Shumon T. Hussain
@shumon.bsky.social
Hunter-Gatherer and Multispecies Archaeology (Deep Time), Environmental Humanities, More-Than-Human Deep History, Animal-kin, Boardgames & eSports, Politics of Life - PI of ECOLITHIC & ZOOGESTURES @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social
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Shumon T. Hussain
@shumon.bsky.social
· Oct 20
Humanimalia
Humanimalia
humanimalia.org
Hej #animal, #human-animal, and #multispecies #archaeologists! The OA journal Humanimalia (humanimalia.org) is a great venue for your critical and concept-driven papers! Coincidentally, I am the new Section Editor "Multispecies Archaeology" - so drop me a line if you have questions/ideas! 🏺🐶🦌🦇🦥🦉🐘🦩
👇 👇 As others have already noted here, some of the intellectual alliances woven into the Epstein ecology are not coincidental, "hard" views of human nature never have been (Slobodian) - something perhaps especially archaeologists should pay acute attention to
"Arguing intelligence & adjacent traits are biologically determined served a clear function for Epstein, who treated women as subordinate. It’s equally unsurprising that the powerful people he cultivated might come up with a natural, objective explanation for their perch at the top of society"
The Epstein Emails Show How the Powerful Talk About Race
The files reveal the disgraced financier’s interest in “race science.”
www.theatlantic.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:43 AM
👇 👇 As others have already noted here, some of the intellectual alliances woven into the Epstein ecology are not coincidental, "hard" views of human nature never have been (Slobodian) - something perhaps especially archaeologists should pay acute attention to
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The European Association of Archaeologists Executive has worked hard to bury this result inside a long document. But we're going to make this triumph of compassion, common sense & demand for transparency known to all. Help us by sharing. @archagainstaparth.bsky.social @blacktrowel.bsky.social
February 11, 2026 at 9:43 PM
The European Association of Archaeologists Executive has worked hard to bury this result inside a long document. But we're going to make this triumph of compassion, common sense & demand for transparency known to all. Help us by sharing. @archagainstaparth.bsky.social @blacktrowel.bsky.social
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📢 Spannende Stelle an der TU Berlin: Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in (E13, 100 %) im Berlin #Anthropocene Lab! Gesucht wird eine Person mit vertieften Kenntnissen der Forschungslandschaft und -debatten zum #Anthropozän in Umwelt- und Technikgeschichte, Env. Humanities, STS oder angrenzenden Bereichen, ...
February 11, 2026 at 1:50 PM
📢 Spannende Stelle an der TU Berlin: Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in (E13, 100 %) im Berlin #Anthropocene Lab! Gesucht wird eine Person mit vertieften Kenntnissen der Forschungslandschaft und -debatten zum #Anthropozän in Umwelt- und Technikgeschichte, Env. Humanities, STS oder angrenzenden Bereichen, ...
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Unravelling the Palaeolithic 2026!
Join us for two days of all things Palaeolithic, Pleistocene and Early Human Origins at UCL Institute of Archaeology 19-20th June.
Call for papers is now open and tickets are on sale! Check out our website for more information.
sites.google.com/view/unravel...
Join us for two days of all things Palaeolithic, Pleistocene and Early Human Origins at UCL Institute of Archaeology 19-20th June.
Call for papers is now open and tickets are on sale! Check out our website for more information.
sites.google.com/view/unravel...
Unravelling the Palaeolithic
Welcome to the website for the Unravelling the Palaeolithic conference 2026!
Unravelling the Palaeolithic is an ECR and student-led conference with a history of showcasing excellence in research in P...
sites.google.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Unravelling the Palaeolithic 2026!
Join us for two days of all things Palaeolithic, Pleistocene and Early Human Origins at UCL Institute of Archaeology 19-20th June.
Call for papers is now open and tickets are on sale! Check out our website for more information.
sites.google.com/view/unravel...
Join us for two days of all things Palaeolithic, Pleistocene and Early Human Origins at UCL Institute of Archaeology 19-20th June.
