Using the lead isotope community and neighbouring fields as nucleus, this workshop initiates the development of a toolbox for the archaeological sciences written as R package. bit.ly/4nah57V @benmarwick.bsky.social

Why do societies reliably develop strikingly similar traditions like dance songs, hero stories, shamanism & justice institutions? In a new BBS target article, I propose a theory for such "super-attractors" + cultural evolution more broadly. Now open for commentary: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Co-organizing a session at #SAA San Francisco with T. Kovach: "Toward an Integration of Quantitative Approaches in #Lithic Analysis." A few spots still open! Abstracts due Sept. 4. Email me if you’d like to join the conversation: [email protected] #Archaeology #FlintFriday #FossilFriday 🏺

Here's said mascot along with an excellent checklist by @shreyadimri.bsky.social

🎉New preprint! "TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing" tinyurl.com/8rmnwjrk We present simple guidelines to help researchers of all coding levels improve the transparency and reproducibility of their analytical code, TADA! Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated.

All data and code available on zenodo (doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) and on my GitHub account. #opendata Thanks @benmarwick.bsky.social ‬for the possibility to learn from reproducing your work and for providing the basis for this replication, which are unfortunately excessively rare in #Archaeology!

New #preprint online: Reproduction and replication of @benmarwick.bsky.social (2025), with data from OpenAlex. Accessible as interactive html version: aqueff.github.io/replication_... and more traditional manuscript with doi here: doi.org/10.31235/osf... Is archaeology a hard or soft science? 🏺🧪

Here is my checklist summarising a small set of some of the simplest tasks you can do that have high potential to improve the reproducibility of your analysis code. This is based on my year of reproducibility reviews for the J. of Archaeological Science: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM... 🧪🏺

I'm happy to share this review article, where I attempt to ponder about missed opportunities in archaeological statistical modelling.

Is archaeology a science? 🧪 Here's my new paper that has a go at answering this question by analysing 10,000 journal articles: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM...

🚨 Big milestone for Rdatasets 🚨 The web archive now hosts 3400+ free and documented CSV datasets. Fantastic for teaching and testing! And {Rdatasets} is a new #RStats 📦 for easy download and search Web archive: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets R 📦: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasetspkg

It's CES election time! We have FOUR positions that have come up for renewal, so please consider nominating yourself or your colleagues. Nominations close June 20th, with voting from June 30th -July 4th.

Very excited to be working with Angie Reed + the Tribal Exchange Network (www.tribalexchangenetwork.org) on a revival of {redoc}, an #rstats pkg enabling collaboration on reproducible reports. Thanks to the R Consortium and congrats to the other grant winners! r-consortium.org/posts/r-cons...

Paper alert! Happy to have joined Huan et al. to examine miniaturised lithic diversity across the last 20,000 years in southern China and its potential relation to geographic and climatic variability. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

There are lots of benefits of releasing code alongside scientific publications - when you do, you might want to consider your code's "Reporting, Running, Reliability, Reproducibility, Robustness, Readability, and Release."

As long as social science journals don’t implement actual code review — not just mechanical reproducibility checks — there’s no good way to ward off such errors or abuse. Not every publication has a shocking result begging for a replication, like the one flagged by @johannarickne.bsky.social.

Thank you for your important work! It is crystal clear that code and data publication alongside each manuscript is the only way forward for science. Manuscripts with data analyses that do not publish code and data should not be accepted for publication anymore.

SAA journal #AmericanAntiquity is advancing #researchtransparency in #publishing. Read how, alongside an introduction to Associate Editor for #Reproducibility, Dr. Alan Farahani. Approach: ▶️ cup.org/4hFclo5 Editorial: ▶️ cup.org/41AHuDk #Archaeology #SAA2025Denver

Computer scientists and bioinformaticians address four key questions to help rookie coders to make the right choice https://go.nature.com/42UuoT3

New visualization tool alert! The vayr package version 1.0.0 is now on CRAN. It contains position adjustments for ggplot2 that help with overplotting in pleasing ways. My favorite is position_sunflower(). - install.packages("vayr") - alexandercoppock.com/vayr #rstats #ggplot2 #dataviz

Proud to announce our primer on "Ten principles for reliable, efficient, and adaptable coding in psychology and cognitive neuroscience" www.nature.com/articles/s44... This primer is for beginners to get started, advanced programmers to improve, and PIs. #psychology #psychsci #cogsci #neuroskyence

Many processes from industry are not appropriate or overkill for an academic setting, but we can and should be doing better than we currently are. Our paper tries to give practical advice on how you can improve your scientific workflow, without being a coding guru. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I am thrilled to share my paper on statistical training in archaeology. Thank you to @kjkillackey.bsky.social for the incredible illustration in the graphical abstract. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Here is an excellent checklist for reproducible research, this is from the Biometrical Journal, but is relevant for computational scientists in all fields: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... Lots of best practices and specific tips for increasing the quality, usefulness & impact of papers 🧪

Archaeology and the Construction of Artifact Lineages: From Culture History to Phylogenetics 🏺🧪 Michael O’Brien, @svalver.bsky.social et al link.springer.com/article/10.1... Agrees with @nilese.bsky.social but documenting of (pre)history is only 1st step facing paleobiologists and archaeologists.

