📢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: https://t.co/4gsRJM6U8Z
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!
https://t.co/g8yJIreRvt
📢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: https://t.co/EFCIJbylnP
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: https://t.co/pIIgDclumG
All That Remains: Reframing the Importance of Human Cremations in Ancient Colchester https://t.co/fenETnKqFX
More info here: https://t.co/0ArxiJFQzB
"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?
https://t.co/lGPZLHfm0W
🔥 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 https://t.co/RqTLdugJmG
I loved being a Fellow with 70+ Indigenous faculty at an R1 institution with the highest % Indigenous students!
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. - https://t.co/0IXEWvZFQj
@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 😉
https://t.co/hQtI0ZyO1p
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.
!! 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 https://t.co/c1nIsjeqtw