Abstracts submission for the INQUA Congress 2027 in Lucknow-India is open! Come see myself, @kathleennicoll.bsky.social and @andzerb.bsky.social and tell us all about your latest geological, archaeological and paleoclimatic discoveries from the African and Arabian deserts!

🔔 Paper alert! A speleothem record from the Fertile Crescent covering the Neolithization 🌧️ 🌾 new in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New review published on the possibility, physiology, pitfalls and ethics of using extremophilic microbial communities in future Martian terraforming Claudia Coleine and @andzerb.bsky.social @manudelbaq.bsky.social - @irnase.bsky.social @csicandalextrem.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...

The role of extremophile microbiomes in terraforming Mars - Communications Biology

This Review highlights how extremophile microbiomes and synthetic biology approaches could support Martian terraforming by driving biogeochemical cycles, regolith transformation, and future life-suppo...

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New issue of Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy Vol. 36, No. 1 (2025) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/16000471... @andzerb.bsky.social @dadanarchaeo.bsky.social @agpienkowska.bsky.social @safaitic.bsky.social

Calling for EGU 2026 session proposals! If you have an idea for a geomorphology session, head to meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/provis... and enter it in. Sessions on new topics and themes are extremely welcome! Help to build a great programme for EGU26!

🚨 new paper alert: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The precision land knowledge of the past enables tailor-made environment therapy and empathy for nature - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - The precision land knowledge of the past enables tailor-made environment therapy and empathy for nature

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(9/9) This will be a very exciting project, with a team of diverse specialists, collaborating with @andzerb.bsky.social on geoarchaeology, @ericandrieux.bsky.social on OSL dating, and many other colleagues. Happy to answer queries. Deadlines for applications March 14th.

3) 2.5 yr postdoctoral position in Palaeolithic gene-culture coevolution. Together with a palaeogenomics postdoc, we seek to generate material culture data such that we can capture these ancient gene-culture cophylogenetic dynamics international.au.dk/about/profil...

Postdoctoral position in Palaeolithic gene-culture coevolution, Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University

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Excited to attend my first #AGU2024 in Washington DC!

Excited for our @AGU.org eLightning session next Tuesday Dec 12 @ 1600! 🧪⚒️ Anthropocene Science: What Next? (GC24L) agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/me... @dorothymerritts.bsky.social @climateofgavin.bsky.social @jacquelyngill.bsky.social @andzerb.bsky.social & More!

(1/11) I am very happy to announce that I have been awarded a European Research Council ‘Consolidator Grant’. The TerraForm project (‘The Rise and Fall of Maltese Terraced Landscapes’) will begin in the spring of 2025.

Dr Huw Groucutt@huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 2y ago

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Our new article led by @eslembenarous.bsky.social on the MSA site of Bargny, where new investigations headed by Dr Khady Niang have yielded samples that show its Middle Pleistocene age. The West African MSA keeps getting older (watch this space!). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Constraining the age of the Middle Stone Age locality of Bargny (Senegal) through a combined OSL-ESR dating approach

The Middle Stone Age (MSA) is the major chrono-cultural phase associated with the emergence and evolution of Homo sapiens in Africa. Despite its impor…

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Ignore West Africa, a vast and diverse region, at your peril if you want to understand human evolution and the earliest prehistory of our species! Major news is coming soon, and in the meantime, this meeting next week is gathering fantastic momentum! www.gea.mpg.de/104309/confe...

West Africa and the Origins of Humankind - A Deep Time Perspective

This event will be the first major conference dedicated to exploring human evolution and the deep human past in West Africa.

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First post here… a picture of the blue sky of Oman!!! (Yes, and exciting geological features!!!)