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Sabina Cveček

@sabinacvecek.bsky.social
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Anthropologist | Kinship & households in deep past | MSCA Global Fellow @ Field Museum, Chicago & ÖAW, Vienna | Fellow @ Royal Anthropological Institute | Co-🪑 @ EAA Archaeology & Gender in Europe | FirstGen | She/her 🇪🇺🇸🇮🇦🇹🇺🇸 | www.sabinacvecek.com

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Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut @oeai.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🔊Upcoming Event: Kinship Trouble: Anthropological Perspectives on the Ancient DNA Revolution 📅 7. Oktober 2026, 17:30 CEST 📍Otto Wagner Postsparkasse, Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna, Room 2+3, 3rd Floor More Infos here: www.oeaw.ac.at/oeai/veranst... @sabinacvecek.bsky.social
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Kinship Trouble: Anthropological Perspectives on the Ancient DNA Revolution
Hybrid-Vortrag von Sabina Cveček
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
❓How do you know that an AI output is true? How can we advance AI fluency for all, without leaving anyone behind? We explored these questions at #ScienceSummit2026 in New York, in a session on AI fluency as a core competence. Grateful for moderating this excellent discussion! #AI #SciencePolicy
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🙌 Excited about moderating a session on Monday at the Science Summit in New York during UNGA week! If you're in town, join us! #ScienceSummit #AI #ScienceDiplomacy
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 27/08/2026
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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The Dead Coexisted With The Living In The Deep Past. Now Scientists Want To Understand Why We Stopped Burying Our Loved Ones At Home
“We found that burying the dead in or near houses was not an unusual practice but a widespread way of keeping ancestors physically connected to everyday life,” said archaeologist Sabina Cveček to IFLS...
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
🌟 New Publication! Comparing 60 ethnographic cultures and 49 archaeological cases, we show that residential burial—the placement of the dead within or near houses—was far more common archaeologically (with Tim Earle, Carol Ember, Gary Feinman & Bill Parkinson). @hraf755.bsky.social bit.ly/4c4WRK1
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Funerary Placement in the Past and Present: Uses of Ethnographic Analogy for Archaeological Interpretation | American Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Funerary Placement in the Past and Present: Uses of Ethnographic Analogy for Archaeological Interpretation
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
🌟Lovely to see our paper as Paper of the Month in Cambridge Archaeologcial Journal! If you have not yet, check it out 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Kinship Trouble: What, When, Where, Why, and How—and So What? | Cambridge Archaeological Journal | Cambridge Core
Kinship Trouble: What, When, Where, Why, and How—and So What? - Volume 36 Issue 2
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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Really excited to see this great collaboration or in the world!!
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Engaging with palaeogenomics beyond the lab
As ancient DNA (aDNA) science enters a new phase of computational and institutional power, what should social scientists and humanities scholars focus on? This article identifies questions that exami....
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
🚜 "If you still have some budget left, buy a tractor. Tractors work best!" This is the advice @repasi.bsky.social, a member of the @europarl.europa.eu, shared with the members of the Marie Curie Alumni Association at the Annual Conference in Brussels last week. #science
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
🌸 Kinship Trouble isn’t a crisis—it’s an opportunity: to rethink kinship through collaborative and interdisciplinary research across archaeology, ancient DNA, and socio-cultural anthropology. With @pennybickle.bsky.social & Maanasa Raghavan @genscapelab.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Latest issue | Cambridge Archaeological Journal | Cambridge Core
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Very happy to see this special issue published! It was lovely working with @genshinimpact-en.bsky.social, @pennybickle.bsky.social on this! 👇
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
🌟Kinship Trouble: Virtual Launch🌟 Join us on Tuesday, 14 April at 5pm CET/4pm BST/11am ET. Register below. We will present our special issue in Cambridge Archaeological Journal, co-edited w @pennybickle.bsky.social & @genscapelab.bsky.social #archaeology #anthropology therai.org.uk/events/cambr...
