This was #ECTE2025 !!!
Thanks to all participants for making this an amazing experience π
Thanks to Jelle Kraak for taking the photos (@kraakkiekjes)
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Demodrivers post doc Kate Dudgeon presenting pre-Columbian landscape transformation in the Llanos de Mozos at #ecte2025
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Great keynote talk by Nina Witteveen at #ecte2025
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We are in Amsterdam for the #ECTE2025 Chairing the "Anthropic Tropics" session
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In search of the ancient Amazonians who left only eerie forest islands
In Llanos de Moxos, an expanse of floodplains fringing the Bolivian rainforest, strange clumps of trees offer clues about a lost civilisation
In the middle of Boliviaβs worst fire season, I went with @umbamoxos.bsky.social to the scorched plains on edge of the Amazon, where archaeologists are drilling into the deep history of the mysterious forest islands.
For @thetimes.com
www.thetimes.com/world/latin-...
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YouTube video by ICTA-UAB
Evidence of a Pre-Columbian Green Revolution in the Bolivian Amazon
βοΈπ§π½Contradictory to previous theories, a pre-Columbian society in the Amazon developed a sophisticated agricultural engineering system that allowed them to produce maize throughout the year, according to a new ICTA-UAB research led by @umbamoxos.bsky.social
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdV-...
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Maize monoculture supported pre-Columbian urbanism in southwestern Amazonia - Nature
Remote sensing, field survey and microbotanical analyses show that the pre-Columbian Casarabe culture in the Bolivian Amazon invested heavily in landscape engineering, constructing a complex system of...
"The combination of...drainage canals and farm pondsβis unique to the MMR...it was a highly innovative agricultural strategy that enabled the Casarabe culture to substantially increase the cultivation period for maize, as well as providing easy access to fish, birds and game"
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Hey @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @ercresearch.bsky.social Let's give 10M and a permanent position to anyone who wants to move his/her lab to Europe! π§ͺ
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Asteroid Bennu contains building blocks of life
Hear the latest science news from the Nature Podcast | 29 January 2025
This week on @naturepodcast.bsky.social:
π Samples taken from the asteroid Bennu reveal the presence of building blocks of life
πͺΈ How seaweed farms could capture carbon
π Why chimps follow each other to the bathroom
πΎ How maize might have supported a civilization
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Asteroid Bennu contains building blocks of life
Hear the latest science news from the Nature Podcast | 29 January 2025
Could π½maizeπ½ have supported a mysterious South American culture?
A new paper by @umbamoxos.bsky.social et al. found lots and lots of evidence of maize. He told me "wow, there is only maize" for @nature.com this week.
Listen to the full story at 16:31 here:
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Great start of the year for ERC_CoG DEMODRIVERS !!
@icta-uab.bsky.social @uabbarcelona.bsky.social @ercresearch.bsky.social
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Ohh if you want to see some more about that maize paper the team have made a fun video where you can see the sites where the Casarabe lived!
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YouTube video by ICTA-UAB
Evidence of a Pre-Columbian Green Revolution in the Bolivian Amazon
We made a short video www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdV-... to provide some insights about our recent @nature.com paper www.nature.com/articles/s41... Enjoy and share ! π§ͺ
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You thrilled at the Guns of Navarone.
You swooned at the Bridges of Madison County.
now, marvel at the Cornfields of Casarabe!
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Asteroid Bennu contains building blocks of life
Hear the latest science news from the Nature Podcast | 29 January 2025
If, like me, you've been wondering what all the fuss is with this new AI model DeepSeek R1, I spoke to my colleague Nisha Gaind all about it for @nature.com's podcast where she laid it all out (at 25:52) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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