🚨New paper just published! 📄 What drives #resilience and #sustainability in societies? Our paper reviews research in the #Mediterranean (1000 BCE–1000 CE) and explores how agent-based modelling can help test the mechanisms behind socio-ecological change 🌍 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Gave my first lecture to research master’s students at Leiden University on using agent-based modelling to study past human–environment interactions 👩🏻‍🏫 Teaching is cool 😎

Just got back from a really interesting lecture on #diet in #humanevolution by @phytolith.bsky.social Lots to think about, and excited to be working on some of it right now! 🌱🍓🥦

It was great fun working on this with @calthalas.bsky.social @realhistoryguy.bsky.social @jmharland.bsky.social @dl-arch.bsky.social @vickymanolopoulou.bsky.social @sypianski.bsky.social @nikulinaav.bsky.social and others

Nice feature on our recent work on neandertals (led by @nikulinaav.bsky.social) and their effects on their environment👣 deephistory.substack.com/p/the-neande... #neandertal #neanderthal #archaeology #anthropology #wilderness

Snow welcomed my Siberian soul on one of my first days in my new role as a postdoc and project manager at @unileiden.bsky.social Felt like #home ❄️

Over the past year, I worked at Durham University within @sse1k.bsky.social It was a real pleasure to be part of this team! I met wonderful colleagues and made great friends within the Department and the project. A new chapter begins for me this year, but the previous one was amazing💔

Last week I presented at #CAA #UK in Cambridge. It was exciting since these are our first modelling results from the @sse1k.bsky.social project. The presentation went really well, and I’m grateful to the organisers and everyone who made the #conference such a great experience. Photo credit: CAA UK

Came to Cambridge for a couple of days at CAA-UK 2025. Really looking forward to all the talks and discussions! #research #caa

On November 21, I became Dr. Nikulina. 13 years of study and hard work, including five wonderful years at Leiden University working on my dissertation. Дальше — больше! More to come! #PhD #PhDLife #research #nextchapterbegins

So happy to see that our work on the earliest #human impact on #landscapes ended up in #Weekendavisen, Denmark’s leading weekly #newspaper 🎉 🔗Read here: www.weekendavisen.dk/ideer/jaeger...

Fascinating new #research by @nikulinaav.bsky.social, who has recently joined @arcdurham.bsky.social. She used an innovative #AI approach to reveal how #Neanderthals shaped Europe's #landscapes. Read her @plosone.org paper: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #archaeology @unileiden.bsky.social

📖 "On the ecological impact of prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Europe: Early Holocene (Mesolithic) and Last Interglacial (Neanderthal) foragers compared": un article co-écrit par F. Mazier de Geode, qui vient de paraître dans PLOS One ➡️ à lire ici : journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

🔥See our new paper led by @nikulinaav.bsky.social People shaped Europe’s #ecosystems long before farming 🦣#Megafauna effects on #vegetation openness dropped from 77%→57% bt #Eemian & #Mesolithic 🧑‍🦱Mesolithic people shaped up to 47% of landscapes w Neanderthals affecting 6–14% doi.org/10.1371/jour...

🔥Before farming, hunter-gatherers already transformed nearly half of Europe’s #landscapes via burning and hunting! Our new study using an #AI approach shows #Neanderthals began reshaping ecosystems; later foragers continued this process 👉 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #Paleoecology #Anthropocene

How did #Neanderthals use #fire to hunt?🔥 Our new conceptual agent-based #model simulates their fire-driven hunting strategies around the Neumark-Nord site in Germany. Available here 👉 www.comses.net/codebases/86...

Many thanks to all who attended the first talk of our Online Seminar Series yesterday🌟Join us again on 10 November for Prof. Alessandro Fontana’s talk! 🔗 Register: www.tinyurl.com/sse1kseminarsrs

📢 SSE1K Online Seminar Series: People and their Environments in the First Millennium CE Join us on 14 Oct, 16:00 CEST when Prof. Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Austrian Academy of Sciences) will talk “About volcanoes, icons, solar storms, and toads” 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/sse1kseminars

🚨 New volume online! 🚨 This collection celebrates the outstanding career of Prof. Wil Roebroeks. 🔥 Our paper “Fire in the hole: a prototype agent-based model for studying #hunter-gatherers’ fire-driven #hunting” is part of the volume – take a look! 🐘 www.sidestone.com/books/intent...

New cool study on Corded Ware and Bell Beaker #burials shows fast apread across #Europe in many places at once and not from one big #migration www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Postdoc Job! Come and work with me in Durham, and a bunch of @sse1k.bsky.social heroes in Venice and Basel, doing agent-based modelling of socio-environmental systems in the Ancient Mediterranean... durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

👋 #MeetTheTeam @nikulinaav.bsky.social Anastasia Nikulina is a postdoctoral researcher exploring human–environment interactions through agent-based modelling. She’s based at @arcdurham.bsky.social. Originally from the real #Siberia, Anastasia knows how (cold) weather shapes #human decisions.

Last week, I had the opportunity to be an invited respondent at @sse1k.bsky.social session on #resilience and the #environment at @imc-leeds.bsky.social in Leeds. My first time in this role! ☺️

Neanderthal "fat factory"! 🥩🔥 Last Interglacial #Neanderthals at Neumark-Nord (Germany) were fat engineers processing bones to extract grease 125,000 years ago. A large-scale operation long before the Upper #Paleolithic. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

Thank you to everyone who joined our sessions at @imc-leeds.bsky.social! It was a pleasure to discuss different aspects of #environment and #resilience. Huge thanks to the organizers for putting together such a fantastic congress #IMC2025

Attending the International Medieval Congress in Leeds for the first time 😊 #IMC2025

Exciting papers at #IMC2025 from @sse1k.bsky.social SSE1K: Science, Society and Environmental Change in the First Millennium CE and friends today! @nikulinaav.bsky.social @danlawrence86.bsky.social

Looking forward to seeing everyone at @imc-leeds.bsky.social‬ ! 🙌✨ Our three sessions " #Resilience and #Environment in the #Mediterranean" are on July 9🗓️, Clarendon Building 1.02📍

Heading to @imc-leeds.bsky.social‬? Don’t miss our session " #Resilience and #Environment in the #Mediterranean " on 🗓️June 9 ⏰10:00–11:30, 12:15–13:45 and 15:15–16:45! Check out the full programme for the International Medieval Congress here: 🔗 www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2025/pro...

Great PhD opportunity with @phytolith.bsky.social : www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

Workshop day organised by @sse1k.bsky.social at Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Last week in Basel, I presented at the international graduate #conference “Humans and #Landscapes: An Everlasting Story of Mutual Interactions”. A wonderful opportunity to share my work and connect with others in the field.