David Wright
@davidkwright.bsky.social
Professor at University of Oslo 🇳🇴: Geoarchaeology | Human ecology | Climate change | Evolution | Stable isotopes | Biomarkers | Biodiversity 🌍
Article alert! I analysed sediments using d13C and d15N stable isotopes excavated in 1991 by Susan and Rod McIntosh to better understand early agropastoral settlement dynamics and ecologies in the Middle Senegal River Valley. Open access publication. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Episodic settlement and mound formation context at Cubalel and Siwré sites, Middle Senegal River
Recent analysis of sediments recovered in 1991 at the sites of Cubalel and Siwré in the Middle Senegal River Valley have revealed new insights into th…
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November 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Article alert! I analysed sediments using d13C and d15N stable isotopes excavated in 1991 by Susan and Rod McIntosh to better understand early agropastoral settlement dynamics and ecologies in the Middle Senegal River Valley. Open access publication. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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EcoArch is officially up and running. Over the next 6 years, we will investigate and model landscape change in the Afrotropics thanks to an ERC Synergy Grant. Follow us for exciting developments to come! @erc.europa.eu
@sanneboessenkool.bsky.social @davidkwright.bsky.social
@sanneboessenkool.bsky.social @davidkwright.bsky.social
ERC Synergy Grants to fund 66 teams tackling major scientific challenges
How do you solve science’s toughest puzzles? By joining forces. Sixty-six research teams, bringing together 239 scientists, will receive a total of €684 million in European Research Council Synergy Gr...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
EcoArch is officially up and running. Over the next 6 years, we will investigate and model landscape change in the Afrotropics thanks to an ERC Synergy Grant. Follow us for exciting developments to come! @erc.europa.eu
@sanneboessenkool.bsky.social @davidkwright.bsky.social
@sanneboessenkool.bsky.social @davidkwright.bsky.social
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📣 Meet the new ERC Synergy Grant awardees!
Sixty-six research teams have been selected for funding, bringing together 239 scientists. Congratulations to all!
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#EUfunded #HorizonEurope #ERCSyG
Sixty-six research teams have been selected for funding, bringing together 239 scientists. Congratulations to all!
➡️ buff.ly/PSn3bi9
#EUfunded #HorizonEurope #ERCSyG
November 6, 2025 at 11:12 AM
📣 Meet the new ERC Synergy Grant awardees!
Sixty-six research teams have been selected for funding, bringing together 239 scientists. Congratulations to all!
➡️ buff.ly/PSn3bi9
#EUfunded #HorizonEurope #ERCSyG
Sixty-six research teams have been selected for funding, bringing together 239 scientists. Congratulations to all!
➡️ buff.ly/PSn3bi9
#EUfunded #HorizonEurope #ERCSyG
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Are you going to be our new colleague at @au.dk @auarcher.bsky.social? Full professorship in #archaeology, deadline November 9.
international.au.dk/about/profil...
international.au.dk/about/profil...
Full Professorship(s) in Archaeology - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University
international.au.dk
October 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Are you going to be our new colleague at @au.dk @auarcher.bsky.social? Full professorship in #archaeology, deadline November 9.
international.au.dk/about/profil...
international.au.dk/about/profil...
Two new postdoctoral positions are now open at WIVA. The positions will focus on the material culture of trade (500-1100 CE).
Two Postdoc Positions-Centre of Excellence for The World in the Viking Age - Uppsala University
Two Postdoc Positions-Centre of Excellence for The World in the Viking Age, Department of Archaeology, Ancient History & Conservation, Uppsala University
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October 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Two new postdoctoral positions are now open at WIVA. The positions will focus on the material culture of trade (500-1100 CE).
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I have funding for a 2-year dry-lab postdoc to join our team @humanevouu.bsky.social 🧪 (Deadline Oct 21st)
The project will utilize modern and #aDNA data from humans and sheep to study environmental adaptation (including method development and simulations).
Please share!
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The project will utilize modern and #aDNA data from humans and sheep to study environmental adaptation (including method development and simulations).
