Such an important moment for the 🌊🥳. Doing our little share we started 2 years ago funding grantees to link their work within EEZ with potential highseas MPAs, e.g. @fundacionmarviva.bsky.social re Cocos Island in 🇨🇷 & Thermal Dome. @oceancecilia.bsky.social #OceanOptimism

Excited to share the new Steering Committee of PAASTA 🎉 An ECR-driven community working to foster an open, inclusive, and collaborative space for palaeoproteomics researchers worldwide. Looking forward to building and growing this community together 🧬

Denkt an VG Wort, morgen ist Deadline!

Sclerochronology in the @cnrs.fr journal ! Read about the work of our colleagues Laurent Chauvaud, Julien Thébault and Erwan Amice, and the use of bivalves as invaluable archives of the environment and climate. news.cnrs.fr/articles/she... 🌊🧪🦑🌍

Andrew has really taken one for the team (ie everyone) here. This thread continues long past the point of despair, and is worth every post

🚨 Job alert! The University of Tübingen announces a W3 (Full) Professorship in Early Hominin Evolution in the framework of the DFG Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS': uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... Application deadline: 11.03.2026 🚨

Hey #Archaeology peeps: if you had a daughter who really wants to major in anthropology (despite all your arguments against), what fieldschool would you send her to? I'm thinking best educational experience, getting to know archaeologists, and an excellent, safe director.

Found a startling comparison using real photographs of one reef over the decades.

This super accessible book is now free to download 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/element...

One month left to submit your abstracts for the University of Lancashire AEA conference 7-9th May 2026. We've got some fantastic keynotes linked up, a conference dinner that involves curling and a field trip add on! Abstract submission: tinyurl.com/5fdv7e3c Registration here: tinyurl.com/3x5jnz3c

📊 Just launched: An interactive dashboard for visualising UK university finance data published by HESA. Compare universities. Explore key financial indicators, trends and correlations. 🔗 shiny.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/lpzjd/uni-fi... #UKHE #OpenData #rstats #AcademicSky

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

This #OpenAccess Book on Coastal Archaeology 🏺is now available online with almost 50 chapters: www.sidestone.com/books/archae...

Don't forget the 46th #AEA conference will be hosted by Lancashire University on 7th - 9th May 2026 Details can be found here: envarch.net/conferences The abstract deadline is: 22nd February #environmentalarchaeology #zooarchaeology #archaeobotany #palynology #landscapearchaeology

Over on Facebook Save Sheffield Archaeology have issued a statement regarding the news that head of the Archaeology Department before its closure, Caroline Jackson, has left the University. The campaign group claims that Professor Jackson was forced out by the University's senior management

New #OA paper in Ecological Informatics comparing automated methods for provenance assignment using chronological chemical records deposited into archival structures such as #otoliths, #lenses, #statoliths. Our focus was on #salmon but it has much broader application. doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

9. We cannot allow bullying and threats. Several colleagues have been bullied online and offline since Belgrade. The leadership continues giving the bullies a voice and at the SM most of us were directly threatened by them while the AAHC is so limited in action. Is this the EAA we want?

Solidarity with Zena who is a superb editor and a solidly good person. Personal attacks have been levelled against many EAA members (myself included) by a small group of colleagues. This is unacceptable. The EAA executive must make that clear or resign (or both).

🚨 New vacancy🚨 Interested in high-resolution climate reconstructions, or know someone who might be? Apply for our exciting new, fully funded PhD position where you will develop reconstructions of extreme weather events in the geological past from fossil shells! 🌩️🌀🌊🐚 werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/ph...

Following yesterday's EAA Special Meeting, I have submitted a complaint to the EAA Appeal and Anti-Harassment Committee. I post it here, with names redacted, for any members who were not present. Thank you so much to everyone who has reached out with messages of solidarity and support 🙏💓🙏

With daily urine production of 0.6-1.8 L and life expectancy of 60 years, 1400 km3 = 30 - 100 billion people. Seems consistent with numbers that are floating about, but exponential population growth rate means small uncertainty in palaeo population size = enormous uncertainty in date of origin.

Calling all Palaeoanthropology Researchers to please check whether this "Fast Fact" in my kids' book lines up with the beginning of human origins and Palaeolithic populations #HardScience 🏺

In a new study, researchers from @uab.cat claim people have been whaling for almost 5,000 years – and that the earliest evidence comes from the warm coastal waters of Brazil, not the Arctic. www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org

#EAAforDemocracy Democracy is at stake at EAA: all archaeologists should be very concerned A Special Meeting for members will take place on Jan 9th 2026 about the dysfunctioning of the current EAA leadership. See below:

🚨Urgent‼️ The EAA has doxxed members who have been working to reestablish justice, democracy and accountability in the association. This is a chilling move. We must take action. ALL EAA MEMBERS OUT FOR THE SPECIAL MEETING THIS FRIDAY JAN 9TH! #EAAforDemocracy

ZooMS helps to identify domesticated sheep and goat at early Neolithic sites in northern Europe onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

a lot of people don't realize that Christmas carols and traditions are actually folk memories of suppressed pre-Christian events, namely the end of the Third Age and the Fall of Sauron.

