BREAKING NEWS!! The #AEA Conference abstract submission deadline has been extended to the 12th August 2026. Get your submissions ready 🤠 For more details visit: envarch.net/conferences #environmentalarchaeology #archaeology #archaeobotany #palynology #zooarchaeology

Please sign this petition to parliament to allow full time students to be eligible for government-funded childcare, as is available for working parents. Childcare assistance during study/research will massively help with financial pressure and access to HE petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Petition: Fund Free Childcare for all Full-Time Student Parents (Not Means Tested)

Fund free childcare for parents who are full-time students. This support should not be means tested. Many student parents struggle to continue their education because childcare costs are too high. Cur...

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We're looking for a research associate to work on creative future visioning. You'll identify existing technologies which may be used to develop interactive simulations of evolving landscapes & help chart pathways to resilient ecosystems. Apply by 10 August: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

another Postdoc opportunity! 🦴🔬 Join Steve Ashby and @york-bioarch.bsky.social to study Northern European combs & combmaking using #ZooMS #proteomics. Seeking someone with proteomics/chemistry experience #viking and or #archaeology knowledge a plus. Apply: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

Copenhagen job alert 🚨 GLOBE (@ucph.bsky.social) is hiring a 21-mo Postdoc in #Bioinformatics & #ComputationalProteomics Work with @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social, @fridowelker.bsky.social, @brandtgroup.bsky.social & more mapping collagen/keratin diversity across 1000s of genomes. 📅 Deadline Aug 31

Postdoc of Bioinformatics and Computational Proteomics

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sheffield.ac.uk/technicians/... It's very nice to see that my university chose to celebrate the work of our excellent technicians. Shame, however, that they decided to 'celebrate' the work of our brilliant bioarchaeology technician by making her redundant... @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

For almost a century, scholars believed there were as few as 200,000 people in #Australia when the first British colonists arrived in 1788. New research suggests that estimate was off by several million. A related study links the devastating arrival of smallpox to the "First Fleet." @science.org 🧪

British ‘First Fleet’ brought smallpox to Australia—and may have killed millions

Two papers pin the deadly disease’s introduction on British colonists and suggest the continent held far more people than previously believed

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Explore a new free-access collection, 'Health, pollution & pathogens', featuring research from our #classicalstudies and #archaeology journals. 🔗 https://cup.org/4eBAuy6 Free access (where not already #openaccess) until 31 July. @antiquity.ac.uk @classicalassociation.org @theromansoc.bsky.social

📢 Job alert! Newcastle University is hiring 2x RICHeS research posts to engage schools with #HeritageScience data. 💡 Part-time, FTC (0.67 FTE, 6 months) 💡 £33,951 - £35,608 p.a. pro rata (Assistant) 💡 £36,636-£46,049 p.a. pro rata (Associate) ⏰ 16 July 2026 buff.ly/Uq4CUh6 @newcastleuni.bsky.social

Our call for papers is now open! Head to our website to check out the amazing 35 sessions that will be hosted during the conference. Deadline to submit abstracts is 5 pm BST, 7 September 2026.

Do you have the required level of profundity to be the British Museum Curator of European Deep History? bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/v...

Curator: European Deep History 6,000-800BCE

This is a high-impact role at a time of transformation. You will collaborate in setting the scholarly agenda, influence how the collection is interpreted globally, and ensure it remains relevant, accessible, and inspiring in the digital age.

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We are hiring: Archaeological Geomatics Technician Applications are now being sought for a 1.0 FTE Geomatics Technician within the ERC Synergy project ‘MEDGREENREV: Re-thinking the “Green Revolution” in the Medieval Western Mediterranean (6th-16th centuries)’. 🔗 tinyurl.com/44k56e9s #jobs #hire

⭐ New Training Alert ⭐ Next month the HSDS will be running running a free training session that introduces depositing heritage science and conservation data. 📆 14th July 2026 🕒️ 11:00-13:00 PM (BST) 📍 Online To find out more about the session and how to register visit: buff.ly/Bwqe9om

If you're you have experience in working in animal / pathogen #aDNA and are interested in a postdoctoral position as part of my ERC Project HERDPATH, please DM/email me kevin[at]palaeome.org

Wrote a short piece about the opportunities and challenges of pushing ancient pathogen genomics into a new frontier: the zooarchaeological record. Pretty excited about what is going to come. www.science.org/eprint/MSG3Z...

Tracking the roots of zoonoses

Ancient pathogen DNA from animals elucidates the origin and evolution of infectious diseases

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The British Academy funding scheme now open! @britishacademy.bsky.social SHAPE Involve and Engage offers up to £8,000 for projects involving public engagement with humanities or social sciences, including #HeritageScience. ⏰️ 15 September 2026 (5pm) 💡 Webinar: 29 June 2026 More:

SHAPE Involve and Engage

A funding programme for innovative public engagement from the British Academy.

