Reposted by Mike MorleyProf. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 17/02/2026Your 'moment of doom' for Feb. 17, 2026 ~ Wet bulb alert? "The heating is going to be so big and so obvious that it will lead, for the first time, to a real global discussion of solar geoengineering as a response." billmckibben.substack.com/p/an-el-nino...billmckibben.substack.comAn El Niño is brewingAnd with it the next, pivotal, chapter of the climate fight. 913050 0
Mike Morley @mikegeoarch.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Yes, had the same problem when developing my new UG human evolution topic earlier this year! 010 0
Reposted by Mike MorleyDr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 17/12/2025"The people of the station referred to this as “going walkabout” as if it was trivial, but it was an important part of maintaining their connection to Country." If you read one thing today, take some time to read this from @archaeoiain.bsky.social & colleagues. It reminded me of some fundamentals 🏺 1225 0
Mike Morley @mikegeoarch.bsky.social · 13/12/2025media.tenor.coma man with a beard is looking at the cameraALT: a man with a beard is looking at the camera 010 0
Mike Morley @mikegeoarch.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Ace!! They look great. Have a great holiday with the fam! 010 0
Reposted by Mike MorleyChris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Yunxian does not disprove Out of Africa youtu.be/jA1I66ghcSwyoutu.beYunxian does not disprove a Recent African Origin for Homo sapiensYouTube video by Chris Stringer 0418 0
Reposted by Mike MorleyMichael Petraglia @mdpetraglia.bsky.social · 11/12/2025The 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...miragenews.comGriffith Lands $85M to Revolutionize Human Origins StudyGriffith University has been awarded the ARC Centre of Excellence for Transforming Human Origins Research, one of only eight Centres of Excellence 0136 0
Reposted by Mike MorleyDr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 11/12/2025🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 early evidence for fire making. Cool. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥nature.comEarliest evidence of making fire - NatureBaked sediment, heat-shattered artefacts and introduced pyrite in a 400,000-year-old Palaeolithic occupation site in Suffolk, UK provide evidence of intentional fire-making, marking a pivotal moment i... 0146 0
Mike Morley @mikegeoarch.bsky.social · 11/12/2025It’s so exciting! Really looking forward to working with you, Mike, and the stellar team! We have an opportunity to do some fantastic science! Can’t wait! 110 0
Reposted by Mike MorleyMichael Petraglia @mdpetraglia.bsky.social · 09/12/2025I’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...news.griffith.edu.auGriffith secures $85m to transform global understanding of human origins - Griffith NewsTransforming Human Origins Research Centre of Excellence to reframe the study of our species globally. 5366 0
Reposted by Mike MorleyARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 08/12/2025ARC says they’ll announce Centres of Excellence outcomes tomorrow (Tuesday 9th Dec). This is more than 2 months late, most likely due to the new security checking requirements for ARC grants. Centres of Excellence grants also need to have been approved by the Minister. 32712 0
Mike Morley @mikegeoarch.bsky.social · 08/12/2025If the food component of that comparison had been a mince pie, I would have been on a flight to Europe right now 010 0
Reposted by Mike MorleyChris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 26/10/2025Some additional thoughts on Yunxian, Homo longi, Denisovans and the origin of Homo sapiens 15110 0
Reposted by Mike MorleyARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 26/10/2025ARC says Discovery Projects outcomes will be tomorrow (Tuesday). Linkage Projects (2025, round 1) on Wed. Over past ~year, it's often been at about 11am (Canberra). My bot will pick up the change to RMS & post immediately. ARC should email outcomes to lead CIs, but might take an 1hr or so for DPs 15327 0
Reposted by Mike MorleyVito Hernandez @ingatkatandaan.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Read the latest from the @flindersuniversity.bsky.social #Archaeology #humanevolution and #dispersal Research Group, @richardjhewitt.bsky.social @mikegeoarch.bsky.social and yours truly, and @Universidad de Alcalá archaeologist @Manuel Alcaraz-Castaño. link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comModelling Mobility of Hunter-Gatherer Populations: A Dynamic Simulation Approach Based on Cellular Automata - Journal of Archaeological Method and TheoryUnderstanding mobility of past hunter-gatherer populations requires dynamic approaches which incorporate uncertainty. Least cost models assume complete knowledge of the terrain on the part of the trav... 055 0
Mike Morley @mikegeoarch.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Building works for the formation of the Australian Research Council-funded Australian Microarchaeology and Palaeosciences Facility (AusMAP) is underway here at @flindersuniversity.bsky.social Very excited to get the new analytical equipment in once this is done!! #microarchaeology #geoarchaeology 071 0
Reposted by Mike MorleyTom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · 17/07/2025New paper led by Annette Oertle out today focusing on our work at Castelcivita in Italy. A pleasure to work with our wonderful Italian colleagues. @katerinad.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comNew insights from the application of ZooMS to Late Pleistocene fauna from Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy - Scientific ReportsScientific Reports - New insights from the application of ZooMS to Late Pleistocene fauna from Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy 1275 0
