Luke Gent

Postdoctoral researcher on ‘Unveiling the Ocean’s plastic time capsule"

🔬 Exciting postdoc opportunity at @NHM_Denmark! Working on reconstructing ocean plastics history (1950s-70s) through sediments & foraminifera. 2-year position in geology dept. Deadline Jan 17!
Details: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
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Archaeological content:
@tessmachling.bsky.social - Gold
@mattpope.bsky.social - Palaeolithic
@suegreaney.bsky.social - Neolithic
@drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social - Roman/EM
@claireboardman.bsky.social - Digital
@markknight63.bsky.social - Fenlands
@prehistorian.bsky.social - The Celts
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Here is a chance to join us as I host an online lecture welcoming the Sussex Finds Liaison Officer Jane Clark to give her brilliant annual round up of the the most important finds reported in 2024.
It's absolutely the most festive online talk you could join next week!
#FindsFriday
#AncientSky
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It has the habit of showing me lovely independents in other countries 😭😭

I’m sure there are more folks out there who I haven’t connected with yet in disability anthropology or who use ethnographic approaches to critical disability studies. Send me a note if you’d like to be added! ❤️

#disability #anthropology #ethnography
#CriticalDisabilityStudies

Go vote! This is your chance to have a say in the name of a solar system object!

Thank you!! Hopefully it’ll be interesting to people :)

Congratulations Katerina amazing to hear!

Katerina Douka receives ERC Consolidator Grant ERC Consolidator Grants are awarded to exceptional mid-career researchers who have established themselves as independent investigators and are ready to further solidify their role as research leaders....

First post here to mark a new project funded by the ERC! Super-excited and very thankful to the colleagues who supported the idea in the first place, and those who reviewed it! “RIFT-to-RIM”, at the University of Vienna & @heasvienna.bsky.social, here we go! lifesciences.univie.ac.at/news-events/...

Very excited (and a bit nervous) to announce that I will be hiring two Postdocs for my new group(!) in Copenhagen to study the Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA which survives in present-day humans. Retweet will be much appreciated :)

Link for application:
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

🚨Reminder that @gentforanth.bsky.social's talk is THIS WEEK on Wednesday at 16:00 CET🚨

Illuminated - Voices from the Bog - BBC Sounds Old voices offer new perspectives on the discovery of Lindow Man and Woman, 40 years on.

The discovery 🏺of Lindow Man when I was six is etched into my subconscious: this is a beautiful piece that weaves together people, place and archive. Illuminated - Voices from the bog on #Radio4 - Perfect listen for a damp Stir-Up Sunday www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Tracing 600 years of long-distance Atlantic cod trade in medieval and post-medieval Oslo using stable isotopes and ancient DNA | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Marine resources have been important for the survival and economic development of coastal human communities across northern Europe for millennia. Knowledge of the origin of such historic resources can...

Oslo was importing cod 🐟 (not frog) from distant Arctic waters predating similar trade routes to Britain and continental Europe by 200+ years from #ancientDNA and #isotopes.
This early long-distance fish trade might be linked to Oslo's royal/religious elite. 📜

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I started a feminist anthropology started pack. Let me know if you want to be added. Please share
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Holy buckets, I just passed the 200,000 followers milestone. What a genuinely amazing thing. Thanks to each and every one of you for letting me be a part of your Bluesky experience. To mark the moment, I've made a donation to the Imagination Library. Free books for kids!

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Abstract In 2014, Mexico (with financial and logistical support from the Obama administration) launched Programa Frontera Sur, a security enforcement project to stop Central American migrants from reaching the U.S./Mexico border. In response to this heightened security, migrants have turned to transnational gangs such as MS-13 who have become increasingly involved in the human smuggling industry over the last decade. In this talk, I discuss my new book "Soldiers and Kings", a long-term ethnographic study focused on understanding the daily lives of Honduran smugglers who profit from transporting migrants across the length of Mexico. Using the stories of several smugglers, I examine the relationship between transnational gangs and the clandestine migration industry, the brutal toll that migration plays on people's bodies, and the difficulties of doing ethnography in this violent and ethically challenging context. Image of Jason De León wearing a t-shirt with the text The War Pigs (the name of the band in which he plays bass). Jason is Professor of Anthropology and Chicana, Chicano, and Central American Studies and Director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also Executive Director of the Undocumented Migration Project, a research-arts-education non-profit focused on raising awareness about issues related to migration and assisting families of missing migrants search for their loved ones. De León is the Head Curator of the ongoing global exhibition “Hostile Terrain 94” and author of the award-winning book “The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail.” He is a 2017 MacArthur Fellow and his new book "Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling" was published by Viking in March of 2024 and long-listed for the National Book Award.

