From "Night at the Museum" to digging up Miocene fossils in Spain, Ph.D. student Ariel Barrera shares how she is living her childhood dream www.gc.cuny.edu/news/digging... @nycep.bsky.social @amnh.org

Our article on Kayaca, a new Miocene locality in Turkey, is now out in the Senckenberg journal Paleodiversity and Paleoenvironments! Congratultions to George Konidaris, Ahmet Aytek and the whole team! The first result from this wonderful collaboration ✨🎉 #openaccess

The pollen analysis from Marathousa 1, an MIS12 Lower Paleolithic elephant butchering site in Megalopolis basin (Greece) is now published!! Congratulations to Stella Kyrikou and team!!! ✨ 🎉 It's wonderful to see this important work finally out! #openaccess #humanevolution doi.org/10.1017/qua....

How do you design exhibits on local African paleontology? You start by talking to the people who live where the fossils are from. Now we only have bare walls, but we got enough ideas to fill the space...and then some! #rusingaisland

Do you have field work experience? Do you want more? Our team wants YOU to manage our field site studying Kinda baboons in Kasanka National Park, Zambia! Start date is this August 2025 so apply ASAP! Job ad here: tinyurl.com/KindaBaboon

A summary of our new paper, featuring the brilliant work of @munyaka.bsky.social and @danpeppe.bsky.social. Always new surprises from the fossil record!

Excited to share this new #OpenAccess pub. It completely overturns our understanding of...nothing. It won't be in your newsfeed. Sometimes #science advances by basic, gut-it-out research. Would love comments about our approach to fossil alpha-taxonomy. paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...

20 years ago, on April 22, 2005, Misha the zoo elephant was moved from Vallejo, CA to Salt Lake City, UT. Her relocation inspired a suite of studies about isotope turnover, including my recent one published in @commsbio.bsky.social Learn more about the study here: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

New Anatomy Pub! 🦴🫁🧠 We report count and pattern of facial nerve branches near the TMJ based on cadaveric dissections - we also found that pics in anatomy texts are WAY OFF! Please pay for new #medicalillustration instead of repeating old errors! #anatomy #AnatomyEd #TMJ #MedEd #art 🔗 rdcu.be/egiKs

🚨 New pub 🚨 On the energetics 🔋 of cellular immune activity 🦠 in juvenile arboreal primates 🐒 (not toads and snakes) and its costs 💸 in terms of growth 📈 in lean body mass 💪. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

New #openaccess paper by our PhD student, Stephanie Lismann, and other colleagues on the reconstruction of the demographic profile of Final Neolithic and Early Bronze populations in Baden-Württemberg, Germany! Congrats! 🎉 ⛓️‍💥 Link to the paper ⬇️ journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ak...

📢Job alert! W3 (Full) Professorship in Human Ecology at the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen. ⛓️‍💥 berufungen.uni-tuebingen.de Deadline for applications: May 22, 2025 🗓 Please share and repost 🙏🏼 🤩 For questions please contact Prof. Harvati.

The vertebral column evolves through modularity & integration, shaping support & CNS protection. Studying 4 catarrhine primate taxa, researchers found widespread integration, w/hominoids showing more modularity than macaques Villamil & Middleton: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Wonderful celebration of Terry Harrison's career at #AABA2025! Thanks @3dmandibleny.bsky.social and Denise Su for organizing, and thank you Terry for agreeing to be toasted (and roasted)! @magratnj.bsky.social @julsam.bsky.social

Here, we propose a new perspective on early stone tool technology: emulation of naturally occurring sharp-edged stones (naturaliths) instead of inventing via 'Eureka!' moments. Nature provided the blueprint; hominins took it further. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/arcm... #Archaeology #Stonetools

We're building a museum on Rusinga Island to tell the stories of fossils found there and the local people who discovered them! No luck getting funding for this, so we're doing it the old-fashined way: digging in the cushions for coins, and building bit by bit.

Primatologists Shahrina Chowdhury and Marina Cords join Research Scientist Sergio Almecija (all in @nycep.bsky.social) on 3/22 at Ensemble Studio Theatre to discuss new ESTSloan play HAVE YOU MET JANE GOODALL AND HER MOTHER? by Michael Walek @sloanfoundation.bsky.social

I enjoyed the opportunity to present the diamond open access, community owned, PaleoAnthropology journal and discuss the situation at the Journal of Human Evolution at the NYCEP seminar, City University of New York last week! Thank you to Larissa Swedell for the invitation.

