Dr. Christina M. Carolus
@cmcarolus.bsky.social
Archaeologist and archaeobotanist of Inner Asia. Cyclist. 📚🚴🧪🌿🎶 Director of the Khulunbuir Archaeological Project and Postdoctoral Scholar in the SAHND Lab @psuanthro.bsky.social.
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Future is surely going to ask just how we could be so careless of the dangers of #PlasticWaste and #PlasticPollution
"The scale of uncertainty around how much plastic is entering our atmosphere is alarming"
phys.org/news/2025-09...
"The scale of uncertainty around how much plastic is entering our atmosphere is alarming"
phys.org/news/2025-09...
New research calls for global action on micro and nanoplastics in the atmosphere
Scientists at the University of Manchester are calling for the creation of a global network of air monitoring stations to track the movement of airborne plastic pollution, which may be traveling furth...
phys.org
September 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Future is surely going to ask just how we could be so careless of the dangers of #PlasticWaste and #PlasticPollution
"The scale of uncertainty around how much plastic is entering our atmosphere is alarming"
phys.org/news/2025-09...
"The scale of uncertainty around how much plastic is entering our atmosphere is alarming"
phys.org/news/2025-09...
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Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
August 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
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New NSF award just dropped for our Co-Directors @isazooarch.bsky.social and @archaeojake.bsky.social! “Variables Influencing the Efficacy of Estuarine and Marine Resource Management”. #archaeology #ecology #fisheries #sustainability Visit here to learn more 👉🏻 www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
August 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
New NSF award just dropped for our Co-Directors @isazooarch.bsky.social and @archaeojake.bsky.social! “Variables Influencing the Efficacy of Estuarine and Marine Resource Management”. #archaeology #ecology #fisheries #sustainability Visit here to learn more 👉🏻 www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
Looking forward to final Summer 2025 conference presentations, to take place at #ISBA11 in Turin. Tune in to a full length presentation on new proteomic evidence for the early spread of Asian rice at the #PAASTA meeting (8/26) as well as my scheduled flash talk on Thursday (8/28)!
August 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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ISBA11 starts tomorrow, and we have just one question for you... are you ready for it?
#ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #turin #Archaeology #Italy #conference #AreYouReady
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social
#ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #turin #Archaeology #Italy #conference #AreYouReady
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social
August 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
ISBA11 starts tomorrow, and we have just one question for you... are you ready for it?
#ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #turin #Archaeology #Italy #conference #AreYouReady
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social
#ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #turin #Archaeology #Italy #conference #AreYouReady
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social
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Just found out that 74 of my works have been scraped/stolen by the plundering AI bots, which are nothing more than plagiarism machines really, with zero respect for copyright. My fellow writers, check it out for your own work.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
August 24, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Just found out that 74 of my works have been scraped/stolen by the plundering AI bots, which are nothing more than plagiarism machines really, with zero respect for copyright. My fellow writers, check it out for your own work.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Good read. Like the author of this thread I didn’t study at Chicago, but I did apply and have spoken there. And so many friends and colleagues passed through, coming out with impressive training in deep reading and analysis.
the crisis in which the University of Chicago is now engulfed -- one entirely of its own making, and which has led to the (hopefully temporary) suspension of admissions into numerous PhD programs in the humanities -- represents I think a seismic event in the history of American higher education
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August 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Good read. Like the author of this thread I didn’t study at Chicago, but I did apply and have spoken there. And so many friends and colleagues passed through, coming out with impressive training in deep reading and analysis.
