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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · Sep 6

Future is surely going to ask just how we could be so careless of the dangers of #PlasticWaste and #PlasticPollution

"The scale of uncertainty around how much plastic is entering our atmosphere is alarming"

phys.org/news/2025-09...

New research calls for global action on micro and nanoplastics in the atmosphere

Scientists at the University of Manchester are calling for the creation of a global network of air monitoring stations to track the movement of airborne plastic pollution, which may be traveling furth...

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Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · Aug 31

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them.

Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!”

Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.”

Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face.

Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.

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SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs @sahndshel.bsky.social · Aug 28

New NSF award just dropped for our Co-Directors @isazooarch.bsky.social and @archaeojake.bsky.social! “Variables Influencing the Efficacy of Estuarine and Marine Resource Management”. #archaeology #ecology #fisheries #sustainability Visit here to learn more 👉🏻 www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

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Dr. Christina M. Carolus @cmcarolus.bsky.social · Aug 25

Looking forward to final Summer 2025 conference presentations, to take place at #ISBA11 in Turin. Tune in to a full length presentation on new proteomic evidence for the early spread of Asian rice at the #PAASTA meeting (8/26) as well as my scheduled flash talk on Thursday (8/28)!

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ISBA11 Turin @isba11.bsky.social · Aug 25

ISBA11 starts tomorrow, and we have just one question for you... are you ready for it?

#ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #turin #Archaeology #Italy #conference #AreYouReady
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social

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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · Aug 24

Just found out that 74 of my works have been scraped/stolen by the plundering AI bots, which are nothing more than plagiarism machines really, with zero respect for copyright. My fellow writers, check it out for your own work.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Andy Roddick @aroddick.bsky.social · Aug 24

Good read. Like the author of this thread I didn’t study at Chicago, but I did apply and have spoken there. And so many friends and colleagues passed through, coming out with impressive training in deep reading and analysis.

Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · Aug 23

the crisis in which the University of Chicago is now engulfed -- one entirely of its own making, and which has led to the (hopefully temporary) suspension of admissions into numerous PhD programs in the humanities -- represents I think a seismic event in the history of American higher education

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ISBA11 Turin @isba11.bsky.social · Aug 8

In just under 3 weeks, we look forward to welcoming researchers from 40 countries in Turin, Italy for ISBA11

#ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #Archaeology #ISBAconference #archaeologicalconference #Turin
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social

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Society for East Asian Archaeology @seaaofficial.bsky.social · Aug 12

*conference update* The short schedule, full schedule, and mid-conference trip information is now available on the SEAA website

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Zandra Fagernäs @zandraselina.bsky.social · Aug 18

Registration deadline is TOMORROW! 🍝 🏺

PAASTA Community @paastacommunity.bsky.social · Jul 30

✨✨Reminder that we are hosting a (virtual and in-person) pre-ISBA conference✨✨ on the 26th of August (13:00-17:00 CET) which will include talks from members of our community and the PAASTA Annual General Meeting. Additional details can be found here: paasta-community.github.io/events/2025/...

Pre-ISBA PAASTA Conference · PAASTA Community

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · Aug 15

we need to change direction and we need to be serious about it

Jorge @antartica81.bsky.social · Aug 14

Posting this again. Not enough electricity left to build affordable homes in 3 west London boroughs, because all capacity has been used by a data centre.

#affordablehousingUK

www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo...

Report: Home building to halt in West London, due to data center power demands

All the electricity capacity is already used up, GLA tells developers

www.datacenterdynamics.com

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · Aug 14

So nice to see archaeology finally relevant again

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GOP Oversight Member Suggests Smithsonian Hiding Bones of Giants

Rep. Eric Burlison: “I do believe [giants] were real”

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SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs @sahndshel.bsky.social · Aug 12

Drs. Christina and Asa are in Kyrgyzstan! They’re interested in this unique location along the “Silk Road” and are looking closely at the introduction of agriculture and new crops into what is today Kyrgyzstan (and how these systems changed/were adapted locally over time)! 🇰🇬 🌱 #archaeology #ecology

Dr. Christina M. Carolus @cmcarolus.bsky.social · Aug 10

Floating (pun intended) through a beautiful August in Kyrgyzstan 🌱 Pt. I

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Dr. Christina M. Carolus @cmcarolus.bsky.social · Aug 10

Floating (pun intended) through a beautiful August in Kyrgyzstan 🍃 Pt. II

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Dr. Christina M. Carolus @cmcarolus.bsky.social · Aug 10

Floating (pun intended) through a beautiful August in Kyrgyzstan 🌱 Pt. I

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BAR Publishing @barpublishing.bsky.social · Aug 8

✨Call for submissions✨

We’re seeking new submissions for our Archaeology of East Asia sub-series!