Call for papers is now open and tickets are on sale! Check out our website for more information.
sites.google.com/view/unravel...
"Put another way, the speciation and evolutionary experimentation already evident in what is by now a very extensive hominin record makes it clear just how much the unfortunate Mayrian legacy still hinders our ability to make proper sense of our biological past." 🔥
"By dint of incessant repetition, the species name Homo habilis has become firmly entrenched in the paleoanthropological lexicon." What an opening sentence. 🏺🧪https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ar.70145?campaign=woletoc
An identity for the inscrutable Homo habilis
Click on the article title to read more.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:11 PM
"Put another way, the speciation and evolutionary experimentation already evident in what is by now a very extensive hominin record makes it clear just how much the unfortunate Mayrian legacy still hinders our ability to make proper sense of our biological past." 🔥
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Aber ja, laden wir die Faschos doch weiter in ÖRR Talkshows ein und beschreiben sie in menschelnden Porträts der sogenannten Leitmedien, immer auf der mysterösen Suche danach, wie die eigentlich wirklich ticken... der Nervenkitzel ist es echt wert.
AfD-Bundestagsabgeordneter Moosdorf legt politische Pläne offen: Unliebsame Richter entfernen, Justiz unter die Kontrolle der Regierung bringen, Ende der Gewaltenteilung, Ende der Demokratie.
February 8, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
Great work everyone.
February 7, 2026 at 8:59 AM
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😂 Avoiding "anthropologists" certainly makes your life easier and avoids complicating it, hence why avoiding them has been a majority strat for decades now.
February 5, 2026 at 2:37 PM
😂 Avoiding "anthropologists" certainly makes your life easier and avoids complicating it, hence why avoiding them has been a majority strat for decades now.
Together with Krist Vaesen, I have written some words of caution about #replication in lithic analysis. We fear that the way the issue has been taken up in #Palaeolithic #archaeology can narrow the scope of disciplinary inquiry 🏺🧪🦣
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Perks and Perils of Replicability | American Antiquity | Cambridge Core
The Perks and Perils of Replicability
www.cambridge.org
February 2, 2026 at 8:06 AM
Together with Krist Vaesen, I have written some words of caution about #replication in lithic analysis. We fear that the way the issue has been taken up in #Palaeolithic #archaeology can narrow the scope of disciplinary inquiry 🏺🧪🦣
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Our volume on Stone Age clothing is now online and completely open access:
Jöris, O., Dietrich, O., Risch, R., & Meller, H. (Hrsg.). (2026). A Stone Age History of Clothing: Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag vom 26. bis 28. September 2024 in Halle (Saale).
doi.org/10.11588/pro...
Jöris, O., Dietrich, O., Risch, R., & Meller, H. (Hrsg.). (2026). A Stone Age History of Clothing: Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag vom 26. bis 28. September 2024 in Halle (Saale).
doi.org/10.11588/pro...
January 28, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Our volume on Stone Age clothing is now online and completely open access:
Jöris, O., Dietrich, O., Risch, R., & Meller, H. (Hrsg.). (2026). A Stone Age History of Clothing: Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag vom 26. bis 28. September 2024 in Halle (Saale).
doi.org/10.11588/pro...
Jöris, O., Dietrich, O., Risch, R., & Meller, H. (Hrsg.). (2026). A Stone Age History of Clothing: Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag vom 26. bis 28. September 2024 in Halle (Saale).
doi.org/10.11588/pro...
Hej #multispecies #archaeology people, here a few of my recent thoughts on why the study of past #clothing practices in many cases actually brings up all sorts of thorny questions about #human-animal relationships 🏺
books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeum/c...
books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeum/c...
Beyond dress, protection, and disguise: Re-inserting animals into the deep history of human clothing | Propylaeum
Dieses Werk steht unter der Lizenz Creative Commons Namensnennung - Nicht-kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International.
books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de
January 28, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Hej #multispecies #archaeology people, here a few of my recent thoughts on why the study of past #clothing practices in many cases actually brings up all sorts of thorny questions about #human-animal relationships 🏺
books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeum/c...
books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeum/c...
