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Marina CG 🐢 PhD @snakesandbones.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

If you live in the UK, could you please take part in this consultation on visa and immigration changes? It affects more people than you think, and these suggested changes will force many to leave the lives they've built here... Thanks! ukhomeoffice.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Home Office Consultation on Earned Settlement

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Marina CG 🐢 PhD @snakesandbones.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

No worries! With pathologies is very hard since bone reacts in similar ways to many different things so you can never be 100% sure unless you know that animal’s story 😅

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Marina CG 🐢 PhD @snakesandbones.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I was going to say that it looks like a very badly rehealed fracture! But it could be a mix of that and infection that made the rehealing of the fracture weird!

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Jeff Spanbauer, PhD @jspanbauer.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I don't know my pathologist (self taught #zooarchaeology ) but something is telling me that this red fox had some major issues and owwies with its femurs. #animalbones #archaeology

Red fox femur with abnormal pathologies.

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Marina CG 🐢 PhD @snakesandbones.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I absolutely hate taking trains in the UK. 5 cancelled trains… Early entry tickets for an event wasted. And the won’t pay anything back cause they’re a greedy private company. So unacceptable.

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Zooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

📅 2025 🦴 Zooarchaeology: Nov 4 & 18 | Dec 2 & 16 🌾 Archaeobotany: Nov 11 & 25 | Dec 9 & 16 💡 2026 dates announced in January. Other visits available (fees apply). 📧 Book your visit: 🦴 Dr Lenny Salvagno – l.salvagno@sheffield.ac.uk 🌾 Dr Catherine Longford – c.longford@sheffield.ac.uk

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University of Sheffield Bioarchaeology Collections (SHEFF BIOARCH) – RICHeS

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Zooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

🎉 Free Open Access Days! Explore Sheffield’s 🌾 Archaeobotany & 🦴 Zooarchaeology collections through the SHEFF BIOARCH RICHeS (UKRI) project. Consult, learn & photograph heritage materials — booking info below 👇

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Marina CG 🐢 PhD @snakesandbones.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I have a nicer setup today to work on stats 🍁 Feeling so much better about the analyses, what I’m doing and most importantly why I’m doing it!

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Marina CG 🐢 PhD @snakesandbones.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Trying to understand statistics and self-teaching myself everything about them… yay, PhD life.

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Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #openaccess✅

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Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core

Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology

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Marina CG 🐢 PhD @snakesandbones.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Please, if anyone knows about any post-doc positions (especially in Canada or Spain) starting late 2026, let me know.

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Marina CG 🐢 PhD @snakesandbones.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

When the political climate forces you to start looking into postdoctoral positions well before submitting your thesis... Adding an extra stress factor to finishing a PhD, as if that wasn't enough.

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Zooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bEv... For decades we've worked to enhance the Sheffield Zooarch Lab & to see years of dedication destroyed by corporate executives who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing is heart breaking @watchingbrief.bsky.social #savesheffieldarchaeology

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The destruction of the Zooarch laboratories in Sheffield

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Zooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Our own Phoebe Liu has presented a poster based on her PhD research at the conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. Well done Phoebe! Photos by @snakesandbones.bsky.social. @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social @zig-saa.bsky.social @zooarch.bsky.social

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Zooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Very proud of our PhD students - Marina Chorro Giner, Ruth Irovec and Benjamin Wimmer - for giving excellent talks at the School of Biosciences postgraduate research conference @zooarch.bsky.social

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Marina CG 🐢 PhD @snakesandbones.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

So excited for BABAO 2025 tomorrow! I’ll be attending with and supporting @phoebe-liu.bsky.social on her poster presentation! Find us listening to all the Zooarch talks 😁

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Marina CG 🐢 PhD @snakesandbones.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I also had less than 4 hours in Rome… So I had to make it count!

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Marina CG 🐢 PhD @snakesandbones.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Back from my trip to Tarquinia… Such an amazing place! ❤️🐢

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Marina CG 🐢 PhD @snakesandbones.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Backing up your PhD in 4 different locations (two online and two physical) before a trip is definitely a MUST.

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The Black Trowel Collective @blacktrowel.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

BTC Call for Action - EAA EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns. Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...

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Umberto Albarella STOP THE GENOCIDE! @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I've just resigned from the EAA. Sad to leave an organisation I have been part of for decades, but collaboration with genocide is unthinkable. #stopthegenocide #stopapartheid @archagainstaparth.bsky.social

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Marina CG 🐢 PhD @snakesandbones.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

If anyone wants to help me with the risk assessment, I would be eternally grateful, by the way....

