Graeme Warren

Thats the hat trick! Avondale Half. A new PB. Best finishing place in a race. And now my picture in the paper!! (I like to think i was moving quicker than this picture suggests) 🤣🤣🤣

We are delighted to announce that the keynote speech at the upcoming Lessons From the Past conference (23rd - 24th March 2026), will be a free and publicly accessible talk!

Just heard of another major British Palaeolithic site falling through the planning & protection net and being green-lit for development. That's 3 confirmed in 3 years, with 2 others I'm investigating. The failure to schedule Palaeolithic sites & the erosion of planning protections are to blame. 🚨🦣🏺

Extented deadline to March 20th! ✨✨

Interested in maximising data from fragmented bone? Of course you are. Join our free online workshop. Registration closes March 4th. 🦣🧪🏺

It is with great sadness that we heard of the death this morning of Mary de Courcy

Our deepest sympathies to her husband Prof Gabriel Cooney, and all her family and many friends

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam

You can read Mary’s own reflections on her illness here www.irishtimes.com/health/your-...

Revisiting "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and Quitting After the Racist Prologue The “ F*ck Jared Diamond ” article was circulating again, so rather than read it, Kevin and I got Guns, Germs, and Steel : The Fates of Huma...

ecodevoevo.blogspot.com/2026/03/revi...

Potting on chilli seedlings (and a couple of tomatoes).🌶🌶🌶 This does not feel like the weather for it. Wish them luck! The v hot chillis still not ready for transfer from heated seed trays.🔥🔥

Fine views of the Wicklow mountains from Lug today.

Fine views of the Wicklow mountains from Lug today.

E-mail us and join the mailing list at MCRHumNetwork@gmail.com if you are a jobbing researcher with a pre-2019 PhD. We will give peer support and advice. #MCRHumNetwork

Flyer for the 'Into the Wild: Exploring (re)wilding, nature-based land-use and the Historic Environment' containing key details of and links for the conference and discussion meeting against a background image of a Highland valley undergoing nature restoration. Full details: https://tinyurl.com/bd23653y

March has snuck up!! Reminder that the closing date for presenter/attendee EOIs is this Monday, 2 March.

Full details and submission link: tinyurl.com/bd23653y

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Did you do your PhD before 2019, are you a researcher but do not have a permanent academic job: we have a #MCRHumNetwork for you! E-mail us at MCRHumNetwork@gmail.com and join the e-mail list. Tell us also what support would you need. Let's come together!

Ouch! Take it easy

‘Are you tough enough?’: Rethinking the safety, culture and care of archaeologists in the field « Archaeology# « Cambridge Core Blog From the old ‘Cowboys of Science’ adage to swashbuckling fictional characters like Indiana Jones and Lara Croft, the perception that fieldwork, and archaeology generally, is a job for tough people per...

In a recent Cambridge Core blog, Marie Matsuda and Sarah Simeonoff draw on experiences from archeological fieldwork to argue that these stories, “paint a picture of the culture of archaeology, in which field archeologists can feel isolated and unsafe.”
Read more: www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

New podcast! Talking with @peterhhansen.bsky.social about how #mountaineering & #modernity emerged together & how the idea of the 'summit position' came to encompass concepts of sovereignty and empire from the #Alps to #Everest.
shorturl.at/oI5fh
@dollyjorgensen.bsky.social @greenhouseuis.net

Scrap that! Deadline now extended to March 20th... Contact us to discuss possible HG papers please!

uispp2026.syskonf.pl/abstracts

Deadline for UISPP submissions for our hunter-gatherer session is Feb 28th. So you still have time 🤣

Constructing the life as lived by our ancient forebears Experimental archaeology helps show how people lived in the past

"Constructing the life as lived by our ancient forebears
Experimental archaeology helps show how people lived in the past" Irish Times piece from May 2013
www.irishtimes.com/news/science...

What lies beneath – terms and conditions for archaeologists

"Archaeology contributes significantly to Ireland’s national identity and cultural heritage .. Ireland needs to have the sectoral capacity to provide high quality archaeological advice and intervention in the context of the delivery of infrastructural or commercial developments."

Supernaturecultures. Folklorists from Ireland, Norway, Iceland & Scotland explore traditional ecological knowledge, encounter, & nature recovery in a more-than-human North Atlantic. @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @bealoideasucd.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social

UCD School of Archaeology supports an SEO for commercial archaeology in Ireland. It would support better employment conditions for young archaeologists and be of benefit to our discipline

A large mass grave from the Early Iron Age indicates selective violence towards women and children in the Carpathian Basin - Nature Human Behaviour In this analysis of biomolecular and archaeological data from a ninth-century BCE mass grave in the Carpathian Basin, Fibiger et al. find evidence for the targeted killing of mostly unrelated women an...

Congratulations to Assoc Prof Barry Molloy and his team from the @erc.europa.eu funded The Fall of 1200 BC project hosted at @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social their major new publication in Nature Human Behaviour:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social

“Changing the Landscape of Archaeological Publishing”

📚 Congratulations to Dr Jess Beck, Ad Astra Fellow, UCD School of Archaeology, and multi-national co-authors on their important new paper in Current Anthropology critically assessing archaeological publishing.

doi.org/10.1086/739789

Archaeologists seek better pay after many ‘bled out of the profession’ due to low wages Average salary of those working in sector stands at €35,000 with Unite union pushing for Labour Court order

Archaeologists seek better pay after many ‘bled out of the profession’ due to low wages

Summit Positions Jason König and Jonathan Westaway interview Peter Hansen about his research on the Alps and Himalayas.

New podcast! Talking with @peterhhansen.bsky.social sky.social about how #mountaineering & #modernity emerged together & how the idea of the 'summit position' came to encompass concepts of sovereignty and empire from the #Alps to #Everest shorturl.at/oI5fh #EnvHist #EnvHums
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The Festschrift for Hein Bjerck is now out! Greatful for the chance to contribute. Here is the link to the page where one may get it: museumsforlaget.no/produkt/thin... :D

An aerial plan view of the Ballyedmonduff Wedge Tomb. The tomb is pictured from directly overhead, allowing a view of the central gallery that is framed by upright stones, with a kerb and cairn forming a roughly horseshoe shaped mound around it.

Ballyedmonduff Wedge Tomb • Dublin

Located in the Glencullen Adventure Park, on the Dublin Mountains Way, this wedge tomb at Ballyedmonduff is one of the finest examples of its type in Ireland.

It dates to around c.2500 BC, and it is one of a number of wedge tombs in the Dublin Mountains

#Ireland

Friends and colleagues in Irish academia! The wonderful Dr Mary McGill has asked me to circulate her @researchireland.ie - funded survey on Exploring experiences of gender-based online abuse among female academics in Ireland - please do share! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

An aisle of the NMS Archives in Swords, Co. Dublin.

The NMS Archive Unit is pleased to announce the release of an updated Finding Aid of all licences that produced archaeological reports in their collection.

Information on how to access: www.archaeology.ie/collections-...

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