I LIVE to get up to on site.

Photograph of a notebook with a note from the Digital Repository of Ireland thanking them for participating in a data sustainability workshop

Aww! I talked way too fast and flubbed what I was going to say but the good people at @dri.ie were kind and sent something. Love working w/ colleagues who know it’s not just about output but about the environment created around research! Thanks @bethknazook.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy for everything!

This weekend we've travelled across the County testing the new community collection app for 'Locating Bench Marks, Preserving Heritage'. Thanks to those who approached to ask about the project and how they can get involved

@heritagecouncil.ie @unioflimerick.bsky.social @limerickcouncil.bsky.social

Not quite! Ceremonial Iron Age centre with lots of prehistoric activity all the way back to the Neolithic!

The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull, a disputed femur and a bitter feud over humanity’s origins The long read: When fossilised remains were discovered in the Djurab desert in 2001, they were hailed as radically rewriting the history of our species. But not everyone was convinced – and the bitter...

"Most of the fighting in palaeoanthropology is simply a function of the wild imbalance between the number of palaeoanthropologists, which is large, and the number of objects available for them to study, which is very much not."

Lots of choice quotes in this piece on the Toumaï remains... 1/3 🦣🧪🏺

Working down in Kildare on a site called Dún Ailinne!

5 am. But field work will be starting then so I’ll already be on that early schedule!

mr bean is standing in a field of yellow flowers and asking what time zone are you in . Alt: mr bean is standing in a field of yellow flowers and asking what time zone are you in .

9 *hour.

Ooh thanks for sharing looks fab! Going to brave the 9 am time difference and register!

Screenshot of Mac desktop showing 16 application windows open.

The desktop of someone applying for jobs - 🎶4 cover letters, 3 CVs, 2 employment apps, and a comfort show on repeat🎵

The 'space archaeologists' hoping to save our cosmic history The infrastructure of humanity's journey into space may only be decades old, but some of it has already been lost. Now, "space archaeologists" are scrambling to save what's left.

Such a cool piece and so glad to see actual space archaeologists getting some love! @drspacejunk.bsky.social @jstpwalsh.bsky.social www.bbc.com/future/artic...

This was a really great workshop to attend. It’s always great to see others research AND roll up your sleeves and have a frank conversation about tackling sustainability. Many thanks to the @dri.ie and particularly @bethknazook.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy for organizing this!

Congrats Niamh

a thing i find unrealistic in movies is villain origin stories. i just think the reason the scientist went rogue is more likely:
-another update to the online learning environment or
-ordering catering for a meeting for 8 people.
honestly makes ME want to move into the field of death ray research