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Senior archaeobotanist (she/her) at www.archol.nl. Plants and people in NW Europe and beyond.

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Welmoed Out @welmoedo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Taking place in November 2026 in Cairo: the 11th International Workshop for African Archaeobotany (IWAA) 😃
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The Neotoma Paleoecology Database @neotomadb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
11th International Workshop for African Archaeobotany (IWAA) November 9 - November 12 The American University in Cairo, Tahrir Square Campus 113 Al Kasr Al Aini, Ad Dawawin, Abdeen, Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt sites.google.com/view/iwaa202...
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Pleuni Pennings @pleunipennings.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My colleague @saismit.bsky.social and @satavisha-de.bsky.social write about the lack of female representation in STEM and how this is a bigger problem even for women of color.
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De Archeoloog @dearcheoloog.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Boeiend artikel over de al ruim tweeënhalfduizend jaar onafgebroken bewoonde #wierde (#terp) van #Ezinge. Ezinge is een wonder inderdaad. www.rtvnoord.nl/cultuur/1436...
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Archeologe Annet Nieuwhof na jarenlang onderzoek: 'Ezinge is een wonder'
Toen Annet Nieuwhof op haar veertigste besloot archeologie te gaan studeren, had ze geen idee dat één college haar leven zou veranderen. Een docent vertelde terloops dat er in de kelder van het archeo...
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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Booking has opened for the 2026 Neolithic Studies Group conference in London on 16th November. Theme? Farmers, farming practices and farming tools. Loads of great papers and posters, and you can attend in person or watch online. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/nsg2026-fa...
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NSG2026: Farmers, farming practices & farming tools
The theme of the 2026 Neolithic Studies Group day conference is farming - from practice to ideology - drawing on new research & discoveries.
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PAASTA Community @paastacommunity.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
REMINDER: Next 🍝PAASTA🍝 talk this Wednesday! Message us for the link 🔗
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Pleuni Pennings @pleunipennings.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Great article by @nadiabouras for those who read Dutch.
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🐻🦴 Bear, boar or cattle? New research led by UCD School of Archaeology has revealed that "cattle bones" long thought to mark the beginning of farming in Ireland actually belong to bear and wild boar, rewriting a key chapter in Irish prehistory. 🧵 @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @graemewarren.bsky.social
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Welmoed Out @welmoedo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Call for applications for a research position at the German Archaeological Institute in Madrid: www.dainst.org/karriere/bew...
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DAI - Bewerben am DAI
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Welmoed Out @welmoedo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Queens’ College intends to appoint a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) from 1 October 2027 in Archaeological Science. Deadline to apply: 25 September 2026 www.queens.cam.ac.uk/about-us/vac...
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Junior Research Fellowships/Early Career Fellowships - Queens' College
The College intends to appoint a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) from 1 October 2027 in each of the following subject areas: Archaeological Science and Development Studies. Junior Research Fellowships of...
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Welmoed Out @welmoedo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
INQUA 2026 Funding Opportunities are now open: For Early-Career Researchers (ECR) and Developing-Country Researchers (DCR) looking to expand your international research experience. Offers funding to help you build collaborations, develop new skills, and advance Quat science worldwide.
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International Union for Quaternary Research - INQUA
Established in 1928, INQUA is committed to facilitating collaborations among scientists around the world. It places special emphasis on assisting early career & developing country researchers to becom...
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Henriette Baron @henriettebaron.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
⚠️⚠️⚠️ Die Sächsische Denkmalpflege / Landesarchäologie wird durch Umstrukturierung geschwächt und das wunderbare Museum für Archäologie Chemnitz #SMAC von seinem Fundament, der Sammlung, abgetrennt. Bitte unterzeichnen und teilen! petition.landtag.sachsen.de/petitionen/c...
