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Dr. Deepak Jha

@deepakjha.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Dhanbad Organic Geochemist | Geoarchaeologist | Paleoclimatology Alumni: @MPI-GEA @IISER_Kolkata @Delhi_Univ. www.iitism.ac.in/faculty-details?fa…

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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 22/07/2026
🚨 New for 2026! 🚨 Postdocs can now apply for the AGU26 Postdoctoral Travel Grant to help cover costs of attending the AGU Annual Meeting in person! 👉 Applications are due 12 August: spklr.io/63328EPNKE #AGU26 #Postdoc #Grant #ScienceFunding
Graphic with text: AGU26 Post-Doctorate Travel Grant. Helping new Postdocs attend the AGU Annual Meeting. Apply today! Deadline 12 August.
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HigherJobz @higherjobz.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
🌍 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Oslo, Norway, in Archaeological Geochemistry & Dating. Work on the ERC-funded EcoArch project using isotope analysis, biomarker research, & archaeometric dating.🔗 higherjobz.com/postdoctoral... #AcademicJobs #Postdoc #Archaeology #FullyFunded @uio.no
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Postdoctoral Fellowship in Archaeological Geochemistry at UiO
Apply for the fully funded Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Archaeological Geochemistry and Dating at University of Oslo, Norway.
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International Continental Scientific Drilling Program ICDP @icdpdrilling.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
😅Day 2 of @icdp-ecn.bsky.social Workshop, featuring Drilling Operation Essentials and Technical Training with Dr. Ai Li, followed by Outreach & Citizen Science with Dr. Virginia Toy.👏 🤓We are working in groups, exchanging ideas over Japanese tea. A productive and engaging day so far.💚
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International Continental Scientific Drilling Program ICDP @icdpdrilling.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
🤓The ICDP workshop simulation is underway! Participants were given a project idea and context, then challenged to draft their own ICDP workshop proposal.💥 Prof. Hiroshi Ogasawara and Prof. Virginia Toy led the session. Great energy and excellent photos to capture the moment!😅 @icdp-ecn.bsky.social 💚
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Bara Huber @barahuber.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 In our new study, we show how an #archaeometabolomics approach can distinguish between different cedar-derived products - such as tar, resin, and essential oil - in archaeological samples. 🧪🏺👩‍🔬 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #metabolomics #archaeology
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Dr. Evan J. Gowan @evangowan.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A new web interface for Berger et al's insolation calculator has been released. Check it out! django.elic.ucl.ac.be/berger/insol...
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Berger Insolation Calculator
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David Wright @davidkwright.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
My lab has a PhD position open! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Doctoral Research Fellowship in Archaeological and Palaeoenvironmental Geochemistry (293027) | University of Oslo
Job title: Doctoral Research Fellowship in Archaeological and Palaeoenvironmental Geochemistry (293027), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, March 1, 2026
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Michael Petraglia @mdpetraglia.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The Centre will support a new generation of transdisciplinary researchers including more than 40 research fellows, 70 PhD and Masters students, and 112 Honours students - with half the opportunities prioritised for Indigenous or those from the Global South. www.miragenews.com/griffith-lan...
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Griffith Lands $85M to Revolutionize Human Origins Study
Griffith University has been awarded the ARC Centre of Excellence for Transforming Human Origins Research, one of only eight Centres of Excellence
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Michael Petraglia @mdpetraglia.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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...
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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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The Coral Reef Research Hub @coralreefresearch.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Open Rank Faculty Position in Marine Ecology and Conservation (Florida International University) Job Opening ID 536370 at hr.fiu.edu/careers/) and attach (1) cover letter, (2) curriculum vitae, and (3) statements of teaching, and research. #coralreefs #marineecology #jobs #FIU
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Noam Vogt-Vincent @nvogtvincent.co.uk · 27/11/2025
Climate change postdoctoral fellowship (JRF, 3Y) opportunity at Oxford! 🌍 Brilliant opportunity for anybody with <2 years postdoc experience by October 2026. Would be great to get coral people - there's a strong cluster of coral reef/climate change people here. 🪸 www.queens.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/ju...