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🚨 PhD Studentship Alert 🚨 4-year DPhil in Genomic Medicine and Statistics, funded by the Royal Society *Reconstructing the evolutionary history of pathogens using ancient DNA* ☠️🧬🦠🐕🐖🐇 🇬🇧 UK/home students 📍 Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford ⏰ Fri, 17 July tinyurl.com/gms-rs-dphil

⏰ Tomorrow at 11am — don't miss the HSDS Grants Programme Round 2 info session! 🏛️ Up to £25,000 is available for heritage science & conservation research across the UK, funded via AHRC's RICHeS initiative. 100% FEC covered | Deadline: 30 Sept 2026 📋 Register here 👇 buff.ly/2cTpIWK

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: HSDS Grants Information Session - 10th June. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: HSDS Grants Information Session - 10th June. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

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Come join our team in Exeter! We're looking for a Lecturer in Archaeology for a three year teaching post, focusing particularly on practical skills and fieldwork (closing date 30 June): careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/95...

Lecturer in Archaeology ​(Education and Scholarship) in Exeter | University of Exeter

View details and apply for this Lecturer in Archaeology ​(Education and Scholarship) vacancy in Exeter. Lecturer in Archaeology (Education and Scholarship) This full-time post is avail...

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Māori author Tina Makereti discusses the significance of place to Indigenous literatures at an event featuring readings from her work. In Conversation with Tina Makereti - 7 Jun https://ow.ly/siKn50Z6CNS

The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust is seeking a freelance metadata/documentation specialist to work with select 3D datasets and supporting 2D media for submission to the Heritage Science Data Service as part of an HSDS grant-funded project. @hsds-update.bsky.social ⏰️ 15 June 2026

Freelance Metadata / Documentation Specialist - UK Antarctic Heritage Trust

Help us preserve a unique place! The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust seeks a Freelance Metadata / Documentation Specialist to prepare and enhance metadata for a portion of our rich Antarctic digital data

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#JobFairy Administrator position at the University of Vienna at the new Faculty Centre for Archaeology. More details below 👇🔗 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Organisa...

📣The UCL Institute of Archaeology is hiring: Fieldwork Technician Full time | Permanent | On-site 🔗 More information about the role and full job description: tinyurl.com/4cv96k74 #Jobs #Archaeology #Hiring #FullTime #Fieldwork @ucl.ac.uk

Explore a new free-access collection, 'Health, pollution & pathogens', featuring research from our #classicalstudies and #archaeology journals. 🔗 https://cup.org/4eBAuy6 Free access (where not already #openaccess) until 31 July. @antiquity.ac.uk @classicalassociation.org @theromansoc.bsky.social

Learn about ancient parasites, health in Roman Britain, diet in medieval towns and more!

Cambridge University Press - Archaeology@cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org · 2mo ago

Explore a new free-access collection, 'Health, pollution & pathogens', featuring research from our #classicalstudies and #archaeology journals. 🔗 https://cup.org/4eBAuy6 Free access (where not already #openaccess) until 31 July. @antiquity.ac.uk @classicalassociation.org @theromansoc.bsky.social

Really delighted to be speaking to the Royal Archaeological Institute in York next April, giving the Talbot Green lecture. Will be attempting to blend a "prehistoric" cheese making demonstration with talking about how Neolithic diets trouble our assumptions about human history as progress. Join us!

Royal Archaeological Institute@royalarchinst.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For the first time, we are planning a lecture outside London - the Talbot Green lecture will take place in York in April 2027. For more details about this and all of the other lectures, please check out our Events Page: www.royalarchinst.org/events

There’s never been a better time to start learning something new! Explore our library of upcoming and on‑demand webinars and stay up to date with the latest advances in modern analytics. Visit goto.bruker.com/3Rs9OX6 #Bruker #Webinars

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If you want some posters for your primary, intermediate or secondary schools on where science can take you, I worked with the NZ Assoc Science Educators to develop these. Primary & intermediate is on the left, secondary on the right. PM me if you would like some PDF copies for your classroom.

NHSF member University of Oxford is working with The Heritage Alliance to conduct a survey on partnerships between the heritage sector and academia. #HeritageScience has some great case studies and this survey could be relevant for many in our network! ⏰ Take part by 1st June 2026: buff.ly/iRes2eO

Partnership working between the heritage sector and academia (survey)

The Heritage Alliance is delighted to be collaborating with the University of Oxford as part of our Creating Connections project. Our aim is to bring together heritage practitioners and academics to share experience and explore what makes partnerships between the heritage sector and academic institutions work.

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🚨We are recruiting!🚨 Looking for a Research Technician to support Organic Residue Analysis (ORA). Deadline 3rd June 2026. www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...