Nina Maaranen
@nmaaranen.bsky.social
🇫🇮 archaeologist specialised in 💀
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It's happening! Canada launched two programs to recruit international researchers.
Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (1 million/yr for 8 yrs +)
Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders.
I will do my best to facilitate the process for those interested. Hit me up.
www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...
Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (1 million/yr for 8 yrs +)
Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders.
I will do my best to facilitate the process for those interested. Hit me up.
www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...
The Government of Canada introduces new programs for international researchers - Canada.ca
www.canada.ca
December 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
It's happening! Canada launched two programs to recruit international researchers.
Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (1 million/yr for 8 yrs +)
Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders.
I will do my best to facilitate the process for those interested. Hit me up.
www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...
Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (1 million/yr for 8 yrs +)
Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders.
I will do my best to facilitate the process for those interested. Hit me up.
www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...
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🏺🧪
Roman urbanism was bad for health, new study confirms
phys.org/news/2025-12...
phys.org/news/2025-12...
Roman urbanism was bad for health, new study confirms
Analysis of skeletal remains from England before and during Roman occupation confirms theories that the population's health declined under Roman occupation, but only in the urban centers, suggesting p...
phys.org
December 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
🏺🧪
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The next Badaro Talks lecture ”Adaptive Communities, Complex Governance: Pastoralism at the Crossroads of Ecology and Rural Politics” by Moustapha Itani takes place on Dec, 11th at 6 pm.
More info and RSVP can be found in FIME's website:
www.fime.fi/tapahtuma/ba...
More info and RSVP can be found in FIME's website:
www.fime.fi/tapahtuma/ba...
Badaro Talk: Adaptive Communities, Complex Governance: Pastoralism at the Crossroads of Ecology and Rural Politics – Suomen Lähi-idän instituutti
Please join us on for the next Badaro Talks, presented by the PhD candidate Moustapha Itani. The lecture delves into […]
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December 3, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The next Badaro Talks lecture ”Adaptive Communities, Complex Governance: Pastoralism at the Crossroads of Ecology and Rural Politics” by Moustapha Itani takes place on Dec, 11th at 6 pm.
More info and RSVP can be found in FIME's website:
www.fime.fi/tapahtuma/ba...
More info and RSVP can be found in FIME's website:
www.fime.fi/tapahtuma/ba...
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Interested in applying for this funded PhD with me
at UCL Institute of Archaeology? Get in touch to discuss this project or to develop your own idea!
Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection.
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/hum...
at UCL Institute of Archaeology? Get in touch to discuss this project or to develop your own idea!
Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection.
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/hum...
December 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Interested in applying for this funded PhD with me
at UCL Institute of Archaeology? Get in touch to discuss this project or to develop your own idea!
Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection.
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/hum...
at UCL Institute of Archaeology? Get in touch to discuss this project or to develop your own idea!
Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection.
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/hum...
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📣 Thurs 27 Nov 2025 17:15 the Munro Lecture will be given by Dr Ricardo Fernandes @maxplanck.de "Isotopic snapshots: a 15,000-year journey through the human story" 🧪 book your FREE ticket here: https://tinyurl.com/3sx4rspn @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social #isotopes #archsci #EdinArch #MunroLecture
November 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
📣 Thurs 27 Nov 2025 17:15 the Munro Lecture will be given by Dr Ricardo Fernandes @maxplanck.de "Isotopic snapshots: a 15,000-year journey through the human story" 🧪 book your FREE ticket here: https://tinyurl.com/3sx4rspn @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social #isotopes #archsci #EdinArch #MunroLecture
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FIME's director Susanne Dahlgren is interviewed in the American University of Beirut's podcast Society and Science (العلم والمجتمع)
Listen to the podcast here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq0X...
Listen to the podcast here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq0X...
Susanne Dahlgren: A long journey in Anthropology of Southern Yemen: From Society to Court Room to...
