Stewie Stewart
@stewiestewart.bsky.social
Zooarchaeology, ZooMS, Taphonomy
Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University, Australia
Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University, Australia
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Cool work from my colleagues @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social just dropped! Merlin Szymanski, @janetk.bsky.social et al. developed quicksand, a fast, accurate and beautifully designed Nextflow pipeline for taxonomic classification of mammalian mtDNA from ancient sediment DNA. doi.org/10.1093/molb...
quick analysis of sedimentary ancient DNA using quicksand
Abstract. Ancient DNA extracted from the sediments of archaeological sites (sedaDNA) can provide fine-grained information about the composition of past eco
doi.org
November 28, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Cool work from my colleagues @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social just dropped! Merlin Szymanski, @janetk.bsky.social et al. developed quicksand, a fast, accurate and beautifully designed Nextflow pipeline for taxonomic classification of mammalian mtDNA from ancient sediment DNA. doi.org/10.1093/molb...
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The debate on when people first arrived in Australia continues! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Genomic evidence supports the “long chronology” for the peopling of Sahul
Genome data provide support for the first settlement of Australia and New Guinea via at least two routes by 60,000 years ago.
www.science.org
November 29, 2025 at 8:49 AM
The debate on when people first arrived in Australia continues! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Zooarchaeologist
MOLA
Salary: £30,048 - £33,164 (depending on location and experience))
Closing Date: December 12, 2025
Location: Northampton
www.bajr.org/job-ad/zooar...
MOLA
Salary: £30,048 - £33,164 (depending on location and experience))
Closing Date: December 12, 2025
Location: Northampton
www.bajr.org/job-ad/zooar...
Zooarchaeologist - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources
Salary: £30,048 - £33,164 (depending on location and experience)Closing Date: 12/12/25Location: Northampton
www.bajr.org
November 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Zooarchaeologist
MOLA
Salary: £30,048 - £33,164 (depending on location and experience))
Closing Date: December 12, 2025
Location: Northampton
www.bajr.org/job-ad/zooar...
MOLA
Salary: £30,048 - £33,164 (depending on location and experience))
Closing Date: December 12, 2025
Location: Northampton
www.bajr.org/job-ad/zooar...
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Here's a report from Jenny Sinclair @jsresearchpro.bsky.social on the low success rate for DECRAs this week, driven by high demand and low Government funding for early career researchers in Australia.
[Free article in @resprofnews.bsky.social]
[Free article in @resprofnews.bsky.social]
Low success rate in early career grants ‘deeply disappointing’ - Research Professional News
“Decay continues” as Australian Research Council’s Decra scheme announces 13.1 per cent success rate
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Here's a report from Jenny Sinclair @jsresearchpro.bsky.social on the low success rate for DECRAs this week, driven by high demand and low Government funding for early career researchers in Australia.
[Free article in @resprofnews.bsky.social]
[Free article in @resprofnews.bsky.social]
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I taught (and co-taught) a course on human population genetics from 2000-2024. Having retired, I'm now making all the course materials public: github.com/alanrogers/p... #popgen #evbio
GitHub - alanrogers/popgen: A course on population genetics
A course on population genetics. Contribute to alanrogers/popgen development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I taught (and co-taught) a course on human population genetics from 2000-2024. Having retired, I'm now making all the course materials public: github.com/alanrogers/p... #popgen #evbio
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The ARC will soon be overhauling its entire grants system. They've never undertaken such a huge set of changes. Doing it while sacking existing staff and restructuring … I just … 🤯😡
ARC are considering a restructure in which jobs there will be lost, a source tells me.
This seems ridiculous when they're about to completely overhaul the entire grants system – they've never undertaken anything so large before!
I've long said ARC needs MANY MORE staff, & should do more, not less.
This seems ridiculous when they're about to completely overhaul the entire grants system – they've never undertaken anything so large before!
I've long said ARC needs MANY MORE staff, & should do more, not less.
