Congratulations to ASHB life member Dr Justyna Miszkiewicz, who was awarded the prestigious Linnean Society's Trail-Crisp award for an outstanding contribution to biological microscopy! Justyna is the first biological anthropologist to receive this award. hass.uq.edu.au/article/2024/0…

The pursuit of science and technology without roots in the arts, ethics, literature is a Faustian bargain, displaying an eagerness for knowledge uncoupled from wisdom, and the great myths have shown us the tragic end of such a pursuit.

Are you attending the #PPA2024 ? Make sure to sign up for our dental histology work shop, Annie Snoddy Dr Barbara Veselka and 💀Dr Chris Aris☕ and I are super excited to have collaborated on this and make it available for in-person and hybrid attendees ☺️ 🦷🦷
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If you are coming to the PPA….sign up and learn more about dental histology. See you there!

my trick to being happy is just to remember how strange and unlikely this world is. if the early universe had been just slightly different there would be no hydrogen, but now somehow I’m here and I get to drink coffee

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Ah yes. Gotta eat those vitamin D rich oranges! 😂

New publication drop. Lucy Henderson pulled some fascinating data out of the worlds worst preserved teeth!

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Proud supervisor moment! Phoebe put so much time into her honours project. I'm having a panic attack just thinking about the number of fragments she processed!

Phoebe is the sole rep of University of Otago bioanth at ASHB this year.

I'm embracing my mad scientist era with this new publication. I cannot *believe* the reviewers and co-authors all let me keep this caption

Did you know that 'Wilson's bands', histological markers of slowed enamel formation, were named after an University of Otago Dental School scientist? Great find Lucy Henderson!

A fully funded bioarch/arch sci PhD project is available at the University of Otago! Ideal candidates will have a masters in archaeological science, biological anthropology or bioarchaeology, and an interest in colonial archaeology. See the 2 pg advert below for more details!

Me, looking at something I’ve just written:

Holy smokes - have any of you anthro types looked at the prices for the conference venue for AABA 2024 😱😱😱. Is all of LA like this???

My university won’t let me spend grant money on Air BnBs. Not sure how to swing this one..

For each of the recent crises, NZGov has relied on experts. Experts who are largely trained &/or employed at Universities. Defunding Unis when health, climate, disasters, economics etc all face challenges is beyond comprehension. New Zealand Labour NZ National Party Green Party NZ Te Pāti Māori

Oh Durham, I’ve missed you! I wish you weren’t so far from home.

NZ higher education is having a major public funding crisis, leading to redundancies at Otago and VUW. Please sign in support of your colleagues in Aotearoa! I love the global representation in supporters. It shows what a big impact these little islands have.

Article is finally submitted after a painfully long incubation period. I can surrender to this cold now.