Here is our plain English summary of our new discovery of Middle Palaeolithic stone tools in East Asia: theconversation.com/stone-tool-d... published today in @us.theconversation.com 🧪

Our new paper reports a complete Quina technological system in the 60-50 ka assemblage at Longtan, Southwest China Ruan, Q. et al. (2025) Quina lithic technology indicates diverse Late Pleistocene human dynamics in East Asia doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 🆓 faculty.washington.edu/bmarwick/PDF...

Finally out!! Check our paper on Middle Paleolithic Quina technology in south China, Just published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Our new paper on 3D GM has all the models and script available for others to apply our method. We use it to demonstrate interregional variability of Nubian Levallois cores but it has broader potential for lithic studies #openscience #archaeology #3DGM @icarehb.bsky.social @jmcascalheira.bsky.social

📢 We have a new paper out!! Led by the incredible @eshallinan.bsky.social we introduce a novel application of three-dimensional geometric morphometrics (GM) to quantify the shape variability of Nubian Levallois cores. #archaeology #openscience @icarehb.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How can we link archaeological artifacts to evolutionary processes? In our last paper, we show how navigating the epistemological issues and pitfalls of phylogenetic reconstruction reveals universal principles of evolution—variation, transmission, and selection. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Read how @saa-aap.bsky.social is building on #researchtransparency in #publishing, alongside the appointment of Associate Editor for #Reproducibility @benmarwick.bsky.social - What's happening: ▶️ cup.org/41w9d82 Editorial: ▶️ cup.org/4hIPB6A #Archaeology #SAA2025Denver

Check out this impressively detailed and user-friendly documentation by @saa-aap.bsky.social on how to make computational archaeological results reproducible, thanks to Alan Faharani (contributing from American Antiquity, which has an identical policy): www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🧪

And, our sister journal at the Society for American Archaeology, American Antiquity, is doing the same. This work is done by volunteer editors with a remarkable commitment to good science. Thanks here to Alan Farahani: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🙌Advances is stepping it up in the world of research transparency in publishing! We already offered digital badges for open data practices, but we now have an Associate Editor for Reproducibility, @benmarwick.bsky.social (omg, thank you Ben for this!) Check the link www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Happy to share that my first solo-authored paper is now published in the Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application. 📑 Reproducibility in the Classroom 🔗 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

We are please to release Transmissions Ep 1, featuring Dr Cristina Moya @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social in conversation with Feryl Badiani @ferylbadiani.bsky.social Cristina and Feryl chat about Cristina's work in Peru and discuss CE in human and non-human societies: youtu.be/2otT0PkhPkw?...

Plus if you create a free underline account, you can access talks from CES 2022 in Aarhus: underline.io/events/352/ and CES 2021 (which was online due to covid): underline.io/events/120/

For those who missed the @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social conference in Durham last September, the recorded talks are now freely available to watch here: underline.io/events/456/l...

Led by the one and only @acortellnicolau.bsky.social, the summary paper from the funky Archaeo-riddle project (theia.arch.cam.ac.uk/archaeoriddle) - possibly the first specifically archaeological tactical simulation competition - is now out in J Archaeological Science.

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Led by Joana Belmiro, our study on lithic raw materials at Vale Boi reveals that a significant share of chert came from non-local sources, including central Portugal & Andalucía, using macroscopic & petrographic analyses. @icarehb.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Would accept "Has code" at this point, 90% of the papers that start with "we present a new computational method for.." really mean they present some pretty pictures, graphs and ignored emails.

Computational reproducibility exists within a continuum of attributes, including being re-runnable, repeatable, reusable and replicable. Making your computational results reproducible is critical for ensuring transparency, reliability and reusability 🧪

Here are some excellent guidelines to improve the computational reproducibility of scientific 🧪 research, based on an analysis of 168 research papers.

For #FlintFriday I'm shameless promoting my paper that was published this week in Lithic Technology: "Core Concept: Defining Cores in the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia". doi.org/10.1080/0197... #AustralianArchaeology #Archaeology 1/5 🏺🧵

a few years ago @joanavaldez.bsky.social and I presented a poster at the 1st @women-archeopal.bsky.social Though the poster has been available on ResearchGate for a while, we had some people asking for a doi to cite it so we have finally uploaded it to Zenodo zenodo.org/records/1423...

Publish or perish’ culture blamed for reproducibility crisis www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

📢 Call for Assistant Researcher in Archaeology ICArEHB is hiring an Assistant Researcher in Archaeology. For more info on requirements and how to apply, visit: 👉 www.icarehb.com/research-pos... #Archaeology #ICArEHB #ResearchOpportunity

Happy to share my latest work with archaeologist @manuelwill.bsky.social on lithic flake variability at the Middle Stone Age site of Sibhudu, South Africa. As a bioanthropologist, this was my first non-bone paper, and I loved the interdisciplinary journey! www.nature.com/articles/s41...