November 26, 2025 at 6:17 AM
The ARC will soon be overhauling its entire grants system. They've never undertaken such a huge set of changes. Doing it while sacking existing staff and restructuring … I just … 🤯😡
Have been running around China looking at fossils and haven't had a chance to post this yet.
Check out our latest article published last week in PLOS
Novel archaeological and palaeontological findings in cave and palaeoriver landscapes of inland northeast Arabia
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Check out our latest article published last week in PLOS
Novel archaeological and palaeontological findings in cave and palaeoriver landscapes of inland northeast Arabia
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Novel archaeological and palaeontological findings in cave and palaeoriver landscapes of inland northeast Arabia
Knowledge about environmental change and the evolutionary history of hominins in Arabia has been rapidly developing over the last two decades. Interdisciplinary research on humans and environments acr...
dx.plos.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Have been running around China looking at fossils and haven't had a chance to post this yet.
Check out our latest article published last week in PLOS
Novel archaeological and palaeontological findings in cave and palaeoriver landscapes of inland northeast Arabia
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Check out our latest article published last week in PLOS
Novel archaeological and palaeontological findings in cave and palaeoriver landscapes of inland northeast Arabia
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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Are the job losses and restructure being considered by the ARC because of this?
November 26, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Are the job losses and restructure being considered by the ARC because of this?
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🚨 #LIEF #LE26 announcement:
❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities 2026❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/287
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❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities 2026❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/287
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November 25, 2025 at 3:03 AM
🚨 #LIEF #LE26 announcement:
❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities 2026❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/287
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❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities 2026❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/287
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ARC says they’ll announce DECRA and LIEF outcomes tomorrow (Tuesday 25th Nov).
In recent times these announcements have been around 11am Canberra time. With 2 schemes on the same day, I assume they’ll announce one of them later in the day (probably DECRA first).
In recent times these announcements have been around 11am Canberra time. With 2 schemes on the same day, I assume they’ll announce one of them later in the day (probably DECRA first).
November 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
ARC says they’ll announce DECRA and LIEF outcomes tomorrow (Tuesday 25th Nov).
In recent times these announcements have been around 11am Canberra time. With 2 schemes on the same day, I assume they’ll announce one of them later in the day (probably DECRA first).
In recent times these announcements have been around 11am Canberra time. With 2 schemes on the same day, I assume they’ll announce one of them later in the day (probably DECRA first).
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Charles Darwin University is looking for a Lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges and Heritage, which will suit an anthropologist or archaeologist with a focus on Australia.
Continuing Full Time, Teaching Focused, Level A/B
A$76,604 – A$137,659 pa
Details here:
www.cdu.edu.au/careers-cdu
Continuing Full Time, Teaching Focused, Level A/B
A$76,604 – A$137,659 pa
Details here:
www.cdu.edu.au/careers-cdu
Careers at CDU | Charles Darwin University
Discover career opportunities and find useful information about working at CDU.
www.cdu.edu.au
November 23, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Charles Darwin University is looking for a Lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges and Heritage, which will suit an anthropologist or archaeologist with a focus on Australia.
Continuing Full Time, Teaching Focused, Level A/B
A$76,604 – A$137,659 pa
Details here:
www.cdu.edu.au/careers-cdu
Continuing Full Time, Teaching Focused, Level A/B
A$76,604 – A$137,659 pa
Details here:
www.cdu.edu.au/careers-cdu
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‘Pry open the jaws of Treasury’ to fund CSIRO amid hundreds of job losses, Labor MP Ed Husic tells own party
‘Pry open the jaws of Treasury’ to fund CSIRO amid hundreds of job losses, Labor MP Ed Husic tells own party
Husic, who oversaw CSIRO cuts as the former science minister, said some in government see scientific agency funding as a ‘cost’ not an ‘investment’
Ed Husic has challenged his own government to “pry open the jaws of Treasury” to boost funding for Australia’s national scientific agency after it announced up to 350 research jobs would be cut to deal with an imminent budgetary cliff.
