This is the paper, in case you are interested. It was led by @margheritac17.bsky.social and @elliescerri.bsky.social just like the malaria one www.pivotscipub.com/hpgg/5/1/0001

Looking forward to this!

We're excited to welcome @elliescerri.bsky.social for the next MENDLS lecture - 06.05.26 at the Uni of Liverpool. If you're around, please join us - see poster for details and sign up. @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social @jblinkhorn.bsky.social @phoebebakerrr.bsky.social @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social

1/7 Our papers may seem to address different themes, but they coalesce around the deep human past as a process of niche expansion and feedbacks, into the transition to human dominated landscapes. A starting point was the pan-African structured theory of human origins: www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

1/5 Well over three years of work and I’m thrilled to see it out today in Science Advances: the cover feature no less! Using an innovative pipeline, we show that malaria shaped the spatial organization of human groups in sub-Saharan Africa over the last 74,000 years. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New paper alert. My new article just published in Quaternary Science Reviews, "Revolution, modernity, and the dispersal of Homo sapiens beyond Africa". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our new paper exploring the measurement of complexity in tools - the result of significant and ongoing work, including that which emerged from our Complexity in Lithics Conference! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

An interesting perspective!

Couple of nice new papers for the lithics folks, congratulations to all authors. www.nature.com/articles/s41... and www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New paper alert! Part of our work in West Africa also involves trying to understand later processes, in this case the expansion of pearl millet agriculture into Senegal. www.tandfonline.com/doi/citedby/...

A paper over then years in the making! Using Latent Class Models to categorise stone tool classes. Great to see it out after so long, and huge thanks to @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social for taking this to the finish line!

Job alert in Malta on my ERC funded IslandLab Project for a post excavation research assistant. A bachalor's degree in Archaeology, or related fields is required, ideally with experience working on faunal assemblages and handling bones/fossils, and curating finds. www.um.edu.mt/media/um/doc...

Our new paper is out! Here's a thread from @huwgroucutt.bsky.social

Happening now! www.gea.mpg.de/177655/the-e...

You've heard of the human "cognitive revolution" around 40 kya—a moment when our species suddenly became "behaviorally modern." Have you also heard that this story is wrong? From the archive, our episode w/ @elliescerri.bsky.social & @manuelwill.bsky.social! Listen: disi.org/revisiting-t...

Independence day in #Malta! Hunter-gatherers were crossing at least 100K of open water to reach the Mediterranean island 8,500 years ago, 1K years before the arrival of the first farmers. From consortium led by @elliescerri.bsky.social @maxplanckpress , inc. @UMmalta . 🖼️ © Daniel Clarke/MPI_GEA

Thank you @prelights.bsky.social & Alejandra Leffer's group for choosing our preprint on @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social and for this chance to talk about human- #malaria coevolution!🦟 @eegcam.bsky.social @elliescerri.bsky.social @MPI_GEA

New paper from all of us led by the amazing @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social!

New paper alert! Led by @jblinkhorn.bsky.social, we look at refugia for baboons in the Pleistocene and Holocene, offering a potential analogue for early hominins where climatic tolerances are shared. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

"Do Recent DNA Studies Refute a 65 kya Arrival of Humans in Sahul?" See comment by @elliescerri.bsky.social and myself here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🌲Great to see our @cp-oneearth.bsky.social study on #rewilding-inspired #forestry featured 2x in @mongabay.com . It’s a land-sharing approach—restoring #biodiversity & resilience in used #forests, not replacing protected areas. 🔗 news.mongabay.com/2025/04/dive... (further links below)🌳🌴🦬🍒🪵♨️

Gift article about our work that also mentions our recently published paper in @nature.com on rainforests as well! Thank you @carlzimmer.com!

1/5 Why do all non-Africans descended from a group that left Africa 50k ago? In @nature.com we model 120k years of human niche dynamics. From 70ka, a big expansion of the human niche in Africa likely equipped later OOA dispersals with a unique ecological flexibilty. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Major paper drop coming at 5pm CEST today. Excited!

Final day of the #IslandLegacies conference today! So grateful for the convergence of such a fantastic group of scholars and thinkers. It has been truly inspirational!

