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Christina M. Carolus, PhD

@cmcarolus.bsky.social
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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.

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Christina M. Carolus, PhD @cmcarolus.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Scoping our new multiperiod settlement site, Kashka-Suu, before drone mapping, geophys, and test excavation. Much like the highland medieval town of Tashbulak in Uzbekistan, Kashka-Suu sits at 2200 masl in a Kyrgyz high mountain pass; uppermost layers = early urbanism via the Kharakhanid Empire.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Never forgiving Apple or Google for participating in this bullshit.
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Christina M. Carolus, PhD @cmcarolus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Juuku Valley Archaeology Project officially begins its 2nd season at Kyzyl Unkur-1, w/testing of a few new sites. Now equipped for geophys thanks to @psuanthro.bsky.social and @archaeojake.bsky.social, with critical support from @amphilsociety.bsky.social). Expecting great things this year!
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The magic of an Irish rainforest 🌍
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SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs @sahndshel.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
🐠 🌱 🦪 ⛈️ 🌡️ The other half of our lab w/ @isazooarch.bsky.social! #archaeology #ecology #sustainability #climate
A poster for Dr. Isabelle Holland-Lulewicz’s lab: the laboratory for socioecological histories of estuarine landscapes.
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SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs @sahndshel.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
One half of the SAHND and SHEL Lab!
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😸 Hugo the pink cat 😸 @hugothepinkcat.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Starting the week with Kate Bush
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MicroARCH_lab @microarch-lab.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
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
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Christina M. Carolus, PhD @cmcarolus.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Huge thanks to @amphilsociety.bsky.social and their absolutely critical support for early career researchers!
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SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs @sahndshel.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
🚨 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
A line horses walk down a dirt path. There is a small creek to their right. To the left are high red rocky bluffs. In the background are red mountains. A landscape photo of mountainous Kyrgyzstan. A small river to the right, flanked by rising red mountains.
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Claudia Speciale @claudiaspecial.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
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
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Christina M. Carolus, PhD @cmcarolus.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
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! ☁️🌱
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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
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: www.goldberglab.org/join #postdoc
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Amy Goldberg, PhD - Join
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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Christina M. Carolus, PhD @cmcarolus.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
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. 🔬🪏🎣
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BioArCh @york-bioarch.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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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SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs @sahndshel.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
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
Labeled bags full of bone and botanicals laid out across a lab table.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing
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SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs @sahndshel.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Exciting work happening in the lab this week from @cmcarolus.bsky.social and Asa Cameron’s work in Kyrgyzstan! #archaeology #history #ecology
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Christina M. Carolus, PhD @cmcarolus.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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!
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Ok this is WILD 🏺 paging my repatriation community peeps www.Bloomberg.com/news/article...
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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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Christina M. Carolus, PhD @cmcarolus.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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.
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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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/01/2026
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."
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Christina M. Carolus, PhD @cmcarolus.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
🇲🇳🇲🇳🇲🇳 @isazooarch.bsky.social @archaeojake.bsky.social gotta work on that Patagonia sponsorship next 😂
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
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.”
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padmé amygdala @ali1m.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
props to this christmas lad I’ve just spotted on @flightradar24.com
a flight track of a plane drawing a christmas tree
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 25/12/2025
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.
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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
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...
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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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
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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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SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs @sahndshel.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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
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OGU Bristol @ogu-bristol.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The website for UKAS2026 in Bristol is live! www.ukas2026.co.uk. Save the date - 30th March to 2nd April.
UKAS 2026 Bristol logo representing the Bristol Suspension bridge on top of archaeological pottery and bone.
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OGU Bristol @ogu-bristol.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
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.
UKAS 2026 Bristol logo representing the Bristol Suspension bridge on top of archaeological pottery and bone.
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BioArCh @york-bioarch.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
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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Programme - TAG 2025
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Christina M. Carolus, PhD @cmcarolus.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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! 🧪🏺🪏
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
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...
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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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Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them.

Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!”

Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.”

Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face.

Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.
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SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs @sahndshel.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
New NSF award just dropped for our Co-Directors @isazooarch.bsky.social and @archaeojake.bsky.social! “Variables Influencing the Efficacy of Estuarine and Marine Resource Management”. #archaeology #ecology #fisheries #sustainability Visit here to learn more 👉🏻 www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
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Christina M. Carolus, PhD @cmcarolus.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Looking forward to final Summer 2025 conference presentations, to take place at #ISBA11 in Turin. Tune in to a full length presentation on new proteomic evidence for the early spread of Asian rice at the #PAASTA meeting (8/26) as well as my scheduled flash talk on Thursday (8/28)!
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ISBA11 Turin @isba11.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
ISBA11 starts tomorrow, and we have just one question for you... are you ready for it? #ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #turin #Archaeology #Italy #conference #AreYouReady @isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social
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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Just found out that 74 of my works have been scraped/stolen by the plundering AI bots, which are nothing more than plagiarism machines really, with zero respect for copyright. My fellow writers, check it out for your own work. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
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ISBA11 Turin @isba11.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
In just under 3 weeks, we look forward to welcoming researchers from 40 countries in Turin, Italy for ISBA11 #ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #Archaeology #ISBAconference #archaeologicalconference #Turin @isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social
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Society for East Asian Archaeology @seaaofficial.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
*conference update* The short schedule, full schedule, and mid-conference trip information is now available on the SEAA website
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Zandra Fagernäs @zandraselina.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Registration deadline is TOMORROW! 🍝 🏺
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
we need to change direction and we need to be serious about it
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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
So nice to see archaeology finally relevant again meidasnews.com/news/gop-ove...
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GOP Oversight Member Suggests Smithsonian Hiding Bones of Giants
Rep. Eric Burlison: “I do believe [giants] were real”
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SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs @sahndshel.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Drs. Christina and Asa are in Kyrgyzstan! They’re interested in this unique location along the “Silk Road” and are looking closely at the introduction of agriculture and new crops into what is today Kyrgyzstan (and how these systems changed/were adapted locally over time)! 🇰🇬 🌱 #archaeology #ecology
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Christina M. Carolus, PhD @cmcarolus.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Floating (pun intended) through a beautiful August in Kyrgyzstan 🍃 Pt. II
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Floating (pun intended) through a beautiful August in Kyrgyzstan 🌱 Pt. I
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BAR Publishing @barpublishing.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
✨Call for submissions✨ We’re seeking new submissions for our Archaeology of East Asia sub-series! This peer-reviewed sub-series publishes data-rich research from across East Asia, including often-overlooked areas. Heading to the #SEAA? Email editor@barpublishing.com for a meeting! More info here
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Dan "Scary" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
If you work in higher ed, you need to get your folks together and end the use of course evals or at least bar their consideration in evaluation, promotion, and hiring. This needed to happen yesterday because they don't measure learning, they measure instructor gender, but now it's a snitch pool.
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