1/3 New recommendation: Angelos Tsilogiannis, Markos Konstantakis, Spyros Vosinakis (2026). Experimental interpretation of ancient games through playtesting. V4 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI #Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🏺🧪🦣 #OpenScience #openaccess

@gamingthepast.bsky.social @archaeogameco.bsky.social

Such a nice first mission for this collaboration! Super nice people and super interesting material to study! 📿🔬🧪🏺

🇫🇷 🇯🇵 Already making headlines exploring the Paleolithic personal ornaments & lithic production of Hokkaido! @solangerigaud.bsky.social, N. Zwyns, @alainqueffelec.bsky.social (@univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social), & Masami Izuho (TMU). www.hokkaido-np.co.jp/article/1305...

Great initiative, sounds a little like @peercomjournal.bsky.social another excellent project which I highly recommend & encourage everyone to support!

4/3 Now published in the generalist diamond open-access @peercomjournal.bsky.social , for free, without more peer-reviews: doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

It was so interesting to reproduce @benmarwick.bsky.social 's paper and to try to replicate it with openalex.org data. OpenAlex is bigger & more inclusive than commercial databases—but it still lacks many cited references, just like @opencitations.bsky.social. We need to push for more #opencitations

The UCL Institute of Archaeology currently has a vacancy for a Lecturer (Teaching) in Archaeology and Anthropology (Ref.: B03-02939). Further info & link to application here: 📲 bit.ly/3OKUMdw 1/2

New version of my reproduction and replication attempt of @benmarwick.bsky.social 's paper published few months ago in JAS, but here with #OpenAlex and #OpenCitations data. You can read it in a interactive html page here: aqueff.github.io/replication_... 🧪🏺

The PCI-PCJ 2025 recap is here! ✨ Dive into the events of 2025 👀: peercommunityin.org/2026/01/07/p... Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to an amazing year! 🙏 #PCI2025 #Highlights

🦴 Des fossiles humains mis au jour près de Casablanca apportent un éclairage inédit sur une période clé de l’évolution humaine - des travaux incluant des chercheurs du laboratoire de la Préhistoire à l’actuel : culture, environnement et anthropologie @pacea.bsky.social www.pacea.u-bordeaux...

Happy to have participated for years in the sedimentological study of Thomas Quarry I which is featured today in @nature.com for having yielded hominin fossils with traits reminiscent of Homo sapiens. rdcu.be/eX1Pm @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social @nouvelleaquitaine.bsky.social

@coarassessment.bsky.social and @dorassessment.bsky.social joint statement to advance global research reform towards qualitative instead of quantitative evaluations sfdora.org/2025/12/04/d...

Happy to have been part of this super interesting paper!

Happy to hare that the preprint I was advertising below has been published by the Journal of Evolutionary Biology: academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-... Thanks @jevbio.bsky.social for supporting responsible publishing!

The @cnrs.fr is quitting Web of Science (after Scopus last year) to promote Open Alex instead! Great news! www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cn...

Our paper "Rethinking Caribbean Archaeology: Towards an ethical position for a truly decolonial practice" was published today at @pciarchaeology.bsky.social Many thanks to all the authors for this amazing collaboration! 🎊 📎 peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

To stop the drain, do not hesitate to engage with #free #openscience, #preprints, @peercommunityin.bsky.social, #diamondOA journals, academia-friendly journals (dafnee.isem-evolution.fr) etc. THERE ARE SOLUTIONS !

Media Coverage: Retraction Watch "Bug in Springer Nature #Metadata May Be Causing ‘Significant, Systemic’ Citation Inflation" retractionwatch.com/2025/11/11/b... @retractionwatch.com

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 IRN Bipedal Equilibrium team is running an international survey on hominin bipedalism. They aim to better understand how scholars think about bipedalism. Perspectives from all fields are welcome! 👉 Here is the survey link: questions.huma-num.fr/v4/s/dv57r1 (10 min) Please share it widely! 🏺🧪🦣

As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...

Many thanks to Karlstad University for becoming a supporter of PCI this year (www.kau.se/en)%F0%9F%98...!

⬇️⬇️⬇️ Also worth reading for other domains than health sciences! 👏

1/3 New recommendation: Zachary Batist‬ (2025) Locating Creative Agency in Archaeological Data Work. ver.2 recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social doi.org/10.17613/8eq... @zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy 🏺🧪🦣

Come join us with this new post-doctoral position in the Quanta project: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... (2 years in Bordeaux) If you love artifacts (especially bones), notches, microscopes, and exploring the big question of the origin of quantification systems in human lineage, this is for you!

