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boothicus.bsky.social
Bioarchaeologist. Amateur Scarecrow. Ancient DNA Lab @ The Francis Crick Institute
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Eyes are itchy and streaming. Spring is round the corner!

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The British Museum have selected their architects for the big rebuild-rethink around the western wing, and I'm ridiculously excited about the choice: congratulations to Lina Ghotmeh and LG–A. Though you might think otherwise, they have ideas. Read my blog here mikepitts.wordpress.com/2025/02/22/l...

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Guess this almost real! I am become marginalia 🙌 preorder is good for authors, help @gregjenner.bsky.social and @rikinparekh.bsky.social out!!! 25% off if you do www.waterstones.com/book/totally...

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

We are excited to announce a new faculty position here in Cambridge, for researchers in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Come and join us! Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50414/

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Future heritage. All these things will dominate the archaeological record too, not just the palaeontological:

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Interested in a project in the intersection of ancient DNA and Deep Learning for characterizing genetic variation? Do send a DM. Thank your for your RT!

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Call for abstracts: I’m putting together an edited book on archaeology and horror. Details below. Contact me for full CFP or to discuss potential submissions. 🏺👻🧟🏛️

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Captain Bertram Dickson Flying a Bristol Biplane over Stonehenge, 1910 by Kenneth A. McDonough Royal Air Force Museum

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We are planning an exhibition on Ancient DNA at The Crick! If you are an artist and are interested in being involved please consider applying to lend us a hand. www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/exh...

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Another executed Boglin!

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‘The past was alterable. The past had been altered. the New Scientist is unreliable. the New Scientist has always been unreliable.’

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Well, well, well, well, well, well, well.

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Archaeological translation of detecting speak: 1) "He then dug a further two feet (61cm)" = he dug in situ #archaeology. 2) "we are preserving history" = we are trashing context. 3) "museums, which did not wish to claim them" = museums, who couldn't afford them... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

A Mighty thread - in the past I’ll admit to feeling a bit squeamish talking about heritage and identity in terms of Englishness because of its exclusivity and associations with Far Right organisations but we should maybe wake up to the radical change that has happened over the last few years.

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Your outie enjoys Beaker pottery and has memorised David Clarke’s typology.

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An important new paper by @beademarch.bsky.social and her team challenges how we use ancient proteins to study the past. Analysis of 1,832 sequences from waterfowl (ducks & geese) reveals why palaeoproteomics isn't the simple solution we hoped for... 👇🧵 1/4 www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...

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I’m always interested in artistic reconstructions of the past. This is a rather unusual one of ?priests at #Stonehenge featuring face-painting and flower crowns. Interestingly, they are standing in front of a ruined monument! From the UK, 1970s. 🏺

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🧪🏺 What did mummies smell like? A new study analysed the odours of ancient Egyptian mummies, detecting woody, spicy, and sweet scents. Using chemistry & sensory panels, researchers linked smells to embalming materials & even pesticides. 🔗 doi.org/10.1021/jacs... #SciComm #Archaeology

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The Manics also song about stone circles on their new record. Stone circle renaissance!? (Given my use of the word ‘record’ and the vintage of said band, likely the moment is already well in the past…)

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New preprint on genetics of 138 people buried in cemeteries associated with Early Bronze Age Únětice and Unterwölbling traditions in what’s now Lower Austria. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Cumbria archaeologists find 'significant' Viking-age building www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Kind of appropriate that it came out on #RomanFortThursday - my book 'Military Households of Roman Auxiliary Commanders in Western Europe and North Africa' is now published! www.barpublishing.com/military-hou...

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

Palimpsest!

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