The ARC's new grant scheme table, in case you don't want to read through the details (which are here: www.arc.gov.au/system/files...)

ARC Tracker@arc-tracker.bsky.social · 2w ago

The ARC has released their new set of grant schemes ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/news-and-pub... Before implementing them, they’re now going to “consult with the sector”. Hopefully genuinely, not just with a few disengaged DVCRs. In the meantime, there’ll be another round of Discovery Projects (DP28).

The ARC has released their new set of grant schemes ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/news-and-pub... Before implementing them, they’re now going to “consult with the sector”. Hopefully genuinely, not just with a few disengaged DVCRs. In the meantime, there’ll be another round of Discovery Projects (DP28).

Contrats to Meg Walker on her first PhD Data Chapter, published today in PLOS One. Neotaphonomic characteristics of vertebrate site formation in underwater caves

Neotaphonomic characteristics of vertebrate site formation in underwater caves

Recovering well-preserved vertebrate remains from underwater caves has provided critical insights into archaeological and palaeontological records worldwide. However, understanding how bone assemblage...

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Congratulations to Ben Shidqi on his first PhD paper. Faunal and environmental continuity in Middle to Late Pleistocene Sumatra 📖🐘🦛🐒

Faunal and environmental continuity in Middle to Late Pleistocene Sumatra

Sumatra occupies a pivotal yet understudied position in Southeast Asian biogeography, shaped by tectonic evolution, Quaternary sea-level fluctuations,…

sciencedirect.com

While ARC wait for Minister to approve their new grant schemes, they’ve created a new round of Future Fellowships (FT27) & Industrial Transformation Hubs & Centres (IC27 & IH27). And they’ve provided 2-week outcome announcement windows! Phew! BUT schemes still generally take longer than last year…

Australian Research Council@arc-gov-au.bsky.social · 3mo ago

ANNOUNCEMENT: We’ve released a National Competitive Grants Program (NCGP) update with information on additional rounds of 2 existing schemes in 2026. Read more: www.arc.gov.au/news-and-pub...

“A complete joke” After the starting gun fires, Australian researchers have to wait 2–3 years before even starting the race. Really clear article explaining the impossibly long new time-frames for Australian Research Council grants. By @liammannix.bsky.social

‘Complete joke’: Efforts to reduce funding wait times ends with longer blowout

A long campaign to improve Australia’s sclerotic research bureaucracy has culminated in an extraordinary blowout to grant approval times, leaving scientists despondent.

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Check out our new (early access) paper "The Natufian Epipalaeolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic in the desert of northern Arabia" just out in Sci Reps. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 #DiscoveryProjects EOI #DPEI27 announcement: ❗️Outcomes for Expressions of Interest should now be available in your RMS account ▶️ rms.arc.gov.xn--au-lmy ARC should also email Lead CIs with their outcomes (may take a while & be staggered). Full apps open 2 Mar, due 22 Apr.

DP27 EOI outcomes should be released today. My bot can't track them because they're not released publicly. Let me know when you get yours so I can post manually. Last year's outcomes were released to applicants' RMS profiles at 12:30 (Canberra time). Outcomes for other schemes are often around 11.

ARC Tracker@arc-tracker.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The ARC have said (on LinkedIn) they will release outcomes for Discovery Projects Expressions of Interest (2027) tomorrow👇

Deep-time preservation of amino acids in mammalian fossil tooth enamel

Deep-time preservation of amino acids in mammalian fossil tooth enamel - Communications Biology

Tooth enamel preserves endogenous amino acids for over 40 million years, representing a robust and underexplored archive for deep-time biomolecular research and enabling future paleoproteomic and isot...

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The massive delays ARC announced for all grant schemes – with longer processing times & 3-month announcement windows – were examined in Senate Estimates recently. Here’s John Ross reporting on it, & the confusing Estimates hearing, for Times Higher Ed👇 www.timeshighereducation.com/news/grant-d...

Grant delays feared as ARC ramps up ‘due diligence’

Researchers brace for renewed funding uncertainty as security checks prove ‘more time-consuming than imagined’

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Caprine dairy exploitation on the Iranian Plateau from the seventh millennium BC

Caprine dairy exploitation on the Iranian Plateau from the seventh millennium BC - Nature Human Behaviour

Using food residues on pottery vessels and dental calculus, and faunal remains, Casanova et al. find evidence that Neolithic communities in Iran were milking goats or sheep as early as the seventh mil...

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In the Australian outback, we’re listening for nuclear tests – and what we hear matters more than ever

As the United States and Russia signal a return to nuclear testing, Australia’s remote monitoring station plays a crucial role in global verification.

theconversation.com

Early humans in central China may have been making sophisticated stone tools as early as 160,000 years ago, according to research in Nature Communications. This discovery challenges the perception that stone tool technology in Asia lagged behind Europe and Africa during this period. 🏺 🧪

Technological innovations and hafted technology in central China ~160,000–72,000 years ago - Nature Communications

Stone tools illustrate behavioural complexities in Middle Pleistocene hominin populations. Here, the authors present small dimensional flakes and hafted tools from Xigou, central China, dated to ~160–72 thousand years ago that demonstrate early, complex technological advancements.

