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Jonathan Benjamin

@jonbenj.bsky.social
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Archaeologist | Scientific Diver | Dual Citizen | Professor | ARC Future Fellow

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Corey Bradshaw @conservbytes.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Citing Indigenous Knowledges (correctly & respectfully) in scientific research conservationbytes.com/2026/04/30/c...
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Citing Indigenous Knowledges (correctly & respectfully) in scientific research
Have you ever done any research that relied to any degree on Indigenous Knowledges? How did you cite those Knowledges, if at all? It’s probably time we rethink how we engage with Indigenous K…
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Flinders Uni Maritime Archaeology Program @flindersmap.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2025/11...
news.flinders.edu.au
Uncovering the ancient landscape hidden below Sydney Harbour
Maritime archaeologists at Flinders University have produced a striking 3D reconstruction of Sydney Harbour as it appeared thousands of years ago, when sea levels were much […]
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Jonathan Benjamin @jonbenj.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
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Jonathan Benjamin @jonbenj.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Return of the wet strawman! We rebut our critics (again) after their most recent attempt to use high level theory and inaccurate models to justify their negative assertions about our fieldwork. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Stone artefacts on submerged land surfaces: A response to Larcombe et al.
Larcombe et al. (2025) challenge the work of the Deep History of Sea Country team regarding the provenance and mobility of lithic artefacts on the sea…
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Jonathan Benjamin @jonbenj.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
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Their old people sang of a place lost beneath the waves. Now it's found
For years, researchers have been trying to find ancient artefacts sitting on the ocean floor. Now they have brought in Indigenous rangers to help.
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Jonathan Benjamin @jonbenj.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Evaluating the Deep Time Archaeological Potential of the Submerged Rottnest (Wadjemup) Shelf, Southwestern Australia Open access article published in the Journal of Maritime Archaeology link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Evaluating the Deep Time Archaeological Potential of the Submerged Rottnest (Wadjemup) Shelf, Southwestern Australia - Journal of Maritime Archaeology
Since the peak of the last glacial maximum, approximately 2.12 million square kilometres of Australia’s continental land mass was inundated by post-glacial sea-level rise. Much of this area would have...
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Jonathan Benjamin @jonbenj.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
🤿 👌
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Jonathan Benjamin @jonbenj.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Brutal flight delay on @qantas-official.bsky.social #QF1 approaching 30 hours in Singapore. On an A380 sitting on the tarmac for a second night in a row. Broken air con. It is absolutely roasting. Don’t fly Qantas A380s. They’re old and they can’t get the parts they need to fix them. #Qantas #A380
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Jonathan Benjamin @jonbenj.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Buy anything but a Tesla.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
The American people have risen up and they are PISSED AS HELL. #HandsOff
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Democrats @democrats.org · 05/04/2025
Massive #HandsOff rallies across the country 🔥🔥🔥
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
West Coast numbers are coming in, and estimates have now surpassed 5 million. People are still pouring into the streets—nearly 2% of the American population is rising up. America, we are so proud of you. You did it.
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Jonathan Benjamin @jonbenj.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🤿 AAUS in Seattle this week 👌 #ScientificDiving
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Jonathan Benjamin @jonbenj.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Yeah, good call 😬 ✈️
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Nature @nature.com · 19/03/2025
Nature research paper: Global sea-level rise in the early Holocene revealed from North Sea peats www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Global sea-level rise in the early Holocene revealed from North Sea peats - Nature
An early Holocene sea-level curve based on data from the North Sea reveals two phases of accelerated sea-level rise owing to meltwater from the North American and Antarctic ice sheets.
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Jonathan Benjamin @jonbenj.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Kill Tesla. End Musk.
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Jonathan Benjamin @jonbenj.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This is not the way
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Nature @nature.com · 17/03/2025
From owl surveys to peer review, Israel's researchers are maintaining regional and international ties despite boycotts and the risk of war resuming www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘Science is happening’: Israeli and Palestinian scientists continue collaborations amid conflict
From owl surveys to peer review, Israel's researchers are maintaining regional and international ties despite boycotts and the risk of war resuming.
