Jan Kolář
@jankolararchaeo.bsky.social
Archaeologist; human-environment interactions in the past.
Researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the @czechacademy.bsky.social
Editor of Quaternary Environments and Humans; 🏳️🌈; #FirstGen
Prague <- London <- Brno
http://jankolararchaeo.cz
Researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the @czechacademy.bsky.social
Editor of Quaternary Environments and Humans; 🏳️🌈; #FirstGen
Prague <- London <- Brno
http://jankolararchaeo.cz
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Jan Kolář
@jankolararchaeo.bsky.social
· Oct 14
Check our fun paper on the key intersections between theoretical and computational archaeology. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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4-year postdoc position in INASIA ERC project for a lithic specialist who would like to join our Central Asian research group at @UniWarszawski
with her/his expertise in lithic technology studies. Application deadline 30.11.2025. Find out more here:
inasia.uw.edu.pl/we-are-hirin...
with her/his expertise in lithic technology studies. Application deadline 30.11.2025. Find out more here:
inasia.uw.edu.pl/we-are-hirin...
November 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
4-year postdoc position in INASIA ERC project for a lithic specialist who would like to join our Central Asian research group at @UniWarszawski
with her/his expertise in lithic technology studies. Application deadline 30.11.2025. Find out more here:
inasia.uw.edu.pl/we-are-hirin...
with her/his expertise in lithic technology studies. Application deadline 30.11.2025. Find out more here:
inasia.uw.edu.pl/we-are-hirin...
Reposted by Jan Kolář
Martin Hinz, Jan Kolář, and co-authors investigate current intersections between #theoretical & #computationalarchaeology & propose a #framework for maintaining these 2 domains’ “shared goal of interpreting the human past.” @jankolararchaeo.bsky.social
Read more in their recent FirstView article:
Read more in their recent FirstView article:
Current Key Intersections between Theoretical and Computational Archaeology | Advances in Archaeological Practice | Cambridge Core
Current Key Intersections between Theoretical and Computational Archaeology
www.cambridge.org
October 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Martin Hinz, Jan Kolář, and co-authors investigate current intersections between #theoretical & #computationalarchaeology & propose a #framework for maintaining these 2 domains’ “shared goal of interpreting the human past.” @jankolararchaeo.bsky.social
Read more in their recent FirstView article:
Read more in their recent FirstView article:
The team of Péter was the best work place I could imagine for my early career, so apply!
🚨JOB ALERT🚨
Come work with me in Brno in a new project on how Scots pine & forestry changed societies and environments in the 18th-19th centuries! 🌲🌳
👇Fully funded postdoc position 👇
www.ibot.cas.cz/en/vacancies...
Application deadline: 13.11.2025
Please distribute widely!
#envhist #histecol
Come work with me in Brno in a new project on how Scots pine & forestry changed societies and environments in the 18th-19th centuries! 🌲🌳
👇Fully funded postdoc position 👇
www.ibot.cas.cz/en/vacancies...
Application deadline: 13.11.2025
Please distribute widely!
#envhist #histecol
October 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The team of Péter was the best work place I could imagine for my early career, so apply!
Check our fun paper on the key intersections between theoretical and computational archaeology. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
October 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Check our fun paper on the key intersections between theoretical and computational archaeology. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Reposted by Jan Kolář
Nobel Prize given for showing the importance of investing in science for innovation and long-term economic growth. Basically the opposite of what the US is doing. 😭
Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development.
go.nature.com/4hj9NNV
go.nature.com/4hj9NNV
Economics Nobel prize won by researchers who showed how science boosts growth
Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development.
go.nature.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Nobel Prize given for showing the importance of investing in science for innovation and long-term economic growth. Basically the opposite of what the US is doing. 😭
I cannot escape archaeology even on a Saturday hike.
September 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I cannot escape archaeology even on a Saturday hike.
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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
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#languagebarriers
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#languagebarriers
September 19, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#languagebarriers
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#languagebarriers
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Are you at the beginning of your career and interested in environmental history? This is the best way to get involved 👇
Are you following our Early-Career-Scholar network, ESEH NextGate? They organize events and support young scholars. Follow here: @esehnextgate.bsky.social
#envhist #envhum
#envhist #envhum
September 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Are you at the beginning of your career and interested in environmental history? This is the best way to get involved 👇
Reposted by Jan Kolář
I am looking for a multispecies archaeologist with a strong theoretical and interpretive profile to join my group (100%, 3 years): uni.koeln/2E7CR
Deadline: 30.09.2025.
Apply here: uni.koeln/ZQMKA ("Wiss2508-21")
@nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social
Deadline: 30.09.2025.
Apply here: uni.koeln/ZQMKA ("Wiss2508-21")
@nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 10:35 AM
I am looking for a multispecies archaeologist with a strong theoretical and interpretive profile to join my group (100%, 3 years): uni.koeln/2E7CR
Deadline: 30.09.2025.
Apply here: uni.koeln/ZQMKA ("Wiss2508-21")
@nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social
Deadline: 30.09.2025.
Apply here: uni.koeln/ZQMKA ("Wiss2508-21")
@nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social
As a member of the Book Prize Committee of the @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social I am very happy that the book of @zenakamash.bsky.social was chosen as one of the two winners this year.
One of the key points I make in "Heritage and Healing in Syria and Iraq" is about the roles and ethical responsibilities of archaeological and heritage organisations in conflict areas. In the following skeets is the text of my acceptance speech 1/n
Thrilled for @zenakamash.bsky.social to have won the EAA book prize for her brilliant new monograph
September 3, 2025 at 6:24 AM
As a member of the Book Prize Committee of the @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social I am very happy that the book of @zenakamash.bsky.social was chosen as one of the two winners this year.