YouTube video by American University of Beirut
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October 1, 2025 at 9:59 AM
FIME's director Susanne Dahlgren is interviewed in the American University of Beirut's podcast Society and Science (العلم والمجتمع)
Listen to the podcast here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq0X...
Listen to the podcast here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq0X...
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Jane Goodall was a global legend at the forefront of discovery — breaking through barriers for women in primatology, science, and beyond.
Her curiosity, strength, and kindness changed the world, bridging countries and cultures in pursuit of a better future.
Her curiosity, strength, and kindness changed the world, bridging countries and cultures in pursuit of a better future.
October 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Jane Goodall was a global legend at the forefront of discovery — breaking through barriers for women in primatology, science, and beyond.
Her curiosity, strength, and kindness changed the world, bridging countries and cultures in pursuit of a better future.
Her curiosity, strength, and kindness changed the world, bridging countries and cultures in pursuit of a better future.
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Come work with us!🏺
Together with my brilliant colleague Georgia Barker we are looking for a project curator to research how childhood is represented in the collections of our two departments at the British Museum, Egypt & Sudan and Greece & Rome. 👇👇👇
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Together with my brilliant colleague Georgia Barker we are looking for a project curator to research how childhood is represented in the collections of our two departments at the British Museum, Egypt & Sudan and Greece & Rome. 👇👇👇
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Project Curator: Hidden Stories of Childhood
Greece and Rome; Egypt and Sudan
Full-time: 41 hours per week (including one hour paid lunch break)
Fixed term for 12 months
£36,396 per annum
Application deadline: 12pm (midday) on 17 October 2025
bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Come work with us!🏺
Together with my brilliant colleague Georgia Barker we are looking for a project curator to research how childhood is represented in the collections of our two departments at the British Museum, Egypt & Sudan and Greece & Rome. 👇👇👇
bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com//templates/C...
Together with my brilliant colleague Georgia Barker we are looking for a project curator to research how childhood is represented in the collections of our two departments at the British Museum, Egypt & Sudan and Greece & Rome. 👇👇👇
bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com//templates/C...
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The lecture ”Late Bronze Age System Collapse on the Eastern Mediterranean – Lessons from History” will be given by FIME’s new researcher Joanna Töyräänvuori on Wednesday 17th of September at 6pm at the FIME premises at 30 Badaro Street, Chaoui Building. You can also attend online.
Badaro Talk 17.9. – Joanna Töyräänvuori: Late Bronze Age System Collapse on the Eastern Mediterranean – Lessons from History – Suomen Lähi-idän instituutti
The next Badaro Talks lecture ”Late Bronze Age System Collapse on the Eastern Mediterranean – Lessons from History” will be […]
www.fime.fi
August 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The lecture ”Late Bronze Age System Collapse on the Eastern Mediterranean – Lessons from History” will be given by FIME’s new researcher Joanna Töyräänvuori on Wednesday 17th of September at 6pm at the FIME premises at 30 Badaro Street, Chaoui Building. You can also attend online.
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Climate change isn’t a future problem - it’s a present reality. But even without increasing climate chaos, research shows human health is weather-dependent.🌡️
A new paper for @pnas.org by Nick Obradovich, @emlawrance.bsky.social and @keltonminor.bsky.social: ow.ly/SApH50WHnGW
#Climate #Health
A new paper for @pnas.org by Nick Obradovich, @emlawrance.bsky.social and @keltonminor.bsky.social: ow.ly/SApH50WHnGW
#Climate #Health
Our current climate already merits serious research and policy attention | PNAS
Our current climate already merits serious research and policy attention
ow.ly
August 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Climate change isn’t a future problem - it’s a present reality. But even without increasing climate chaos, research shows human health is weather-dependent.🌡️
A new paper for @pnas.org by Nick Obradovich, @emlawrance.bsky.social and @keltonminor.bsky.social: ow.ly/SApH50WHnGW
#Climate #Health
A new paper for @pnas.org by Nick Obradovich, @emlawrance.bsky.social and @keltonminor.bsky.social: ow.ly/SApH50WHnGW
#Climate #Health
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This paper was a long time coming - includes data gathered over many years via support from multiple #NSF and #WennerGren grants.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Childhood nutritional stress and later-life health outcomes in medieval England: Evidence from incremental dentine analysis
Childhood malnutrition may have led to poor adult health in medieval England and became less common after the Black Death.
