We hosted ‘The Voices of the Global South on the Anthropocene’ Conference in June 2024 at the Max-Planck-Institute of Geoanthropoloy Jena, Germany. You can read more about this event, and the important discussions we engaged in, both below and at the link in our bio!

🔅 Panel at COP30 🔅 Bringing Perspectives from the Global South to Climate Policy Discussions 🌱 🌎 🕝 November 15, from 9:00 a.m. to 9:50 a.m. 📍Higher Education for Climate Action Pavilion - Blue Zone

Hi all! We're a working group focused on integrating information from palaeoecology, archaeology and traditional knowledge to address urgent Anthropocene crises. Together, we form ECHOES: Exploring Climate and Human Observations from the Global South.

Excited to share that I was fortunate to designed the first "Geoarchaeology" course in India at Department of Applied Geology at Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad. The course is designed for students to develop transdisciplinary thinking following National Education Policy of India 2020.

Nice Middle Palaeolithic refits from India, like a 3d jigsaw, this is piecing back together stone tools made by people tens of thousands of years ago. By Akash Pandey. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨 Job alert! The new Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS' is looking for a scientific coordinator to start as soon as possible. Please see link for full advertisement text and information. Deadline for applications: September 15 uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

A big congratulations to William Farhan-Rios on this paper in @pnas.org, featuring a study of tropical-forest change over four decades along the Amazon-to-Andes elevational gradient in Bolivia and Peru 🌴 ⛰️ 🌐 @mobotgarden.bsky.social @livingearthcollab.bsky.social 1/3 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

European colonialism also came with the looting of many artefacts, including 75 manuscripts containing genealogies essential for establishing lineage and succession rights as well as accounts of Javanese history, severing intergenerational knowledge transmission Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Very happy to announce that a new postdoctoral position on the New ERC funded Western Rift Archaeology and Palaeoenvironment Project is open - if you're a geologist or geochronologist come and join us at @icarehb.bsky.social euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/358068 Feel free to share it around.

So much to think about after "Not all that glitters is green" by Verónica Zuccarelli Freire. A powerful reminder that the costs of the energy transition are not shared equally, especially in the #Andes. True climate action requires environmental justice. #ClimateJustice #IndigenousKnowledge

Interested in joining our team to study past mammalian dispersals? We just opened a new postdoctoral position in climate modeling to work with me and Yannick Donnadieu at @climatecerege.bsky.social. All the info here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... Application deadline on July 23.

💫 PAGES would like to thank everyone who attended the 5th YSM & 7th OSM in Shanghai. Held every 4 years, these are PAGES' flagship events which bring the global community together to network, share and liaise on all things #paleoscience. More photos & meeting material available in the archive soon.

@deepakjha.bsky.social presenting CSIA of modern plants and sediments along an aridiy gradient in the Thar Desert at #EGU25

Our discoveries at Jwalapuram have been rather remarkable and of great importance to the natural and cultural #heritage of #India and the world illustrating the effects of the Toba volcanic super-eruption on ecosystems and humans. Please save this site Archaeological Survey of India! #ASI

Pit without finds = worthless pit? Investigating a Roman military camp from Caesar's Gallic Wars (58 – 51 BC) near Hermeskeil (Germany). This is one of the rare instances of published non-results for biomarkers. Not all good data validate your hypothesis! authors.elsevier.com/c/1kx~c,rVDB...

Nature research paper: Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years https://go.nature.com/4jja0k2

Paper alert, @nature.com. Our study reveals 8 million years of #GreenArabia. We document environmental variability - ranging over the entire course of human evolution. Arabia is a key bridge at the cross-roads of continents. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(1/13) A thread on our new paper just published in Nature, ‘Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years’. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(1/17) We are thrilled to see our new paper ‘Hunter-gatherer sea voyages extended to remotest Mediterranean islands’ published in Nature. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's the Toba volcanic super-eruption revival. Well done @gopesh.bsky.social and colleagues! Our results underline the complex responses of regional environments to the Toba super-eruption, which extend beyond a simple widespread ‘volcanic winter’. #India #Toba academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...

Pleased to have joined Abdallah Zaki and an international team to study large scale flooding of the Empty Quarter 9,000 years ago. Important implications for arid zones and human-environment relations. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Hello everyone! Pal(a)eoPERCS is now on Bluesky. If you already know us, we welcome you to our new account! If you are not familiar with us, Pal(a)eoPERCS is a virtual seminar series designed to showcase the research of Early Career Researchers in paleosciences 🌎🦖🔬🦴🦠. Find out more at paleopercs.com

📢 #ICP15 #ECR grant #deadline - Apply by 30th March. #ECR - We are defining ECRs if they are a student or early career researcher without a permanent position (ie PhD and postdocs/researchers on a fixed term contract). Please apply 👇🏼 www.icp15.com

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Ancient DNA)- University of York - Department of #Archaeology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML043/p...

I'm reposting this again, because we are still offering a 2-year postdoc position at @climatecerege.bsky.social and we are looking for applicants!

