University of Kiel - Doctoral Researcher in History of Knowledge of the Medieval World #medievalsky memorients.com/news/univers...

Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research go.nature.com/4hriohE

There is still time to apply for the 2026 Datini-Ester seminar on "Craft Guilds & Unions"! All PhD students working on these topics are welcome to apply! Join us in beautiful Prato (Tuscany) for this funded experience! (deadline November 15) www.istitutodatini.it/ester/htm/ca...

🌟 Don't forget to join us today for the first talk of this semester's colloquium series! @chensinotech.bsky.social is presenting "Mining Knowledge from Field to University: The Rise of Engineering Education in Late Imperial China" ⏰ Time: 3:00–4:30 PM CET Registration and more info: bit.ly/47mN3sS

Janna Cooman's chapter "Urban Environmental History", discusses the intersection of urban environmental history and public health with a #deep-time perspective, including the management of #urbanhazards, #waterscapes, and #healthsacaping. #OA #globalhistory onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Choose your own (research) adventure. My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

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You are an early-career scientist interested in social and environmental processes in the past? For our second phase, we are offering 5 positions for postdocs and 9 positions for doctoral students. Apply now! All the details: www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-r... #earlycareerscientists #jobs

I admit that 10 ya I'd never have thought that archaeology would take me on the one hand all the way to Jordan, and on the other to a MoCap Lab! Fun, fun, fun! Thx, @4drl1.bsky.social . "Praecipua pronuntiationis adiumenta..." project. More: projekty.ncn.gov.pl/opisy/618725... @ncn.gov.pl

🎉The new semester starts and so does our Colloquium Series! This time, we explore "Mineral Expertise" – the different approaches to knowledge in the history of mining. 🌍💎 Join us in person or online, our meetings are open to all with prior registration. More info here: bit.ly/ScarceCollWS 🖥️📚 #Scarce

From TikTok videos touting mouth tape and weighted blankets, to magazines ranking insomnia-curbing pillows, sleep advice is everywhere go.nature.com/3VITWOS

TORF, a new DFG-sponsored Research Unit, investigates the drowned coastal landscape of medieval #NorthFrisia / Interdisciplinary project by #UniMainz, @uni-kiel.de, @leizarchaeology.bsky.social, ALSH, and NIhK is funded by @dfg.de 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/torf-a-new-d... #DFG #Geography #Archaeology

Call for applications! 📣 The German Historical Institute London is seeking a Research Associate with a particular research interest in medieval history (with a focus on late medieval English history) for a part-time project position to start on 1 February 2026. 🤝 1/3

Open Access article on water management in medieval Trondheim, Norway, by Elisabeth Forrestad Swensen, Roos M.R. van Oosten, & Axel Christophersen: brill.com/view/journal... #watermanagement #waterhistory #disease #urbaninfrastructure #publichealth #archaeology

"After the fall of the Roman Empire, elephants virtually disappeared from Western Europe. Since there was no real knowledge of how the animal looked, illustrators had to rely on oral and written transmissions to morphologically reconstruct the elephant" www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anth...

A Nature special: Universities made the modern world. Now they must survive it. go.nature.com/4nTooBX

We are pleased to announce that the Call for Sessions for the 32nd EAA Annual Meeting in Athens, Greece is now open. Call for sessions will be open between 23 September – 30 October 2025 (23:59 CET) Please submit your proposals via portal: submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2026 #EAA2026

Book review 📚 What drove the rise of civilizations? A decades-long quest points to warfare go.nature.com/3Iehloe

🚨 New publication in Journal of Rural Studies! What happens when urban newcomers meet long-rooted rural residents? ✍️ Maria Bednarek-Szczepańska & Krzysztof Janc 💡 Funded by @NCN_PL www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #igipzpan #knowledgetransfer #urban #rural

Last week, ROOTS deputy speaker Johannes Müller attended the annual conference of the Ukrainian History Global Initiative in #Kyiv. He took the opportunity to meet colleagues from Ukrainian institutions in order to plan future research projects...(1/2) 🏺#archaeology

Our team currently in the field in 🇧🇼 is having a great time #Kgalagadi #archaeology #fieldwork #WomenInSTEM @geoarchamelie.bsky.social @isotopesrule.bsky.social

Momentum is building for regenerative agriculture, a set of approaches that could help farms to weather the changing climate and make them more profitable go.nature.com/4mSIuMe

New online! Integrating historical sources for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation

#CallforPapers: Die nächste Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für #Globalgeschichte im Juni 2026 an der @uni-kiel.de befasst sich mit dem Thema "Globale #Expeditionen in #Mittelalter und #Neuzeit." Ab sofort können Themenvorschläge eingereicht werden. Alle infos bei 👉 @hsozkult.bsky.social 🗃️

🌏Tomorrow @eclaaire.bsky.social is presenting “The Jewels in Ground: The Geopolitics of Knowledge in the Early Modern Eurasian Gem Trade” at the workshop The Geological Turn in Asia! 📅4 Sept | 🕓 16:00 SGT / 10:00 CET 🔗Info + Programme: bit.ly/4lV3Oj2 📍Join via Zoom (registration required) #Scarce

Po dłuższej przerwie, recenzja dla Mądrych Książek @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social. Duża dawka zdrowego rozsądku (i kubeł zimnej wody) ws podboju Marsa oraz fascynujące rozważania nad prawem kosmicznym od @weinersmith.bsky.social @zachweinersmith.bsky.social www.madreksiazki.uj.edu.pl/aktualnosci/...