Reposted by Mike MorleyVito Hernandez @ingatkatandaan.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Slightly delayed, but I appreciate the feature @flindersuniversity.bsky.social Shout out to @mikegeoarch.bsky.social who was a big part of this success.blogs.flinders.edu.auGet to know PhD student – Vito Hernandez – HDR students in focus 031 0
Reposted by Mike MorleyVito Hernandez @ingatkatandaan.bsky.social · 28/06/2025On behalf of my co-convenors @mikegeoarch.bsky.social, Ali (crouched beside me) & Michelle (left of Chris Hunt), thanks to @mdpetraglia.bsky.social for organising the theme in which our session was in, & everyone who presented their work, those who attended our session, and organised the conference. 021 0
Reposted by Mike MorleyVito Hernandez @ingatkatandaan.bsky.social · 28/06/202510th World Archaeology Congress has wrapped up. Here's us who presented in the session 'Microarchaeology—Using Micro-analytical Techniques to Elucidate the Deep Environmental Past and the Evolution of Our Species'. Our session and the whole of the conference was largely successful 152 0
Mike Morley @mikegeoarch.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Unless you are using flash photography of course 020 0
Reposted by Mike MorleyVito Hernandez @ingatkatandaan.bsky.social · 25/05/2025Thanks to all the co-authors and especially @mikegeoarch.bsky.social for the vote of confidence to do some of the microarchaeological analysis. I believe this is my first paper analysing an arid environment site! 011 0
Mike Morley @mikegeoarch.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Check out our new paper in JAS describing a new Pleistocene combustion feature from the Riverlands in South Australia. Fantastic to collaborate with the River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation, Flinders colleagues and other collaborators 162 0
Reposted by Mike MorleyProfessor Amy Roberts @profamyroberts.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Our latest research with the River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation is now available! #craigwestell @mikegeoarch.bsky.social @ingatkatandaan.bsky.social @waikatouniversity.bsky.social @flindersuniversity.bsky.social 061 0
Mike Morley @mikegeoarch.bsky.social · 19/05/2025The eldest concentrating on the novel task of scraping a thin layer of ice off the car windscreen this morning (with my staff card). We don’t get many frosts here but it was bloody cold this morning in the Adelaide Hills 210 0
Reposted by Mike MorleyAndy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 19/05/2025This was originally a poultiggery. The base a home for pigs and the top for hens. The pigs keep the hens warm in winter. A bit of vernacular gorgeousness from Cowside in Langstrothdale, Yorkshire Dales. 1222725 0
Reposted by Mike MorleyM. C. Escher @mcescher.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Contrast (Order and Chaos) www.wikiart.org/en/m-c-escher/contr… 0165 0
Mike Morley @mikegeoarch.bsky.social · 09/05/2025media.tenor.coma man wearing a green shirt is making a sad face .ALT: a man wearing a green shirt is making a sad face . 010 0
Reposted by Mike MorleyNina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 08/05/2025New discovery: A #Roman wooden water pipe has been found during works on Brussels Street in Leuven. At a depth of about 4 meters, archaeologists found the wooden water pipe running the entire length of the construction pit, totaling 20 to 30 meters. www.brusselstimes.com/1568387/arch... 🏺 325846 0
Reposted by Mike MorleyFlint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Dozens of scholars in my field appear on my YouTube channel, hundreds share my videos or threads with students, and thousands repost them on social media Archaeologists support ethical, experienced, evidence-driven public content. That's what I provide These clowns just provide lies 101198 0
Mike Morley @mikegeoarch.bsky.social · 02/05/2025They are liars of course. We all support you, Flint. 020 0
Reposted by Mike MorleyScott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 01/05/2025www.theguardian.com/science/2025...theguardian.comThe ancient psychedelics myth: ‘People tell tourists the stories they think are interesting for them’The narrative of ancient tribes around the world regularly using ayahuasca and magic mushrooms in healing practices is a popular one. Is it true? 081 0
Mike Morley @mikegeoarch.bsky.social · 01/05/2025I might wait until she’s a bit older as I’m not sure I would have wanted to watch it when I was just 8 130 0
Reposted by Mike MorleyOwen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 01/05/2025It's not exactly subtle, is it? Be sure to watch Louis Theroux's documentary on iPlayer 43987380 0
Reposted by Mike MorleyDr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Thirty second of May Day music and dancing for you. 3559 0
Mike Morley @mikegeoarch.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Thanks Matt, was explaining this to my (Aussie) daughter this morning over breakfast so will show her this clip this evening… 110 0
Mike Morley @mikegeoarch.bsky.social · 01/05/2025A reposting by Henry Gee is perhaps a journal venue clue? 100 0
Reposted by Mike MorleyTracey Thorn @traceythorn.bsky.social · 01/05/2025It's funny how I tend to remember the NME being very hard on us at this period, but here's Each and Every One in their Top 50 singles and Eden at no 20 in the Best Albums, so memory plays tricks. We remember bad reviews more. So it's fun to see this. 142989 0
Mike Morley @mikegeoarch.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Can’t wait to hear this (and read the article!) 010 0
Mike Morley @mikegeoarch.bsky.social · 30/04/2025I just can’t get enough of this album. Totally and utterly mesmerising 010 0