David Wright
Professor at University of Oslo 🇳🇴: Geoarchaeology | Human ecology | Climate change | Evolution | Stable isotopes | Biomarkers | Biodiversity 🌍
- A privilege to spend a day behind the scenes at @yorkmuseumstrust.bsky.social collections and the conversations it sparks - from #biodiversity changes to ecosystem restoration, from human environment interactions through to #art and engagement @ypsyork.bsky.social @anthropocenebio.bsky.social
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- The Valley of the Nuns typifies the beauty, #resilience, challenges and fragility of #mountain social ecological systems - invasive exotic eucalyptus cheek by jowl with old endemic plants, isolated communities and poor roads connected with new infrastructure #Madeira @mtnresearchmri.bsky.social
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- Women in science in #Africa 🌍 Christina Mutinda, a HERI PhD candidate at @UCT_news, explores how early humans adapted to changing environments. Using fossils, isotopes and ecological clues, she reconstructs East Africa’s Early Pleistocene habitats, when Paranthropus boisei roamed.
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- Just published a paper on the lithics from Kabwe. We argue that they're indicative of MSA technology, although they can't be definitevely associated with the fossils. Might help better understand the origins of the MSA and its complex pattern across the continent. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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- A fascinating article by @andrewcurry.com @science.org! 🔬....we hope to find out soon whether 'killings/massacres' actually happened in Vráble or whether ritual practices took place here–skull removal and decapitation are different procedures... 💀👀 stay tuned! @uni-kiel.de @clusterroots.bsky.social
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- November 19, 2025
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- Oops…“Principal components (PC) axes identified by a PCA are not necessarily the most informative biologically. Nevertheless, paleoanthropologists frequently interpret proximity in PC space as indicative of morphological and thus evolutionary affinity or relatedness” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- 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
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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! ➡️ buff.ly/PSn3bi9 #EUfunded #HorizonEurope #ERCSyG
- New paper out in @egu.eu's Climate of the Past together with economists (@mbennedsen.bsky.social @erichillebrand.bsky.social) to apply their rate prediction tools to the Cenozoic stack for detecting the timing and duration of breakpoints. Really fun. @au.dk cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/...
- 😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
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- Here I am. Once again. I'm out of archaeologists. We matched 576 groups w/archaeologists, leaving 13 groups unmatched. This brings me pain! We've never run out of scientists like this before. 598 requests for one category is A LOT. But still. Archaeologists 🥺 www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
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- On my way back from @uio.no where I served (for the first time!) as a PhD opponent with new pal @sallieburrough.bsky.social. We dug deep into the work of @davidkwright.bsky.social's student (now) Dr. Aljasil Chirakkal on Central Asian Pleistocene paleo-environments. Learned a lot!
- 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...
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- October 3, 2025 heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-3-...
- We are hiring a Project Co-ordinator! 🚨 Are you extremely organised with great interpersonal skills? Able to multitask efficiently? Interested in African prehistory? Keen to work with an enthusiastic team? We want to hear from you! Closing date: 17 October, 2025
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- #ESHE2025 Armando Falcucci ‘Convergent technological trajectories in early modern humans across the Mediterranean’ Ahmarian (AH) ancestral to Protoaurignacian (PA)? Test: quant anal of AH fr Ksar Akil & Al-Ansab 1 & PA: NO evidence of PA ancestry or E-W diffusion signal Chatelperronian source 😳?
- 📣New paper alert doi.org/10.1007/s109... How did populations in tropical regions cope with the global climatic change around the LGM? While the tropics are often perceived as having been less impacted by the LGM, we show that -as is often the case - it is more complex than it seems!
- "We don't hire smart people to tell them what to do, we hire them to tell us what to do." ERC grantee Jan Lagerwall (quoting Steve Jobs), during this morning's #RIDaysEU discussion of how bottom-up funding, supporting investigator-driven frontier research, helps meet future innovation challenges.
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- Follow me into #PALARQUE ’s coring campaign in the Cape Region I'll be posting here this week! Co-led by my friends & almighty palynologists Saúl Manzano & Lynne Quick, the project explores fynbos Holocene & Anthropocene dynamics in the #Cederberg mntns., N Cape Region. Part of my 💜 belongs here! 1/
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