New Papar Alert 🚨Open access in @antiquityj.bsky.social Discussing new Acheulean sites in Upper Son Valley, India and its importance in South Asian Archaeology. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

ESHE 2025 goes to Paris, France! Join us in person for talks and posters from Sept 25–27, with a public keynote on Sept 24. Excursion details are coming soon. More info on the meetings page this March! #ESHE2025

(1/9) I’m hiring! Join my ‘Terraform’ ERC project at the University of Malta, looking at the origin, evolution, and impacts of agricultural terracing in the Maltese Islands. Please circulate to anyone you think could be interested. Starting in the summer.

Submitted 2 abstracts from our group at @MPIGEA with @rachelrudd.bsky.social to this amazing #EGU25 focused on plant biomarkers and CSIA of modern plants and sediments along an aridiy gradient in the Thar Desert and another from an altitudinal gradient in Lesotho. See you there #EGUbiomarker.

Are you a PhD or Masters student in Paleoclimate looking to learn and network with your community? Excited to announce that applications to USSP 2025 are now open until 6th March. 🦖⚛️🪨🌊🔬🧑🏽‍💻 Please share! 🤩

New job available in my department ('scientific officer'): www.um.edu.mt/hrmd/recruit...

The company Knauf wants to quarry gypsum deposits of the southern Harz mountains! Let’s stop the destruction of the protected (!) and unique gypsum karst landscape! Sign the petition here 👇 eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Call to all organic geochemists and molecular friends that want to join IMOG in Porto this September (imogconference.org): abstracts can currently be submitted. Submission before the deadline on February 15th to be considered for a poster or talk. #IMOG25 🧪⚒️

Lead does not do good things to human health and cognitive development. It took us a while to figure it out. The Romans were also big on lead, and some now argue that it contributed to cognitive decline and perhaps the fall of the empire. 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨Postdoc job offer!🚨 We are currently looking for a climate modeler to work with us at @climatecerege.bsky.social on Eocene climate simulations, to investigate the past connectivity of forested ecosystems and the mechanisms of primates dispersal. Job ad here: nuage.osupytheas.fr/s/PSdj4ns2SE...

Postdoc stable isotope analysis www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLH400/p...

Koobi Fora field school! Please help spread the word.

We did find an abrupt isotopic enrichment 3.9-3.6 kyr BP. This ‘tropical climate shift’ is becoming more and more evident in high-res records and is temporally distinct to 4.2 (take note low res records), supporting previous work and the Double Drying hypothesis (Scroxton et al., 2023).

In detail, we used a network of 14 high-res speleothems and some fancy stats (Laplacian Eigenmaps for Recurrence Matrices and Monte Carlo Principal Component Analysis). We find a robust 8.2ka event response, but 4.2 is not spatially coherent. Results hold for both East Asian and South Asian subsets.

The top one is me. The other two are imposter accounts. Please unfollow them, block and report. They have been messaging people with a crypto scam. Ugh! 😣 I am sorry if you have received a weird message from someone you thought was me 🫠 I’d only message you about geochemistry 😂

Once xmas is out of the way time to prepare that abstracat for #EGU25. Submit by 15th Jan 2025. @egubg.bsky.social has loads of great sessions to choose from check them out 👇https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessionprogramme/5511 @eurogeosciences.bsky.social

Godt nytår! I'm hiring an isotope-loving postdoc with applications due January 15th 🇩🇰

🚨 Review paper alert! ⚡The past holds key insights for our climate future. Paleoclimate research shows how past climate shifts help us understand greenhouse gas links, test climate models, & track long-term trends. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/2zmuybt2 #Paleoclimate #ClimateChange #ClimateScience

1) Postdoc job opportunities…join my TerraForm ERC project, at the University of Malta. One position for a geoarchaeologist and one in GIS/spatial analysis. The formal advert and application procedure will be out soon (and shared here), so I am releasing this as an early notice.

‪ Call for presentations for our session at the SAfA conference 2025! #Kalahari #Namib #Karoo #desert 🦣🏺 @khoproject.bsky.social

Double Job Alert!! We are recruiting an archaeobotany technician and an osteology (human & zooarchaeology) technician to help curate and improve access to our collections. Come join us at the Institute for Archaeology, University College London www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/...

🚨 My colleague Mads Knudsen and I have a new project exploring the timing and paleoenvironment of early human migration through the southern Caucasus and we're looking for a PhD student to join us in the field and in the cosmo and biomarker labs! 📣 Please share, and find me at #AGU24!

Exciting to see a new, community-run, and Diamond Open Access journal launching for geochemists (Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry). Free to read and free to publish! They have assembled a great team of editors too! (www.agcj.org)

To all prospective PhD students with an interest in organic geochemistry - we are advertising 4 PhD projects this year - we have one FULLY FUNDED PhD via the Royal Society (deadline 9th Dec) and three are competition-funded via our DTP (deadline 8th Jan). Apply here: noc.ac.uk/education/gs...

Please get in touch with us if you are working with lipid biomarkers and stable isotopes. Our special issue of Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology is looking for manuscript summaries.