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) announced on Wednesday it would look to cut between 300 and 350 research unit roles as part of efforts to narrow its research scope and address an ageing property portfolio in need of urgent modernisation. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:40 AM
‘Pry open the jaws of Treasury’ to fund CSIRO amid hundreds of job losses, Labor MP Ed Husic tells own party
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Join the course "Proteomic Methods for Species Identification" by Transmitting Science, taught by Dr. Michael Buckley from Dec 12-19. Learn peptide mass fingerpr… https://www.transmittingscience.com/courses/genetics-and-genomics/palaeoproteomics-and-zooarchaeology-by-mass-spectrometry-zooms/ #course
Proteomic Methods for Species Identification of Archaeological and Palaeontological Materials
Uncover the secrets of the past with our Transmitting Science course on Palaeoproteomics and Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS).
www.transmittingscience.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Join the course "Proteomic Methods for Species Identification" by Transmitting Science, taught by Dr. Michael Buckley from Dec 12-19. Learn peptide mass fingerpr… https://www.transmittingscience.com/courses/genetics-and-genomics/palaeoproteomics-and-zooarchaeology-by-mass-spectrometry-zooms/ #course
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A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire
go.nature.com/4nHZmoM
go.nature.com/4nHZmoM
‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network
Nature - A high-resolution digital map nearly doubles the known length of the ancient road network.
go.nature.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire
go.nature.com/4nHZmoM
go.nature.com/4nHZmoM
Collagen fingerprinting and sequence analysis provides a molecular phylogeny of extinct Australian megafauna
Collagen fingerprinting and sequence analysis provides a molecular phylogeny of extinct Australian megafauna | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
During the Late Pleistocene, Sahul—the former land mass of Australia, Tasmania and
New Guinea—faced one of the greatest waves of megafaunal extinctions on the planet,
for reasons that remain highly de...
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Collagen fingerprinting and sequence analysis provides a molecular phylogeny of extinct Australian megafauna
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Morning read
nautil.us/how-i-learne...
nautil.us/how-i-learne...
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Uncertainty
I now realize Heisenberg and Schrödinger are less like physicists and more like therapists.
nautil.us
November 12, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Morning read
nautil.us/how-i-learne...
nautil.us/how-i-learne...
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Become our colleague! - 2yr Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past (UU) @humanpastcenter.bsky.social 🧪
Great place to work at (ok, I am biased), integration with archaeologists and linguists + pretty flexible research topic
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Great place to work at (ok, I am biased), integration with archaeologists and linguists + pretty flexible research topic
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past - Uppsala University
Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University
www.uu.se
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Become our colleague! - 2yr Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past (UU) @humanpastcenter.bsky.social 🧪
Great place to work at (ok, I am biased), integration with archaeologists and linguists + pretty flexible research topic
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Great place to work at (ok, I am biased), integration with archaeologists and linguists + pretty flexible research topic
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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#Vacancies: we are looking for not just one but three #postdoctoral researchers interested in bridging #genetics, #archaeology and #linguistics in exploring the #humanpast. shorturl.at/B3Qdd @haam-community.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social
Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past - Uppsala University
Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University
shorturl.at
November 10, 2025 at 7:49 AM
#Vacancies: we are looking for not just one but three #postdoctoral researchers interested in bridging #genetics, #archaeology and #linguistics in exploring the #humanpast. shorturl.at/B3Qdd @haam-community.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social
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How much phylogenetic information is in a small sample of proteins? Pastramanis et al answer this question and also discover a puzzle: each protein added to an analysis of modern and archaic humans increases support for a single implausible hypothesis. evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...
Measuring the Phylogenetic Information in Proteins
evolbiol.peercommunityin.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
How much phylogenetic information is in a small sample of proteins? Pastramanis et al answer this question and also discover a puzzle: each protein added to an analysis of modern and archaic humans increases support for a single implausible hypothesis. evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...
