A&K #7 - This week we're moving outside of Europe to highlight this remarkable compendium of Neotropical Zooarchaeology, edited by our wonderful Argentinian colleagues Mariana Mondini, Sebastián Muñoz and Pablo Fernández link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Huge congratulations to Bohao Dong for pressing the submit button on his PhD today!! 🎉🎉🎉 #ProudSupervisor #sclerochronology #GiantClams #unimelb @laura-m-otter.bsky.social @seanulm.bsky.social

Congratulations to Bohao Dong on his PhD completion seminar! 🎉🎉🎉 A phenomenal project advancing the possibilities of giant clam shell sclerochronology. Such a lot of hard work and excellent data has gone into this project. #ProudSupervisor @seanulm.bsky.social @laura-m-otter.bsky.social

It has been exciting watching this paper go from dreams to reality over the last few years. Congratulations Zuorui Liu (Carl) 🎉

Dr Amy Prendergast@amylprendergast.bsky.social · 2y ago

New paper alert! One for the Dinosaur lovers 🦖🦷 Very happy to share my PhD student @zuorui_liu (Carl)'s cool study on high-resolution past environmental reconstructions from Spinosaurus tooth oxygen isotopes #ProudSupervisor #Sclerochronology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Interested in human-pig-boar interactions? Read our new paper on human-pig-boar relationships in Neolithic Europe 🐷🐗🧬. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Archaeogenomic insights into commensalism and regional variation in pig management in Neolithic northwest Europe | PNAS

The relationship between humans and pigs has changed dramatically since their domestication in southwest Asia and subsequent human-induced introduc...

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🙌Advances is stepping it up in the world of research transparency in publishing! We already offered digital badges for open data practices, but we now have an Associate Editor for Reproducibility, @benmarwick.bsky.social (omg, thank you Ben for this!) Check the link www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨 Job Alert🚨 Postdoctoral position at Uni Melbourne in palaeoecology as part of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Environmental Histories and Futures. https://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/919518/postdoctoral-fellow-paleoecology #ECRchat #AcademicChatter #FediHire #GetFediHired

Details : Postdoctoral Fellow, Paleoecology : The University of Melbourne

Careers at The University of Melbourne

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Postdoctoral Fellow in Paleoecology The ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures (CIEHF) is looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Paleoecology to join our interdisciplinary research team at The University of Melbourne. 🔗 jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91951...

Details : Postdoctoral Fellow, Paleoecology : The University of Melbourne

Careers at The University of Melbourne

jobs.unimelb.edu.au

Major JOB ALERT! I and close colleagues have 4 (!) positions open. So if you're looking for a postdoc or PhD, do read on:

PhD opportunity 🏺 🎓 @Aarhus_Uni: "Cradles of Agrodiversity in Northern Europe" Explore pre-Roman agriculture using soil science & bio-archaeology. Perfect for Geoscience/Archaeology grads. Start: May 2025 Apply by: Feb 1, 2025 Info: smk@geo.au.dk #PhDPosition #Archaeology #Research

Our new study on Aboriginal earth rings in Australia’s out! ‘New excavation of rings of mystery in Victoria reveals rich Aboriginal history’ in The Conversation: theconversation.com/new-excavati... And our in-depth article in Australian Archaeology: doi.org/10.1080/0312... #archaeology #heritage 🏺

New excavation of ‘rings of mystery’ in Victoria reveals rich Aboriginal history

Archaeologists and Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people are shedding new light on a series of enigmatic earth rings located in southeastern Australia.

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2024 has been a rollercoaster of a year, with plenty of highs and lows, but always thankful to be working alongside this awesome team. Can't wait to see what 2025 has in store for the #unimelb sclerochronology team! 🐚

Dr Amy Prendergast@amylprendergast.bsky.social · 2y ago

A wonderful end of year lunch with the #unimelb Sclerochronology lab - @mahsaalidoost.bsky.social @osteo-clo.bsky.social, Bohao, and Carl - celebrating our various achievements over the past year… of course with shell themed presents too!! 🐚🐚🐚🎉🥳🎉

Applications Are Now Open Are you an Honours or Masters student at an AINSE Member Institution? The 2025 AINSE Pathway Scholarships offer a $5,000 stipend to support your studies! For full details and how to apply visit: ainse.edu.au/pathway

It is so sad to hear about the end of these fantastic courses, which only helped to promote #zooarchaeology within the UK #archaeology community (and beyond)! A true loss for the discipline...

Umberto Albarella STOP THE GENOCIDE!@umbertoalbarella.bsky.social · 2y ago

We're sad to inform you that management at the University of Sheffield has asked us to discontinue our very popular #zooarchaeology shortcourses. Unfortunately one of our most enlightening piece of community engagement, which also brought funds to manage our labs, has gone @sheffielducu.bsky.social

To remember what has happened is essential as management is still making life very difficult for us. Education is under attack throughout the world and we must make sure that people are aware of it. Please, do carry on sharing this article. #education ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/campaigns/st...

The closure of Archaeology: an open wound for the University and the city

In 2021, the University announced the closure of the Department of Archaeology. Learn more about how this decision has damaged the University’s reputation, and impacted its staff and students.

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Really enjoyed AusTAG's session today at #AAA47. Extremely enlightening and thought-provoking discussions, including this presentation by Jacinta Koolmatrie and Jade Turner...

Having a great time at #AAA47 discussing our protocol to predict collagen preservation in bones from tropical sites in Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Want to apply this workflow to your research question? I am all ears 👂

Had a fantastic time presenting at #AAA47 yesterday alongside Nick! Thank you to everyone who came and had a chat afterwards! Great to see others interested in the potential of freshwater mussels to understand past human-mussel-environment relationships using #sclerochronology & #TEK 🐚

Dr Amy Prendergast@amylprendergast.bsky.social · 2y ago

Wonderful joint presentation today at #AAA47 by #unimelb PhD researcher @osteo-clo.bsky.social and First People of the Millewa Mallee River Ranger Nick Harradine on people-mussel-environment relationships weaving #sclerochronology & #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledges