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Shumon T. Hussain

@shumon.bsky.social
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Hunter-Gatherer and Multispecies Archaeology (Deep Time), Environmental Humanities, More-Than-Human Deep History, Animal-kin, Boardgames & eSports, Politics of Life - PI of ECOLITHIC & ZOOGESTURES @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social‬ @unicologne.bsky.social‬

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Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Only a bit more than two weeks left to submit an abstract for our #multispecies #archaeology session in Kiel early next year!
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Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sign up for our newsletter, the first issue is coming in October!
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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Job alert: Directorship of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and Professorship of Material Culture, U of Cambridge (deadline December 17) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTB276/d...
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Directorship of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and Professorship of Material Culture at University of Cambridge
Explore an exciting academic career as a Directorship of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and Professorship of Material Culture. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and exp...
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Mario Sixtus @sixtus.net · 26/09/2026
Die Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung hat eine Studie über "Rechtsextreme und demokratiegefährdende Einstellungen in Deutschland 2024/2025" erstellt, und @uebermedien.de hat daraus eine Grafik gemacht, die in jeder Nachrichtenredaktion an der Wand hängen sollte. Quelle: www.fes.de/index.php?eI...
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Volkmar Wölk @volkmarwoelk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So kann man übrigens auch auf die Wahlen vom Sonntag reagieren: „Elif Eralp und Manuela Schwesig, zwei Bollwerke gegen die extreme Rechte“. Geht aber offenbar nur in Frankreich, nicht in Deutschland.
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Allemagne : Elif Eralp et Manuela Schwesig, deux remparts face à l’extrême droite
Les deux candidates de Die Linke et du SPD ont atteint des scores inattendus à Berlin et en Mecklembourg-Poméranie-Occidentale. Des succès obtenus grâce à des campagnes de terrain centrées sur leur pe...
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Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Only about 22k submissions, all good, all normal.
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Dr Mirjam S. Brusius @mideastineurope.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Our Autumn School on the Democratization of Heritage in Paris is approaching, and we are pleased to announce that two of our events will be public panels with a stellar line-up. Do come if you're in town! gssc.uni-koeln.de/veranstaltun...
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Zooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
ZOOARCH, aka the way zooarchaeologists talk to each other, support each other, and learn from each other, was created in 2000 by Umberto Albarella and Jacqui Mulville. To join, you can find more information by following the link: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/weba....
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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 12/09/2026
I wrote this when QUEER ORIGINS was published in the UK. I'm reposting it now the book's out in Canada and the US. Read about the natural wonder of sexual polymorphism—and why Richard Dawkins' view of Darwin needs amending. 🌈📚🦋🗃️ yalebooks.co.uk/blog/darwin-... #books #booksky #histsci #queerhistory
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Darwin’s Queer Inheritance - Yale University Press London darwin
Darwin is significantly queerer than we’ve been led to believe. While his writings are sometimes invoked to insist that sex should be understood in binary Darwin is significantly queerer than we’ve be...
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Jonathan Sachse @jsachse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Die Inhalte von „logo“ werden bundesweit an Schulen genutzt, um Kinder zu informieren. Die Redaktion trägt eine besondere Verantwortung. In der Parteiübersicht sind die Absätze zur AfD stark verharmlosend. Rechtsextremismus und „Remigration“ kommen als Themen nicht vor. www.logo.de/parteien-im-...
„AfD ist die Abkürzung für den vollen Namen der Partei: "Alternative für Deutschland". Die Partei hat etwa 70.000 Mitglieder in Deutschland.

Die wichtigsten Themen der AfD:

