PhD student @wmgwarwick researching micro-CT for forensic trauma analysis. Highly caffeinated and a fan of all things osteological. Treasurer of @BABAO_info.
Graduated Master’s with Distinction, and received the External Examiner’s Commendation Award- thank you to everyone who supported me along the way, and helped make this a reality!
Home again after a busy week of conferences! Huge thanks to everyone at @BABAO_info and @KeeleUniversity for making #BABAO2024 such a success, and to everyone who came along to chat about taphonomy with me! 💀🦔
Our work on micro-CT scanning of 3D printed weapons with West Midlands Police has been featured in the episode “Untraceable Guns” on BBC2 Forensics: The Real CSI. To be involved with this emerging treat was hugely enlightning. Watch it on catch up here: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xr0…
Please consider signing this petition to save anthropology at the University of Kent. @UniKentSAC is a fantastic department and studying there had a huge impact on my life. It would be a massive loss to see this programme close change.org/p/save-anthropolo…
📢Application round for the Research Grants is open!! If you're a BABAO member you can apply for funding for your academic or commercial research project 📚💀🐒🦍🩻🔬🧬
More info 👉babao.org.uk/grants-and-priz…
Don't forget BABAO offers funding for research projects 🧬🐒🦍🩻🦷💀 Small or big, for academic or commercial purposes, we can fund it!
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The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has announced changes to the licensing conditions for human burials at sea for the sea burial site at The Needles off the Isle of Wight.
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And that’s a wrap on @2023Babao! A great weekend talking all things bones, finished with a touching memoir by @carolyn_rando to the late Tony Waldron. Already looking forward to seeing what next year brings!
What a fantastic day at the @2023Babao conference! So many amazing presentations and some really exciting research sitting at the forefront of anthropology 💀🦷🩻
Now that the paperwork is officially finished, I’m delighted to announce that soon I’ll be starting a PhD with the forensics team at @wmgwarwick researching the use of micro-CT for human bone trauma analysis. Watch this space for updates on my research and PhD journey!
Days on from the announcement and I still can’t understand how sending irreplaceable hominin remains to space received ethical or scientific approval. As Jelena eloquently states, we can only hope that this action is reconsidered
The Webb telescope has detected carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18 b, a potentially habitable world over 8 times bigger than Earth. Webb’s data suggests the planet might be covered in ocean, with a hydrogen-rich atmosphere: go.nasa.gov/3sGKNLe
ALT A graphic titled “Exoplanet K2-18 b: Atmosphere Composition.” The graphic shows the spectra of the exoplanet K2-18 b from NIRISS and NIRSpec in the form of a graph, with the vertical y-axis labeled as Amount of Light Blocked and the horizontal axis labeled as Wavelength of Light (microns). The data is plotted as dots with vertical error bars. A jagged blue line running through the plot represents the best-fit model. There are semi-transparent magenta, red and green vertical columns also scattered across the plot, indicating where variations in the line represent the presence of methane, carbon dioxide, and dimethyl sulfide (combined with other molecules), respectively. Behind the graph is an illustration of the planet and star. The planet is a large fuzzy blue-ish sphere off to the right, taking up half of the background. The red star is smaller at the bottom left of the entire graphic.
Vegan sushi, dinosaur skeletons, new book finds, and a fantastic evening at tonight’s @themonkeycage - this is shaping up to be a great week! Though like the last two shows I’ve been lucky to attend, I feel like the conversation could’ve gone on for at least a few more hours!