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Kinship Trouble: Cambridge Archaeological Journal Special Issue Launch - Royal Anthropological Institute
This virtual launch is co-organized with the Archaeology and Gender in Europe (AGE) Network of the European Association of Archaeologists. Tuesday 14 April 2026, 4-6pm (BST) To join on Zoom, please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AIj41HC-Q-uN5dyYFK9VrA#/registration Kinship Trouble: Traversing Interdisciplinary Boundaries between Archaeology, Archaeogenetics and Socio-cultural Anthropology Speakers: Sabina Cveček (Field Museum of Natural History, Austrian
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
✨Heading to New Orleans next week to deliver a talk within the American Institute of Archaeology (@archaeological.org) National Lecture series at Tulane University (@tulaneu.bsky.social). #archaeology #anthropology events.tulane.edu/content/clas...
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Classics AIA Lecture - Cveček | Tulane University Events
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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Excited to announce that my post doc, Sasha Kaurov, and I are launching reckoningscience.org/launching-re... Please take a look, read, and subscribe! All proceeds will go to supporting the underfed post-doc.
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Launching Reckoning Science
We believe in science and its achievements, but also in the need to examine how it is actually made, including its limits and its entanglements with politics, money, and power.
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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
"The solution to technology is not more technology. The solution to loneliness is each other, a wealth that should be available to most of us most of the time." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social in @theguardian.com with a must read www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit
The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collectiv...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 28/01/2026
Brown-pigmented hand stencils found on the walls of caves on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and dated to at least 67,800 years ago may be the oldest known examples of rock art in the world. scim.ag/45pM61P
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These ancient handprints may represent some of the world’s first rock art
Hand stencils from a Southeast Asian cave predate Neanderthal cave art from Europe
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
🌟 It was a great honor and pleasure to present my reserach at @arf-ucb.bsky.social at the UC Berkeley in November. Many thanks to everyone for making this happen, a warm welcome, and a great conversation on kinship, archaeology, and thinking beyond genetics. #archaeology #anthropology #ancientDNA
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
🌟 New publication! Infant burials at Barcın Höyük & Lepenski Vir show age-based, not genetic, patterns—suggesting delayed personhood and kin-making cradled by architecture. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... With Fokke Gerritsen, Yılmaz Erdal, Sofija Stefanović & @aycaaydogan.bsky.social et al.
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Cradled by architecture: infancy and delayed personhood in Neolithic Anatolia and the Balkans
Children, especially infants, are integral to human communities, but how they are perceived varies across societies. This study examines infancy at the late seventh millennium Neolithic sites of Ba...
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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
<dusts off the ol' blog> to say something about "celebrating science" in the age of AI & current political context. EVEN THOUGH I HAD OTHER THINGS I WANTED TO DO THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND. mammalssuck.blogspot.com/2025/11/if-y...
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If you like milk science...
<dusts off the ol’ blog> On Thanksgiving, a Facebook “human interest story pages” dropped an essay about mother’s milk and me as a milk rese...
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
“data show an increase of 10% in submissions & 23% in funded projects from female applicants with the lottery-first approach compared to a previously used procedure. Additionally, the lottery-first approach was estimated to have 68% lower economic costs compared to single-stage peer review approach”
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Lottery before peer review is associated with increased female representation and reduced estimated economic cost in a German funding line - Nature Communications
The authors show evidence from a German funding line that a lottery-first approach followed by peer review is accompanied by increased female representation both at the submission stage and among fund...
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
🙌 Excited about tomorrow's talk and a round table on "Interpreting Ancient DNA" moderated by Meg Conkey at the Archaeological Research Facility - Berkeley. If you are in the Bay Area, join us! @arf-ucb.bsky.social #archaeology #anthropology #ancientDNA events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/31...
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Interpreting Ancient DNA: A Panel Discussion
Ancient DNA studies have been exploding in the last decades and have yielded a large range of provocative and revelatory interpretations, not just ...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/11/2025
‘Young people can come in and have life-changing moments’: Gus Casely-Hayford on V&A East, a new museum for Gen Z
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‘Young people can come in and have life-changing moments’: Gus Casely-Hayford on V&A East, a new museum for Gen Z
The director wants London’s long-awaited institution to ignite creative passion in the Gen Z visitors it’s aimed at. As he unveils the building and its contents, can he pull it off?
