If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

We're welcoming reseach submissions (any article format) on stable isotope analysis of animals, especially linking present and past environments! @frontiersin.bsky.social @icaz-news.bsky.social @uor-research.bsky.social #archaeology #archaeobirds #zooarchaeology #ecology #stableistopes

Frontiers | Applications of Stable Isotopes in Zooarchaeology and Historical Ecology

Stable isotope analyses of historical archives (e.g., tissues from specimens held in natural history collections and faunal remains recovered from archaeolog...

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Join us at Reading for some fantastic isotope research - registration open now!

Gaia Mortier@gaiamortier.bsky.social · last yr.

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! We're hosting the next @ICAZ_News Stable Isotopes Working Group meeting at @UniofReading, 25–28 June 2025, theme: Back to the Future - tackling today’s questions with isotope insights from the past. See you there 👉 zooarchisotopes.com/back-to-the-...

Registration is open for the ICAZ Stable Isotopes Working Group meetup! Please join us in Reading on 25th-28th of June - signup and more info is available using the following link: zooarchisotopes.com/back-to-the-... @icaz-news.bsky.social #archaeobirds #animalhistory #zooarchaeology #archaeology

Back to the Future 2025

Back to the Future: Zooarchaeological Isotope Approaches to Modern Questions June 25-28 2025 – University of Reading REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN Access the registration form via clicking this li…

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Putting out birdfeeders, giving horses hay or feeding ducks peas (not bread!!) are extensions of an ancient connection between human & animal that you can read about in a new book, with a chapter by Dr Juliette Waterman.🫴🦆 @juliettewaterman.bsky.social #readingatReading #BookSky 🔗 rdg.ac/3FfJidy

The Hand That Feeds is now available open access from @uclpress.bsky.social. If you haven't already, now would be a great time to listen to my interview with @juliettewaterman.bsky.social, released earlier this month. uclpress.co.uk/book/the-han...

The Hand that Feeds

Food plays a major part in shaping human–animal relations, from nurturing farm and zoo animals to bringing wild birds into suburban gardens. Food-mediated interactions create personal interspecies bon...

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Josh Milburn@joshmilburn.bsky.social · last yr.

On the latest episode of Knowing Animas, I speak to @juliettewaterman.bsky.social about the history and archaeology of red kites in Britain, plus her co-edited OA @uclpress.bsky.social book The Hand That Feeds. Find us in all the usual podcast places! knowinganimals.libsyn.com/episode-237-...

You can read about the incredible, unusual, and brand new research from the Animal Feeding project (flea circuses anyone? @gaiamortier.bsky.social ) in our edited volume! It's open access so free to download here: t.co/P7IYuj7YmZ @uclpress.bsky.social

I am unspeakably proud for and of our Animal Feeding project ECR team, who led, wrote and co-edited an edited volume showcasing our research. Intrigued? Listen to @juliettewaterman.bsky.social chat about it below, and get your pre-orders in. Out in the world May 13th!

The Hand that Feeds

Food plays a major part in shaping human–animal relations, from nurturing farm and zoo animals to bringing wild birds into suburban gardens. Food-mediated interactions create personal interspecies bon...

uclpress.co.uk

Josh Milburn@joshmilburn.bsky.social · last yr.

On the latest episode of Knowing Animas, I speak to @juliettewaterman.bsky.social about the history and archaeology of red kites in Britain, plus her co-edited OA @uclpress.bsky.social book The Hand That Feeds. Find us in all the usual podcast places! knowinganimals.libsyn.com/episode-237-...

On the latest episode of Knowing Animas, I speak to @juliettewaterman.bsky.social about the history and archaeology of red kites in Britain, plus her co-edited OA @uclpress.bsky.social book The Hand That Feeds. Find us in all the usual podcast places! knowinganimals.libsyn.com/episode-237-...

Choppers the poor PG Tips chimp was one of my favourite bits of research from the animal feeding project - read her story here 🍌🍰: theconversation.com/how-we-revea... (Full article: nature.com/articles/s41...)

How we revealed the life story of PG Tips chimp – written in her bones

The study allowed researchers to assess the impact of changing zoo practices over the last 50 years.

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Job alert! @katerinad.bsky.social and I are looking for an archaeologist/archaeological scientist to join us on a 4 year post-doc, helping to manage and participate in field and lab work on 2 ERC grants in our group. We would love to hear from you via the link! 👇 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct...

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It’s here! Find out what we’ve been up to for the last 4 years #archaeology #earlymodern #shakespeare #boxofficebears

Archaeobears@archaeobears.bsky.social · 2y ago

🎉We’re delighted that our first major #BoxOfficeBears paper is published Open Access today in @antiquityj.bsky.social What do we know about the 🐻 and 🐶 that lived on Bankside? How big were they? What did they eat? How long did they live?🧵 of key findings below! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Upcoming conference alert from one of our Stable Isotopes Working Group! Check out more info and abstract submission in the link provided.

Juliette Waterman@juliettewaterman.bsky.social · 2y ago

Please join us in Reading for the ICAZ Stable Isotopes Working Group meetup in June! More details and submit your abstracts here: zooarchisotopes.com/back-to-the-... @icaz-news.bsky.social #zooarch #archaeology

Please join us in Reading for the ICAZ Stable Isotopes Working Group meetup in June! More details and submit your abstracts here: zooarchisotopes.com/back-to-the-... @icaz-news.bsky.social #zooarch #archaeology

Medieval Birds of Prey Feasted on Human Waste, Study Finds - research led by @juliettewaterman.bsky.social https://www.medievalists.net/2025/01/medieval-birds-of-prey-feasted-on-human-waste-study-finds/ #medieval #environmentalhistory

Medieval Birds of Prey Feasted on Human Waste, Study Finds - Medievalists.net

Birds of prey in medieval Britain relied heavily on scavenging human waste and scraps, a new study has revealed.

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Very glad to share the findings from my PhD work on raptors from archaeological sites, showing an early pattern of urban scavenging! #archaeobirds www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Tracking 4000 years of raptor diets through isotope analysis reveals urban scavenging with implications for conservation

Birds of prey (‘raptors’) often consume anthropogenic foods and can be closely associated with human settlements. In medieval Britain, birds of prey w…

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