Eslem Ben Arous (She/Her)

Back to Oxford to calibrate our new gamma probe for ESR and Luminscence dating of African Pleistocene sites !

j'imagine que vous vous rendez compte que ce serait H24 sur toutes les chaines TV/radio si le gars était une personne racisée (ou un militant LFI)
ça hurlerait de partout, horreur malheur, danger, risque intersidéral sur la démocratie...

ça me rend folle

The Impact of Human Origins on People's Understanding of the World Join the National Museum of Natural History’s Human Origins Program for a discussion on how the program developed from the Smithsonian's cutting-edge research, a permanent exhibition, and public engag...

The Smithsonian will be hosting a free webinar this Sunday, February 22 from 1:30-3:00 EST, The Impact of Human Origins on People's Understanding of the World. Check it out! naturalhistory.si.edu/events/impac... #museums #humanorigins #evosky

Call for papers!
#UISPP2026 in Poznan
Thematic Session S-12C: Approaches to Early & Middle Stone Age/Palaeolithic open-air contexts in arid landscapes
uispp2026.syskonf.pl

I would love to attend but not sure yet if I will make the UISPP this year :(

Mort de Quentin D. à Lyon : « L'antifascisme est aujourd'hui instrumentalisé » Le décès, à Lyon, de Quentin Deranque, militant d'extrême droite de 23 ans, à la suite d'une rixe avec des antifas, sert de prétexte à une entreprise d'inversion des valeurs, mettant dos à dos fascism...

Le décès de Quentin Deranque, militant d’extrême droite de 23 ans, sert de prétexte à une entreprise d’inversion des valeurs, mettant dos à dos fascisme et antifascisme, au mépris des faits historiques.

Entretien avec l’historienne Stéfanie Prezioso, par @lcrozenn.bsky.social 👇

Sorry but...WHAT ?

Reminder: ASAPA abstract deadline 31 Jan ⏰

We invite abstracts for our session on the Pleistocene record of the Kalahari and interior southern Africa, including comparative studies with other regions of southern Africa or Africa.

Submit via the ASAPA portal: asapa2026.co.za/submissions....

Depuis le 24 janv, nous sommes à Banjeli, centre Togo. Cette année pas de fouilles paléometallurgiques mais une expérimentation avec les locaux. Le but construire et faire fonctionner un fourneau de réduction de minerai de fer du XVIIIe siècle @umr5608traces.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

📣 Yonatan Sahle and I are delighted to invite abstracts for Session# 18 of the 17th PanAf Congress (July 26–31, 2026, Maputo, Mozambique). The session welcomes interdisciplinary contributions on the Middle and Late Pleistocene archaeology of eastern Africa. Submit your abstract by March 15, 2026.

📣 Work with us! 📣

We are seeking to appoint a part-time, permanent Biomolecular Research Laboratory Technician!

Hear a bit more about the role from @matthewcollins.bsky.social

📅 Closing date: 2 February

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/biomole...

Between my various trips to Africa planned for 2026, I am also starting my tour of UK labs. First stop: London for a few weeks!

Screen grab of bluesky post showing text about Neanderthal aesthetics and a gen-AI image showing a male with inaccurate facial anatomy in a cave looking pensive, in front of him is a very complex graphic engraving in the floor and behind that is a red handprint on the wall with six fingers and a star-shape negative inside it.

Screenshot of bluesky post with text about Neanderthals and fire, and a gen-AI image showing a group of male Neanderthals near extremely small mammoths in a snowy forest. The Neanderthals have a mix of fur and leather belts and wristguards, with metallic details including buckles. They have spears, the tips of which are clearly modelled on metal spears and in no way resemble any known Neanderthal artefacts.

Close-up on the body of one Neanderthal in the forest showing details of the metal and leather belts and wrist-guards, and metallic-looking spears.

🏺🧪 Reminder - it's never good #SciComm practice to make inaccurate/misleading gen-AI imagery.
Case in point- recent posts here of #Neanderthals with complex engravings, & metallic-looking objects.
(they also apparently have 6 fingers, but I guess who tf cares when it's just vibes for the public 🙄)

Our session is organized by Emuobosa Orijemie, Tebogo Makhubela, @makariusitambu.bsky.social and myself @eslembenarous.bsky.social !

