UCL Evolutionary Anthropology seminars starting up again for the new term every Tuesday pm. Anthropology Dept. 14 Taviton St. DFL 3.30-5pm followed by 🍷. All welcome. www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

🚨Social scientists! @psuanthro.bsky.social & @ssripennstate.bsky.social are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor exploring how social & ecological environments shape reproduction, growth, &/or development. Review starts soon! Please share widely! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

'21st century resurgence of eugenics and scientific racism' @rebeccasear.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk Evolutionary Anthropology seminar. Tomorrow TUESDAY 3.30-5pm DFL followed by 🍷 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

This whole thread really resonates. Especially on a day I was told I might want to postpone going for promotion, while working on the latest set of revisions of a paper and trying to support friends currently in less-than-supportive teams.

Calling Medical Anthropologists - job at UCL Anthropology (cover for colleague who recently got ERC grant). Teaching to start in January 2026. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you. Apply by: 10 Oct www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Lucy Van Dorp is one of the best scientists and people that I know. Join her lab, and do amazing work.

Barley in a cave in Uzbekistan, 9,000 years old, suggests foragers far from the Fertile Crescent were harvesting cereals long before farming took hold. A mosaic of innovation, not a single birthplace. #Archaeology #Agriculture #HumanEvolution @pnas.org

New research shows the human pelvis didn’t evolve gradually—it flipped its growth pattern 90° and rewired bone formation. These shifts let our ancestors walk upright and birth big-brained babies. #HumanEvolution #Anthropology #Bipedalism

Such a fantastic study by @tdcapellini.bsky.social's lab, showing how much pelvic bones development changed in humans in adapting to bipedalism. And so frustrating that their grant was terminated by the Trump administration less than half-way through, in retaliation to Harvard not playing along.

With alt-text: this will devastate US higher education in so many ways. And make US science, medicine and technology weaker but it will make it Whiter, which I suppose, is the goal. I did my PhD in Australia, with this same xenophobic 4-yr-PhD rule, and it was harrowing.

RFKJr is causing chaos with his disdain for scientific methods- after the CDC director would not endorse his directions for covid vaccines dramatically cutting access to the vax for many, the health dept announced her service was over 🧪🧵

1) I am delighted to present this terrific tour de force research conducted by my post-doc Dr. Gayani Senevirathne @gayani.bsky.social and published today in Nature - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website! Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14

Hungary banned Pride marches. This is the response ✊🏳️‍🌈

Our latest @britishacademy.bsky.social 10 Minute Talk is @rebeccasear.bsky.social on the depressing resurgence of eugenics www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/podcasts/the...

We're rounding off #IAW25 with this drawing from Alfred Russel Wallace's Butterflies of Malay Archipelago notebook (MS/181). You can access this, and over 61,000 other records with over 218,000 images, at Linnean Online. linnean.access.preservica.com #ArchivesAreAccessible

Our AI future is less HAL and more Hitchhiker’s Guide @hugorifkind.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/article/2101...

I have a new favourite heroine: Elizabeth Zott! I was guffawing on public transport this week reading this fantastic book. Unmissable, especially if you are a woman in science. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (her first book, written at age 65; so much to love)

The entire board of the Fulbright program reportedly resigned today after accusing the Trump administration of illegal interference www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Everything’s set for the Perspectives on Human Variation Workshop! Just 2 days to go! 🧪🏺 #philsky #evobio #HPS #humanevolution

The NHS Race and Health Observatory has signed a ground-breaking agreement with NICE to de-bias current clinical guidelines, and to ensure the development of future guidelines and interventions do not have bias built-in at design stage. Learn more here: nhsrho.org/news/observa...

Today was Liberation Day in Italy, when we celebrate the liberation by partisans in 1945 of Nazi-occupied Italy, the culmination of years (decades, really) of anti-fascist fighting. Worth reading about it: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberat...

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...

