On Saturday we welcomed a group of our offer holders back for an Applicant Visit Day!

With members of our team spanning all areas of #forensicscience applicants were able to experience #CSI and #ballistics in our simulation centre, and #fingerprinting and #forensicanthropology back in the lab.

Amazing to see our PhD Candidates in #ForensicAnthropology and Demonstrators in #ForensicScience, Olga Nechyparenka and Catherine Roberts, who had abstracts accepted and recently presented oral presentations at this years American Association for Biological Anthropology conference in Denver.

Now the Easter break has started at #KeeleUniversity we've had the chance to photograph are new #forensicscience Student Research labs!

#forensicanthropology #ForensicChemistry #forensicbiology #highereducation #ForensicResearch

🚨PUBLICATIONS ALERT🚨
March was an amazing month for research coming out of #forensicscience at Keele University, specifically this time for #forensicanthropology with three papers now available online in #OpenAccess!

To mix things up from setting things on fire, this week we've broken out the tools from the shed for some #ForensicAnthropology advanced trauma analysis. All thoroughly risk assessed and with ethical approval of course!

#Teaching #KeeleUniversity #Forensics

Applicants across our #ForensicChemistry and #ForensicBiology courses also got the chance to run #DNA lab profiling, #BloodSpatter analysis, and #ForensicAnthropology skeletal analysis according to their particular area of interest 💀🧬🩸

Validating Dental Histology for Perinatal Age Estimation Using Human Deciduous Teeth Objectives This study tests the accuracy of dental histology for perinatal age estimation using deciduous teeth from modern human infants of known age. We evaluate whether enamel and dentin incremen...

Baby teeth don’t lie 🦷✨ Our new research validates dental histology as the most precise tool for determining perinatal age — often accurate within just a few days @animartirosyan.bsky.social @uab.cat @uvic-ucc.cat
#BiologicalAnthropology #ForensicAnthropology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

What a Fractured Skull Can Tell You About How Someone Died A new bioengineering framework helps archaeologists distinguish violent from accidental cranial trauma in the archaeological record.

New bioengineering study on 329 experimental skull impacts offers archaeologists a framework for reading cranial fractures, and distinguishing ancient violence from accidental trauma. Bone thickness and fracture morphology are clues. #Bioarchaeology #ForensicAnthropology #HumanEvolution

On childhood sexual abuse convictions:
• how unique biological identifiers,
• extracted from recorded images,
• has resulted in 80 percent of persons charged changing their plea from innocent to guilty.

#ChildSexAbuse #ForensicAnthropology

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#forensicanthropology #nerds #itsathing #oneofafew #dontfuckwithus

The Ossuary: My February round-up of new research in osteoarchaeology, zooarchaeology with some new research about analysing mass graves. commingledremains.substack.com/p/the-ossuar...
#forensicanthropology #skeletons #bones #battlefieldarchaeology

Yesterday our PhD in #ForensicAnthropology and #Decomposition, and Demonstrator in #ForensicScience, Catherine Roberts gave an invited talk to the Tooth Talks Society. Hosted by Dr Mackie O'Hara-Ali of @ballstate.bsky.social she spoke to an international audience on post mortem changes in teeth.

Happy #WorldAnthropologyDay! 🦴

I (VERY) confidently mixed up paleontology and archaeology in a recent reading vlog 🫠 It’s fine. I’m fine. We’re all fine.

Are there any topics you get super excited about, even if you get the details all wrong?

#amreading #forensicanthropology

We had the #ForensicAnthropology research team of Olga Nechyparenka, Catherine Roberts, Chelsea Cummings, Kelsey Plant, Cora Cisan, and Charlotte Loy with stalls on everything from #Paleontology, #Anthropology, #Osteology, and #Archaeology.

Michigan State researcher details Macromorphoscopic Databank, a tool to standardize ancestry estimates Joseph Heffner of Michigan State described the Macromorphoscopic Databank (MAMD) and the MMS analytical program, which pair standardized trait definitions and a growing global reference dataset to produce probabilistic ancestry classifications and measure observer error.

A groundbreaking new tool from Michigan State University aims to revolutionize forensic identification by standardizing ancestry estimates and significantly reducing observer error.

Learn more here!

#US #MichiganStateUniversity #CitizenPortal #DataStandardization #ForensicAnthropology

Experimental study finds cranial fractures often start away from impact, challenging textbook assumptions Researchers described controlled cadaver-impact experiments showing fractures frequently initiate peripheral to impact sites and follow sequences different from textbook conventions, a finding the team says could reduce misidentification of impact points in forensic cases.

