Michaela Ecker

Doctoraatsbursaal

📢 PhD position in Geoarchaeology (4y) – Ghent University within the ERC project FROST.

The PhD combines archaeological dating methods with geoarchaeological analyses of sediments to investigate Late Glacial human–environment interactions.

www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
Deadline: 23 February 2026

📣 Work with us! 📣

The McDonald Institute invites applications for the eighth Renfrew Fellowship in archaeology. Named in honour of the Institute's founding Director, Professor Colin Renfrew.

📅 Closing date: 27 February 2026
👉 More info here: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/renfrew...

Second Circular- Radiocarbon and Diet & CLARa (Santiago - July 2026).
Deadline submission: 15th of March 2026.
See you in Chile this winter !
@lorenabecval.bsky.social @ramiro-arqueo.bsky.social @14cjournal.bsky.social

🚨 Job alert! The University of Tübingen announces a W3 (Full) Professorship in Early Hominin Evolution in the framework of the DFG Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS':

uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Application deadline: 11.03.2026 🚨

So excited to be a volunteer judge at the #FIRSTLEGOLeague competition at HAW Kiel this weekend. And the topic is "Unearthed" - this archaeology degree finally pays off 😅

🏺📝Stellenausschreibung (50%, 2 Jahre) in #WissKomm für unser Projekt "Zeig mir die Hauptstadt der Hethiter!". Aufgabe: Entwicklung von Smartphone-Touren für Boğazköy-Ḫattuša. Bewerbung bis 22.2.2026. #academic #job

www.uni-wuerzburg.de/karriere/sin...

Rock art from at least 67,800 years ago in Sulawesi - Nature A hand stencil painted on a cave wall on a small island off the coast of Sulawesi more than 67,800 years ago suggests a very early occupation of Wallacea.

Wowee. Even older ages for rock art in Sulawesi. This time pushing into that period beyond 50ka, where there are tantalising glimpses into human activities through this region and into Sahul. Congratulations to the authors of this paper.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Job Vacancies

📢Job alert! Come & work with us as the Project Administrator for Dr Anke Hein's exciting new project China-TRACER (Technological Processes and Social Organisation in Early Northern China). Deadline for applications: 6 Feb. For full details: www.arch.ox.ac.uk/job-vacancies

Our first @khoproject.bsky.social PhD student has finished! Congratulations 🎉 #proudsupervisor

Es handelt sich tatsächlich um meine (Noch-)Stelle, daher stehe ich für Fragen gern zur Verfügung.
Darf gern geteilt werden!

Please RT: we are looking for a PhD student to work on macrogenetics and quantitative genetics of South African proteas. Amazing collaborative project with @plantecology.bsky.social @debbiemleigh.bsky.social & others, embedded in @terra-cluster.org. Dream project if you love molecular biodiversity!

Join us this summer at @au.dk!

@vivikathrine.bsky.social and I will be running our summer course, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Climate Change, including bioscience, economy, consumer behavior, agroecology, public health and more!

☀️Apply by March 17th to join us from July 27th - August 9th☀️

Makes me wish I could just be a student again and hang out at the pool in Florisbad... please share this opportunity for students based in sub-Saharan Africa to join the fully funded field school at Florisbad this year - a unique opportunity! 👇

It is 10 years to this day that I handed in my PhD at @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social 👩‍🎓- and on Monday my first PhD student will defend their thesis at @uni-kiel.de. Coming full (academic) circle 🔄 #academiclife #proudsupervisor

🎓 FCT PhD Fellowships 2026
ICArEHB invites inquisitive and motivated candidates to pursue a PhD in Prehistoric Archaeology or Primatology through the national FCT Program.
📍See our poster & details: www.icarehb.com/fct-phd-fell...
#PhD #Archaeology #FCT #ICArEHB

Doctoral Research Fellowship in Archaeological and Palaeoenvironmental Geochemistry (293027) | University of Oslo Job title: Doctoral Research Fellowship in Archaeological and Palaeoenvironmental Geochemistry (293027), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, March 1, 2026

My lab has a PhD position open! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Uni Bern: Postdoc position: Earth system model development (3 years)

✨I have a vacant 3-yr postdoc position in biogeochemical Earth system model development. If you're interested in geochemical isotopes and their use as paleoceanographic proxies, please consider applying. For any questions on the position, just get in touch✨
ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

#GEOMARJobs

🌊 Technical Assistant (f/m/d)
Application deadline: 12 January 2026

🔗 www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...