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Benjamin Gwinneth @gwinneth.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
My article out this morning shows the changing land use and population at the site of Itzan in Guatemala, culminating in the abandonment of the population centre at the same time as the "Terminal Classic" regional drought — but with no evidence of local drought bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...
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HigherJobz @higherjobz.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Project Coordinator – University of Cambridge, UK ERC-funded STEPS project in #HumanEvolution Research Deadline: 2 Jan 2026 🔗 Details: higherjobz.com/project-coor... #UKJobs #AcademicJobs #PartTimeJobs #ResearchOpportunities #ERCFunded @universitypress.cambridge.org @mcdonaldinstitute.bsky.social
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Project Coordinator – Human Evolution Research Cambridge | HigherJobz
Join the University of Cambridge as a Project Coordinator in Human Evolution Research. Part-time, fixed-term, apply by 2 Jan 2026.
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Archglobalsouth @archglosouth.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
We hosted ‘The Voices of the Global South on the Anthropocene’ Conference in June 2024 at the Max-Planck-Institute of Geoanthropoloy Jena, Germany. You can read more about this event, and the important discussions we engaged in, both below and at the link in our bio!
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Archglobalsouth @archglosouth.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
🔅 Panel at COP30 🔅 Bringing Perspectives from the Global South to Climate Policy Discussions 🌱 🌎 🕝 November 15, from 9:00 a.m. to 9:50 a.m. 📍Higher Education for Climate Action Pavilion - Blue Zone
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Archglobalsouth @archglosouth.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Hi all! We're a working group focused on integrating information from palaeoecology, archaeology and traditional knowledge to address urgent Anthropocene crises. Together, we form ECHOES: Exploring Climate and Human Observations from the Global South.
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Dr. Deepak Jha @deepakjha.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Excited to share that I was fortunate to designed the first "Geoarchaeology" course in India at Department of Applied Geology at Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad. The course is designed for students to develop transdisciplinary thinking following National Education Policy of India 2020.
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Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Nice Middle Palaeolithic refits from India, like a 3d jigsaw, this is piecing back together stone tools made by people tens of thousands of years ago. By Akash Pandey. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
🚨 Job alert! The new Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS' is looking for a scientific coordinator to start as soon as possible. Please see link for full advertisement text and information. Deadline for applications: September 15 uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
A big congratulations to William Farhan-Rios on this paper in @pnas.org, featuring a study of tropical-forest change over four decades along the Amazon-to-Andes elevational gradient in Bolivia and Peru 🌴 ⛰️ 🌐 @mobotgarden.bsky.social @livingearthcollab.bsky.social 1/3 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Amazonian and Andean tree communities are not tracking current climate warming | PNAS
Climate change is shifting species distributions, leading to changes in community composition and novel species assemblages worldwide. However, the...
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 21/07/2025
European colonialism also came with the looting of many artefacts, including 75 manuscripts containing genealogies essential for establishing lineage and succession rights as well as accounts of Javanese history, severing intergenerational knowledge transmission Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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Restitution and repatriation as an opportunity, not a loss: some reflections on recent Southeast Asian cases | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Restitution and repatriation as an opportunity, not a loss: some reflections on recent Southeast Asian cases - Volume 98 Issue 401
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Tomos Proffitt @tomosproffitt.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Very happy to announce that a new postdoctoral position on the New ERC funded Western Rift Archaeology and Palaeoenvironment Project is open - if you're a geologist or geochronologist come and join us at @icarehb.bsky.social euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/358068 Feel free to share it around.
