Petr Kuneš
@petrkunes.bsky.social
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Quaternary ecologist and pollen fan trying to REVEAL(S) the past to understand the future. Associate Professor at @sciencecharles.bsky.social. Editor at www.biogeosciences.net #paleoecology
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Two very successful PhD defences in #paleorudolph lab. Amanda Mateo Beneito explored multi proxy climate reconstruction and it's effect on vegetation dynamics. Kristýna Hošková paved new avenues in phytolith analysis and its use in environment reconstruction. Both with cum laude, congratulations!
Returning to Šumava's lakes to study recent <200 years bark beetle disturbances with @damienrius.bsky.social and @cecileremy.bsky.social 🌲🪲
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Coring lakes un the Sumava mountains, Czech Republic, with @petrkunes.bsky.social and @cecileremy.bsky.social, to track past bark beetles outbreaks!
The first open science meeting of our new COST action happens in Prague in July! We want to attract all kinds of proxies 🐘🌲🐛🪲🔥🥀🧪🌾❄️🦠 - signup this week to get funding #PalaeOpen
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prague_2025 – PalaeOpen
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Beginners' mistake: how can we recover sediment traps from the centre of this lake via very unstable ice? Nice excursion though ❄️💧☀️🔥🌲#biomarkers
Come to study Ph.D. at our department!
Exciting opportunity! 🌱Join our Lab of Quantitative Ecology at Charles University, Prague! 🇨🇿
Fully funded PhD in Functional Vegetation Paleoecology.

📅Start October 2025 - Apply by January 15

Details: bit.ly/PhD_Function...
Congratulations! Very happy for you and your team!
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Our new study out in @ScienceAdvances shows human presence in Tasmania at least 41,600 years ago, nearly 2000 years earlier than previously thought, and Aboriginal people burned and used wet forests.

Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Landscape burning facilitated Aboriginal migration into Lutruwita/Tasmania 41,600 years ago
Paleoecological records show that Aboriginal people burned wet forest to first settle in Tasmania 41,600 years ago.
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Spending wonderful time in Tasmanian alpine zone looking for Psychrophilla (Caltha) and some peat with @lydiamackenzie.bsky.social