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1/3 New recommendation: Shumon T. Hussain (2025). The Loss of Typological Innocence: Pluralism in the Epistemology and Ontology of Archaeological Typo-Praxis. v3 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno... @shumon.bsky.social 🧪🏺
January 28, 2026 at 7:59 AM
1/3 New recommendation: Shumon T. Hussain (2025). The Loss of Typological Innocence: Pluralism in the Epistemology and Ontology of Archaeological Typo-Praxis. v3 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno... @shumon.bsky.social 🧪🏺
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Our Open Access special issue on "An Ontological Turn for Archaeology?" in the EAZ journal is now complete and can be accessed via the link below!
This is a small but precious collection of papers.
Hope that you will find it useful and inspiring.
www.eaz-journal.org/index.php/ea...
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This is a small but precious collection of papers.
Hope that you will find it useful and inspiring.
www.eaz-journal.org/index.php/ea...
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January 25, 2026 at 7:54 AM
Our Open Access special issue on "An Ontological Turn for Archaeology?" in the EAZ journal is now complete and can be accessed via the link below!
This is a small but precious collection of papers.
Hope that you will find it useful and inspiring.
www.eaz-journal.org/index.php/ea...
/1
This is a small but precious collection of papers.
Hope that you will find it useful and inspiring.
www.eaz-journal.org/index.php/ea...
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University of Sheffield staff are now officially locked out! Please consider a small donation to help us continue our fight to save the university from the greed of corporate power! Please also share the link! @ucu.org.uk @sheffielducu.bsky.social www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...
Donate to Support University of Sheffield striking staff!, organized by Mark Pendleton
I'm the branch treasurer for the University of Sheffield University and… Mark Pendleton needs your support for Support University of Sheffield striking staff!
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January 20, 2026 at 6:19 PM
University of Sheffield staff are now officially locked out! Please consider a small donation to help us continue our fight to save the university from the greed of corporate power! Please also share the link! @ucu.org.uk @sheffielducu.bsky.social www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...
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This thread from jaime lays out the stakes well for those of us grappling with the present and possible futures of the EAA
So, if you are an @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social (EAA) member from 2025-2026, you received yesterday your email for the per-rollam vote of the past Special Meeting and the documentation attached to it… if you still doubt what to vote, please read all the documents. My short digest:
January 17, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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Hej #animal, #human-animal, and #multispecies #archaeologists! The OA journal Humanimalia (humanimalia.org) is a great venue for your critical and concept-driven papers! Coincidentally, I am the new Section Editor "Multispecies Archaeology" - so drop me a line if you have questions/ideas! 🏺🐶🦌🦇🦥🦉🐘🦩
Humanimalia
Humanimalia
humanimalia.org
October 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Hej #animal, #human-animal, and #multispecies #archaeologists! The OA journal Humanimalia (humanimalia.org) is a great venue for your critical and concept-driven papers! Coincidentally, I am the new Section Editor "Multispecies Archaeology" - so drop me a line if you have questions/ideas! 🏺🐶🦌🦇🦥🦉🐘🦩
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🏺🧪 Reminder - it's never good #SciComm practice to make inaccurate/misleading gen-AI imagery.
Case in point- recent posts here of #Neanderthals with complex engravings, & metallic-looking objects.
(they also apparently have 6 fingers, but I guess who tf cares when it's just vibes for the public 🙄)
Case in point- recent posts here of #Neanderthals with complex engravings, & metallic-looking objects.
(they also apparently have 6 fingers, but I guess who tf cares when it's just vibes for the public 🙄)
January 14, 2026 at 9:38 AM
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Stell Dir vor, Du hast jahrelang so viel geopfert für 1 Professur & wenn Du sie überhaupt bekommst (unwahrscheinlich!) ist‘s gar nicht so großartig wie Du immer dachtest, nicht die Entschädigung für alle Entbehrungen. Bitter? Ja. Ich glaube: kein Einzelfall. Nur trauen sich wenige, es einzugestehen.
