Dr. Liz M. Quinlan
@archaeoliz.bsky.social
Zooarchaeologist, historical ecologist, and big fan of fish. PI of AHRC-funded "Beyond Stockfish" (UKRI556)
🚨Call for Papers🚨 I’ve also got a session at ICAZ 2027 in Vancouver! “Session 6 - Finding the Wild: Zooarchaeology Beyond the Wild/Domestic Divide” is open for submissions with a deadline of August 25! DM me here or email at e.quinlan@exeter.ac.uk Abstract submissions: shorturl.at/oJEuB
🚨Call for Papers🚨 I’ve got a session at this year's TAG UK meeting! “Recalling the Wild: Persistence, Loss, and the Making of More‑Than‑Human Worlds” is open for submissions with a deadline of September 7. Send submissions to e.quinlan@exeter.ac.uk. More info: tag2026.square.site/sessions
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It always tickles me when @alieward.bsky.social says something like "enjoy washing dishes or whatever you're doing while listening to @ologies.bsky.social" and I'm doing silly nerd nonsense like measuring mullet bones in a Belgian ichthyoarchaeology lab 😅 Fueled by podcasts, this work is 🐟
Following yesterday's EAA Special Meeting, I have submitted a complaint to the EAA Appeal and Anti-Harassment Committee. I post it here, with names redacted, for any members who were not present. Thank you so much to everyone who has reached out with messages of solidarity and support 🙏💓🙏
Im genuinely so befuddled by this; I DON'T LACK IDEAS. I have so MANY ideas and plans--its time, money, and energy I lack. I don't need genAI to make up stuff for me, my brain does that perfectly well, and I actually love that my brain does that for me.
Dr. Antje Gamble@drantjegamble.bsky.social · 8mo agoI’m embarrassed for these people. I was at a writing retreat this summer that suggested we use genai for ideation. They told academics to use a plagiarism machine for ideas. If you are doing this, do us all a favor and leave the field. If you have no more ideas, you shouldn’t be an academic.
I've got a stress twitch developing in my left eye and there's a persistent flicker in all of the overhead lighting of the room I'm working from right now. If anyone sees me lying face first on the cobbles in the middle of the Exeter Christmas Market today just leave me, I'm doing fine.
Also, to be clear, when a trans instructor at OU is being punished and targeted for quite fairly grading a terrible essay, it’s bizarre to see academics online debating the rubrics. That’s…not the problem.
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
bisig, adj: busy, occupied. (BIH-zih / ˈbɪ-zɪj) Image: Calendar page for December in the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg; France (Paris), before 1349; @metcloisters.bsky.social object 69.86. #OldEnglish #WOTD
Lucy's been inspiring me ever since I met her-- read more about her work improving Wikipedia here!
Open Research at York@uoyopenres.bsky.social · 8mo agoWe've just published a new @york.ac.uk Open Research in Practice case study 📝 @lucymoore.bsky.social challenged herself to improve the representation of the lives and achievements of women on @wikipedia.org by contributing an article for a woman from every country in the world 🌍
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
What's the point of going on holiday if you can't be incredibly annoying about it? I'm completely incapable of switching off my brain while having fun, so I recorded all the fish species my friend and I saw on our snorkelling trips in the Red Sea. Check out the infographic here: shorturl.at/hh7bB
Dr. Liz M. Quinlan - Infographics
Taxonomic families of reef-associated fish spotted on four separate snorkelling trips near Hurghada, Egypt in November of 2025. A total of 81 species were recorded by two divers (myself and my friend ...
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
Institute for Policy Studies@ips-dc.org · 9mo agoNEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Friday feels, finding out the North Atlantic right whale, one of the rarest whales on the planet, is finally showing the first signs of slow recovery. Amazing photos by Deluna Vision #NorthAtlanticRightWhale #RightWhales #WhaleConservation
Revisiting some classic ichthyoarchaeology papers on the train as I desperately try to race Storm Claudia out of the country ⛈️😅
With any luck I'll soon have indefinite leave to remain and therefore indefinite leave to be even more annoying ✨
I dunno about Trump but I sure hope these emails take down the NYT
every night I go to bed as an American immigrant abroad knowing that I’m gonna wake up to the wildest shit having just happened back in my country overnight 😮💨
Head on over to our project website to read all about the recent conference and data collection trip which had me zigzagging across northwestern Europe via train all the way from Copenhagen to Exeter! #researchupdate #archaeology #datacollection sites.google.com/palaeome.org...
Beyond Stockfish - Blog
November 10, 2025
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THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago
Caroline Kubzansky@ckubzansky.bsky.social · 9mo agoArianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
A very good Watson obit here, written, though obviously not published, years before he died.
Brittany Trang@brittanytrang.com · 9mo agoA Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫
In the spirit of sharing more research updates (and posting more in general), I realized I forgot to mention a pretty big life/research change-- I've moved Down South 🫨 #archaeology #researchupdate #lifeupdate
Very excited to share that I've been given a ECR Spotlight in Volume 34 of the @oceanspast.bsky.social Quarterly Newsletter to discuss my "Beyond Stockfish" project and research journey (so far 😊!) bsky.app/profile/ocea...
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Our latest newsletter is here 🐟 This month we're celebrating two decades of OPI, with special features & reflections from Prof. Cristina Brito and Prof. Daniel Pauly, plus lots more! Keep up to date…
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If you wondered what using denatured trypsin in your collagen (ZooMS) samples looks like, here you go. Dark teal blue on the left (an Atlantic salmon-- Salmo salar) is a normal mass spectrum, olive green on the is the same sample, but showing an incredibly noisy spectrum. #proteomics #archaeology
not me forgetting that BlueSky doesn't support uploaded gifs 😅
