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Dr Amy Prendergast

@amylprendergast.bsky.social
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People-environment interactions | Archaeological science 🐚🔬 | Quaternary Climate Change | Shells | Isotopes | Sclerochronology | Mum | Associate Professor @unimelb via @Cambridge_Uni & @uni_mainz

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Dr Amy Prendergast @amylprendergast.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Excited and incredibly grateful to have won an @arc-gov-au.bsky.social Future Fellowship!! I'll be working with Indigenous communities along Australia's Great Barrier Reef to generate paired high-resolution baseline records of environmental change and marine resource use over the last 6500 years 🐚🔬🐚
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Niklas Hausmann @niklashausmann.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Also featuring: @amylprendergast.bsky.social @unimainz.bsky.social @au.dk
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Niklas Hausmann @niklashausmann.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
seafront-project.com/post/calibra... Largest dataset on Mg/Ca in shells yet (+100 and over a dozen sites)🐚 Again, we found tightly correlated but shell-specific relationships between temperature and Mg/Ca. Lots of potential for future archaeological studies🏺 @leizarchaeology.bsky.social
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Calibrating the limpet | SeaFront
Our new study delivers the most extensive calibration to date of <i>Patella caerulea</i> (the Mediterranean limpet) as a recorder of sea surface temperatures (SSTs) across the Central and Eastern Medi...
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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Did you know that WAC-10 World Archaeology Congress (next week) is free for students to attend online? Register here: worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/wac10/
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WAC-10 – Darwin 22-28 June 2025
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Dr Amy Prendergast @amylprendergast.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Happy to share our new publication which shows the potential of LIBS Mg/Ca mapping to characterise seasonal shellfish foraging practices from Tasmanian limpet shells. 🐚 Led by @fleurking.bsky.social #archsci #sclerochronology @niklashausmann.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A key to seasonal shellfish exploitation: Elemental mapping of Mg/Ca ratios in Lutruwita (Tasmania) Cellana limpets
The littoral environment has considerable influence on life history traits and patterns of growth in marine molluscs due to changes in water temperatu…
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Dr Amy Prendergast @amylprendergast.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Huge congratulations to Bohao Dong for pressing the submit button on his PhD today!! 🎉🎉🎉 #ProudSupervisor #sclerochronology #GiantClams #unimelb @laura-m-otter.bsky.social @seanulm.bsky.social
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Chloe Stringer @osteo-clo.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
It has been exciting watching this paper go from dreams to reality over the last few years. Congratulations Zuorui Liu (Carl) 🎉
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Dr Amy Prendergast @amylprendergast.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
New paper alert! One for the Dinosaur lovers 🦖🦷 Very happy to share my PhD student @zuorui_liu (Carl)'s cool study on high-resolution past environmental reconstructions from Spinosaurus tooth oxygen isotopes #ProudSupervisor #Sclerochronology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The effectiveness of oxygen isotopes in Spinosaurus tooth dentine for high-resolution palaeoenvironmental reconstructions
Oxygen isotope compositions in tooth dentine of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus were investigated as a potential proxy for high-resolution reconstructions of …
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Dr Amy Prendergast @amylprendergast.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Congratulations to Bohao Dong on his PhD completion seminar! 🎉🎉🎉 A phenomenal project advancing the possibilities of giant clam shell sclerochronology. Such a lot of hard work and excellent data has gone into this project. #ProudSupervisor @seanulm.bsky.social @laura-m-otter.bsky.social
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ARC COE for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures @ciehf.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Postdoctoral Fellow in Paleoecology The ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures (CIEHF) is looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Paleoecology to join our interdisciplinary research team at The University of Melbourne. 🔗 jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91951...
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Details : Postdoctoral Fellow, Paleoecology : The University of Melbourne
Careers at The University of Melbourne
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Dr Amy Prendergast @amylprendergast.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
One for the mollusc enthusiasts: Vote for the International mollusc of the year 🐚🐌🦪 The winner will have their complete genome sequenced! As a sclerochronologist I am leaning towards Arctica islandica but of course I always have a soft spot for limpets (Cellana) too! moty.senckenberg.science/en/
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Home EN - Mollusc of the Year
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Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit @oxradiocarbon.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
This is excrutiating for us to watch back, but was fun to film and I hope will be of use more broadly. Let us know if you use it for teaching etc.! archit.web.ox.ac.uk/radiocarbon-...
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The Radiocarbon Dating Process - the Journey of a sample
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Dr Amy Prendergast @amylprendergast.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Super proud of our PhD researcher Carl Zuorui Liu for giving an awesome PhD completion seminar today - an amazing journey through space and time showcasing the awesome things we can learn using tooth sclerochronology. Well done Carl! 🦷🦣🔬#SciMelb #ProudSupervisor
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
ALL RESEARCHERS ❗️Speak up❗️ if you have opinions, critique or ideas on proposed changes to Australian Research Council grants. Discuss & distill ideas, sure, but to be considered you MUST make a submission ▶️ submit.dese.gov.au/jfe/form/SV_... It’s EASY! Answer these questions in the form👇
Screenshot from the ARC Board’s Discussion Paper on the Policy Review of the National Competitive Grants Program (page 33) listing the questions the standard submission form asks you to address. Black text on white background with a heading “Having your say” on dark blue background at the top.
