Salary £54,931-£64,644. UCL Institute of Archaeology.

We're hiring at Birkbeck! Lecturer in Ancient History and Classics, full-time and open-ended. Closing date March 18th. Details here: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

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Happy Valentine’s Day, from us to you. Tag your exes. Xoxox

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mods on vacation. time to deep fry a turkey inside the house

A child sits and reads a book inside the shattered shell of her home, surrounded by rubble and the hanging laundry.

🚨 We have heard that the County Archaeologist for Hampshire is being made redundant, with no plans to replace him. 🚨 If you live in Hampshire please write to your MP and Councillors. If you live elsewhere treasure and support your County Archaeologists, and stand by to protect them. 🏺

🧪 🦣Thinking about ancient population sizes and noting in passing that the extreme small effective pop size seen in Altai #Neanderthals of <100 , even as low as 60, is echoed in Sicilian Epigravettian population (estimate of 70 based on ROH). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Neanderthals & Mesolithic foragers reshaped Europe’s ecology long before agriculture… 🌍 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

The Connected Past will be held in Toronto from Sept. 22-25. The organizing committee invites scholars to submit abstracts for papers or a poster session that explore network science and theory within archaeology and historical fields. See further topics on poster. Abstract deadline is March 15.

Important THREAD

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration. All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts. JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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#DarwinDay There's some confusion and misunderstandings about evolution... One thing that seems to trip up people's thinking is the meaning of the word "theory". As in it's only a theory... So let's start by making this word clear. The "Theory" of Evolution 🧪 www.linkedin.com/pulse/theory...

Academic freedom in EU ‘strong but eroding’, latest European Parliament monitoring study finds www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

Ominous bird valentines.

Just wonderful

👀 Post Doctoral Researcher - Osteoarchaeology (18mths/PT) "This post is part of a Historic Environment Scotland-funded project to collate, record and disseminate the archive of a 1970s excavation of an important Pictish/Norse cemetery at Newark, Orkney ..." www.uhi.ac.uk/en/staff/vac...

Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings (1999)

This is the most wonderful YouTube channel. ♥️

🚨CALL FOR PAPERS!🚨 @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social and I are running a session (S17) at PanAf2026 in Mozambique, titled: Pan-African Homo sapiens evolution: linking processes with data. More info: panaf2026moz.com/panaf-sessio... & submit an abstract: panaf2026moz.com/paper-submis... deadline March 15th

Professor Penny Spikins, Prof of Archaeology of Human Origins at University of York, will be honoured with Europa prize for her contributions to European prehistory & conference will explore issues salient to Professor Spikins’ work, focusing on how prehistory contributes to our understanding of:

*CHANGE OF DATE* In view of a date clash with the Unravelling the Palaeolithic Conference at UCL we have changed the date of this year's Europa conference to Saturday 6th June 🧵

Study Finds Macaws Evolved Vibrant Coloration To Pass The Time https://theonion.com/study-finds-macaws-evolved-vibrant-coloration-to-pass-the-time/

Ok. Which one of you was it? Who found the UFO and didn't publish?

Preprint describing an interesting 1.84 million-year-old partial hominin skeleton (mostly shoulder) from the Shungura Formation in Ethiopia. Unfortunately, no craniodental remains to confirm taxon, but it shows some derived features linking it to genus Homo. paleo.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...

Listen to @mattpope.bsky.social discuss this particular artefact in this BTS video! #UCL200

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I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

robots now make desire paths

Is this the shortest ever scientific paper? @stephenbheard.bsky.social manages to extend it into a 1400-word blog post with the story behind it.

Over on Twatter…

#UISPP2026 Call for papers! Join us for the MP and MSA Commission thematic session: "Technology, subsistence, and spatial dynamics in Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age territories" Deadline: 28 February! ► uispp2026.syskonf.pl/abstracts

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Check out my chat with Dr Hayden Scott-Pratt at Hengistbury Head. Filmed in a beautifully reconstructed Iron Age roundhouse youtu.be/QhIM22ZqSCo?...

📢 New Paper 🚨 Hadza food-sharing is egalitarian, yet offers in giving games have never matched the equitable redistribution seen in real life. In this study, we allowed people to give *or* take. Lifelike equitable distributions only appeared when people took from peers in surplus. bit.ly/4kvLOwA

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Dinosaur Convention Bans All Paleontologists Named in Epstein Files www.thewrap.com/culture-life...

small crab eating a grape (important)