Exciting work happening in the lab this week from @cmcarolus.bsky.social and Asa Cameron’s work in Kyrgyzstan! #archaeology #history #ecology

Currently in the Capriles Environmental Archaeology Lab @psuanthro.bsky.social using our incredible Keyence VHX-7000 to document very early Silk Road food remains (c. 2000 BP) from the Juuku Valley of highland Kyrgyzstan. Featuring: stunning images of peach pits, garden peas, and foxtail millet!

Ok this is WILD 🏺 paging my repatriation community peeps www.Bloomberg.com/news/article...

Very cool new study on Pleistocene materials from the Pacific northwest, yielding what are currently the earliest documented sewn hides and woven basket/mat fragments in the world.

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

🇲🇳🇲🇳🇲🇳 @isazooarch.bsky.social @archaeojake.bsky.social gotta work on that Patagonia sponsorship next 😂

This Upton Sinclair quote never misses “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

props to this christmas lad I’ve just spotted on @flightradar24.com

We don't have to let like 10 sloplords suck up all the water with soulless facilities that create a negligible amount of permanent jobs, pollute the environment with noise, and drive up electricity prices while the president carries out a fatwa against wind power. My god, everything's so stupid.

The plagiarism-droid just wants to please you, and it will do that by inventing citations, which you will love because of confirmation bias. It's not a literature review if you haven't reviewed the fucking literature. Jeez...

Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social. The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪 #AGU25 #climate

Lab research now available in ✨Mongolian✨🇲🇳 We are fortunate to work and partner with colleagues who take on the critical labor of translating the work of our team for our Mongolian colleagues, scholars, and community members. @cmcarolus.bsky.social @isazooarch.bsky.social @archaeojake.bsky.social

The website for UKAS2026 in Bristol is live! www.ukas2026.co.uk. Save the date - 30th March to 2nd April.

Due to popular demand, we will be extending the abstract submission for UKAS to after Christmas (8th January). Wishing a nice Winter break to everybody.

An exciting line-up of talks this week at @tag2025york.bsky.social! tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/programme/ If you're in York, come along to hear some of our speakers from BioArCh 🧵 (1/6)

Excited to give a talk for Universität Bonn’s Debates in ArchaeoSciences Lecture Series this Friday, and to spend time with their wonderful research community! 🧪🏺🪏

Future is surely going to ask just how we could be so careless of the dangers of #PlasticWaste and #PlasticPollution "The scale of uncertainty around how much plastic is entering our atmosphere is alarming" phys.org/news/2025-09...

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

New NSF award just dropped for our Co-Directors @isazooarch.bsky.social and @archaeojake.bsky.social! “Variables Influencing the Efficacy of Estuarine and Marine Resource Management”. #archaeology #ecology #fisheries #sustainability Visit here to learn more 👉🏻 www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

Looking forward to final Summer 2025 conference presentations, to take place at #ISBA11 in Turin. Tune in to a full length presentation on new proteomic evidence for the early spread of Asian rice at the #PAASTA meeting (8/26) as well as my scheduled flash talk on Thursday (8/28)!

ISBA11 starts tomorrow, and we have just one question for you... are you ready for it? #ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #turin #Archaeology #Italy #conference #AreYouReady @isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social

Just found out that 74 of my works have been scraped/stolen by the plundering AI bots, which are nothing more than plagiarism machines really, with zero respect for copyright. My fellow writers, check it out for your own work. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Good read. Like the author of this thread I didn’t study at Chicago, but I did apply and have spoken there. And so many friends and colleagues passed through, coming out with impressive training in deep reading and analysis.

In just under 3 weeks, we look forward to welcoming researchers from 40 countries in Turin, Italy for ISBA11 #ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #Archaeology #ISBAconference #archaeologicalconference #Turin @isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social

*conference update* The short schedule, full schedule, and mid-conference trip information is now available on the SEAA website

Registration deadline is TOMORROW! 🍝 🏺

we need to change direction and we need to be serious about it

So nice to see archaeology finally relevant again meidasnews.com/news/gop-ove...

