Suzanne Pilaar Birch
@suziebirch.bsky.social
Associate Prof in Anthropology and Geography at UGA. Co-founder of TrowelBlazers and Open Quaternary. Climate change, environmental adaptation, & archaeological science.
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Welcome to that time of year when academics eager for a clean slate at the start of next semester clear their inboxes by filling yours. May the emails be more acceptances, opportunities, and promises for better connections in 2026 than simply hot potatoes tossed into your lap. #academicsky
December 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Welcome to that time of year when academics eager for a clean slate at the start of next semester clear their inboxes by filling yours. May the emails be more acceptances, opportunities, and promises for better connections in 2026 than simply hot potatoes tossed into your lap. #academicsky
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Assistant professorship in medieval and post-medieval archaeology at the University of Zurich
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Assistant professorship in medieval and post-medieval archaeology - Universität Zürich
Universität Zürich looks for Assistant professorship in medieval and post-medieval archaeology in Zürich (Schweiz) - apply now!
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December 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Assistant professorship in medieval and post-medieval archaeology at the University of Zurich
www.academics.com/jobs/assista...
www.academics.com/jobs/assista...
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Postdoctoral Fellowship expertise in the archaeology of the Late Antique Mediterranean at the University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, Washington) www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?...
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December 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Postdoctoral Fellowship expertise in the archaeology of the Late Antique Mediterranean at the University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, Washington) www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?...
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💫New research out now!💫
Hutson and colleagues demonstrate that men get hired as faculty in archaeology PhD programs more often than women, putting strain on women PhD mentors. And they have some suggestions about what to do about it, too.
Read here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Hutson and colleagues demonstrate that men get hired as faculty in archaeology PhD programs more often than women, putting strain on women PhD mentors. And they have some suggestions about what to do about it, too.
Read here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Different Destinations: Clarifying and Addressing Pipeline Problems for Women in Academic Archaeology | Advances in Archaeological Practice | Cambridge Core
Different Destinations: Clarifying and Addressing Pipeline Problems for Women in Academic Archaeology
www.cambridge.org
December 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
💫New research out now!💫
Hutson and colleagues demonstrate that men get hired as faculty in archaeology PhD programs more often than women, putting strain on women PhD mentors. And they have some suggestions about what to do about it, too.
Read here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Hutson and colleagues demonstrate that men get hired as faculty in archaeology PhD programs more often than women, putting strain on women PhD mentors. And they have some suggestions about what to do about it, too.
Read here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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SSHM invites submissions to its 2025/6 Roy Porter Essay Prize for the best original and unpublished essay in #histmed
🏆£500 first prize
Open to all students (registered at the deadline for entries or were awarded their degree in 2025).
For the entry form and rules and eligibility see👇
#histmed
🏆£500 first prize
Open to all students (registered at the deadline for entries or were awarded their degree in 2025).
For the entry form and rules and eligibility see👇
#histmed
Roy Porter Prize 2025-2026
Deadline for entries is 1 February 2026. Rules and Entry Form The Society for the Social History of Medicine invites submissions to its 2025/6 Roy Porter Student Essay Prize Competition. Downl…
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December 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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The killing of these “regional centers” will make U.S. academia and society even more parochial and, ultimately, less competitive and safe.
UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026
As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...
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December 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The killing of these “regional centers” will make U.S. academia and society even more parochial and, ultimately, less competitive and safe.
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The Trump administration says it will dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a cornerstone for American climate and weather science. I went on NPR today to explain what this could mean for climate research.
Listen here:
Listen here:
Trump moves to dismantle a ‘global mothership’ of climate research : Here & Now Anytime
The Trump administration says it will dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a cornerstone for American climate and weather science. Katharine Hayhoe, chief scientist at the Nature Co...
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December 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM
The Trump administration says it will dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a cornerstone for American climate and weather science. I went on NPR today to explain what this could mean for climate research.
Listen here:
Listen here:
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If you are in the US and you would like to send a message to your elected representative about the proposed dissolution of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, @agu.org makes it easy with a template here: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151... #AGU25
Save NCAR from being dismantled today!
The Trump Administration has vowed to dissolve the center that provides critical extreme weather and climate data for our nation.
agu.quorum.us
December 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
If you are in the US and you would like to send a message to your elected representative about the proposed dissolution of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, @agu.org makes it easy with a template here: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151... #AGU25
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Dr. Bellinger is outstanding. Don’t sleep on her unique perspective on the curious case of the Voynich Manuscript. One of my favorite lectures of the year.
We're thrilled to announce our expert, Dr. Karen Bellinger's, debut course with The Great Courses! 🎉 She guides "Great Archaeological Mysteries of Europe and the Mediterranean," tackling puzzles like Ötzi the Iceman & the Antikythera Mechanism.
pastpreservers.com/great-course... #GreatCourses
pastpreservers.com/great-course... #GreatCourses
December 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Dr. Bellinger is outstanding. Don’t sleep on her unique perspective on the curious case of the Voynich Manuscript. One of my favorite lectures of the year.