New research reveals that cranial fractures often originate away from the point of impact, challenging long-held forensic assumptions and changing how we interpret evidence.

Get the details!

#US #CivicAccountability #CitizenPortal #PublicSafety #ForensicAnthropology #ScientificResearch

Huge congratulations to #PhD student in #ForensicAnthropology and #DentalAnthropology Olga Nechyparenka (also demonstrator and tutor at #KeeleUniversity!) for being awarded a Pollitzer Award from the Amercian Association of Biological Anthropologists!

#AABA2026 #BiologicalAnthropology

This #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience our #ForensicScience team will have stalls in #Newcastle-Under-Lyme (Feb 11th) and #KeeleUniveristy (Feb 14th). Free entry for all ages, and we'll have activities running in #ForensicAnthropology, #ForensicPathology, and #Paleontology.

Grant Success! 🎉

Our lecturer in #ForensicAnthropology, Dr Chris Aris, has successfully been awarded an ESRC NWSSDTP CASE award!

Alongside the Keele staff alum application team, Professor Allanah Tomkins and Dr Amber Collings, this award will support their research into the sale of human remains.

Anatomy Experts Cite Clear Manipulation in Peruvian ‘Alien Mummies’ as Black-Market Claims Intensify Weaponized hosts Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp convened researcher Will Brown, biological anthropologist Dr. Dan Proctor, and radiography expert Michelle Adams to assess claims surrounding the Peruvian and Mexican ‘alien mummies.’ The guests present detailed anatomical and imaging-based evidence indicating the specimens known as “Maria,” “Monserat,” and “Paloma” are human remains that have been surgically altered, while also describing an ongoing trade in fabricated bodies and impediments to rigorous scientific review.

Anatomy, anthropology and radiography experts say Peruvian and Mexican 'alien mummies' are surgically altered human remains, warning of fabricated bodies and a growing black market that blocks proper scientific review #ForensicAnthropology #AlienMummies

As we start to wind down for the calendar year our #ForensicScience student projects go on pause for the holidays. But sneaking in at the last minute 3rd year Cas Redfern has been prepping some ballistic moulds and making bite mark imprints for their #ForensicAnthropology #research.

Day 12 of #ClimateAdvent reposts.

Birthday edition 🥳🥳

#ForensicAnthropology edition :)

🎉PUBLICATION NEWS💀

Fantastic news to start the penultimate week of this calendar year at #KeeleUniversity with a fresh new article out from our #ForensicAnthropology #Research team!

This time from #ForensicScience PhD student George Goodison and supervisor Dr Chris Aris in JFSE!

Huge success over the weekend for our #ForensicAnthropology #research team with no less than 5 of our postgraduates and #ForensicScience demonstrators presenting at the #BAFA2025 Winter Conference up in Liverpool!

Kathy Reichs, author of Evil Bones

Are you a fan of the TV show Bones? I am - and had the pleasure of interviewing Kathy Reichs about her new novel Evil Bones. Listen at: open.spreaker.com/A4NZ/w0y7gj54 or commercial free at biteradio.me/2025shows/sh...
#forensicanthropology #evilbones #applepodcasts #iheartradiopodcast

Last week we welcomed the Grimsby Institute to campus for a #ForensicScience #Outreach event.

23 students and staff from Grimsby were able to take part in a #ForensicAnthropology themed event led by our Lecturers Viv Heaton, Emma Hough and George Handley, and our T-Level student Vincenza.

Hey! Bioarch and forensics folks!

We gotta stop with this bullshit 'selfie in the field/lab with a skull' thing. It's not OK.

Good lord. 🙄

#Bioarchaeology #PhDLife #ForensicAnthropology #StopIt

🦷🪥PUBLICATION SUCCESS!🫀🩺

Huge congratulations to Catherine Roberts, one of our Demonstrators in #ForensicScience, and PhD student in #ForensicAnthropology and #DentalAnthropology, who has just published her first lead author paper in Front. Oral Health! 🎉🎉

When she’s not digging up dirt or mentoring students, Stephanie loves to spend time with her family and friends. A music-lover and cross-fitter, Dr. Calce seems to do it all; we are lucky to have this powerful educator among our faculty!
#forensicanthropology #bioarchaeology #departmentgoals

She visited campus to discuss and consult with our Dr Chris Aris on his work on the sale of human remains and historical data gathering practices in #BiologicalAnthropology and #ForensicAnthropology. She also visited our #ForensicBiology research labs and met some of our post graduate researchers!