Postdoctoral Fellow (290375) | University of Oslo Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow (290375), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, January 20, 2026

3-year postdoc fellowship in #Archaeology @uio.no as part of an interdisciplinary project to investigate societal, economic, and climatic effects of major 6th-10th-century volcanic eruptions through a comparative interdisciplinary lens on regional #resilience.
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Associated professor in Cultural Heritage at Gothenburg University. Deadline January 15th.

web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

Interesting session at the World #Biodiversity Forum in 2026, on the importance of imagining and narrating alternative environmental futures
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess...

Last chance to see? The ‘Crisis of Preservation’ and pathways to a sustainable future for Europe’s peatland archaeology | Antiquity | Cambridge Core Last chance to see? The ‘Crisis of Preservation’ and pathways to a sustainable future for Europe’s peatland archaeology

News from the #peatlands in @antiquity.ac.uk

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Anwen Cooper & Tina Roushannafas @ox.ac.uk have just published a beautiful piece in Archaeological Dialogues @universitypress.cambridge.org on how archaeological work can realign to meet the needs of pressing environmental agendas and be part of #nature #recovery projects. doi.org/10.1017/S138...

Restoring heathland on Ludshott Common Find out how we're restoring heathland habitats and protecting wildlife at Ludshott Common, including the reintroduction of grazing cattle.

Here's an interesting #heathland #restoration project relying not only on grazing and burning but also "cutting scrub and gorse by hand, forestry work, bracken control, foraging heather and creating bare ground by scraping". #ERC_ANTHEA @nationaltrust.org.uk
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/hampsh...

New Master in Public Environmental Humanities 2-year masters program for students who want to study today’s environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history

New Master in Public Environmental Humanities - @greenhouseuis.net

2-year masters program for students who want to study today’s environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history

Info sessions on November 11 & 21

niche-canada.org/2025/11/01/n...

#envhum #envhist #envstudies

#LandscapeArchaeology 🏺
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Fully Funded PhD in Palaeoecology at University of Bern | HigherJobz Apply for a fully funded PhD in Palaeoecology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Explore climate, land use, and vegetation history.

#PhD in #Palaeoecology – University of Bern, Switzerland
Fully funded position under SNF project CIVES
Eligibility: MSc in #Ecology, Environmental Sciences, or Geography
Deadline: 28 Nov 2025
Details: higherjobz.com/phd-palaeoec...

#PhDPosition #EuropeJobs #AcademicJobs @izb-unibern.bsky.social

Fenscapes: archaeology, natural heritage and environmental change in the Fens of eastern England | Antiquity | Cambridge Core Fenscapes: archaeology, natural heritage and environmental change in the Fens of eastern England

News from the Fens: @antiquity.ac.uk www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The journal Environmental Humanities is still looking for midcareer/senior #envhum scholars interested in becoming a co-editor-in-chief from January 2026. You can apply as an individual and we'll find an appropriate co-editor match for you.

See environmentalhumanities.org

Postdoctoral Research in Palynology – Bern | HigherJobz Apply for a Postdoctoral Research position in Palynology and Palaeoecology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Deadline: 28 Nov 2025

This one looks attractive and I'd be curious to know who gets the position #palynology #palaeoecology
higherjobz.com/postdoctoral...

Map of Neolithic barrows in Jutland, Denmark parallel to a historical road.

In the Nordic Bronze Age, bronze acquisition networks and the the sun's movement were tied together in cosmology, with barrows often aligned with the sun and wheels, wagons, ships and sun symbols often associated with each other in rock art 5/6

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Full Professorship(s) in Archaeology - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University

Are you going to be our new colleague at @au.dk @auarcher.bsky.social? Full professorship in #archaeology, deadline November 9.

international.au.dk/about/profil...

Today was the opening day of The #Celtic World - Europe's Lost Legacy on display at Moesgaard, Aarhus, Denmark. With loans from 24 European museums, the exhibition is beyond spectacular. Go see it!
www.moesgaardmuseum.dk/kommende-uds...

