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Figure 5 from the manuscript: Two photographs of fieldwork with arrows pointing at details and text in boxes explaining the details of how spatial information is recorded in the field. First photograph depicts a system that measures distance in relation to trench entities. Second photograph depicts a geospatial specialist and a fieldworker determining an object’s position using a digital theodolite.

1/3 New recommendation: Zachary Batist‬ (2025) Locating Creative Agency in Archaeological Data Work. ver.2 recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social doi.org/10.17613/8eq... @zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy 🏺🧪🦣

Come join us with this new post-doctoral position in the Quanta project: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... (2 years in Bordeaux)

If you love artifacts (especially bones), notches, microscopes, and exploring the big question of the origin of quantification systems in human lineage, this is for you!

Delighted to be bringing you the following PAASTA community-led paper outlining our recommendations for best practices and open science in palaeoproteomics! Congratulations to the authors and for anyone keen to read the paper, it can be found #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

New look, same mission 🔬🌍

The IsoArcH initiative just launched its brand-new website: isoarch.org

Check it out and dive into the world’s largest isotope database!

Figure 2 from the manuscript. Top panel: effects of fire on the landscape observed in 2021 and 2022. Bottom panel: burned surface lithic scatters showing effects such as fractures and color changes.

Figure 3 from the manuscript: Causal model for mechanical alterations of pebbles under the effect of fire. Red, direct and mediation effects (Fire -unmeasured-, Fissures, Rock_Type and Shape). Gray, latent unobserved variables (Biomass, Knapping and Trampling). Green, outcome variable (Mech_Alt).

1/3 New recommendation: Cardillo, Marcelo & Carranza, Eugenia ‬ (2025) Applying statistical and causal modeling to interpret thermal alteration in observational lithic data. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🧪🏺

Will read your paper with interest. Currently, this map with these circles is really not clear for me ! 🙂

Needless to say, the Peer Community In outperforms all of the major publishers on this criterion, despite a budget many orders of magnitude smaller - again illustrating that the big money we pay for publishing is not used for the good of science. (5/5)

@peercommunityin.bsky.social

figure showing nine data points (each for a distinct publisher) in a graph where Y-axis is our open science index and X-axis is academia friendliness (=proportion of published journals co-owned by an academic entity); strong positive relationship

Non-profit publishers (PLoS, Oxford, Cambridge) and publishers partnering a lot with academia (Wiley) are much more committed to open science than the others - MDPI being the worst by large. (4/5)

New preprint about open science in eco-evo!
We sampled 110 journals, 550 articles, and assessed whether data and code are accessible: (1/5)
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

#ScientificPublishing #OpenScience #ecology #conservation #EvolutionaryBiology #paleobio #systematics #archeology

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1/3 Super interview de notre doctorante Lisa Richelmi avec Benjamin Brillaud de Nota Bene ! 🐞🧑‍🔬
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Elle y présente sa thèse en archéoentomologique @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

The 'Bioengineered' story was mentioned in @theguardian.com today!

Read here
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More background on Bioengineered here: www.science.org/content/arti...

CC: @elisabethbik.bsky.social @mortenoxe.bsky.social @smutclyde.bsky.social @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social

I'd like to come for once!

How we use game mechanics to explore and educate about archaeology in our board game Cultivaria- a thread.

#archaeology #boardgame

Why I quit itsmoreofacomment.com/2022/10/28/w... (and it is the same for Researchgate...)
I may instead orient you towards @orcid.org instead, HAL in France, Zenodo etc.
Thank you @archaeobasti.bsky.social for this post few years ago but still very relevant.

IsoArcH Addithon 2025 This form is used to sign up for the IsoArcH Addithon to be run from 11-20 August 2025.

IsoArcH is organizing its first Addithon, a 10-day virtual community event! This event will bring volunteers together from all over the world, to add to this ever-growing open data repository for isotopes from archaeological research.

bit.ly/IsoArcH2025

What a nice cover!
I don't think I will have time to read it but I will share with my French lithician colleagues! :)

The Digital Archaeo Summer School concluded with a visit to La Chaise (Middle Paleo), excavated by our postdocs Diego López Onaindia & @kimgenuite.bsky.social 45 early-career researchers from 6 countries joined us, thank you all! See you in 2026! @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social

Yes it is much more work and more difficult for non-native English speakers! It's great to remind this!

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Et une proposition dans l'article est bel et bien de passer par @peercommunityin.bsky.social and @peercomjournal.bsky.social ! :)

A way too rare occasion to replicate research in Archaeological Sciences 🏺🧪

And you, do you sometimes reproduce or replicate archaeological research?

It has been submitted for evaluation at @pciarchaeology.bsky.social of course!

All data and code available on zenodo (doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) and on my GitHub account. #opendata
Thanks @benmarwick.bsky.social ‬for the possibility to learn from reproducing your work and for providing the basis for this replication, which are unfortunately excessively rare in #Archaeology!

PCA showing the distribution of the top-25 2 year-mean-citedness journals based on 5 metrics: Number of pages, Number of authors, Relative title length, Recency fo references and Diversity of sources.

Ranking for the top-25 journals for each metric, and summary of these rankings in a single plot showing the "harder" science journals and the "softer" science journals.

And do journals compare? I find the same kind of results as Marwick (2025), but the list of journal is rather different. "Harder" journals are Conservation/Museum artifacts studies journals. "Softer" journals are review journals.

Table comparing the ranking archaelogical journals between OpenAlex and Web of Science for the top 25 journals. Ranking by 2-yer-mean-citedness, H-index and i10 for OpenAlex, and 2022 Impact Factor for Web of Science

How does openalex.org compares with Web of Science? OpenAlex (which is free and #opensource) has MUCH more data, but apparently a bit less curated yet. Will improve for sure thanks to public institutions now supporting the project!

Boxplots comparing data for top-25 journal metrics and data from Fanelli & Glanzel 2013 for Physics, Social Sciences and Humanities. Most of the time Archaeology fits pretty close to Social Sciences, except for Diversity of sources where it harder than Physics.

New #preprint online: Reproduction and replication of @benmarwick.bsky.social (2025), with data from OpenAlex.

Accessible as interactive html version: aqueff.github.io/replication_...

and more traditional manuscript with doi here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Is archaeology a hard or soft science? 🏺🧪

With mention of @peercommunityin.bsky.social , @peercomjournal.bsky.social and @pci-regreports.bsky.social ! Trying to change this system!

1500 people follow me, 90% archaeologists, and no one can tell me what they think about this paper which seems to destroy an entire field of research? No starch specialist here? I'm really eager to hear your voice and transfer these results into inter-tropical environment (let say Caribbean...)

But I don't know anything about boomerangs and I'd like to know why you think it should not be called boomerang in this case?

Boomerang and bones: Refining the chronology of the Early Upper Paleolithic at Obłazowa Cave, Poland Beginning with the Early Aurignacian, Homo sapiens demonstrated an enhanced symbolic capacity, expanding artistic expressions from body decoration to portable art and aesthetically refined tools. Thes...

Ah you got it first Claire, I was just checking too! :) You're right and the title of the article is "Boomerang and bones: Refining the chronology of the Early Upper Paleolithic at Obłazowa Cave, Poland" doi.org/10.1371/jour...