If you are in #Copenhagen this Tuesday
@jasondeleon.bsky.social is speaking to the School of #Archaeology at the #UCPH at 16:00

Jason is speaking on

"Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling."

archaeology.ku.dk/calendar/202...

Please register for the reception

Quit asking me to give you information that is already contained on the cover letter. It's not our fault you people are too lazy to read. Either have cover letters and no boxes to fill in, or vice versa. Having both is just insulting to the applicants and it makes your company look bad.

Quote from the book: "Figure 4. Three species of dung beetles with different nesting behaviours. a – Aphodius pedellus (6–8 mm) is one of the more colourful species of ‘dweller’ in Canada. b – Onthophagus nuchicornis (6–8 mm) is a species of ‘tunneller’ that locally can be very abundant. c – Canthon pilularius (12–17 mm) is a species of ‘roller’ and is perhaps the largest species of dung beetle in Canada. Whereas it is a native species, the other two are of European origin. Photos: H Goulet (retired), AAFC Ottawa, ON"

Quote from the book describing the image: "Of African origin, Digitonthophagus gazella may have the widest distribution of any dung beetle species in the world. Because of deliberate introductions, it now occurs in Australia, New Zealand, Central America, North America and South America. Photo: H. Goulet (retired), AAFC Ottawa, ON."

Image of three staphylinid beetles. Text quoted from the linked book: "Figure 84. Subfamily Omaliinae. a – Omalium rivulare (Udo Schmidt – CC-BY-NC-SA); b – Phyllodrepa floralis (© Lech Borowiec); c – Xylodromus concinnus (Udo Schmidt – CC-BY-NC-SA)."

Diagram of a cow patty and where creatures can be found on it. Quote from the book: "Figure 3. Dung beetles can be grouped into categories of ‘dwellers’, ‘tunnellers’ and ‘rollers’ based on their nesting behaviour. Within each category, different species of beetles may form different types of burrows. Image modified from Doube (1990) and reprinted from Floate (2011)."

Quite literally everything you've ever wanted to know about pasture poop 💩 entomology – for free!

Who's hanging around that steamy pile?

What are they doing there?

How can you collect them?

And more!

"Cow patty critters" by Dr. Kevin Floate

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🔗 publications.gc.ca/collections/...

Dune has the same plot as the Westminster Dog Show: After generations of careful breeding, we have produced this perfect little freak of nature and now it has behavioral issues

Open position: Master internship on hybrid human-LLM cultural evolution

We're looking for an intern to explore how LLMs can help human groups discover, select and transmit solutions to problems

More info and other positions here: flowers.inria.fr/jobs/

Constraining the age of the Middle Stone Age locality of Bargny (Senegal) through a combined OSL-ESR dating approach The Middle Stone Age (MSA) is the major chrono-cultural phase associated with the emergence and evolution of Homo sapiens in Africa. Despite its impor…

Our new article led by @eslembenarous.bsky.social on the MSA site of Bargny, where new investigations headed by Dr Khady Niang have yielded samples that show its Middle Pleistocene age. The West African MSA keeps getting older (watch this space!).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I’m not sure if this is specific to my family but we’ve always called items like these ‘Gonks’!

Just over 2 weeks left to submit an abstract for consideration as a podium talk or poster presentation for the #IslandLegacies conference. Consider a submission now! :)
www.um.edu.mt/events/islan...

Early Paleoindian use of canids, felids, and hares for bone needle production at the La Prele site, Wyoming, USA We report the first identifications of species and element used to produce Paleolithic bone needles. Archaeologists have used the tailored, fur-fringed garments of high latitude foragers as modern ana...

A combination of #microCT and #ZooMS suggests...

... trapping and production of fur clothing at 12,900 BP La Prele site (Wyoming).

Looks fantastic!

1.5 million-year-old footprints reveal our Homo erectus ancestors lived with a 2nd proto-human species A set of footprints found at the site of Koobi Fora in Kenya reveals that our ancestor Homo erectus coexisted with a now-extinct bipedal hominin, Paranthropus boisei, 1.5 million years ago.

Wake up, babe! New fossil footprints just dropped! 🏺🧪

Trackway found in Kenya shows that H. erectus and P. boisei basically lived side-by-side, which is bonkerballs cool!

www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Postdoctoral position in Palaeolithic gene-culture coevolution, Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University

Postdoctoral position in Palaeolithic gene-culture coevolution, Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Aarhus University international.au.dk/about/profil...

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Join us next Wednesday (Dec 4th) at 16:00 CET for @gentforanth.bsky.social's talk "The Highs and Lows of Proteomics in Forensics: my PhD Odyssey" as the next talk in our #PAASTACommunity seminar series!