🐠 🌱 🦪 ⛈️ 🌡️ The other half of our lab w/ @isazooarch.bsky.social! #archaeology #ecology #sustainability #climate
Christina M. Carolus, PhD
@cmcarolus.bsky.social
Archaeologist and archaeobotanist of Inner Asia. Cyclist. 📚🚴🧪🌿🎶 Director of the Khulunbuir Archaeological Project (NE Mongolia) and Juuku Valley Archaeological Project (NE Kyrgyzstan) and Postdoctoral Scholar in the SAHND Lab @psuanthro.bsky.social.
One half of the SAHND and SHEL Lab!
Jake Holland-Lulewicz@archaeojake.bsky.social · 4mo ago🔬🏺We have an Anthropology Day alumni event coming up, and our development team made these great templates for us to showcase our labs. Had a lot of fun distilling the key contributions of the SAHND Lab here at Penn State! #archaeology #ecology #history
The microARCH Lab and the Penn State Ancient Biomolecules Research Environment (PSABRE) in the Anthropology Department at PSU are excited to announce two new research position openings for motivated scholars eager to work at the forefront of microbial genomics, aDNA, and biomolecular anthropology
Huge thanks to @amphilsociety.bsky.social and their absolutely critical support for early career researchers!
SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs@sahndshel.bsky.social · 4mo ago🚨 Christina (@cmcarolus.bsky.social) was awarded a grant from the Am. Phil. Soc. for her collaborative project: “Vertical Archipelagos of Prehistoric Highland Inner Asia: Exploring Integrative Agropastoral Landscapes and Long Term Socioecological Dynamics at Kyzyl Unkur-1, Kyrgyzstan”! #archaeology
🚨 Christina (@cmcarolus.bsky.social) was awarded a grant from the Am. Phil. Soc. for her collaborative project: “Vertical Archipelagos of Prehistoric Highland Inner Asia: Exploring Integrative Agropastoral Landscapes and Long Term Socioecological Dynamics at Kyzyl Unkur-1, Kyrgyzstan”! #archaeology
Here we are again! The new edition of the Summer School in Island Archaeobotany will take place in Tenerife at the end of September 2026. *Completely Free of Charge* Please send us your cv&motivation letter by the 10th of April and share as much as possible! #Archaeology #islands #archaeobotany
Today’s @sahndshel.bsky.social Central Asia/SE North America cash crop crossover: ancient cotton seeds from Kyzyl Unkur-1, our highland Kyrgyz cave site! ☁️🌱
UCLA's Goldberg lab seeks postdocs for projects in population genetics, ecology, and more. Flexible start date, fully funded. Interested candidates should contact Amy Goldberg. Details: https://www.goldberglab.org/join #postdoc
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The Goldberg lab is moving to UCLA summer 2025, and recruiting postdocs and graduate students. We are a computational lab with occasional wet lab or field collaborators. We will be located in the Department of Human Genetics in the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. With the knowledge that
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As a person whose work often ties them to the scope for many hours at a time, I’m forever amazed by the microworlds that we can easily miss within and among ordinary archaeological remains. There is almost always much more to see and learn if we just look a little closer. 🔬🎣
SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs@sahndshel.bsky.social · 5mo ago200 year old fish scale from a plantation-era trash pit. We’re finding hundreds of fish scales (in both historic and earlier Indigenous contexts). Matthew and Christina are going to explore micro approaches to species identification! #archaeology #ecology #fish #fisheries #history
Further job announcements! As part of the FORAGER project, (1) a PDRA position is open at the University of Montana apply.interfolio.com/180545, (2) a PDRA position at the University of Cambridge www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54411/ and (3) a Research Project Manager jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
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Whats up in the lab today? About to run 47 dates from a 2,000yr-old settlement of the Xiongnu Empire in Mongolia and 23 dates from a rock shelter in Kyrgyzstan that was once along the Silk Road! Asa and Christina (@cmcarolus.bsky.social) are doing the COOLEST work! #archaeology #history #radiocarbon
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Exciting work happening in the lab this week from @cmcarolus.bsky.social and Asa Cameron’s work in Kyrgyzstan! #archaeology #history #ecology
Christina M. Carolus, PhD@cmcarolus.bsky.social · 6mo agoCurrently in the Capriles Environmental Archaeology Lab @psuanthro.bsky.social using our incredible Keyence VHX-7000 to document very early Silk Road food remains (c. 2000 BP) from the Juuku Valley of highland Kyrgyzstan. Featuring: stunning images of peach pits, garden peas, and foxtail millet!