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In just under 3 weeks, we look forward to welcoming researchers from 40 countries in Turin, Italy for ISBA11
#ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #Archaeology #ISBAconference #archaeologicalconference #Turin
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social
#ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #Archaeology #ISBAconference #archaeologicalconference #Turin
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social
August 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
In just under 3 weeks, we look forward to welcoming researchers from 40 countries in Turin, Italy for ISBA11
#ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #Archaeology #ISBAconference #archaeologicalconference #Turin
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social
#ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #Archaeology #ISBAconference #archaeologicalconference #Turin
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social
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*conference update* The short schedule, full schedule, and mid-conference trip information is now available on the SEAA website
August 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
*conference update* The short schedule, full schedule, and mid-conference trip information is now available on the SEAA website
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Registration deadline is TOMORROW! 🍝 🏺
✨✨Reminder that we are hosting a (virtual and in-person) pre-ISBA conference✨✨ on the 26th of August (13:00-17:00 CET) which will include talks from members of our community and the PAASTA Annual General Meeting. Additional details can be found here: paasta-community.github.io/events/2025/...
Pre-ISBA PAASTA Conference · PAASTA Community
paasta-community.github.io
August 18, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Registration deadline is TOMORROW! 🍝 🏺
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we need to change direction and we need to be serious about it
Posting this again. Not enough electricity left to build affordable homes in 3 west London boroughs, because all capacity has been used by a data centre.
#affordablehousingUK
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo...
#affordablehousingUK
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo...
Report: Home building to halt in West London, due to data center power demands
All the electricity capacity is already used up, GLA tells developers
www.datacenterdynamics.com
August 15, 2025 at 10:18 AM
we need to change direction and we need to be serious about it
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Drs. Christina and Asa are in Kyrgyzstan! They’re interested in this unique location along the “Silk Road” and are looking closely at the introduction of agriculture and new crops into what is today Kyrgyzstan (and how these systems changed/were adapted locally over time)! 🇰🇬 🌱 #archaeology #ecology
Floating (pun intended) through a beautiful August in Kyrgyzstan 🌱 Pt. I
August 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Drs. Christina and Asa are in Kyrgyzstan! They’re interested in this unique location along the “Silk Road” and are looking closely at the introduction of agriculture and new crops into what is today Kyrgyzstan (and how these systems changed/were adapted locally over time)! 🇰🇬 🌱 #archaeology #ecology
Floating (pun intended) through a beautiful August in Kyrgyzstan 🍃 Pt. II
August 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Floating (pun intended) through a beautiful August in Kyrgyzstan 🍃 Pt. II
Floating (pun intended) through a beautiful August in Kyrgyzstan 🌱 Pt. I
August 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Floating (pun intended) through a beautiful August in Kyrgyzstan 🌱 Pt. I
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✨Call for submissions✨
We’re seeking new submissions for our Archaeology of East Asia sub-series!
This peer-reviewed sub-series publishes data-rich research from across East Asia, including often-overlooked areas.
Heading to the #SEAA? Email editor@barpublishing.com for a meeting!
More info here
We’re seeking new submissions for our Archaeology of East Asia sub-series!
This peer-reviewed sub-series publishes data-rich research from across East Asia, including often-overlooked areas.
Heading to the #SEAA? Email editor@barpublishing.com for a meeting!
More info here
August 8, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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If you work in higher ed, you need to get your folks together and end the use of course evals or at least bar their consideration in evaluation, promotion, and hiring. This needed to happen yesterday because they don't measure learning, they measure instructor gender, but now it's a snitch pool.
July 31, 2025 at 12:41 AM
If you work in higher ed, you need to get your folks together and end the use of course evals or at least bar their consideration in evaluation, promotion, and hiring. This needed to happen yesterday because they don't measure learning, they measure instructor gender, but now it's a snitch pool.