Please share!
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Postdoctoral position in Population Genomics - Uppsala University
Postdoctoral position in Population Genomics, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University
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September 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
I have funding for a 2-year dry-lab postdoc to join our team @humanevouu.bsky.social 🧪 (Deadline Oct 21st)
The project will utilize modern and #aDNA data from humans and sheep to study environmental adaptation (including method development and simulations).
Please share!
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
The project will utilize modern and #aDNA data from humans and sheep to study environmental adaptation (including method development and simulations).
Please share!
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Postdoc position opening to undertake interdisciplinary research using modern and sediment-hosted ancient DNA, funded by an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project at Adelaide University.
Learn more about South Australia's new university for the future.
careers.adelaide.edu.au
September 17, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Postdoc position opening to undertake interdisciplinary research using modern and sediment-hosted ancient DNA, funded by an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project at Adelaide University.
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Position open! Feel free to circulate! 📢 Applications are open until September 10th! ⬇️
📢Position open:Independent
junior research group leader:genotype-phenotype interactions🧬🔎
The #HumanOrigins Cluster at Uni Tübingen seeks an expert in genotype-phenotype interactions.
📝Start: Jan 1, 2026
🗓 Apply by Sept 10, 2025
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Apply now! #AcademicJobs
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junior research group leader:genotype-phenotype interactions🧬🔎
The #HumanOrigins Cluster at Uni Tübingen seeks an expert in genotype-phenotype interactions.
📝Start: Jan 1, 2026
🗓 Apply by Sept 10, 2025
🔗 share.google/OVbg1ZLG19yI...
Apply now! #AcademicJobs
Please share!
August 25, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Position open! Feel free to circulate! 📢 Applications are open until September 10th! ⬇️
Azykh Cave fieldwork (second trip of the year) is my contribution to Fieldwork Friday.
August 22, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Azykh Cave fieldwork (second trip of the year) is my contribution to Fieldwork Friday.
Happy to announce that a book I co-edited with @a-beyin.bsky.social won the best book award at the 2025 Society of Africanist Archaeologists conference in Faro, Portugal. Thanks to all of the contributors to the project. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
July 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Happy to announce that a book I co-edited with @a-beyin.bsky.social won the best book award at the 2025 Society of Africanist Archaeologists conference in Faro, Portugal. Thanks to all of the contributors to the project. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Very happy to announce that a new postdoctoral position on the New ERC funded Western Rift Archaeology and Palaeoenvironment Project is open - if you're a geologist or geochronologist come and join us at @icarehb.bsky.social euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/358068 Feel free to share it around.
ANNOUNCEMENT INTERNATIONAL TENDER FOR THE RECRUITMENT OF A POST-DOCTORAL ASSOCIATE RESEARCHER
recruit one (1) ) post-doctoral assistant researcherresearcher to perform duties in the scientific area of Geochronology / Plio-Pleistocene Geology or related areas, under the research project “
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July 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Very happy to announce that a new postdoctoral position on the New ERC funded Western Rift Archaeology and Palaeoenvironment Project is open - if you're a geologist or geochronologist come and join us at @icarehb.bsky.social euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/358068 Feel free to share it around.
Fieldwork in Mnaraeka and Kiuleule, Tanzania. Chasing the Early and Middle Stone Ages in alluvial fans dating to >240 to 20 ka.
June 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Fieldwork in Mnaraeka and Kiuleule, Tanzania. Chasing the Early and Middle Stone Ages in alluvial fans dating to >240 to 20 ka.
Fieldwork at Ayzkh Cave, Azerbaijan. The CAUCUS project will be providing absolute ages and environmental context for the occupations there (probably >1 million years).
June 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Fieldwork at Ayzkh Cave, Azerbaijan. The CAUCUS project will be providing absolute ages and environmental context for the occupations there (probably >1 million years).
