Tom Higham

@katerinad.bsky.social @konstantinache.bsky.social @kuhlwilm.bsky.social @elkezeller.bsky.social @lauravdsluis.bsky.social @maddalenagianni.bsky.social
This work was funded @erc.europa.eu #Disperse

So proud to see our new paper out in PNAS spearheaded by @emilypigott.bsky.social She found a tiny 46,000 yr old Neanderthal bone at Starosele (Crimea). DNA work revealed long-distance connections across Eurasia, supported by stone tool evidence @heasvienna.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

HEAS Seminar this morning! 1030 CE Time. Bence Viola will talk about Denisovans!
‪@heasvienna.bsky.social‬

More information and registration on our website 👇🔗
www.heas.at/events/heas-...

We are going next week!

HEAS Seminar Series - Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic - HEAS As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic Bence Viola from the University of Toronto will give a talk on Teeth, Genes, and Taxonomy – fifteen years of Denisovan discov...

We are looking forward to welcoming @benceviola.bsky.social back to Vienna for the first #HEASSeminar in the 2025-2026 series in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic.

@univie.ac.at

More information and registration on our website 👇🔗

So excited to announce the lineup of speakers here @heasvienna.bsky.social for the 2025/6 academic year! We have some outstanding speakers for our three seminar series in Archaelogical Science, Ancient Genomics and Human Evolution & the Palaeolithic. All hybrid! Register now at HEAS.at

PhD Studentship alert!
I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia.
Details in the link below!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Talk at 10 CE time this morning online and in person :

César Méndez and Amalia Nuevo-Delaunay from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile on "Discontinuous archaeological records and the peopling of West Patagonia".

Register here: www.heas.at/events/heas-...

@heasvienna.bsky.social

Stellenangebot Curator for the osteological collection of human remains (m/f/d) bei Naturhistorisches Museum Wien Forschung, wissenschaftliche Tätigkeit in Wien

Great job opportunity here in Vienna at the Natural History Museum. @nhmwien.bsky.social
jobs.nhm.at/Curator-for-...

So refreshing to hear a politician speaking the truth about this situation.

Not sure! I hope that it will be perhaps on youtube at some point...

They came to film in Oxford and drove off to B'ham airport after accidentally taking my backpack with them (inc. passport+ computer). I had to take a taxi halfway to B'ham airport to meet them and reclaim my stuff before heading to Heathrow to fly out!! Stressful memories!

BBC Four - The Lost Neanderthals The secrets of the Neanderthal discoveries in the Mandrin Cave in France are revealed.

If you are in the UK, BBC4 tonight at 8 pm "The Lost Neanderthals". A doco about the site of Mandrin (Fr) and the work there of Ludovic Slimak and team. You might spot a glimpse of me too - I have been lucky enough to work with them on the site chronology for several years.

tinyurl.com/4uenwr7c

Science research gets more engagement on Bluesky than X, study finds Bluesky posts referencing scholarly articles ‘find substantially higher levels of interaction’ than on Elon Musk’s platform

As expected, Bluesky better than X for scientists www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Revisiting the Early Aurignacian in Italy: New insights from Grotta della Cala Grotta della Cala in southern Italy is a key archaeological site spanning from the Middle Paleolithic to the Bronze Age. In the stratigraphic sequence…

🚨New paper alert!🧪 We explore the #Aurignacian at Grotta della Cala (southern Italy), providing robust evidence of human settlement shortly after the #CampanianIgnimbrite eruption (ca. 40 ka). 1/5 🌋
@tommyhigham.bsky.social @lucdoyon.bsky.social @boneslab.bsky.social & the University of Siena

Still find it hard to believe that people actually voted for this knob. 🤪🇺🇸

Damn....Utah clownin.😂😂

New insights from the application of ZooMS to Late Pleistocene fauna from Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - New insights from the application of ZooMS to Late Pleistocene fauna from Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy

New paper led by Annette Oertle out today focusing on our work at Castelcivita in Italy. A pleasure to work with our wonderful Italian colleagues.
@katerinad.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This was a great talk by Prof. Necmi Karul on an incredible site - Karahantepe. Watch for the video soon on our HEAS YouTube channel.

Just about to start this talk here in Vienna. Tune in below online!

Warming stripes Vienna

The warming stripes from Vienna... #ShowYourStripes showyourstripes.info

Still struggling to comprehend how, after 4 years of this evil incompetent lunatic in his first disastrous term, the US voted him in again. They could have had Kamala Harris instead.

This is total Black Mirror.

YouTube video by Choir! Choir! Choir! Choir! Choir! Choir! & Patti Smith sing "PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER" in NYC with Stewart Copeland

Always brings a lump to my throat. Love this.
youtu.be/y6Wz3i_BYUc?...

You know what the world absolutely does not need? Yet another definition for domestication. Get over yourselves people. C'mon!

Ok, maybe just one more. So much fun working with @elinork.bsky.social, Kathryn and Robin. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Join us this morning at 1030 CE time for a talk by a Roman Garba and Vitaly Usik on the first humans in Europe, more than 1 million years ago. Register below!

Bring us net zero. As fast as possible! Free energy forever plus we save this beautiful planet, and create 1000s of jobs too.
Don’t be nervous, be ambitious!

Reminder.

www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

Today we welcome @helenfewlass.bsky.social from the Unversity of Bristol to give the HEAS seminar in Archaeological Science! This is a virtual event, register below.
Helen will discuss her work into near infra-red methods for detecting proteins non-destructively.
@heasvienna.bsky.social

Me too. I also find these huge conferences rather soul-destroying and hard to navigate. Parallel session hell. Smaller conferences are much better.