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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

This looks amazing, thank you! And open access? Yes please!

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I'm also concerned about why they asked him if he's autistic - in what way is that relevant?

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Kevin Wood @drkevinwood.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

The Global Wetland Outlook 2025 is now online. Glad to have contributed to this new report on the state of #wetlands worldwide, their value, and their future. www.global-wetland-outlook.ramsar.org 🌍 🧪 🦤

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Global Wetland Outlook

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Science friends are the best - I'm so lucky to have you as one of mine too!

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

It absolutely should not be. In my own family, multiple children were lost to measles - short memories are making us foolish.

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Semi-supination, not pronation, was the relaxed natural position. I tested this with two other people. Try it yourself and see what you think. Achieving pronation doesn't come naturally and triggers forearm tension which is slightly uncomfortable. So whatever this was, I think it was intentional.

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The one thing I don't think this is: awkwardness. Not only because it was repeated, but because - being myself awkward and uncoordinated - I tried an experiment this morning. I pounded my chest and threw my arm out and up as if in enthusiasm. The thing is, my palm ended up facing upward/inward.

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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

She lost two of them within days of each other, from measles. I think she would be outraged, demanding to know why, when we have so much power to prevent and decrease suffering like hers, we throw it away. I wonder if people who romanticise a mythic "healthier" past are really prepared for reality.

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

In particular, I'd love to hear my great-great grandmother's thoughts, but she died in 1912 at the age of only 32, after years of suffering from a disease that's now fully treatable in most cases with antibiotics. She also buried 4 of her 9 children before the age of 5.

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Discouraging. I wonder what my ancestors would have made of all of this, how incredible privilege combined with ignorance has enabled the metastasis of conspiracy thinking and distrust of medicine more generally.

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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

New paper using 7,000 burial records to track population changes in Iron Age Norway. Shows 75% population decline after 536/540 CE volcanic winter! Viking Age recovery linked to warmer climate, agricultural advances & trade networks. 🌋📊 #Archaeology #ClimateHistory #Viking doi.org/10.1080/0029...

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The Impact Of The 6th Century Crisis – Exploring Burials as a Proxy For Population Dynamics in Iron Age Scandinavia

This study examines population dynamics in South Norway during the Iron Age, focusing on the mid-6th century crisis and its aftermath. Analysis of nearly 7,000 dated burials reveals a substantial d...

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

CFP for session at 2025 EAA meeting in Belgrade: "Out of their element: novel methods of isotope analysis to investigate health and disease in the past" Organizers: Noel Hincha noel.j.hincha@durham.ac.uk Naomi Kilburn naomi.n.kilburn@durham.ac.uk Sangyu Shen sangyu.shen@mail.utoronto.ca

Call for papers and posters for a session of the the 2025 EAA meeting entitled "Out of their element: novel methods of isotope analysis to investigate health and disease in the past".

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Looking forward to reading this - tuberculosis is a topic of both professional and personal relevance for me.

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

theconversation.com/peatlands-ur...

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

For someone as keen on wetlands as I am, it seems odd that I only recently tried samphire for the first time. It's so delicious!

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The Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past @sscipchildhood.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

📢 NEWS 📢 We are delighted to announce that the 2025 SSCIP Annual Conference will take place in Aarhus, Denmark from 24th - 26th June 🥳 The conference theme is 'Children and Climate Change' 🌏 Call for Papers and further information will be circulated soon #childhood #archaeology #history Please RT!

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Mobility isotopes are really good at excluding (to a reasonable degree) where someone isn't from, and then we're left with probabilities. But you're totally right, it's incredibly cool! New data is always so exciting. 😁

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Ooh, we're usually woolier than that! You'll hear a lot of "possible/probable" and "is consistent with childhood origin in x", and it's a bit of a struggle with media, who like to report things with a degree of certainty we generally don't have!

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

And project number two: Refining dietary interpretation of archaeological humans in the Holocene of northwestern Europe using paired apatite and collagen carbon isotopes iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...

