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HEAS @heasvienna.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@tommyhigham.bsky.social introducing @palaeoprotpalesa.bsky.social as part of the #HEASSeminar 2026/2027 taking place now online and in person in the #UBB at @univie.ac.at
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HEAS @heasvienna.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There is still time to register for this event taking place today online and in-person @univie.ac.at in the #UBB
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Human Evolution Research Institute at University of Cape Town @heriuct.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Happy Heritage Day! Today, 24 September, entry to the Iziko South African Museum is FREE. If you’re in Cape Town, visit the beautiful Humanity exhibition, curated by the HERI team, and explore the story of human evolution. Learn more: www.heriuct.co.za/news-content...
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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 22/09/2026
on top of some unplanned expenses this year, my finances have been pretty much fucked with the one-two punch of paying about £2k this year for my citizenship application and paying about £4k last year for my indefinite leave to remain and I’m one of the lucky and privileged ones!
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HigherJobz @higherjobz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology – Aarhus University, Denmark Kalahari | Botswana | Ethnography | Archaeology 🐄 DFF project on cattle production, landscapes and anthropological knowledge of the Kalahari Desert higherjobz.com/postdoctoral... #Acadhiring #Academicjobs #Anthropology #Postdoc
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology | Aarhus University, Denmark
Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology at Aarhus University, Denmark. Open to PhD researchers with relevant ethnographic research experience.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
Fighting FOR people never helped a fascist ever in history. The road to fascism is paved almost exclusively with moral concessions.
Serenity Now @ex-xer.bsky.social • 4h
Bullshit.
Dems fighting for trans people got trump elected.
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PCI Archaeology @pciarchaeology.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Great news for archaeologists with a new PCI-Friendly journal! The Journal of Archaeological Science now accepts PCI Archaeology-recommended preprints, with fast feedback on *direct publication* or further evaluation. #OpenScience #Archaeology 🧪🏺 A new path for your next paper!
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
'Staff at the University of Essex are set to strike next week over cuts to 400 full-time jobs. The union, Unison, said admissions advisors, IT technicians, admin workers and other professional services staff would walk out on Monday over the proposals.'
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Essex University staff to strike over plans to cut 400 jobs
Staff will walk out over a plan to cut 400 jobs, which the university says will protect its future
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Paige Madison @fossilhistory.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Laetoli Footprints were found #OnThisDay in 1978. The incredible discovery happened because team members were hurling elephant dung at each other. Australopithecines probably left these trace fossils behind 3.6 million years ago. 🏺🧪
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PAASTA Community @paastacommunity.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🎓 Missed the PAASTA Bioinformatics Summer School? Good news! The recordings from our virtual Bioinformatics Summer School, held from 8–12 June 2026, are now available online. 🧬💻
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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There is fun to be had in *not* reviewing a manuscript. @pciarchaeology.bsky.social @cos.io #openaccess
Thank you for your invitation to review a manuscript.  While I value the scholarly community's efforts to disseminate research, I have growing concerns about the publishing model many commercial publishers, including Springer Nature, employ. In my view, the current system heavily relies on taxpayer-funded research, often conducted at public institutions, yet places the resulting work behind expensive paywalls. This practice limits access for scientists and the general public in the Global South, who often cannot afford subscription fees or open-access charges.

To put this in perspective, Springer Nature's most recent financial results (for the fiscal year ending December 2025) show total revenue of €1,926.4 million, adjusted operating profit of €543.6 million, and net income of €356 million. The Research division, which includes its journals, generated €1,517.2 million of that revenue. Shareholders received dividends of approximately €25.9 million, a significant increase from the previous year. These figures show that the current model is highly profitable, but much of that profit goes to investor returns rather than making research accessible to the global scientific community.

I have worked unpaid for you in the past, but this unpaid labour, combined with publicly funded research, generates enormous profits for a publishing industry that gives back relatively little to the public or to scientists in under-resourced regions. I do not believe this is fair or sustainable. I therefore have become a champion of Diamond Open Access and an editor at PCI.
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Paige Madison @fossilhistory.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🚨🚨 Denisovans in southwestern China. I repeat: Denisovans in southwestern China! 🏺🧪
sciencenews.org
Newfound fossils are spilling Denisovan secrets
Teeth and bone fragments unearthed in a cave in China, along with animal bones and stone tools, help paint a picture of Denisovan life.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026
Arial = ⌨️ aerial = 🦜 Ariel = 🧜‍♀️
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Human Evolution Research Institute at University of Cape Town @heriuct.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🎓 Congratulations to our HERI #AdvancingWomxn Fellow, Dr Rivoningo Khosa, on graduating with her PhD! This achievement reflects years of dedication, perseverance, and academic excellence. We are proud to celebrate this milestone with Rivoningo and wish her all the best for the journey ahead. 🎉
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Assoc Prof Robyn Pickering @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Big graduation day!! Super super proud of my first UCT PhD graduate 😊💫🙌🏽 Dr Khosa worked hard for this moment 💪🏽 Congratulations 🥳
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Assoc Prof Robyn Pickering @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Super proud of my now former student Dr Rivoningo Khosa who graduated with her #PhD yesterday ❤️🙌🏽🥳 My first UCT PhD graduate 💫 So a big moment for us both 😊
Two academics wearing red gowns, one wearing a black velvet PhD hat. Both smiling widely
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Rachel M. Winter @rachelmwinter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still time to submit an abstract!!
