Shumon T. Hussain
@shumon.bsky.social
Hunter-Gatherer and Multispecies Archaeology (Deep Time), Environmental Humanities, More-Than-Human Deep History, Animal-kin, Boardgames & eSports, Politics of Life - PI of ECOLITHIC & ZOOGESTURES @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social
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Shumon T. Hussain
@shumon.bsky.social
· Oct 20
Humanimalia
Humanimalia
humanimalia.org
Hej #animal, #human-animal, and #multispecies #archaeologists! The OA journal Humanimalia (humanimalia.org) is a great venue for your critical and concept-driven papers! Coincidentally, I am the new Section Editor "Multispecies Archaeology" - so drop me a line if you have questions/ideas! 🏺🐶🦌🦇🦥🦉🐘🦩
👇 I argue that "interdisciplinary literacy" and a mode of interaction grounded in what I call the "parity principle" of interidisciplinarity are key conditions of success (yet are often not seriously discussed in interdisciplinary teams of researchers, which must change) 🏺🧪
📢 New Blog Post
Achieving true interdisciplinarity is hard! @shumon.bsky.social makes an argument for accepting the transformative nature of #interdisciplinary research - even if that means researchers must revisit their standard methods and assumptions!
🔗 read on here:
shorturl.at/YE4gx
Achieving true interdisciplinarity is hard! @shumon.bsky.social makes an argument for accepting the transformative nature of #interdisciplinary research - even if that means researchers must revisit their standard methods and assumptions!
🔗 read on here:
shorturl.at/YE4gx
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
👇 I argue that "interdisciplinary literacy" and a mode of interaction grounded in what I call the "parity principle" of interidisciplinarity are key conditions of success (yet are often not seriously discussed in interdisciplinary teams of researchers, which must change) 🏺🧪
My grapple with the "ontological turn" and its implications for human-animal archaeologies; many points are not new but I contend that "ontological" cannnot be a mere replacement for "culture" and that the critique is radically empirical (not "metaphysical"): www.eaz-journal.org/index.php/ea... 🏺
www.eaz-journal.org
November 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
My grapple with the "ontological turn" and its implications for human-animal archaeologies; many points are not new but I contend that "ontological" cannnot be a mere replacement for "culture" and that the critique is radically empirical (not "metaphysical"): www.eaz-journal.org/index.php/ea... 🏺
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TU/e has gained a new research centre: META/e. Daniël Lakens and Krist Vaesen were among the founders of this knowledge hub for metascience—research aimed at improving the practice of science itself. “We want to be a home for every researcher who occasionally wonders: what are we even doing?”
Knowledge centre META/e: home for those improving science
TU/e has gained a new research centre: META/e. Daniël Lakens and Krist Vaesen were among the founders of this knowledge hub for metascience—research aimed at improving the practice of science itself. ...
www.cursor.tue.nl
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
TU/e has gained a new research centre: META/e. Daniël Lakens and Krist Vaesen were among the founders of this knowledge hub for metascience—research aimed at improving the practice of science itself. “We want to be a home for every researcher who occasionally wonders: what are we even doing?”
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Our 12 month environmental policy researcher position is now live! Come and work with @graemewarren.bsky.social at UCD on our @britishacademy.bsky.social funded Prehistoric Policies project with @alicerudge.bsky.social and me. It'll be fun, I promise! my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Our 12 month environmental policy researcher position is now live! Come and work with @graemewarren.bsky.social at UCD on our @britishacademy.bsky.social funded Prehistoric Policies project with @alicerudge.bsky.social and me. It'll be fun, I promise! my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...
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Weil ich gerade in einem Artikel schon wieder lesen, bei ARD und ZDF wolle man nicht nur die Interessen von Akademikern, sondern auch von "einfachen Leuten" vertreten, möchte ich mal eins sagen: Als Akademiker fühle ich mich von diesem Programm nicht mal ein bisschen vertreten, schaue es selten.
November 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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What a time to be alive 🙈
2025 ist dann also das Jahr, in dem Rassismus („Stadtbild“), Klassismus (Bürgergeld), weitere Ausprägungen gruppenbezogener Menschenfeindlichkeit und nun Eugenik durch politische Akteure im deutschen Diskurs tiefenverankert wurden, auch durch mediale Begleitung und journalismusfreies Mainstreaming.
November 13, 2025 at 12:18 PM
What a time to be alive 🙈
Invasion Ecology is really the dark side of the force.