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Denkmalpflege in Sachsen sichern – Einheit der Archäologie bewahren
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Welmoed Out @welmoedo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
2 PhD positions at University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, to study pre-Columbian South American heritage using archaeological data, remote sensing, and geospatial analysis
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2 PhD Researcher Positions on Data Management and Remote Sensing of South American Heritage - MAPHSA - Mapping the Archaeological Pre-Columbian Heritage of South America - UPF
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Welmoed Out @welmoedo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Our new article on the topic of ethics in #archaeobotany, directed by Amaia Arranz, is out now. Thanks to all respondents and co-authors! Open access link to the article: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #archaeology
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Ethics in archaeobotany: identifying current issues and initiating a declaration of principles - Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
This article presents the first systematic assessment of ethical concerns specific to archaeobotanical research, focusing on principles and values. Conducted by an international group of archaeobotani...
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Welmoed Out @welmoedo.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Axel Mjærum et al:
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Welmoed Out @welmoedo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
New excavations at the Bronze Age site of Kukuliskiai in Lithuania 300 m away from the coast - new perspective on "wetland site with wood" 😮 See also our recent paper by Minkevicius et al. in Vegetation history and Archaeobotany. infoerdve.lt/en/kukuliski...
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Kukuliškiai Finds Reveal Bronze Age Trade Hub
Finds at Kukuliškiai suggest Lithuania’s coast hosted an active Bronze Age maritime trading and craft community.
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Stéphanie Bodin 🌿🪵🔥🔬 @tifanosaurus.cpesr.fr · 08/07/2026
I gave a talk on Monday about the wood & charcoal reference collections from the Sahel at IMBE @univ-amu.fr 🤗 🪵🔥 #Anthraco2026
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Stéphanie Bodin 🌿🪵🔥🔬 @tifanosaurus.cpesr.fr · 06/07/2026
This is the kick-off of the 9th anthracology meeting in Thessaloniki ! Alexa Dufraisse gives the keynote lecture on the woods from Notre-Dame de Paris! #Anthraco2026
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Stéphanie Bodin 🌿🪵🔥🔬 @tifanosaurus.cpesr.fr · 06/07/2026
Marina Chavenetidou talks about ways to distinguish between Castanea and Quercus! #Anthraco2026
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Stéphanie Bodin 🌿🪵🔥🔬 @tifanosaurus.cpesr.fr · 06/07/2026
Now it's the turn of Arianna Sellitto to talk about identification issues inside the Rosaceae! #Anthraco2026
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Stéphanie Bodin 🌿🪵🔥🔬 @tifanosaurus.cpesr.fr · 06/07/2026
Magali Toriti, the specialist of anthraco-entomology! #Anthraco2026
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Stéphanie Bodin 🌿🪵🔥🔬 @tifanosaurus.cpesr.fr · 06/07/2026
Isabelle Thery-Parisot addresses whether AI can help charcoal and wood anatomical identification #Anthraco2026
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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
👀 Geoarchaeology/Paleoecology Technician University of Glasgow - College of Arts & Humanities - School of Humanities www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSA866/g...
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Geoarchaeology/Paleoecology Technician at University of Glasgow
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Geoarchaeology/Paleoecology Technician on jobs.ac.uk!
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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Petition against the job losses here: c.org/ddjtYXzdQQ
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Sign the Petition
Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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Dr Matt Law @mlaw.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Call for papers for the Association for Environmental Archaeology conference in York this autumn - envarch.net/conferences
A poster advertising a conference at the Guildhall, York from 13th-15th November 2026. The call for abstracts closes 30th July
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Association for Environmental Archaeology @envarch.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Great News! The 47th #AEA conference with @yorkuniversity.bsky.social will be at York Guildhall, 13-15th Nov Titled 'Bridging the Divide - Environmental Research at the Interface Between Academic and Developer-led Archaeology', the deadline for abstracts is 30th July Visit envarch.net/conferences
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Association for Environmental Archaeology
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Marloes_mbtravels (she/her) @marloesvdsommen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Ik vind deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee? actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/wh...
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KLOKKENLUIDER DIGID GESCHORST (WHISTLEBLOWER DUTCH IDENTITIES SUSPENDED)
Digitale infrastructuur is publieke infrastructuur. Wie haar verdedigt, verdient onze bescherming.  Ennglish: Digital infrastructure is public infrastructure. Those who defend it must be protec...