Currently in the Capriles Environmental Archaeology Lab @psuanthro.bsky.social using our incredible Keyence VHX-7000 to document very early Silk Road food remains (c. 2000 BP) from the Juuku Valley of highland Kyrgyzstan. Featuring: stunning images of peach pits, garden peas, and foxtail millet!
Ok this is WILD 🏺 paging my repatriation community peeps www.Bloomberg.com/news/article...
Epstein Files Contain a Big Clue About Cambodia’s Missing Masterpieces
The documents indicate that billionaire Leon Black had a significant collection of Khmer Empire artwork.
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Very cool new study on Pleistocene materials from the Pacific northwest, yielding what are currently the earliest documented sewn hides and woven basket/mat fragments in the world.
Complex perishable technologies from the North American Great Basin reveal specialized Late Pleistocene adaptations
Organic items from the Great Basin broaden understanding of complex technologies in the Pleistocene.
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Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
🇲🇳🇲🇳🇲🇳 @isazooarch.bsky.social @archaeojake.bsky.social gotta work on that Patagonia sponsorship next 😂
SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs@sahndshel.bsky.social · 7mo agoWho are they!? Our lab team working in Mongolia last summer made the cover of the SAA Archaeological Record! #archaeology @isazooarch.bsky.social @cmcarolus.bsky.social
This Upton Sinclair quote never misses “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
John Rentoul@rentouljohn.bsky.social · 7mo agoBut can anyone tell me what this bit means? “For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty.”
We don't have to let like 10 sloplords suck up all the water with soulless facilities that create a negligible amount of permanent jobs, pollute the environment with noise, and drive up electricity prices while the president carries out a fatwa against wind power. My god, everything's so stupid.
The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com · 7mo agoU.S. electricity prices rose 7.4% in just one year, and energy policy analysts expect them to keep climbing faster than inflation in 2026. Meanwhile, data centers powering AI could nearly triple their energy use by 2030. buff.ly/KE663ZA
The plagiarism-droid just wants to please you, and it will do that by inventing citations, which you will love because of confirmation bias. It's not a literature review if you haven't reviewed the fucking literature. Jeez...
Josh Shepperd@joshshepperd.bsky.social · 8mo agoDo not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social. The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪 #AGU25 #climate
Trump team plans to break up ‘global mothership’ of climate science
Much of the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s non-climate portfolio will be dispersed, the White House says.
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Lab research now available in ✨Mongolian✨🇲🇳 We are fortunate to work and partner with colleagues who take on the critical labor of translating the work of our team for our Mongolian colleagues, scholars, and community members. @cmcarolus.bsky.social @isazooarch.bsky.social @archaeojake.bsky.social
The website for UKAS2026 in Bristol is live! www.ukas2026.co.uk. Save the date - 30th March to 2nd April.
Due to popular demand, we will be extending the abstract submission for UKAS to after Christmas (8th January). Wishing a nice Winter break to everybody.
An exciting line-up of talks this week at @tag2025york.bsky.social! tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/programme/ If you're in York, come along to hear some of our speakers from BioArCh 🧵 (1/6)
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Excited to give a talk for Universität Bonn’s Debates in ArchaeoSciences Lecture Series this Friday, and to spend time with their wonderful research community! 🧪🏺
BoCAS@bocas-news.bsky.social · 8mo ago250 BC to 150 AD, the Xiongnu formed one of the earliest nomadic polities in Eastern Eurasia. Linked to the later Huns in Europe or not, their foodways were far more agricultural and diverse than assumed. Join us and @cmcarolus.bsky.social this Friday in HS2 — or get in touch for the Zoom link!
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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