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Benjamin Serbe

@bserbe.bsky.social
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Dr. phil. | Archaeologist | GIS & Network Science | PostDoc at ROOTS Cluster of Excellence | Kiel University

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The Connected Past @theconnectedpast.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Call for Papers: The Connected Past is coming to Toronto in 2026! We invite abstract for papers exploring networks and network approaches in archaeology and history. Join us and share your research. See the posters below, scan the QR code for more! CFP is now open! #theconnectedpast #archaeology
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Benjamin Serbe @bserbe.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Today I flagged every premium-related mail from academia.edu as spam. After a month of conscutively clicking "unsubscribe" in every of such mails this seems to be the only option left.
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PCI Archaeology @pciarchaeology.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
1/3 New recommendation: M. thor Straten, S. Strohm, J. Hilpert, @bserbe.bsky.social, T. Kerig, M. Renz (2025). A Network View on the Big Exchange Project: Integrating and Analysing Heterogeneous Datasets. v2 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Figure 6 from the manuscript: PathSim distributions for each LBK material compared with all other LBK materials across distance classes.
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Sidestone Press @sidestone.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
OUT NOW! Bernstein in der Bronzezeit. Netzwerke und Interaktion in Europa by Benjamin Serbe #ROOTS 📚 Read online for free or purchase your own volume at www.sidestone.com/books/bernst... #amber #prehistory
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Benjamin Serbe @bserbe.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
It is done! Finally, after two years past the defense my PhD is online available! Two years of editing, figure revising and test prints. Thanks to all the people at @clusterroots.bsky.social for supporting this project. Check out the digial version here: www.sidestone.com/books/bernst...
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Kristin Eichhorn @drkeichhorn.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Hat hier jemand Verstopfung gesagt? #IchBinHanna newsletterversand.zeit.de/go/13/6KUV8M....
Die Fraktionen sprachen sich zudem gegen Dauerstellen für Postdocs und Doktoranden aus. Eine flächendeckende Entfristung blockiere Chancen für die nächste Generation. Mehr Fluktuation schaffe zudem Raum für Innovation und verhindere die Blockade von Stellen durch Dauerbeschäftigungen.
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Zentrum für Politische Schönheit @politicalbeauty.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Weiß jemand, warum in Berlin der Palast der Republik abgerissen wurde, Hitlers Olympiastadion von 1936 aber nicht?
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 30/09/2025
📕 What is gender #archaeology? 🏺 Explore how we can research gender roles in the past and how different gender issues in the academic world affect current archaeological thought in our latest #NewBookChronicle 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Cover of the book reviewed.
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PCI Archaeology @pciarchaeology.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Looking for a place to submit your finished paper? We propose a totally free and transparent initiative! Made by archaeologists for archaeologists. Follow the steps below! 🏺🧪
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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...
Author-Paid PublicationFees Corrupt Science and Should Be Abandoned 
Thomas J. H Morgan & Paul E. Smaldino
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Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Peer-review originally emerged in response to journals' need to boost their own reputation and to sieve through growing and increasing numbers of submissions that couldnt all simply be printed, not primarily for reasons of quality control: worksinprogress.co/issue/real-p... 🏺🗃️📕
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Real peer review has never been tried - Works in Progress Magazine
Outdated forms of peer review create bottlenecks that slow science. But in a world where research can now circulate rapidly on the Internet, we need to develop new ways to do science in public.
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Detlef Gronenborn @dgron.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
It's out! 😀 THE MAP: EXPANSION OF FARMING IN WESTERN EURASIA, 9600-4000 BCE 2025.1 Regional updates, particularly 🇺🇦. Colour and greyscale resolutions, and much asked for colour code and legend. @barbarahorejs.bsky.social @leizarchaeology.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social zenodo.org/records/1688...
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Dr Sonja B Grimm @sonja-grimm.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
🥳 Finally out in PLOSone! ⚱️🦣 A big collaboration project led by Isabell Schmidt from Cologne University about #demography in Late #Palaeolithic Europe. This challenge to collect comparable data across different regions most of all showed the gaps in our knowledge. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Large scale and regional demographic responses to climatic changes in Europe during the Final Palaeolithic
The European Final Palaeolithic witnessed marked changes in almost all societal domains. Despite a rich body of evidence, our knowledge of human palaeodemographic processes and regional population dyn...
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Benjamin Serbe @bserbe.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Great participation in our session on AI in Archaeology at #KielScales25. Many interesting talks, projects and ideas on how to use and deal with AI and ML applications. A really wonderful discussion why "digital literacy" is also important for archaeological research. 🏺
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Cluster of Excellence ROOTS @clusterroots.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
A new philosophical-archaeological study by #ClusterROOTS members Vesa Arponen, René Ohlrau and Tim Kerig provides an analytical tool based on the #UnitedNations' #HumanDevelopmentIndex that can be applied directly to archaeological data. Read the whole story: www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-r... 🏺
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Peoples’ opportunities spur innovation 6,000 years ago
The UN’s Human Development Index provides new explanations for the success of Europe’s first mega settlements.
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Benjamin Serbe @bserbe.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
What is the Big Exchange Project? The project is an international collaboration with archaeologists and network scientists to inverstigate lagre-scale exchange networks in Prehistoric Eurasia and Africa. We focus on raw materials with a distinct source which data are publically available. 1/3
Current datasets incorporated in Big Exchange and their distribution in time. Currently 20 different raw materials are incorporated. Different kinds of flint, precious stones (e.g. Lapis Lazuli, Jade), Spondylus shells, Amber, Tin, or Oxhide Ingots. From Kerig et. al. 2023
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Benjamin Serbe @bserbe.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Really productive (and a bit exhausting) day at the HESCOR Working Group Meeting at the University of Cologne today. Discussing different ideas on prehistoric networks and future directions of the Big Exchange Project. 🏺
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Internet Archaeology @intarcheditor.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
New in IA: HS2 Phase One: Heritage GIS Digital Archive (Data paper) doi.org/10.11141/ia.... by Fred Farshid Aryankhesal Highlighting the GIS spatial datasets from HS2 Phase One historic environment fieldwork programme & explains the technical components of the ADS datasets
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HS2 Phase One: Heritage GIS Digital Archive (Data paper)
This data paper highlights the GIS spatial datasets generated from the HS2 Phase One historic environment fieldwork programme. The paper explains the technical components of the datasets which are dep...
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