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Nicole Boivin
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Archaeologist | Biologist | Feminist | Max Planck | Hon Prof U Queensland Adjunct Prof Griffith U | Linking Past, Present and Future for a Better Anthropocene | Gender Equity | Research Governance | www.nicole-boivin.com

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Nicole Lise Boivin is an archaeologist and former director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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Nicole Boivin @nicoleboivin.bsky.social ยท Nov 3
Fantastic!!

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Nicole Boivin @nicoleboivin.bsky.social ยท Oct 24
Interested in the kinds of information archaeologists can gain from metabolic profiling? Check out this wonderful new book and our chapter on the ancient oasis of Tayma.

This work builds on our 2022 paper on reconstructing ancient scents in Nature Human Behaviour: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Book cover for Scents of Arabia: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Olfactory Worlds

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Nicole Boivin @nicoleboivin.bsky.social ยท Oct 16
Also interesting was the author citation network analysis, which pointed to a strong gender bias (80% male) within the scientific leadership of megafaunal extinction studies - maybe not a surprise to those working in the field for many years but a bit of a wow moment for me.

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Nicole Boivin @nicoleboivin.bsky.social ยท Oct 16
This is now published! Great pleasure to work with @stewiestewart.bsky.social, @huwgroucutt.bsky.social, @carlipeters.bsky.social and the rest of the team!

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Nicole Boivin @nicoleboivin.bsky.social ยท Oct 16
Australia in the Anthropocene: Linking Past, Present and Future. Wonderful project workshop yesterday exploring the diverse methods our students and ECRs are using to examine how Australia's ecosystems have been shaped by people over the long-term and why it matters today.
Photo of participants in the Australia in the Anthropocene workshop

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IPS Inter Press Service @ipsnews.net ยท Oct 9
Science-Informed Policy Action Key to Biodiversity Conservation
www.ipsnews.net/2025/10/scie... @ipbes.net @cicirussell.bsky.social #ForNature
Science-Informed Policy Action Key to Biodiversity Conservation
Dr. Luthando Dziba, Executive Secretary of IPBES, believes that we can address the crisis of biodiversity loss through science-based policy.
www.ipsnews.net

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social ยท Oct 7
"In this excerpt from "Born: A History of Childbirth," author and historian Lucy Inglis reveals records from ancient Egypt that show how female physicians treated issues of "the womb," how men reacted to periods, and how the first known pregnancy test actually worked." ๐Ÿบ๐Ÿงช
'The papyrus also recommends putting a clove of garlic in your vagina before bed': The texts that reveal the baffling healthcare for women in ancient Egypt
In this excerpt from "Born: A History of Childbirth," author and historian Lucy Inglis reveals records from ancient Egypt that show how female physicians treated issues of "the womb," how men reacted ...
www.livescience.com

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Nicole Boivin @nicoleboivin.bsky.social ยท Oct 6
Very cool ๐Ÿ˜Ž

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Isabelle Marie @isabellemarie.bsky.social ยท Oct 4
Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts.
www.popsci.com/environment/...
Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts
Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.
www.popsci.com

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Michael Petraglia @mdpetraglia.bsky.social ยท Sep 30
New discovery! Here @mariaguagnin.bsky.social and our team report on 12,000-year-old life-size camel rock art engravings in the Saudi desert. #GreenArabia @griffith.edu.au www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Nicole Boivin @nicoleboivin.bsky.social ยท Sep 29
A sneak peak of our forthcoming article!

Led by Mathew Stewart and @huwgroucutt.bsky.social.

www.frontiersin.org/journals/mam...
Frontiers | The state of the late Quaternary megafauna extinction debate: a systematic review and analysis
With its origins in the late 18th and early 19th century, the question of what drove the extinction of the late Quaternary megafauna extinctions remains one ...
www.frontiersin.org

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Nicole Boivin @nicoleboivin.bsky.social ยท Sep 29
Great article thanks

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Nicole Boivin @nicoleboivin.bsky.social ยท Sep 27
Great to see this important paper out!! Makes it all the more clear that the problem is NOT that we need to be patient and wait for equity to arrive, thatโ€™s just not going to happen. Also clear from the gender bias of the comments that men donโ€™t share our level of concern.

Reposted by Nicole Boivin, Catherine J. Frieman, Aidan Oโ€™Sullivan

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Dr Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social ยท Sep 26
New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#openaccessโœ…
Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core
Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology
www.cambridge.org

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Yale Environment 360 @yalee360.bsky.social ยท Sep 25
In a warming India, cases of chronic kidney disease are on the rise among otherwise healthy people.

The disease is particularly prevalent in outdoor workers who lack access to water, shade, or rest.
Heat Stress Is a Major Driver of Indiaโ€™s Kidney Disease Epidemic
Cases of chronic kidney disease unrelated to pre-existing conditions are on the rise in India and other tropical nations. As climate change raises temperatures and humidity, the disease is increasingl...
e360.yale.edu

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Nicole Boivin @nicoleboivin.bsky.social ยท Sep 25
Oh no! Get well soon Marta!

