Ben Marwick
@benmarwick.bsky.social
Archaeologist and #rstats enthusiast
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Super interesting article on the archaeology jobs wiki and trends in archaeology job ads
Hire Ed: Job Market Dynamics for Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Archaeology | American Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Hire Ed: Job Market Dynamics for Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Archaeology
www.cambridge.org
December 23, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Super interesting article on the archaeology jobs wiki and trends in archaeology job ads
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Congratulations to UCD School of Archaeology’s Dr Jess Beck and her colleagues on their paper in American Antiquity, just published December 2025
“Hire Ed: Job Market Dynamics for Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Archaeology”
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
“Hire Ed: Job Market Dynamics for Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Archaeology”
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Hire Ed: Job Market Dynamics for Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Archaeology | American Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Hire Ed: Job Market Dynamics for Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Archaeology
www.cambridge.org
December 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Congratulations to UCD School of Archaeology’s Dr Jess Beck and her colleagues on their paper in American Antiquity, just published December 2025
“Hire Ed: Job Market Dynamics for Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Archaeology”
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
“Hire Ed: Job Market Dynamics for Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Archaeology”
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Very excited that our new guidelines for reporting the results of statistical analyses in the Journal of Archaeological Science have now been published online: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...
🦴📊 @ercrema.bsky.social @benmarwick.bsky.social
🦴📊 @ercrema.bsky.social @benmarwick.bsky.social
Reporting statistical analyses at JAS - Journal of Archaeological Science | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Read the latest articles of Journal of Archaeological Science at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
www.sciencedirect.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Very excited that our new guidelines for reporting the results of statistical analyses in the Journal of Archaeological Science have now been published online: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...
🦴📊 @ercrema.bsky.social @benmarwick.bsky.social
🦴📊 @ercrema.bsky.social @benmarwick.bsky.social
We looked at 10 years of archaeology tenure-track job ads (2013–2023) to see what departments actually ask for: topics, methods, regions, and application materials.
Open-access paper: doi.org/10.1017/aaq.... Data and R code used for the study are openly available here doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🧪
Open-access paper: doi.org/10.1017/aaq.... Data and R code used for the study are openly available here doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🧪
December 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
We looked at 10 years of archaeology tenure-track job ads (2013–2023) to see what departments actually ask for: topics, methods, regions, and application materials.
Open-access paper: doi.org/10.1017/aaq.... Data and R code used for the study are openly available here doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🧪
Open-access paper: doi.org/10.1017/aaq.... Data and R code used for the study are openly available here doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🧪
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#考古学のおやつ 2/2
▶ Setareh Shafizadeh 𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑙. (2025) Between Nomads and Settlers: A Quantitative Analysis of Lithic Assemblages from Tula’i (Tuleii), Zagros, Iran. 𝐿𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑐 𝑇𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦. doi.org/10.1080/0197...
▶ Setareh Shafizadeh 𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑙. (2025) Between Nomads and Settlers: A Quantitative Analysis of Lithic Assemblages from Tula’i (Tuleii), Zagros, Iran. 𝐿𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑐 𝑇𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦. doi.org/10.1080/0197...
Between Nomads and Settlers: A Quantitative Analysis of Lithic Assemblages from Tula’i (Tuleii), Zagros, Iran
This study examines the lithic assemblages from Tula’i to investigate the occupation styles and mobility strategies of the inhabitants during the Neolithic. We analyzed the lithic production patter...
doi.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
#考古学のおやつ 2/2
▶ Setareh Shafizadeh 𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑙. (2025) Between Nomads and Settlers: A Quantitative Analysis of Lithic Assemblages from Tula’i (Tuleii), Zagros, Iran. 𝐿𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑐 𝑇𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦. doi.org/10.1080/0197...
▶ Setareh Shafizadeh 𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑙. (2025) Between Nomads and Settlers: A Quantitative Analysis of Lithic Assemblages from Tula’i (Tuleii), Zagros, Iran. 𝐿𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑐 𝑇𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦. doi.org/10.1080/0197...
