Andrea Zerboni

Andrea Zerboni

@andzerb.bsky.social

Professor @ Univ Milano. Geoarchaeologist, Quaternary geologist, Geomorphologist. INQUA TERPRO Commission President. Editor in Chief of Quaternary Environments and Humans

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Communications Biology
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New review published on the possibility, physiology, pitfalls and ethics of using extremophilic microbial communities in future Martian terraforming Claudia Coleine and @andzerb.bsky.social @manudelbaq.bsky.social - @irnase.bsky.social @csicandalextrem.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...

nature.comThe role of extremophile microbiomes in terraforming Mars - Communications BiologyThis Review highlights how extremophile microbiomes and synthetic biology approaches could support Martian terraforming by driving biogeochemical cycles, regolith transformation, and future life-suppo...

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Felix Riede
@felixthehauskat.bsky.social

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3) 2.5 yr postdoctoral position in Palaeolithic gene-culture coevolution. Together with a palaeogenomics postdoc, we seek to generate material culture data such that we can capture these ancient gene-culture cophylogenetic dynamics international.au.dk/about/profil...

international.au.dkPostdoctoral position in Palaeolithic gene-culture coevolution, Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus UniversityVacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University

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Dr Huw Groucutt
@huwgroucutt.bsky.social

(1/11) I am very happy to announce that I have been awarded a European Research Council ‘Consolidator Grant’. The TerraForm project (‘The Rise and Fall of Maltese Terraced Landscapes’) will begin in the spring of 2025.

Dr Huw Groucutt@huwgroucutt.bsky.social

erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

erc.europa.euConsolidator Grants: ERC awards €678m in grants to back excellent research across EuropeThe European Research Council (ERC) has awarded its 2024 Consolidator Grants to 328 researchers across Europe. These grants, totalling €678 million, aim to support outstanding scientists and scholars ...

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Eleanor Scerri
@elliescerri.bsky.social

Our new article led by @eslembenarous.bsky.social on the MSA site of Bargny, where new investigations headed by Dr Khady Niang have yielded samples that show its Middle Pleistocene age. The West African MSA keeps getting older (watch this space!). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

sciencedirect.comConstraining the age of the Middle Stone Age locality of Bargny (Senegal) through a combined OSL-ESR dating approachThe Middle Stone Age (MSA) is the major chrono-cultural phase associated with the emergence and evolution of Homo sapiens in Africa. Despite its impor…

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Eleanor Scerri
@elliescerri.bsky.social

Ignore West Africa, a vast and diverse region, at your peril if you want to understand human evolution and the earliest prehistory of our species! Major news is coming soon, and in the meantime, this meeting next week is gathering fantastic momentum! www.gea.mpg.de/104309/confe...

gea.mpg.deWest Africa and the Origins of Humankind - A Deep Time PerspectiveThis event will be the first major conference dedicated to exploring human evolution and the deep human past in West Africa.

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