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Philip R Nigst
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robfoley.bsky.social
David Clarke, Analytical Archaeologist - Cambridge meeting to mark the 50th anniversary of his death - update and further information: the list of speakers, programme and registration now available here

www.arch.cam.ac.uk/analytical-a...
Analytical Archaeologist: The living legacies of David Clarke in contemporary scientific archaeology | Department of Archaeology
David Clarke died on the 27th June 1976. He was only 38 years old. When he died, he left behind his wife, Stella, and two young children, Andrew and Leonora. Their loss must have been awful.
www.arch.cam.ac.uk
September 14, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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rmcelreath.bsky.social
Last year, I publicly complained multiple times (see e.g. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...) that the open access movement had been captured by publishers, and we are now worse off than before open access. Well people got mad at me for saying it. But I think things are still getting worse.
eschares.bsky.social Eric Schares @eschares.bsky.social · 17d
🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025).

We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025.

arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm
September 2, 2026 at 6:51 AM
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leizarchaeology.bsky.social
🎉 ERC Starting Grant for our colleague Tamara Dogandžić!

For her new #research project Early ENCOUNTERS, she has been awarded funding from the European Research Council @erc.europa.eu: €1.5 million for five years of research. #Archaeology #LEIZArchaeology #ERCStG @paleomonrepos.bsky.social
View from above of researchers carrying out excavations in an excavation trench. In the background is the massive rock face of the Suhi Dol archaeological site in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
September 3, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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wcmurph.bsky.social
Check out our experiment paper looking at the effects of freeze thaw on combustion residues! #paleolithic, #geoarchaeology, #fire 🔥🔥
August 28, 2026 at 4:53 AM
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icarehb.bsky.social
🔥 Can freeze–thaw cycles erase traces of ancient #fire? #ICArEHB researchers Murphree, Devevey & Aldeias explore #combustion residue preservation in a new open access study in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
#Geoarchaeology #Archaeology
August 27, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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rebaysalisbury.bsky.social
My students wrote about their fieldwork experience @univie.ac.at

www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Graben lernen in 4000 Jahre alten Siedlungsschichten
Lehrgrabung in Ungarn: Auf den Spuren einer 700 Jahre lang bewohnten Bronzezeitsiedlung
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August 1, 2026 at 9:08 AM
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heasvienna.bsky.social
#NewPublication

#NewArticle from #HEASVienna member #ViolaSchmidt at al. on 'Bone retouchers and end-scrapers side by side at Bushman Rock Shelter: Exploring a ca. 100,000-year-old technological imbrication in southern Africa'

#HEASPublications
www.heas.at/research/pub...
Field pictures illustrating one example of sedimentary association between end-scrapers and bone retouchers in the SUs of the phase 28,here from SU EEpp excavated in 2015. A) Picture taken during the excavation of SU Eepp in subsquares P5c and P5d. Note the proximity between the end-scraper BRS-246 (inside the blue circle) and the bone retoucher BRS-263 (inside the white circle, resting on the cortical surface). B) Drawing of the end-scraper BRS-246 by Michel Grenet. C) Bone specimen BRS-263, with a closer view on the area with modifications to the right. Note that the orientation of the bone specimen BRS-263 differs between A (distal part facing up) and C (distal part facing down). (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)
July 20, 2026 at 9:27 AM
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heasvienna.bsky.social
#NewPublication!

#NewArticle from #HEASVienna member #ViolaSchmid et al. now on our website 👇🔗

#HEASPublications

www.heas.at/research/pub...
photo of the site (photo by I. Sifogeorgaki).
July 20, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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paleoanthjourn.bsky.social
The PaleoAnthropology journal is pleased to announce that we have been selected for inclusion in the Directory of Open Access Journals!

For more information see here: doaj.org/toc/1545-0031
July 6, 2026 at 9:58 AM
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stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social
Huge congratulations to Viola Schmid on her stand-alone project ROSES!! So excited to contribute to this research on the LSA in the eastern Free State Province in South Africa @oeai.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @heasvienna.bsky.social
fwf-at.bsky.social Österreichischer Wissenschaftsfonds FWF @fwf-at.bsky.social · Jul 1
174 neue Forschungsprojekte mit einem Gesamtvolumen von 84,3 Millionen Euro erhalten eine #FWF-Förderung. Insgesamt wurden über 780 Förderanträge eingereicht. 📑

Die neu bewilligten Projekte sind ab sofort im Forschungsradar online abrufbar. 👉

www.fwf.ac.at/aktuelles/de...
Der FWF fördert exzellente Grundlagenforschung
In der dritten Vergaberunde 2026 fördert der Wissenschaftsfonds FWF 174 Forschungsprojekte. Die Details zu den aktuellen Förderzusagen sind online abrufbar.
www.fwf.ac.at
July 1, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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rebaysalisbury.bsky.social
Look what arrived in the post today 😊
Mothering in Antiquity, edited by Giulia Pedrucci The Bioarchaeology of Mothers (chapter by Katharina Rebay-Salisbury)
June 22, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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archaeoprotein.bsky.social
🚨Job alert🚨We are hiring a Laboratory Technician (24 months) to support our research in Archaeological Proteomics (ZooMS) at the University of Reading (UK), including our COEXIST project. More info here: tinyurl.com/bdfvawh8 #palaeoproteomics #ZooMS
June 16, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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palaeotrails.bsky.social
We’re hiring a Research Assistant🚨

Interested in human evolution and African prehistory?

