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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · 3d

HEAS Seminar this morning! 1030 CE Time. Bence Viola will talk about Denisovans!
‪@heasvienna.bsky.social‬

More information and registration on our website 👇🔗
www.heas.at/events/heas-...

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · 5d

We are going next week!

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HEAS @heasvienna.bsky.social · 6d

We are looking forward to welcoming @benceviola.bsky.social back to Vienna for the first #HEASSeminar in the 2025-2026 series in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic.

@univie.ac.at

More information and registration on our website 👇🔗

HEAS Seminar Series - Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic - HEAS

As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic Bence Viola from the University of Toronto will give a talk on Teeth, Genes, and Taxonomy – fifteen years of Denisovan discov...

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · 7d

So excited to announce the lineup of speakers here @heasvienna.bsky.social for the 2025/6 academic year! We have some outstanding speakers for our three seminar series in Archaelogical Science, Ancient Genomics and Human Evolution & the Palaeolithic. All hybrid! Register now at HEAS.at

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · 23d

PhD Studentship alert!
I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia.
Details in the link below!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

University assistant predoctoral 1

jobs.univie.ac.at

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · 24d

Talk at 10 CE time this morning online and in person :

César Méndez and Amalia Nuevo-Delaunay from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile on "Discontinuous archaeological records and the peopling of West Patagonia".

Register here: www.heas.at/events/heas-...

@heasvienna.bsky.social

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · Sep 8

Great job opportunity here in Vienna at the Natural History Museum. @nhmwien.bsky.social
jobs.nhm.at/Curator-for-...

Stellenangebot Curator for the osteological collection of human remains (m/f/d) bei Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

Forschung, wissenschaftliche Tätigkeit in Wien

jobs.nhm.at

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · Sep 3

So refreshing to hear a politician speaking the truth about this situation.

Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · Sep 3

Not sure! I hope that it will be perhaps on youtube at some point...

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · Sep 3

They came to film in Oxford and drove off to B'ham airport after accidentally taking my backpack with them (inc. passport+ computer). I had to take a taxi halfway to B'ham airport to meet them and reclaim my stuff before heading to Heathrow to fly out!! Stressful memories!

Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · Sep 3

If you are in the UK, BBC4 tonight at 8 pm "The Lost Neanderthals". A doco about the site of Mandrin (Fr) and the work there of Ludovic Slimak and team. You might spot a glimpse of me too - I have been lucky enough to work with them on the site chronology for several years.

tinyurl.com/4uenwr7c

BBC Four - The Lost Neanderthals

The secrets of the Neanderthal discoveries in the Mandrin Cave in France are revealed.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · Sep 1

As expected, Bluesky better than X for scientists www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Science research gets more engagement on Bluesky than X, study finds

Bluesky posts referencing scholarly articles ‘find substantially higher levels of interaction’ than on Elon Musk’s platform

www.theguardian.com

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Armando Falcucci @armandofalcucci.bsky.social · Jul 30

🚨New paper alert!🧪 We explore the #Aurignacian at Grotta della Cala (southern Italy), providing robust evidence of human settlement shortly after the #CampanianIgnimbrite eruption (ca. 40 ka). 1/5 🌋
@tommyhigham.bsky.social @lucdoyon.bsky.social @boneslab.bsky.social & the University of Siena

Revisiting the Early Aurignacian in Italy: New insights from Grotta della Cala

Grotta della Cala in southern Italy is a key archaeological site spanning from the Middle Paleolithic to the Bronze Age. In the stratigraphic sequence…

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · Jul 28

Still find it hard to believe that people actually voted for this knob. 🤪🇺🇸

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Anthony's Spinning Circles here too! @circlesspinning.bsky.social · Jul 21

Damn....Utah clownin.😂😂

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · Jul 17

New paper led by Annette Oertle out today focusing on our work at Castelcivita in Italy. A pleasure to work with our wonderful Italian colleagues.
@katerinad.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New insights from the application of ZooMS to Late Pleistocene fauna from Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - New insights from the application of ZooMS to Late Pleistocene fauna from Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy

www.nature.com

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · Jun 29

This was a great talk by Prof. Necmi Karul on an incredible site - Karahantepe. Watch for the video soon on our HEAS YouTube channel.

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · Jun 26

Just about to start this talk here in Vienna. Tune in below online!

HEAS @heasvienna.bsky.social · Jun 4

We are looking forward to the #HEASKeynote on the 26th June at 15:30 CEST with #NecmiKarul at the @oeai.bsky.social

More information and registration on our website. 🔗👇

www.heas.at/events/heas-...

HEAS Keynote - HEAS

We are looking forward to welcoming Necmi Karul from Istanbul University to Vienna for a HEAS Keynote on The Land of Great Transformation. Karahantepe and The Last Hunter-Gatherers of The Şanliurfa Pl...

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Johanna Vogel @johannavogel.bsky.social · Jun 21

The warming stripes from Vienna... #ShowYourStripes showyourstripes.info

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · Jun 9

Still struggling to comprehend how, after 4 years of this evil incompetent lunatic in his first disastrous term, the US voted him in again. They could have had Kamala Harris instead.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Jun 8

Rep. Gomez: LA County alone is 34% foreign born, 34%. So when he says they're going to liberate us, who is he going to liberate us from? Ourselves?

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · Jun 5

This is total Black Mirror.

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Jun 4

Possibly the best thing I've read about ChatGPT yet.

h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social

amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

Diabolus Ex Machina

This Is Not An Essay

amandaguinzburg.substack.com

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · May 29

Always brings a lump to my throat. Love this.
youtu.be/y6Wz3i_BYUc?...

Choir! Choir! Choir! & Patti Smith sing "PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER" in NYC with Stewart Copeland

YouTube video by Choir! Choir! Choir!

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Greger Larson @gregerlarson.bsky.social · May 16

You know what the world absolutely does not need? Yet another definition for domestication. Get over yourselves people. C'mon!

Ok, maybe just one more. So much fun working with @elinork.bsky.social, Kathryn and Robin. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · May 12

Join us this morning at 1030 CE time for a talk by a Roman Garba and Vitaly Usik on the first humans in Europe, more than 1 million years ago. Register below!

HEAS @heasvienna.bsky.social · May 5

We are looking forward to welcoming @romangarba.bsky.social and #VitalyUsik to Vienna next week for the #HEASSeminar in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic.

Registration for online and in-person participation is on our website 🔗👇

HEAS Seminar - Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic - HEAS

As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic, Roman Garba and Vitaly Usik will give a talk on ‚Cosmic Clock for Human History: New Insights from Korolevo, Ukraine.‘ on th...

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · May 3

Bring us net zero. As fast as possible! Free energy forever plus we save this beautiful planet, and create 1000s of jobs too.
Don’t be nervous, be ambitious!

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