🏵️ ❗ 🧠 🖌️ 📝 'Cognitive affordances of South Scandinavian Mesolithic portable art as inferred from complexity and entropy measures' ➡️ doi.org/10.1016/j.ja... I have invested sooo much energy on this paper, so I hope you will give it a skim Our findings expertly summarised here by co-author Riccardo:

My grandma had one of this and I used to play a lot with it when I was a child. There is a hard-to-explain pleasure in watching that damn thing spin 😅. Cool stuff!

Modeling and pizza. I have never heard anything more perfect 😍

Replace [lithics] with almost everything else and still applies…

Sailing Rigs xkcd.com/3193/

The "Szilard Point." When we talk about The strain and the drain on scientific publishing, it's this. Researchers working just to stay afloat, and not on what we actually want them to do: research, discover, innovate. Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

The anonymous fate of the silenced

BTC Call for Action - EAA EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns. Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...

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True story 🥲

Particularly without serious regulation…

Here's a paper with a skeleton of the idea, but there is really lots of research to do on the structure of workflow networks, now to make them robust, how to development diagnostics and calculi for steps within them. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Good Science xkcd.com/3101/

Excited to share a new dataset featuring 2000 #radiocarbon dates from southeast Norway, spanning the Late #Neolithic to #BronzeAge. This dataset, which has been part of my doctoral work, builds on the efforts of @steinarsol.bsky.social and Kjetil Loftsgarden @uio.no. #DataSharing in #Archaeology

Check out our new book on the maritime prehistory of Atlantic Europe. It's the first volume in our Maritime Encounters series and is available open access! www.oxbowbooks.com/979888857184...

Our paper on ocean voyaging in the Bronze Age was just published in PLOS One - have a read: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Major JOB ALERT! I and close colleagues have 4 (!) positions open. So if you're looking for a postdoc or PhD, do read on:

This should be happening in many journals until the madness stops

Our book on the Nordic Bronze Age is finally out! It is open access here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

New paper out! Children actively made hand-stencils and flutings in the Upper Palaeolithic, but can we identify children's cave art without anatomical measurements? We present a new framework using universal features of young children's drawings 🏺 www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3...

An amazing school in an amazing city!

Acaba de salir el paper que más he disfrutado escribiendo en muchos años: arqueología del igualitarismo en África. Movilidad subversiva, logísticas rebeldes, objetos de resistencia y reyes sagrados. En acceso abierto aquí: link.springer.com/article/10.1...