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We've been up in York for @tag2025york.bsky.social conference where 3 of us met, Brenna gave a talk on the challenge of creating an accidental archive, AND... we only went & won the Outstanding Achievement Award for Archaeological Theory In Action 🏆!
Huge gratitude to the entire community ❤️ 🏺
Huge gratitude to the entire community ❤️ 🏺
December 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
We've been up in York for @tag2025york.bsky.social conference where 3 of us met, Brenna gave a talk on the challenge of creating an accidental archive, AND... we only went & won the Outstanding Achievement Award for Archaeological Theory In Action 🏆!
Huge gratitude to the entire community ❤️ 🏺
Huge gratitude to the entire community ❤️ 🏺
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... and so we've also previously written about her connections other women, inc "the real story behind" the film Ammonite.
Now we want to go deeper into #MaryAnning's female networks, and we're so grateful for the award of stay at Belmont in order to do this.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Now we want to go deeper into #MaryAnning's female networks, and we're so grateful for the award of stay at Belmont in order to do this.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
December 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
... and so we've also previously written about her connections other women, inc "the real story behind" the film Ammonite.
Now we want to go deeper into #MaryAnning's female networks, and we're so grateful for the award of stay at Belmont in order to do this.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Now we want to go deeper into #MaryAnning's female networks, and we're so grateful for the award of stay at Belmont in order to do this.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We've long been keen on #MaryAnning (e.g. part-inspiration for Fossil Hunter Lottie action figure, & featured in our #RaisingHorizons exhibition). We know how inspiring and powerful her story as an individual is.
But we're interested in seeing #trowelblazers not as anomalies, but as nodes...
But we're interested in seeing #trowelblazers not as anomalies, but as nodes...
December 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
We've long been keen on #MaryAnning (e.g. part-inspiration for Fossil Hunter Lottie action figure, & featured in our #RaisingHorizons exhibition). We know how inspiring and powerful her story as an individual is.
But we're interested in seeing #trowelblazers not as anomalies, but as nodes...
But we're interested in seeing #trowelblazers not as anomalies, but as nodes...
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📣 More NEWS! (it's quite a week...)
Thrilled to announce that we're a Landmark Trust Futures 2026 beneficiary - early next year we'll be staying at historic Belmont in Lyme Regis, to begin a new project on the networks of women centring on #MaryAnning!
www.landmarktrust.org.uk/get-involved...
Thrilled to announce that we're a Landmark Trust Futures 2026 beneficiary - early next year we'll be staying at historic Belmont in Lyme Regis, to begin a new project on the networks of women centring on #MaryAnning!
www.landmarktrust.org.uk/get-involved...
December 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
📣 More NEWS! (it's quite a week...)
Thrilled to announce that we're a Landmark Trust Futures 2026 beneficiary - early next year we'll be staying at historic Belmont in Lyme Regis, to begin a new project on the networks of women centring on #MaryAnning!
www.landmarktrust.org.uk/get-involved...
Thrilled to announce that we're a Landmark Trust Futures 2026 beneficiary - early next year we'll be staying at historic Belmont in Lyme Regis, to begin a new project on the networks of women centring on #MaryAnning!
www.landmarktrust.org.uk/get-involved...
So proud of @trowelblazers.bsky.social! This week, the four of us received the TAG Award for Outstanding Contribution to Archaeological Theory for all TrowelBlazers has done over the past 12 years @lemoustier.bsky.social @toriherridge.bsky.social @brennawalks.bsky.social @tag2025york.bsky.social and
December 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
So proud of @trowelblazers.bsky.social! This week, the four of us received the TAG Award for Outstanding Contribution to Archaeological Theory for all TrowelBlazers has done over the past 12 years @lemoustier.bsky.social @toriherridge.bsky.social @brennawalks.bsky.social @tag2025york.bsky.social and
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🚨 Calling all geoscientists 🚨 If you or anyone you know is attending #AGU25, please join us and spread the word to #SaveNCAR.
More info at: wclivestream.com/ncar_at_agu/
More info at: wclivestream.com/ncar_at_agu/
December 18, 2025 at 5:25 AM
🚨 Calling all geoscientists 🚨 If you or anyone you know is attending #AGU25, please join us and spread the word to #SaveNCAR.
More info at: wclivestream.com/ncar_at_agu/
More info at: wclivestream.com/ncar_at_agu/
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“So this exciting fossil discovery of bees nesting in bone cavities, and in caves, serves as a good reminder that when it comes to evolution, bees will keep on being the bees they need to be.” Happy that @cnn.com Science used my quote about this amazing fossil find. www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/s... 🧪🐝🪹🦴🪨
Discovery of ancient bee nests in fossils points to a never-before-seen behavior | CNN
In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this behavior has been recorded, a new study finds.
www.cnn.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
“So this exciting fossil discovery of bees nesting in bone cavities, and in caves, serves as a good reminder that when it comes to evolution, bees will keep on being the bees they need to be.” Happy that @cnn.com Science used my quote about this amazing fossil find. www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/s... 🧪🐝🪹🦴🪨
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For those at #agu25 #saveNCAR
12:15pm - Group Photo/Video at the "science strong" wall across from the Plenary Hall at the entrance to the convention center
1:30-5:30pm - drop in interviews at PJs Coffee in front of Hall C - look for the person with the "We ❤️ NCAR" sign.