Tradition der deutschen Kultur bewahren: Die Religion Islam gehört für die AfD nicht zu Deutschland. Gleichzeitig betont die Partei, dass Muslime in Deutschland leben können und ihre Religion frei ausüben dürfen. Durch die Ausbreitung des Islams in Deutschland gehe aber eine "große Gefahr" für den Staat und die Gesellschaft aus, schreibt die AfD in ihrem Parteiprogramm.
Strenge Regeln für Einwanderung: Die AfD fordert strengere Regeln und Gesetze dafür, wer nach Deutschland einwandern darf und dauerhaft bleiben kann.
Mehr entscheiden: Die AfD möchte, dass Deutschland weniger Entscheidungen an die Europäische Union abgibt und mehr selbst bestimmen kann.
Mitmachen: Die Partei fordert, dass Menschen in Deutschland in Zukunft bei politischen Entscheidungen direkt mitmachen können.
Familien schützen: Die AfD will, dass Familie in Deutschland besonders geschützt wird. Damit meint die AfD die traditionelle Familie aus Vater, Mutter und Kindern.
Kritisch beim Klimaschutz: Die Partei bezweifelt, dass vor allem Menschen für den Klimawandel verantwortlich sind. Die AfD ist der Meinung, dass sich das Klima schon immer wandelt. Deshalb lehnt die Partei viele Maßnahmen zum Klimaschutz ab.“
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Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Very much like this, especially the emphasis on "concepts as minimal units of analysis". I think this is also true for work in the #sciences but is unfortunately often overlooked, denied, or marginalised as less important.
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magalogika @magalogika.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My friends Nastassja Pugliese and Renato Matoso just published a wonderful text on how to teach non-canonical philosophical texts. It’s Open Access. Please read and spread the word of (good) South American historians of philosophy #philosophy #nisiafloresta www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Teaching non-canonical texts: discussing concepts as the minimal unit of analysis
The retrieval of the works of women philosophers has challenged boundaries of the philosophical canon and raised new methodological questions for teaching and research. Although scholars have argue...
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Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The #ECOLITHIC and #ZOOGESTURES projects have now a shared newsletter for which you can sign up here: zoogestures.uni-koeln.de/newsletter #multispecies #archaeology #lithic #technology #learning #macroevolution #more-than-human 🏺🧪🦣🦝🦜
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Newsletter
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Philosophie Magazin @philosophiemagazin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Die AfD hat die Landtagswahl in Sachsen-Anhalt gewonnen. Nun plant sie einen umfassenden Umbau des Schulsystems und eine totale Revision der Erinnerungskultur. Ein Essay shorturl.at/BMCee
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Feier der Deutschheit – Die AfD und das Ende der politischen Bildung
Die AfD hat die Landtagswahl in Sachsen-Anhalt gewonnen. Nun plant sie einen umfassenden Umbau des Schulsystems und eine totale Revision der Erinnerungskultur. Auch wenn es mit der politischen Bildung und dem Gedenken in Deutschland nie so weit her war, wie häufig behauptet, müssen diese gegen den autoritären Umbau verteidigt werden. Sonst wird das kritische Bewusstsein des Nationalsozialismus womöglich nur ein Wimpernschlag gewesen sein – in Jahrhunderten ansonsten ungebrochener, erfolgreicher dumpfdeutscher Selbstherrlichkeit. Ein Essay.
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Dr Mirjam S. Brusius @mideastineurope.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Historical comparisons with the Nazi era were sometimes more distracting than illuminating. Some parallels are now impossible to dismiss: the normalization of political violence, the integration of old far-right networks, and the belief that the radical right can be contained once it has power. 1/2
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
In the 90s S-A saw the best result of a far-right party in Germany before the AfD. 13% for the DVU in 1998. S-A should not be the basis for sweeping conclusion about the electoral sociology of the AfD. The consequences might be far-reaching but your reporting will contribute to these consequences.
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Last year, I publicly complained multiple times (see e.g. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...) that the open access movement had been captured by publishers, and we are now worse off than before open access. Well people got mad at me for saying it. But I think things are still getting worse.
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Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
ZOOGESTURES organizes Session 3: #Multispecies Ecologies of #Innovation at the upcoming 2027 Kiel conference. If you are interested in #animal #archaeology and #more-than-human learning and innovation, please consider to submit an abstract! www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-r... 🏺🧪🦣🦝🦜
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Call for Papers
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Peter Magulski @magulski.com · 31/08/2026
Faktencheck zum Merz-Interview: - nicht nachvollziehbar - lässt sich nicht belegen - irreführend - falsch - falsch - falsch - irreführend - falsch - irreführend Nicht ein einziges Mal steht da "korrekt". Willkommen im Populismus. www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder...
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Das ARD-Sommerinterview mit Bundeskanzler und CDU-Chef Merz im Faktencheck
Der Bundeskanzler und CDU-Vorsitzende Merz war im ARD-Sommerinterview zu Gast. Bei den Themen Migration, Klimaschutz und Ölpreis waren seine Aussagen ungenau.
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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Hey if you are at #eaa2026 make sure to say hi to this guy, whose archaeology project signed a missile sent to Gaza. 🏺 www.instagram.com/p/DcmVUnBjS7...
A screenshot from the linked Instagram post that shows a shirtless man in front of a tank with the words “few meters from Gaza, ahh finally the smell of gunpowder powder”
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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Leadership at The New School has declared war on its own workforce, fired tenured professors, and shuttered whole departments. But what’s happening to the progressive university is an increasingly common story across all of higher education.
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What’s Left of The New School? - Dissent Magazine
Leadership at the iconic progressive university has declared war on its own workforce, fired tenured professors, and shuttered whole departments. But what’s happening to the school is an increasingly common story across all of higher education.
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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We've got a book for that! Interested in reading the real story of Lake Ontario? Daniel Macfarlane, professor at Western Michigan University, has written the authoritative history of the use and abuse of Lake Ontario. Read it now! #LakeOntario #researchthatmatters buff.ly/woiwybh
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Nadia Zaboura @nadiazaboura.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Medienanalytische Einordnung: Das ist kein informierender Journalismus, sondern mediale Stoffentgleisung in Reinform. Der öffentlich-rechtliche Deutschlandfunk setzt mit diesem Posting die anti-demokratische, menschenfeindliche, misogyne, faschistische Maga-Bewegung auf eine Ebene mit einer 1/3
Screenshot Instagram-Account @deutschlandfunk 

Erleben die US-Demokraten ihren „MAGA-Moment" von links?

