Alain Queffelec
@alainqueffelec.bsky.social
Ingénieur de recherche CNRS, PhD in Caribbean archaeology (lithic beads and pendants). Archaeometry, spectroscopy, minerals and so on.
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The IRN Bipedal Equilibrium team is running an international survey on hominin bipedalism. They aim to better understand how scholars think about bipedalism.
Perspectives from all fields are welcome!
👉 Here is the survey link: questions.huma-num.fr/v4/s/dv57r1 (10 min)
Please share it widely! 🏺🧪🦣
Perspectives from all fields are welcome!
👉 Here is the survey link: questions.huma-num.fr/v4/s/dv57r1 (10 min)
Please share it widely! 🏺🧪🦣
questions.huma-num.fr
November 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The IRN Bipedal Equilibrium team is running an international survey on hominin bipedalism. They aim to better understand how scholars think about bipedalism.
Perspectives from all fields are welcome!
👉 Here is the survey link: questions.huma-num.fr/v4/s/dv57r1 (10 min)
Please share it widely! 🏺🧪🦣
Perspectives from all fields are welcome!
👉 Here is the survey link: questions.huma-num.fr/v4/s/dv57r1 (10 min)
Please share it widely! 🏺🧪🦣
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As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...
May 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...
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Many thanks to Karlstad University for becoming a supporter of PCI this year (www.kau.se/en)%F0%9F%98...!
August 22, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Many thanks to Karlstad University for becoming a supporter of PCI this year (www.kau.se/en)%F0%9F%98...!
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Also worth reading for other domains than health sciences! 👏
Also worth reading for other domains than health sciences! 👏
Rethinking where and how we publish in health sciences doi.org/10.51224/SRX...
August 21, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Also worth reading for other domains than health sciences! 👏
Also worth reading for other domains than health sciences! 👏
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1/3 New recommendation: Zachary Batist (2025) Locating Creative Agency in Archaeological Data Work. ver.2 recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social doi.org/10.17613/8eq... @zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy 🏺🧪🦣
August 9, 2025 at 8:28 AM
1/3 New recommendation: Zachary Batist (2025) Locating Creative Agency in Archaeological Data Work. ver.2 recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social doi.org/10.17613/8eq... @zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy 🏺🧪🦣
Come join us with this new post-doctoral position in the Quanta project: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... (2 years in Bordeaux)
If you love artifacts (especially bones), notches, microscopes, and exploring the big question of the origin of quantification systems in human lineage, this is for you!
If you love artifacts (especially bones), notches, microscopes, and exploring the big question of the origin of quantification systems in human lineage, this is for you!
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Postdoctoral contract on the origin of quantification systems M/F
emploi.cnrs.fr
August 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Come join us with this new post-doctoral position in the Quanta project: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... (2 years in Bordeaux)
If you love artifacts (especially bones), notches, microscopes, and exploring the big question of the origin of quantification systems in human lineage, this is for you!
If you love artifacts (especially bones), notches, microscopes, and exploring the big question of the origin of quantification systems in human lineage, this is for you!
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Delighted to be bringing you the following PAASTA community-led paper outlining our recommendations for best practices and open science in palaeoproteomics! Congratulations to the authors and for anyone keen to read the paper, it can be found #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.24072/pcj...
August 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Delighted to be bringing you the following PAASTA community-led paper outlining our recommendations for best practices and open science in palaeoproteomics! Congratulations to the authors and for anyone keen to read the paper, it can be found #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.24072/pcj...
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New look, same mission 🔬🌍
The IsoArcH initiative just launched its brand-new website: isoarch.org
Check it out and dive into the world’s largest isotope database!
The IsoArcH initiative just launched its brand-new website: isoarch.org
Check it out and dive into the world’s largest isotope database!
July 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
New look, same mission 🔬🌍
The IsoArcH initiative just launched its brand-new website: isoarch.org
Check it out and dive into the world’s largest isotope database!
The IsoArcH initiative just launched its brand-new website: isoarch.org
Check it out and dive into the world’s largest isotope database!
Reposted by Alain Queffelec
1/3 New recommendation: Cardillo, Marcelo & Carranza, Eugenia (2025) Applying statistical and causal modeling to interpret thermal alteration in observational lithic data. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🧪🏺
July 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
1/3 New recommendation: Cardillo, Marcelo & Carranza, Eugenia (2025) Applying statistical and causal modeling to interpret thermal alteration in observational lithic data. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🧪🏺
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Needless to say, the Peer Community In outperforms all of the major publishers on this criterion, despite a budget many orders of magnitude smaller - again illustrating that the big money we pay for publishing is not used for the good of science. (5/5)
@peercommunityin.bsky.social
@peercommunityin.bsky.social
July 17, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Needless to say, the Peer Community In outperforms all of the major publishers on this criterion, despite a budget many orders of magnitude smaller - again illustrating that the big money we pay for publishing is not used for the good of science. (5/5)
@peercommunityin.bsky.social
@peercommunityin.bsky.social
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Non-profit publishers (PLoS, Oxford, Cambridge) and publishers partnering a lot with academia (Wiley) are much more committed to open science than the others - MDPI being the worst by large. (4/5)
July 17, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Non-profit publishers (PLoS, Oxford, Cambridge) and publishers partnering a lot with academia (Wiley) are much more committed to open science than the others - MDPI being the worst by large. (4/5)
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New preprint about open science in eco-evo!