More info:
12:15pm - Group Photo/Video at the "science strong" wall across from the Plenary Hall at the entrance to the convention center
1:30-5:30pm - drop in interviews at PJs Coffee in front of Hall C - look for the person with the "We ❤️ NCAR" sign.
More info:
The Weather & Climate Livestream
Join us starting May 28th, as meteorologists and climate scientists from across the US share their research and answer your questions.
wclivestream.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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“This is a five-alarm fire not just for NCAR, but for science in the United States” - Rep. Joe Neguse(CO-02) zooming into #AGU25 on the proposed decision to dismantle NCAR, located in his district in Boulder, Colorado. #SaveNCAR @agu.org @joeneguse.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
“This is a five-alarm fire not just for NCAR, but for science in the United States” - Rep. Joe Neguse(CO-02) zooming into #AGU25 on the proposed decision to dismantle NCAR, located in his district in Boulder, Colorado. #SaveNCAR @agu.org @joeneguse.bsky.social
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“NCAR has played a greater role in advancing weather prediction & atmospheric modeling than perhaps any other single entity in the world,” says @weatherwest.bsky.social
Dismantling NCAR would be “like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.” KH
Dismantling NCAR would be “like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.” KH
Trump administration plans to break up largest federal climate research center
Russ Vought, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, said the National Science Foundation "will be breaking up" the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado.
www.nbcnews.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“NCAR has played a greater role in advancing weather prediction & atmospheric modeling than perhaps any other single entity in the world,” says @weatherwest.bsky.social
Dismantling NCAR would be “like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.” KH
Dismantling NCAR would be “like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.” KH
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So excited to announce the publication of this paper which is the first to come from my PhD! Combing data from the PleistoHERD and DeerPal project we analyse carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur in ungulate bones from the Aquitaine Basin dating between the Ante-Quina and Quina periods.
December 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
So excited to announce the publication of this paper which is the first to come from my PhD! Combing data from the PleistoHERD and DeerPal project we analyse carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur in ungulate bones from the Aquitaine Basin dating between the Ante-Quina and Quina periods.
Gutted I couldn't be there in person to accept the award with the team, but so proud of the work we have done over the years as @trowelblazers.bsky.social and grateful to all those who supported us!
We've been up in York for @tag2025york.bsky.social conference where 3 of us met, Brenna gave a talk on the challenge of creating an accidental archive, AND... we only went & won the Outstanding Achievement Award for Archaeological Theory In Action 🏆!
Huge gratitude to the entire community ❤️ 🏺
Huge gratitude to the entire community ❤️ 🏺
December 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Gutted I couldn't be there in person to accept the award with the team, but so proud of the work we have done over the years as @trowelblazers.bsky.social and grateful to all those who supported us!
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Work (also) with me!
Two years postdoc in the @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social project, based in Edinburgh. Will do transmission chain experiments to understand the spread of heritage-based hostility, online and elsewhere.
More info
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Two years postdoc in the @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social project, based in Edinburgh. Will do transmission chain experiments to understand the spread of heritage-based hostility, online and elsewhere.
More info
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📣 PDRA JOB (2 Years, full-time) based in Psychology, @schoolofppls.bsky.social: We are hiring a Post-doctoral Research Associate, to work on Strand B (experimental) of our @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social project, generously funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk.
December 16, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Work (also) with me!
Two years postdoc in the @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social project, based in Edinburgh. Will do transmission chain experiments to understand the spread of heritage-based hostility, online and elsewhere.
More info
⬇️⬇️⬇️
Two years postdoc in the @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social project, based in Edinburgh. Will do transmission chain experiments to understand the spread of heritage-based hostility, online and elsewhere.
More info
⬇️⬇️⬇️
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We are excited to announce a new collection - Powell-Cotton Museum! Did you ever need more Chimpanzee or Colobus hand bones for your project, or perhaps some Gorilla tibiae and femora (and more)? Visit the collection and explore!
human-fossil-record.org/index.php?/c...
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December 16, 2025 at 8:08 AM
We are excited to announce a new collection - Powell-Cotton Museum! Did you ever need more Chimpanzee or Colobus hand bones for your project, or perhaps some Gorilla tibiae and femora (and more)? Visit the collection and explore!
human-fossil-record.org/index.php?/c...
human-fossil-record.org/index.php?/c...
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Heading to @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social today on the trail of this woman: Gertrude Elles, graptolite palaeontologist extraordinare. Left: the young Victorian hammer-wielder, from a photo in the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social. Right: her sagely postwar portrait at Newnham College, Cambridge.
December 16, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Heading to @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social today on the trail of this woman: Gertrude Elles, graptolite palaeontologist extraordinare. Left: the young Victorian hammer-wielder, from a photo in the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social. Right: her sagely postwar portrait at Newnham College, Cambridge.