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Hello Bluesky! 👋
Welcome to the official Bluesky account of #HESCOR - an interdisciplinary research project based at the #UniCologne!
We explore how the human and earth system co-evolve, bridging natural sciences, system modelling, and the humanities.

🔗 Learn more: www.hescor-project.com
HESCOR: Human & Earth System Coupled Research
HESCOR unites Earth system science, human modelling & humanities to study how climate and culture have co-evolved across history.
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June 4, 2025 at 8:51 AM
svalver.bsky.social
I'll be talking this week at the next #HESCOR Workshop: Network Analysis and Graph Databases. Many thanks to my colleagues at the University of Cologne for their kind invitation. @isabell-schmidt.bsky.social @shumon.bsky.social Program 🔗: www.hescor-project.com/news/hescor-...
Hescor Workshop: Network Analysis and Graph Databases - Hescor
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May 19, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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📢 New Blog Post
How can a rock from hundreds of kilometers away become a stone tool? Dr. Johanna Hilpert explains how HESCOR researchers study prehistoric #networks of interaction and #exchange 🌐🤝

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#Magdalenian #LBK #Modelling
January 14, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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What is HESCOR? 🤔
Join Andreas Maier and Nikki Vercauteren for insights into HESCOR‘s vision and research goals!

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#HESCOR #Interdisciplinary #UniCologne #EarthSystem #HumanSystem #ResearchProject #Culture #Nature
June 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Our Dr. Elena Robakiewicz joined the KIND workshop by @icdpdrilling.bsky.social to discuss scientific #drilling ideas for Israel's Lake Kinneret. The team aims to address research questions relevant to HESCOR, including #paleoclimate variability and its link to human #evolution.

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Drilling into Deep Time - Hescor
HESCOR Researcher, Dr. Elena Robakiewicz, was one of 65 scientists from all over the world who gathered in Potsdam from July 12-15 to discuss ideas for scientific drilling of Lake Kinneret in Israel.
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July 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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If you’re intrigued, read more about the HESCOR group here: hescor.uni-koeln.de
HESCOR Human & Earth System Coupled Research
HESCOR, abbreviation for Human & Earth System Coupled Research, is a new project at the University Cologne. Bringing together scientists from diverse disciplines. Archeologists, Climate Scientists, M...
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April 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
shumon.bsky.social
Upcoming @hescor.bsky.social and @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social event at the University of Cologne on the "Politics of More-Than-Human Life and Earth System Science" with an exciting programme: www.hescor-project.com/news/politic...
Politics of more-than-human life and Earth System Science - Hescor
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September 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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📢 HESCOR Seminar
#UoC Master's students! 👋
Curious about how humans and the Earth interact in complex, dynamic systems? 🌐🤝
Explore cutting-edge research and modelling approaches from climate science, archaeology, mathematics, and the humanities – all in one seminar!

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March 11, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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📢 New Blog Post
How can we actually model human migration? Max Brockmann breaks down how mathematicians can use Partial Differential Equations to #model continental-scale human #migrations in prehistory!

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#PDE #data #mathematics #interdisciplinary #prehistory
Modelling human migration on networks using partial differential equations - Hescor
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July 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Researchers at universities rarely work with researchers in other departments - why? Dr. Elena Robakiewicz highlights the difficulties of understanding #research and #data in other fields and what HESCOR is doing to address data #communication issues!

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Communicating Interdisciplinary Data - Hescor
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June 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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📢 Upcoming Event
HESCOR Vision Forum Session on European Neolithic Transitions, Networks, and Beyond! 🔍

When ⏰: Monday, September 22nd, 2025, from 09:00-12:00
Where📍: @unicologne.bsky.social

🔗 detailed program & information on how to register:
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#Neolithic #Networks #Archaeology
September 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
bserbe.bsky.social
Really productive (and a bit exhausting) day at the HESCOR Working Group Meeting at the University of Cologne today. Discussing different ideas on prehistoric networks and future directions of the Big Exchange Project. 🏺
November 27, 2024 at 10:29 PM
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📢 New Blog Post
How might an #interdisciplinary database work? HESCOR Project Database Manager, Philipp Schlüter, lays out the technical problems and potential solutions for creating HESCOR's #database.

