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Professor Rachel Popelka-Filcoff @rachel.popelka.filcoff.com · 25/07/2025

Final presentation on my visiting professorship, at Synchrotron SOLEIL. The presentation was on the important and diverse roles #synchrotrons play in #culturalheritageanalysis, especially on our recent studies on Indigenous Australian cultural heritage, particularly #ochre #pigments. 🧪

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Professor Rachel Popelka-Filcoff @rachel.popelka.filcoff.com · 15/07/2025

The next lecture on my DIM PAMIR visit is at Synchrotron SOLEIL on 21st July, 2pm, with a focus on our recent research on analysis of Indigenous #ochre and binders using #synchrotron methods. Many thanks to Sebastian Schoeder, Katharina Muller, SOLEIL, IPANEMA, and Ina Reiche for organising.🧪

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Professor Rachel Popelka-Filcoff @rachel.popelka.filcoff.com · 11/07/2025

Thanks to Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, and Julie Gordon, Stephanie Leclerc-Caffarel, Eléonore Kissel, and Ina Reiche for the invited lecture today for the DIM Patrimoines matériels. An engaging research discussion on approaches to collaborative research on Indigenous objects in museums.

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Professor Rachel Popelka-Filcoff @rachel.popelka.filcoff.com · 09/07/2025

The next stop on my #DIMPatrimoinesmatériels visiting professorship is an invited lecture at #MuseeduQuaiBranly (11 July, Paris), on our collaborative research into the complex biographies of Museum objects including materials analysis alongside Indigenous knowledges, through the lens of #ochre.🧪

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Professor Rachel Popelka-Filcoff @rachel.popelka.filcoff.com · 05/07/2025

#Rockart researchers use the same tools worldwide. From the “Grotte Chauvet, l'aventure scientifique” exhibit #Chauvet2, however many are in our #archaeologicalscience lab. This display has a lot less dirt encrusting the gear than usual, but a great way to share research with the public.

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Professor Rachel Popelka-Filcoff @rachel.popelka.filcoff.com · 05/07/2025

The next event in my DIM Patrimoines visit will be a scientific workshop at @c2rmf.bsky.social , which features a great lineup of experts in #rockart and #ochre. I will be giving two keynotes, one on ochre provenance and one on collaborative #archaeologicalscience.

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Professor Rachel Popelka-Filcoff @rachel.popelka.filcoff.com · 05/07/2025

I had a terrific visit to #EDYTEM and University Savoie Mont Blanc with Emilie Chalmin and Hélène Salomon. Highlights were visiting the lab and learning their work on #ochre and #rockart, and visiting #Chauvet2 and “Grotte Chauvet, l'aventure scientifique” and meeting many of the researchers.

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Professor Rachel Popelka-Filcoff @rachel.popelka.filcoff.com · 01/07/2025

Today I touched down in Paris for my 3.5 week visit to work with French colleagues on the analysis of #ochre and #rockart, and to explore the #rockart connections between France and Australia. 🪨🖌️

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Professor Rachel Popelka-Filcoff @rachel.popelka.filcoff.com · 23/06/2025

I am very pleased to take up the DIM PAMIR visiting professorship in the Paris region. It includes invited lectures, joint experiments at the Nanoscopium (SOLEIL), and collaborative workshop at C2RMF on non-invasive analysis on vulnerable trace rock art pigments. www.pamir.fr/en/projets-s...

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TraceRockArt - DIM PAMIR

Rock art is a universal form of human expression around the world, and one of the earliest forms of symbolic behavior going back into deep human history. Rock art continues to be one of the most signi...

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Professor Rachel Popelka-Filcoff @rachel.popelka.filcoff.com · 18/06/2025

What a terrific exhibit honouring #SamLovell OAM and his extraordinary life story at the #StateLibraryWesternAustralia. His photos and personal items, as well as the curation, bring the #Kimberley and his story to life in the exhibit.

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Professor Rachel Popelka-Filcoff @rachel.popelka.filcoff.com · 02/04/2025

Terrific presentation by Sophie Vogelsang on "Unravelling the Chemistry and Aging of Culturally Important Australian Plant Exudates" in the #ArchaeologicalScience Seminar Series. Sophie is a PhD student from Uni Wisconsin jointly supervised in Arch Science Lab, analysing exudates by py-GC-MS.