We’re looking for someone with excellent organisational skills who will be based in Cambridge, with fieldwork opportunities in Kenya🇰🇪

Deadline: 01.07.2026

🔗 Apply online:
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
Research Assistant in the Ng'ipalajem Project (Fixed Term)
Applications are invited for a 12-month Research Assistant position on the NG'IPALAJEM project, funded by the ERC. The project aims at collecting new palaeontological, archaeological and geological da...
www.cam.ac.uk
June 22, 2026 at 10:50 AM
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arikmalinsky-b.bsky.social
Come to work with me!!! We are searching for a Paleolithic archeologist, no specific field of specialty. Looking forward to your applications
humendylab.bsky.social humendylab.bsky.social @humendylab.bsky.social · Jun 11
Job alert! A tenure-track position in Prehistoric Archaeology, at the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is now open (archaeology.huji.ac.il)! Outstanding candidates should submit their application by the 12th of August! Further details: @arikmalinsky-b.bsky.social
June 11, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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humendylab.bsky.social
Job alert! A tenure-track position in Prehistoric Archaeology, at the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is now open (archaeology.huji.ac.il)! Outstanding candidates should submit their application by the 12th of August! Further details: @arikmalinsky-b.bsky.social
June 11, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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heasvienna.bsky.social
We are looking forward to welcoming @lucdoyon.bsky.social to #HEASVienna next week for a #HEASSeminar in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic.

More information and registration on our website 👇🔗

www.heas.at/events/heas-...
HEAS Seminar Series - Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic - HEAS
As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic Luc Doyon Associate Research Professor, IKERBASQUE Distinguished Researcher, Universidad del País Vasco / Euskaldún Herido Un...
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June 9, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social
Happy to share our new paper on non-destructive FTIR analysis on silcrete artefacts from Mertenhof and Diepkloof with heating temperature reconstructions. Is the data beautiful and clean? No. But is it still meaningful? Yes! Study led by Will Archer: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Fire, temperature control, and silcrete heat treatment at Diepkloof and Mertenhof Rock Shelters, West Coast, South Africa
Transformative technologies that alter raw material properties, rather than just raw material shape and size, are key proxies for the evolution of hum…
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May 29, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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heasvienna.bsky.social
#HEASVienna members took to the streets of Vienna today along with 21,000 colleagues and students from across the Universities in Austria to protest the proposed budget cuts to University funding. #unisretten
May 27, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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thechitoncorner.bsky.social
Call for a demonstration, Wednesday, 27 May 2026, 13:00, starting on the Universitätsring in front of the Main Building of the University of Vienna!
www.univie.ac.at/en/news/deta...

Please join us and support #Science in Austria! @univie.ac.at @vdsee-univie.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social
Budget – Universities call for demonstrations against budget cuts
Rector Sebastian Schütze: "Enormous reputational damage"
www.univie.ac.at
May 22, 2026 at 7:13 AM
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dshcs.bsky.social
Ohne Unis keine Zukunft

Am 27.05. gehen wir gemeinsam auf die Straße gegen die geplanten Budgetkürzungen. Gerade jetzt braucht es ein klares Zeichen für gute Studienbedingungen, Chancengerechtigkeit & zukunftsfähige Hochschulbildung

📍27.05.2026 I 13:00 Uhr
🏫Vor dem Hauptgebäude der @univie.ac.at
May 22, 2026 at 11:42 AM
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univie.ac.at
Unis rufen zu Demos gegen Kürzungen auf‼️
Die Unis befürchten Einsparungen von einer Mrd. Euro im #Budget. Rektorensprecherin Brigitte Hütter sprach bei einer Pressekonferenz von einem "Supergau" für Unis, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Rektor Schütze sprach von enormen Schaden für die Reputation. ⤵️
Budget - Unis rufen zu Demos gegen Kürzungen auf
Rektor Schütze:
www.univie.ac.at
May 20, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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heasvienna.bsky.social
We are looking forward to welcoming #ArianeBurke @burkeam.bsky.social to #HEASVienna for a #HEASSeminar in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic.
@philipnigst.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social

More information and registration is on our website 👇🔗

www.heas.at/events/heas-...
HEAS Seminar Series - Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic - HEAS
As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic, Ariana Burke from the Université de Montréal will give a talk on Adapting ecological modelling techniques to investigate the...
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May 12, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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paleoanthjourn.bsky.social
We’re excited to announce that the first 2026 issue of PaleoAnthropology is now online!

A big thank you to everyone who made this issue possible.

📖 Read it here:
paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...

#PaleoAnthropology #HumanEvolution #Archaeology #OpenAccess
May 9, 2026 at 7:38 AM
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icarehb.bsky.social
🧪 Lab-based microstratigraphic excavation for high-resolution archaeological sampling. #ICArEHB researchers Aldeias, Goldberg, McPherron, Li and Mallol co-author this #PaleolithicArchaeology study in J Paleo Arch using #Microstratigraphy.
🔗 10.1007/s41982-025-00253-y
May 5, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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robfoley.bsky.social
Proud dad post! Hugh Foley shortlisted for Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets, for his ‘Recent Poems’

michaelmarksawards.org/shortlist/hu...
May 3, 2026 at 8:59 AM