PhD Studentship alert! I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia. Details in the link below! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Talk at 10 CE time this morning online and in person : César Méndez and Amalia Nuevo-Delaunay from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile on "Discontinuous archaeological records and the peopling of West Patagonia". Register here: www.heas.at/events/heas-... @heasvienna.bsky.social

Great job opportunity here in Vienna at the Natural History Museum. @nhmwien.bsky.social jobs.nhm.at/Curator-for-...

If you are in the UK, BBC4 tonight at 8 pm "The Lost Neanderthals". A doco about the site of Mandrin (Fr) and the work there of Ludovic Slimak and team. You might spot a glimpse of me too - I have been lucky enough to work with them on the site chronology for several years. tinyurl.com/4uenwr7c

As expected, Bluesky better than X for scientists www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

🚨New paper alert!🧪 We explore the #Aurignacian at Grotta della Cala (southern Italy), providing robust evidence of human settlement shortly after the #CampanianIgnimbrite eruption (ca. 40 ka). 1/5 🌋 @tommyhigham.bsky.social @lucdoyon.bsky.social @boneslab.bsky.social & the University of Siena

Damn....Utah clownin.😂😂

New paper led by Annette Oertle out today focusing on our work at Castelcivita in Italy. A pleasure to work with our wonderful Italian colleagues. @katerinad.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This was a great talk by Prof. Necmi Karul on an incredible site - Karahantepe. Watch for the video soon on our HEAS YouTube channel.

Just about to start this talk here in Vienna. Tune in below online!

The warming stripes from Vienna... #ShowYourStripes showyourstripes.info

Still struggling to comprehend how, after 4 years of this evil incompetent lunatic in his first disastrous term, the US voted him in again. They could have had Kamala Harris instead.

This is total Black Mirror.

Always brings a lump to my throat. Love this. youtu.be/y6Wz3i_BYUc?...

You know what the world absolutely does not need? Yet another definition for domestication. Get over yourselves people. C'mon! Ok, maybe just one more. So much fun working with @elinork.bsky.social, Kathryn and Robin. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Join us this morning at 1030 CE time for a talk by a Roman Garba and Vitaly Usik on the first humans in Europe, more than 1 million years ago. Register below!

Reminder. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

Today we welcome @helenfewlass.bsky.social from the Unversity of Bristol to give the HEAS seminar in Archaeological Science! This is a virtual event, register below. Helen will discuss her work into near infra-red methods for detecting proteins non-destructively. @heasvienna.bsky.social

Look forward to seeing you online and in-person here in Vienna for today's HEAS talk from Axel Timmermann! Register below!

There is still one day left to apply for our 4 year postdoctoral position here in Vienna...!

Still finding it incredible that Americans chose Trump/Vance over this guy and Kamala Harris…

I feel this sums up my academic life right now...

I rent cars quite a bit. I couldn’t figure out how to open the boot on one I rented recently in the U.K. I just used the back seat to store the suitcase and backpack.

Ah the old modern humans using red ochre as sunscreen theory again. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04...

So fun to see a box of books arrive. The Korean translation! #TheWorldBeforeUs

I enjoyed writing about the Penghu mandible from Taiwan in my book "The World Before Us". I am really glad that biomolecular evidence has now confirmed that this amazing little jaw, fished out of the sea by a fishing boat, is a Denisovan! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A few hours in Oxford... How nice to see old friends and old haunts on a beautiful spring day! (@lorenabecval.bsky.social)

We are witnessing the destruction of science in America | Paul Darren Bieniasz www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My MSc student gave me this t-shirt after his viva! His project was about extracting collagen from some Palaeolithic bones which has virtually zero collagen! Nice work Leslie!

The resurrection circus keeps clowning, but make no mistake, Dire wolves remain very extinct. An angry, sweary piece by a frustrated geneticist. arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...

Trump's US imposes huge tariffs on Vietnam and Cambodia after everything they did to those two countries, the bombs they dropped, the people they killed... Disgraceful.

A mass grave of around 130 Roman soldiers has been excavated just to the south of us in Vienna's Simmering district. The remains are all aged between 20 and 30 years old and were exclusively males who appeared to have been killed in battle. Dates indicate ~80-120 AD. www.dw.com/.../mass-rom...

Congratulations to Katharina Luftensteiner on passing her defensio today with flying colours! Very proud of you.

We are happy to share our pre-print on dating bone using a novel non-destructive protocol we developed. The paper is on the Biorxiv here (Luftensteiner et al. 2025): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham

Ok, I’ve seen enough. This is the best thing I’ll ever watch on the internet. (Also, I’ve clearly failed as a father. Could have put my time to so much better use…) Double-decker electric “garden bus” from 1960s England.

Great new paper out on the relationship between climate and human dispersal and occupation in South America. Congrats @lorenabecval.bsky.social

This is a great project, and a great opportunity!

We are looking forward to welcoming Prof. Marie Soressi to Vienna next week as part of our @heasvienna.bsky.social seminar series. This is hybrid event. Register here: www.anthropology.at/teaching/hea... And sign up for our newsletter too!

Job alert! @katerinad.bsky.social and I are looking for an archaeologist/archaeological scientist to join us on a 4 year post-doc, helping to manage and participate in field and lab work on 2 ERC grants in our group. We would love to hear from you via the link! 👇 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct...

Celebrating International Women's Day. We are so proud to work with these, and many other, amazing women scientists, researchers, archaeologists, students at HEAS in Vienna. Happy IWD.

Thread 1/5: PREPRINT: A major milestone on #Paleoproteomics? Sciex 6600 TripleTOF analyses 99-million-year-old arthropods 🕷️ in amber. Study identifies proteins from #Cretaceous #Holothyrida mites & #Cornupalpatum ticks! de la Fuente et al. (2025) www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

Well played.

Taking out my frustration and sadness in Photoshop

Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

The behaviour of a gangster. Whilst other countries help Ukraine defend themselves with arms and funding, this dangerous clown sees only a business opportunity. Disgraceful. I'm so pleased that Zelensky, a brave and principled leader, has turned him down.

On this list of books banned in US schools more than 50 times in the past 2 years are titles like The Kite Runner, The Handmaid's Tale, The Color Purple and Water for Elephants. It's completely mad, unjust, unhealthy and unfair.

A very interesting article on the competitive and ethical aspects of sampling bones used in genomic analyses, based on a questionnaire of 60 archaeologists and curators in major museums and research facilities. Paper by Anna Källén et al. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

How cool to have a PhD scholarship, and one funded by Lorde.

A busy week with TWO HEAS @heasvienna.bsky.social talks. Today Oliver Pryce from the CNRS talking about the origins of the SE Asian Bronze Age. Wednesday it's Lisa-Marie Shillito from Newcastle Uni talking about her work in geoarch! @archaeologylisa.bsky.social These are hybrid! Register below!