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Dr Amy Prendergast @amylprendergast.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Did you know that giant clam shells are excellent high-resolution past climate archives? Check out the first publication from Bohao Dong's PhD! A review of giant clam sclerochronology #ProudSupervisor #palaeoclimate @ciehf.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Advances in giant clam (Tridacnidae spp.) sclerochronology and sclerochemistry as a high-resolution palaeoenvironmental archive
Reconstructions of Quaternary environmental change using high-resolution proxies are important for testing and refining climate models to enable bette…
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ARC COE for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures @ciehf.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Did you know that modern-day shells hold clues to life and climates of the past? To learn more, feel free to check out this latest research paper involving several CIEHF members. ciehf.au/wp-content/u...
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Chloe Stringer @osteo-clo.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
2024 has been a rollercoaster of a year, with plenty of highs and lows, but always thankful to be working alongside this awesome team. Can't wait to see what 2025 has in store for the #unimelb sclerochronology team! 🐚
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Dr Amy Prendergast @amylprendergast.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
A wonderful end of year lunch with the #unimelb Sclerochronology lab - @mahsaalidoost.bsky.social @osteo-clo.bsky.social, Bohao, and Carl - celebrating our various achievements over the past year… of course with shell themed presents too!! 🐚🐚🐚🎉🥳🎉
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Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I will be advertising soon for postdoc positions in geoarchaeology and GIS for my Terraform ERC project, starting at the University of Malta in a few months. More information soon, but message me if interested.
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Nicole Boivin @nicoleboivin.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Who are the pioneers of archaeology? Addressing gender bias in our field means rethinking disciplinary history Join us at WAC-10 for (Re)making History: Exploring the Archaeological Contributions of Women from Past to Present worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/wac10/theme-... Photo coriniummuseum
Three women archaeologists excavating in the early 20th century.
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Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
New feed for archaeomalacologists on BlueSky. 🐚 The feed is searching for any posts with the following words: archaeomalacology, sclerochronology, shellfish archaeology, shell archaeology, shell midden, shell bead, shell tool. Let me know what else I can add :) 🐚
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Dr Amy Prendergast @amylprendergast.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I am very happy to share my PhD student @mahsaalidoost.bsky.social’s first PhD publication! 🐚🐚🎉🎉 Great Barrier Reef Conomurex shells as SST and seasonal foraging archives #sclerochronology #unimelb #ProudSupervisor @seanulm.bsky.social @ciehf.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Sclerochronology and oxygen isotope variations in modern Conomurex luhuanus shells: An archive for reconstructing palaeotemperature and shellfish gathering on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
The marine gastropod Conomurex luhuanus is a common component of Holocene archaeological shell deposits in the Western Indo-Pacific region. Oxygen iso…
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Dr Amy Prendergast @amylprendergast.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Now it’s official I am stoked to announce that I have been promoted to Associate Professor at #unimelb. Thanks heaps to all who have helped and supported me along the way in my academic and professional journey 🎉🐚🔬🌊🤠
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kermit the frog is standing in front of a sign that says " stoked "
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Chloe Stringer @osteo-clo.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Had a fantastic time presenting at #AAA47 yesterday alongside Nick! Thank you to everyone who came and had a chat afterwards! Great to see others interested in the potential of freshwater mussels to understand past human-mussel-environment relationships using #sclerochronology & #TEK 🐚
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Dawn A Lewis @dawnlewis.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
What a wonderful start to #AAA45 in #Gimuy we appreciate you inviting #SINGAustralia to open with an #Indigenous #Genomics panel and thank you @ciehf.bsky.social for sponsoring our session
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Dr Amy Prendergast @amylprendergast.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Wonderful joint presentation today at #AAA47 by #unimelb PhD researcher @osteo-clo.bsky.social and First People of the Millewa Mallee River Ranger Nick Harradine on people-mussel-environment relationships weaving #sclerochronology & #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledges
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Corey Bradshaw @conservbytes.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Yay! @bsky.app now counted in @altmetric.com! Now we just have to get the academic publishers to add Bluesky share buttons (looking at you, @royalsociety.org, @science.org, @pnas.org, Wiley, @elsevierconnect.bsky.social, @cellpress.bsky.social, Frontiers, @plos.bsky.social ...)
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ARC COE for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures @ciehf.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Exciting new Post Doctoral Position with CIEHF has just been released at our University of Western Australia (UWA) node! Head to their careers and jobs page for more information. external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/51... Closing date: 12:00 PM AWST on Tuesday, 10 December 2024
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Make no mistake, colleagues: the exclusion of humanities & social science research from national competitive funding could easily happen here in Australia. The signs & actors are already clear. We let it happen at our collective peril.