PanAF Sessions The Local Organizing Committee is excited that almost 70 sessions and workshops will occur at PanAF Moz 2026. Pan-African Association members and non-members are welcome to submit paper abstracts t…

🚨CALL FOR PAPERS!🚨 @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social and I are running a session (S17) at PanAf2026 in Mozambique, titled: Pan-African Homo sapiens evolution: linking processes with data. More info: panaf2026moz.com/panaf-sessio... & submit an abstract: panaf2026moz.com/paper-submis... deadline March 15th

PanAF Sessions The Local Organizing Committee is excited that almost 70 sessions and workshops will occur at PanAF Moz 2026. Pan-African Association members and non-members are welcome to submit paper abstracts t…

For more info, see panaf2026moz.com/panaf-sessio...
The dealine is March 15th! Hop hop !

PanAF Sessions The Local Organizing Committee is excited that almost 70 sessions and workshops will occur at PanAF Moz 2026. Pan-African Association members and non-members are welcome to submit paper abstracts t…

CALL FOR PAPERS ALERT 🚨 For the next PanAf2026 in Mozambique, we are organizing the session "Beyond the frontiers in Palaeoscience: renewing chronological, geoarchaeological, palaeolandscape and palaeoenvironmental approches to the African Pleistocene".

In 2026, we are taking back our science. You don’t have to love all our tactics, but please trust me when I say @standupforscience.bsky.social is on the right side of history and we will remain so.

The original call out remains: GET IN, DORKS!

open.substack.com/pub/sciencef...

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Do you hold an EU or Swiss passport and speak English fluently? Your help will be needed at #EGU26!

Our conference provider and partner Copernicus is looking for conference assistants.

👉 Apply here by 5 January 2026: egu.eu/4DNZDO

📸 Florian Heine on #imaggeo

West African ancestry in seventh-century England: two individuals from Kent and Dorset Archaeogenetics, the study of ancient DNA, can reveal powerful insights into kinship and the movement of individuals in (pre)history. Here, the authors report on the identification of two individuals with genetic profiles consistent with recent sub-Saharan African ancestry, both of whom were buried in early-medieval cemeteries in southern Britain. Focusing primarily on a sub-adult female from Updown in Kent, the authors explore the societal and cultural contexts in which these individuals lived and died, and the widening geographic links indicated by their presence, pointing back to the Byzantine reconquest of North Africa in AD 533–534.

People have always moved around, and DNA can now paint a clearer picture of ancient migration #MigrantsDay #IMD
DNA analysis at two early-medieval cemeteries in southern Britain found genetic connections all the way to sub-Saharan West Africa.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

PANAF2026

ALERT - One day left to submit session abstract for the 17th Congress of the Pan African Archaeological Association for Prehistory and Related Studies! Check here the website : panaf2026moz.com

I would love to join but I cannot see the list of sessions on the website !

That is terrible...

Tanzania election: Hundreds feared dead in crackdown on protests A diplomatic source tells the BBC there is credible evidence that at least 500 people have been killed.

Internet is shut down in Tanzania. Haven’t heard from friends in a few days. Hoping for the best.

😭 I hope too.........

We now have studies from Kenya, Ethiopia, and Malawi all suggesting the same thing: that African savanna mammals migrated *very little* before the Holocene!

Congrats @barahuber.bsky.social !!!!

Acting CDC director calls for MMR vaccine to be broken up into three shots There's no evidence that breaking up the MMR shot would make the immunization safer or more effective.

“We have 1,544 measles cases this year, 92% in unvaccinated people, and 3 deaths. The problem isn’t the vaccine — it’s that people aren’t getting it. O’Neill hasn’t offered a single scientific rationale for breaking up MMR.”

@aniloza.bsky.social
@statnews.com
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La campagne de dons 2025 du @fondspresselibre.bsky.social a commencé ! Pour soutenir les médias indépendants, contrer l’hégémonie des médias des milliardaires et faire entendre d’autres voix face à leur radicalisation extrême-droitière, il est vivement conseillé de participer. 1/2

Immensely happy to see this paper out, that we have started in 2021 ! Well done @aliceleplongeon.bsky.social for leading it !