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shumon.bsky.social
Forager and Multispecies Archaeology, Palaeolithic & Mesolithic, Environmental Humanities, Animal-kin, Boardgames & eSports
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Permanent full time Lectureship in Archaeology (Museum Studies) in my lovely department at UCC! Join us! www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

#Programm der Tagung „Die Dinge einmal anders betrachten – Neuer Materialismus in der #Archäologie“ 🏺 🗓️20.-21.3.25 🛖Mainz Organisiert von @agtida.bsky.social, @leizarchaeology.bsky.social, @clusterroots.bsky.social & dem Marburger Centrum für Antike Welt Interesse? Registriert euch bis zum 10.3.!

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Apply for our Visiting Scholar Fellowships for 2025 and 2026! We welcome applications from scholars at all levels and from all disciplines and all parts of the world, who want to work with us and contribute to shaping the emerging field of Anthropocene history. www.kth.se/anthropocene...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

New digital volume edited by the wonderful ANTHEA team on the science, storytelling and arts of human-heathland entanglements, and I had the pleasure to contribute a small piece on 🐳 and🐻‍❄️ and the associated #archaeology of final Pleistocene #multispecies systems: heathland.place/the-heath-an...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Are you an #envhum scholar looking to make a difference for the field? Become a co-editor of the journal Environmental Humanities! We need a new set of 2 co-editors to replace Franklin & I from Jan 2026. See the call here: environmentalhumanities.org Contact us if you have any questions.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

War unterwegs und bin total froh, dass ihr euch wehrt!

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Forderungen von #IchBinHanna im Bundestagswahlkampf 2025 als Video und als Dokument: ichbinhanna.wordpress.com/stellungnahme/

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Looking for regular news and fascinating research updates in the field of multidisciplinary environmental studies in the humanities? Check out @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social and stay tuned… 😉 @snorrithepriest.bsky.social @caroschwegler.bsky.social @shumon.bsky.social

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Research Associate position (100%, with teaching responsibilities) in Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Cologne (deadline: 09.02.2025): jobportal.uni-koeln.de?offset=0&sho...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Leider. Vielleicht merkt es bald mal wirklich jeder 🤒

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"As a result, the Nahuas think the good life to consist of learning to take a stand on the slippery earth [that is the cosmos writ large]" - S. Purcell 2023 on "Aztec" philosophy): Perhaps a good motto for 2025?

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Evidence for the catalytic role of humans in the assembly and evolution of European Late Pleistocene scavenger guilds www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

Deadline extended, January 15! #IamScouting #HenrietteHerzfellow @humboldt-foundation.de

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Finde es sehr deprimierend wie sich auch Deutschland an einer einseitigen Stereotypisierung des 🐺 (und letztlich an der "Hetze" gegen 🐺) beteiligt hat: www.wwf.de/2024/dezembe... Wer das "Problem" undifferenziert beim 🐺 sucht wird nie zu einer sinnvollen "Lösung" für das Leben insgesamt gelangen.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Little critter 🎄-surprise: new paper on long-term human-scavenger interactions during ❄️Age Europe, arguing that human activities in the landscape increasingly favoured smaller, faster animals (🦊🦅) at the expense of larger ones (🦁🐻): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Yes, I'm nonbinary (neither analytic nor continental)

submitted 524 days ago • 3 comments

Just finished "The Invention of Prehistory" (2024) by the great Stefanos Geroulanos: rarely have I read such a powerful and timely book and rarely have I been in such general agreement with the basic points put forward; this book, for me, means intellectual hope and I cannot recommend it enough.

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

The application portal for our master's program has opened today! You can find more information and the application portal by following this link: www.environmentmaster.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/application/... #rccapplications #rccma #ma #environment #society #envhum #academicprograms

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

🏺 Only 6 days left for our CfP "Looking at things differently - new materialist approaches to archaeology" www.leiza.de/call-for-pap...

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

This is neat - earlier pre-domestication - human/dog synanthropism in Late Pleistocene N America, which gels pretty well with our work across a range of other mammals and birds. Dietary, anatomical and behavioural diversity index the association with humans

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments

Looking for a postdoc in use-wear analysis of Pleistocene expedient osseous tools? Check out this offer from the #ERCStG ExOsTech project at #universitébordeaux euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/296676

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 86 days ago • 46 comments

"Older animals perform vital roles in populations and ecosystems," writes @kellerfish.bsky.social, but "the value of old, wise animals is not usually considered when we manage animal populations and seek to protect biodiversity." theconversation.com/humans-are-k...

submitted 96 days ago • 4 comments

"Zugteilung in Hamm: Eine praxeologische und medientheoretische Kritik."

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