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Dr Amy Prendergast @amylprendergast.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Great first day at the Australian Archaeological Association 2024 Conference #AAA47. Heaps of awesome talks in the Archaeological Science session @arcas.org.au. Great fun catching up with friends and colleagues and wonderful to be back in Gimuy Cairns too! #australianarchaeology #archsci
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Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
At AAA next week I’ll present the result that the Boodie Cave shellfish record is currently the oldest evidence in Australia of Aboriginal people harvesting shellfish 50,000 years ago. #australianarchaeology #archaeomalacology #pleistocene #ancientmaritimity #archaeomalacology #zooarchaeology
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Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias @ceciliapad.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
We had heard about the challenges posed by motherhood within academia, but what about the previous stage? @ecfreewoman.bsky.social & I wrote our story for @science.org on how the academic system makes it almost impossible for women to even plan for a family ❤️‍🩹: www.science.org/content/arti...
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As women in academia, having children can feel impossible. Talking about it makes us feel less alone
The struggle is “balancing their careers not just with motherhood, but with what comes before: relationships and planning for a family,” these postdocs write
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Eleanor Scerri @elliescerri.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Just over 2 weeks left to submit an abstract for consideration as a podium talk or poster presentation for the #IslandLegacies conference. Consider a submission now! :) www.um.edu.mt/events/islan...
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Martin Porr @martinporr.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
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New evidence from West Papua offers fresh clues about how and when humans first moved into the Pacific
New research provides direct evidence that seafarers travelled along the equator to reach islands off the coast of West Papua more than 50 millennia ago.
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Kevin Hatala @kevinhatala.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
For a broader overview of this research, see our article in @theconversation.com, with Kay Behrensmeyer and Purity Kiura: theconversation.com/fossilized-f...
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Fossilized footprints reveal 2 extinct hominin species living side by side 1.5 million years ago
Ancient fossil footprints are the first evidence of two different hominin species − Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei − living in the same place at the same time.
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ARC COE for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures @ciehf.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Indigenous Honours (or Equivalent) Scholarships The ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures (CIEHF) is excited to announce 10 Indigenous Honours (or Equivalent) Scholarships are being released.
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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Interview with the amazing Emma Pomeroy by @evolutionsoup.bsky.social - Secrets of Shanidar 😍!!! #HumanEvolution #Neanderthal #Shanidar youtu.be/KzD_7QjO6k4?...
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SECRETS OF SHANIDAR - Uncovering Neanderthals ~ with DR EMMA POMEROY
YouTube video by Evolution Soup
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Dr Emma Rehn @bluerehn.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
One for the Quaternary folks! Here are some of the researchers working in the many fields that form #Quaternary science across Australasia. Please let me know who I've missed, or if I've missed you! go.bsky.app/Lt9yvgX
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on? direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... A 🧵 1/n #AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub
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Dr Laura M. Otter @laura-m-otter.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
📕New paper 📕 introducing a new strategy using stable isotopes in marine shells as thermometers for reconstructing past seawater temps using ion microprobes 🐚🌡️ doi.org/10.1029/2024...
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Matrix Corrected SIMS In Situ Oxygen Isotope Analyses of Marine Shell Aragonite for High Resolution Seawater Temperature Reconstructions
Bivalve mollusks were cultured at different temperatures under tightly constrained seawater composition and environmental conditions SIMS δ18O accuracy was improved with a new paired proxy-like m...
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Colin D. Wren @cdwren.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Job posting for a 2.5 year postdoc with Dr. Felix Riede in Aarhus on Palaeolithic gene-culture coevolution: international.au.dk/about/profil... 🏺
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Postdoctoral position in Palaeolithic gene-culture coevolution, Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University
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David Salt @susbites.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
Mollusc shells provide insights into freshwater habitats Sclerochronology is a technique which allows researchers to translate the growth layers of mollusc shells into information about the environment. bit.ly/48Vbo6E
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Corey Bradshaw @conservbytes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I recommend that academics write something along these lines to their respective institutions: "Dear X University, Please abandon your Xitter account and move to @bsky.app. The former does not subscribe to our institution's core values. Sincerely, One of your social media-active professors"
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Simon Haberle @thatpollenguy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The first people on Tasmania brought fire and forever changed the land. www.science.org/content/arti...
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The first people on Tasmania brought fire and forever changed the land
Study of charcoal and pollen could give Aboriginal advocates of traditional burns “more voice at the table”
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Dr Amy Prendergast @amylprendergast.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
So proud to be a part of this Centre of Excellence and to take part in the official launch in beautiful Gimuy Cairns last week.
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Dr Amy Prendergast @amylprendergast.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Just joined @bsky.app. Here’s hoping it’s a friendlier and more interesting platform than that other place!
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