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Refining dietary interpretation of archaeological humans in the Holocene of northwestern Europe using paired apatite and collagen carbon isotopes

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Not one, but TWO archaeological isotope PhD studentships on offer at Durham! Project number one: Landscapes of resilience? Archaeobotanical and stable isotope analysis of archival material from the First Millennium CE in the Anglo-Scottish borders iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...

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Landscapes of resilience? Archaeobotanical and stable isotope analysis of archival material from the First Millennium CE in the Anglo-Scottish borders

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Excellent streak! I love the weird sentences. Favourites over the years have been "my belt is a real one" and "I desire not to kill any more".

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Okay, this took me out! There's so much here.

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

They largely won, because we do have that segregation occurring, with immunocompromised and other CEV forced to continue self-segregation through continued isolation measures with mass infection present. Even vaccines restricted to a increasingly small cohort.

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Antony Colombo @antonycolombo.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

#SSCIP2024 One year of organization and already over 😌 Thanks very much to the @sscipchildhood.bsky.social for their trust in organizing it !!

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Signing off from #SSCIP2024. Big thanks to the organisation team at Bordeaux for a wonderful job! And if you have an interest in childhood research please consider joining @sscipchildhood.bsky.social and getting involved with the Society.

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

For our final presentation of the conference, Maya Krause presents a bioarachaeological study of weaning, diet, and locality in a Middle Horizon (600-1000CE) Andean population. #SSCIP2024

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Following the theme of colonialism and structural violence, next we have Abucar Fofana Léon presenting research on the complex relationship between medicine and enslavement for enslaved children in 18th century "Mozambique". #SSCIP2024

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Opening our last session of the conference is Kristin De Lucia, talking about children's burials and structural violence in colonial Mexico. #SSCIP2024

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The last paper of our afternoon session will be presented by Linda Vilumets on multidisciplinary analysis of child skeletal remains from an 18th century garrison hospital cemetery in Estonia. #SSCIP2024

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Next up: Selene Caraballo presents bioarchaeological data on four 15th century children buried at the first European settlement in the Canary Islands. #SSCIP2024

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I'm so very sorry, Flint. This is beyond low.

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Following a coffee break, our next presentation is by Juliana de Mello Moraes on the place of children in the Portugese colonisation of South America. #SSCIP2024

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

We now return to tooth development in early life histories with a paper presented by Julia Estivals on tooth enamel hypomineralisation in modern and archaeological children's teeth. #SSCIP2024

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Our next paper is presented by Isabelle Souquet, on mother-child double burials in Protestant and Catholic cemeteries of 18th century Rochelle, France. #SSCIP2024

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Back after a lovely lunch and some wonderful sunshine, our first paper in the next session is presented by Elizabeth Peacock on coffined foetal burials in 18-19th century Swedish churches

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Why not, the more the merrier I think!

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

We're returning after our coffee break for our second keynote lecture, by Joëlle Provasi. She's speaking today on maternal influences on foetal learning and cognition. #SSCIP2024

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The last talk of our morning session is by Corinne Feuillatre, whose research focuses on understanding growth and nutrition through stable isotopes in populations past and present. #SSCIP2024

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Returning to the theme of teeth and early life, Julia Beaumont is now presenting life history data from siblings in the Bradford Tooth Fairy Project. #SSCIP2024

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Our next speaker is Marina Lourenco, presenting research on challenges to early life survival in Lisbon during the 17-19th centuries. #SSCIP2024

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Next up is Mona Le Luyer, continuing the theme of dental research. Her presentation covers data from the STRONG study and offers insights on deciduous teeth as biomarkers of childhood growth. #SSCIP2024

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Good morning! First up in the morning session is Olga Nechyparenka talking about evidence of early life stress through dental histology. #SSCIP2024

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Which flavour? There are now zooarch, bioarch, stable isotope, and biomolecular starter packs - any good?

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Bob Patalano @robertpatalano.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Postdoc opportunity at Aauhus U. with @loopdlupien.bsky.social. If you’re interested in isotopes, biomarkers, paleoclimate, and human evolution, check it out!

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Postdoc in Biomarker Isotope Geochemistry - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University

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Ellen Kendall @ellenkendall.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I love seeing how amazing wetlands are quantified.

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