Lovely new paper by @sarah-paris.bsky.social & Charles Higham "Ochre use in burial practices in Thailand, from Neolithic to the Iron Age" 😍!! @cam-archaeology.bsky.social

"Normalcy bias is a cognitive bias which leads people to disbelieve or minimize threat warnings. Consequently, individuals underestimate the likelihood of a disaster, when it might affect them, and its potential adverse effects." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalc...

🚨 Palaeo jobs alert!! 🚨 Two(!!) postdoc positions available in Cambridge! 1. Human Evolutionary Anatomy: cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... 2. Evolutionary Biomechanics: cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... As part of the @erc.europa.eu funded STEPS project!

Thank you so much to @liverpoolevoanth.bsky.social for the chance to come and give a talk to the Evo Anth seminar series this afternoon! It was great fun to try and pull several threads of research together 😊

Wonderful talk by @jclark997.bsky.social for the great UoL Evo Anth Seminar Series - fabulous to see the synthesis of so much fantastic work and so many dxciting ideas and models 🤩

We hope you are enjoying the series so far! Please join us again next Thursday, 27th November 2025 at 13:00 GMT for a talk by Dr James Clark, University of Cambridge. More details 👇 If you would like to attend, please register here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Very grateful to everyone who joined our symposium and workshop last week, inspiring discussions and wonderful company all around!

Today was the ceremony for new fellows at the #BritishAcademy - it was wonderful 🤩. I am thrilled and so grateful to the colleagues who nominated me, elected me, and the many colleagues, students, friends, our kids & family, & specially Rob 😍 who have so enriched my life and career ❤️

We are hiring a Project Co-ordinator! 🚨 Are you extremely organised with great interpersonal skills? Able to multitask efficiently? Interested in African prehistory? Keen to work with an enthusiastic team? We want to hear from you! Closing date: 17 October, 2025

Great fun at #ESHE2025 presenting on how handaxe shape can inform discussions of African demography in the Early and Middle Pleistocene! While we have very few fossils or genetic data for this period, handaxe shape may carry a signal that can help to constrain biogeographic models - more to come!

Could there be a connection between a squashed million-year-old skull and the Denisovans? I look at whether a provocative new study can be squared with what we already know from ancient genomes. I think there's a way. www.johnhawks.net/p/the-proble...

Interesting piece on the US (and Zionist) money backing Waxy-Lemon... observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

They are attacking the Police again, at the 'peaceful march'. Imagine if Pro Palestine supporters did this (they never do), they would all be instantly in jail.

After all we learnt about Boris in office, I shouldn’t be surprised by any of this…but the extent of corruption is truly shocking www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

And see this excellent coverage from our Department @cam-archaeology.bsky.social www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/early-h...

Thrilled to share our latest article on the Lower Palaeolithic occupation of Fordwich Pit, Old Park - including at least one likely glacial occupation in MIS12! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The last 3 years have been the hottest in around 125,000 years. CO2 levels are their highest in MILLIONS of years. But most people have no idea this is happening, let alone what it means for our kids’ futures. Our politics & media have failed our children. We should be furious.

Celebrating our wonderful PI @martamlahr.bsky.social for such an incredible achievement 🎉🍾🥂

Fabulous news that @martamlahr.bsky.social has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy 🍾🍾🍾

Justus Erus Edung was only 25 years old when he discovered Kenyanthropus platyops in a team led by Prof. Meave Leakey in 1999. This 3.5 million year old “flat-faced” skull quickly grabbed international headlines and changed the course of human evolution. #fossils #turkana #humanevolution

3D scanning these beauties with Ng'ipalajem! @palaeotrails.bsky.social #handaxe #turkana

New paper out in eLife! 🎉 Old age variably impacts chimpanzee engagement and efficiency in stone tool use elifesciences.org/articles/105... (including videos of wild elderly chimpanzees using tools! 🪨 🌰)

*INDIANA JONES AND THE CLOSURE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT*

The archaeology of climate change: a blueprint for integrating environmental and cultural systems www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ChatGPT is a lie generator wrapped in a weighted blanket. Read the below. It’s fascinating.

Holding out for the day when I can afford to buy back all the articles I’ve published

If you think the seasons are feeling… different, you may be right. Our new review in Science (@science.org) shows that Earth’s changing rhythms could have major and underestimated consequences for life on Earth. 🌍🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our branch unanimously passed this motion yesterday in solidarity with trans, non-binary and intersex people www.ucu.cam.ac.uk/motion-on-so...

#HumanEvo25 features 26 posters showcasing fabulous evolutionary science - vying for your attention and 🏆 This evening we’ve heard the first half of poster pitches including Palaeotrails’s @jclark997.bsky.social P9 and Avantika Binani P5! Let the poster session begin!

🚨New preprint!🚨"Sexual division of labour shapes hunter-gatherer spatial ranges". Following on the sexual division of labour theme, finally out our analyses on the lifetime spatial ranges of over 700 Mbendjele BaYaka 🤩 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

On the Mousterian origin of bone-tipped hunting weapons in Europe: Evidence from Mezmaiskaya Cave, North Caucasus www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dire Wolf (Aenocyon dirus) thread. No, those wolves in the news yesterday are NOT dire wolves. To be clear those are Gray Wolves with just a few genes modified based on Dire Wolf DNA through CRISPR #paleoart #direwolf #aenocyon

Climate change in Europe between 90 and 50 kyr BP and Neanderthal territorial habitability journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Still hugely honoured to have been able to work on this paper, led by the excellent @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social! Check it out below 👇

Our paper “Climate seasonality and predictability during the middle stone age and implications for technological diversification in early Homo sapiens” has been published in Scientific Reports 🥳 rdcu.be/egqwZ

A really cool new study on the impact of climate activism has just dropped! Some highlights: 1) "There is strong evidence that climate activism shifts public opinion and media coverage in a pro-climate direction, but this varies by context and the tactics employed."

A structured coalescent model reveals deep ancestral structure shared by all modern humans www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Of course this is only the latest point in a long sequence of very scary data, but it is a good illustration of how bad the “humans have always lived with climate change” argument is, given we’re now getting beyond anything seen by the genus Homo

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! The daily CO2 number from Mauna Loa exceeded 430 ppm yesterday. This is the first reading above 430 ever recorded. CO2 levels have not been this high since the Pliocene epoch, 3 to 5 million years ago.

And in news from 1.5 million years ago: early humans made axes out of elephant bones. Here's my story. Gift link: nyti.ms/3F7llVt

Delighted to have been able to chat to @carlzimmer.com about this exciting article! You can find the original paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Yesterday, we joined hundreds of students and staff in showing our support for the Cambridge Vet School. Our message was clear: the University must allow continued Undergraduate admission, and invest in the Department’s long-term future 🐾

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1391... @ucu.org.uk @sheffielducu.bsky.social

The sector is on its knees, truly www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‼️Very excited to share that our paper on settlement patterns and land use in Etruria is finally out on JAS: Reports! You can find it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

The University of Cambridge has failed to obtain a long anti protest injunction despite arguing hard for it in court - this is a vindication of everyone who campaigned against it. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

We condemn the University of Cambridge's attempt to place legal restrictions on all pro-Palestine protests. Alongside @pscupdates.bsky.social and @libertyhq.bsky.social we call out this application to the High Court for an injunction what it is: a shameful attack on basic democratic rights.