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Karen Goodlett

@goodlettk.bsky.social
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Baby archaeologist.🏺 Southampton University alumna. University of Oxford incoming Masters student 😬Founding member of ESBAA (European Society of Black & Allied Archaeologists) 🇯🇲 🇪🇺 #BLM ✊🏽

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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Reassociation of Skeletal Remains Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy - pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... Just having a read of this and wondering if anybody is using this method to look at faunal remains? Very cool that LIBS may be used for isotope analysis too. 🏺
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Reassociation of Skeletal Remains Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
A major challenge in forensic anthropology and bioarcheology is the development of fast and effective methods for sorting commingled remains. This study assesses how portable laser-induced breakdown s...
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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
🚨 Job alert! The University of Tübingen announces a W3 (Full) Professorship in Early Hominin Evolution in the framework of the DFG Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS': uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... Application deadline: 11.03.2026 🚨
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
CW: Racism/Colonial thought I’m now in Oxford which has places of learning everywhere 🤩 I’ve adopted a philosophy of a library a day keeps the ignorance away. I came for the ochre but read👇🏽😡. I know some may say it was of its time but contemporary proxies for ancient hominin behaviours persist.😕🏺
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Anna Willi @annabwilli.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Come work with us!🏺 Together with my brilliant colleague Georgia Barker we are looking for a project curator to research how childhood is represented in the collections of our two departments at the British Museum, Egypt & Sudan and Greece & Rome. 👇👇👇 bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com//templates/C...
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Project Curator: Hidden Stories of Childhood Greece and Rome; Egypt and Sudan Full-time: 41 hours per week (including one hour paid lunch break) Fixed term for 12 months £36,396 per annum Application deadline: 12pm (midday) on 17 October 2025
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Dr Emily Gal @egalarch.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
#Archaeology job alert!🏺 Excited to share this vacancy for a Project Assistant to support delivery of our new digital heritage interpretation project - Barra and Harris Unearthed. www.nwh.uhi.ac.uk/en/staff/vac... Based at Cnoc Soilleir, South Uist Please share!
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Staff - Vacancies - Project Assistant
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
In what I hope is an isolated incident, I have experienced disbelief when I have stated that I am going to Uni of Oxford.They said: Oh, Oxford Brookes, I said: No. They said: Are you sure? 😧 I said, somewhat in shock: Yes. Of course I thought of @afuahirsch.bsky.social who had similar experiences🏺
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I’m sure no words are needed. 🖼️ 🏺 #Banksy #Erasure #Graffiti #Art #Protest #Gaza #Genocide
Shows a man with a jet washer attempting to remove cave art from a wall.
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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 10/09/2025
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
When you ask a zooarchaeologist to help you move! 🏺
Zooarchaeologist posing in a strongman pose whilst wearing a rubber chicken mask!
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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Come check me out at the British Science Festival next month. It's gonna be a banger! theguideliverpool.com/10-reasons-t...
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10 reasons to go to the British Science Festival in Liverpool
British Science Festival takes over Liverpool from September 10 - 14 and it’s going to be an amazing week of 100+ events. Find out more here.
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
National Archives webinar with Paula Akpan on 22 Oct… Looks fab! 👸🏾 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-we-ru...?
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When we ruled: the rise and fall of twelve African queens and warriors
Discover a world of royalty, ancient civilisations, conquest and colonisation through the reigns of the queens and warriors of Africa.
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Jessie Slater PhD @subbasegirl.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
'These concerns are not simply a historical artefact. Colonialism remains deeply embedded in many facets of dominant science, leading to inequitable health and social outcomes.' 🧪🏺
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Decolonize scientific institutions, don’t just diversify them
Indigenous scholars set out eight steps to stop marginalization in academia and to enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science.
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Very nice 🧬 but when, oh when, are we going to stop using “sub-Saharan Africa” in academia? 🤦🏽‍♀️ 🏺
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I finally got around to graduating from UoS last month… Of course I wore my keffiyeh… One of the lecturers told me afterwards they were so happy to see it they almost shouted out to me on the stage! 🙌🏽🏺 #Graduation #FreePalestine #GazaGenocide #Archaeology #Graduate #LaterBluesky
A mature graduating WOC in her graduation gown stands against a large blue letter O - part of a sculpture for UoS (University of Southampton) - which itself sits in front of the Guildhall building.