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John Terrell @jteddyt.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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Social networks, language, and material culture on New Guinea
It is common in the popular imagination and scientific research to treat humans as members of distinctive ethnolinguistic groups, populations, or races with dif
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
🏃🏾‍♂️🏃‍♀️Chicago Marathon may be famous but today’s Hot Chocolate Run was Delicious! #Chicago #Running #Autumn #HotChocolate
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
“Care for the dead has long been a way of defining what it means to be human,” @theprofrog.bsky.social writes in Graveyards. Read an excerpt in @literaryhub.bsky.social:
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The Ancient Burial Rituals That Have Shaped How We Treat Our Dead
In 1907, Robert Hertz, a French sociologist of religion, published an influential essay called “A Contribution to the Study of the Collective Representation of Death.” He argued that in most human …
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Cambridge University Press - Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org · 31/10/2025
The Paper of the Month from Cambridge Archaeological Journal is "Turning-the-edge, Tranchet, and Social Signalling at Boxgrove" by Ceri Shipton et al., available #openaccess! 📚 cup.org/3Wwdk1R #PaperOfTheMonth
Text reading "Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Paper of the Month". Next to the text is an issue cover of the Cambridge Archaeological Journal.
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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
1/2 SACNAS 2025 Columbus, Ohio we are in you!! Come talk to the team about anything you see below! Dr. Matt Anderson from UWisconsin, Dr. Krystal Tsosie from ASU, & many more Indigenous Thinkers for #IDSov in our famous "Network of Networks". We have been blazing a trail & not stopping anytime soon!
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
🌟Delighted to see our collaborative paper integrating ethnography, archaeology, and ancient DNA published! It has been a joy brining such wonderful scholars together in #Vienna last year. Hopefully, the insights prove to be useful accross disciplinary boundaries. @oeaw.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
🌎 Coming soon to Chicago! On 6–7 Nov 2025, the Field Museum hosts the first MCAA Regional Meeting in North America 🏛️ Talks, roundtables & career sessions on MSCA & ERC funding. Join us to connect minds across continents! bit.ly/42ZgU8o #MCAA #MSCA #FieldMuseum #Chicago
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
🌟A powerful call for Writing In Community🌟 Inspired by archaeology, it centers care, joy, & #Collaboration over hierarchy & isolation. A refreshing & necessary vision for how #Anthropology (and academia) can do better producing knowledge together👇 anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library
As anthropology reckons with its past, present, and future, anthropologists increasingly seek to challenge inequities within the discipline and academia more broadly. Anthropology, regardless of subd...
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
🌟 Honored that my book Çukuriçi Höyük 4 (ÖAW Press, 2022) was reviewed by Dr. Daniel J. Pullen in Journal of Near Eastern Studies (@uchicagopress.bsky.social ): “Her socio-cultural anthropological perspective is one of the great strengths of this study.” #anthropology 📕 Open access 👉 bit.ly/4nZJJtr
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
🌟 Excited to hit the road soon as part of the Archaeological Institute of America’s National Lecture Program — honored to be one of this year’s National Lecturers! bit.ly/4n9YrgN I'll speak and meet colleagues in #Milwaukee (WI), #Spokane (WA) & #NewOrleans (LA)! @archaeological.org #archaeology
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AIA National Lecture Program Lecturer Sabina Cveček
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
🚪 A reminder of the power of open doors! I’ve written a blog about my ASciNA (Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America) mentoring experience. Grateful to @walterscheidel.bsky.social & @univie.ac.at for helping make a difference across continents 🌍 bit.ly/4fJM0Gc
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The Power of Open Doors: My Experience with the ASciNA Mentoring Program
Winning the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellowship has been a major milestone in my career, allowing me to pursue research I am passionate about and relocate to Chicago…
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Starting the day with a 3D printed Platia Magoula Zarkou house model, soon talking to the Field Museum Teen Volunteers about how I started in science and my current research projects. Working in a museum can be so fun! @oeaw.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social #Anthropology #Archaeology #Kinship #Family
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
🙌 Exciting new study from #Anatolia published by @compevohumang.bsky.social in @science.org today! Anthropologists have long argued that kinship and family do not need to be genetically oriented. The study from Çatalhöyük wonderfully highlights this point also for Neolithic in Anatolia. Congrats!
