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Zenobie Garrett

@zenobiewan.bsky.social
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Archaeologist. American. Alliterator. Asst Director of Dún Ailinne Field School, Kildare. Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Limerick with IrelandMapped.

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AERIAL-SCAN @aerial-scan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Great to see our @ria.ie funded project AERIAL-SCAN featured in Source Magazine. The CUCAP photos may be well known for their archaeological & historical importance but they are also a part of photography development & history. Check out the latest issue & read more here lnkd.in/esV6qzxQ
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AERIAL-SCAN @aerial-scan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Ring-barrow, the Curragh, Co Kildare. The aerial photo shows a probable ring-barrow that has been incorporated into the McDonagh pitch and putt club. The photo from 1970 shows evidence of several possible features and areas of disturbance.
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AERIAL-SCAN @aerial-scan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Back to Co Louth for another Georgian gem. Townley Hall was built in the 18th century. The photos here are from 1965, 1970, and 1971 when it was owned and used by Trinity College Dublin. There is an open house 22 August from 10am-3pm as part of #heritageweek
Black and white oblique aerial photo of Townley HallBlack and white oblique aerial photo of Townley HallBlack and white oblique aerial photo of Townley Hall
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
@shazarch.bsky.social I will have to buy you a coffee so we can look at these photos and you can tell me what and why the curious little bump out in the graveyard!
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AERIAL-SCAN @aerial-scan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Mountmellick, Co Laois, 1970. The Grand Canal ran through the town but closed in 1960 and is now filled in. The canal can be seen to the left of the main road in the 2nd photo. Its proximity to Portlaoise led to a significant population explosion, with many of the fields in the 1st image developed.
Black and white oblique aerial photo of Mountmellick. Black and white oblique aerial photo of Mountmellick.
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
One of the best sites in Co Laois!
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Any geographers or historians recognize any places in the photo?
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
More heritage from the air this time in Co Kildare! #ireland #kildare
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Heritage Week Highlights! Explore one of County Louth’s historic homes from the air! #HeritageWeek #Louth #Ireland #HeritageFromTheAir #HistoricIreland
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Love this juxtaposition of the modern satellite image with the black and white photograph from 1970! Really shows how much landscapes change and how important photographic #archives can be! #aerialphotography #irisharchaeology 🏺
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
New project alert! I’ll be running the aerial-scan account and posting regular updates there once the project gets full underway! Consider following if you are interesting in archaeology, history, geography and historic aerial photography! And please feel free to share!
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Jesse Wolfhagen @uncertainarch.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
After some minimal demand by folks who I shared this with privately, I've put up the first part on a primer on the "log scale index (LSI)" method in zooarchaeology uncertainarchaeologist.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/l...
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Log Scale Indexing (LSI) is Centering Plus Aggregation
Starting off strong with the hits! Something with wide appeal, easy applicability, and common knowledge! So, some background as we work through the title: Log Scale Indexing (LSI) Zooarchaeologists…
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Great new blog post from @uncertainarch.bsky.social on biometric variation and #zooarchaeology lLove when the how/why of methods are explained! uncertainarchaeologist.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/l... 🏺
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Log Scale Indexing (LSI) is Centering Plus Aggregation
Starting off strong with the hits! Something with wide appeal, easy applicability, and common knowledge! So, some background as we work through the title: Log Scale Indexing (LSI) Zooarchaeologists…
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Dr Catherine Porter 🌳🏳️‍🌈 @catsporter.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Article in the Journal of Historical Geography with @mudderofpearl.bsky.social and @lizgabbett.bsky.social detailing preliminary findings from the project 'Locating Bench Marks, Preserving Heritage' doi.org/10.1016/j.jh... @heritagecouncil.ie @ulresearch.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The amount of spreadsheets I have on my phone to track “weird” things I’ve noticed so I can prove it is a pattern is greater than 1. Today’s new addition-a spreadsheet to track number of people at the bus stop in my village so I can prove it does drop off during the semester and pinpoint when.