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Nature @nature.com · 18/03/2025
We urge all leaders, for the good of their nations’ health, not to ignore or contradict advice that is supported by a consensus of evidence from research. go.nature.com/43Rfr5a
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Vaccines save lives. Leaders must champion them
Attacks on vaccines and the cancellation of research into what causes vaccine hesitancy puts people in harm’s way.
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Jonathan Benjamin @jonbenj.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
More violence is not the answer. realignforpalestine.org
realignforpalestine.org
Realign for Palestine — End the violence. Start the future.
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Jonathan Benjamin @jonbenj.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Attention Indonesian Postgraduate Students 🚨 Fully Funded Opportunity: The LPDP scholarship covers your studies in Maritime Archaeology at Flinders University 🇦🇺 🇮🇩 www.linkedin.com/posts/wendy-...
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Wendy van Duivenvoorde on LinkedIn: targeted_page_file_1740453858.pdf
🚨 Attention Indonesian Postgraduate Students! 🚨 Dreaming of a career in Maritime Archaeology? 🌊⚓ Dive into the Master of Maritime Archaeology at Flinders…
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Musk is such an idiot.
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Jonathan Benjamin @jonbenj.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Thanks very much to everyone at La Trobe University for such a warm welcome.
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Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Straight up. Trump is a traitor & He is Putins Bitch. That’s it. That’s the tweet.
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 05/03/2025
Archaeologists beat the geological processes at Puteoli, however, where underwater survey uncovered an entire Nabataean temple! #ProjectGallery 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Title, authors and abstract of the article.
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Flinders Uni Maritime Archaeology Program @flindersmap.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
We have so much more to learn about the maritime archaeology of Australasia - incredible find in New Zealand www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/03/03/o...
teaonews.co.nz
Ocean Waka: ‘Most important discovery in New Zealand archaeology’
What began as a a Rēkohu (Chatham Island) father and son's routine search has led to one of Aotearoa's most significant discoveries - possibly even in Polynesian archaeology
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Jonathan Benjamin @jonbenj.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
😦
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Jonathan Benjamin @jonbenj.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Its time for peace m.jpost.com/opinion/arti...
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A Palestinian-Israeli alternative vision for peace - opinion
The real choice before us is not between being pro-Israel or pro-Palestine. The choice is between being pro-equality, pro-justice, and pro-dignity – or pro-war, death, and destruction.
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Jonathan Benjamin @jonbenj.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Disgusting. Shameful.
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Jonathan Benjamin @jonbenj.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I have no words for what is happening today in Washington DC. Disgusting. Shameful. These are the worst people 😖
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Jonathan Benjamin @jonbenj.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
If anyone is in Melbourne next week...
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The ARC Board has proposed a major shake-up of the National Competitive Grants Program ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/engage-us/co... I've only skimmed so far, but they propose reducing 13 grant schemes to 6, with intent & scope in the table👇 Submissions are being accepted in response until 13 April. Get to it!
Table from page 25 of the proposed restructure of ARC grants. Back text on white background, with the table delineated by a dark blue header row and alternating light and very light blue rows.
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Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 27/02/2025
We're on Day 38 of a Nazi Coup, and... y'all, it is wild out there.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
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Jonathan Benjamin @jonbenj.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
These guys are the worst.
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Jonathan Benjamin @jonbenj.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The worst human
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Neo-Nazi terrorist and convicted mass murderer Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, cited this same Napoleon quote in his manifesto.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
This is fascism.
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John McCarthy @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
New team member
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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Please sign and share this student-led petition to save Ancient History here at Cardiff University www.change.org/p/save-cardi...
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Sign the Petition
Save Cardiff University Ancient History Degree
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 30/01/2025
Seems like we all agree RFK Jr. cannot be the next Secretary of Health and Human Services. www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...
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Jonathan Benjamin @jonbenj.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Nazis are still the bad guys…
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Jonathan Benjamin @jonbenj.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Give it up for sandwiches on homemade bread 🥪
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Jonathan Benjamin @jonbenj.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Epic 🎾 Madison Keys! #AO champion. So good 👏
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Jonathan Benjamin @jonbenj.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
This Australian Open women’s semifinal was absolutely what it is all about. Incredible tennis 🎾
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