Die Partei steht vor einem historischen Richtungsstreit.
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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
again i am just not that interested in debating whether human rights should theoretically extend to robots and ai when we currently don't even extend them to all humans
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If you are producing scholarship with AI and your work could plausibly be accessed in the EU, you are now legally compelled to disclose the nature and extent of your AI use. A tremendous win for scholarly integrity. www.lexacademic.com/blog/the-sta...
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The Stamp of Shame: What Claude’s New Legal Watermark Means for your Research - Lex Academic®
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Even as far back as The Blank Slate, Pinker's sloppy pop sci books had to get major corrections by experts www.nybooks.com/articles/200...
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Darwinian Storytelling | H. Allen Orr
1. What do Stalin, modern architecture, radical feminism, and most parenting experts have in common? They are all products of the false belief that we are
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Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
New paper with Dominik Ohrem exploring the prospects of human-animal histories of (co)learning (and, more generally, horizontal knowledge exchange and innovation among species). #multispecies #animal @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @hescor.bsky.social 🏺🦣🧬🦫🐻‍❄️🐎🐦 humanimalia.org/article/view...
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Learning Environments with Other Animals | Humanimalia
Humanimalia
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Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
New paper with Dominik Ohrem exploring the prospects of human-animal histories of (co)learning (and, more generally, horizontal knowledge exchange and innovation among species). #multispecies #animal @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @hescor.bsky.social 🏺🦣🧬🦫🐻‍❄️🐎🐦 humanimalia.org/article/view...
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Learning Environments with Other Animals | Humanimalia
Humanimalia
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Humanimalia @humanimalia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW: Humanimalia 16.2, “Animal Scales”, guest edited by Mariam Motamedi Fraser and Martin Savransky (@martinsavransky.bsky.social). Fully open access; read it here: humanimalia.org/issue/view/1...
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Nadia Zaboura @nadiazaboura.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Und bei all dem denke ich mir: Gibt es Journalistinnen, Redakteure, Community-Managerinnen, Social-Media-Macher bei der @zeit.de, die arabische Familiengeschichte haben? Und die jetzt in diesem Interview einer weißen Kollegin mit einem Eugeniker diese folgenden Sätze lesen müssen?
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.
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Rainer Mühlhoff @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
📣 Job alert: In meiner AG "Ethik und kritische Theorien der KI" an der Uni Osnabrück sind 1–2 WiMi-Stellen ausgeschrieben: 100% Postdoc oder 2x 50% Promotion, 36 Monate. Themen: kritische Philosophie & Geisteswissenschaften zu KI & gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen. rainermuehlhoff.de/jobs/wimi-et...
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Hinweis auf Stellenausschreibungen
Prof. Dr. Rainer Mühlhoff – AG Ethics and Critical Theories of AI – University of Osnabrück.
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HigherJobz @higherjobz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Fully Funded PhD in Prehistory & Statistics – CNRS, France Prehistory | Archaeology | Statistical Analysis | Cultural Heritage Advance Palaeolithic research through statistical network analysis higherjobz.com/cnrs-phd-pre... #PhD #Archaeology #ResearchJobs #France #acadhiring @cnrs.fr
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CNRS PhD in Prehistory & Statistics, France
Apply for the fully funded PhD in Prehistory and Statistics at CNRS, France. Open to applicants with a relevant Master's degree.
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Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
JA 👇 - allgemein gesprochen handelt es sich dabei eben auch um Unterminierungsdynamiken, die dem Status Quo zuträglicher sind als notwendiger Veränderung ☠️
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HESCOR - Human & Earth System Coupled Research @hescor.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
📢 New Blog Post To understand the #Earth and Human Systems, we break them down into spheres. Dr. Dominik Ohrem and Dr. Shumon Hussain describe the critical elements of the human sphere to create more accurate Earth System Models! 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/UX0Bs
The picture shows the different connections between the Biosphere, Anthroposphere, Hydrosphere, Atmosphere and the Geosphere.
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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Have your degree results? Lookingfor a Masters in Human origins with lots of opportunities to sprecialise? Join our MSc Programme here at @uclarchaeology.bsky.social. Applications are open until mid August. DM or email me with any questions. 🦣💀🧬
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Saskia Fischer @saskiafischer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Mit Faris Babikir habe ich für ZEIT Campus über KI in Lehre und Forschung, Schreiben als Erkenntnisprozess und die Universität als Ort gesellschaftlicher Reflexion gesprochen. Der vollständige Artikel lässt sich hier nachlesen: www.zeit.de/campus/2026-...
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Mathilde Tahar @drmathildetahar.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We are delighted to invite you to the interdisciplinary workshop of @animalinvention.bsky.social on Agency between Biology and Philosophy. It will take place at UCL and online on 22-23 September. All info and registration details can be found here: www.animalinventiveness.com/post/interna...
Agency between
Biology and Philosophy
22-23 September 2026
University College London, London, UK + online
Organisers: Mathilde Tahar & Alecia Carter
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Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I can only second this 👇
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Christian Stöcker @christianstoecker.de · 04/07/2026
Ich vermute,dass auch in vielen Redaktionen únd auch in der Unions-Bundestagsfraktion Leute sitzen, die diese Lüge weiterhin selbst glauben. Doch Gas macht den Strom teuer. Atomkraft ist sogar noch teurer. Das weiß auch der Weltmarkt. Deutsche Energiefiktionen helfen nur der AfD.
Gestehungskosten Strom: Maximum