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Diagram showing a virtual machine running a Docker environment. Inside Docker are four isolated containers: NGINX proxy, CKAN application, PostgreSQL (metadata), and SOLR search—representing the HESCOR database components running separately.
September 17, 2025 at 10:09 AM
cdwren.bsky.social
Several postdoc positions in modelling human-environment interaction at University of Cologne imfess.uni-koeln.de/hescor/posit...
September 12, 2023 at 4:03 PM
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📢 New Student Blog
How to integrate uncertainty and biases in the #HEPModel?
Anna shares experiences from her Master's thesis at #UoC, where #ClimateScience & #Archaeology come together.
🔗 Read her story here: www.hescor-project.com/student-pers... and learn more about #HESCOR #OpenScience
June 15, 2026 at 6:28 AM
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📢 Join #HESCOR at the #VarI #Tag-der-Archäologie this Saturday (July 5, 11–17 h) in Bonn! Tilman and Johanna will present our research on long-term #human–environment interactions. Discover #archaeological institutions and projects in #Cologne & #Bonn. More info here:
July 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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📢 Upcoming Event
BLE & HESCOR Workshop: Interdisciplinary Cooperation and Profile Building 🌐🤝

When: November 28th, 10:00-14:00
Where: Stadtpalais in Aachen

🔗 detailed program & information on how to register:
shorturl.at/PRotW

#interdisciplinary #research #collaboration
Slide showing name and date of the workshop and logos of the projects as well as of the University of Cologne and RWTH Aachen University.
November 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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✍️ HESCOR Comics
We are collaborating with Dr Frederik von Reumont (Institute of Geography Education) to create easily digestible #educational #comics about the #interdisciplinary scientific process for the public, ranging in age from school children to the young at heart!

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June 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
JOB: University of Cologne, 3-year Research Associate in Human System Modelling: Background in digital or enviro humanities (PhD linguistics, literary/cultural studies, history) to develop/test new modules for human system resilience & cultural carrying capacity. imfess.uni-koeln.de/hescor/posit...
October 4, 2023 at 8:58 AM
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📢 New Blog Post
What does innovation have to do with #population? And what drives #innovation - hardship or abundance? @tilmanhartley.bsky.social explores some of the theoretical questions about how different aspects of #human #societies might impact innovation!

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How do population size and connectedness, and resource scarcity and sufficiency, influence technological innovation? - Hescor
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July 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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📢 New Blog Post
How did Europe's first #farmers 10,000 years ago interact with their environment? 🌾
Dr. Johanna Hilpert shares how HESCOR researchers are studying the #Linearbandkeramik culture and their relationship with the environment!

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#Neolithic #LBK
Example of sites and Human Existence Potential (HEP) calculations in the western distribution of the earliest Linearbandkeramik culture (LBK). Regions with higher potential (higher HEP values) are indicated in red tones, ranging from light to dark. Black dots mark sites of the earliest LBK occupation (after Fischer & Hilpert). The background map is the EMODnet World Base Map.
May 6, 2026 at 5:52 PM
kamillalomborg.bsky.social
Still high from an amazing Kiel Conference. Meeting old/new colleagues, inspiring talks, and presenting my environmental reconstruction and hominin dispersal modelling work in a session of the HESCOR group - sharing the same goal, but different routes to get there… exited to see how it turns out!
April 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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📢 Student Perspective
What makes Earth Scientists so sure that the current #climate crisis is man-made? HESCOR Ringvorlesung student Bethan Callow explains why scientists have a lot of certainty about our role in current global climate changes!🌦️

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A view of Earth from space against a starry background with a bright sun flare. Large white text on the right asks: 'IS CLIMATE CHANGE NATURAL?'
February 11, 2026 at 10:46 AM
oliverkern.bsky.social
Excited to announce that I will join HESCOR (Human and Earth System Coupled Research) at the University of Cologne next year.

I will investigate the impact of climate fluctuations on hunter-gatherer migration (45-15 ka BP) in Europe using a high-resolution Human and Earth system coupled model.
November 27, 2023 at 5:06 PM
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Updated ESLR jobs board! Big highlights: 10 PhD positions in bioacoustics + AI (bioacousticai.eu), 6 postdocs in human/earth systems at U of Cologne, (imfess.uni-koeln.de/hescor/posit...), complexity fellows at SFI (apply-sfi.smapply.org/prog/complex...) 🦜🌍💻 bit.ly/ESLR-Jobs
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September 26, 2023 at 9:37 PM