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Alexandra Morton-Hayward

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Alexandra Morton-Hayward

@MortonHayward

👩‍🔬 Forensic anthropologist & @NERCscience PhD @UniofOxford 🦴🧠 How do molecules, metals & minerals interact after death? Former undertaker #ghostsarereal 👻

Oxford, UK

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Joined February 2020

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Alexandra Morton-Hayward
@MortonHayward
Mar 20, 2024
🚨 The 1st paper of my #PhD @OxUniEarthSci is out! We find >4,400 human brains preserved spontaneously worldwide, dating back to the last Ice Age 🤯🧠🌍 And it's World Happiness Day! What's not to celebrate?! 🥳 doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2… #Archaeology #Anthro
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Alexandra Morton-Hayward
@MortonHayward
May 27, 2024
Dear Professor Emeritus ✍️ This is not an acceptable way to address a colleague. It's demeaning - but clearly you understand that, you just don't care. By all means though, continue to list all the things I can do for you.
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Alexandra Morton-Hayward
@MortonHayward
Aug 28, 2022
🤯 Care to see a carload of preserved #brains? Our latest sampling trip unearthed 162 new beauties - now in the fridges @OxUniEarthSci, after 100s of years in the ground! 🧠🪦 ... Can we stop calling them 'unique' and 'exceptionally rare' finds in yet? 😅 #Archaeology
Alexandra Morton-Hayward
@MortonHayward
Jun 15, 2022
🏆⚡️ So thrilled to have won Best Flash Talk @ProgPal2022 for my work @OxUniEarthSci with @ross_p_anderson and @JCosmidis! Loads more on minerals and molecules in #fossil #brains to come 🤩 and thanks to all the amazing presenters for a fantastic few days of #palaeontology! 💚🦕
Alexandra Morton-Hayward
@MortonHayward
Jul 15, 2022
🤩 Amazing end to the 1st @iperion_hs camp in #archaeology & #palaeontology @CENIEH in beautiful Burgos, #Spain 🇪🇸 with a visit to the @UNESCO #Atapuerca site! Incredible to explore this rich #hominin #fossil record in the scorching valleys and chilly caves ☀️⛰️💀 #lovemyjob 💛
Alexandra Morton-Hayward
@MortonHayward
May 27, 2022
❤️🇩🇰 Honoured to be awarded the Anglo-Danish Society Scholarship for my @NERCscience #PhD @OxUniEarthSci! @ross_p_anderson and I were received at the Danish Embassy by His Excellency @DKAmbUK, where I was privileged to chat with #HRH The Duchess of Gloucester about our research🙏
Alexandra Morton-Hayward
@MortonHayward
Jun 28, 2023
🥹 So shocked and honoured to win 1 of just 10 #teaching awards across the sciences @UniofOxford! The chance to help shape the next generation of Earth scientists in #palaeontology has been a huge privilege, and the best part of my #PhD with @OxfordEnvRes and @OxUniEarthSci 🙏💙
MPLSOxford
@mplsoxford
Jun 28, 2023
👏 Congratulations to our 2023 MPLS Teaching Awards winners! Sumali Bajaj, Dr Martin Galpin, Dr Andrew Ker, Dr Tamarah King, Alexandra Morton-Hayward, Dr Isaac Mear, Professor James Marrow, Dr Brian Tyrrell, Professor Claire Gwenlan and Dr Neil Laws. 👉 tinyurl.com/r9s63ehm
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Alexandra Morton-Hayward
@MortonHayward
Dec 28, 2022
⏱️6 months, 🐭72 mice and 🧠432 teeny #brain samples later - the 1st decay experiment of my #PhD is done! Felt awesome to bury and dig them up in a lightning storm 😅🌩️ Now let's see what the molecules, metals and minerals in these reveal about how ancient brains fossilise...! 🦖
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Alexandra Morton-Hayward
@MortonHayward
Sep 14, 2020
#Archaeologists! Q: How many #brains have been excavated in the last 400yrs? A: 1300+ 🤯 Our paper (my 1st!) on ancient brains explores this mind-blowing finding: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 🖊️ With @mc80york, @tjuthompson, @Xrayoconnor & @AbigailRamsoe
Alexandra Morton-Hayward
@MortonHayward
Oct 5, 2022
🤩 Super excited for our 1st hour of #beamtime @DiamondLightSou! So happy to be at this amazing place with @JCosmidis and @ross_p_anderson ❤️ Can’t wait to blast some ancient #brains with X-rays and see what #iron minerals fluoresce ⚡ and eat #Halloween #brownies at 3am!😋
Alexandra Morton-Hayward
@MortonHayward
May 28, 2024
What makes you think I didn't call him out in my reply, too?
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Alexandra Morton-Hayward
@MortonHayward
Apr 21, 2022
Beautiful day in Aberdeen for @UKAS2021_ABDN !☀️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Grab your morning coffee and settle in for #palaeoproteomics this am: I'll be speaking on biomolecule fossilisation in 200yo #Victorian brains, and the fascinating parallels this has with #neurodegeneration 🧠 #UKAS2022
Alexandra Morton-Hayward
@MortonHayward
Mar 6, 2023
🚶‍♀️ Why did the #PhD student cross the road...? To share her work with a new audience! 😅 Venturing out of @OxUniEarthSci today to present @school_of_arch: whether you're passionate about the Palaeozoic or hooked on the Holocene, there's #fossil #brains in both! 🧠❤️😊
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Alexandra Morton-Hayward
@MortonHayward
Mar 28, 2021
🏆 Dead chuffed to have won Best Poster prize in the #Genetics panel @BECC2021! Huge thanks to @Viking_Disease and the organising commitee for a fantastic inaugural conference, and to all ECRs who shared their exciting research in #bioarchaeology! 🦴⛏️
Alexandra Morton-Hayward
@MortonHayward
Mar 26, 2021
👇 Such a pleasure to have presented my research in #palaeoproteomics this am @BECC2021 - what a lovely bunch of ECRs in #bioarchaeology! 23 countries represented 🌍 + fascinating work in isotopes, genetics and osteology across the world and through time: becc2021.com