Drs. Christina and Asa are in Kyrgyzstan! They’re interested in this unique location along the “Silk Road” and are looking closely at the introduction of agriculture and new crops into what is today Kyrgyzstan (and how these systems changed/were adapted locally over time)! 🇰🇬 🌱 #archaeology #ecology

Floating (pun intended) through a beautiful August in Kyrgyzstan 🍃 Pt. II

Floating (pun intended) through a beautiful August in Kyrgyzstan 🌱 Pt. I

✨Call for submissions✨ We’re seeking new submissions for our Archaeology of East Asia sub-series! This peer-reviewed sub-series publishes data-rich research from across East Asia, including often-overlooked areas. Heading to the #SEAA? Email [email protected] for a meeting! More info here

If you work in higher ed, you need to get your folks together and end the use of course evals or at least bar their consideration in evaluation, promotion, and hiring. This needed to happen yesterday because they don't measure learning, they measure instructor gender, but now it's a snitch pool.

Goodbye to the history department at Lancaster University, where the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social was founded 49 years ago. From tomorrow we are part of a School of Global Affairs. Next year, who knows what will be - please sign our petition against mass redundancies chng.it/PZfTFDjNcr

"Metabolic profiling of Iron Age residues from the oasis of Qurayyah, Northwest Arabia, reveals the earliest material evidence for the fumigation of the drug plant Peganum harmala, used in domestic contexts for medicinal and hygienic purposes. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

1/5 New recommendation: Dekker et al. & @zandraselina.bsky.social‬ (2025) Open science, communication, and collaboration for the future of palaeoproteomics. V4 recommended by @PCI_Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno.... #Archaeology #opendata #openscience @paastacommunity.bsky.social‬ #Palaeoproteomics

Excited to present on this highly promising method for the new archaeobotanical toolkit at #IWGP2025! Come by if you’re around! 🧬

So proud to join the ranks of this fantastic group of researchers and human beings. 🪏🏕️🧪 🌱🐠 I can truly think of no better team to be carrying out multidisciplinary work on the social and environmental dynamics of riparian worlds in steppic Inner Asia.

Our lab of archaeologists, historians, and ecologists studies social, economic, and environmental dynamics over the last 5,000yrs. From the earliest Indigenous villages on the US Atlantic coast, to nomadic Mongolian empires, to Black towns of the post-emancipation South. Follow for rad archaeology!

Hauling more dirt to @cmcarolus.bsky.social. I think we floted more per volume excavated than any site ever 🏅 Which has allowed us to recover incredible amounts of seeds and tiny bone. Data that rarely factor into narratives on the Xiongnu, the world’s first nomadic empire! Stay tuned! #archaeology

Penn State #Archaeology (@psuanthro.bsky.social) featuring Dr. Asa Cameron 🇲🇳

Flotation on the eastern Mongolian steppe #archaeology

We are super lucky to be working with Dr. Jargalan Burentogtokh and his undergraduate students from the National University of Mongolia! Today they are learning how to map, draw, and excavate features. #archaeology

Ancient Mongolian villages, tiny grains🌾, rivers, herds, fish, and friends: a few of my favorite parts of the ongoing 2025 season of the Khulunbuir Archaeological Project, now with the amazing SAHND and SHEL teams @psuanthro.bsky.social. Stay tuned.

We love #wateryworlds🇲🇳🍃🎣🐠🐏🪏🏕️

"It has come for science because it was never just about the Humanities, but about how we assess American progress through infrastructures of new knowledge and its application." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/02/t...

We are making a brand new #Museomics Lab at NHM Denmark, University of Copenhagen - working with DNA from museum & herbarium specimens. We are looking for a lab manager to join us - unlocking the amazing potential of our collections for global change 🌐 and #conservationgenomics research

It's mostly obvious. But it's worth saying explicitly and this is an example. Under the heading of "DEI" they're not simply banning some new things from the last decade but also what is simply civil rights enforcement and even (as here) the mere recognition & expression of racial & ethnic identity.

Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.