I talked to Nature Methods about fieldwork and @trowelblazers.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... -- never say no to two many chandeliers, hey

I’m excited for #tag2025 because I plan on doing 100% more world building alongside my normal @trowelblazers.bsky.social screaming into the void 🤘

Went to see this most beautiful collection of Ursula K LeGuins maps in the word for world exhibit. Wandering around thru ritualised imaginings of unreal worlds; it’s archaeology and anthropology (and turtles) all the way down. Massive ht to @kjkillackey.bsky.social Let’s go play world building ;p

Got kids aged 8+? Get them my latest book! It's a chaotic rollercoaster ride through the Stone Age -- it's tonnes of fun, full of the latest scientific discoveries, is cowritten with the expert archaeologist @brennawalks.bsky.social, and is illustrated by @rikinparekh.bsky.social. Cheers!

🏺🧪🦣 Was more than happy to speak to @killgrove.bsky.social for this: even if you ignored the horrendous, insurmountable ethical issues, what we'd learn would do almost nothing to advance our understanding of prehistoric #Neanderthal lives, nor our encounters with them. There's zero justification.

And today I learned that in 1962 the BBC let Jaquetta Hawkes imagine the archaeology of apocalyptic Britain. As a short film 👀10/10 Will weird your day youtu.be/c8yEIe69M4k?...

I wrote a human skeleton quiz -- filled with terrible puns -- for your Spooky Season enjoyment. 🧪🏺💀

I'm hiring! 4 year post doc on my Wellcome Trust grant -- come be inventive about isotopes in teeth with me in PPN Turkiye :) www.lancashire.ac.uk/jobs/post-do... please share!

Oops...Ran out of space! This audiobook is published by the brilliant @wfhowes.bsky.social who are wonderfully collaborative in giving me choices about sound fx, music, and style. Massively enjoyable to work with them and @brennawalks.bsky.social www.audible.co.uk/pd/Totally-C...

Thrilled to share a clip from our funny new children's audiobook about the Stone Age. I had such fun writing and narrating this with the brilliant archaeologist @brennawalks.bsky.social In this clip, join Homo Erectus on a scavenging hunt... but they're in for a nasty, LOUD surprise! (Sound on!)

PhD-opening in our ancient genomics lab this year, apply below! We work on: 1. Genetic history integrated with archaeology and history 2. Natural selection and trait genetics 3. Evolutionary genomics of dogs and wolves 4. Ancient pathogen genomics 5. Hominin evolution and ancient proteomics

This was stupidly fun to record 😂🤘

Right and also! Free talk tomorrow! www.lancashire.ac.uk/events/listi...

See you there!

See you there!

**DONATIONS FOR BURSARIES** TAG over the last few years has been trying to increase the accessibility of the conference by offering bursaries. We are now welcoming donations support these via our website. tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/

so... the wellcome trust gave me a £1,000,000? and i didnt even have to hold the world to ransom. i am super excited, going to be recruiting SOON for a phd and a postdoc, and could not do anything without my amazing collaborators <3 www.lancashire.ac.uk/news/grant-t...

I should also perhaps mention, in the context of h longi or is it really, that I’ve just reviewed a book about denisovans for science, and am in fact entirely academically serious about can we just call everything erectus and that includes us because i just really CANT

I think I could have done us all a favour and called everything erectus and walked away ;) (I am still not team Longi, with apologies to chris who I generally believe on everything 😂

We’re celebrating, and you’re invited! October 4th we’re hosting a 20th Anniversary party for… ourselves! Free event with talks and lots of alumni, register on the eventbrite and we’ll see you there 🎉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebratin...

If you’re in the Preston area and fancy talking palaeo-parenting or primate placenta, well aren’t you in luck ;) come to this totally free talk at the University of Lancashire, kick off at 17:40 on October 8th www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/growing-up...

I will be talking to my new home crowd on October 8th about all things odd and evolutionary about our very funny little human children! come say hi, its free :) www.lep.co.uk/community/fr...

Thanks! This book was co-written by the fab archaeologist @brennawalks.bsky.social and, as ever, illustrated by the hilarious @rikinparekh.bsky.social And the previous books are cowritten with Roman historian @emmasouthon.bsky.social and Egyptologist and curator Dr Campbell Price

Looking for some fab kids' books ahead of the new school year? Check out @gregjenner.bsky.social's riotous Totally Chaotic History series! The latest book, The Stone Age Runs Wild!, is out now 💥 youtu.be/OULXpXL6Tek?...

