After 3 days of driving south, we finally got to start coring. MEMELAND Fieldwork Day 1 started off with great weather Southern Sweden.

🚨 Preprint online: eartharxiv.org/repository/v... Read more on the differences in vegetation reconstructions and see how much our interpretation can change based on the method we choose! Explore the data here: oakern.shinyapps.io/palveg_v2/

✨Open PhD student position✨ I'm looking for a PhD student in biogeochemical modelling of past abrupt changes. The PhD candidate will explore interactions of rapid ocean circulation changes with marine biogeochemistry during past abrupt climate change. Apply by 31 May. jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...

📢 New Blog Post How did Europe's first #farmers 10,000 years ago interact with their environment? 🌾 Dr. Johanna Hilpert shares how HESCOR researchers are studying the #Linearbandkeramik culture and their relationship with the environment! 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/E6alg #Neolithic #LBK

🚨 Preprint online: eartharxiv.org/repository/v... Read more on the differences in vegetation reconstructions and see how much our interpretation can change based on the method we choose! Explore the data here: oakern.shinyapps.io/palveg_v2/

Palynology Postdoc position, Institute of archaeology, Oxford. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRE447/p...

A rather quiet publication, but nonetheless an interesting topic, utilizing foraminifera from the mircopal collection of the Natural History Museum Basel. #NMB (Also the first time there's my name after a species 😉) www.micropress.org/microaccess/...

New data, new App! oakern.shinyapps.io/palveg_v2/ Explore vegetation reconstructions 🌲🌳 (pollen- and model-based) for the Last Glacial ❄️ in Europe and see how much they can differ. This affects our perception of Last Glacial landscapes during crucial migration 🚶‍♀️ and extinction events 🦣

Come work with us! Postdoctoral Researcher in organic geochemistry (lipid biomarkers) for 3 years @ EAWAG, Zürich within the MEMELAND ERC project apply.refline.ch/673277/1354/...

📢 New Blog Post How did past humans utilize some of Africa’s highest landscapes? ⛰️ In his new publication, Dr. Götz Ossendorf explores evidence that reveals how humans 15,000 years ago took advantage of newly ice-free landscapes in #Ethiopia. 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/9VPId

📢 New Publication Why did humans intermittently use harsh Afroalpine environments in prehistory?⛰️ Dr Götz Ossendorf et al. present new data from Ethiopia's Bale Mountains offering insights into past landscape change & high-altitude human adaptation! 🔗 shorturl.at/S5dbm #Ethiopia #Alpinearchaeology

Head engineer position advertised in ancient DNA lab at the University of Oslo associated with the EcoArch project: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

New data, new App! oakern.shinyapps.io/palveg_v2/ Explore vegetation reconstructions 🌲🌳 (pollen- and model-based) for the Last Glacial ❄️ in Europe and see how much they can differ. This affects our perception of Last Glacial landscapes during crucial migration 🚶‍♀️ and extinction events 🦣

📢 New Publication Dr Yaping Shao and colleagues present a new open-access PLOS ONE study simulating population dynamics during the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic Transition (ca. 50–38 ka) on the Iberian Peninsula. #MiddlePalaeolithic #Neanderthals #Aurignacien #AMH 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/YU0Da

📢 New Publication How can environmental records be recovered from the Ethiopian Rift? Dr Verena Foerster-Indenhuck and colleagues show how overlapping sediment cores from the Chew Bahir drilling campaign enable reconstructions of past climate and human evolution!🔬 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/BzEDT

PhD position in the field of Terrestrial plant ecology @UNIS (University Centre in Svalbard ❄️) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Deadline 7.4. ! Please share

📢 New Blog Post Lakes may seem stable in our everyday experience, but over hundreds to thousands of years they can change a lot! Dr. Elena Robakiewicz explains lake #coring and what Lake Nakuru (Kenya) reveals about the past 35,000 years!🔬 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/FRHLi

📢 Student Perspective What makes Earth Scientists so sure that the current #climate crisis is man-made? HESCOR Ringvorlesung student Bethan Callow explains why scientists have a lot of certainty about our role in current global climate changes!🌦️ 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/1K1ez

PhD position in the field of Terrestrial plant ecology @UNIS (University Centre in Svalbard ❄️) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Deadline 7.4. ! Please share

📢 New Blog Post How might the first anatomically modern humans have migrated across Europe? 🌍👣 @isabell-schmidt.bsky.social explores this question using the “Our Way Model” and results from our recent Nature Communications paper! 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/5WsC6

📢 HESCOR Seminar #UoC Master's students! 👋 Curious about how humans and the Earth interact in complex, dynamic systems? 🌐🤝 Explore cutting-edge research and modelling approaches from climate science, archaeology, mathematics, and the humanities – all in one seminar! 🔗 read more: shorturl.at/OxQzZ

#SedaDNA from lake depocenters maximizes detection of catchment vegetation 🧬🌱 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

ArcEcoGen making headlines! Our researchers drilled sediment cores from the bottom of Lake Asklundvatnet to read a natural archive of the past ~3000 years www.frostingen.no/overraskende...

Cored the only "lake" in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 today! Another ~3 m of sediments full of #sedaDNA 🧬 for the #MEMELAND project

Field work in the UK (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿) again, coring lakes for the #Memeland project to analyze #sedaDNA of the past 2000 years the weather decided to pose for a picture before the rain & wind picked up again

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

Job alert! 3 year post doc in my research group at University College London working on Roman Leather via biomolecular archaeology. #ZooMS #stableisotopes www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ187/r...

