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Lorena Becerra-Valdivia

@lorenabecval.bsky.social

Leverhulme EC Fellow & Proleptic Lecturer, Bristol • past human-environment-climate dynamics, radiocarbon dating & archaeological science

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Assistant Professorship in Archaeology at Aarhus University Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Assistant Professorship in Archaeology on jobs.ac.uk!

Assistant professorship in archaeology
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQP693/a...

24.02.2026 08:30 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations!! 🙌🏽

19.02.2026 22:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Several exciting PhD opportunities here in the University of Vienna STEM-call. In our department fully funded positions in biomolecular zooarch, Pleistocene felid diversity and admixture, sedaDNA and popgen, and archsci and AMS 14C dating.
Apply below now!

careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/s...

06.02.2026 16:38 — 👍 19    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 1
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Registration OPEN for Practical Palaeoproteomics Summer School Copenhagen! 🦴🧪

🗓️ Aug 12–21, 2026 📍 Copenhagen (In-person + 3-day remote option) 🎓 6 ECTS credits ⏳ Deadline: April 1st

Apply here: phdcourses.ku.dk/detailkursus...

#Palaeoproteomics #BioArch #Archaeology #Proteomics #PhDLife

26.01.2026 10:13 — 👍 18    🔁 19    💬 0    📌 1

Come to Chile for some radiocarbon fun! 🇨🇱⚛️👇

06.02.2026 12:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Research Fellow in Biomolecular Archaeology at UCL Searching for an academic job? Explore this Research Fellow in Biomolecular Archaeology opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

Job alert! 3 year post doc in my research group at University College London working on Roman Leather via biomolecular archaeology. #ZooMS #stableisotopes

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ187/r...

04.02.2026 08:56 — 👍 26    🔁 40    💬 1    📌 0
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“We cannot assume, that when researchers from the global north and global south are working together, that there is equity. No - we must be purposeful.” - Professor Shadreck Chirikure (FBA) #EquitablePartnerships

04.02.2026 09:20 — 👍 9    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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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

29.01.2026 18:30 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Cores of turtle scutes (shells) are not an archive I usually analyse! Nice to go back to my marine science roots 😃

We identify a link between changes in turtle scute growth rates and environmental stressors.

I have also made the code for the changepoint analysis public: github.com/MRPHarris/Tu...

29.01.2026 18:58 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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So happy to announce this new publication on Marine Biology involving 14C & turtle conservation 🔊👇

The work was led by the brilliant R.A.Prof Bethan Linscott (@miamirosenstiel.bsky.social) & included some of the nicest colleagues one could hope for (e.g., @mattrpharris.bsky.social)!

rdcu.be/e1b3t

29.01.2026 10:51 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 3
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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...

02.12.2025 09:21 — 👍 13    🔁 19    💬 0    📌 0
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Thank you to Dr Adam van Casteren (@adamvanc.bsky.social) for a great (& very active) BAARS talk today on human and ape biomechanics 🚶🏾‍♀️ 🦍!!

Our seminar series resumes next term so watch this space for more amazing speakers ☝🏽

03.12.2025 15:01 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago The domestic cat (Felis catus) descends from the African wildcat Felis lybica lybica. Its global distribution alongside humans testifies to its successful adaptation to anthropogenic environments. Unc...

What's that? 5 ancient doggy papers in 10 days is too many dogs?

Can I interest you in some cats?

Perhaps a complete retelling of cat domestication, dispersal, and replacement across Eurasia?

As you wish!

Science
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Cell Genomics
www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

28.11.2025 12:40 — 👍 68    🔁 20    💬 1    📌 1
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📢📢PhD position available!! 📢📢
"Improving future climate prediction through
modelling and data of Earth’s past"
At the University of Bristol, UK.
More details and how to apply:
shorturl.at/wKh2W
..or message me here directly.

25.11.2025 14:07 — 👍 6    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 1

Congratulations to our own, @kitopie.bsky.social, and his colleague on this new @nathumbehav.nature.com paper on the role of cereal grains in the creation of early states! 🙌👏

Clink on the post below to access and enjoy 👇

25.11.2025 10:43 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Collections Assistant - 6 posts at University of Oxford Explore professional service vacancies, like the Collections Assistant - 6 posts role, on jobs.ac.uk. Apply today and learn more about the position.

Collections Assistant
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPO859/c...

