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launch event of the Open Phytoliths Community
👋 Hi Phytolith Researchers, 🌱 The International Committee on Open Phytolith Science (ICOPS) invites you to the launch event of the Open Phytoliths Community. 🌱 We are holding a launch event to spark […]
Open postdoctoral position in South Africa
Postdoctoral position in South Africa Lyn Wadley, Honorary Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, is looking for a dedicated postdoctoral fellow with phytolith and/or charcoal experience to […]
Open post-doc position
Offer: 1 post-doctoral position in phytolith analysis focussing on soil and sediment thin sections (1 year) Start date: 01/02/2022 The Maritime Cultures Research Institute (MARI) in Brussels, Belgium, is a […]
Phytoliths in Asia: Special Issue
We are pleased to announce the launch of a special issue of the journal Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, which aims to bring together work on phytoliths in Asia on : reference […]
Open position at the Leibniz Association in Müncheberg, Germany
The mission of the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) as a nationally and internationally active research institute is to deliver solutions for an ecologically, economically and socially sustainable […]
Francesca D’Agostini gets the 3rd prize !
Francesca d’Agostini is now a PhD student at CaSEs – Culture and Socio-Ecological Dynamics, Campus de la Ciutadella, in Barcelona, Spain. At the 12th IMPR she presented her work on Understanding […]
Eduardo Trein Salgado gets the 2nd prize !
Eduardo Trein Salgado is a PhD student at the Institute of Geosciences, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. At the 12th iMPR he presented a […]
Kristyna Kuncova gets the 1st prize !
Kristýna Hošková (Kuncová) works in the Department of Botany, Faculty of Science at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. At the 12th IMPR she presented her work on Geometric morphometrics as a tool […]
Board elections: Vote now !
INTERNATIONAL PHYTOLITH SOCIETY BOARD ELECTIONS CALL 2021 After a successful 12th International Meeting on Phytolith Research, it is time to call for elections for the new board members. In accordance […]
Board elections 2021 call for nominations
As the 12th International Meeting on Phytolith Research is about to get started, it is time to call for elections for the new board members. In accordance with the IPS […]
Approaching 12th IMPR ! Conference updates
Dear All, Please find here 3 documents with important information regarding the approaching IMPR conference. The updated programme with names of invited speakers, practical informations regarding talks and posters, […]
The FAIR Phytoliths project is getting started
We are happy to announce that the FAIR Phytoliths project has been successful in gaining funding through the European Open Science Cloud Digital Life Science Call. FAIR stands for Findable, […]