My PhD supervisor when they want an update from me:

Postdoc available at @NTNUnorway Stable isotope study of humans and food webs in prehistoric Norway jobbnorge.no/en/available-j… Apply by 25.06.2023

We have a full 3 years PhD scholarship for a talented student to come and conduct research on direct dating of key fossils from archaeological sites in SE Asia. For more details scu.edu.au/graduate-schoo…

The peer reviews for "Evidence for the deliberate burial of the dead by Homo naledi" have been posted. elifesciences.org/reviewed-prepr…

Postdoc alert! We're currently looking to fill a two-year #postdoc position as part of the European Research Council (ERC) project "PROSPER". The successful candidate will work on #palaeoproteomics datasets of hominin fossils.

New video: "The Homo naledi Controversy! With Jamie Hodgkins and George Leader" I sat down and chatted about naledi with Jamie (Reviewer #1 for the burial paper @elife) and George M. Leader (archaeologist of Southern African Paleolithic) See it here: youtu.be/tWavjXAg5Tw

New paper published in 'Organic Geochemistry' exploring the impact of organic carbon reworking upon GDGT temperature proxies during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) (1/5) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🦎Lizard posdtdoc position alert🚨 on this #WorldLizardDay! I am hiring 1 postdoc to work on an NSF project on squamate phylogenetics & evolution in my lab Princeton University. Reviews start on Oct1. Please share and contact me if you have any questions!🐍[1/2] puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply…

We are dismayed to learn of ACU’s decision to gut its disciplines of History, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Pol. Science, and the entirety of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 1/4

Australia’s oldest known human remains, from Lake Mungo, are dated to 42,000 years ago. The oldest archaeological site in the country, Madjedbebe, was first occupied 65,000 years ago, based on evidence from scientifically proven radiometric dating techniques.

Congratulations to Dr Chelsea Wiseman who has accepted a three year Lectureship in Maritime Archaeology. Chelsea is currently a Postdoc and will assume her new role in 2024. She becomes the first Australian woman to hold the title Lecturer in Maritime Archaeology at Flinders University

I presented an IMAX movie called Fungi: Web of Life, narrated by Björk who speaks the story with inimitable magic and sensitivity. It features astonishing fungal time lapse photography from some of the best fungal photographers working today. Full trailer: youtu.be/YCf7YywIBZ8

Huge amount of work from everyone - some of my PhD data in here 😁

The big paper, as I've been calling it, is out! Amazing work by Kira Westaway my supervisor GARG and everyone involved. I was glad to be a part of it. nature.com/articles/s4158…

A once-in-a-career event - the giant ape is out and it looks so good - massive thanks to GARG Art Garcia for your brilliant design Science and Engineering @ MQU Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences Macquarie University

Come and work with us at the Flinders Microarchaeology Laboratory and get to stare wistfully at interesting thin sections of archaeological dirt... #geoarchaeology #micromorphology Flinders University Flinders Archaeology DISPERSCAPES Project

Job ad now live for a postdoc in my lab, either biomechanics/musculoskeletal modelling, OR sediment simulation backgrounds are welcome #postdoc #paleontology #palaeontology #biomechanics #simulation jobs.ljmu.ac.uk/vacancy/resear…

Our paper out today in Cell Biology reports a new Neanderthal skeleton ("Thorin") from Mandrin (France) and the DNA from it shows that he represents a distinct population that stayed isolated for ~50,000 years in Europe from other Neanderthal groups. cell.com/cell-genomics/…

Colin Renfrew - the passing of a giant in archaeology.

2 fully funded 4-years PhD positions at my group at the fantastic Department of Evolutionary Anthropology in Vienna! to start in February 2025 (or as soon as possible). The students will work on ERC SHADOWS project 🦊🐶🐺😀. PhD 1 on sedaDNA, PhD 2 on Megafauna genomics 🦁🐅🪨⚒️