Roberta Bruna Mentesana

Start from you 😊

A (academic) life as a midfielder I was a guest at another university for just under 72 hours. They had invited me to give a seminar, and I’ve returned with the feeling that…

When did research become a race towards quantity? Can we revert it and start playing the game differently? A few thoughts from me 🤞
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#academy #academiclife #research #lifelessons

Last class of the year ✅ Thanks to the students coming last day ❤️
Moving from postdoc to lecturer had its challenges: a lot of selfdoubts, last minute preparation and tears over a pile of essays to mark. Wonder when I will start to feel confident and relaxed as my uni teachers were 😂
#archaeology

¡Regresamos una temporada más y lo queremos hacer volviendo al origen!

Our master in #ArchaeologicalScience started with a lecture from Silvia Valenzuela of the #CSIC on the role of #zooarchaeology to understand society and another from Luis Barba of the #UNAM about #archaeologicalsurvey A warm welcome to our students!
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Open letter to EAA calling for a boycott of Israel Please fill out the form below and add your name to over 780 others on this open letter*, calling on the European Association of Archaeologists to respond to ICOMOS Palestine's appeal for cultural her...

La carta abierta ahora también en español!
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Para firmarla: forms.gle/PzQPDP1FRyEd...
#arqueología #🏺 #eaa2025

Nooooo! Loved that place, it was the hearth of our European project

Students don't know those minutes walking through a silent corridor,listening to other professors'voices,before entering the class,your mind goes all the way from:did I put lunch on my kid's bag?how was the equation of the regression line?Did I take the vitamins?that review is today!forgot my lunch!

Love cleaning times in the lab as I feel like a pirate finding treasures 🤑 #archaeology #archaeologicalscience #UB #FGiH

Ecole d'été/Summer school

Registrations "Digital Archaeology" Summer School! June 30 – July 5, 2025 @univbordeaux.bsky.social
hands-on introduction to Photogrammetry 3D modeling Geometric morphometrics Surface roughness quantification Epigraphic data & AI tools. limited seats—don’t miss this opportunity! shorturl.at/vjwM7

Who said that you have to go to the countryside to find clays?! Here, Barcelona city centre 😂 Of course, I will analyse them - stay tuned! 🤠
#ceramics #clay #Barcelona #archaeology #archaeologicalscience #archaeometry

A workshop about rock paintings at my daughter's school sounds as a good way to start the year 😅 #archaeology #rockart #outreach #researchers

Molt bé!!!👏

Could you add me to the list, please? Thanks for doing this!💖

Thanks Claire, totally agree! Also, I feel there is not much space left for debate in conferences, especially large ones, which should be what they are meant for. Not sure how we can change this...

Hi everyone! Finally finished moving into this bspace (sorry for the spam in your feed lately😀). Very excited to start this new adventure and feel free to talk about the #research, #archaeology and #ceramics here! 💖 R

"And yes, this disparity does matter. Awards aren’t just a way to reward people who have done extraordinary things — they also signal who can do extraordinary things." 👏#nobelprize2024

Feeling a bit like my badge 🥵 after the #EAA2024, but it has been great to see friends and colleagues coming from all over the world 🌍 I hope conference fees will decrease next year so we can still have an inclusive place to meet and share ideas... See you in Belgrade 🤞!

#EAA2024 officially started with a silly selfie 😂 #archaeology #research #conference

Last week had a🔝workshop on #sciencecommunication organised by @UBDivulga. @edusadeci🤩pointed out how important is that universities include outreach in their mission statement My uni #UB states it somehow(with the word difusión) what about yours?🔍 #Science #AcademicChatter

Mixed feeling these 2 days: didn't get post-doc myself,but I know friends who did and two people of my team as well 🎉🎉 Let's celebrate! #research #academics #postdoc

And...teaching is over for this year 🎉🎉🎉! It has been challenging and extremely tiring between surgeries, therapies and the constant feeling of not being the same as before 😢 This is a picture of lost&found objects, 1st day... #Archaeology #UB #researchers #academia

From #Almeria with ❤️! Presented our collaboration with @prinmaugr to study the ceramics from Bayra, a Nasrid town conquered by the Catholic Crown in the late 15th century and that faced a massive earthquake in 1518 that forced its people to move from the hilltop to the plain 🏚️

This is the mood after celebrating my cousin's hen party🐥, a sampling campaign and a seminar 🏺 all squeezed in 4 days in Italy 😂 #toooldforthat #academia #researchers #Archaeology

Not having posted for long as balancing research and teaching has been hard! But today I found a good reason for going to teach statistics at 8: see how Gaudí mastered to have a perfect sunshine light on the Sagrada's facade! #Barcelona #academia #notamorningperson #researcher

Teaching class after 1 year and half of sick leave 😅. Passion ✅ PowerPoint ✅ Memory... Long gone 😅! Wish me luck 🍀 #Archaeology #ceramics #archaeologicalscience #researcher

I had 2 hours gap in between medical appointments and I saw on #googlemaps a road named "of Ceramics" on the #Collserola park just on top of the hospital🏥... I couldn't resist and I went for a walk 😂 1/2 #Archaeology #ceramics #researcher

"8 months ago, I was diagnosed with cancer. I had to take a leave from my research position..." I wrote a short piece, a reminder for myself 1/2 @AcademicDilemma @AcademicChatter @academi

What impinges on production? What creates a manufacturing standard and how is a standard followed, transmitted and transformed across time and space? Are these the basis of #massproduction? Discuss with us at our session at the #EAA2023 in #Belfast @archaeologyEAA

In the last month,I got the #supervision of my first #phdstudent and 2 master ones. It has been exciting and overwhelming.I totally forgot about myself in the process and also that an overprotective supervisor can harm as a an absent one (see pict) @AcademicDilemma