Wind On-/
Offshore

Photovoltaik
Gas- und Dampf-
Kombikraftwerke
Feste Biomasse

Braunkohle

Steinkohle

Biogas
Gasturbinen-
kraftwerke
Kernkraft

Quelle: Fraunhofer-Institut für Solare Energiesysteme ISE

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Öko-Stromerzeugung
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Kosten der Energieumwandlung in elektrischen Strom
nach Energieträger in Deutschland 2024 (in Cent/kWh)
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49,0IEA Energy investment. 2026: 694 Milliarden Erneuerbare 541 Milliarden Netze, 82 Milliarden Atomkraft. Ök und Gasinvestitionen sinken auv 496 und 449 Milliarden. Elektrifizierung 391 Milliarden. Speicher 106 Milliarden.
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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Egal, welches politische Anliegen Dir am ❤️ liegt: #IFG ist dafür wichtig. Wir alle können dadurch ohne große Hürden in Erfahrung bringen, was Politik/Verwaltung bzgl. unseres Anliegens macht. Geplante Reform soll solche Hürden bauen & Intransparenz erzeugen: Das schadet jedem Anliegen & uns allen!
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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026
Joao Alves in Vienna - "Writing is Thinking: If we hand the writing to a machine, we quietly hand over the thinking too." #astronomy #academia #AcademicChatter #EAS2026
Talk slide saying "Writing is Thinking: If we hand the writing to a machine, we quietly hand over the thinking too."
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Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The sort of "climate adaptation" we are currently working on, I suppose 😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️
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Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Dem ist nichts hinzufügen haha! 👇
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HESCOR - Human & Earth System Coupled Research @hescor.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
📢 Call for Papers HESCOR project leads are guest editing a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Quaternary Science on Human-Earth system interactions, population dynamics, and cultural #evolution during the #Pleistocene and #Holocene! Open to external submissions! 📬 🔗 shorturl.at/9n3Ri
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Journal of Quaternary Science Call for Papers – Humans in the Earth System: Perspectives and Case-Studies on Population Dynamics and Cultural Evolution During the Pleistocene and Holocene
<em>Journal of Quaternary Science</em> publishes papers on any field of Quaternary research, advancing understanding of earth's history over the last 2.58 million years.
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Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The Earth is scorched.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I think women's pessimism about the state of heterosexuality is pretty rational and not, like, some sort of failure of duty on their part.
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Holly Dunsworth @dunsworth.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I'm reviewing Sapiens, one page at a time! It's a little bit fact-checking and a little-bit soul-searching combined into a lot of feelings... ecodevoevo.blogspot.com/2026/03/sapi...
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"Sapiens": One page at a time
I've been co-teaching a course for several years in which we read Sapiens . I think I've read it eight times, now. That explains the gumband...
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Palaeotrails @palaeotrails.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
We’re hiring a Research Assistant🚨 Interested in human evolution and African prehistory? We’re looking for someone with excellent organisational skills who will be based in Cambridge, with fieldwork opportunities in Kenya🇰🇪 Deadline: 01.07.2026 🔗 Apply online:
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
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Research Assistant in the Ng'ipalajem Project (Fixed Term)
Applications are invited for a 12-month Research Assistant position on the NG'IPALAJEM project, funded by the ERC. The project aims at collecting new palaeontological, archaeological and geological da...
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