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

If you're in York this Saturday, there's a "Women in #Geology" day of lectures at Tempest Anderson Hall, Yorkshire Museum @yorkshire-geol-soc.bsky.social @ypsyork.bsky.social. Will be fascinating - starts 10.45, keynote by @toriherridge.bsky.social, free tickets www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-g...

I don't usually promote non-academic, non-political things on here, but can only recommend to listen into this new album. 🚨 #jazz 🚨 listen.music-hub.com/oztYxb

SEM folks! 🏺🐚🧪 Has anyone seen structures like this before?

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

seafront-project.com/post/calibra... Largest dataset on Mg/Ca in shells yet (+100 and over a dozen sites)🐚 Again, we found tightly correlated but shell-specific relationships between temperature and Mg/Ca. Lots of potential for future archaeological studies🏺 @leizarchaeology.bsky.social

Wherever we looked for the prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler. manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

Nigel Farage says this summer’s Raise the Colours movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. Our reporters in five cities had a look and that’s not what we found.

▶️JETZT REINSCHAUEN: #VoicesForClimate mit Dr. Eckart von #Hirschhausen & Lea Dohm zum Thema "Gesunde Erde - Gesunde Menschen - Gesunde Seele" 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFVV... #Klima #Nachhaltigkeit #BildungFürNachhaltigeEntwicklung #Klimabildung #Zukunftsmodul #VisionsForClimate

The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English. Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues! Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...

SO MANY AI-generated PhD proposals in my email

Eigentlich irre, wie das so eine Meldung unter vielen ist. »Ein trauriger Tag für Deutschland. Wir haben einen Kulturgut, den Dorsch in der deutschen Ostsee, verloren.« www.deutschlandfunk.de/eu-fangquote...

New paper out! 🎉 We explore how deep learning (CNNs) can classify polish on experimental flint tools based on contact material and use intensity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

⭐ The ADS Data Catalogue is Live!⭐ Explore hundreds of thousands of archaeological resources including over 100,000 reports and 5,000 archive collections. 👉To find out more and start exploring visit buff.ly/BMulYqQ

27.10.2025 - #VoicesForClimate: "Gesunde Erde - Gesunde Menschen - Gesunde Seele" von Dr. Eckart von #Hirschhausen & Lea Dohm / Infos & Anmeldung unter 👉 https://zukunft.uni-mainz.de/vfc/ #Klima #Nachhaltigkeit #BildungFürNachhaltigeEntwicklung #Klimabildung #Zukunftsmodul #VisionsForClimate

This is absurdly bad PR. These are the images that need amplified. If you're online, think strategically about which images need to go viral to tell the story of the horrors of this moment. RT and share the shit out of them.

Midweek #Archaeology on Bluesky 🏺 | Ongoing Mesolithic research on the North York Moors, England. Special interest on the Mesolithic-to-Earliest Neolithic overlap around 3900-3700 cal BC. Flints - uniquely - within peat allow dating & more insights. Read more at timevista.co.uk/about/resear...

it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science

I did not know this. Sharing for any other R-using or R-adjacent people who also did not know it.

Are you a student at a UK university and looking for support to come to TAG York? Did you know the Royal Archaeological Institute Cheney Bursary is available to support you? You can find more details here: www.royalarchinst.org/grants/bursa... @royalarchinst.bsky.social

yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)

We’re excited to be part of the new #DFG research group TORF, investigating the lost coastal landscapes of medieval #NorthFrisia! This collaborative project with @unimainz.bsky.social, @uni-kiel.de, @leizarchaeology.bsky.social ALSH, and NIhK is funded by @dfg.de. #Archaeology #Geography

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Today our PI @idegroote.bsky.social presented the project and the results so far on the #MESO2025 in Ferrara

In Ferrara (Italy) this week for the Meso2025 conference to talk and learn about all things Mesolithic. Presented Monday about my team's work on identifying the Mesolithic in W Liguria, which was unknown until 2021. 🏺🦣 meso2025.sciencesconf.org

After ten years, along with my co-founders and co-editors-in-chief @toriherridge.bsky.social and @mlaw.bsky.social, I am stepping down from the role of editor-in-chief of Open Quaternary. We're searching for someone who will be dedicated to continuing the success of the journal-could it be you?

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...

1/3 New recommendation: Miranda A. Evans‬ (2025) The Demodifier: a tool for screening modification-induced alternate peptide taxonomy in palaeoproteomics. ver.4 recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🧪🏺🦣

Anyone fancying a last-minute post-ex week, this'll be fun. Cracking location, small-group teaching, excellent people.

For anyone who can't be at the #MESO2025 🏺conference this week, please have a look at our poster, either directly here seafront-project.com/PDFs/Meso202...

No outrage from me...... She's bang on the money here. #nadiyahussain #charliekirk #GazaGenocide #IsraelWarCrimes #selectiveoutrage #racism

Bei der Vortragsreihe #VoicesForClimate der @unimainz.bsky.social ist wieder das #LEIZA @leizarchaeology.bsky.social dabei: mit @niklashausmann.bsky.social ! 😃 Hört euch alle Vorträge an (sie sind hybrid), es lohnt sich! @geschichtsadmin.bsky.social @sci-ffert.bsky.social