The award-winning SCAPE Trust is a Registered Charity and a Company established in 2001. We work with the public on the archaeology, history and past environments of the coastal zone of Scotland. scapetrust.org/who-we-are/

🏛️ Announcing our new MSc and GradDip in Mediterranean Archaeology at UCD School of Archaeology and UCD School of Classics. Join us in Dublin, Ireland, next academic year to take our MSc in Mediterranean Archaeology. 📝 Registration opens in January. For more details: www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...

New blog post by Matt on some of his preliminary dissertation work! “Seasonal Oyster Collection by Gullah/Geechee Communities of the American Southeast through Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS)” seafront-project.com/post/seasona...

It's the final day of @TAG2025_York 😭 It's not all bad news, though, as our collection of Contemporary #Archaeology and Theory is still FREE until the end of the month 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Massive thanks to all the organisers and volunteers for putting together a fantastic event!

Out now & #openaccess: Grimm, Oliver (Ed.): Beast and Human: Case Studies for Northern Europe from Prehistoric to Early Modern Times, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2025 (LEIZA Publications, Volume 8). doi.org/10.11588/pro... #LEIZArchaeology #Archaeology #HumanAnimalStudies

An all-too-common interaction I've had: Scientist: Our research can help shape policy to protect this endangered animal. Me: Neat! How? What policy? What is it now, and what should it be instead? Scientist: Uhhhhh..... Our new paper can help! www.southernfriedscience.com/shark-scient... 🧪🦑🌍🦈

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

HEY! YOU! ggdibbler 0.6.1 is finally up on CRAN! harriet-mason.github.io/ggdibbler/in... You can now pass random variables to any aesthetic in any ggplot geom/stat. If you can express it as a distribution, ggdibbler can plot it. It also works with ggplot extensions, like gganimate. #rstats

Wally Wallington si diverte a dimostrare cosa si può fare con una leva. Stima 25-year with only 520 work @maurov1968.bsky.social

Starting my trip to Stavanger's AEA @envarch.bsky.social conference! Our talk on Mesolithic Cnoc Coig 🏺is on Friday! It's just after lunch, so you can all be at peak attentiveness. @leizarchaeology.bsky.social @unistavanger.bsky.social

Headed back from an EXCELLENT trip to @leizarchaeology.bsky.social. Matt will stay to finish his samples. But why zap shells with a laser? Sure, we’re figuring out what seasons these oysters were collected 200yrs ago, and from where in the estuary, but so what? #archaeology #ecology

German academia: great place to work? You should think twice before giving it a try: Permanent positions are very rare, most scholars have to drop out after some precarious years. @dianakwon.bsky.social has written a great piece about this for @nature.com and also talked to yours truly. #IchBinHanna

Explore marine biodiversity data with @dassh-at-the-mba.bsky.social Mapper, an interactive map that lets you search, view and download species and biotope records by survey, species name, location, biotope type and more. Visit: www.dassh.ac.uk/dasshmapper to start exploring UK marine life data.

The #LandscapesofConflict conference is underway. Until Friday, international experts are exploring how conflicts have shaped landscapes and human–environment interactions for more than 6,000 years. A deep-time perspective on a pressing global issue. #LEIZArchaeology #ConflictArchaeology #Research

I've written a few, mostly scholarly, but this is probably the most publicly accessible. A short book written to introduce readers to how archaeologists get stories out of dirt, bones, and broken things

Come work with us! Prehistoric Policies is coordinated by me, Ben Elliott @archsoundscapes.bsky.social and Alice Rudge @alicerudge.bsky.social. Contact me with any queries.

Why is Matt zapping oyster shells thousands of times with lasers??!! This week we’re analyzing oysters with Dr. @niklashausmann.bsky.social using laser induced breakdown spectrometry (LIBS) to “map” the elemental makeup of the oyster’s shell throughout its life 1/3 #archaeology #ecology

Usually this is done with 15-20 oxygen isotope samples/shell. Taking weeks of work. For Matt’s sample of oysters, this would usually cost $45k. Instead, it costs a trip to @leizarchaeology.bsky.social + a single oxygen sample/shell (to determine the salinity of the water the oyster grew) 3/3

Dear Bluesky, www.thenerve.news is still tiny. We launched it with no dirty money (no money at all, lol!). But we're proving what's possible with a small expert team & no billionaire owners. We knew the UK press wouldn't understand or properly cover this story, so we did. Thank you for the support!

Two more weeks for sending the applications in one of the vacancies in the ERC funded INASIA project. Check who we are looking for and join the team: inasia.uw.edu.pl/we-are-hirin...

The SASA Archaeological Terms and Translations, has recently been updated. Translations of terms relating to archaeology and material culture are now available in several new languages! ▶️Click here to access the FREE vocabulary lists: saveancientstudies.org/archaeological-terms #SASA #OpenAccess

What research is being undertaken in the field of maritime and underwater #archaeology? What is the potential for future research? Check out our review of 'Delivering the deep: maritime archaeology for the 21st century' in the latest #NewBookChronicle 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Several minute piece on the BBC. Lots of detectorists. No archaeologists. No-one from PAS. No-one from museums. No discussion of the costs or responsibilities involved. 😡 #Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure #BBC #News