Delighted to be bringing you the following PAASTA community-led paper outlining our recommendations for best practices and open science in palaeoproteomics! Congratulations to the authors and for anyone keen to read the paper, it can be found #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

New look, same mission 🔬🌍 The IsoArcH initiative just launched its brand-new website: isoarch.org Check it out and dive into the world’s largest isotope database!

1/3 New recommendation: Cardillo, Marcelo & Carranza, Eugenia ‬ (2025) Applying statistical and causal modeling to interpret thermal alteration in observational lithic data. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🧪🏺

Needless to say, the Peer Community In outperforms all of the major publishers on this criterion, despite a budget many orders of magnitude smaller - again illustrating that the big money we pay for publishing is not used for the good of science. (5/5) @peercommunityin.bsky.social

Non-profit publishers (PLoS, Oxford, Cambridge) and publishers partnering a lot with academia (Wiley) are much more committed to open science than the others - MDPI being the worst by large. (4/5)

New preprint about open science in eco-evo! We sampled 110 journals, 550 articles, and assessed whether data and code are accessible: (1/5) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... #ScientificPublishing #OpenScience #ecology #conservation #EvolutionaryBiology #paleobio #systematics #archeology

An Introduction to Bioarchaeology New video available for channel supporters on Patreon or YT memberships Check it out here, and sign up for additional teaching videos and behind-the-scenes perks www.patreon.com/posts/134346...

1/3 Super interview de notre doctorante Lisa Richelmi avec Benjamin Brillaud de Nota Bene ! 🐞🧑‍🔬 www.twitch.tv/videos/25139... Elle y présente sa thèse en archéoentomologique @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

The 'Bioengineered' story was mentioned in @theguardian.com today! Read here www.theguardian.com/science/2025... More background on Bioengineered here: www.science.org/content/arti... CC: @elisabethbik.bsky.social @mortenoxe.bsky.social @smutclyde.bsky.social @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social

Why I quit itsmoreofacomment.com/2022/10/28/w... (and it is the same for Researchgate...) I may instead orient you towards @orcid.org instead, HAL in France, Zenodo etc. Thank you @archaeobasti.bsky.social for this post few years ago but still very relevant.

IsoArcH is organizing its first Addithon, a 10-day virtual community event! This event will bring volunteers together from all over the world, to add to this ever-growing open data repository for isotopes from archaeological research. bit.ly/IsoArcH2025

The Digital Archaeo Summer School concluded with a visit to La Chaise (Middle Paleo), excavated by our postdocs Diego López Onaindia & @kimgenuite.bsky.social 45 early-career researchers from 6 countries joined us, thank you all! See you in 2026! @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social

Yes it is much more work and more difficult for non-native English speakers! It's great to remind this!

Postdoc in Geochronology / Plio-Pleistocene Geology Join the ERC WRAP project at ICArEHB! Apply now 👉 www.icarehb.com/research-pos...

Et une proposition dans l'article est bel et bien de passer par @peercommunityin.bsky.social and @peercomjournal.bsky.social ! :)

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? 🏺🧪

With mention of @peercommunityin.bsky.social , @peercomjournal.bsky.social and @pci-regreports.bsky.social ! Trying to change this system!

1500 people follow me, 90% archaeologists, and no one can tell me what they think about this paper which seems to destroy an entire field of research? No starch specialist here? I'm really eager to hear your voice and transfer these results into inter-tropical environment (let say Caribbean...)

No one can help me on that? ⬇️

New preprint out !! We show that publishing in ethical journals is equally visible for your career and also cheaper (if you really want to pay... But there are free alternatives you know!) ⬇️⬇️⬇️

New preprint: we advertise DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly eco-evo-archaeo journals. 1/6 #AcademicPublishing #ecoevo #archaeology #EthicalPublishing #SocietyJournals #DiamondOpenAccess doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Here’s a CNRS offer to come to PACEA. It’s a multi-year contract that at the end will turn into a permanent Senior Researcher position if objectives are met. So if you’re a several years post PhD and a specialist in paleoenvironments, geoarchaeology, and human adaptation give it a look!

The DAFNEE database of academia-friendly journals is now using OpenAlex instead of PubMed to find your papers for the author index. That's great especially for #archaeology since most are not indexed in PubMed. Go see the second tab on dafnee.isem-evolution.fr ! @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social 🏺🧪