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Evolutionary archaeologist at-large interested in cultural transmission, environmental/computational archaeology, and novel ecosystems. Professor, papa, pizza-lover. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sfHIPiabSMwC&hl=en
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Cultural Evolution Postdoc Alert 🚨

Anyone can now freely access the talks from the Cultural Evolution Conference Durham 2024 - perfect for first-time viewing or a rewatch! underline.io/events/456/l...

Led by the one and only @acortellnicolau.bsky.social, the summary paper from the funky Archaeo-riddle project (theia.arch.cam.ac.uk/archaeoriddle) - possibly the first specifically archaeological tactical simulation competition - is now out in J Archaeological Science.

New, colourful perforated discs, their waste, and use at amazing Pincevent: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... - were they spinning top parts, @roope.bsky.social? 🤩🌀

Defining medieval raptor diets using isotopy - they were feeding differently, notably by "the incorporation of carrion from large mammals as scavenged prey in settlements, a food resource that is largely lacking from modern-day landscapes in large quantities" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I'm on route home from the absolutely amazing @icarehb.bsky.social #HEIRS opening symposium heirs.icarehb.com. HEIRS is the hub for Human Evolution Research Synthesis - IMO a truly visionary and timely science initiative.

I'm excited to be part of this new initiative that seeks to leverage the incoming palaeogenomic data to better understand kinship and population relatedness across temporal and spatial scales. www.archsynth.org/2026-design-...

A few more days to apply! Together with @jcsvenning.bsky.social and as part of @econovoau.bsky.social we're offering this fab 2-yr postdoc position: international.au.dk/about/profil...

Check out this interesting postdoc opportunity! 🧪🏺💀

🎉Fresh off the press! Ever wondered what to do if a catastrophe hits? If so, read on!

Tagging the feeds on our new paper announcement! 🏺🧪🦣

It's Friday eve here, I've had pizza and wine but let me share our latest paper anyway, out in @science.org lil'sis SciAdv: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...! Lead by @cdwren.bsky.social we model how the fabled 'resilience' emerges as a function of different behavioural strategies.

This is a great and awesome study - from what we understand of ecosystem dynamics and what losing megafauna does to system function this makes 💯 sense www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Come and do an exciting palaeo-PhD with my great colleague @loopdlupien.bsky.social here at @aarhusuni.bsky.social phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...

Slight update - the conference will take place from June 25-27 instead! Hope to see you all on Aarhus this summer for some white nights and awesome papers!

Well, alright, Neanderthals (or some groups of Neanderthals) could make and 'interpret' cave art. This makes it all the more pertinent to ask why they, on the whole, didn't engage in this activity.

Did a distant volcanic eruption affect Neolithic societies in Denmark - economically, demographically, politically, and culturally? It seems so www.cambridge.org/core/journal... published in @antiquityj.bsky.social

Bis Ende Jänner könnt Ihr Euch noch an unserer "Sexismus in der Archäologie" Umfrage beteiligen! Wir sammeln Fallbeispiele und Stimmen aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum. www.umfrageonline.com/c/quruyhze

Important and quite scary climate science. In a palaeo-perspective, the 8.2ka event is the closest analogue and it created widespread if also regionally variable demographic and cultural change in Europe and elsewhere #tippingpoints

#meetECONOVO – core group member michaelmhansen.bsky.social is Prof. in conservation & population genomics 🌍🧬. Focusing on conservation genetic status, genome-environment associations and #climatechange adaptability of #megafauna 🐘🌿 – comparing systems with indigenous vs introduced feral spp🦘🐗

Eek.

Amen! And I really hope the Captain's Wednesday post will make it to BlueSky before long!

Melting #ice reveals almost 6000 y/o #forest buried in the #RockyMountains - offering a "time capsule" from the past: 🏺 www.newscientist.com/article/2463... by @tmitchellbrown.bsky.social via @newscientist.bsky.social

We're hiring! Are you a cultural evolutionary modeller who wants to understand how and why children's peer cultures evolve? Here's a postdoc position for you! @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @durhampsych.bsky.social @ehbea.bsky.social @eslr.bsky.social Apply here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Final call !! Apply for this funded PhD at University College London @UCLarchaeology.bsky.social on Establishing limits of Neanderthal presence in Britain. Deadline 20th Jan 5pm Uk time www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/est...

Today's the premier of our short but amazing film on what we're up to in @econovoau.bsky.social - animals, plants, humans, a bit of archaeology and some 💩, we've got all bases covered, including some really amazing and important science. Get your 🍿, sit back and have a watch 👇

Thanks to the FT Magazine for running these two climate cover stories - one on wildfires (July 2023), one on a possible collapse of Atlantic currents (January 2025). And thanks to everyone who read each piece, showing there is an audience for climate features www.ft.com/content/7711...