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Archaeologists Against Apartheid and Genocide @archagainstaparth.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
WE HAVE PASSED 1000 SIGNATURES! We are extending the deadline, to give all who want to join this movement the chance to add their signature. Please do sign and share, archaeologists can and should take a stand and make a difference! #🏺 #eaa2025 #archaeology
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NEW DEADLINE FOR SIGNATURES: FRIDAY 15TH OF AUGUST. THIS IS TO GIVE EVERYONE THE CHANCE  TO SIGN, SO PLEASE CONTINUE TO SHARE AND TALK ABOUT THIS CAMPAIGN AND HOW ARCHAEOLOGY CAN NO LONGER BE COMPLICIT IN ISRAEL’S CRIMES.
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TraceoLab @traceolab.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Archaeological position at TraceoLab (ULiège) - reorganising prehistory collections. Need a Master's in Archaeology, lithic experience, and good organisational skills. Apply to veerle.rots@uliege.be by 25/8/25. Start Sep-Oct. Full details: www.traceolab.uliege.be/cms/c_127324... 🏺
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
CW: Thumbnail has images of human remains… This is a nifty paper illustrating the use of bespoke software to create 3D reconstructions of palaeopathological events. Trying to convince a fellow arch that the future is digital in our discipline! 🏺 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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The third dimension in palaeopathology: How can three‐dimensional imaging by computed tomography bring an added value to retrospective diagnosis?
Three-dimensional (3D) imaging is now extensively used for studying ancient human and animal bones. This method has been consensually adopted by palaeoanthropologists, but its interest in palaeopatho...
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Super proud of my friend and fellow ESBAA society member Benjamina Efua Dadzie. This is her first research article in a journal and is in part synthesised from her PhD 🤩 Said I would share so here it is and open access too 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 🏺 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Collecting Abeokuta: Tracing the Provenance of Egba Material Culture from the Church Missionary Society Yoruba Mission
The Reverend Henry Townsend (1815–1886) was a missionary of the Church Missionary Society who worked in the city-state of Abeokuta, in present day southwestern Nigeria, from 1846 to 1876. While the...
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Oh I love this paper, it has so many aspects of human endeavour. 🙌🏽 The spelunking in difficult karst topography to commemorate this momentous occasion of course reminds me of our ancestors’ similar endeavours. The determination. Poor light. The artwork. Bloody gorgeous. 🏺 arxiv.org/html/2410.03...
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The Fear of Halley’s Comet Visit in 1910 is Preserved in a Cave in Southern Puerto Rico
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Also because I’m plotting at the mo, apart from Uni of B’ham does any other archaeology department specialise in archaeoentomology? 🏺
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Well I got this offer from UoO earlier this year & after dithering I accepted. Whoo hoo! Unfortunately I did not acquire the scholarship to fund it. Boo! 😕 May be able to fund some (loan) but not all of it (nearly £20k)- any ideas? The dude suggested women in STEM but I haven’t found anything yet.🏺
An offer letter from the University of Oxford offering a place on their Archaeological Sciences Masters.
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Segovia, Spain. Went to see some Roman architecture, was happy to witness solidarity. #Gaza #Spain #Segovia #Aqueduct #Roman
House in Segovia Spain displaying Palestinian flag in solidarity from its fourth storey balcony window.
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Some of you may have seen the video of the wounded, dead & screaming children in Gaza today. I hesitated initially but I watched it because we must bear witness. It is horrifying. It seems appropriate to post Baldwin, perhaps every day, until there is some semblance of moral clarity. #genocide #gaza
Quote from James Baldwin: “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
There’s nothing congratulatory about this. I find it a colossal disappointment. 🏺
Picture of Abidemi Babatunde Babalola in a safety helmet. Captions state it is a cause of celebration that he has won the Dan David history prize from Israel. 😔
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
It’s a cracked earth and paw prints kind of day… 🐾
A dried and cracked pond bottom laden with enthusiastic labrador footprints…
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
One of my favourite professors is retiring from the archaeology department at Southampton and the position is being advertised here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNH129/l... 🏺 #Archaeology #Palaeolithic #Palaeoanthropology #Vacancy
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Lecturer A at University of Southampton
An opportunity for an academic position as a Lecturer A is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
@digging-gardener.bsky.social Hey you 👋🏽
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
An extremely worthy cause. Thanks @animalarchaeology.com for posting 🏺
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
“The lasting benefits of a university education” - Telegraph, Letters to the editor, 4th May 2025. #University #Graduate #HigherEducation
Letter to the editor of The Telegraph, 4th May 2025:

SIR – We agree that more – and more accurate – information for prospective students is absolutely essential if they are to make informed choices about their futures. That is why we would like to move away from the Office for Students graduate outcomes and employability data that Paul Wiltshire quoted in Julie Henry’s article (Features, April 27), which only goes up to 15 months after leaving university.