This peer-reviewed sub-series publishes data-rich research from across East Asia, including often-overlooked areas.

Heading to the #SEAA? Email [email protected] for a meeting!

More info here

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · Jul 31

If you work in higher ed, you need to get your folks together and end the use of course evals or at least bar their consideration in evaluation, promotion, and hiring. This needed to happen yesterday because they don't measure learning, they measure instructor gender, but now it's a snitch pool.

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Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social · Jul 31

Goodbye to the history department at Lancaster University, where the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social was founded 49 years ago. From tomorrow we are
part of a School of Global Affairs. Next year, who knows what will be - please sign our petition against mass redundancies chng.it/PZfTFDjNcr

Sign the Petition

Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

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Communications Biology @commsbio.nature.com · May 27

"Metabolic profiling of Iron Age residues from the oasis of Qurayyah, Northwest Arabia, reveals the earliest material evidence for the fumigation of the drug plant Peganum harmala, used in domestic contexts for medicinal and hygienic purposes.

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Metabolic profiling reveals first evidence of fumigating drug plant Peganum harmala in Iron Age Arabia - Communications Biology

Metabolic profiling of Iron Age residues from the oasis of Qurayyah, Northwest Arabia, reveals the earliest material evidence for the fumigation of the drug plant Peganum harmala, used in domestic con...

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PCI Archaeology @pciarchaeology.bsky.social · Jun 7

1/5 New recommendation: Dekker et al. & @zandraselina.bsky.social‬ (2025) Open science, communication, and collaboration for the future of palaeoproteomics. V4 recommended by @PCI_Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno.... #Archaeology #opendata #openscience @paastacommunity.bsky.social‬ #Palaeoproteomics

Figure 2 of the manuscript. Data availability in palaeoproteomics. A) Percentage of ZooMS and shotgun palaeoproteomics studies with available datasets. Preprints and papers that did not produce any data were excluded from this calculation. B) Number of palaeoproteomics datasets in online repositories (since 2010). ´Other´ repositories include Dryad, Figshare, Github, Mendeley Data, and the OSF Framework. The dataset was compiled by manually going through the list of publications compiled for Figure 1 and checking raw data availability. This figure was made in R v.4.4.2. with R Studio v.2024.12.0+ (R Core Team, 2023) using ggplot2 (Wickham, 2016).

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Dr. Christina M. Carolus @cmcarolus.bsky.social · Jul 22

Excited to present on this highly promising method for the new archaeobotanical toolkit at #IWGP2025! Come by if you’re around! 🧬

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Dr. Christina M. Carolus @cmcarolus.bsky.social · Jul 21

So proud to join the ranks of this fantastic group of researchers and human beings. 🪏🏕️🧪 🌱🐠
I can truly think of no better team to be carrying out multidisciplinary work on the social and environmental dynamics of riparian worlds in steppic Inner Asia.

SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs @sahndshel.bsky.social · Jul 21

Our lab of archaeologists, historians, and ecologists studies social, economic, and environmental dynamics over the last 5,000yrs. From the earliest Indigenous villages on the US Atlantic coast, to nomadic Mongolian empires, to Black towns of the post-emancipation South. Follow for rad archaeology!

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SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs @sahndshel.bsky.social · Jul 21

Our lab of archaeologists, historians, and ecologists studies social, economic, and environmental dynamics over the last 5,000yrs. From the earliest Indigenous villages on the US Atlantic coast, to nomadic Mongolian empires, to Black towns of the post-emancipation South. Follow for rad archaeology!

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Jake Holland-Lulewicz @archaeojake.bsky.social · Jul 17

Hauling more dirt to @cmcarolus.bsky.social. I think we floted more per volume excavated than any site ever 🏅 Which has allowed us to recover incredible amounts of seeds and tiny bone. Data that rarely factor into narratives on the Xiongnu, the world’s first nomadic empire! Stay tuned! #archaeology

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Dr. Christina M. Carolus @cmcarolus.bsky.social · Jul 6

You’re too kind @archaeojake.bsky.social. We’re incredibly grateful and have so much to look forward to with all of you!!

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