Observed and Dark Diversity of Alien Plants Across the World #bioinvasions 🌎🌐🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Observed and Dark Diversity of Alien Plants Across the World
Aim
Biological invasions are one of the major threats to ecosystems worldwide and are expected to increase further in the future. Prevention and swift responses are crucial to mitigate this threat. .....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Invasion Ecology is really the dark side of the force.
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A permanent post in my department. Closing date Dec 14th 2025, interviews in March. Please spread #histsci
Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400
Applications are invited for the position of Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Please note
www.cam.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 10:07 AM
A permanent post in my department. Closing date Dec 14th 2025, interviews in March. Please spread #histsci
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Our distance learning (on line) Graduate Certificate in Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology and Anthropology is now open for applications for Sept 2026 start. Full details below or contact me to discuss. Please share!
@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @eaapam.bsky.social
www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...
@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @eaapam.bsky.social
www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...
October 30, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Our distance learning (on line) Graduate Certificate in Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology and Anthropology is now open for applications for Sept 2026 start. Full details below or contact me to discuss. Please share!
@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @eaapam.bsky.social
www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...
@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @eaapam.bsky.social
www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...
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Excited to share that we have just been awarded a NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant to work on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins. We will soon advertise a 3 year post-doc to join the team - drop me an email if you might be interested! Pls share widely 🙏🏻
July 31, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Excited to share that we have just been awarded a NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant to work on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins. We will soon advertise a 3 year post-doc to join the team - drop me an email if you might be interested! Pls share widely 🙏🏻
New PhD and Post-Doc positions in archaeology available in Kiel 👇
Looking for a PhD or Postdoc position in archaeology? @clusterroots.bsky.social at @uni-kiel.de has currently 14 (!) positions advertised for start in 2026. Feel free to contact me or any of the other PI's for more information. Deadline is 15th December. Link: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/... 🦣🏺👇
Aktuelle Ausschreibungen
Aktuelle Ausschreibungen
www.uni-kiel.de
October 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New PhD and Post-Doc positions in archaeology available in Kiel 👇
I habe mal KI gefragt und sie hatte keine relevanten Antworten.
October 24, 2025 at 7:23 AM
I habe mal KI gefragt und sie hatte keine relevanten Antworten.
I was always a fan of the "alternative routes", especially ocean-bound, hypothesis but I generally find it sooo interesting to see how the standards of evidence and interpretation have fundamentally shifted with the reconfiguration of the guiding paradigms of the "peopling" of the Americas 🏺
New research reveals that the First Americans shared toolmaking traditions with Paleolithic cultures of East Asia, tracing a migration along the Pacific Rim around 20,000 years ago. #Archaeology #Paleolithic #HumanMigration #PacificRim www.anthropology.net/p/stone-memo...
Stone Memories: How Ancient Toolmakers Carried the Pacific into the Americas
New research traces the First Peoples of North America to a shared Paleolithic tradition spanning the Pacific Rim, revealing a migration story written in flint and obsidian.
www.anthropology.net
October 24, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I was always a fan of the "alternative routes", especially ocean-bound, hypothesis but I generally find it sooo interesting to see how the standards of evidence and interpretation have fundamentally shifted with the reconfiguration of the guiding paradigms of the "peopling" of the Americas 🏺
I wish I could house them all 😅
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... Housing crisis solution of a different sort.
Artificial nests being trialled to solve palm cockatoo 'housing crisis'
Few birds have nesting requirements as finicky as Australia's largest parrot, the palm cockatoo, which is facing its own housing crisis due to a shortage of breeding habitat.
www.abc.net.au
October 24, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I wish I could house them all 😅
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„Wir haben mal 1 KI gefragt“, heißt es dieser Tage beiläufig in allen möglichen Kontexten, häufig ohne jeden erkennbaren Mehrwert, einfach, weil man‘s kann. Das ist Normalisierung der Nutzung von Fake-Schleudern, die Kreativen die Jobs streitig machen & das Internet mit Slop zumüllen. Was soll das?
October 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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When one reflects upon one's own actions and tries to balance self-acknowledgement and self-critique.
October 24, 2025 at 6:47 AM
When one reflects upon one's own actions and tries to balance self-acknowledgement and self-critique.
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Apply now for a free week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities organized by the Greenhouse and the project Energy Lives! project run by @melinabuns.bsky.social
Takes place in Stavanger, Norway, 1-5 December 2025
www.uis.no/en/research/...
#envhum #envhist #energy
Takes place in Stavanger, Norway, 1-5 December 2025
www.uis.no/en/research/...