I am looking for a multispecies archaeologist with a strong theoretical and interpretive profile to join my group (100%, 3 years): uni.koeln/2E7CR

Deadline: 30.09.2025.
Apply here: uni.koeln/ZQMKA ("Wiss2508-21")

@nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social

#CFP: "Climate, arts, and activism: Critical inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives" for ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies (ed. Y. Schmidt, S. Thieme, M. Winkel)

Deadline: 15th of October 2025

Info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

#ecolit #ecocriticism #envhum #envhist

This #PhilTransB issue brings together the major elements of a theory of human #evolution and #sustainability on Earth. It shows how diverse theories and approaches help to understand the past, present and future evolution of the #Anthropocene. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

Paper out by Shumon Hussain and Monika Stobiecka on conviviality thinking in archaeology and heritage landscapes. Anthropogenic #heathlands, modified for millennia by wildlife and livestock & fire regimes could be another example of a deep past ecology of #multispecies co-existence, co-shaping.

Fifty years of regional-scale vegetation change on Atlantic heathlands Heathlands are semi-natural habitats of high conservation interest in Europe. The Armorican Massif (north-west of France) is a prime area for heathlan…

Interesting finding on #heathland #conservation in Biological Conservation, concluding that conservation efforts and actions "cannot substitute for traditional agricultural practices that have lasted for centuries... to ensure the long-term conservation of heathlands”.

This symposium looks interesting!

Natterjack toad makes 'wonderful' comeback at national park It is the first time natterjack toads have been recorded breeding at the Blackmoor site in 50 years.

Toad comeback in recent heathland conservation project

Check out this special issue on "plant humanities".
Deadline August 1 2025.

#envhum #planthumanities #envhist #ecolit #ecocriticism

New technology to enhance landscape management Lancashire Wildlife Trust has started a new research initiative that will change how landscapes are managed.

No#fence collars are becoming increasingly popular as a new grazing management technology, making the use of traditional fences redundant. Will this also be the end of traditional forms of human-livestock and -landscape management practices such as herding?

Smooth snakes, adders and sand lizards: UK national park to create huge haven for rare reptiles | Countryfile.com Conservationists are enhancing 250 hectares of heathland – an area roughly the size of 350 football pitches.

250 ha #heathland restoration in The New Forest National Park as part of creating mosaics of varied and interconnected ecosystems: www.countryfile.com/wildlife/res...

Fagansvarlig Kystlynghei (277638) | Museumssenteret i Hordaland Stillingstittel: Fagansvarlig Kystlynghei (277638), Arbeidsgiver: Museumssenteret i Hordaland, Søknadsfrist: søndag 4. mai 2025

Check out this position at Lyngheisenteret in Norway. A fantastic place that has played a key role in disseminating human-heathland relations and ancient culture-historical landscape practices. Deadline May 4th
www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...

#HumanDimension #EnvHis #sustainability #nature

2-yr postdoc on human macroecology in a functional trait perspective Aarhus University (re-advertisement) - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University

Interested in humans from a macro-ecological/macro-archaeological perspective? Here's the right postdoc for you international.au.dk/about/profil... - deadline tomorrow April 1st at 2359 CEST!

The logics of enclosure: deep‐time trajectories in the spread of land tenure boundaries in late prehistoric northern Europe Invasive schemes involving the erection of land tenure boundaries are currently spreading quickly across vast areas throughout the globe, turning former unfenced forests and grasslands into closed-of...

This paper just landed on my desk, dealing with the #historical dynamics of socioecological 'traps':
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

- a really neat parallel to our writings on deep-time trajectories of entrapment:
rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

This week, I am featuring in a podcast on a deep-time perspective on #heathlands, fences and landscape-based communities by Mads Flinterup, Hedeselskabet. You can listen to it here (in Danish): www.spreaker.com/podcast/hede...

Extended Dialogues - Arkitektskolen Aarhus

Super interesting discussion format - extended dialogues - at Arkitektskolen, Aarhus, DK organised by Heidi Merrild & Lotte Bjerregaard Jensen: aarch.dk/acrb-extende.... Check it out! Today on #regenerative #nature and resource use with panel speakers Rasmus Ejrnæs, Uffe Jørgensen and myself.