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Open access:Between Nomads and Settlers: A Quantitative Analysis of Lithic Assemblages from Tula’i (Tuleii), Zagros, Iran. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 13, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Open access:Between Nomads and Settlers: A Quantitative Analysis of Lithic Assemblages from Tula’i (Tuleii), Zagros, Iran. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Using the lead isotope community and neighbouring fields as nucleus, this workshop initiates the development of a toolbox for the archaeological sciences written as R package.
bit.ly/4nah57V @benmarwick.bsky.social
bit.ly/4nah57V @benmarwick.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Using the lead isotope community and neighbouring fields as nucleus, this workshop initiates the development of a toolbox for the archaeological sciences written as R package.
bit.ly/4nah57V @benmarwick.bsky.social
bit.ly/4nah57V @benmarwick.bsky.social
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Why do societies reliably develop strikingly similar traditions like dance songs, hero stories, shamanism & justice institutions?
In a new BBS target article, I propose a theory for such "super-attractors" + cultural evolution more broadly. Now open for commentary: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
In a new BBS target article, I propose a theory for such "super-attractors" + cultural evolution more broadly. Now open for commentary: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
August 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Why do societies reliably develop strikingly similar traditions like dance songs, hero stories, shamanism & justice institutions?
In a new BBS target article, I propose a theory for such "super-attractors" + cultural evolution more broadly. Now open for commentary: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
In a new BBS target article, I propose a theory for such "super-attractors" + cultural evolution more broadly. Now open for commentary: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Co-organizing a session at #SAA San Francisco with T. Kovach: "Toward an Integration of Quantitative Approaches in #Lithic Analysis." A few spots still open! Abstracts due Sept. 4.
Email me if you’d like to join the conversation: armando.falcucci@nyu.edu
#Archaeology #FlintFriday #FossilFriday 🏺
Email me if you’d like to join the conversation: armando.falcucci@nyu.edu
#Archaeology #FlintFriday #FossilFriday 🏺
August 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Co-organizing a session at #SAA San Francisco with T. Kovach: "Toward an Integration of Quantitative Approaches in #Lithic Analysis." A few spots still open! Abstracts due Sept. 4.
Email me if you’d like to join the conversation: armando.falcucci@nyu.edu
#Archaeology #FlintFriday #FossilFriday 🏺
Email me if you’d like to join the conversation: armando.falcucci@nyu.edu
#Archaeology #FlintFriday #FossilFriday 🏺
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Here's said mascot along with an excellent checklist by @shreyadimri.bsky.social
August 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Here's said mascot along with an excellent checklist by @shreyadimri.bsky.social
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🎉New preprint!
"TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing"
tinyurl.com/8rmnwjrk
We present simple guidelines to help researchers of all coding levels improve the transparency and reproducibility of their analytical code, TADA!
Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated.
"TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing"
tinyurl.com/8rmnwjrk
We present simple guidelines to help researchers of all coding levels improve the transparency and reproducibility of their analytical code, TADA!
Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated.
TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing
ecoevorxiv.org
August 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
🎉New preprint!
"TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing"
tinyurl.com/8rmnwjrk
We present simple guidelines to help researchers of all coding levels improve the transparency and reproducibility of their analytical code, TADA!
Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated.
"TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing"
tinyurl.com/8rmnwjrk
We present simple guidelines to help researchers of all coding levels improve the transparency and reproducibility of their analytical code, TADA!
Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated.
Reposted by Ben Marwick
All data and code available on zenodo (doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) and on my GitHub account. #opendata
Thanks @benmarwick.bsky.social for the possibility to learn from reproducing your work and for providing the basis for this replication, which are unfortunately excessively rare in #Archaeology!
Thanks @benmarwick.bsky.social for the possibility to learn from reproducing your work and for providing the basis for this replication, which are unfortunately excessively rare in #Archaeology!
Marwick (2025) "Is archaeology a science?": reproducibility for training and replication with OpenAlex for testing.