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ANNOUNCEMENT INTERNATIONAL TENDER FOR THE RECRUITMENT OF A POST-DOCTORAL ASSOCIATE RESEARCHER
recruit one (1) ) post-doctoral assistant researcherresearcher to perform duties in the scientific area of Geochronology / Plio-Pleistocene Geology or related areas, under the research project “
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Archglobalsouth @archglosouth.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
So much to think about after "Not all that glitters is green" by Verónica Zuccarelli Freire. A powerful reminder that the costs of the energy transition are not shared equally, especially in the #Andes. True climate action requires environmental justice. #ClimateJustice #IndigenousKnowledge
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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Interested in joining our team to study past mammalian dispersals? We just opened a new postdoctoral position in climate modeling to work with me and Yannick Donnadieu at @climatecerege.bsky.social. All the info here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... Application deadline on July 23.
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Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - M/F Researcher in Climate modeling
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PAGES (Past Global Changes) @pages-ipo.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
💫 PAGES would like to thank everyone who attended the 5th YSM & 7th OSM in Shanghai. Held every 4 years, these are PAGES' flagship events which bring the global community together to network, share and liaise on all things #paleoscience. More photos & meeting material available in the archive soon.
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Rachel Rudd @rachelrudd.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
@deepakjha.bsky.social presenting CSIA of modern plants and sediments along an aridiy gradient in the Thar Desert at #EGU25
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Michael Petraglia @mdpetraglia.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Our discoveries at Jwalapuram have been rather remarkable and of great importance to the natural and cultural #heritage of #India and the world illustrating the effects of the Toba volcanic super-eruption on ecosystems and humans. Please save this site Archaeological Survey of India! #ASI
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David Wright @davidkwright.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Pit without finds = worthless pit? Investigating a Roman military camp from Caesar's Gallic Wars (58 – 51 BC) near Hermeskeil (Germany). This is one of the rare instances of published non-results for biomarkers. Not all good data validate your hypothesis! authors.elsevier.com/c/1kx~c,rVDB...
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Nature @nature.com · 11/04/2025
Nature research paper: Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years go.nature.com/4jja0k2
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Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years - Nature
A climatic record from desert speleothems shows that the central Arabian interior experienced recurrent humid intervals over the past 8 million years, which likely facilitated mammalian dispersals between Africa and Eurasia.
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Michael Petraglia @mdpetraglia.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Paper alert, @nature.com. Our study reveals 8 million years of #GreenArabia. We document environmental variability - ranging over the entire course of human evolution. Arabia is a key bridge at the cross-roads of continents. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
(1/13) A thread on our new paper just published in Nature, ‘Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years’. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years - Nature
A climatic record from desert speleothems shows that the central Arabian interior experienced recurrent humid intervals over the past 8 million years, which likely facilitated mammalian dispersals bet...
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Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
(1/17) We are thrilled to see our new paper ‘Hunter-gatherer sea voyages extended to remotest Mediterranean islands’ published in Nature. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Michael Petraglia @mdpetraglia.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
It's the Toba volcanic super-eruption revival. Well done @gopesh.bsky.social and colleagues! Our results underline the complex responses of regional environments to the Toba super-eruption, which extend beyond a simple widespread ‘volcanic winter’. #India #Toba academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...
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Michael Petraglia @mdpetraglia.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Pleased to have joined Abdallah Zaki and an international team to study large scale flooding of the Empty Quarter 9,000 years ago. Important implications for arid zones and human-environment relations. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Monsoonal imprint on late Quaternary landscapes of the Rub’ al Khali Desert - Communications Earth & Environment
The African Monsoon drove rapid landscape transformations in the Rub’ al Khali Desert in Saudi Arabia during the peak of the Holocene Humid Period, consequence of high seasonal precipitation, accordin...