Great write up of research we can finally share: two unrelated individuals with west African ancestry have been identified in early medieval sites excavated by Duncan Sayer and our team www.newscientist.com/article/2492...

The stunning landscape of mastic country μαστιχοχώρια as seen from the Chios mastic museum to present recent research 😍

Wowwwwww

My department at Tulane has a TT position for a bioanth ("specializing in the analysis of human skeletal remains"). Apps due by Oct 15. apply.interfolio.com/171196

This whole debacle doesn't just affect me, Vincent, Nic and Flint -- it also took aim @trowelblazers.bsky.social, and my dear friends & collaborators @lemoustier.bsky.social, @brennawalks.bsky.social, and @suziebirch.bsky.social

🧪🦣🏺 Who wants to hear a story about biotech billions, unscientific claims, and shoddy smear tactics attacking women in science*? Thread 🧵 *which, for legal clarity, are totally denied as being connected

So, back to those weird articles, which might be AI or not (the 1st was bylined to a PR company, then byline removed). Guess what? After that one, we found another piece, this smearing not just Tori, but also @trowelblazers.bsky.social, me @suziebirch.bsky.social & @brennawalks.bsky.social .

I get that it isn't easy. But the more of us that speak up, and the more we boost those speaking up, the more we can be a voice for informed change We live in a hostile world, and it is only getting more hostile. We need to push back against anti intellectualism before we truly are silenced

One of the really fun things about editing Current Anthropology is getting to read and share excellent and extremely fun research like this...

🏺🧪🦣 New piece I wrote for BBC Science Focus is out, on the increasingly complex but ever more interesting story of early Homo sapiens' origins & dispersal, and the other kinds of humans we encountered.

Aaaaaaand with the @newscientist.com link archive.is/202507311223...

Like science? Then you better be interested when *someone* starts putting out hit pieces on scientists. This is beyond the pale ethically and honestly anyone who doesn’t want to slide to hell on a slick of ai generated content that benefits billionaire business, maybe now is the time to get angry.

Was really nice to speak to people who have done so much for representation in archaeology. Out soon! www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress... 20% discount code 006120

Petition for Greg to do a 90s emo musical version of totally chaotic: Stone Age starts here ;)

Hello! If money is tight, you can get my brand-new kids' book TOTALLY CHAOTIC HISTORY: THE STONE AGE RUNS WILD for just £5.56 from Amazon. It's getting lovely reviews from kids, parents, and teachers, and it's cowritten with fab archaeologist @brennawalks.bsky.social www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1...

In case anyone is wondering, survey is awesome when you have a great team ❤️

Dear friends, writing online reviews of books enormously helps authors get their books up the charts and into customer eyelines If any of you enjoyed my new one, Totally Chaotic History: The Stone Age Runs Wild, I’d be so grateful for any online support on the usual websites. Thank you!

In news that surprises no one: the ‘optimisation’ of PhD research funding in the uk = 60 per cent cut. For all the students out there who can’t get the funding, it’s definitely not you. :/

Nifty preprint led by @mathiesoniain.bsky.social comparing femur length as a proxy of stature to genetic variants linked to height today. Many key insights, but main one for me is that variants responsible for lactase persistence are strongly associated with height in ancient but not modern people.

This may be Greece but you can still get that…

I wish I had read this while writing ‘growing up human’ (Türkçe : büyümek). My information BaYaka childrearing is probably way less informed but this piece conveys such an important point: how we parent is a very culturally determined thing

Out now, Totally Chaotic History: The Stone Age Runs Wild! by @gregjenner.bsky.social with @brennawalks.bsky.social, illustrated by @rikinparekh.bsky.social, is a brilliantly funny kids’ guide to all things Stone Age! @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social worldssmallestlibrary.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/t...

Here’s my funny new book TOTALLY CHAOTIC HISTORY: THE STONE AGE RUNS WILD! it’s cowritten with the brilliant archaeologist @brennawalks.bsky.social and illustrated by the ace @rikinparekh.bsky.social It has facts, new scientific discoveries, and comedy sketches www.walker.co.uk/978152952249...

Can’t tell you how delighted and relieved I am that readers are enjoying my new TOTALLY CHAOTIC HISTORY book!! It was so very hard to write this one with the brilliant @brennawalks.bsky.social, because the facts kept changing, but I think we are both really proud of it

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New book review on my blog - the new Totally Chaotic History - The Stone Age Runs Wild! - by @gregjenner.bsky.social with @brennawalks.bsky.social Substack: tudorblogger.substack.com/p/book-revie... Blog: tudorblogger.com/2025/07/07/b... #GregJenner #History #TotallyChaoticHistory