The zip file contains the necessary files and folders to reproduce the preprint deposited on SocArXiv and which can also be read in a more interactive way with code chunks and interactive table of con...
doi.org
July 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
All data and code available on zenodo (doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) and on my GitHub account. #opendata
Thanks @benmarwick.bsky.social for the possibility to learn from reproducing your work and for providing the basis for this replication, which are unfortunately excessively rare in #Archaeology!
Thanks @benmarwick.bsky.social for the possibility to learn from reproducing your work and for providing the basis for this replication, which are unfortunately excessively rare in #Archaeology!
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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? 🏺🧪
Here is my checklist summarising a small set of some of the simplest tasks you can do that have high potential to improve the reproducibility of your analysis code.
This is based on my year of reproducibility reviews for the J. of Archaeological Science:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM... 🧪🏺
This is based on my year of reproducibility reviews for the J. of Archaeological Science:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM... 🧪🏺
July 6, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Here is my checklist summarising a small set of some of the simplest tasks you can do that have high potential to improve the reproducibility of your analysis code.
This is based on my year of reproducibility reviews for the J. of Archaeological Science:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM... 🧪🏺
This is based on my year of reproducibility reviews for the J. of Archaeological Science:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM... 🧪🏺
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I'm happy to share this review article, where I attempt to ponder about missed opportunities in archaeological statistical modelling.
Statistical modelling in archaeology: some recent trends and future perspectives
This paper reviews the application of statistical models in archaeology in the last decade, focusing in particular on multilevel models, statistical t…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I'm happy to share this review article, where I attempt to ponder about missed opportunities in archaeological statistical modelling.
Is archaeology a science? 🧪
Here's my new paper that has a go at answering this question by analysing 10,000 journal articles:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM...
Here's my new paper that has a go at answering this question by analysing 10,000 journal articles:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM...
June 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Is archaeology a science? 🧪
Here's my new paper that has a go at answering this question by analysing 10,000 journal articles:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM...
Here's my new paper that has a go at answering this question by analysing 10,000 journal articles:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM...
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🚨 Big milestone for Rdatasets 🚨
The web archive now hosts 3400+ free and documented CSV datasets. Fantastic for teaching and testing!
And {Rdatasets} is a new #RStats 📦 for easy download and search
Web archive: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets
R 📦: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasetspkg
The web archive now hosts 3400+ free and documented CSV datasets. Fantastic for teaching and testing!
And {Rdatasets} is a new #RStats 📦 for easy download and search
Web archive: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets
R 📦: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasetspkg
June 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
🚨 Big milestone for Rdatasets 🚨
The web archive now hosts 3400+ free and documented CSV datasets. Fantastic for teaching and testing!
And {Rdatasets} is a new #RStats 📦 for easy download and search
Web archive: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets
R 📦: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasetspkg
The web archive now hosts 3400+ free and documented CSV datasets. Fantastic for teaching and testing!
And {Rdatasets} is a new #RStats 📦 for easy download and search
Web archive: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets
R 📦: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasetspkg
Reposted by Ben Marwick
It's CES election time! We have FOUR positions that have come up for renewal, so please consider nominating yourself or your colleagues. Nominations close June 20th, with voting from June 30th -July 4th.
June 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
It's CES election time! We have FOUR positions that have come up for renewal, so please consider nominating yourself or your colleagues. Nominations close June 20th, with voting from June 30th -July 4th.
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Very excited to be working with Angie Reed + the Tribal Exchange Network (www.tribalexchangenetwork.org) on a revival of {redoc}, an #rstats pkg enabling collaboration on reproducible reports. Thanks to the R Consortium and congrats to the other grant winners! r-consortium.org/posts/r-cons...
R Consortium Awards First Round of 2025 ISC Grants – R Consortium
The R Consortium’s Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) is proud to announce the first round of 2025 grant recipients. These seven projects are receiving support to enhance and expand the capabilit...
r-consortium.org
May 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Very excited to be working with Angie Reed + the Tribal Exchange Network (www.tribalexchangenetwork.org) on a revival of {redoc}, an #rstats pkg enabling collaboration on reproducible reports. Thanks to the R Consortium and congrats to the other grant winners! r-consortium.org/posts/r-cons...
