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tommyhigham.bsky.social
Professor at the Univ. of Vienna dating archaeological sites; bones, Neanderthals. Author of "The World Before Us" (http://tinyurl.com/2p873jy8). Kiwi. ORCID: 0000-0002-5949-598X https://highamlab.univie.ac.at
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Taking out my frustration and sadness in Photoshop

Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

The behaviour of a gangster. Whilst other countries help Ukraine defend themselves with arms and funding, this dangerous clown sees only a business opportunity. Disgraceful. I'm so pleased that Zelensky, a brave and principled leader, has turned him down.

On this list of books banned in US schools more than 50 times in the past 2 years are titles like The Kite Runner, The Handmaid's Tale, The Color Purple and Water for Elephants. It's completely mad, unjust, unhealthy and unfair.

A very interesting article on the competitive and ethical aspects of sampling bones used in genomic analyses, based on a questionnaire of 60 archaeologists and curators in major museums and research facilities. Paper by Anna Källén et al. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

How cool to have a PhD scholarship, and one funded by Lorde.

A busy week with TWO HEAS @heasvienna.bsky.social talks. Today Oliver Pryce from the CNRS talking about the origins of the SE Asian Bronze Age. Wednesday it's Lisa-Marie Shillito from Newcastle Uni talking about her work in geoarch! @archaeologylisa.bsky.social These are hybrid! Register below!

Very proud and pleased to see my book out today in Persian. Thank you to Elham Ghasidian for translating it and doing everything to get it published.

Some holiday time with the family near Salzburg on the slopes.

We just finished our first 3 week practical course in AMS dating! 10 MSc students spent time pretreating samples of ancient bone and extracting the collagen for combustion, graphitisation and AMS dating. They completed our Bayesian workshop and presented their results. highamlab.univie.ac.at/news/

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Let’s do it

Latest member of the lab.

@nature.com is keen to find out how scientists are using @bsky.app and whether it has become their go-to social-media platform. Do you use Bluesky? Has it replaced Xitter? We want to hear from you. www.nature.com/articles/d41... #eXit

Thank goodness for @michaelemann.bsky.social on channel 4 news tonight spelling out the science of climate change wrt to the Cali fires. 🔥

Happy New Year

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Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.

He poured me a glass of red at a PJ gig in London once, loved him for that!

Happy festive season from all of us at the Douka/Higham lab - University of Vienna! Have a safe and happy Christmas break wherever you are! See you in 2025 for more 14C, palaeoproteomics, DNA and arch-sci fun! 🔔🎄☃️❄️🔔🎄☃️❄️🔔🎄☃️❄️ @katerinad.bsky.social highamlab.univie.ac.at doukalab.univie.ac.at

‘It will exist for ever’: Bluey fans fearful and excited for cartoon’s future.

What a lovely end to the year; one student making a great find on her last day before holidays, another sharing a brilliant paper we have worked on for >year with colleagues, a paper accepted on Wednesday and a revision submitted at 450 pm today plus the lab Christmas tree finally went up! 🌲

Job alert! In our department here in Vienna. Postdoctoral Researcher in Evolutionary Genomics! Come and work in the world's most liveable city. Details below 👇 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct...

What a great moment!!

‘It is quite creepy’: Keira Knightley flagged ‘stalkerish’ aspects while shooting Love Actually. I think it was really creepy…

Lab outing to the Belvedere Palace Christmas market! 🍺🍺🎉🎉

Massively proud of @katerinad.bsky.social today. You rock love! erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Interesting thread on Twitter…I feel good to have come here.

A combination of #microCT and #ZooMS suggests... ... trapping and production of fur clothing at 12,900 BP La Prele site (Wyoming).

So nice to see good news. Notre Dame reopening offers ‘shock of hope’, says Emmanuel Macron.

A nice starter pack of our researchers here in Vienna at @heasvienna.bsky.social Follow us for lots and lots about *Human Evolution and Archaeological Sciences* HEAS!

Today’s cake is a Godrogodro cake - a traditional delicacy from Madagascar! Thanks Manasij from all of us in the lab!