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oprah winfrey is holding a microphone and saying `` you get a spreadsheet and you get a spreadsheet . ''
Alt: oprah winfrey is holding a microphone and saying `` you get a spreadsheet and you get a spreadsheet . ''
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This is a totally fine amount of files to have open on a Friday. Shoutout if you can figure out which movie is playing in the background (top middle window).
Image of laptop desktop showing numerous open files
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
One of the job apps I’m filling out creates a timeline of your work history which is kind of fun but also shows the varying levels of precarity that come with trying to find an academic job! (Jobs on left, education on right)
A visual timeline of employment and education
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
@dri.ie petition to rename repositories to menageries.
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Great @archaeological.org talk looking at new analyses of cattle material from Çatalhöyük by @uncertainarch.bsky.social from @harvard.edu. Modelling shows skew towards female cattle in later periods, shifts to Konya(?) plain, and the suggestion of garden hunting as a strategy. Lots to think about.
Screenshot of title PowerPoint slide for Jesse Wolfhagen’s talk Rethinking Human-Cattle Interactions at Neolithic Çatalhöyük (Türkiye) for the Archaeological Institute of America Screenshot of graphs showing biometric Modelling indicating sexual dimorphism in adult pig tibias. Screenshot showing skewing towards more female cattle in later period deposits at ÇatalhöyükScreenshot of graphs showing stable isotope analysis tgat indicate high variability in the environments cattle came from.
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
does anyone know what happened to the website Digitised Diseases? I wanted to run a paleopathology lab in my archaeology class but it doesn't seem to be working. Any good alternatives for looking at 3D models of skeletal pathologies?
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Anyone know what is up with the excavations.ie website? It was down all weekend. Came back for a bit but sometime loaded random ad pages instead and now seems to be down again?
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Slightly humored by how my job applications folder really shows the roller coaster of postdoc precarity.
Screenshot showing a list of folders in a folder called applications. The individual folders represent job applications with most dated to 2021 or 2025
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
How many books should one have for the field? Currently have a pile of 10 but you never know what you’re going to want to read!
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Please, for the love of Pete, make the monies look different. Sincerely, someone trying to sort their field wallet.
Photo of European, American, and British coins in hand.
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
This is the kind of mischief I LIVE to get up to on site.
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Aww! I talked way too fast and flubbed what I was going to say but the good people at @dri.ie were kind and sent something. Love working w/ colleagues who know it’s not just about output but about the environment created around research! Thanks @bethknazook.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy for everything!
Photograph of a notebook with a note from the Digital Repository of Ireland thanking them for participating in a data sustainability workshop
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Dr Catherine Porter 🌳🏳️‍🌈 @catsporter.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
This weekend we've travelled across the County testing the new community collection app for 'Locating Bench Marks, Preserving Heritage'. Thanks to those who approached to ask about the project and how they can get involved @heritagecouncil.ie @unioflimerick.bsky.social @limerickcouncil.bsky.social
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Julien Riel-Salvatore @julienrs.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
"Most of the fighting in palaeoanthropology is simply a function of the wild imbalance between the number of palaeoanthropologists, which is large, and the number of objects available for them to study, which is very much not." Lots of choice quotes in this piece on the Toumaï remains... 1/3 🦣🧪🏺
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The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull, a disputed femur and a bitter feud over humanity’s origins
The long read: When fossilised remains were discovered in the Djurab desert in 2001, they were hailed as radically rewriting the history of our species. But not everyone was convinced – and the bitter...
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The desktop of someone applying for jobs - 🎶4 cover letters, 3 CVs, 2 employment apps, and a comfort show on repeat🎵
Screenshot of Mac desktop showing 16 application windows open.
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Such a cool piece and so glad to see actual space archaeologists getting some love! @drspacejunk.bsky.social @jstpwalsh.bsky.social www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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The 'space archaeologists' hoping to save our cosmic history
The infrastructure of humanity's journey into space may only be decades old, but some of it has already been lost. Now, "space archaeologists" are scrambling to save what's left.