www.science.org
July 30, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This paper was a long time coming - includes data gathered over many years via support from multiple #NSF and #WennerGren grants.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Really cool study looking at how behaviour precedes morphological change across taxa - and implications for human evolution 💀🧪 massive congrats to all the authors, including @vivek123.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution
Dietary shifts and corresponding morphological changes can sometimes evolve in succession, not concurrently—an evolutionary process called behavioral drive. Detecting behavioral drive in the fossil re...
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August 1, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Really cool study looking at how behaviour precedes morphological change across taxa - and implications for human evolution 💀🧪 massive congrats to all the authors, including @vivek123.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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🚨 JOB APPLICATION 🚨
The University of Western Australia is looking for an Associate Professor in Biological Anthropology
Deadline for applying: August 22nd
More information on the link below 👇
external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/en/job/52090...
The University of Western Australia is looking for an Associate Professor in Biological Anthropology
Deadline for applying: August 22nd
More information on the link below 👇
external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/en/job/52090...
Prospective staff : Jobs at UWA : The University Of Western Australia
external.jobs.uwa.edu.au
July 25, 2025 at 8:51 AM
🚨 JOB APPLICATION 🚨
The University of Western Australia is looking for an Associate Professor in Biological Anthropology
Deadline for applying: August 22nd
More information on the link below 👇
external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/en/job/52090...
The University of Western Australia is looking for an Associate Professor in Biological Anthropology
Deadline for applying: August 22nd
More information on the link below 👇
external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/en/job/52090...
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"Indiana Jones and the curse of the Eduroam login"
Disney Reportedly Planning Full Reboot of the INDIANA JONES Franchise
Disney Reportedly Planning Full Reboot of the INDIANA JONES Franchise
It looks like Indiana Jones might actually be headed for the reboot treatment. According to a recent report from DisInsider , Disney and Lucasfilm are considering a full relaunch of the iconic adventure...
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July 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"Indiana Jones and the curse of the Eduroam login"
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Something lovely for your timeline!
Beautiful blue glass beads from the late Bronze Age.
Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago.
📷 National Museum of Denmark
#Archaeology
Beautiful blue glass beads from the late Bronze Age.
Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago.
📷 National Museum of Denmark
#Archaeology
June 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Something lovely for your timeline!
Beautiful blue glass beads from the late Bronze Age.
Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago.
📷 National Museum of Denmark
#Archaeology
Beautiful blue glass beads from the late Bronze Age.
Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago.
📷 National Museum of Denmark
#Archaeology
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We also published a second paper on the spread of farming from Anatolia into SE Europe. Our results challenge the assumption that cultural entities frequently correspond to genetically homogeneous populations. Pots don’t equal people! 🏺
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Out-of-Anatolia: Cultural and genetic interactions during the Neolithic expansion in the Aegean
West Anatolia has been a crucial yet elusive element in the Neolithic expansion from the Fertile Crescent to Europe. In this work, we describe the changing genetic and cultural landscapes of early Hol...
www.science.org
June 27, 2025 at 4:41 AM
We also published a second paper on the spread of farming from Anatolia into SE Europe. Our results challenge the assumption that cultural entities frequently correspond to genetically homogeneous populations. Pots don’t equal people! 🏺
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Since our big Science paper on female lineages at Çatalhöyük is out now, it seems like a good time to repost our related paper that we published earlier this year on material and biological ties🙂🌼
“A Network of Mutualities of Being”: Socio-material Archaeological Networks and Biological Ties at Çatalhöyük - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
Recent advances in archaeogenomics have granted access to previously unavailable biological information with the potential to further our understanding of past social dynamics at a range of scales. Ho...