Livestream tomorrow at 5pm UK/noon EDT with Drs Eleanor Scerri (@elliescerri.bsky.social) and Huw Groucutt (@huwgroucutt.bsky.social) to chat about their recent paper that's been all over the news about Hunter gatherer occupation on Malta www.youtube.com/live/ZGRjN20...

Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years Monika Markowska @huwgroucutt.bsky.social, @nicoleboivin.bsky.social, @elliescerri.bsky.social et al www.nature.com/articles/s41... Wetter conditions likely facilitated dispersals between Africa and Eurasia. Arabia acting as crossroads.

Here is the latest news from @eegcam.bsky.social... Among other VIPs (=very important publications), it includes our recent paper on Luca Cavalli-Sforza's legacy on #humanevolution 💀🧬 With @margheritac17.bsky.social Jason Hogdson, @chrisbstringer.bsky.social and @elliescerri.bsky.social

A nice video on our work in @nature.com from the Times of Malta with English subtitles for the Maltese parts! www.facebook.com/share/v/185P...

My summary of the exciting new excavations by @elliescerri.bsky.social and her colleagues, showing Mesolithic hunter gatherers arrived to Malta by sea

And today I have the rare pleasure of also double dipping in @nature.com with this fantastic article showing recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years! This was such a pleasure to do, with incredible fieldwork in beautiful Saudi caves!

A blog post from me about our discovery pushing back Maltese prehistory to the Mesolithic, and discovering that hunter-gatherers were making epic 100 km sea journeys! communities.springernature.com/posts/discov...

Watch the full video clip about our discoveries and their significance - from Charlie Cauchi at Sajjetta! player.vimeo.com/video/105936...

In @nature.com we report the presence of the Mesolithic on Malta - upending everything we knew about the seafaring capabilities of late European hunter-gatherers and pushing back Maltese prehistory by 1000 years. Watch the clip, link to open access paper is below. 1/5 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My amazing zooarch postdoc Mario Mata-González has published a new paper based on his PhD work - check it otu! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Coming on the 9th of April at 2pm CEST - Will Gosling's lecture in our "Human Palaeosystems in Focus" series - don't miss it! www.gea.mpg.de/129765/drive...

Our new paper is out in Scientific Reports, led by our own @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social exploring factors behind early technological diversification! Congratulations Lucy!

New paper detailing ancient DNA from North Africa during the African Humid Period. Were they the last descendants of North African Late Pleistocene people? The pattern is not dissimilar to the structure and bottlenecks we estimated for the North African MSA, link below www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Did you know that @ec.europa.eu just launched a €5 million call for proposals to strengthen the European Fact-Checking Network? Find out more 👇 buff.ly/F5GiQyE

Working in Saudi Arabia for ten years was an incredible experience. We're dropping a major paper next Wednesday on this at 17.00 CEST. Watch this space!

Yes indeed! Awesome things coming soon, watch this space!

Join us for the Human Palaeosystems Group Seminar Series!

Exciting new article in @nature.com. European hunter-gatherer ancestry found in North Africa. How did they get there? Europe's final hunter-gatherers have quite a few secrets to yield... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interesting new pre-print, "A structured coalescent model reveals deep ancestral structure shared by all modern humans" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Honoured to receive an award for contributions to education and science in #Malta for #InternationalWomensDay!

The updated concise programme for the #IslandLegacies conference has been uploaded (more talks!). We are now working on the full programme booklet. There are just 30 spaces left! Please share www.um.edu.mt/media/um/doc... #Archaeology #IPalaeontology #Mediterranean www.um.edu.mt/events/islan...

The preliminary concise programme for the #IslandLegacies conference is out! We are thrilled to see such a great line up. Early bird prices end soon and we only have a few places left. Register now to secure your place! www.um.edu.mt/media/um/doc...

In today's #WestAfricanMSA educational programme, is @eslembenarous.bsky.social other amazing lead author paper confirming the MIS 6-5 ages from the sites of Bargny 1 & 3 in Senegal, excavated by the equally fantastic Khady Niang & @jblinkhorn.bsky.social! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Time to learn some more about the West African MSA! They were not only in rainforests 150,000 years ago, they were also in mangrove forests! www.nature.com/articles/s41...