Sensational(ised) Supernatural Skeletons
October is my favourite month. That is despite the fact that it is also the month where I go all Jekyll and Hyde with outbursts of nerd-rage directed at all […]
A Working Group for Best Practice in Digital Osteology
Welcome to the very first blogpost about the Working Group for Best Practice in Digital Osteology. If you’re looking for some background on this subject, please give this a read. […]
Digging up the Digital Dead: Best Practice for Future(istic) Osteoarchaeology
A few weeks ago I presented at the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO) Annual Conference in Sheffield. Rather than present on my PhD research, as I’ve done […]
Publishing With Integrity (Whilst Still Having Career Options)
At the beginning of this month I attended the European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting in Glasgow. One of the papers I presented was in a round-table session run by […]
PhD Alert: Condition Red
Wow. I have let the blog slide a little bit, eh? No posts for two months. I would apologise, except for the fact that I write this blog in my […]
Silence in the Cemetery Part IV (Employment)
This is Part IV. Here are Part I, Part II, Part III. This post brings me back to the reason I started writing this series, initially inspired by Disclosing Disability: […]
The Making of an ‘Amber’ Mammoth
[Thanks to the #SciArt Twitter week for giving me the kick I needed to take the photos needed for this post, which has been sitting in my drafts folder for… […]
Blame the Gerbils? Blame the Journalists!*
It would appear that a lot of people are actually interested in the accurate reporting of research results. YOU HEAR THAT ‘THE MEDIA’? Therefore, I want to take this opportunity […]
Avoid Killer Gerbil Headlines Like A Cliche…
If there is something that pervades the last few millennia more than the plague, it must certainly be sensationalist stories about it. The only difference now is that instead of […]
Calling all Biosteoarchaepologists!
I think about terminology quite a lot. So much so, that I am participating in a roundtable session at a conference in September on ‘terminology in funerary archaeology’, being run […]
Deathsplanation 