Jan Kolář

@jankolararchaeo.bsky.social

Archaeologist; human-environment interactions in the past. Researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the @czechacademy.bsky.social Editor of Quaternary Environments and Humans; 🏳️‍🌈; #FirstGen Prague <- London <- Brno http://jankolararchaeo.cz

🏺I spent a considerable time of my career feeling that I am trying to extract "sunbeams out of cucumbers". @benmarwick.bsky.social describes how to improve our current #publishing practice to avoid such feelings when extracting archaeological #data from publications.

Ben Marwick @benmarwick.bsky.social · last yr.

Is archaeology a science? 🧪 Here's my new paper that has a go at answering this question by analysing 10,000 journal articles: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM...

First page of the journal article

The 8.2 ka cold event was the most prominent climatic cold snap in northern Europe during the Holocene. It was a consequence of the rapid Early Holocene warming and came in the wake of ice sheet melting. A thread about our new paper and a link to the OA publication at the end of the thread 😊 1/8

Sad to hear that the #Fulbright programme (among others) has been suspended by the Trump administration. I am a Fulbright alumnus myself (2017/2018) and it changed my life. This world needs international exchange and study-abroad programmes for scholars! www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Funding freeze leaves Fulbright and study-abroad scholars stranded

The Trump administration paused State Department money for international exchange and study-abroad programs. Participants wonder: Will it ever resume?

washingtonpost.com