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PAASTA Community @paastacommunity.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
🚨CALL FOR ABSTRACTS🚨 We are excited to announce that this year’s PAASTA symposium “Proteins beyond the Present” will be held on 1 December at the EuPA congress in Würzburg, Germany & virtually (hybrid event). 🗓️ Submission deadline: 20/09/26 🔗 Submission form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Palesa @palaeoprotpalesa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This line “happy to skip writing for the next deadline”!!!! 🥹🥹🥹 Congrats to Florian and the team!
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PAASTA Community @paastacommunity.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
✨ MEET & GREET: PAASTA STEERING COMMITTEE ✨ Meet Jan Dekker, Chair, PAASTA Community! @jaadekker.bsky.social Jan’s research explores bird remains, focusing on bone & eggshell biomarkers and improving bird species identification in archaeology. 🐦🥚🔬 Stay tuned to meet the rest of the committee! ✨
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Deon de Jager @ddj-sa.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Some casual reading for your Sunday evening, or Monday morning coffee ☕ about our recent paper testing the limits of #ancientDNA recovery in #Africa. Courtesy of @africa.theconversation.com, myself and Eline Lorenzen. theconversation.com/discovery-of...
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Discovery of ancient DNA from antelope fossils in South Africa opens a new window on the past
Researchers managed to extract DNA from African fossils dating back to the last ice age.
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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I'm hiring a postdoc as part of my ERC project - the deadline is tomorrow noon GMT, apologies for the little notice If you have interest but can't make the deadline, please DM/email me immediately and i can try extend the deadline a few days
universityvacancies.com
University & College Vacancies
Connecting talent with opportunity in higher education
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Katia Bougiouri @katiabou.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Still time to register for the next AaRCademy workshop organized by @aarc-community.bsky.social! Come hear about metadata reporting, ENA data archiving and the metAaRCive database, a community-led initiative of curating ancient animal genomes.
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Human Evolution Research Institute at University of Cape Town @heriuct.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🏆 HERI is proud to last night receive the NRF Science Team Award! It recognises contributions to research excellence and key members @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social, Rebecca Ackermann, @drpeechiwara.bsky.social, Wendy Black, Lauren Schroder & Palesa Madupe. 🎉 www.heriuct.co.za/news-content...
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Palesa @palaeoprotpalesa.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
😂😂😂😂
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Rachel M. Winter @rachelmwinter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Have not been on BlueSky in (checks calendar...) quite some time so let's have a quick catch up! Earlier in 2026 I had some work out (exciting!) covering: Trace element distribution in muskox tissues: doi.org/10.1007/s120... Stable isotope values from fish in the Levant: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
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Harriet E. Nuttall @whosyourmammal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Oop @ipc7.bsky.social have accepted both my abstracts, so I’ll be speaking twice! Let me know if you’re going to be in Cape Town - I am excited 😁🍾
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sajournalofscience.bsky.social @sajournalofscience.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
📢 Vacancy reminder: ASSAf invites applications from outstanding scholars to serve as Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal of Science, South Africa’s premier multidisciplinary scholarly journal. Click here for more information: buff.ly/H4w9jag Application deadline: 16 September 2026
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HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence @humanorigins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
‼️ Here's another great Early Career opportunity within our cluster: ‼️ Come work with us as an Independent Junior Research Group Lead in the field of Archeo- and Paleoproteomics! #paleosky 🏺 uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/...
uni-tuebingen.de
Job advertisment: Independent Junior Research Group Leader (m/f/d, 100 %)
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Zandra Fagernäs @zandraselina.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I'm very proud of everyone in the @matthewcollins.bsky.social group - we now have silver certification in the LEAF programme! 🎉
Screenshot of part of our LEAF certificate
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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
#SMBE2027 Call for symposia proposals now open Proposal submission link 📨 event.fourwaves.com/smbe2027/sub... 🗓️ Key dates Deadline: Sept 20, 2026 Communication of results: Oct 21, 2026 Public announcement: Nov 2, 2026 Abstract selection: Feb 2-20, 2027 #society
SMBE 2027 - Call for Symposia is now open

Deadline: September 20, 2026
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Palesa @palaeoprotpalesa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Downloading multiple files from PRIDE is so tedious! If you know a better way please help 🙏🏾
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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Pterosaur palaeontology suffers from a high rate of early-career attrition of women. With many leaving the field around completion of their doctorate, or, despite good track record, struggle with future topical employment. Please, collaborate with & platform the young women remaining in this niche.
