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Nicole Boivin @nicoleboivin.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Interested in the kinds of information archaeologists can gain from metabolic profiling? Check out this wonderful new book and our chapter on the ancient oasis of Tayma. This work builds on our 2022 paper on reconstructing ancient scents in Nature Human Behaviour: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Book cover for Scents of Arabia: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Olfactory Worlds

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Nicole Boivin @nicoleboivin.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Australia in the Anthropocene: Linking Past, Present and Future. Wonderful project workshop yesterday exploring the diverse methods our students and ECRs are using to examine how Australia's ecosystems have been shaped by people over the long-term and why it matters today.

Photo of participants in the Australia in the Anthropocene workshop

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

"In this excerpt from "Born: A History of Childbirth," author and historian Lucy Inglis reveals records from ancient Egypt that show how female physicians treated issues of "the womb," how men reacted to periods, and how the first known pregnancy test actually worked." 🏺🧪

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'The papyrus also recommends putting a clove of garlic in your vagina before bed': The texts that reveal the baffling healthcare for women in ancient Egypt

In this excerpt from "Born: A History of Childbirth," author and historian Lucy Inglis reveals records from ancient Egypt that show how female physicians treated issues of "the womb," how men reacted ...

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Luise Loges @luilog.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I am obsessed with this story. Nature + Archaeology = 🥰

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Michael Petraglia @mdpetraglia.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

New discovery! Here @mariaguagnin.bsky.social and our team report on 12,000-year-old life-size camel rock art engravings in the Saudi desert. #GreenArabia @griffith.edu.au www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Stacy Farina @stacyfarina.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Trump's very first example of the Smithsonian's "corrosive ideology" was an exhibit that correctly stated "Race is a human invention." How is scientific consensus (that biological races don't exist in humans) corrosive? We are asking scientists to co-sign our statement: forms.gle/kqKQF9CZ3jPB...

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Scientific Consensus - Humans do not have biological races

The below statement was constructed as a draft which eventually led us to publish this article in Science Letters: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady2266. After writing the statement belo...

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Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #openaccess✅

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Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core

Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

On the day Rubio inaugurated an archaeological “tunnel burrowed under a Palestinian district, along a Roman-era street” in an “archaeological park established by an Israeli settler organisation… Israeli planes bombed the most important storage depot of ancient artefacts in Gaza City”

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Nicole Boivin @nicoleboivin.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

“Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity.” Actually I’m not even sure they’re doing that, though many are indeed trying. share.google/XNaLs2bBjdMG...

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Equity in science is a beautiful lie — and I’m done pretending

Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system.

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Laura Sell @laurasell.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

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Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream

The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

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Tatsuya Amano @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #languagebarriers

Scientific productivity gap based on English-language peer-reviewed papers. Shown are the maximum % differences in the number of peer-reviewed papers published by female native English speakers from a high-income country (-45%), female non-native English speakers from a high-income country (-60%), and female non-native English speakers from a lower-middle income country (-70%), compared to male native English speakers from a high-income country (red flag).

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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Join online next Thursday! Engaging Human Aspirations to Motivate Progress Towards a World Where People and Nature Thrive Together 🌍🌐 www.uni-giessen.de/de/fbz/plane...

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

“Historically, no one lived past age 35” "I’ve heard *so* many versions of this claim, including recently from a menopause doctor (implying menopause is not “natural” because noone lived long enough to go through it). Every time someone states this “fact,” a demographer loses a piece of their soul"

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There Were Still Old People When Life Expectancy Was 35.

A demography myth that won't die

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MAHSA Project @mahsa-project.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

#HeritageHighlights 🎤Today, South Asian Women in the Field (SAWIF) recorded their first #podcast in the series. In conversation with Prof Rajani we discussed the changing field of remote sensing #archaeology and what its like for women in this field. Stay tuned for the release!

Malina Roy and Prof Rajani recording the podcast

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Nicole Boivin @nicoleboivin.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

A great line up for our session on the dangers of practicing archaeology "while female" at WAC-10 in Darwin! Note that students can attend virtually for FREE! Runs 22-28 June. For more information and to sign up: worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/wac10/

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason. If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half. 📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social

A horizontal bar chart titled "Percentage of Global fossil fuel emissions (since 1751) occurring in my lifetime." The chart shows how much of the total historical global fossil fuel emissions have occurred within the lifetime of individuals of different ages, from 5 to 100 years old. The vertical axis on the left lists ages in increments of 5 years, from age 5 at the top to age 100 at the bottom. The horizontal axis represents the percentage of fossil fuel emissions, marked in 10% increments from 10% to 90%.

The black bars represent the proportion of fossil fuel emissions that have occurred during each age group's lifetime. The bars increase in length as the age increases, meaning older individuals have lived through a larger percentage of the cumulative emissions since 1751.

