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Did a morning walk in the USF forest preserve, checking some prescribed burn areas and found some lovely springtime flowers. Even spotted an orchid!

Haven’t read more than the abstract, but I really like how the problem is framed here.

Our little butterfly garden is paying dividends this year. May this springtime renewal ritual cleanse your timeline.

PHYTO-CHAT-L, the new email discussion list for anything #phytolith related is now up and running. Fill out the subscription form with your name, affiliation and email address and you will be subscribed to the list: forms.gle/qYEUJt4uhCzwZJ… #phytoliths #archaeobotany #paleoecology

This kind of shit crystallizes my mistrust for higher ed. The wonders of nature exist outside the academy, too. You might find us there in the future when our conscience cannot bear being culpable for awful acts of cowardice.

🚨New paper alert!🚨 'Frequent disturbances enhanced the resilience of past human populations' - We analysed 30,000 years of history to understand how populations absorb and recover from disturbances Research @ Bournemouth University Bournemouth Uni doi.org/10.1038/s41586… Gold OA:🔓

📢 Publication Alert 📢 Happy to share a new paper published today on Archaeometry Journal where I : 1) review the many challenges of archaeological applications of aoristic analyses, and 2) propose an alternative approach based on Bayesian statistics onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ar…

I despair at both this passing muster at WSJ and also how narrow this race is.

Hypothetically, if you review the same article 10 times for five different journals can you get a free sandwich or coffee or something? Asking for a friend.

I know it’s stupid but the bullshit algorithm here pushes videos where motherfuckers get the interior of trees wrong but LOOK AT THE DETAIL ON THE STOVE.

Interested in tropical peatlands? On 17-18 February, we have the first ever scientific conference on African peatlands, at the Royal Society in London. Free to attend+streamed online (w/ French subtitles). Register here: royalsociety.org/science-events…

Excited to be a part of this project, extending the record of known rain forest and exploitation by humans back to 150,000 years ago. Some of my pollen images made it into the main text! Don’t think any of my co-authors are on this hell site anymore… nature.com/articles/s4158…

Pollen and phytoliths making the thumbnail. You love to see it.

The long time focus on famous end users companies like @apple by activists, the media and in this case the Congolese government itself, has obscured players directly involved in the pillaging of #DRC's minerals wealth, from Rwandan officials to Western brokers.

New publication on Holocene climates and vegetation in Cameroon. Come for the biomarkers, stay for the pollen diagrams! Sensitivity to climate and vegetation dynamics of a peatland record fr... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Very proud to have our *newest OA article* with Journal of Archaeological Science based on the #BantuFirst project. Here we describe the earliest contextualized use of pressure flaking in the Congo Basin from ~15kya at Mitshakila, DRC @ElsevierArchaeo sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

❗️It's finally out❗️ Our book 'An Archaeology of the Bantu Expansion' is now available. If you are interested in any aspect of the Central African past over the past 40k years, including palaeoenv, archaeo, history, language, and genetics-check it out! routledge.com/An-Archaeology…