I have just deployed an update to my little PALVEG app that I created to facilitate the data visualization of pollen and pollen-based: oakern.shinyapps.io/PALVEG/ by using leaflet, the maps are now interactive and clicking dots on the map shows the percentage of land cover give it a try!

📢 New Blog Post How can a rock from hundreds of kilometers away become a stone tool? Dr. Johanna Hilpert explains how HESCOR researchers study prehistoric #networks of interaction and #exchange 🌐🤝 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/f0t5G #Magdalenian #LBK #Modelling

#FieldworkFriday Coring lakes on the Orkney and Shetland Isles last summer for sedaDNA and lipids for the V2C project at Uni Tromsø. Exploring the transition from Viking to Christian landscapes and their interactions on a species-level

3-year postdoc position available in bioinformatics of eDNA @ University of Tromsø. The postdoc will develop new methods for processing and annotating DNA shotgun data from lake sediments with a focus on vascular plants. Deadline 17th of February: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

🔔🔔New Paper 🔔🔔 Pollen-based REVEALS land-cover reconstructions for Europe during the latter half of the Last Glacial Period essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/... We show that glacial refugia and frequent openings of migration corridors may have played a substantial role human dispersal

3-year postdoc position available in bioinformatics of eDNA @ University of Tromsø. The postdoc will develop new methods for processing and annotating DNA shotgun data from lake sediments with a focus on vascular plants. Deadline 17th of February: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Excited to announce that I have started my new position as a Researcher at the University of Tromsø 🇳🇴. In the ERC-funded MEMELAND project we will employ a multi-proxy approach including sedaDNA, biomarkers, archaeobotany, pollen, and geochemistry to uncover the ecological landscape history of Europe

📢 New Blog Post Understanding #reconstructions of past vegetation can be difficult…. @oliverkern.bsky.social introduces his PALVEG app to make the maps from #paleovegetation reconstructions more accessible to researchers across all disciplines! 💻🌳 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/dNas6

📢 New Blog Post What's a (good) model? Dr. Annika Vogel highlights the questions that need to be answered and decisions that need to be made to appropriately #model interdisciplinary phenomena - there are always tradeoffs! 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/JklT1

🔔🔔New Paper 🔔🔔 Pollen-based REVEALS land-cover reconstructions for Europe during the latter half of the Last Glacial Period essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/... We show that glacial refugia and frequent openings of migration corridors may have played a substantial role human dispersal

🐝🐚🐙 Job Opening! 🐙🐚🐝 We are looking for a new collection manager for the macro-invertebarte collection at the Natural History Museum in Basel (CH). I can only recommend the museum and the curator!

🚨We developed a simple app to facilitate access to pollen-based vegetation 🌿reconstructions from Europe during the Late Pleistocene ☃️to scientists from other fields: Check out oakern.shinyapps.io/PALVEG/ more will follow!

📢 New Blog Post Living in high-altitudes is challenging - but humans in the #Ethiopian highlands have done it for tens of thousands of years! Dr. Götz Ossendorf introduces his hypothesis that social connectedness allowed past humans to endure such harsh conditions! 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/vH1en

Upcoming @hescor.bsky.social and @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social event at the University of Cologne on the "Politics of More-Than-Human Life and Earth System Science" with an exciting programme: www.hescor-project.com/news/politic...

📢 New Blog Post What have we learned from animals and they from us? @shumon.bsky.social & Dr. Dominik Ohrem highlight their research to better integrate the ways that humans and animals learn from each other and how that knowledge-sharing impacts the Earth System! 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/6zdAa

Third day on the Orkney Islands was a great success! Two cores, one >2m long, from the deepest secrion of the lake! Let's see what the sedaDNA will tell us about the history of the area

Researchers at universities rarely work with researchers in other departments - why? Dr. Elena Robakiewicz highlights the difficulties of understanding #research and #data in other fields and what HESCOR is doing to address data #communication issues! 🔗 read on here: tinyurl.com/bdffven4

✍️ HESCOR Comics We are collaborating with Dr Frederik von Reumont (Institute of Geography Education) to create easily digestible #educational #comics about the #interdisciplinary scientific process for the public, ranging in age from school children to the young at heart! 🔗 tinyurl.com/ed825wmf

What is HESCOR? 🤔 Join Andreas Maier and Nikki Vercauteren for insights into HESCOR‘s vision and research goals! want to learn more? hescor-project.com #HESCOR #Interdisciplinary #UniCologne #EarthSystem #HumanSystem #ResearchProject #Culture #Nature

Hello Bluesky! 👋 Welcome to the official Bluesky account of #HESCOR - an interdisciplinary research project based at the #UniCologne! We explore how the human and earth system co-evolve, bridging natural sciences, system modelling, and the humanities. 🔗 Learn more: www.hescor-project.com

There is a job opening (Post-Doctoral Research Associate, 2 years, 100%) in my new VW project on the macro-evolution of Pleistocene technological ecosystems in Europe: ecolithic.uni-koeln.de/opportunitie... Deadline 25.05.2025 Please distribute widely! 🏺🦣

Our study on #demograpic responses of #huntergatherers during the #FinalPalaeolithic in #Europe is out now: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 💪🏼 Thanks to the great collaborative effort that has gone into putting together an #archaeological #database - available at zenodo.org/records/1313...

Interested in vegetation reconstructions from the Last Glacial in Europe? How do different approaches (pollen/models) compare? And most importantly, how to visualize all these data for a quick overview without spending weeks? Check out an early version here: oakern.shinyapps.io/palveg_v2/