Three specific age groups are highlighted with red bars and white text annotations:

Age 30: "if you are 30 it is more than 50%"

Age 50: "if you are 50 it is about 75%"

Age 85: "if you are 85 it is about 90%"

The source of the data is cited at the bottom: "CDIAC and globalcarbonproject.org." The graphic is credited to "@neilrkaye."

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Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

This Thursday at 5.30pm BST I'm giving an ARFA seminar via Zoom about my recent research into the misuse of archaeological ideas by the far right. Free, online and hopefully with some good discussion

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 05/06/2025

The failure of the National Academy of Sciences USA to make a clear and unequivocal statement about the disastrous Trump administration science policies — it lets all of us down and dooms them to eventual irrelevance.

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US science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last war

Facing an extreme budget, the National Academies hosted an event that ignored it.

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Funded PhD on natural and cultural heritage on islands! www.mic.ul.ie/sites/defaul...

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 05/06/2025

Happy birthday Beatrice de Cardi, born #OnThisDay in AD 1914 🏺 A true #Trowelblazer, she helped lay the foundations of British archaeology and kept doing fieldwork until she was 93! She wrote a retrospective of her fieldwork in Antiquity in 2008 (£) doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Beatrice de Cardi sat at a table covered in bags of archaeological finds.

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Nicole Boivin @nicoleboivin.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

New paper out! Not sure why it comes associated with this photo from Africa but the markers are still useful for anyone applying ZooMS in Australia!! 😊

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Bridget Alex @bridgetalex.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Help save SAPIENS magazine! The Wenner-Gren Foundation, our funder, may decide to close the magazine in the coming weeks. But the Board of Trustees hasn't made its final decision. A letter from you could help! Sign here: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

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Support Needed for SAPIENS Magazine and its Staff Union!

We, SAPIENS staff, write to our supporters with an urgent request for support. We were informed this week that our funder, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, may choose to close SAPIENS Anthropology Magazine...

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Nicole Boivin @nicoleboivin.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

A fantastic opportunity to support participation of early career female scholars from low exchange rate countries at the World Archaeological Congress in Darwin! It's easy to do and every donation helps to support greater equity in our discipline. worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/wac10/studen...

Photos of early career female archaeologists at work in the field.

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Nicole Boivin @nicoleboivin.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Re-advertising this post as no suitable applicants were found in the first round. If you are interested in an exciting PhD opportunity at the University of Sydney, do get in touch! Deadline 9 July. Updated information and link here: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...

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Postgraduate Research Scholarship in Coastal Archaeology

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Nicole Boivin @nicoleboivin.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

More evidence that humans have been translocating species and reshaping ecosystems for centuries. Indeed research points to millennia of such impacts.

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 16/04/2025

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I gotta say, “women are going to space” sounds a lot nicer than “the ultra rich are taking hyper-polluting joyrides to space while the planet descends into climate chaos”

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

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Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Come and see me on my world DOMINATION tour in the Autumn! I'll be looking at the spread of Christianity in the Roman Empire - starting with a lost monastery in Wales, travelling all the way to the palace of Nicaea in what's now western Turkey. There will be saints, sinners and plenty of surprises!

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Nicole Boivin @nicoleboivin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

More evidence that the supposedly ‘unique’ capacity of Homo sapiens to adapt to a diverse array of environments is not so unique after all. Other members of our lineage clearly possessed this behavioral plasticity, including the mysterious Denisovans.

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Nicole Boivin @nicoleboivin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Pleased to be part of this exciting research out of Arabia! An extraordinary long-term climate record reveals multiple wet phases in what is now desert, which would have facilitated mammalian dispersals between Africa and Arabia - including of early humans!

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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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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning. It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.

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SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge

“Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.

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Nicole Boivin @nicoleboivin.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

For final submitters: Our WAC women in archaeology theme received such overwhelming interest that WAC asked us to split into into two. Find our sessions in Themes 18 & 26. Deadline: 31 March! I think the huge response says a lot about how desperately women want to see change in the discipline...

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I’m finding it very hard to understand the stance of the Royal Society here. Science is part of society, not separate from it, existing in some strange metaphysical bubble. I look across the Atlantic, aghast at the damage being done to science and scientists. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Royal Society decides not to take disciplinary action against Elon Musk

Exclusive: Fellows argue Musk has violated code of conduct but council believes investigation ‘could do more harm than good’

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Nicole Boivin @nicoleboivin.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

The evidence across multiple studies is clear: diversity is not just about equality but about producing better science. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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Based on the science, diversity matters - Nature Computational Science

We reflect on what science tells us about the importance of diversity.

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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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