JOB OPPORTUNITY at Tubingen🌟 ! Senior professorship in Human Ecology at Inst. Arch. Sciences & Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment. Will include additional scientific & technical staff members & an annual budget for the working group. DEADLINE: 22nd May 2025

I want to tell you a story, and it begins with this VERY WEIRD animal: Meet Thetys vagina... [a thread 🧵] 📸 m_patton bit.ly/2Mgw8Sf 🌿🧪🦑🐙🌊

Attacks on universities and research continue by Trump now claiming $4m to Princeton’s climate research funding must be cut as “university’s work exposed students to ‘climate anxiety’ and ‘exaggerated climate threats’

Our 3D scans of the ~2.0 million-year-old hominin pelvis (DNH 43) from Drimolen (Cradle of Humankind, South Africa) publicly available at this link. Species is most likely Paranthropus robustus. Please use scans & cite Berg et al (2025). #paleoanthropology 🏺🧪 human-fossil-record.org/index.php?/c...

🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies

An absolute pleasure to contribute to this project led by @paleonicole.bsky.social and @liabetti.bsky.social. Pubic symphysis fusion in primates is fascinating and complicated, and studying it is shedding light on the 'obstetrical dilemma'.

Check out our latest work with @liabetti.bsky.social @ltbuck.bsky.social and other colleagues! 👇

Well, it looks like my rant about Andrew Gwynne's letter saying "COVID-19 is not prominently transmitted through the airborne route" has gone beyond social media. Interested to see how this plays out. northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

The thing is, the “quarter of unis” stat is pretty misleading. Many more have *already* cut back to the bone, especially in arts & humanities

Absolutely fascinating on a lost civilisation www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Seriously. I sue drug companies, you don't have to tell me they suck, nor explain to me the risks of pharmaceuticals. But vaccines are different, they're like stealing fire from the Gods and burning plagues with it. Their benefit/risk ratio is downright magical.

It's one of my regular donations as well. Ever more important.

Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.

"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas" The story of a 40 year book-quest and of its remarkable ending And about goblins and Christmas; the perils of ChatGPT; and the real value of librarians and so on Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni... Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twel...

It's a debate that's raged for more than 500 years: Where did syphilis, first reported in Europe in 1494, originate? DNA from ancient bones, analyzed by @jrockdrigo.bsky.social and colleagues, may help close the case. @science.org

The devastation measles causes to children where vaccination rates are too low: a report from Stephanie Nolen. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/h...

Where I think Indie SAGE was different is in the consistency of public communication we achieved, the breadth and depth of topics covered and our direct dialogue with members of the public. This was made possible by the brilliant logistical support from the Citizens... 10/13

Temperature Update for November 2024 2nd warmest November since instrumental records began 2024 is almost certain to set a new record for the warmest year A weak La NIña is likely soon, but not certain berkeleyearth.org/november-202... 🧵

After last week's wonderful papers on Neanderthal introgression, some food for thought: www.nature.com/articles/s41... - to what extent does population structure play a part in the story?

Apply for this funded PhD with me, Selina Brace and Silvia Bello at UCL & the Natural History Museum: Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection. #ZooMs #ancientDNA #stableisotopes www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/hum...

Up early baking more Willendorf Cookies. Here are some fresh from the oven before and after a dusting of snow. They are for our @archsoutheast.bsky.social bake sale, all in aid of @trusselluk.bsjy.social shorturl.at/IpicF 🍰🦣🏺

HOLY SHIT Humanities and social science research cut from New Zealand's major research fund because STEM "made more impact on the economy." This notion that the only kind of value is economic is INSANE. Humans are not robots and humanity is not just capitalism. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Amazing live thread of what's happening in South Korea!

Very excited (and a bit nervous) to announce that I will be hiring two Postdocs for my new group(!) in Copenhagen to study the Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA which survives in present-day humans. Retweet will be much appreciated :) Link for application: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

'Ewart Keep, emeritus professor of education...at the University of Oxford, told delegates at the Independent Higher Education conference that banks were the “invisible funder and regulator” of UK universities, and said questions would be asked about big spending decisions made in past years.' 1/5