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Portable ER-FTIR as a non-destructive method to pre-screen collagen for ZooMS analysis in archaeology

Portable ER-FTIR as a non-destructive method to pre-screen collagen for ZooMS analysis in archaeology

In the last decades, archaeology has witnessed a significant increase in the use of biomolecular analyses to study a variety of materials, including s…

sciencedirect.com

An Overview of the Rock Art of AlUla: Tracing Changes in Content and Form Across 12,000 Years of Human History

An Overview of the Rock Art of AlUla: Tracing Changes in Content and Form Across 12,000 Years of Human History

Between 2018 and 2021, the Identification and Documentation of Immovable Heritage Assets (IDIHA) Project recorded over 19,000 rock art panels in the AlUla (al-‘Ulā) region of north-western Saudi Arab...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Mummified cave cheetahs inform rewilding actions in Saudi Arabia www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Mummified cave cheetahs inform rewilding actions in Saudi Arabia - Communications Earth & Environment

Naturally mummified cheetah remains in a Saudi Arabian cave system with radiocarbon-calibrated ages between about 4,200 and 100 years cluster with Asian as well as West-African sub-species, with impli...

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Out of Africa I revisited: Life history, energetics, and the evolutionary capacity for early hominin dispersals

Out of Africa I revisited: Life history, energetics, and the evolutionary capacity for early hominin dispersals

Paleoanthropological interpretations have traditionally emphasized Homo erectus sensu stricto as the first hominin species to expand out of Africa dur…

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🧬 #Bioinformatics AEGIS #PostdocJobs in metagenomic pipelines & HPC: Ancient Environmental Genomics at @ucph.bsky.social to reconstruct ecosystems and develop climate-resilient crops. 🌍 Deadline: Jan 4, 2026. Mikkel Winther Pedersen (mwpedersen@sund.ku.dk) #AcademicJobs #aeDNA #ClimateChange

Postdoctoral positions in ancient environmental genomics within the Ancient Environmental Genomics Initiative for Sustainability (AEGIS)

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New 2-year Postdoc: Ancient #Metagenomics & #Microbiome Sciences! 🧬🦷 Join Prof. @christinawarinner.bsky.social ’s group at @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social to study the evolution and ecology of ancient oral microbiota. 📅 Apply by Jan 20, 2026: www.microverse-cluster.de/en/career/jo...

Jobs - Balance of the Microverse

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🦙🧬Pleased to present our new paper out in @natcomms.nature.com 🧬🦙 Palaeogenomics of early camelid use in the Atacama Desert (Chile). We used ancient DNA to revisit animals being hunted/herded >3,000 years ago. Manuscript here: rdcu.be/eVwwl #aDNA #popgen Thread below🧵 Reposts appreciated :)

New collagen peptide markers from New Guinea fauna: identifying archaeological bone in the tropics

New collagen peptide markers from New Guinea fauna: identifying archaeological bone in the tropics

Abstract. The Pleistocene and early Holocene archaeological records of the New Guinea are sparse and poorly understood, yet are hugely relevant for underst

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I'm pleased to announce that Natalie Munro and I have authored an Element through @universitypress.cambridge.org on "The Behavioral Ecology of Food: Bridging the Archaeological and the Contemporary." It will be released in February, and you can pre-order it here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

Are you an Early Career Scholar? Do you want to learn how to publish in international journals? Together with Archaeological Dialogues & Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, we are hosting a publication workshop @tag2025york.bsky.social today, from 13.10-14.10 in room TFTV/109

Experience in #archaeological #proteomics? Interested in #Roman economy / organic artefacts? Background in data analysis for #ZooMS? Then apply for a 3-year RA post working to join PELLIS project with the wonderful @gtaylortu.bsky.social to investigate Roman leather economy Apply by 12/01/2026

#FieldworkFridayFieldworkFriday. Trying to understand deposits of the Al Wusta Playa, Saudi Arabia, which we published a few days ago (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...).

Postdoc, Great Wall of China www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPR113/p...

Post Doctoral Research Associate at Newcastle University

Apply now for the Post Doctoral Research Associate role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

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I’m so honoured and excited to be leading this international initative together with so many amazing people and organisations news.griffith.edu.au/2025/12/09/g...

Griffith secures $85m to transform global understanding of human origins - Griffith News

Transforming Human Origins Research Centre of Excellence to reframe the study of our species globally.

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Wow! Huge congratulations to @mdpetraglia.bsky.social and everyone else at ARCHE on this massive news, a major Australian Research Council grant to fund the Centre of Excellence for Transforming Human Origins Research. www.arc.gov.au/news-publica...

Here’s to the next 7 years of research with the newly funded “ARC Centre of Excellence for Transforming Human Origins Research.” It is truly a privilege to be part of such a stellar team of scholars and partners www.arc.gov.au/news-publica...