When student earnings are measured using the Government’s Longitudinal Educational Outcomes data across a career lifetime, the average graduate’s earnings outstrip the non-graduates by more than £100,0000, even once higher taxes and student loan repayments are taken into account. What’s more, graduates are at least twice as likely to be in employment than those who didn’t go to university.
For the vast majority of students, university pays off.
Vivienne Stern
Chief executive, Universities UK
London WC1
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Give or take a few days, this piece of venison is now three years old 🥳 🏺 #Archaeology #ExperimentalArchaeology #ExperimentalArchaeologyRocks
My blue gloved hand holds a piece of preserved venison as part of an ochre(ish) experiment.
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Saima Nasar @saimanasar.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
We're hosting a workshop on 'South Asian Women's Activism and Agency' on Thursday 8th May (draft programme below). We're delighted to have a brilliant group of speakers joining us. Our keynotes will be Amrit Wilson and Samita Sen. If you would like to join us, please get in touch to register.
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
I was thinking about sheep/goat and a bit about wolf/dog today and whether lipid biomarkers would be useful for identification and the internet delivered. 🙌🏽 Gotta love coprostanols 💋 #faecalfingerprints 🏺 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Faecal biomarkers can distinguish specific mammalian species in modern and past environments
Identifying the presence of animals based on faecal deposits in modern and ancient environments is of primary importance to archaeologists, ecologists, forensic scientists, and watershed managers, but...
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
@danherb10.bsky.social Saw these on a little sojourn to Oxford and thought of you! #IndomitableGauls #Asterix
Collectable toys in a window - displayed are Asterix Roman soldiers for a shocking £124.99 and a cute TinTin paddlewagon vehicle complete with characters. Boxed Captain Scarlet vehicles provide a backdrop.
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I should say lengthy research “by me”. No edit function on posts yet! 😬 Loving that in the Gulf of Guinea pet pythons were kept in roofs to capture rats. 👏🏽 This in turn had me thinking of bronze pythons in Benin which adorned rooftops! 🏺🐍🦠
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Today I’m thinking of pythons, plague and gene mutations. Thankful for Shadreck Chirikure’s article which spawned lengthy research as to whether West Africa was touched by Y. pestis in antiquity. 🏺 theconversation.com/archaeology-...
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Archaeology shows how ancient African societies managed pandemics
Archaeologists have long studied diseases in past populations. They’ve explored the evolution of pathogens and how they interacted with humans.
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Okay, this really made me laugh. Perhaps reviewer two can be relieved of blame for a little while… The memes may have to change! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/NZM3IB... #Reviewer2 #PeerReview
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Dear Reviewer 2: Go F’ Yourself
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Should we have or are we already having a conversation about the carbon footprint in archaeology? Had a chat about this last year with a lovely ECR and this week with an equally lovely but older arch. The opinions couldn’t be further apart, though there was some agreement on conference attendance. 🏺
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Hannah Parsons-Morgan @beathas-ailsa.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Reposting this starter pack for folks working on the history and material culture of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa - mostly late antiquity through to early modern. Please read through, follow, and give me more suggestions for folks, projects and institutions to add! 🏺⛏️🧿⚱️
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I did a ridiculous thing and bought a sea captain’s book collection. It almost included some beautiful photos, his hat and belt. The below is a small example but I have four more boxes which I need to shift quickly as I’m moving - any ideas??? 📚 🤯
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Wow! What an opportunity 🏺
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BAR Publishing @barpublishing.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
We are officially coming off of X and focusing our efforts on fostering our archaeology community here! Please share our account around so that we can find our people! We look forward to meeting you all!🏺 #ancientbluesky #archaeology #classicsbluesky
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a drawing of a cat and a blue butterfly by debbie olicone
Alt: a drawing of a cat and a blue butterfly by debbie olicone
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Sarah Lord @potsofhistory.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🏺 Final Hours: 10% Off Ends Tonight! ✨ Last chance to save! Our 10% off offer ends at 23:59 GMT—secure a handcrafted replica, from medieval puzzle jugs to Saxon Spong Man & Bronze Age urns, before it's too late! 🛒 Order now: 👉 potted-history.co.uk/collections
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Karen Goodlett @goodlettk.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This looks like a blooming fab opportunity - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ408/s... 🏺🔬🧪🦠
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Studentship: Unravelling the Link Between Soil Type and the Occurrence of Plague at University of Nottingham
Find a Studentship: Unravelling the Link Between Soil Type and the Occurrence of Plague on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board in higher education. Click to view more!
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