Lots of primate and Early Miocene science presented by McNulty Lab at #AABA2025!

Yesterday was such a full day at the AABA! Highlights included the symposium on A. africanus, the symposium in honor of Terry Harrison, the Paleoanthropology sessions, and meetings with so many colleagues and friends! A very productive conference indeed! 🤩 #AABA

SO PROUD of my student Reese, who won the @anthgen.bsky.social OTPAG Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Presentation for their poster on Gut Microbial Sampling as a Proxy for SIV Status in Wild Vervet Monkeys! Well done, Reese, and so well-deserved!

Also a HUGE congratulations to my PhD student Mel for winning the @bioanth.org Outstanding Presentation Award for her talk on A Reference Mitogenome for the Yellow-Tailed Woolly Monkey Using Oxford Nanopore Sequencing… AMAZING job Mel! So proud of you!

My first #AABA2025 was a success! Really happy to share a photo from my talk as my first post here :)

excellent timing for a new publication to come out in #AJBA! 🧪 proud to be a co-author on this! @awutich.bsky.social @zacharydubois.bsky.social @robingnelson.bsky.social @cvansickle.bsky.social @awrgenes.bsky.social @ethnoprimate.bsky.social @jradovicfanta.bsky.social @kstsosie.bsky.social et al.!

Exciting new find from Atapuerca! Here is the write up in Science, with commentary from former Tübingen fellow Mirjana Roksandic and myself.

Mixodectes (foreground) was about three pounds and had an omnivorous diet that included leaves. It appears to have occupied a unique ecological niche in trees shared with smaller plesiadapiforms like Torrejonia wilsoni (background) 62 million years ago. Amazing illustration by Andrey Atuchin!

Excited to share our new paper on the most complete mixodectid fossil ever discovered! Phylogenetic results support Mixodectes as most closely related to primatomorphans (primates and colugos) among mammals. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Join us as a Lecturer of Ecology & Marine Biology in the Boston University Department of Biology! We’re especially eager for colleagues who support our commitment to ensuring BU is inclusive, equitable, and diverse. Details: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29783 #AcademicJobs #HigherEdJobs

Officially became a doctor yesterday after completing my dissertation defense so a new bluesky handle needed, Dr. or PhD 🌴🌿🐒

Thrilled to have received an @bioanth.org Cobb Professional Development grant! 🙏🏼 ✨ I’m sad I won’t be at #AABA2025 this year but so grateful for this support to help fund new Kinda baboon research! 🐒

Check out our children’s book on paleontology and life in the Eocene! This work stems from our NSF funded research on mammalian response to the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum in the Wind River and Bighorn basins of Wyoming. digitalcommons.unl.edu/zeabook/165/

The Black in BioAnth Collective is hosting their annual online BiBA Week next week mostly (entirely?) on Instagram (follow them there @blackinbioanth)

‪ Some important statistics and information for those thinking about submitting to the PaleoAnthropology journal. PaleoAnthropology has a >20 year-history as a community owned, diamond open access, peer-reviewed journal. No fees, no subscription. We look forward to your papers!

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Excited to share a new #openaccess paper by Salazar-Fernández et al. on shape changes in humeral metaphyses and their usefulness for estimating age in skeletal individuals. ☠️ Congratulations to all authors! 😊🥳 Check it out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

In addition to our recent special issue on Integration of ZooMS and Zooarchaeology at Paleolithic Sites (2024:2, paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...) the spring 2025 issue (In progress) is now online, with several exciting contributions!

New paper! 🐒 🧪 We found the Kinda baboons have long-lasting female-male relationships that are largely male-driven and persist across female reproductive states. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Still a work in progress but I've updated my website! meganpetersdorf.com 🐒🤩

A short video by the talented @piepergrantham.bsky.social showcasing the amazing student stories behind the 2024 Boomplaas Cave excavations youtu.be/sK9m0vvNTwA?...

this is great! although many intersex ppl don't use the term "conditions" to refer to ourselves - preferring intersex variations or forms of intersex - this is an excellent interview

Cool new research from the Pleistocene of Romania! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thinking about a project at the National Museums of Kenya? Consider the Broader Impact of digitizing their archives. More than a century of field notes, maps, photos, films, and other priceless documents. We're starting this work but with > 4M items there's room to get involved! DM me for details.

🚨 ICYMI: We've launched 6k+ 3D skeletal scans of primates, freely accessible! Led by my AMNH mentor, Sergio Almécija, it's a game-changer for biology, anthropology, & conservation research. nature.com/articles/s41...