In Dec 2025, I published a short comment on whether the emergence of AI has been as revolutionary as other moments of innovation in our species' history (e.g., emergence of technology or agriculture). On balance, current evidence suggests to me that it isn't.
www.isita-org.com/jass/Content...

Marc Dickinson wins the Lewis Penny medal

Congratulations Marc!! 👋👋🦣 @marcdickinson.bsky.social for winning the Lewis Penny Medal for his fab tooth enamel dating work from @quaternaryra.bsky.social. @chemistryatyork.bsky.social

Quaternary scientist on stage in front of a big beautiful slide of mountains and the QRA logo

Good morning, @lornalinch.bsky.social and the rest of us are here in Brighton ready to welcome you to the Quaternary Research Association conference.
Follow the hashtag #QRA2026ADM for Ice Age and recent environments and people. @quaternaryra.bsky.social
🏺🦣❄️

2025 was a year with many milestones for us, from the first PhD submitted to our international workshop. We look forward to 2026! Expect more papers, new surveys and student projects, and our special issue! We wish everyone in the Kalahari and beyond happy holidays🎄(Picture of Rappels Pan 2024).

Earliest evidence of making fire Nature - Baked sediment, heat-shattered artefacts and introduced pyrite in a 400,000-year-old Palaeolithic occupation site in Suffolk, UK provide evidence of intentional fire-making, marking a...

"Earliest evidence of making fire" - full-text view-only version of the Nature paper, using the link below.
rdcu.be/eT4WI

Hey 🏺colleagues working in SW Asia: I am searching for contacts to museums with prehistory on display in the region, and struggle to find some online.
Who could help me with contacts to the Iraq National Museum, Lebanon National Museum, and/or National Museums in Syria?

A man kneeling on a glacier and working on a laptop next to a stupid, fallen-over weather station, and with a US Army Blackhawk helicopter in the background.

I'll be on sabbatical starting January 1, 2026, and if anyone is looking for a guest speaker for department seminars, I'm happy to discuss possible dates. Reskeet widely! 🧪⚒️

Winter time is lab time 👩‍🔬 new plant wax biomarker samples for @people-erc-stg.bsky.social project are currently running on the GC - we try to characterise the past environment at donga sites in 🇿🇦

Interested in applying for this funded PhD with me
at UCL Institute of Archaeology? Get in touch to discuss this project or to develop your own idea!

Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection.
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/hum...

Homo sapiens-specific evolution unveiled by ancient southern African genomes - Nature The genomes of 28 ancient southern African individuals dated to between 10,200 and 150 years before present offer insights into the evolution of Homo sapiens.

Our new ancient DNA paper has just been published!
We present 28 new genomes from southern Africa - several of them high-coverage whole genomes.
Exciting to be moving towards population-level representation of ancient southern African genetic diversity!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nun online: Die erste #Podcast-Folge mit Fiona Walker-Friedrichs, Doktorandin im @clusterroots.bsky.social. Die Folge gibt einen Einblick in die interdisziplinäre Welt von Archäologie und Biologie – und in die Leidenschaft von Fiona, die kleinste Getreidekörner zum Sprechen bringt.🎙️
@uni-kiel.de

PhD Studentship in Archaeology at University of Reading jobs.ac.uk now advertising a PhD Studentship in Archaeology Visit jobs.ac.uk to apply and to browse more PhD opportunities.

PhD studentship in geoarchaeology at University of Reading, focusing on agro pastoralist systems during the Middle Ages: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPP800/p...