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This was a really great workshop to attend. It’s always great to see others research AND roll up your sleeves and have a frank conversation about tackling sustainability. Many thanks to the @dri.ie and particularly @bethknazook.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy for organizing this!
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
a thing i find unrealistic in movies is villain origin stories. i just think the reason the scientist went rogue is more likely: -another update to the online learning environment or -ordering catering for a meeting for 8 people. honestly makes ME want to move into the field of death ray research
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 29/04/2025
Wow the cover of the 1973 Hew Report (precursor to 1974's Data Privacy Act) is *wild*. ia601702.us.archive.org/8/items/reco...
Purple text reads "Records, Computers, and the Rights of Citizens." A stylized silhouette of a person's face appears below. Instead of a face, a stylized image of magnetic tape represents the person's features.
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Shoutout 2 @lisagriffith.bsky.social 4 doing the hard work of herding the authorial cats & to Stuart for being so involved in creating great tech he’s not on the social techs. And to @profkdlilley.bsky.social & @catsporter.bsky.social for their brilliant contributions here and the entire project!
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I’ve seen a lot of people especially in admin and corporate worlds advocate for using AI to handle email. And my question is, if a person isn’t needed, why does that email even need to exist?
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Downloading firmware updates at the bus stop.
Photo of phone screen showing remaining time for firmware update and GNSS receiver
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Every repository has its own storage challenges am I right? @dri.ie
Image of a stone archway in Limerick City with the words Hartican’s Horse Repository carved above it
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Excited to be lecturing on place-making and archaeology for @catsporter.bsky.social in @ulgeog.bsky.social Historical Geography module!
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The only snakes left in Ireland on this St Patrick’s Day seem to be these radiocarbon ranges slithering across the page.
Screen capture of radiocarbon plots with no identifying information of time scale or site.
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
If anyone sees or knows of any GIS, archive, research, or archaeology jobs in the Limerick or Dublin era please send them my way!
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
“Digital Management” in archaeology
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Playing with color coding and temporal organization (4D in 2D honestly hurts) for DA stratigraphy. What a Sunday! #irisharchaeology
Screen shot of Harris matrix chart for Dún Ailinne excavations in 2022. Features have been color coded by type.
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Spending Saturday evening doing Harris matrices.
Image of partially built Harris matrix
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Great opportunity here and I can attest that the experience for me has been great! please share! #archaeology #heritage #archives #history #digitalhumanities #humanities
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Grant rejection included comment I don’t have enough conferences. I get they need reasons to exclude but I average 3 a year, don’t have a research fund to pay the fees, and don’t have a car to pop up for a day. So how many should I have and do I worry about sustainability after I get the $$$?
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Granting body three months late on making an announcement: “We aim to issue notifications by the end of January.” The aim:
Photo of Christmas ornament of Harold Godwinson with an arrow in his eye.
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
neandertal.eu/pages/about slightly obsessed with the idea of this collision of anthropology and parfumerie….
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About
Neandertal® perfume as a way to explore the analogies between the lingering echoes of our past and that of olfactory resonance. The results are contemporary, highly original, and experimental fragranc...
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I've been trying to figure out what online profiles are worth maintaining professionally. I'm curious if and how my fellow researchers etc. use Academia, Google Scholar, LinkedIn, and Research Gate. I am willing to maintain ones for searchability but not sure all are useful (LinkedIn?) Let me know!
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Zenobie Garrett @zenobiewan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Thought it might be useful to ask if anyone has any leads on jobs in Ireland for an out-of-contract post-doc good with data, but maybe I should be asking if anyone has any bananas? 🤣
Screen-shot of BBC news story headline reading “Duct-taped banana artwork sells for $6.2m in NYC” with the tagline “The winning bidder says he will eat the banana in coming days as part of a ‘unique artistic experience’.”
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