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Dr. Yiming V. Wang

@yimingvwang.bsky.social
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Isotope & biomarker biogeochemist, (paleo)climate and environmental scientist, Data analyst. My work @MPI_GEA encompasses Earth Science, Ecology, & Anthropology. She/her/她 -王轶明

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Jennifer M. Miller @jennifermidori.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
New PYS paper, available open access: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Cave morphology and human-mediated sediment deposition: Late Pleistocene to Holocene evolution of the cave floor at Panga ya Saidi, coastal Kenya
Panga ya Saidi (PYS), a cave situated in a forested upland near the coast of Kenya, contains an archaeological record that spans at least 78,000 years and is crucial for understanding the evolution of...
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Dr. Yiming V. Wang @yimingvwang.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
#Rivers are infrastructure. When #rivers fade, #connections fade too. 🚨🚨Our new paper, led by Chinese colleagues, explores how reduced dryland river flow in NW China may have contributed to the decline of Silk Road exchange. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #EnvironmentalArchaeology #Hydrology
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Reduction of Silk Road Exchange Corresponds with a Decrease in Hydraulic Output of Major Dryland Rivers in Northwest China - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
The Silk Road traversed diverse and challenging landscapes, with one of its most characteristic stretches spanning the extremely arid Tarim Basin. The meandering paths of trade routes gradually develo...
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Dr. Yiming V. Wang @yimingvwang.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
🚨🚨Our new paper about 💩 out today! 🐏🐐 We show that faecal biomarker profiles in sheep vary strongly across ecological settings. This matters for #Archaeology: animal species ID needs regionally grounded reference data -not universal markers. rdcu.be/fiez4 #HumanAnimalInteractions #Zooarchaeology
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Regional variability in faecal bile acids and its implications for species identification in archaeology
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Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · 30/04/2026
👩‍🎓Drawing on classroom experience and student feedback, Wang et al argue that grounded inquiry sharpens judgement in Earth science teaching by limiting #AI to set sources and auditing its claims. @yimingvwang.bsky.social @uni-jena.de 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Teach students to ask better questions with Artificial Intelligence - Communications Earth & Environment
Generative artificial intelligence has unsettled higher education, raising fears that students will lose the ability to think. Drawing on classroom experience and student feedback, we argue that groun...
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Dr. Yiming V. Wang @yimingvwang.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Our Comment is out today in nature.com/commsenv/ The risk of AI in education is that students may stop thinking. In teaching Earth Science, we use AI differently: to identify friction, contradictions, weak evidence, hidden assumptions, and uncertainty. We call it grounded inquiry. rdcu.be/ffZPd
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Dr. Yiming V. Wang @yimingvwang.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
🚨New Article🚨 on 🔥 🔥and💩💩 Archaeologists often look for chemical traces of burned dung to understand past human-animal interactions. But, how well do these biomarkers survive the fire? Our new study shows high heat destroys faecal biomarkers. Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Bile acids as biomarkers in carbonized archaeological sediment: Insights from dung burning experiments
Bile acids are increasingly used as fecal biomarkers for studying archeology, environmental pollution, paleoeconomy, and human-animal interactions. Exclusively synthesized by vertebrates, bile acids a...
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