Gearing up for fieldwork in Ayzkh Cave, Azerbaijan. We are going to focus on geochronology and environmental reconstruction at this amazing site. @loopdlupien.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Gearing up for fieldwork in Ayzkh Cave, Azerbaijan. We are going to focus on geochronology and environmental reconstruction at this amazing site. @loopdlupien.bsky.social
Cuts to Newcastle's outstanding archaeology program? No way. Please sign this petition to resist the defunding.
Sign the Petition
End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University
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May 28, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Cuts to Newcastle's outstanding archaeology program? No way. Please sign this petition to resist the defunding.
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Ce webinaire commence dans une heure! 👇
📣The ERC and #EURAXESS #Africa are organizing two insightful webinars on "𝐄𝐑𝐂 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚"
🔹 French language 🇫🇷 session on 7 May 2025 at 10:00 CEST.
🔹 English language 🇬🇧 session on 9 May 2025 at 10:00 CEST.
Register now 🔗https://lnkd.in/dUhznwnJ
#EUAfrica #HorizonEU
🔹 French language 🇫🇷 session on 7 May 2025 at 10:00 CEST.
🔹 English language 🇬🇧 session on 9 May 2025 at 10:00 CEST.
Register now 🔗https://lnkd.in/dUhznwnJ
#EUAfrica #HorizonEU
May 7, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Ce webinaire commence dans une heure! 👇
Pit without finds = worthless pit? Investigating a Roman military camp from Caesar's Gallic Wars (58 – 51 BC) near Hermeskeil (Germany). This is one of the rare instances of published non-results for biomarkers. Not all good data validate your hypothesis!
authors.elsevier.com/c/1kx~c,rVDB...
authors.elsevier.com/c/1kx~c,rVDB...
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April 22, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Pit without finds = worthless pit? Investigating a Roman military camp from Caesar's Gallic Wars (58 – 51 BC) near Hermeskeil (Germany). This is one of the rare instances of published non-results for biomarkers. Not all good data validate your hypothesis!
authors.elsevier.com/c/1kx~c,rVDB...
authors.elsevier.com/c/1kx~c,rVDB...
3-year postdoc on a great project.
Research Associate in Archaeology of Later Pastoralism in Eastern Africa (Fixed term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Associate in Archaeology of Later Pastoralism in Eastern Africa (Fixed term) in the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
April 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
3-year postdoc on a great project.
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Want to come and work at York? 👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML043/p... #archaeology 🏺🧪
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Ancient DNA) at University of York
An opportunity for an academic position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate (Ancient DNA) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
www.jobs.ac.uk
March 27, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Want to come and work at York? 👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML043/p... #archaeology 🏺🧪
Job alert for osteoarchaeologists.
Researcher at the Department of Archaeology and Museology - Brno, Czech Republic job with MASARYK UNIVERSITY | 390637
We are looking for a colleague to join the Department of Archaeology and Museology with focus on the use-wear analysis of artefacts ...
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March 26, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Job alert for osteoarchaeologists.
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Palaeo-environmental post-doc alert! 2 years, University of Reading: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI153/p...
Palaeoenvironmental Post Doctoral Research Associate at University of Reading
An academic position as a Palaeoenvironmental Post Doctoral Research Associate is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
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March 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Palaeo-environmental post-doc alert! 2 years, University of Reading: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI153/p...
This is from one of my students looking to expand his world. Please contact him at oscarsv@student.iakh.uio.no if you have an opening on one of your projects this year. I would definitely take him if I had any open slots.
March 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM
This is from one of my students looking to expand his world. Please contact him at oscarsv@student.iakh.uio.no if you have an opening on one of your projects this year. I would definitely take him if I had any open slots.
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(1/9) I’m hiring! Join my ‘Terraform’ ERC project at the University of Malta, looking at the origin, evolution, and impacts of agricultural terracing in the Maltese Islands. Please circulate to anyone you think could be interested. Starting in the summer.
February 24, 2025 at 11:34 AM
(1/9) I’m hiring! Join my ‘Terraform’ ERC project at the University of Malta, looking at the origin, evolution, and impacts of agricultural terracing in the Maltese Islands. Please circulate to anyone you think could be interested. Starting in the summer.