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I’m happy to share that I've been appointed to the position of Research Associate in the Division of #Anthropology at the @amnh.org / American Museum of Natural History in New York until June 2028! I am extremely grateful for this wonderful opportunity while remaining to work out of Chicago!
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I am delighted to see my debate article “Enthrone, Dethrone, Rethrone: The Multiple Lives of Matrilineal Kinship in Aegean Prehistory” appear in Archaeological Dialogues. Thanks to many for helping me developing this piece! It was fantastic 3 months as a fellow at @oeai.bsky.social in #Athens 2021!
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT) at the University of #Chicago is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a fantastic lineup of speakers, including a lecture by Judith Butler. What a pleasure and privilege to learn about the many ways of theorizing the present!
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
✨Excited about heading to the Bay Area soon. ✨ I'll be giving a talk at Stanford Archaeology Center on Wednesday, 16 April at 12:00 about my #X-KIN project, meeting with the #ASCINA mentor Walter Scheidel (@walterscheidel.bsky.social) and fellow #MSCA fellows. events.stanford.edu/event/lunch-...
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Lunch Club Series | From kinship to household and back? Why kinship still needs anthropologists in the 21st century
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Interested in pursuing a postdoc or PhD in Europe? MSCA info session organized by #EURAXESS North America is starting soon: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/worldwide/no...
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MSCA info session: EU funding for researcher mobility
Join us for a webinar on the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), the European Union’s reference program for doctoral education and postdoctoral training.
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) Annual Conference was like attending a long-awaited family reunion. The event united scientists, research managers, and industry pros across generations and disciplines to strengthen global research, partnerships, and innovation. #MCAAConf2025
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
New Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Guidelines to help institutions and supervisors in guiding MSCA researchers. 👉 op.europa.eu/o/opportal-s... #MSCAConf2025 @oeai.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @barbarahorejs.bsky.social
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
@marialep.bsky.social, the president of European Research Council @erc.europa.eu emphasizing the importance of science and promoting “Choose Europe” pilot program starting in 2025 at the #MCAAConf2025 in Krakow.
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Brainstorming about citizen science, diversity & inclusion in research, and Horizon Europe funding at the Marie Curie Alumni Association Annual Meeting in Krakow. #MCAAConf2025
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Honored to be part of this exhibition at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), showcasing the work of Marie Curie Fellows in the Mediterranean region! 🌍✨ Check out my interview to learn more ⤵️
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Huge thanks to @archaeologyaia.bsky.social Chicago chapter & @cmkearnsy.bsky.social for hosting my talk in the Archaeology and Ale lecture series!🔬🍺 Cheers to @jnovembre.bsky.social embre.bsky.social, @knpazuzu.bsky.social sky.social, @alittlemedievalist.bsky.social list.bsky.social for coming out!
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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Cheers to @alittlemedievalist.bsky.social for getting into a PhD program at the University of Nottingham. Soon to be called Dr. Dick. 🙌
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A.M. Weald @amweald.com · 12/02/2025
Please enjoy these adorable archaeology valentines 💖 🧵 #archaeology #valentines #resist
yellow dirty paper background with the message on a clipboard "is that a trowel in your pocket or are you just excited to fight fascism?" then there's a pic of a trowel, a heart with the words "anti-fascist archaeology valentines" over it, and an image of a m weald's book even if we're broken
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Holden Thorp @holdenthorp.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Strong piece by @michellegoldberg.bsky.social on the attacks on higher education. Thanks for the shoutout! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
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Opinion | Trump Wants to Destroy All Academia, Not Just the Woke Parts
The administration’s war on universities defies rational self-interest.
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Caroline Partiot @carolinepartiot.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
🚩Das Institut français d'Autriche und das französische Ministerium für Europa und auswärtige Angelegenheiten bieten Exzellenzstipendien für kurzfristige wissenschaftliche Forschungsaufenthalte (1 bis 6 Monate) in Frankreich an. Weitere Informationen hier.😀 www.institutfrancais.at/fr/bgf
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Bourses | Institut français d'Autriche-Vienne
Bourses d'Excellence SSHnCandidatures ouvertes jusqu'au 20 mars 2025
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