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Marina CG 🐢 PhD @snakesandbones.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Not to mention that I should be WORKING ON MY PHD not filling up the LONGEST RISK ASSESSMENT EVER. Honestly, the School of Biosciences loves their paperwork... I'm so done.

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Marina CG 🐢 PhD @snakesandbones.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I *HATE* risk assessments. I'm anxious enough about travel without having to think about illness, kidnapping and death, thank you very much!

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Marina CG 🐢 PhD @snakesandbones.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Last trip of my PhD happening in two weeks... This is getting real!

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Marina CG 🐢 PhD @snakesandbones.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

This would be higher if they weren't destroying full departments that were on the Top 10-30 in the world, but that's not what's important to them, I guess... A simple Google search... "The University of Sheffield's Department of Archaeology has been ranked 5th within the UK and 12th globally."

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Marina CG 🐢 PhD @snakesandbones.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I also think it's safe to say that our lab technician knows me very well... 🐢 Appreciate the support (and the humour)! I'm definitely that kid!

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Marina CG 🐢 PhD @snakesandbones.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Back to work! The uni keeps trying to get rid of us, this time with sudden building moves, but the Zooarch Lab endures 🐢 Last week we (hopefully!) wrapped up turtle bone measuring for my PhD's interobserver error test. These pics are from an earlier session, thanks all! @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social

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Marina CG 🐢 PhD @snakesandbones.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

No pretty pictures from my work there, but a few weeks ago I was in Stymphalia working at the Museum of the Environment... Measuring ancient turtle bones and randomly finding bear astragali!

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Marina CG 🐢 PhD @snakesandbones.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

This is so hard to read... Especially because I know how hard you work and how good you are at what you do (and many other things!), but I understand the feeling... It's so tough to continue when individuals, universities, companies and even governments are making it so hard.

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Marina CG 🐢 PhD @snakesandbones.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Heading to Greece next week for PhD research... Trip 2 out of 3!🐢 Can’t wait to keep gathering data (and see more turtles, obviously). Getting so close to the finish line on these research travels! #PhDLife #Zooarchaeology #ResearchTrip #TurtleBones #AlmostThere

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Marina CG 🐢 PhD @snakesandbones.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I just came back from my first proper holiday in about two years… It was a much needed boost to finish my PhD!

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Petrosal bones of domestic cattle (left) and equid (right, probably domestic horse). As well as being species diagnostic, they are also a good element to note because of their dense bone structure that preserves genetic material well 🐄🐎🦴🧬

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Oh a bird skull! 🤩🐦💀 Nope, nope, wait. It's gum. 😂

White Gum smear on pavement in a shape similar to a bird skull

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

😍🦴💮 On first glance, I thought this was intricately decorated bone, but the surface pattern is almost certainly caused by fungal growth! 🍄‍🟫🍄 So beautiful! ❤️🦴

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Took these quick pics today to help someone out with an ID, so if you've ever wondered what the quadrate bone of the allis shad (Alosa alosa) looks like, wonder no more! ❤️🐟🦴

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Zooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Our reference collection needs constant upkeep so this week we're having a spring clean of our key reference bones! Specifically we're retouching and improving the labelling to make sure the collection is as accessible as possible for everyone, no matter their experience level.

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Zooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

A&K #3 - Our latest instalment discusses the introduction of the domestic horse to Ireland, using modern technology (radiocarbon measurements) to tackle an age old question - when did the horse first appear? Find it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @icaz-news.bsky.social

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Baaaaaaayybeeeee pig, du doo, du do du doo 😂🦴🐖👶 Humerus of a young pig. Archaeological example on the left, recent reference specimen on the right ❤🦴

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Zooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

A new addition to our fabulous bird reference collection, Accipiter nisus aka a Eurasian Sparrowhawk. This beautiful bird was very kindly donated by our friends at The Raptor Foundation, because conservation doesn't have to end at death.

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Right occipital condyle of a horse of course! 💀🐎🦴 (well, equid, but that doesn't rhyme. It's most likely a horse, but donkey or mule can't be ruled out!) The only Equid bone for this context! www.archaeology.biz

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Marina CG 🐢 PhD @snakesandbones.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Back from my archaeological data gathering trip to Spain! I’ve had so much fun and I’ve measured so many turtles! It’s been amazing getting to visit the different institutions and getting to meet so many researchers! 🐢

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Marina CG 🐢 PhD @snakesandbones.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

About to leave for a research trip in a few days and one of my favourite bands releases a new song... Say hello to a new hyperfixation for endless hours of travel for the next two weeks. YES. THANK YOU SLEEP TOKEN.

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Slime 💚🧪 @capernica.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

“How many times have you listened to the new Sleep Token song?” “Yes.”

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