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June 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Since our big Science paper on female lineages at Çatalhöyük is out now, it seems like a good time to repost our related paper that we published earlier this year on material and biological ties🙂🌼
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After many years this is out now, many congratulations to everybody!
Female lineages and changing kinship patterns in Neolithic Çatalhöyük
Combining 131 paleogenomes with bioarchaeological and archaeological data, we studied social organization and gendered practices in Çatalhöyük East Mound (7100 to 5950 BCE), a major Neolithic settleme...
www.science.org
June 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
After many years this is out now, many congratulations to everybody!
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Great opportunity to work at NVIC in Cairo with lovely people!
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
University Lecturer in Egyptology & Archaeology in Cairo
University Lecturer in Egyptology & Archaeology in CairoThe Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo is seeking a University Lecturer/Assistant Director in Egyptology & Archaeology (0,5 fte). Are you a ...
www.universiteitleiden.nl
June 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Great opportunity to work at NVIC in Cairo with lovely people!
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
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The archaeology of climate change: a blueprint for integrating environmental and cultural systems www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The archaeology of climate change: a blueprint for integrating environmental and cultural systems - Nature Communications
Here, the authors propose how climate change archaeology can explain how cultural systems impact interactions between humans and the environment, and vice versa, presenting a framework based in c...
www.nature.com
June 14, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The archaeology of climate change: a blueprint for integrating environmental and cultural systems www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Big changes to the ERC funding schemes!
Note the new eligibility criteria from 2027 on:
📌 Starting Grant: 0-10 y post-PhD
📌 Consolidator Grant: 5-15 y post-PhD
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
Note the new eligibility criteria from 2027 on:
📌 Starting Grant: 0-10 y post-PhD
📌 Consolidator Grant: 5-15 y post-PhD
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
Changes to the 2026 and 2027 Work Programmes
With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The mai...
erc.europa.eu
June 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Big changes to the ERC funding schemes!
Note the new eligibility criteria from 2027 on:
📌 Starting Grant: 0-10 y post-PhD
📌 Consolidator Grant: 5-15 y post-PhD
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
Note the new eligibility criteria from 2027 on:
📌 Starting Grant: 0-10 y post-PhD
📌 Consolidator Grant: 5-15 y post-PhD
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
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Suomen Lähi-idän instituutin säätiön tutkija YTM Antti Tarvainen väittelee Helsingin yliopistossa tänä perjantaina 6.6.2025. Väitöstä voi seurata paikan päällä Helsingin yliopistolla tai etäyhteydellä.
June 4, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Suomen Lähi-idän instituutin säätiön tutkija YTM Antti Tarvainen väittelee Helsingin yliopistossa tänä perjantaina 6.6.2025. Väitöstä voi seurata paikan päällä Helsingin yliopistolla tai etäyhteydellä.
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This is the uncropped version of the famous “tank man” photo from June 4, 1989.
Almost half of the Chinese population was born after this event.
Later that year, Austria permitted East Germans holidaying in Hungary to drive over its border.
The Berlin Wall fell in October.
Quite a year.
Almost half of the Chinese population was born after this event.
Later that year, Austria permitted East Germans holidaying in Hungary to drive over its border.
The Berlin Wall fell in October.
Quite a year.
June 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This is the uncropped version of the famous “tank man” photo from June 4, 1989.
Almost half of the Chinese population was born after this event.
Later that year, Austria permitted East Germans holidaying in Hungary to drive over its border.
The Berlin Wall fell in October.
Quite a year.
Almost half of the Chinese population was born after this event.
Later that year, Austria permitted East Germans holidaying in Hungary to drive over its border.
The Berlin Wall fell in October.
Quite a year.