Postdoc Job! Come and work with me in Durham, and a bunch of @sse1k.bsky.social heroes in Venice and Basel, doing agent-based modelling of socio-environmental systems in the Ancient Mediterranean... durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

👋 #MeetTheTeam Michele Abballe is a postdoctoral researcher studying long-term settlement and demographic changes in the Mediterranean. Based at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, he works near #Ravenna, where many lagoons disappeared. Michele has to work hard to uncover traces of their existence 🕳️⛏

Wishing everyone a cool and wonderful #summer break! ☀️🌊 Here’s a beautiful mosaic from Villa Romana del Casale in Piazza Armerina, Sicily—once a place where Roman elites enjoyed their own version of a #holiday. (Photo: Michele Abballe)

📣Exciting news! 1️⃣Our team member Michele Abballe has recently been awarded a prize for his PhD thesis by the Institute of Archaeology at @czechacademy.bsky.social🎉 2️⃣This comes on top of the award he received last year for 2023 Best PhD Thesis from the journal Heritage by @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social🎉

Our research group Science, Society & Environmental Change in the First Millennium CE at the Ca' Foscari University on Venice is now on BlueSky: @sse1k.bsky.social! I’m a postdoc on the project, working on science & environment between Byzantium and Islam.

👋 #MeetTheTeam @nikulinaav.bsky.social Anastasia Nikulina is a postdoctoral researcher exploring human–environment interactions through agent-based modelling. She’s based at @arcdurham.bsky.social. Originally from the real #Siberia, Anastasia knows how (cold) weather shapes #human decisions.

Last week, I had the opportunity to be an invited respondent at @sse1k.bsky.social session on #resilience and the #environment at @imc-leeds.bsky.social in Leeds. My first time in this role! ☺️

Exciting news! A new #SSE1K data paper is out on #JOAD! 🎉 It presents lots of #archaeological and #geoarchaeological #data from #Ravenna, #Italy. Now freely availble on #Zenodo! 📊 🔗 doi.org/10.5334/joad...

Thank you to everyone who joined our sessions at @imc-leeds.bsky.social! It was a pleasure to discuss different aspects of #environment and #resilience. Huge thanks to the organizers for putting together such a fantastic congress #IMC2025

The final talk of our sessions☝️! Edward Schoolman “Landscapes, Lakes, and the Resilience of Settlement around Rieti and Lucca, 600-1000” #IMC2025

Helen Foxhall Forbes @helenfoxhallforbes.bsky.social is now talking about famine and food supply in Italy, 535-545. Don’t miss the last talks of our session on #disaster ! @imc-leeds.bsky.social

Next session - Resilience and Environment: Disaster. First speaker is Kristina Sessa talking about the ransoming of captives and how this was financed in Late Antiquity

Time for some discussion! Here are our panellists John Haldon, Vicky Manolopoulou, Ismini Lypiridou, Sam Turner, and our moderator Massimiliano Borroni

Final speaker of this session: Sam Turner (Newcastle) - Sustainable and Resilient Landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Mane as a Case Study

Next paper - Vicky Manolopoulou and Ismini Lypiridou present the work that they have been doing as part of SSE1K: Environmental Challenges and Landscape Experience: Constantinople as a Case Study

Speaking now in session 1149 Resilience and Environment in the Mediterranean: Memory - John Haldon (Princeton) - Palaeocologies and Landscapes as Reservoirs of Social Memory: Social, Cultural, and Environmental Aspects

Don’t miss our second session at 11:15🌸 @imc-leeds.bsky.social

Attending the International Medieval Congress in Leeds for the first time 😊 #IMC2025

Our next paper is virtual: Prof Athanasios Vionis - From Nucleation to Fragmentation and Resilience in the Xeros River Valley, Cyprus: From Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages, 7th-10th Centuries #IMC2025

Exciting papers at #IMC2025 from @sse1k.bsky.social SSE1K: Science, Society and Environmental Change in the First Millennium CE and friends today! @nikulinaav.bsky.social @danlawrence86.bsky.social

And we are go! Our first speaker is Dr Michele Abballe (Università Ca’ Foscari) talking about Long-Term Population Dynamics across the Italian Peninsula in the First Millennium #IMC2025

We’re about to start our first session today at @imc-leeds.bsky.social‬ ☺️

Looking forward to seeing everyone at @imc-leeds.bsky.social‬ ! 🙌✨ Our three sessions " #Resilience and #Environment in the #Mediterranean" are on July 9🗓️, Clarendon Building 1.02📍

Heading to @imc-leeds.bsky.social‬? Don’t miss our session " #Resilience and #Environment in the #Mediterranean " on 🗓️June 9 ⏰10:00–11:30, 12:15–13:45 and 15:15–16:45! Check out the full programme for the International Medieval Congress here: 🔗 www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2025/pro...

New project account after moving from the other place! Looking forward to engaging with people here :) pric.unive.it/projects/sse...