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Alain Queffelec @alainqueffelec.bsky.social · 22d

Exactly this!

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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · May 9

As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...

Author-Paid PublicationFees Corrupt Science and Should Be Abandoned
Thomas J. H Morgan & Paul E. Smaldino

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · Aug 22

Many thanks to Karlstad University for becoming a supporter of PCI this year (www.kau.se/en)%F0%9F%98...!

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PCI Archaeology @pciarchaeology.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Also worth reading for other domains than health sciences! 👏

Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · Aug 20

Rethinking where and how we publish in health sciences doi.org/10.51224/SRX...

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PCI Archaeology @pciarchaeology.bsky.social · Aug 9

1/3 New recommendation: Zachary Batist‬ (2025) Locating Creative Agency in Archaeological Data Work. ver.2 recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social doi.org/10.17613/8eq... @zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy 🏺🧪🦣

Figure 5 from the manuscript: Two photographs of fieldwork with arrows pointing at details and text in boxes explaining the details of how spatial information is recorded in the field. First photograph depicts a system that measures distance in relation to trench entities. Second photograph depicts a geospatial specialist and a fieldworker determining an object’s position using a digital theodolite.

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Alain Queffelec @alainqueffelec.bsky.social · Aug 6

Come join us with this new post-doctoral position in the Quanta project: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... (2 years in Bordeaux)

If you love artifacts (especially bones), notches, microscopes, and exploring the big question of the origin of quantification systems in human lineage, this is for you!

Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Postdoctoral contract on the origin of quantification systems M/F

emploi.cnrs.fr

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PAASTA Community @paastacommunity.bsky.social · Aug 6

Delighted to be bringing you the following PAASTA community-led paper outlining our recommendations for best practices and open science in palaeoproteomics! Congratulations to the authors and for anyone keen to read the paper, it can be found #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

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The IsoArcH initiative @isoarch.bsky.social · Jul 25

New look, same mission 🔬🌍

The IsoArcH initiative just launched its brand-new website: isoarch.org

Check it out and dive into the world’s largest isotope database!

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PCI Archaeology @pciarchaeology.bsky.social · Jul 22

1/3 New recommendation: Cardillo, Marcelo & Carranza, Eugenia ‬ (2025) Applying statistical and causal modeling to interpret thermal alteration in observational lithic data. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🧪🏺

$Figure 2 from the manuscript. Top panel: effects of fire on the landscape observed in 2021 and 2022. Bottom panel: burned surface lithic scatters showing effects such as fractures and color changes.$ Figure 3 from the manuscript: Causal model for mechanical alterations of pebbles under the effect of fire. Red, direct and mediation effects (Fire -unmeasured-, Fissures, Rock_Type and Shape). Gray, latent unobserved variables (Biomass, Knapping and Trampling). Green, outcome variable (Mech_Alt).

Figure 3 from the manuscript: Causal model for mechanical alterations of pebbles under the effect of fire. Red, direct and mediation effects (Fire -unmeasured-, Fissures, Rock_Type and Shape). Gray, latent unobserved variables (Biomass, Knapping and Trampling). Green, outcome variable (Mech_Alt).

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Alain Queffelec @alainqueffelec.bsky.social · Jul 21

Will read your paper with interest. Currently, this map with these circles is really not clear for me ! 🙂

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Nicolas Galtier @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social · Jul 17

Needless to say, the Peer Community In outperforms all of the major publishers on this criterion, despite a budget many orders of magnitude smaller - again illustrating that the big money we pay for publishing is not used for the good of science. (5/5)

@peercommunityin.bsky.social

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Nicolas Galtier @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social · Jul 17

Non-profit publishers (PLoS, Oxford, Cambridge) and publishers partnering a lot with academia (Wiley) are much more committed to open science than the others - MDPI being the worst by large. (4/5)

figure showing nine data points (each for a distinct publisher) in a graph where Y-axis is our open science index and X-axis is academia friendliness (=proportion of published journals co-owned by an academic entity); strong positive relationship

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Nicolas Galtier @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social · Jul 17

New preprint about open science in eco-evo!
We sampled 110 journals, 550 articles, and assessed whether data and code are accessible: (1/5)
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

#ScientificPublishing #OpenScience #ecology #conservation #EvolutionaryBiology #paleobio #systematics #archeology

An overview of open science in eco-evo research and the publisher effect.

ecoevorxiv.org

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · Jul 17

An Introduction to Bioarchaeology

New video available for channel supporters on Patreon or YT memberships

Check it out here, and sign up for additional teaching videos and behind-the-scenes perks

www.patreon.com/posts/134346...

