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Paweł Cembrzyński
@pawelcembrzynski.bsky.social
Post-doc in ROOTS Cluster of Excellence, CAU Kiel
Studying medieval urbanism and the ecology of mining
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Today, we are publishing our World Inequality Report, which reviews the most recent #inequalitydata and exposes the magnitude of #inequality across time, space and all its dimensions.

👇Share this thread, share the report!
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World Inequality Report 2026
YouTube video by World Inequality Lab
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December 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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The results of the ERC Consolidator Grant call have been announced! 📣

349 researchers have been selected for funding. Congratulations to all! #ERCCogG!

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#FrontierResearch #EUfunded #HorizonEurope

@scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
December 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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We are thrilled to share this! 🎉 Our PhD student & Santorio Fellow @sarahseinitzer.bsky.social has a new post on @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social blog Forma Fluens: “Bergsucht and Miner’s Chest” ⛏️🫁—about miners’ health, morbi metallici, & early social care. Go give it a read! #HistMed #Mining
Forma Fluens: New Article

'𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐆𝐒𝐔𝐂𝐇𝐓' 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐑'𝐒 𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒𝐓
𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐥𝐥𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬
Sarah Seinitzer

Read all about it here: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/.../health-a...

#CSMBR #MedicalHistory #Miners #Bergsucht #Germany #Mining
December 5, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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New issue just landed on our website!
December 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Nature research paper: No meta-analytical effect of economic inequality on well-being or mental health

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No meta-analytical effect of economic inequality on well-being or mental health - Nature
A meta-analysis of 168 studies reveals that economic inequality is not significantly associated with subjective well-being or mental health.
go.nature.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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The Roman Empire needed wood for building and burning. Tree-ring analysis of over 20,000 samples reveals how Roman expansion drove intensive logging across Central-Western Europe, eventually leading to overexploitation of old-growth forests. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/tWR150XAhVA
December 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Opie and Atkinson conduct a global phylogenetic analysis of 868 cultures and find evidence indicating that cereal grain cultivation, not agricultural surplus, drove state formation. Their findings also link taxation and writing to state emergence.
State formation across cultures and the role of grain, intensive agriculture, taxation and writing - Nature Human Behaviour
Opie and Atkinson conduct a global phylogenetic analysis of 868 cultures and find evidence indicating that cereal grain cultivation, not agricultural surplus, drove state formation. Their findings also link taxation and writing to state emergence.
www.nature.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Germany is one of the most popular destinations for students and scholars worldwide, but those pursuing academic careers face significant hurdles to success

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How to stop the revolving door of German academia
Germany is one of the most popular destinations for students and scholars worldwide, but those pursuing academic careers face significant hurdles to success.
www.nature.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Medieval agricultural and trade practices in southwestern Germany boosted plant diversity for centuries, with biodiversity peaking around 1000 CE and declining only when human activity contracted during the Black Death. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/Q6ca50XxIvC
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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🚨Join us this monday for the second talk in this semester’s colloquium series. @mininghistory.bsky.social presents:
“Mining the Past: What is the role of historians in the mining industry?”

📅 Nov 24, 2025
⏰ 3:00–4:30 PM CET

Haven’t registered yet? There’s still time: bit.ly/MiningThePast
#histSci
Mining the Past: What is the role of historians in the mining industry?
SCARCE Colloquium Speaker: Duncan Money (Independent scholar) University of Vienna Online Event
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November 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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NEW: You can now freely access the *full* introduction of our new book, The Price of Gold, on the refreshed website for @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social:

www.mqup.ca/Books/T/The-...
The Price of Gold
Fifty years of gold mining at Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories spurred northern settlement and produced millions of dollars in profits. But mineral processing also had catastrophic environment...
www.mqup.ca
November 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Today, the workshop continues with sessions on inequalities in settlements, in connection with economics and trade, and the question of what languages have to do with inequalities.
All info: www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-r...
🧵 (3/3)
#inequalities #pastsocieties #archaeology #linguistics
Workshop: Inequalities in past societies: Creation and Resistance
Organized by the Subcluster ROOTS of Inequalities
www.uni-kiel.de
November 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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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...
November 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Two Paths to Prosperity by Avner Greif, Joel Mokyr, and Guido Tabellini explores how the social organization of Europe and China shaped their divergent economic and political trajectories over the past millennium.

Arrives next week on November 4! Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
October 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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University of Kiel - Doctoral Researcher in History of Knowledge of the Medieval World

#medievalsky

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University of Kiel - Doctoral Researcher in History of Knowledge of the Medieval World | MEMOs
Doctoral Researcher in History of Knowledge of the Medieval World (Kiel, Germany)
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October 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research

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What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision
Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.
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October 22, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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There is still time to apply for the 2026 Datini-Ester seminar on "Craft Guilds & Unions"! All PhD students working on these topics are welcome to apply! Join us in beautiful Prato (Tuscany) for this funded experience! (deadline November 15)
www.istitutodatini.it/ester/htm/ca...
October 21, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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🌟 Don't forget to join us today for the first talk of this semester's colloquium series! @chensinotech.bsky.social is presenting "Mining Knowledge from Field to University: The Rise of Engineering Education in Late Imperial China"
⏰ Time: 3:00–4:30 PM CET
Registration and more info: bit.ly/47mN3sS
Mining Knowledge from Field to University: The Rise of Engineering Education in Late Imperial China
SCARCE Colloquium Speaker: Hailian Chen (Ruhr-Universität, Bochum) University of Vienna Hybrid Event
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October 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Janna Cooman's chapter "Urban Environmental History", discusses the intersection of urban environmental history and public health with a #deep-time perspective, including the management of #urbanhazards, #waterscapes, and #healthsacaping. #OA #globalhistory

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Urban Environmental History
Urban societies, as multispecies entities, are shaped by the negotiation of environmental actors. This chapter adds to that broadening and seeks to give an overview of the main debates of urban envir....
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October 20, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Choose your own (research) adventure.
My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com
October 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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📅 Today! 👇 💡
#ResearchCareers: Just finishing your #PhD and wondering if the DFG’s Walter Benjamin Programme is a #funding option for your next step in academia? Come and find out in our digital info talk on 14 October. No registration, the meeting link will be published here:
➡️ www.dfg.de/en/research-...
October 14, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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You are an early-career scientist interested in social and environmental processes in the past? For our second phase, we are offering 5 positions for postdocs and 9 positions for doctoral students.

Apply now!

All the details: www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-r...
#earlycareerscientists #jobs
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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I admit that 10 ya I'd never have thought that archaeology would take me on the one hand all the way to Jordan, and on the other to a MoCap Lab! Fun, fun, fun!
Thx, @4drl1.bsky.social
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"Praecipua pronuntiationis adiumenta..." project. More: projekty.ncn.gov.pl/opisy/618725...
@ncn.gov.pl
October 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM