Dear all, I am happy to announce a free one-day IAS symposium on "Extractive industries and the protection and preservation of Indigenous heritage", to be held on 25 June 2026 at the University of Western Australia. 1/

This article on indigeneity in popular British nature writing is now officially out in the latest issue of @theoryculturesociety.org There is some great campaiging work being done by the likes of @righttoroam.bsky.social. Here I address the nativism that it has to contend with.

Really pleased this collaboration with @carlyschuster.bsky.social is finally published! We lean on queer feminist theory to discuss kinship as a dynamic set of relations and map their flow around funerary rites - we see burials as cannily assembled, not simple mirrors of the living world

Important issues. Link to original article: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

I am very happy to be able to let you all know that the volume "Alterity and Human Evolution: Deep-Time and Multispecies Perspectives on Difference and Variation" has now been officially published by @berghahnbooks.bsky.social! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Abadia... /1

Just coming back to this study and story from a few days ago... They have already produced a wide range of reactions... 🤔 www.science.org/content/arti...

Our Open Access special issue on "An Ontological Turn for Archaeology?" in the EAZ journal is now complete and can be accessed via the link below! This is a small but precious collection of papers. Hope that you will find it useful and inspiring. www.eaz-journal.org/index.php/ea... /1

Charles Darwin University is looking for a Lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges and Heritage, which will suit an anthropologist or archaeologist with a focus on Australia. Continuing Full Time, Teaching Focused, Level A/B A$76,604 – A$137,659 pa Details here: www.cdu.edu.au/careers-cdu

Just published in the EAZ in open access! Please have a look at this great new paper by @shumon.bsky.social on "Zoo-Ontologies: Materiality and Visuality in the Multispecies Tangle". This paper is now free to download via the EAZ website. www.eaz-journal.org/index.php/ea...

Please have a look at this new collaborative research paper by Danae Fiore and colleagues on their important work with Indigenous communities in Karukinka/Usin (Tierra del Fuego). www.eaz-journal.org/index.php/ea...

Coming in April 2026! This truly fabulous volume will be published early next year and putting this together was just a great journey. It allowed working together with many amazing scholars from different parts of the world and I profited so much from reading and engaging with all the chapters.

I was invited to provide some comments on the fascinating story below, which discusses the earliest known examples of the use of blue pigment during the European Palaeolithic. Interesting results with some intriguing implications. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Please have a look at this new open access paper by Benjamin Alberti that was just published in the EAZ. This is part of a special issue on ontological approaches in archaeology with more great papers to follow! #archaeology www.eaz-journal.org/index.php/ea...

Great to have been able to conduct this survey at the WA Maritime Museum for the Deep Time Images project together with @lauramayer.bsky.social! Lots to analyze and lots of food for thought! #TheGreatKimberleyWilderness

It is a great pleasure to announce that our new book on Palaeolithic art and what we can learn from it has just been published by Heidelberg University Publishing! The volume is OA and can be downloaded via the link below! @deeptimeheritage.bsky.social 🤩😎 heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book...

Here is the original letter/announcement from the White House, another step in the Trump's attack strategy on the museum, cultural, and research sectors www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...

Come work with us!! Job opportunity!! We just advertised a 5-year full-time T/R Archaeology Lecturer position at Level B. This will suit an early career researcher with a teaching and research profile that is relevant to Australia. Full details below! external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...

Interesting read here on #language #ontologies www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Bad news coming out of the US. What a loss but not at all unexpected given recent events and developments... wennergren.org/article/sapi...

Was all the scapegoating in Australian politics maybe just that??!! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Why many Americans still think #Darwin was wrong, yet the British don’t #evolution #evoSky #scienceSky theconversation.com/why-many-ame...

Populist governments are mobilizing emotions like nostalgia and resentment to justify eroding academic freedom and reshaping higher education. Scholars who study nationalism, emotion and higher education explore this troubling strategy: theconversation.com/leaders-in-i...