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Pal(a)eoPERCS @palaeopercs.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Hello everyone! Pal(a)eoPERCS is now on Bluesky. If you already know us, we welcome you to our new account! If you are not familiar with us, Pal(a)eoPERCS is a virtual seminar series designed to showcase the research of Early Career Researchers in paleosciences 🌎🦖🔬🦴🦠. Find out more at paleopercs.com
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Pal(a)eoPERCS
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Pallavi Anand (she/her) @anandpallavijha.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
📢 #ICP15 #ECR grant #deadline - Apply by 30th March. #ECR - We are defining ECRs if they are a student or early career researcher without a permanent position (ie PhD and postdocs/researchers on a fixed term contract). Please apply 👇🏼 www.icp15.com
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ICP15 - 15th International Conference on Palaeoceanography, Bangaluru, India
15th International Conference on Palaeoceanography, Bangaluru, India
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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Ancient DNA)- University of York - Department of #Archaeology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML043/p...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate (Ancient DNA) at University of York
An opportunity for an academic position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate (Ancient DNA) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I'm reposting this again, because we are still offering a 2-year postdoc position at @climatecerege.bsky.social and we are looking for applicants!
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Dr. Deepak Jha @deepakjha.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
New Papar Alert 🚨Open access in @antiquityj.bsky.social Discussing new Acheulean sites in Upper Son Valley, India and its importance in South Asian Archaeology. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Acheulean habitation in the Upper Son Valley, India: insights into early occupation and environment | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Acheulean habitation in the Upper Son Valley, India: insights into early occupation and environment
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European Society for the Study of Human Evolution @eshesociety.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
ESHE 2025 goes to Paris, France! Join us in person for talks and posters from Sept 25–27, with a public keynote on Sept 24. Excursion details are coming soon. More info on the meetings page this March! #ESHE2025
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Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
(1/9) I’m hiring! Join my ‘Terraform’ ERC project at the University of Malta, looking at the origin, evolution, and impacts of agricultural terracing in the Maltese Islands. Please circulate to anyone you think could be interested. Starting in the summer.
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Dr. Deepak Jha @deepakjha.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Submitted 2 abstracts from our group at @MPIGEA with @rachelrudd.bsky.social to this amazing #EGU25 focused on plant biomarkers and CSIA of modern plants and sediments along an aridiy gradient in the Thar Desert and another from an altitudinal gradient in Lesotho. See you there #EGUbiomarker.
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Clara Bolton @clarab.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Are you a PhD or Masters student in Paleoclimate looking to learn and network with your community? Excited to announce that applications to USSP 2025 are now open until 6th March. 🦖⚛️🪨🌊🔬🧑🏽‍💻 Please share! 🤩
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Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology
Visit the post for more.
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Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
New job available in my department ('scientific officer'): www.um.edu.mt/hrmd/recruit...
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Post of Scientific Officer (Archaeological Practice) - L-Università ta' Malta
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Seb Breitenbach @speleoseb.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The company Knauf wants to quarry gypsum deposits of the southern Harz mountains! Let’s stop the destruction of the protected (!) and unique gypsum karst landscape! Sign the petition here 👇 eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Lead does not do good things to human health and cognitive development. It took us a while to figure it out. The Romans were also big on lead, and some now argue that it contributed to cognitive decline and perhaps the fall of the empire. 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Non-background lead (nbPb) deposition, estimated emissions from Rio Tinto (Scenario 1), and simulated emission sensitivity at three Arctic ice core sites. a-b, NGRIP2, c-d, Akademii Nauk, e-f, RECAP. Shown are annual (light) and 11-year median-filtered (heavy) nbPb fluxes from 500
BCE to 600 CE along with major historical events. White dots show locations of known Roman-era silver and lead mining sites. Emissions estimates are for scenario 1. Horizontal dotted lines show averages during the Pax Romana.
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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
🚨Postdoc job offer!🚨 We are currently looking for a climate modeler to work with us at @climatecerege.bsky.social on Eocene climate simulations, to investigate the past connectivity of forested ecosystems and the mechanisms of primates dispersal. Job ad here: nuage.osupytheas.fr/s/PSdj4ns2SE...
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Nuage - le Nuage de l&#039;OSU Pytheas
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Agent of Chaos @fionacoward.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Postdoc stable isotope analysis www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLH400/p...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate (Stable Isotope Analysis) at University of York
Discover Postdoctoral Research Associate (Stable Isotope Analysis) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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Bob Patalano @robertpatalano.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Koobi Fora field school! Please help spread the word.
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