We sampled 110 journals, 550 articles, and assessed whether data and code are accessible: (1/5)
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
#ScientificPublishing #OpenScience #ecology #conservation #EvolutionaryBiology #paleobio #systematics #archeology
We sampled 110 journals, 550 articles, and assessed whether data and code are accessible: (1/5)
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
#ScientificPublishing #OpenScience #ecology #conservation #EvolutionaryBiology #paleobio #systematics #archeology
An overview of open science in eco-evo research and the publisher effect.
ecoevorxiv.org
July 17, 2025 at 7:14 AM
New preprint about open science in eco-evo!
We sampled 110 journals, 550 articles, and assessed whether data and code are accessible: (1/5)
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
#ScientificPublishing #OpenScience #ecology #conservation #EvolutionaryBiology #paleobio #systematics #archeology
We sampled 110 journals, 550 articles, and assessed whether data and code are accessible: (1/5)
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
#ScientificPublishing #OpenScience #ecology #conservation #EvolutionaryBiology #paleobio #systematics #archeology
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An Introduction to Bioarchaeology
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July 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
An Introduction to Bioarchaeology
New video available for channel supporters on Patreon or YT memberships
Check it out here, and sign up for additional teaching videos and behind-the-scenes perks
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New video available for channel supporters on Patreon or YT memberships
Check it out here, and sign up for additional teaching videos and behind-the-scenes perks
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1/3 Super interview de notre doctorante Lisa Richelmi avec Benjamin Brillaud de Nota Bene ! 🐞🧑🔬
www.twitch.tv/videos/25139...
Elle y présente sa thèse en archéoentomologique @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
www.twitch.tv/videos/25139...
Elle y présente sa thèse en archéoentomologique @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
LinkedIn
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
lnkd.in
July 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
1/3 Super interview de notre doctorante Lisa Richelmi avec Benjamin Brillaud de Nota Bene ! 🐞🧑🔬
www.twitch.tv/videos/25139...
Elle y présente sa thèse en archéoentomologique @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
www.twitch.tv/videos/25139...
Elle y présente sa thèse en archéoentomologique @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
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The 'Bioengineered' story was mentioned in @theguardian.com today!
Read here
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
More background on Bioengineered here: www.science.org/content/arti...
CC: @elisabethbik.bsky.social @mortenoxe.bsky.social @smutclyde.bsky.social @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social
Read here
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
More background on Bioengineered here: www.science.org/content/arti...
CC: @elisabethbik.bsky.social @mortenoxe.bsky.social @smutclyde.bsky.social @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social
July 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The 'Bioengineered' story was mentioned in @theguardian.com today!
Read here
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
More background on Bioengineered here: www.science.org/content/arti...
CC: @elisabethbik.bsky.social @mortenoxe.bsky.social @smutclyde.bsky.social @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social
Read here
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
More background on Bioengineered here: www.science.org/content/arti...
CC: @elisabethbik.bsky.social @mortenoxe.bsky.social @smutclyde.bsky.social @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social
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How we use game mechanics to explore and educate about archaeology in our board game Cultivaria- a thread.
#archaeology #boardgame
#archaeology #boardgame
July 10, 2025 at 4:16 AM
How we use game mechanics to explore and educate about archaeology in our board game Cultivaria- a thread.
#archaeology #boardgame
#archaeology #boardgame
Why I quit itsmoreofacomment.com/2022/10/28/w... (and it is the same for Researchgate...)
I may instead orient you towards @orcid.org instead, HAL in France, Zenodo etc.
Thank you @archaeobasti.bsky.social for this post few years ago but still very relevant.
I may instead orient you towards @orcid.org instead, HAL in France, Zenodo etc.
Thank you @archaeobasti.bsky.social for this post few years ago but still very relevant.
July 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Why I quit itsmoreofacomment.com/2022/10/28/w... (and it is the same for Researchgate...)
I may instead orient you towards @orcid.org instead, HAL in France, Zenodo etc.
Thank you @archaeobasti.bsky.social for this post few years ago but still very relevant.
I may instead orient you towards @orcid.org instead, HAL in France, Zenodo etc.
Thank you @archaeobasti.bsky.social for this post few years ago but still very relevant.