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Sjoerd de Jong @sjoerdjong.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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Na een jarenlange zwerftocht komen de Romeinse schepen uit de Zwammerdamse bodem eindelijk weer samen
Archeologie: In de jaren 70 werden in Zwammerdam zes Romeinse schepen in de bodem gevonden. Archeologen hadden daar toen niet veel interesse in. Er komt nu eindelijk een plek om ze tentoon te stellen.
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Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The Museum of Cultural History @uio.no is hiring a PhD candidate in Nordic #Archaeology, linked to the museum’s research on the #VikingAge. As icing on the cake, you’ll be working in the environment of the new Museum of the Viking Age, part of MCH, opening in 2027! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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PhD research fellow in Nordic Archaeology (301195) | University of Oslo
Job title: PhD research fellow in Nordic Archaeology (301195), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, July 31, 2026
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Isabelle Marie @isabellemarie.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Il y a 10 000 ans à Vitry-sur-Seine : un campement de chasseurs cueilleurs mésolithiques en bord de Seine. #Archéologie www.inrap.fr/il-y-10-000-...
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Actualité | Il y a 10 000 ans à Vitry-sur-Seine : un campement de chasseurs cueilleurs mésolithiques en bord de Seine
Suite au diagnostic réalisé par le Service Archéologie du Val-de-Marne en 2021, l’Inrap fouille actuellement, sur prescription de l’État (Drac Île-de-France), une parcelle d’environ 4 000 m² à Vitry-s...
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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
It's [hopefully] going to be a really interesting couple of weeks! We're doing a research dig at the Viking site at Woodstown Waterford, with support from @ria.ie, @nationalmons.bsky.social and Waterford City & County Council, in a collaborative project between Irish & Norwegian archaeologists
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Welmoed Out @welmoedo.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Wood dress, from fibers partially made of archaeological wood: parametric-architecture.com/shipwreck-a-...
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A 300-Year-Old Shipwreck Finds New Life as a Knitted Dress in Finland
Researchers at Aalto University have transformed wood salvaged from a 17th-century shipwreck into a knitted dress
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Aedh MacTire @tine119.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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£700k grant for urgent work at Flag Fen near Peterborough
A report reveals concerns about "catastrophic loss" of evidence at the 3,500-year-old Flag Fen site.
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Welmoed Out @welmoedo.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Teamwork and efficiency 🙏
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Welmoed Out @welmoedo.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Archaeobotany job: the Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Centre (STARC) at The Cyprus Institute is inviting applications for the position of Research Technical Scientist in Archaeobotany (Ref. no. STARC_RTS_26_05): onlinerecruitment.exelsyslive.com?c=6e7274a2-8...
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Exelsys - Online Job Application
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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik @dimitrij.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
We're hiring at the Department of Archaeology, University of Ljubljana! Palaeolithic and Mesolithic specialist wanted, someone who likes fieldwork, students and hunter-gatherers who left frustratingly little behind. Ljubljana is fine, actually. Deadline July 10. www.uni-lj.si/en/universit...
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FF, University teacher at Department of Archaelogy
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Welmoed Out @welmoedo.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Interview with Moesgaards marine archaeologist Peter Moe Astrup about submerged Mesolithic sites. Practice your Danish and learn how to pronounce "Maglemose" #Mesolithic podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/p...
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På jagt efter svar dybt under havet
Podcast Episode · Leth møder Moesgaard · 14 April · 47min
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Caroline Strömberg @caestromberg.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Sharing the awesome www.scientess.org podcast featuring interviews with women scientists from different fields, created by @uwdeohs.bsky.social Professor Karen Levy!
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Scientess
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Caroline Strömberg @caestromberg.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The latest episode covers paleobotany (me) 🍂🌾, check it out: www.scientess.org/ep-06-caroli... @uwbiology.bsky.social @burkemuseum.bsky.social
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Ep 06- Caroline Stromberg — Scientess
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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Hive mind help please! Does anyone have a copy of "Who Built Scotland: A History of the Nation in Twenty-Five Buildings" and could check a detail of a quote for me?