We wrote a short editorial mentioning some of the top papers published with us. Check how Quaternary Environments and Humans is doing after the first two years of its existence. doi.org/10.1016/j.qe...
Redirecting
doi.org
September 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
We wrote a short editorial mentioning some of the top papers published with us. Check how Quaternary Environments and Humans is doing after the first two years of its existence. doi.org/10.1016/j.qe...
Sounds like a cool job!
Postdoc Job! Come and work with me in Durham, and a bunch of @sse1k.bsky.social heroes in Venice and Basel, doing agent-based modelling of socio-environmental systems in the Ancient Mediterranean...
durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Archaeology and Agent-Based Modelling
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
durham.taleo.net
August 20, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Sounds like a cool job!
1 month to apply for a cool postdoc position in my team!
Looking for a postdoc position in quantitative palaeoecology with focus on vegetation? Come to work in my interdisciplinary project in Prague (full-time for 2 years).
August 11, 2025 at 7:15 AM
1 month to apply for a cool postdoc position in my team!
Reposted by Jan Kolář
Applications are open for SFI's 2026 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships
If you’ve recently earned a Ph.D. in any scientific field and want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research, consider applying.
Deadline: October 1, 2025
Apply here: santafe.edu/sfifellowship
If you’ve recently earned a Ph.D. in any scientific field and want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research, consider applying.
Deadline: October 1, 2025
Apply here: santafe.edu/sfifellowship
July 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Applications are open for SFI's 2026 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships
If you’ve recently earned a Ph.D. in any scientific field and want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research, consider applying.
Deadline: October 1, 2025
Apply here: santafe.edu/sfifellowship
If you’ve recently earned a Ph.D. in any scientific field and want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research, consider applying.
Deadline: October 1, 2025
Apply here: santafe.edu/sfifellowship
Looking for a postdoc position in quantitative palaeoecology with focus on vegetation? Come to work in my interdisciplinary project in Prague (full-time for 2 years).
July 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Looking for a postdoc position in quantitative palaeoecology with focus on vegetation? Come to work in my interdisciplinary project in Prague (full-time for 2 years).
🏺I spent a considerable time of my career feeling that I am trying to extract "sunbeams out of cucumbers". @benmarwick.bsky.social describes how to improve our current #publishing practice to avoid such feelings when extracting archaeological #data from publications.
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 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
🏺I spent a considerable time of my career feeling that I am trying to extract "sunbeams out of cucumbers". @benmarwick.bsky.social describes how to improve our current #publishing practice to avoid such feelings when extracting archaeological #data from publications.
Reposted by Jan Kolář
There is a job opening (Post-Doctoral Research Associate, 2 years, 100%) in my new VW project on the macro-evolution of Pleistocene technological ecosystems in Europe: ecolithic.uni-koeln.de/opportunitie...
Deadline 25.05.2025
Please distribute widely!
🏺🦣
Deadline 25.05.2025
Please distribute widely!
🏺🦣
May 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
There is a job opening (Post-Doctoral Research Associate, 2 years, 100%) in my new VW project on the macro-evolution of Pleistocene technological ecosystems in Europe: ecolithic.uni-koeln.de/opportunitie...
Deadline 25.05.2025
Please distribute widely!
🏺🦣
Deadline 25.05.2025
Please distribute widely!
🏺🦣
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The 8.2 ka cold event was the most prominent climatic cold snap in northern Europe during the Holocene. It was a consequence of the rapid Early Holocene warming and came in the wake of ice sheet melting.
A thread about our new paper and a link to the OA publication at the end of the thread 😊 1/8
A thread about our new paper and a link to the OA publication at the end of the thread 😊 1/8
April 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The 8.2 ka cold event was the most prominent climatic cold snap in northern Europe during the Holocene. It was a consequence of the rapid Early Holocene warming and came in the wake of ice sheet melting.
A thread about our new paper and a link to the OA publication at the end of the thread 😊 1/8
A thread about our new paper and a link to the OA publication at the end of the thread 😊 1/8
This looks amazing! A lot to read now.
Publication day for our @pnas.org Special Feature on inequality in the deep past bit.ly/WInqSF How do the transitions to agriculture, urbanisation and hierarchy impact wealth inequality? What social forces produced sustainable, equal societies in the past? Some answers (and more questions) inside!
April 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
This looks amazing! A lot to read now.
Finally!
'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'
X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research
Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
www.timeshighereducation.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Finally!
Sad to hear that the #Fulbright programme (among others) has been suspended by the Trump administration. I am a Fulbright alumnus myself (2017/2018) and it changed my life. This world needs international exchange and study-abroad programmes for scholars! www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Funding freeze leaves Fulbright and study-abroad scholars stranded
The Trump administration paused State Department money for international exchange and study-abroad programs. Participants wonder: Will it ever resume?
www.washingtonpost.com
April 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Sad to hear that the #Fulbright programme (among others) has been suspended by the Trump administration. I am a Fulbright alumnus myself (2017/2018) and it changed my life. This world needs international exchange and study-abroad programmes for scholars! www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
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Interested in humans from a macro-ecological/macro-archaeological perspective? Here's the right postdoc for you international.au.dk/about/profil... - deadline tomorrow April 1st at 2359 CEST!
2-yr postdoc on human macroecology in a functional trait perspective Aarhus University (re-advertisement) - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University
international.au.dk
March 31, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Interested in humans from a macro-ecological/macro-archaeological perspective? Here's the right postdoc for you international.au.dk/about/profil... - deadline tomorrow April 1st at 2359 CEST!
