@Ramsey_Lab

Ramsey Laboratory for Environmental Archaeology (RLEA). Paleoethnobotany and Microbotanical research group, at @UTM @UofT, led by Prof. Monica Ramsey.

 Mississauga, Canada
utm.utoronto.ca/ramsey-lab/
Joined February 2023
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Out today in Frontiers in Plant Science, first-authored by PhD student Melanie Pugliese: Automating the bottleneck: a scalable deep learning pipeline for phytolith detection, imaging, and curation across single-cell and multi-cell morphotypes. frontiersin.org/journals/pla…

Frontiers | Automating the bottleneck: a scalable deep learning pipeline for phytolith detection,...

Deep learning offers powerful tools for automating phytolith classification. Although foundational models have enabled image classification with little or no...

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Melanie Pugliese, Lachlan Kyle-Robinson, Hazim Elgamal, Xintong (Anna) Gao, Nicolas Iovu, Kevaan Buch, Iban Berganzo-Besga & Monica Ramsey. RLEA × Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Proud of this one — methods papers like this are what let the science scale.
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#phytoliths #MachineLearning #Archaeobotany #OpenScience @UTM_Anthro @UofT @FrontiersIn
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🌱 Celebrating the next steps of our students! 🎓 It’s always exciting to see where our students take their interests after completing their undergraduate studies, and we’re delighted to celebrate Anna as she begins her begin the next stage of their academic journeys.
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🔬 Anna is now undertaking an MSc in Botany at the University of Oxford, continuing her exploration of plant science at one of the world’s leading centres for research in the field.
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We’re incredibly proud of Anna and look forward to following what she accomplishes next.Congratulations, Anna and best of luck with your Masters! 🎓🌿
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What if Eden was never given to us — we engineered it? From the first controlled fire to cities, farms, and the Anthropocene, ANT222H5F Engineering Eden explores how humans have reshaped the planet across 300,000 years. Bring any major. Leave with sharper arguments, ethical AI skills, and a new way to see the future we’re still building. No prerequisites • Science distribution requirement Tuesdays 11:00–1:00 • Fall 2026 Instructor: Dr. Monica Ramsey Enrol on ACORN 🔥 @UTM_Anthro @UTM #UTM #Anthropology #EngineeringEden
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"Experts Against Automation? Comparing Artificial Intelligence and Human Identifications of Phytoliths" is now out in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. We put expert archaeobotanists head-to-head with AI on phytolith ID — the tiny silica plant microfossils that tell us so much about ancient environments and plant use. 🪴🔬 Link: authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…
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What does this mean for the future of archaeobotany and computational archaeology? Can AI augment (rather than replace) expert analysis? We’d love to hear thoughts from phytolith researchers, ML folks, and archaeologists 👇
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Full paper here 👉 authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti… Follow @Ramsey_Lab for more on environmental archaeology, phytoliths, machine learning in the past, and U of T research. #Archaeology #Paleoethnobotany #Phytoliths #AIinArchaeology #MachineLearning #DigitalArchaeology
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Big congratulations to MA student Jessica Stokes on winning a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada award! 🎉
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Her research investigates Yarmukian pottery, one of the earliest ceramic traditions in the Southern Levant, through microbotanical residue analysis. By focusing on starch spherulites preserved in ceramic sherds, she aims to reconstruct how these vessels were used and what they contained.
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This work has the potential to refine our understanding of early pottery adoption, plant processing, and cooking practices, and even explore whether some vessels were used for fermentation and early brewing. Well done Jessica !
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