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🚨Job alert! Our new @erc.europa.eu funded project 'MEMELAND' needs a #palynologist Postdoctoral Research Associate #PDRA for 3.5 years. You'll help transform our understanding of the impact of #medieval farming on biodiversity! Full details & to apply 👇 #archaeobotany www.arch.ox.ac.uk/job-vacancies

New paper alert: This was a great collaboration that I enjoyed very much and is an important paper for anyone interested in luminescence dating methods, early MSA, plant biomarkers or geoarchaeology! A truly interdisciplinary effort. #openaccess

#Skystorians, Job Alert! 🥳

Am @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social sind 5 unbefristete (!) Stellen zum Aufbau unserer neuen Abteilung "Zeitgeschichte Transfer" zu besetzen. 4 Stellen in München, 1 Stelle in Berlin. Ihr wollt unser Team verstärken? Bewirbt euch, wir freuen uns! 😊

Start: 1. Januar 2027

On my way back from @hugoobermaier.bsky.social meeting in Ferrara and a great excursion to the famous and important Fumane cave 🦣🍷Thanks to Marco Peresani and his team for a great meeting! See you all next year in Poland!

Am Montag statet um 13.30 Uhr bei uns auf der Seeburg @uni-kiel.de die Auftaktveranstaltung für Catalyst GER - ein gemeinsam mit sieben weiteren Hochschulen pilotiertes Förderprogramm zum Transfer aus den Geistes-, Erziehungs- und Sozialwissenschaften.

Noch sind wenige Plätze frei!

Today is the day! We are presenting @khoproject.bsky.social project at @hugoobermaier.bsky.social meeting in the poster session and with a talk this afternoon #archaeology #biomarker #lithics #Kalahari

Great @hugoobermaier.bsky.social conference dinner yesterday at Ferrara culinary school. The students did amazing and we got amazing food and wine - a win win combination #conference #Ferrara

We arrived yesterday in beautiful and ☀️ Ferrara for this year's @hugoobermaier.bsky.social meeting - and luckily our luggage made it today too so we have fresh clothes now🙃 Looking forward to 3 days of talks about all things Palaeolithic as well as excursions. 🦣🏺🪨

Specialised and persistent raw material procurement by humans in the Middle Pleistocene - Nature Communications The authors here demonstrate that hominins were consistently and specifically procuring a single kind of raw material to make stone tools at the South African site of Jojosi between 220 and 110 thousa...

🚨 Publication alert🚨 Early humans in South Africa were quarrying stone as long as 220,000 years ago at the site of Jojosi @natcomms.nature.com - specialized, long-term use of a source of a raw material source in Stone Age Africa: Read the paper #openaccess here www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Conference season 2026 starts for us next week! Find us at the @hugoobermaier.bsky.social annual meeting in Ferrara with a talk by @isotopesrule.bsky.social and a poster presentation by Rowena Winterhalder. Who else will be there? #academiclife #conference #archaeology 🦣🏺🍕

Faunal exploitation at the elephant hunting site of Lehringen, Germany, 125,000 years ago - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Faunal exploitation at the elephant hunting site of Lehringen, Germany, 125,000 years ago

Originalstudie:

I. Verheijen et al., Faunal exploitation at the elephant hunting site of Lehringen, Germany, 125,000 years ago, Sci Rep 16, 9836 (2026). 🔓

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We have extended the deadline for the 4th Radiocarbon and Conference, and CLARa 3 conferences. Please submit your abstracts here: app.oxfordabstracts.com/auth?redirec...
@14cjournal.bsky.social @lorenabecval.bsky.social @ramiro-arqueo.bsky.social

I am SO EXCITED to announce that CENIEH in Burgos, Spain will be hosting the third installment of the IZAZ (Integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology) Workshop on the 15th – 16th September 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Join the mailing list to stay up-to-date: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Excited to be back @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social in Oxford on Thursday, giving a talk about @khoproject.bsky.social and working on project and paper plans with @sallieburrough.bsky.social. I look forward to catching up with as many people as possible and of course to a White Rabbit pizza.

Our new paper reporting the Acheulian to Middle Stone Age sequence from the Area 7 spring eye at Amanzi Springs. This paper is the culmination my my good friend's (Alex Blackwood) PhD research. share.google/OyoFDFyPBJtk...

New job! Please RP! 🥼🧪 ⚒️

Laboratory Manager (gr8, permanent) @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

Leading the Geolabs, with cutting edge facilities in water #geochemistry, #ecosystem science, #eDNA, luminescence

Apply by 13 March or please get in touch with any Qs

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

The first paper published as first author deserves a special mug! Congratulations to my @khoproject.bsky.social PhD student Rowena Winterhalder for her paper featuring the depicted lithic artefacts from our excavations in the southern Kalahari in Botswana 👉 doi.org/10.1080/0067...

Ki-generierte Version

Originalbild mit dem die KI gefüttert wurde

Die Forschungsministerin freut sich auf Insta darüber, dass jetzt "Porträts" von Frauen der Geschichte in ihrem Haus hängen. Nur: Die sind mit KI erstellt. Und schleifen die Gesichter der Frauen gemäß moderner westlicher Schönheitsideale glatt.
Was für ein irres Projekt
Z.B.

🐂 Fascinated by the symbolic role of animals in the Neolithic world? Develop your #PhD with #ICArEHB through the #FCT #PhD #Fellowships 2026.
🔗 More info: www.icarehb.com/fct-phd-fell...
#Archaeology #Neolithic #HumanEvolution #ScienceCareers #PhDLife

⛰️Drawn to the landscapes where human evolution unfolded in Eastern Africa? Develop your #PhD with #ICArEHB through the #FCT #PhD #Fellowships 2026.
🔗 More info: www.icarehb.com/fct-phd-fell...

#Geoarchaeology #HumanEvolution #Paleoecology #ScienceCareers #PhDLife

🦴 Passionate about fossil mammals and human evolution in Africa? Develop your #PhD with #ICArEHB through the #FCT #PhD #Fellowships 2026.
🔗 More info: www.icarehb.com/fct-phd-fell...
#Archaeology #Paleoecology #HumanEvolution #ScienceCareers #PhDLife

🦷 Curious about what prehistoric teeth can reveal about diet and daily life in Meso-Neolithic Iberia? Develop your #PhD with #ICArEHB through the #FCT #PhD #Fellowships 2026.
🔗 More info: www.icarehb.com/fct-phd-fell...
#Archaeology #Research #Prehistory #ScienceCareers #PhDLife

New #jobs at @uni-kiel.de within the @clusterroots.bsky.social advertised: one doctoral & two postdoctoral positions. The postdoc positions are for any projects relating to archaeological science and are explicitely looking for for applicants from Africa and Asia: www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-r...

‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies

when people talk about AI used in moderation of social media posts, you must remember there is always the human-in-the-loop, often a woman, often in the Global South, always dehumanised and forgotten

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www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

You are a #postdoc working in #archaeology, #paleoeco, #humanevo, #paleoclimate, #history, #geoarchaeology, ++, are in ❤️ with interdisciplinary research & are looking for a #jobinscience? @uni-kiel.de @clusterroots.bsky.social just advertised two 2-year scholarships!
www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-r...

2-year Postdoctoral Position – Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition at @unituebingen.bsky.social uni-tuebingen.de/en/faculties...

The @terra-cluster.org is offering another position - this time @sgn.one in Frankfurt: Interested in global vegetation or biome modeling - then apply. The position is open for #PhD and for #Postdocs 😀