Great PhD opportunity with a great team!

Good morning! Here is a three-day old sea-otter pup, snoozing on their Mama. The image is by one my favourite wildlife photographers, Suzi Eszterhas, who runs girlswhoclick.org - an organisation that mentors girls and young women interested in nature photography. Feel free to share.

Today, the Assisted Dying Bill will fall. The actions of a small group of unelected peers on this Bill have been deplorable. It’s a stain on our democracy and a slap in the face to hundreds of terminally ill people and their families, who were given hope when MPs voted in favour last year.

Excellent news as RSV vaccine in pregnancy protects babies from developing RSV and massively reduces risk of getting seriously ill and needing Hospitalisation

We are a nonprofit, building Our World in Data as a public good that's freely available to everyone. We just updated the list of people who have supported our work with a donation: ourworldindata.org/funding We are very grateful to each of you. Thank you so much!

You must be kidding me! 😱

Mail is running a poll on whether the UK should rejoin the EU. Takes seconds to vote and it's going hilariously well... www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Come and work with us for 16 months! Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Evolutionary Anthropology with expertise in evolutionary medicine and quantitative methods. We are a friendly bunch. Deadline 30th of April! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

If you're sick of water companies being allowed to pump s**t into our rivers with no accountability: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Congratulations Hungary!! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

I made a little Instagram reel about this image because it’s just so frickin’ cool

Scenes from No Kings marches nationwide www.newsfromthestates.com/live-feed/no... #NoKings

If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it. Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22

Job opportunity at the Natural History Museum in London! Principal researcher in human evolution. jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

New blog post for International Women's Day: "The forgotten labour of Nancy Dupont" inneskeighren.com/williammacin... #IWD2026 #C18

Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11. www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...

🚩L'article de Siam Knecht et al. publié dans les #BMSAP "Assessing #inter-observer reliability to support availability of #osteometric measurement data from the Olivier collection" est en ligne doi.org/10.4000/15sl6 @univ-amu.fr @pacea.bsky.social @mnhn.fr

It happened again

I've just read this fantastic article on the origin of University College London in opposition to the existing traditional religious universities of Oxford and Cambridge. UCL had no religious or age limitations, and offered education at a fraction of the costs. www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

Salary £54,931-£64,644. UCL Institute of Archaeology.

Quick promotion post for our fantastic Master's programme in Human Evolution and Behaviour at UCL. Taught by a great team of evolutionary anthropologists and covering human evolution, human behavioural ecology, primatology, evolutionary medicine and more. www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

New paper by PI Dr. Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel and former BHEML postdoc Dr. Lauren Schroeder! The human chin is a unique; investigating why and how it formed helps us to better understand ourselves and our lineage! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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’