Video: An Introduction to Bioarchaeology | Flint Dibble

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PACEA laboratory, Human evolution, Prehistory @pacea.bsky.social · Jul 16

1/3 Super interview de notre doctorante Lisa Richelmi avec Benjamin Brillaud de Nota Bene ! 🐞🧑‍🔬
www.twitch.tv/videos/25139...
Elle y présente sa thèse en archéoentomologique @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

lnkd.in

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Dead Neanderthals @deadneanderthals.bsky.social · Jul 13

The 'Bioengineered' story was mentioned in @theguardian.com today!

Read here
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

More background on Bioengineered here: www.science.org/content/arti...

CC: @elisabethbik.bsky.social @mortenoxe.bsky.social @smutclyde.bsky.social @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social

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Alain Queffelec @alainqueffelec.bsky.social · Jul 13

I'd like to come for once!

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Bella Shaw @blellashaw.bsky.social · Jul 10

How we use game mechanics to explore and educate about archaeology in our board game Cultivaria- a thread.

#archaeology #boardgame

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Alain Queffelec @alainqueffelec.bsky.social · Jul 10

Why I quit itsmoreofacomment.com/2022/10/28/w... (and it is the same for Researchgate...)
I may instead orient you towards @orcid.org instead, HAL in France, Zenodo etc.
Thank you @archaeobasti.bsky.social for this post few years ago but still very relevant.

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Kévin Salesse @kevinsalesse.bsky.social · Jul 10

IsoArcH is organizing its first Addithon, a 10-day virtual community event! This event will bring volunteers together from all over the world, to add to this ever-growing open data repository for isotopes from archaeological research.

bit.ly/IsoArcH2025

IsoArcH Addithon 2025

This form is used to sign up for the IsoArcH Addithon to be run from 11-20 August 2025.

bit.ly

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Alain Queffelec @alainqueffelec.bsky.social · Jul 10

What a nice cover!
I don't think I will have time to read it but I will share with my French lithician colleagues! :)

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PACEA laboratory, Human evolution, Prehistory @pacea.bsky.social · Jul 9

The Digital Archaeo Summer School concluded with a visit to La Chaise (Middle Paleo), excavated by our postdocs Diego López Onaindia & @kimgenuite.bsky.social 45 early-career researchers from 6 countries joined us, thank you all! See you in 2026! @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social

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Alain Queffelec @alainqueffelec.bsky.social · Jul 8

Yes it is much more work and more difficult for non-native English speakers! It's great to remind this!

Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Jul 8

Should English be the lingua franca of #archaeology? Can language be a form of imperialism? Should we embrace linguistic diversity in academia? 🏺

Robin Skeates explores all this and more in his latest #AntiquityEditorial on the theme of languages.

Read it 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Linguistic imperialism? Statues and inscription over the neoclassical entrance to Bush House, London dedicated to “The Friendship of English Speaking Peoples”. Constructed in 1925–1935 as an Anglo-American trade centre, the building later served as the headquarters of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC) World Service (credit: R. Skeates).

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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · Jul 7

Postdoc in Geochronology / Plio-Pleistocene Geology
Join the ERC WRAP project at ICArEHB!
Apply now 👉 www.icarehb.com/research-pos...

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Alain Queffelec @alainqueffelec.bsky.social · Jul 8

Et une proposition dans l'article est bel et bien de passer par @peercommunityin.bsky.social and @peercomjournal.bsky.social ! :)

Alain Marois @amarois.bsky.social · Jul 7

[Veille] "Le monde des revues scientifiques au bord de l’asphyxie" David Larousserie, Le Monde 7 juillet 2025
www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...

Le monde des revues scientifiques au bord de l’asphyxie

Plus de 3 millions d’articles sont publiés chaque année dans les revues scientifiques, les chercheurs étant incités à les multiplier pour se distinguer. Une logique économique perverse s’est installée...

www.lemonde.fr

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