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IsoArcH is organizing its first Addithon, a 10-day virtual community event! This event will bring volunteers together from all over the world, to add to this ever-growing open data repository for isotopes from archaeological research.
bit.ly/IsoArcH2025
bit.ly/IsoArcH2025
IsoArcH Addithon 2025
This form is used to sign up for the IsoArcH Addithon to be run from 11-20 August 2025.
bit.ly
July 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
IsoArcH is organizing its first Addithon, a 10-day virtual community event! This event will bring volunteers together from all over the world, to add to this ever-growing open data repository for isotopes from archaeological research.
bit.ly/IsoArcH2025
bit.ly/IsoArcH2025
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The Digital Archaeo Summer School concluded with a visit to La Chaise (Middle Paleo), excavated by our postdocs Diego López Onaindia & @kimgenuite.bsky.social 45 early-career researchers from 6 countries joined us, thank you all! See you in 2026! @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The Digital Archaeo Summer School concluded with a visit to La Chaise (Middle Paleo), excavated by our postdocs Diego López Onaindia & @kimgenuite.bsky.social 45 early-career researchers from 6 countries joined us, thank you all! See you in 2026! @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social
Yes it is much more work and more difficult for non-native English speakers! It's great to remind this!
Should English be the lingua franca of #archaeology? Can language be a form of imperialism? Should we embrace linguistic diversity in academia? 🏺
Robin Skeates explores all this and more in his latest #AntiquityEditorial on the theme of languages.
Read it 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Robin Skeates explores all this and more in his latest #AntiquityEditorial on the theme of languages.
Read it 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
July 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Yes it is much more work and more difficult for non-native English speakers! It's great to remind this!
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Postdoc in Geochronology / Plio-Pleistocene Geology
Join the ERC WRAP project at ICArEHB!
Apply now 👉 www.icarehb.com/research-pos...
Join the ERC WRAP project at ICArEHB!
Apply now 👉 www.icarehb.com/research-pos...
July 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Postdoc in Geochronology / Plio-Pleistocene Geology
Join the ERC WRAP project at ICArEHB!
Apply now 👉 www.icarehb.com/research-pos...
Join the ERC WRAP project at ICArEHB!
Apply now 👉 www.icarehb.com/research-pos...
Et une proposition dans l'article est bel et bien de passer par @peercommunityin.bsky.social and @peercomjournal.bsky.social ! :)
[Veille] "Le monde des revues scientifiques au bord de l’asphyxie" David Larousserie, Le Monde 7 juillet 2025
www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...
www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...
Le monde des revues scientifiques au bord de l’asphyxie
Plus de 3 millions d’articles sont publiés chaque année dans les revues scientifiques, les chercheurs étant incités à les multiplier pour se distinguer. Une logique économique perverse s’est installée...
www.lemonde.fr
July 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Et une proposition dans l'article est bel et bien de passer par @peercommunityin.bsky.social and @peercomjournal.bsky.social ! :)
New #preprint online: Reproduction and replication of @benmarwick.bsky.social (2025), with data from OpenAlex.
Accessible as interactive html version: aqueff.github.io/replication_...
and more traditional manuscript with doi here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
Is archaeology a hard or soft science? 🏺🧪
Accessible as interactive html version: aqueff.github.io/replication_...
and more traditional manuscript with doi here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
Is archaeology a hard or soft science? 🏺🧪
July 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
New #preprint online: Reproduction and replication of @benmarwick.bsky.social (2025), with data from OpenAlex.
Accessible as interactive html version: aqueff.github.io/replication_...
and more traditional manuscript with doi here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
Is archaeology a hard or soft science? 🏺🧪
Accessible as interactive html version: aqueff.github.io/replication_...
and more traditional manuscript with doi here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
Is archaeology a hard or soft science? 🏺🧪
With mention of @peercommunityin.bsky.social , @peercomjournal.bsky.social and @pci-regreports.bsky.social ! Trying to change this system!
Excellent travail de @lemonde.fr au sujet de l'édition scientifique.
Coût excessif, problèmes éthiques, etc.
Aujourd'hui ces revues servent à évaluer l'activité des chercheurs et nettement moins à diffuser la connaissance.
Un nouveau modèle doit s'imposer ...
#ESR
Coût excessif, problèmes éthiques, etc.
Aujourd'hui ces revues servent à évaluer l'activité des chercheurs et nettement moins à diffuser la connaissance.
Un nouveau modèle doit s'imposer ...
#ESR
Le monde des revues scientifiques au bord de l’asphyxie
Plus de 3 millions d’articles sont publiés chaque année dans les revues scientifiques, les chercheurs étant incités à les multiplier pour se distinguer. Une logique économique perverse s’est installée...
www.lemonde.fr
July 8, 2025 at 5:15 AM
With mention of @peercommunityin.bsky.social , @peercomjournal.bsky.social and @pci-regreports.bsky.social ! Trying to change this system!
1500 people follow me, 90% archaeologists, and no one can tell me what they think about this paper which seems to destroy an entire field of research? No starch specialist here? I'm really eager to hear your voice and transfer these results into inter-tropical environment (let say Caribbean...)
Anyone here capable of explaining to me what the community of archaeologists working on starch grains think about this paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
I am no specialist but it seems to destroy the entire field of research: almost no grain can be identified in dry environment after few months...🧪🏺
I am no specialist but it seems to destroy the entire field of research: almost no grain can be identified in dry environment after few months...🧪🏺
July 8, 2025 at 4:56 AM
1500 people follow me, 90% archaeologists, and no one can tell me what they think about this paper which seems to destroy an entire field of research? No starch specialist here? I'm really eager to hear your voice and transfer these results into inter-tropical environment (let say Caribbean...)