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Chiqui Palomares @chiquipalomares.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
He visto en Linkedin esto (sí, a veces también Linkedin es útil). Igual lleva esto en marcha meses y no me había enterado. Gran idea, estupendamente escrita.
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PAASTA Community @paastacommunity.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Join us for the next PAASTA Talk Series! 🗓️ 2 September 2026 | 15:00 CET 🎙️Luise Ørsted Brandt, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen “ZooMS-identifying skins associated with the mummified individuals from Uunartoq, Greenland with local high school students” 👉Online via Zoom- DM for the link!
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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
National Museum of Denmark (@nationalmuseet.dk and @thehem.bsky.social) is hiring a 2.5-year Postdoc for the Viking Age project 'Bag Sejlet'. Explore textile networks, multispecies worlds, or everyday life. 📍 Copenhagen 📅 Deadline: Sept 9, 2026 #VikingAge #Archaeology #Postdoc #ArchSky
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Two and a half-year Post.doc. position - ‘Bag Sejlet’ (‘Behind the sail’)
This is an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled and motivated researcher to join the National Museum’s emerging centre for Viking Age Research, in a 2.5 ye
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I'm sorry... 'Prof Gone'? They made a man's sacking the main news story for weeks as the country went on fire, which might have contributed to his death and 'Prof Gone'? This is the same clique that wept & wailed for a week when we dared mention their dinner party pal was a wife beating nonce.
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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 14/08/2026
whatever the “right thing” to do was in this case, it was never going to happen in the racist, bigoted, and just outright hostile landscape that the UK media has cultivated
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AJ McTERROR @robertgalbraith.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I wonder why the media didn't pursue THIS plagiarist so harshly? I can't qwhite put my finger on it 🤔
Cambridge professor remains in post despite
plagiarism
History academic published an article containing large parts of essays copied from one
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Cambridge university professor Dr William O'Reilly. A university disciplinary tribunal ruled the plagiarism was product of negligent acts but was not deliberate' Warren Gunn/Cambridgeshire Live/BPM Media
Bethan Staton and Chris Cook in London
Published JUN 16 2023
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Pretty much everything you need to know about the British Right in two images.
Arday was a stupid intellectual poisoning BritainLiddle was a freedom fighter
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bro. People are cool as fuck.
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(Y|G)iannis P. @ipatramanis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
We have a new preprint out :D www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Did Denisovans inherit their AMBN gene from Homo erectus? We have released a short preprint trying to answer this question! @lauritsskov.bsky.social @fridowelker.bsky.social ~Summary below~
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Human Evolution Research Institute at University of Cape Town @heriuct.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Our @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social was the second woman ever to deliver the Alex du Toit Memorial Lecture. Presented across 6 cities in #SouthAfrica, her lecture explores how uranium-series dating transformed our understanding of early human evolution. 🎥 Watch: www.heriuct.co.za/news-content...
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Gabriele Russo @gabrieleru1.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
📢 Reminder call for abstracts for #ICAZ2027! 🦴🦷🔬 Join Session 28: “Old bones, new questions: Rethinking diet as a proxy for paleoecology” in Vancouver, 17–22 May 2027. 🗓️ Deadline: 25 August 2026 Submit here: sway.cloud.microsoft/BFTVh4FAbfX6... Please share! 🧪🏺🦣 @ivanramirezpedraza.bsky.social
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Elsabe Brits @elsabebrits.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Ancient tooth proteins deepen the Homo naledi mystery www.nature.com/articles/d44... @palaeoprotpalesa.bsky.social
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Ancient tooth proteins deepen the Homo naledi mystery
South African molecular scientist Palesa Madupe expected proteins preserved in fossil enamel to clarify why Homo naledi remains look so alike. Instead, teeth from at least 20 individuals yielded no ma...
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Robert Rutledge @rerutled.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This happens in every country. Domestic violence calls increase by ~36% (if they lose) or ~25% (if they WIN), about 10 hours after a match. Women should know that they are in greater danger during the FIFA World Cup. by @monaeltahawy.bsky.social www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-when...
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Essay: When Football Goes Home
"If England gets beaten, so will she."
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Human Evolution Research Institute at University of Cape Town @heriuct.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Our podcast is a model of what it looks like to place African voices at the centre of the #TaungChild fossil discovery, says Justin Pargeter in this SAJS review. 📖 Read the review & listen to all episodes of HERI's Unburied Season 2 FREE here: www.heriuct.co.za/news-content...
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