#envhum #envhist #energy
Apply for PhD Course on Energy Humanities
5 ECTS PhD course ‘Themes within Environmental Humanities’ to be held in Stavanger, 1-5 December 2025. This year’s thematic focus is the developing field of the Energy Humanities.
www.uis.no
October 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Apply now for a free week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities organized by the Greenhouse and the project Energy Lives! project run by @melinabuns.bsky.social
Takes place in Stavanger, Norway, 1-5 December 2025
www.uis.no/en/research/...
#envhum #envhist #energy
Takes place in Stavanger, Norway, 1-5 December 2025
www.uis.no/en/research/...
#envhum #envhist #energy
Well deserved!
Congratulations to Professor Chantal Conneller, Professor of Early Prehistory for receiving the Grahame Clark Medal from the British Academy! 🏅🦕
Find out more⬇️
https://bit.ly/43ivms8.
Find out more⬇️
https://bit.ly/43ivms8.
October 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Well deserved!
A democracy, similarly, isn't (just) a system of representing individual interests and positionalitites, so that electorial choices and political actions become a mere question of correlative alignment between what voters appear to "want" and what parties supposedly "stand for".
A democracy isn’t (just) an electoral system. It’s also a culture of deliberation, debate, sensitivity to public concern, attention to social movements and community leaders, respect for civil rights and minority interests, free expression and association and due process. How’s your country doing?
October 23, 2025 at 6:18 AM
A democracy, similarly, isn't (just) a system of representing individual interests and positionalitites, so that electorial choices and political actions become a mere question of correlative alignment between what voters appear to "want" and what parties supposedly "stand for".
Very timely 🧍♀️🌍 journal, also super relevant for @hescor.bsky.social and @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social folks
www.kth.se/anthropocene... I am looking forward to the new journal #AnthropoceneHistory starting with a double issue to be launched in October 2026
@iceho.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social
@carsoncenter.bsky.social
@austhistassoc.bsky.social
@aehhub.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social
@iceho.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social
@carsoncenter.bsky.social
@austhistassoc.bsky.social
@aehhub.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social
New journal: Anthropocene History | KTH
www.kth.se
October 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Very timely 🧍♀️🌍 journal, also super relevant for @hescor.bsky.social and @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social folks
H-U-M-A-N-I-M-A-L-I-A 😘
Hej #animal, #human-animal, and #multispecies #archaeologists! The OA journal Humanimalia (humanimalia.org) is a great venue for your critical and concept-driven papers! Coincidentally, I am the new Section Editor "Multispecies Archaeology" - so drop me a line if you have questions/ideas! 🏺🐶🦌🦇🦥🦉🐘🦩
Humanimalia
Humanimalia
humanimalia.org
October 22, 2025 at 7:40 AM
H-U-M-A-N-I-M-A-L-I-A 😘
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The journal Environmental Humanities is still looking for midcareer/senior #envhum scholars interested in becoming a co-editor-in-chief from January 2026. You can apply as an individual and we'll find an appropriate co-editor match for you.
See environmentalhumanities.org
See environmentalhumanities.org
Environmental Humanities – A journal published by Duke University Press
environmentalhumanities.org
October 21, 2025 at 6:34 AM
The journal Environmental Humanities is still looking for midcareer/senior #envhum scholars interested in becoming a co-editor-in-chief from January 2026. You can apply as an individual and we'll find an appropriate co-editor match for you.
See environmentalhumanities.org
See environmentalhumanities.org
Will Friedrich Merz jetzt alle Männer abschieben, um Deutschland für Frauen endlich sicherer zu machen?
October 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Vorschieben, Frauen & Mädchen schützen zu wollen, als würde sexualisierte Gewalt vor allem von Migranten ausgehen, ist so hanebüchen wie perfide. Es ist rassistisch und misogyn zugleich - und eine klassische Erzählung von Rechtsextremen, die im Übrigen nicht auf "Schutz", sondern Besitzanspruch fußt
October 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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"Schrödinger's emphasis on the rigidity and specificity of the hereditary material [] influenced how [] biologists conceptualized macromolecules, resulting in a deterministic, engineering view of the cell that is still popular today—even if it is increasingly at odds with experimental findings" 😉
New Element in the Philosophy of Biology series—free to download until Oct. 24! @djnicholson.bsky.social uncovers Schrödinger’s motivations for writing "What Is Life?", revisits its central arguments & examines the book’s lasting impact on cell & molecular biology👇 www.cambridge.org/core/element...
October 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"Schrödinger's emphasis on the rigidity and specificity of the hereditary material [] influenced how [] biologists conceptualized macromolecules, resulting in a deterministic, engineering view of the cell that is still popular today—even if it is increasingly at odds with experimental findings" 😉