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social ยท Sep 25
On the day Rubio inaugurated an archaeological โ€œtunnel burrowed under a Palestinian district, along a Roman-era streetโ€ in an โ€œarchaeological park established by an Israeli settler organisationโ€ฆ Israeli planes bombed the most important storage depot of ancient artefacts in Gaza Cityโ€

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The Guardian @theguardian.com ยท Sep 25
โ€˜Tunnel visionโ€™: how Israel is using archaeology for political ends
โ€˜Tunnel visionโ€™: how Israel is using archaeology for political ends
Scientists say Netanyahu government and its US backers are trying to construct a history shorn of all complexity
www.theguardian.com

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Nicole Boivin @nicoleboivin.bsky.social ยท Sep 21
โ€œScience isnโ€™t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity.โ€

Actually Iโ€™m not even sure theyโ€™re doing that, though many are indeed trying.

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Equity in science is a beautiful lie โ€” and Iโ€™m done pretending
Science isnโ€™t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system.
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social ยท Sep 20
โ€œโ€ฆ and his wife Sallyโ€: The Binford Legacy and Uncredited Work in Archaeology.
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Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association | AAA Journal | Wiley Online Library
Often mentioned as an afterthought in sentences about her more (in)famous husband, Sally R. Binford has long been a focus of feminist archaeological discussion. She helped create the โ€˜New Archaeology....
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Laura Sell @laurasell.bsky.social ยท Sep 19
"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Censorship Is the Authoritarianโ€™s Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
www.insidehighered.com

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Tatsuya Amano @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social ยท Sep 19
Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5
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#languagebarriers
Scientific productivity gap based on English-language peer-reviewed papers. Shown are the maximum % differences in the number of peer-reviewed papers published by female native English speakers from a high-income country (-45%), female non-native English speakers from a high-income country (-60%), and female non-native English speakers from a lower-middle income country (-70%), compared to male native English speakers from a high-income country (red flag).

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social ยท Sep 18
It seems like itโ€™s dangerous for scientists to speak out against Colossalโ€™s โ€œde extinction researchโ€.

www.newscientist.com/article/2490...
Critics of de-extinction research hit by mystery smear campaign
Several researchers who have been critical of Colossal Biosciencesโ€™ plans to revive extinct animals say they have been targeted by online articles trying to discredit them
www.newscientist.com

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Stacy Farina @stacyfarina.bsky.social ยท Sep 2
Trump's very first example of the Smithsonian's "corrosive ideology" was an exhibit that correctly stated "Race is a human invention." How is scientific consensus (that biological races don't exist in humans) corrosive? We are asking scientists to co-sign our statement: forms.gle/kqKQF9CZ3jPB...

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@BarbaraHorejs @barbarahorejs.bsky.social ยท Dec 11
We need YOU! If you are working in archaeology in Germany or Austria, please share your experience with us. For an exhibition & scientific study on 'sexism in archaeology', 100% anonymous data only ๐Ÿ™
www.umfrageonline.com/c/quruyhze
@oeai.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social

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Dr Catherine Russell @seddyrocks.bsky.social ยท Jan 24
I am โœจBEYONDโœจ excited to share my โ€œClassification Framework for Assessing #Anthropogenic #Sedimentary Faciesโ€!

It covers composition, bed- and grain-scale descriptors, structures, and nomenclature.

Now we can describe the developing #sedimentology of #Anthropocene #Earth ๐ŸŒ

bit.ly/4hLbd2X ๐Ÿงช โš’๏ธ

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social ยท Feb 21
"Musk is a key figure within a US administration that is attacking science through executive orders that have systematically targeted the scientific community, cut funding, restricted research and silenced scientists"

My op-ed in @resprofnews.bsky.social
www.researchprofessi...
Royal Society must choose between Musk and its integrity - Research Professional News
When science itself is under attack, neutrality becomes complicity, says Kit Yates
www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com ยท Apr 16
Ancient DNA extracted from a sediment core from a high-altitude Pyrenean lake in Spain shows that fish may have been added to the lake by humans as early as the 7th century CE, according to a study in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/4i90I9h ๐Ÿบ ๐Ÿงช
This is figure 1, which shows the characteristics of Pyrenean lake in Spain.

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social ยท Nov 23
The Economist covered our "Strain on scientific publishing" paper.

What is this all about?

We collectively churn out more & more papers *per scientist*, an increasing pace, in a rapidly changing publication landscape.

Why? How? Want to make sense of this? ๐Ÿงต

www.economist.com/science-and-...
Scientific publishers are producing more papers than ever
Concerns about some of their business models are building
www.economist.com

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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social ยท Jun 19
Join online next Thursday!
Engaging Human Aspirations to Motivate Progress Towards a World Where People and Nature Thrive Together
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