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Welmoed Out @welmoedo.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
🌊 New publication 🎑🐟🪓 : Karolis Mincevicius et al.: Paradise lost: the rise and fall of the Late Bronze Age coastal farmers at #BronzeAge Kukuliškiai, NW Lithuania: rdcu.be/fhDRA #archaeology #archaeobotany #archaeozoology #isotopeanalysis #InstituteofBalticRegionHistoryandArchaeology
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Paradise lost: the rise and fall of the Late Bronze Age coastal farmers at Kukuliškiai, NW Lithuania
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Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
🌲 New paper with @lovschal.bsky.social, @michelle-farrell.bsky.social & Høeg, challenging the idea that #LateNeolitic + #BronzeAge was all about deforestation and farming. It #REVEALS a forested form of life in SE Norway, co-shaped, dynamic social ecologies and mixed 🐑🏹🌾🌰 🔗 doi.org/10.3389/fear...
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Frontiers | A forested form of life: Southeast Norway in 2350–500 BCE
For much of prehistory, the landscapes of southeast Norway were deeply shaped by dense forests. Yet archaeological narratives of the period from around 2350 ...
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Welmoed Out @welmoedo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Grateful to the Modderman Foundation at the Faculty of Archaeology, @unileiden.bsky.social, for their kind support to prepare drawings of construction wood and wooden artefacts from Bergschenhoek for publication! With @prehistoryrmo.bsky.social Drawing: L. Verhart, copyright @rmoudheden.bsky.social
Pencil drawing of small pointed post dating to 4000 BCE, drawing L.B.M. Verhart, copyright Rijks Museum van Oudheden Leiden / National Museum of Antiquities the Netherlands
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Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Very sorry to see that the last undergrad archaeology class at Uni #Sheffield was taught yesterday. The wanton destruction happening now in academia on both sides of the Atlantic will be widely seen as the violence it is one day. #SaveSheffield #SaveSheffieldArchaeology
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Sabrina Bianco @sabbianco.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Hi! 🤗 I’d like to invite all the anthracologists here to fill in this questionnaire on the current state of urban anthracology. It would be great if you could share the link with your network, so we can reach as many researchers as possible. 👉 forms.gle/fyjdrxbDFRx2... Thanks so much!!
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Anthracology in current urban areas
Hello, If you are an anthracologist who has, during your career, carried out archaeobotanical studies in urban contexts (i.e. current towns or villages), this survey is for you!! It would be greatly ...
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Welmoed Out @welmoedo.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
A year ago we published this paper: Evidence of interregional contacts in #Viking-Age Aarhus? No, hardly any evidence. Evidence of absence? Well, it is of course more nuanced. PI: Jette Linaa, funding Ministry of Culture DK #VikingAge #Vikings #Archaeology. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Interregional networks in the late Viking Age? Insights from a burned pit house in the Viking-Age town of Aros, present-day Aarhus, Denmark (ca. 980 CE)
The Viking Age was a dynamic period, with local centres and urban sites engaging to varying degrees in local, regional and interregional networks. Whi…
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Science & recherche au Muséum @recherche.mnhn.fr · 17/04/2026
Toutes nos félicitations à @alexa-dufraisse.bsky.social de @umr-bioarch.bsky.social, médaille d'argent du @cnrs.fr 2026 @mnhn.fr @museedelhomme.fr www.inee.cnrs.fr/fr/personne/...
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Alexa Dufraisse
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Welmoed Out @welmoedo.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Also last week, at the succesful Transformations conference organised by @hanshuisman.bsky.social 🙏
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Welmoed Out @welmoedo.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
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Gerrit Dusseldorp 🟥 @dussel.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Gave a talk also on behalf of colleague Fulco Scherjon on Agent Based Modelling of Bandkeramik farmer expansion ~7000 years ago Transformations conference organised by @hanshuisman.bsky.social (Thanks!) www.weleer.nl/transformati... 📷 @welmoedo.bsky.social who gives a keynote tomorrow!
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