‘Young people can come in and have life-changing moments’: Gus Casely-Hayford on V&A East, a new museum for Gen Z

🏃🏾‍♂️🏃‍♀️Chicago Marathon may be famous but today’s Hot Chocolate Run was Delicious! #Chicago #Running #Autumn #HotChocolate

“Care for the dead has long been a way of defining what it means to be human,” @theprofrog.bsky.social writes in Graveyards. Read an excerpt in @literaryhub.bsky.social:

The Paper of the Month from Cambridge Archaeological Journal is "Turning-the-edge, Tranchet, and Social Signalling at Boxgrove" by Ceri Shipton et al., available #openaccess! 📚 https://cup.org/3Wwdk1R #PaperOfTheMonth

1/2 SACNAS 2025 Columbus, Ohio we are in you!! Come talk to the team about anything you see below! Dr. Matt Anderson from UWisconsin, Dr. Krystal Tsosie from ASU, & many more Indigenous Thinkers for #IDSov in our famous "Network of Networks". We have been blazing a trail & not stopping anytime soon!

🌟Delighted to see our collaborative paper integrating ethnography, archaeology, and ancient DNA published! It has been a joy brining such wonderful scholars together in #Vienna last year. Hopefully, the insights prove to be useful accross disciplinary boundaries. @oeaw.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social

🌎 Coming soon to Chicago! On 6–7 Nov 2025, the Field Museum hosts the first MCAA Regional Meeting in North America 🏛️ Talks, roundtables & career sessions on MSCA & ERC funding. Join us to connect minds across continents! bit.ly/42ZgU8o #MCAA #MSCA #FieldMuseum #Chicago

🌟A powerful call for Writing In Community🌟 Inspired by archaeology, it centers care, joy, & #Collaboration over hierarchy & isolation. A refreshing & necessary vision for how #Anthropology (and academia) can do better producing knowledge together👇 anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌟 Honored that my book Çukuriçi Höyük 4 (ÖAW Press, 2022) was reviewed by Dr. Daniel J. Pullen in Journal of Near Eastern Studies (@uchicagopress.bsky.social ): “Her socio-cultural anthropological perspective is one of the great strengths of this study.” #anthropology 📕 Open access 👉 bit.ly/4nZJJtr

🌟 Excited to hit the road soon as part of the Archaeological Institute of America’s National Lecture Program — honored to be one of this year’s National Lecturers! bit.ly/4n9YrgN I'll speak and meet colleagues in #Milwaukee (WI), #Spokane (WA) & #NewOrleans (LA)! @archaeological.org #archaeology

🚪 A reminder of the power of open doors! I’ve written a blog about my ASciNA (Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America) mentoring experience. Grateful to @walterscheidel.bsky.social & @univie.ac.at for helping make a difference across continents 🌍 bit.ly/4fJM0Gc

Starting the day with a 3D printed Platia Magoula Zarkou house model, soon talking to the Field Museum Teen Volunteers about how I started in science and my current research projects. Working in a museum can be so fun! @oeaw.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social #Anthropology #Archaeology #Kinship #Family

🙌 Exciting new study from #Anatolia published by @compevohumang.bsky.social in @science.org today! Anthropologists have long argued that kinship and family do not need to be genetically oriented. The study from Çatalhöyük wonderfully highlights this point also for Neolithic in Anatolia. Congrats!

I’m happy to share that I've been appointed to the position of Research Associate in the Division of #Anthropology at the @amnh.org / American Museum of Natural History in New York until June 2028! I am extremely grateful for this wonderful opportunity while remaining to work out of Chicago!

I am delighted to see my debate article “Enthrone, Dethrone, Rethrone: The Multiple Lives of Matrilineal Kinship in Aegean Prehistory” appear in Archaeological Dialogues. Thanks to many for helping me developing this piece! It was fantastic 3 months as a fellow at @oeai.bsky.social in #Athens 2021!

Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT) at the University of #Chicago is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a fantastic lineup of speakers, including a lecture by Judith Butler. What a pleasure and privilege to learn about the many ways of theorizing the present!

✨Excited about heading to the Bay Area soon. ✨ I'll be giving a talk at Stanford Archaeology Center on Wednesday, 16 April at 12:00 about my #X-KIN project, meeting with the #ASCINA mentor Walter Scheidel (@walterscheidel.bsky.social) and fellow #MSCA fellows. events.stanford.edu/event/lunch-...

Interested in pursuing a postdoc or PhD in Europe? MSCA info session organized by #EURAXESS North America is starting soon: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/worldwide/no...

The Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) Annual Conference was like attending a long-awaited family reunion. The event united scientists, research managers, and industry pros across generations and disciplines to strengthen global research, partnerships, and innovation. #MCAAConf2025

New Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Guidelines to help institutions and supervisors in guiding MSCA researchers. 👉 op.europa.eu/o/opportal-s... #MSCAConf2025 @oeai.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @barbarahorejs.bsky.social

@marialep.bsky.social, the president of European Research Council @erc.europa.eu emphasizing the importance of science and promoting “Choose Europe” pilot program starting in 2025 at the #MCAAConf2025 in Krakow.