Sophie Vogelsang presenting her slides on analysis of plant exudates. She is standing next to the presentation screen and pointing to images of Australian plants.

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Professor Rachel Popelka-Filcoff @rachel.popelka.filcoff.com · 17/02/2025

Great to be a part of the Desert to the Sea LP and to share and learn with everyone this week. More research to come on analysis and connection of ochre and plant exudates in museum collections with Traditional Owners, #WAM Boola Bardip, PhD students and @crar-m.bsky.social.

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Professor Rachel Popelka-Filcoff @rachel.popelka.filcoff.com · 06/02/2025

Thanks to Michelle Wood, Liz Carter and APMC13 for the invitation to speak about our recent archaeological science research on X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy and X-ray Raman spectroscopy on Indigenous Australian pigments and binders in a diverse multi-modal interdisciplinary session.

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

What Was The Earliest Human Use Of Color? What was it used for and where did it come from? www.iflscience.com/what-was-the...

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What Was The Earliest Human Use Of Color?

What was it used for and where did it come from?

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Professor Rachel Popelka-Filcoff @rachel.popelka.filcoff.com · 20/12/2024

Great to see this article from @cenmag.bsky.social focusing on Indigenous knowledge, #analyticalchemistry and Australian pigments highlighting Stephanie Beaupark’s eucalyptus pigment research. Excited to be interviewed as part of this article #archsci! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Stephanie Beaupark Sees Chemistry Through an Indigenous Lens

To track changes in the colors of eucalyptus, this Ngugi researcher gathers knowledge in Aboriginal communities as well as in the lab.

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Professor Rachel Popelka-Filcoff @rachel.popelka.filcoff.com · 06/12/2024

Lots of great science at the Dating Murujuga’s Dreaming session at #aaa47; looking forward to more terrific outcomes from the team.

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Professor Rachel Popelka-Filcoff @rachel.popelka.filcoff.com · 06/12/2024

Lots of great science at the Dating Murujuga’s Dreaming session at #aaa47; looking forward to more terrific outcomes from the team.

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Professor Rachel Popelka-Filcoff @rachel.popelka.filcoff.com · 06/12/2024

More #archsci at #aaa47: Ishara Pathirage on characterising the geology of gabbro rock art canvases on Murujuga country. @crar-m.bsky.social #unimelb

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Jo McDonald @jojomcd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Ishara Pathirage now is presenting on her geology PhD research in Rosemary Island gabbros

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 03/12/2024

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

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Professor Rachel Popelka-Filcoff @rachel.popelka.filcoff.com · 05/12/2024

Great to be a part of this project and looking forward to the outcomes in partnership with Tiwi.

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Jo McDonald @jojomcd.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Plenary Speaker John Schofield at #AAACairns with some suggested solutions for the wicked problems related to climate change

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Jo McDonald @jojomcd.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

#AAA47 Day 2 about to kick off- with Steve Brown introducing our Plenary Speaker John Schofield

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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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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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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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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

It seems conference posting is back on Bluesky! Follow the annual Australian Archaeological Association conference at #AAA47 🏺🧪

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Nicole Boivin @nicoleboivin.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The narrowing academic career path for women - POSTER! This seems to have struck a chord with #WomenInStem, and we've even had a few requests for a poster-sized version so here it is: zenodo.org/records/1424... From our paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @janethering.bsky.social

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Martin Porr @martinporr.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The #AAA47 conference is starting with a panel on Indigenous Genomics with a great set of participants. Genomics is a real juggernaut in archaeology right now with a danger of drowning other areas of research. But it's important to initiate conversations about it and position it properly.

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Professor Rachel Popelka-Filcoff @rachel.popelka.filcoff.com · 04/12/2024

Archaeological Science at #unimelb representing at the @arcas.org.au #archsci session at #aaa47. Chloe Stringer on human mussel environment interactions and Helen Green on microbial source of oxalate on rock art coatings, with research partners.

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Professor Rachel Popelka-Filcoff @rachel.popelka.filcoff.com · 04/12/2024

The Archaeological Science Laboratory at #unimelb is now posting from #bluesky. Keep up to date with #archaeologicalscience updates from the lab here and on our website. archsci.science.unimelb.edu.au

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Archaeological Science Laboratory

Visit the post for more.

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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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