Dr Laura Castells

📢STUDENT MEMBERS - ELECTIONS REMINDER! If you're interested in getting involved in the PPA Student Group as a member of leadership there's still time - we're seeking nominations for our treasurer and our junior co-chair positions! All info on the website! Deadline: 9 Feb 2024

📣📣Paleopathology Association 50th Anniversary Fundraiser. Have you seen the spectacular tumbler and shirts emblazoned with the 50th Anniversary PPA Logo? Check them out and get your own here: customink.com/fundraising/pa… Quick, the sale ends on 22 February!

PPA WEBINAR REMINDER - In just 2 hours Bernardo Arriaza, Mariana Fabra y Gonzalo Figueiro will be talk about interactions between health and environment in South America, Join us! burkinc.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

PPA WEBINAR REMINDER - 19 December. Join us here! burkinc.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

📢WEBINAR DATE CHANGE - Interactions between health & environment in hunter-gatherer communities from South America NEW date: 19 Dec 2023 Time: 12pm EST; 2pm ART/CLT/UYT; 6pm CET Register here: burkinc.zoom.us/webinar/regist… This session will be in Spanish & with English translation!

We have a Winner!! Congratulations to our member Rebecca Pitt (Reading, UK) for her winning entry to our 50th Anniversary Logo competition with 31% of the vote! This logo sums up our Association perfectly and is a wonderful way to kick off our celebrations!

Join our dynamic PhD community and apply for one of our two new AHRC projects. Reimagining Roman Bath: sww-ahdtp.ac.uk/collaborative-… All That Remains: Reframing the Importance of Human Cremations in Ancient Colchester sww-ahdtp.ac.uk/collaborative-… More info here: sww-ahdtp.ac.uk/collaborative-…

"Paleopathology has a critical—and unmet—need for community spaces dedicated to testing and improving observer concordance." Our field relies on the expert judgement of individual osteologists -- But do 4 out of 5 osteologists agree on what they see? sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🔥 A huge announcement!🔥 Our study on a mysterious practice of cranial modification among the shell-laden Hirota people (Tanegashima, #Japan🇯🇵) is now available via @PLOSONE! 🐚💀

Apply! @ASU is hiring 3 Presidential Postdoctoral Fellows to expand Indigenous Knowledge research in life, environmental, social, Earth science apply.interfolio.com/123763 I loved being a Fellow with 70+ Indigenous faculty at an R1 institution with the highest % Indigenous students!

@Paleopatholog10 What a phenomenal presentation that was, congratulations on the award!

We are also delighted to congratulate our very first recipient of the IJPP Early Career Conference Award - Derek Boyd! 😃

‼️ Job Alert! ‼️ We are looking for a Bioinformatics specialist to join the @Commiosproject team! 👇 jobs.ac.uk/job/CZD046/pos… Come & work with us! 🤩

Interested in mammoths🦣and isotopes🧪? This funded PhD might just be for you! Deadline for applications: Tuesday 16 May 2023. See link for more info. - exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/… @UniofExeter @UofEArchaeology

I'm thrilled to announce another PhD opportunity @UniRdg_Arch This time to work with me, @MVandenbeusch and Daniel Antoine @britishmuseum! You can still apply if you also have an application in for The Blood Lines project 😉 jobs.ac.uk/job/CYV834/phd…

Register for LET'S DO LUNCH - PPA @ Reno! What: Let’s Do Lunch randomly pairs students with more senior members for lunch, providing students an opportunity to meet a paleopathology professional and ask question important for their research and professional development.

Register for MEET-A-MENTOR - PPA @ Reno! In this activity, regular members and students will be partnered and each pairing will arrange a virtual or in-person 1-hour chat at a time convenient to them. Ideally during conference week or the week following.

Register here: paleopathologyassociation.org/event-5238508/… Registration closes the 11th April!

!! A MESSAGE FROM THE @Paleopatholog10 BOARD !! As excited as well all are for the upcoming hybrid PPA meeting online and in Reno, Nevada, the board will be reimbursing meeting registration for 2 students from qualifying countries.

JOB VACANCY: @oxford_anthro and @Pitt_Rivers, in association with @LinacreCollege, are advertising an Associate Professorship in Museum Anthropology/Curatorship at the Pitt Rivers Museum. Closing date: Tuesday 25 April. More info and application details at bit.ly/3lQQxis

‼️Job alert! ‼️ We are looking for a PDRA in aDNA to join our lovely @COMMIOS team @UoYArchaeology. 😊Please spread the word! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/postdo…