This paper by J. Macháček marks the start of a broader discussion on #GreatMoravia and early #medieval centres. More contributions will follow.

𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗨𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝟭𝟭 (𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱) 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗨𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 More info: bit.ly/3HAG7yn #Archaeology #Urban #Sustainability #Medievalsky #Medievalists #Prehistory #Archaeologysky

Hip-Hip-Hoorray!!! This wonderful volume is finally out in the #openaccess world. We are discussing how people handled #hazards, what makes #disasters or #vulnerability, how to built societal #resilience & #sustainability & is this smart to do? #anthropology #Archaeology share.google/XtBTYyy8VRlq...

It is out! This "booklet" entails a collection of essays about habits, changing habits from different times, areas, disciplines. It is a product of our #PhD teaching in the @clusterroots.bsky.social for our cohort of PhD students It is available in open access! 🥳 www.sidestone.com/books/old-ha...

"Humans remade nature and nature remade humans." In this blog, Piet van Cruyningen shares how the adaptability and resilience of settlers in the #MiddleAges, transformed the challenging wetlands along the North Sea Coast into high-yielding cropland. buff.ly/0N2jfme #medievalsky

Looking for a postdoc position in quantitative palaeoecology with focus on vegetation? Come to work in my interdisciplinary project in Prague (full-time for 2 years).

A new study based on extensive data and recent excavations uses the example of SE-Europe to challenge widely held theories about the emergence of social hierarchies in prehistory. It has been published now at @aaas.org's #ScienceAdvances. Read more 👇 🏺 #inequality #Neolithic #BronzeAge

This volume investigates the epistemological dimension and social embedding of resource policies while providing a comprehensive overview of the knowledge layers that underpinned the material and immaterial economy of the early modern period in many fields. www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/isbn_9783447...

📢Only one month left to register for The Connected Past in Coimbra 2025! Scan the QR code or click the link below to join our conference from September 16 to 19 in Portugal! Register here: shorturl.at/ZY21T #archaeology #networks #digitalhumanities #history #Academic #Coimbra2025

NEW How has capitalism impacted Indigenous communities? 🏺 #Archaeology Excavation at mining camps and agropastoral sites in northern Chile reveals how industrialisation (and then its dismantlement) transformed Indigenous livelihoods in the Andean highlands. Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

We’re excited to announce our success in OPUS 28 + LAP/Weave (panel HS3)! Together with the Czech Academy of Sciences, Forest Research Inst. & Mammal Research Inst. PAS, we’ll explore how Scots pine shaped states, societies & landscapes in the 18th–19th c. 🌲🌍 PI (Poland): Tomasz Związek

Nun online: Die erste #Podcast-Folge mit Anna Loy, Doktorandin im Exzellenzcluster ROOTS. Sie forscht in der Konfliktarchäologie und gibt uns spannende Einblicke in ihren Forschungsalltag. Eine Folge über die Wissenschaft vom Menschen – und über das, was bleibt.🎙️ @clusterroots.bsky.social

Issue 2/2025 has been published!

Research into the links between humans, the environment and culture in past worlds continues! We thank the reviewers and the Excellence Commission for the positive decision on #ROOTS2. www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-r... @dfg.de @uni-kiel.de #excellencestrategy 🏺

If returns on science investment are shrinking, there are plenty of potential culprits https://go.nature.com/4k9FVUQ

🧵An new #photobook is now being published by #Herder publishing house under the #wbgAcademic label that offers a fascinating insight into this work with 170 selected photographs. All information: www.uni-kiel.de/en/details/n... or media.herder.de/vorschau/202... #photography #archaeology #history

Start your reading with the Editorial about the cooperation with @pciarchaeology.bsky.social and more doi.org/10.35686/AR....

📚New Book Series in #envhist edited by Stephen Brain & Viktor Pal (@viktorpal.bsky.social) is up and running! Get in touch with the editors and share your book proposal. More info 👇

The ERC welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from @ec.europa.eu for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering larger, longer-term grants, as announced by President Ursula Von der Leyen at the Sorbonne this morning. 👉 europa.eu/!NTYTTV

Publication Update: a small correction, the article shared last week included a researcher from our project, Guy Geltner, and other fantastic archaeologists and researchers across Australia and Europe, including Nicolas Minvielle Larousse. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New publication by our project's researchers: Guy Geltner, Giovanna Bianchi and others: "A geochemical survey of the Antas Valley, Sardinia: Medieval metallurgy and modern slag recycling?", looks at the legacies of silver mining and #metallurgy processes in Sardinia. @archaeometry.bsky.social

In the perspective I led for the @pnas.org special feature, we compared spatial distributions of inequality and productivity. Highly unequal settlements tend to raise their neighbours' inequality, a pattern that resonates with today's #sustainability debates. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Poster collected and it looks great! All ready for the #HugoObermaier meeting next week at @icarehb.bsky.social 🇵🇹. I am excited to present the first biomarker record at a hominin fossil site in #SouthAfrica 🇿🇦, great collaborative work with the @people-erc-stg.bsky.social team.

Check out this article, also part of the Special Festure, in which new data reveals how differing resource demands in #agriculture shape long-term patterns in #inequality.