Glorifizierung der Professur als einzig wahrem Weg zum (Lebens-)Glück verkennt Schattenseiten (Arbeitskultur der Überarbeitung bis zum Burnout bleibt, Abgrenzung gelingt vielen nicht) & Vorteile anderer Berufe (unbekannt, wenn man nie draußen gearbeitet hat) — sie macht auch erpressbar. #IchBinHanna
January 14, 2026 at 7:54 AM
Stell Dir vor, Du hast jahrelang so viel geopfert für 1 Professur & wenn Du sie überhaupt bekommst (unwahrscheinlich!) ist‘s gar nicht so großartig wie Du immer dachtest, nicht die Entschädigung für alle Entbehrungen. Bitter? Ja. Ich glaube: kein Einzelfall. Nur trauen sich wenige, es einzugestehen.
tHAT 👇
If only 1% of aDNA funding went to lithics research we'd be laughing.
January 14, 2026 at 7:37 AM
tHAT 👇
"In 2022 the article total was ∼47% higher than in 2016, which has outpaced the limited growth—if any—in the number of practicing scientists"
"Specific groups have disproportionately grown in their articles published per year"
with consequences on "citation behaviors" inter alia.
"Specific groups have disproportionately grown in their articles published per year"
with consequences on "citation behaviors" inter alia.
The "Szilard Point."
When we talk about The strain and the drain on scientific publishing, it's this.
Researchers working just to stay afloat, and not on what we actually want them to do: research, discover, innovate.
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
When we talk about The strain and the drain on scientific publishing, it's this.
Researchers working just to stay afloat, and not on what we actually want them to do: research, discover, innovate.
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
January 2, 2026 at 9:31 AM
"In 2022 the article total was ∼47% higher than in 2016, which has outpaced the limited growth—if any—in the number of practicing scientists"
"Specific groups have disproportionately grown in their articles published per year"
with consequences on "citation behaviors" inter alia.
"Specific groups have disproportionately grown in their articles published per year"
with consequences on "citation behaviors" inter alia.
Quite important set of historical papers 👇
Special issue on the Sociobiology Debate at fifty. Important new archival discoveries. No paywall.
online.ucpress.edu/hsns/issue/5...
online.ucpress.edu/hsns/issue/5...
Volume 55 Issue 1 | Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences | University of California Press
online.ucpress.edu
January 1, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Quite important set of historical papers 👇
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Now accepting applications for SFI’s 2026 CSSS program, a 3-week experience for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and professionals to explore foundational theory, engage in collaborative projects, and connect with a global research community.
Apply by Feb 4, 2026
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December 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Now accepting applications for SFI’s 2026 CSSS program, a 3-week experience for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and professionals to explore foundational theory, engage in collaborative projects, and connect with a global research community.
Apply by Feb 4, 2026
www.santafe.edu/csss
Apply by Feb 4, 2026
www.santafe.edu/csss
Always remember.
Vermutlich waren die gemeinsam nach Riga deportierten Schwestern Ella und Grete Ungar die Verfasserinnen. Ella schließt optimistisch: "Wir haben hier alle Hoffnung. Hier sind wir alle in dem Glauben, dass dass bald alles anders und zum Guten enden wird." Die beiden Schwestern haben nicht überlebt.
December 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Always remember.
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Please, carry on liking and sharing this petition in support of University of Sheffield workers. Thank you. @ucu.org.uk @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucuhallam.bsky.social
www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
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No lockout for University of Sheffield staff
UCU members have been standing up against the continual cutting and restructuring of the last several years which has significantly damaged the University’s international standing, the quality of educ...
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December 27, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Please, carry on liking and sharing this petition in support of University of Sheffield workers. Thank you. @ucu.org.uk @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucuhallam.bsky.social
www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
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Wichtig.
Inzwischen hat die Handreichung zu Informationen und Empfehlungen zum Umgang mit Rechtsextremismus an der Uni auch ein schickes Layout bekommen:
December 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Wichtig.