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Goodbye to the history department at Lancaster University, where the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social was founded 49 years ago. From tomorrow we are
part of a School of Global Affairs. Next year, who knows what will be - please sign our petition against mass redundancies chng.it/PZfTFDjNcr
part of a School of Global Affairs. Next year, who knows what will be - please sign our petition against mass redundancies chng.it/PZfTFDjNcr
Sign the Petition
Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable
chng.it
July 31, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Goodbye to the history department at Lancaster University, where the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social was founded 49 years ago. From tomorrow we are
part of a School of Global Affairs. Next year, who knows what will be - please sign our petition against mass redundancies chng.it/PZfTFDjNcr
part of a School of Global Affairs. Next year, who knows what will be - please sign our petition against mass redundancies chng.it/PZfTFDjNcr
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"Metabolic profiling of Iron Age residues from the oasis of Qurayyah, Northwest Arabia, reveals the earliest material evidence for the fumigation of the drug plant Peganum harmala, used in domestic contexts for medicinal and hygienic purposes.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Metabolic profiling reveals first evidence of fumigating drug plant Peganum harmala in Iron Age Arabia - Communications Biology
Metabolic profiling of Iron Age residues from the oasis of Qurayyah, Northwest Arabia, reveals the earliest material evidence for the fumigation of the drug plant Peganum harmala, used in domestic con...
www.nature.com
May 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
"Metabolic profiling of Iron Age residues from the oasis of Qurayyah, Northwest Arabia, reveals the earliest material evidence for the fumigation of the drug plant Peganum harmala, used in domestic contexts for medicinal and hygienic purposes.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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1/5 New recommendation: Dekker et al. & @zandraselina.bsky.social (2025) Open science, communication, and collaboration for the future of palaeoproteomics. V4 recommended by @PCI_Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno.... #Archaeology #opendata #openscience @paastacommunity.bsky.social #Palaeoproteomics
June 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
1/5 New recommendation: Dekker et al. & @zandraselina.bsky.social (2025) Open science, communication, and collaboration for the future of palaeoproteomics. V4 recommended by @PCI_Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno.... #Archaeology #opendata #openscience @paastacommunity.bsky.social #Palaeoproteomics
So proud to join the ranks of this fantastic group of researchers and human beings. 🏕️🧪 🌱🐠
I can truly think of no better team to be carrying out multidisciplinary work on the social and environmental dynamics of riparian worlds in steppic Inner Asia.
I can truly think of no better team to be carrying out multidisciplinary work on the social and environmental dynamics of riparian worlds in steppic Inner Asia.
Our lab of archaeologists, historians, and ecologists studies social, economic, and environmental dynamics over the last 5,000yrs. From the earliest Indigenous villages on the US Atlantic coast, to nomadic Mongolian empires, to Black towns of the post-emancipation South. Follow for rad archaeology!
July 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
So proud to join the ranks of this fantastic group of researchers and human beings. 🏕️🧪 🌱🐠
I can truly think of no better team to be carrying out multidisciplinary work on the social and environmental dynamics of riparian worlds in steppic Inner Asia.
I can truly think of no better team to be carrying out multidisciplinary work on the social and environmental dynamics of riparian worlds in steppic Inner Asia.
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Our lab of archaeologists, historians, and ecologists studies social, economic, and environmental dynamics over the last 5,000yrs. From the earliest Indigenous villages on the US Atlantic coast, to nomadic Mongolian empires, to Black towns of the post-emancipation South. Follow for rad archaeology!
July 21, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Our lab of archaeologists, historians, and ecologists studies social, economic, and environmental dynamics over the last 5,000yrs. From the earliest Indigenous villages on the US Atlantic coast, to nomadic Mongolian empires, to Black towns of the post-emancipation South. Follow for rad archaeology!
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Hauling more dirt to @cmcarolus.bsky.social. I think we floted more per volume excavated than any site ever 🏅 Which has allowed us to recover incredible amounts of seeds and tiny bone. Data that rarely factor into narratives on the Xiongnu, the world’s first nomadic empire! Stay tuned! #archaeology
July 17, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Hauling more dirt to @cmcarolus.bsky.social. I think we floted more per volume excavated than any site ever 🏅 Which has allowed us to recover incredible amounts of seeds and tiny bone. Data that rarely factor into narratives on the Xiongnu, the world’s first nomadic empire! Stay tuned! #archaeology
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Penn State #Archaeology (@psuanthro.bsky.social) featuring Dr. Asa Cameron 🇲🇳
June 22, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Penn State #Archaeology (@psuanthro.bsky.social) featuring Dr. Asa Cameron 🇲🇳