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Paper alert! Happy to have joined Huan et al. to examine miniaturised lithic diversity across the last 20,000 years in southern China and its potential relation to geographic and climatic variability. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Lithic miniaturization in South China since the terminal Pleistocene: A multivariate analysis of lithic reduction from Fodongdi, Fulin and Xiqiaoshan - Journal of Geographical Sciences
Lithic miniaturization is a key adaptive and technological feature of human populations and one of the key cultural hallmarks in the Late Pleistocene of Eastern Asia. In northern China this form of st...
link.springer.com
May 26, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Paper alert! Happy to have joined Huan et al. to examine miniaturised lithic diversity across the last 20,000 years in southern China and its potential relation to geographic and climatic variability. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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There are lots of benefits of releasing code alongside scientific publications - when you do, you might want to consider your code's "Reporting, Running, Reliability, Reproducibility, Robustness, Readability, and Release."
new preprint: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/9055
Code used in research is key to the methods and scientific output and we should ensure it’s not just "available" but easy to verify and build on.
We present a practical tool to code review for scientists 🧪
work with @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social
Code used in research is key to the methods and scientific output and we should ensure it’s not just "available" but easy to verify and build on.
We present a practical tool to code review for scientists 🧪
work with @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social
Code review in practice: A checklist for computational reproducibility and collaborative research in ecology and evolution
ecoevorxiv.org
April 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
There are lots of benefits of releasing code alongside scientific publications - when you do, you might want to consider your code's "Reporting, Running, Reliability, Reproducibility, Robustness, Readability, and Release."
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As long as social science journals don’t implement actual code review — not just mechanical reproducibility checks — there’s no good way to ward off such errors or abuse. Not every publication has a shocking result begging for a replication, like the one flagged by @johannarickne.bsky.social.
8/ Shockingly to us, most treatment effects are produced by implementing methods in the code that differ from those described in the paper. This practice seems super problematic because it will mislead reviewers and editors who expect the two to align.
May 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
As long as social science journals don’t implement actual code review — not just mechanical reproducibility checks — there’s no good way to ward off such errors or abuse. Not every publication has a shocking result begging for a replication, like the one flagged by @johannarickne.bsky.social.
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Thank you for your important work! It is crystal clear that code and data publication alongside each manuscript is the only way forward for science. Manuscripts with data analyses that do not publish code and data should not be accepted for publication anymore.
May 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Thank you for your important work! It is crystal clear that code and data publication alongside each manuscript is the only way forward for science. Manuscripts with data analyses that do not publish code and data should not be accepted for publication anymore.
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SAA journal #AmericanAntiquity is advancing #researchtransparency in #publishing. Read how, alongside an introduction to Associate Editor for #Reproducibility, Dr. Alan Farahani.
Approach: ▶️ cup.org/4hFclo5
Editorial: ▶️ cup.org/41AHuDk
#Archaeology #SAA2025Denver
Approach: ▶️ cup.org/4hFclo5
Editorial: ▶️ cup.org/41AHuDk
#Archaeology #SAA2025Denver
April 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
SAA journal #AmericanAntiquity is advancing #researchtransparency in #publishing. Read how, alongside an introduction to Associate Editor for #Reproducibility, Dr. Alan Farahani.
Approach: ▶️ cup.org/4hFclo5
Editorial: ▶️ cup.org/41AHuDk
#Archaeology #SAA2025Denver
Approach: ▶️ cup.org/4hFclo5
Editorial: ▶️ cup.org/41AHuDk
#Archaeology #SAA2025Denver
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Computer scientists and bioinformaticians address four key questions to help rookie coders to make the right choice
https://go.nature.com/42UuoT3
https://go.nature.com/42UuoT3
Which programming language should I use? A guide for early-career researchers
Computer scientists and bioinformaticians address four key questions to help rookie coders to make the right choice.
go.nature.com
April 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Computer scientists and bioinformaticians address four key questions to help rookie coders to make the right choice
https://go.nature.com/42UuoT3
https://go.nature.com/42UuoT3