25.11.2025 09:17 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Professor of Cultural and Natural Heritage Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

My department has an opening for a Professor of Cultural and Natural Heritage as part of Durham University’s strategic Heritage 360 initiative durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

18.11.2025 09:29 — 👍 0    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Laboratory Technician (Palaeoecology) Full-Time, PermanentApplications are invited for the post of Laboratory Technician (Palaeoecology) in the Department of Geography, Royal Holloway University of London.The successful applicant will joi...

Interested in a lab tech career with a particular focus on palaeoecology? Come work with us at @royalholloway.bsky.social !!!

jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

17.11.2025 15:09 — 👍 4    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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Westerly wind shifts drove Southern Hemisphere mid-latitude peat growth since the last glacial - Nature Geoscience Coherent patterns in the initial growth of extratropical peatlands throughout the Southern Hemisphere during the last glacial track changes in the latitudinal position of the southern westerly winds, ...

Paper alert 🚨 🔊

Super happy to have been part of this new publication, led by the brilliant Zoë Thomas (@climate-zoe.bsky.social).

Click below to read 👇🏽

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

11.11.2025 11:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In beautiful Coyhaique, Chilean Patagonia, running a workshop on radiocarbon dating and Bayesian chronological modelling.

Not a bad place to talk isotopes 🌲

Thanks to the organisers, in particular Coni Roa & @fransantanas.bsky.social ❤️

10.11.2025 22:04 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have some pretty creative & scary colleagues 🧙🏼‍♀️🧟‍♂️

Happy Halloween everybody! 🎃 👻

31.10.2025 09:11 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Aktuelle Ausschreibungen Aktuelle Ausschreibungen

Looking for a PhD or Postdoc position in archaeology? @clusterroots.bsky.social at @uni-kiel.de has currently 14 (!) positions advertised for start in 2026. Feel free to contact me or any of the other PI's for more information. Deadline is 15th December. Link: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/... 🦣🏺👇

28.10.2025 14:58 — 👍 9    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 1
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Here's an opportunity to come and work for us at @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social as a tutor in archaeology on a part-time (0.6FTE) and permanent basis. We're looking for anyone with a background from late Prehistory to the medieval period. Deadline: 10 November 2025

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

03.10.2025 16:07 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Redefining SW Amazonian chronologies and pottery use at the Teotônio site Teotônio is a pre-Columbian riverine archaeological site located in southwestern Amazonia, in a region with diverse cultural traditions and linguistic…

It's always so great to see our MSc Arch Science student research published. Congratulations McKenzie on your paper 'Redefining SW Amazonian chronologies and pottery use at the Teotônio site'. #archaeologicalscience #graduatestudy @oxradiocarbon.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

23.10.2025 12:49 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Post Doctoral Research Assistant - 1160-25 Thinking of the next step in your career? Take a look at our exciting new role, Post Doctoral Research Assistant based at our Other. Find out more and apply he…

I'm hiring! 4 year post doc on my Wellcome Trust grant -- come be inventive about isotopes in teeth with me in PPN Turkiye :) www.lancashire.ac.uk/jobs/post-do...

please share!

14.10.2025 11:14 — 👍 18    🔁 23    💬 0    📌 4

👋 Hello, Bluesky! We’re Radiocarbon, an international peer-reviewed journal (since 1959) dedicated to advancing radiocarbon research, from calibration and chronology to applications across archaeology, geology, environmental science, and more. We’re glad to be here. #Radiocarbon #Geochronology

03.10.2025 17:10 — 👍 45    🔁 18    💬 2    📌 0
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Redefining SW Amazonian chronologies and pottery use at the Teotônio site Teotônio is a pre-Columbian riverine archaeological site located in southwestern Amazonia, in a region with diverse cultural traditions and linguistic…

🔈Happy Friday and pre-weekend news!

Our paper on the chronology and residue analysis of a key Amazonian archaeological site, Teotônio, has just been published in JAS!

Massive congrats to McKenzie and thanks to all the co-authors for their work on this 🙌

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

03.10.2025 14:30 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
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🚨SAVE THE DATE for two 14C conferences happening in Santiago, Chile 🇨🇱, next year:

4th 14C & Diet: 6-8 July
3rd Latin American 14C: 8-10 July

Plus, the 11th 14C & Archaeology will be in Brazil just before on 30 June-3 July 🇧🇷

Details for 🇨🇱 below👇 Please share widely!

@fransantanas.bsky.social

01.10.2025 09:29 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

15.09.2025 15:00 — 👍 26    🔁 43    💬 0    📌 5

Go Helen!!!!! 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

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