Peptide Mass Fingerprinting of South American Xenarthrans: A New Resource for Zooarcheology and Palaeontology
Peptide Mass Fingerprinting of South American Xenarthrans: A New Resource for Zooarcheology and Palaeontology
Xenarthrans─armadillos, anteaters, and sloths─are endemic to the Americas, primarily inhabiting the Neotropics, where they represent a key component of faunal diversity. They have essential functions ...
pubs.acs.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Peptide Mass Fingerprinting of South American Xenarthrans: A New Resource for Zooarcheology and Palaeontology
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⚠️Just a quick reminder, there are a few days left to apply for these two positions in #palaeoproteomics.
I'm hiring!⭐ As part of the DFF Sapere Aude-funded project MiddleEarth, I am looking for 1 postdoctoral researcher and 1 research assistant.
November 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
⚠️Just a quick reminder, there are a few days left to apply for these two positions in #palaeoproteomics.
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Deadline approaches for our open professorship here at @au.dk @auarcher.bsky.social. Get in touch if you have q
international.au.dk/about/profil...
international.au.dk/about/profil...
Full Professorship(s) in Archaeology - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University
international.au.dk
November 5, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Deadline approaches for our open professorship here at @au.dk @auarcher.bsky.social. Get in touch if you have q
international.au.dk/about/profil...
international.au.dk/about/profil...
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Come join us (for a little while at least)! Associate Lecturer job at Exeter in archaeology (especially people with human osteology, zooarch or forensic skills), until 30 April 2026: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI165/a...
Associate Lecturer in Archaeology (Education and Scholarship) at University of Exeter
An academic position as a Associate Lecturer in Archaeology (Education and Scholarship) is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunit...
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Come join us (for a little while at least)! Associate Lecturer job at Exeter in archaeology (especially people with human osteology, zooarch or forensic skills), until 30 April 2026: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI165/a...
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#ARCschedule Nov25
Outcomes expected for DECRA, LIEF & presumably(?) Centres of Excellence ("postponed" on 3 Nov).
Other events:
🔹Open: Discovery Projects EOI
🔹Close: ITRP & Future Fellowships
🔹Selection meeting: Linkage Projects (2025 round 2)
Data ▶️ docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Outcomes expected for DECRA, LIEF & presumably(?) Centres of Excellence ("postponed" on 3 Nov).
Other events:
🔹Open: Discovery Projects EOI
🔹Close: ITRP & Future Fellowships
🔹Selection meeting: Linkage Projects (2025 round 2)
Data ▶️ docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
November 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM
#ARCschedule Nov25
Outcomes expected for DECRA, LIEF & presumably(?) Centres of Excellence ("postponed" on 3 Nov).
Other events:
🔹Open: Discovery Projects EOI
🔹Close: ITRP & Future Fellowships
🔹Selection meeting: Linkage Projects (2025 round 2)
Data ▶️ docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Outcomes expected for DECRA, LIEF & presumably(?) Centres of Excellence ("postponed" on 3 Nov).
Other events:
🔹Open: Discovery Projects EOI
🔹Close: ITRP & Future Fellowships
🔹Selection meeting: Linkage Projects (2025 round 2)
Data ▶️ docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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#CentresOfExcellence #CE26
ARC has "postponed" announcement of Centres of Excellence outcomes!
It says "due diligence checks" are still being carried out on some applications.
www.arc.gov.au/news-publica...
ARC has "postponed" announcement of Centres of Excellence outcomes!
It says "due diligence checks" are still being carried out on some applications.
www.arc.gov.au/news-publica...
November 3, 2025 at 6:32 AM
#CentresOfExcellence #CE26
ARC has "postponed" announcement of Centres of Excellence outcomes!
It says "due diligence checks" are still being carried out on some applications.
www.arc.gov.au/news-publica...
ARC has "postponed" announcement of Centres of Excellence outcomes!
It says "due diligence checks" are still being carried out on some applications.
www.arc.gov.au/news-publica...