Brainstorming about citizen science, diversity & inclusion in research, and Horizon Europe funding at the Marie Curie Alumni Association Annual Meeting in Krakow. #MCAAConf2025

Honored to be part of this exhibition at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), showcasing the work of Marie Curie Fellows in the Mediterranean region! 🌍✨ Check out my interview to learn more ⤵️

Huge thanks to @archaeologyaia.bsky.social Chicago chapter & @cmkearnsy.bsky.social for hosting my talk in the Archaeology and Ale lecture series!🔬🍺 Cheers to @jnovembre.bsky.social embre.bsky.social, @knpazuzu.bsky.social sky.social, @alittlemedievalist.bsky.social list.bsky.social for coming out!

Cheers to @alittlemedievalist.bsky.social for getting into a PhD program at the University of Nottingham. Soon to be called Dr. Dick. 🙌

Please enjoy these adorable archaeology valentines 💖 🧵 #archaeology #valentines #resist

🚩Das Institut français d'Autriche und das französische Ministerium für Europa und auswärtige Angelegenheiten bieten Exzellenzstipendien für kurzfristige wissenschaftliche Forschungsaufenthalte (1 bis 6 Monate) in Frankreich an. Weitere Informationen hier.😀 www.institutfrancais.at/fr/bgf

Huge congratulations to all the EU researchers who got a #MarieCurie fellowship this week! An excellent way to celebrate women in science. This is the legacy of Marie Sklodowska Curie and her incredible talents. #MSCA Fun fact, the funding score cut off was around 95/100 points 😲

Hello, Bluesky! ☀️ We fund frontier research in Europe—bold ideas, unexpected discoveries and science that shapes the future. So it’s only fitting we’ve landed here. Sorry for being late. Follow us for updates on ERC funding, research policy, and our grantees' discoveries.

Are you an archaeologist who is or has been or has thought about being a AAA Archaeology Division member? The AD is seeking member and non-member input about the mission and future directions of the AD. The survey is short! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📙 A fantastic collection of papers with contributions from many of my colleagues at the Field Museum, edited by Alaka Wali and Tom Skwerski. Check it out 👇

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Obituary: Colin Renfrew (1937-2024) archaeologist who shifted thinking on how societies evolve https://go.nature.com/42vQThz

🔍 Are you working on human remains in settlements? 🦴🛖Present in our panel at the EAA in Belgrade! We welcome papers with no geographical or temporal limits that wish to discuss those assemblages by opening up the field of interpretative possibilities. @pennybickle.bsky.social #archaeology #EAA2025

🌟 It was lovely to catch the 10th #ScienceBall while in Vienna! Thanks to the @oeai.bsky.social team, @barbarahorejs.bsky.social, and @sciball.bsky.social for bringing us together! 🙌

💭 Wrapping up the week with inspiring conversations on containers and empowering women in science. Grateful to the International Research Center for Cultural Studies, @barbarahorejs.bsky.social & @oeai.bsky.social for fostering these important discussions in #Vienna. #womeninscience bit.ly/3EbWv6r

"the study confirms the commonly held view that postdocs are under pressure to publish...changing institutions or changing topics (but not too much) between PhD studies and postdoctoral training might also help people to secure faculty positions." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🙌 Looking forward to the exhibition opening event in Vienna and leading a panel discussion on “Empowering Women in Science” at the @oeaw.bsky.social, together with @barbarahorejs.bsky.social, Therese Lindahl (FFG), Bedanna Bapuly (Grant Service, OeAW), and Mostafa M. Shawrav (MCAA). #womeninscience

Marie Curies of the Mediterranean exhibition opening at the Middle Eastern Technical University in #Ankara, with Her Excellency Mrs. Tanja Fajon, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of #Slovenia, and #METU rector Prof. Dr. Ahmet Yozgatlıgil. mednight.eu/the-marie-cu...

Looking forward to the exhibition opening "Marie Curies of the Mediterranean" & a panel discussion on "Empowering Women in Science" at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna on 20 January. Join us! #womeninscience #mariecurie #msca @barbarahorejs.bsky.social www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeai/medi...

"Scientists need to recognize that bold presentation, dissemination, and support of scientific knowledge has become both a basic commitment and a political act." Powerful new article by @anthrofuentes.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Very happy to see our special issue published! It was great working toward it with @barbarahorejs.bsky.social, Nomos Verlag, and fantastic contributors. Check it out: www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/9783... #anthropology #archaeology

With the brilliant @sabinacvecek.bsky.social, we proudly present "The Seasonal & the Material" as joint edited Anthropos special issue! www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/9783... @oeai.bsky.social