Good morning Blue Sky

All #NIH grants have now terminated here at #Harvard, including ours, which examined shared/distinct underlying neural & cognitive mechanisms between typical/atypical #arithmetic and #reading skills. Results would have been invaluable for development of #screening, diagnostic, & intervention tools.

Just one day left for abstract submissions for #ESHE2025 in Paris! 🌏Note that remote/virtual presentations are also possible 🌍. www.eshe.eu/abstract/

I am offering two 4-year PhD positions (fully funded) and a 57 month combined post-doc / project manager position as part of my NWO-Vici grant, which starts in September.

There are only a few days left to submit your abstract for #ESHE2025 — the deadline is Wednesday 14 May at 11:59 PM (PST). Looking forward to seeing you in Paris! Submit here: www.eshe.eu/abstract/

The latest issue of PaleoAnthropology is out now! Volume 2025, Issue 1 #openaccess 📖Read Here: paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph... #paleoanthropology #humanevolution

There is a job opening (Post-Doctoral Research Associate, 2 years, 100%) in my new VW project on the macro-evolution of Pleistocene technological ecosystems in Europe: ecolithic.uni-koeln.de/opportunitie... Deadline 25.05.2025 Please distribute widely! 🏺🦣

🔆 Good morning! A rare 'smiley face' triple conjunction is coming to Earth's morning skies on April 25, when Venus, Saturn and the crescent moon form a smirk near the horizon. Two planets will form a 'smiley face' with the moon on April 25 Here's where to look 🧪 www.livescience.com/space/astron...

#ESHE2025 kicks off on 24 Sept with tours at the NHMN in Paris, followed by a keynote panel on the 25th, conference talks, posters (25th to 27th) & an excursion to Resson and Grotte à la Peinture on the 28th. More info here: bit.ly/3G9CeiQ

📢Registration is now open for the 15th annual ESHE meeting in Paris! Join us in person or online this September. Details & deadlines: bit.ly/3G9CeiQ #ESHE2025

Incredibly proud that our paper on the #palaeoproteomics analysis of the Penghu mandible, led by @tsutatsuta.bsky.social and in collaboration with Chun-Hsiang Chang, Enrico Cappellini and co, is out now in @science.org! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

We’re deeply concerned about the disappearance of our colleague Pierre Noiret. Please share and help us spread the word. For more information please check: www.police.be/avis-de-rech...

Videos 📷 of the talks exploring cooperation during Human Evolution will soon become available thanks to the support of the @fondationfyssen.bsky.social 🙏

23 chercheurs réunis grâce au Pr. @mariesoressi.bsky.social, 3 jours d’échanges scientifiques intenses !

An inspiring week of scientific exchange! Thanks to @mariesoressi.bsky.social Here are the amazing researchers who took part in this year's Fyssen symposium. Thank you all for your energy, insights and collaboration !

Wow! Well, you could knock me over with a... um... feather. The 30,000 year old vulture that reveals a completely new type of fossilisation Fossil feathers from the Colli Albani volcanic complex (Late Pleistocene, Central Italy) preserved in zeolites 🧪 pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/...

‘They predicted the least costly migration paths for their sampled individuals back through 200,000 years ago, showing that the most likely path out of Africa was the northern route’ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@lemoustier.bsky.social @mattpope.bsky.social Really interesting @heasvienna.bsky.social #HEASSeminar from @mariesoressi.bsky.social "Excavating Homo sapiens’ interactions with Neandertals" No doubt researchers will find out even more about these interactions over the coming years.

Happy Equinox! Spring has finally sprung and Persephone has reunited with her mother to herald a new season of growth.

You cannot consider the future without the past. Inspirational quote by Jefferson at Leuphana university library is contested because of the past: why a slave holder's quote in the University library? The future is shaped and constrained by history. I think we should pay it more attention.

@unileiden.bsky.social is on strike for first time it seems in its 450 years of existence! To raise awareness on major budget cuts planned by the Dutch gouvernement #stopdebezuinigingen. Red flag on the univ buildings

@unileiden.bsky.social is on strike for first time it seems in its 450 years of existence! To raise awareness on major budget cuts planned by the Dutch gouvernement #stopdebezuinigingen. Red flag on the univ buildings

🔆 Happy #InternationalWomensDay! "Moussolou" is a song from Mali by Salif Keita and is sung primarily in Bambara, with some Fula and Arabic. He sings of women's merit, of performing difficult tasks with heart, courage and humility. Dedicated to women, the song is a call for justice and equality.

28,000-year-old Neanderthal-and-human 'Lapedo child' lived tens of thousands of years after our closest relatives went extinct [and thus unlikely to be a meaningful ‘hybrid’] www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

For 2,500 years, women have been fighting for their place in our democracies. Ahead of International Women's Day, we trace the slow path towards equality.

Systematic bone tool production at 1.5 million years ago www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Abstract submissions are still open by 4 March for our #HumanEvolution conference! Don’t miss the chance to join our amazing speakers! @sarahpederzani.bsky.social @paleogenomics.bsky.social @amygoldberg.bsky.social @jjrowan.bsky.social @martamlahr.bsky.social @evanirvingpease.bsky.social

The Uluzzian and Châtelperronian: No Technological Affinity in a Shared Chronological Framework 🏺🧪 Giulia Marciani @boneslab.bsky.social @mariesoressi.bsky.social et al link.springer.com/article/10.1... The distinctiveness highlights the technological behaviours in western Europe 45–40 ka

🧬 "Bulk bone Shotgun Metagenomics" #BBSMG* reveals 8thC 🐟 trade across the Himalayas. Crushed bone fragments identified S Asian species (Rohu) at high-altitude Tibetan site interesting to compare #ZooMS vs #BBSMG doi.org/10.1016/j.ja... *aka Scrapheap Challenge www.nature.com/articles/sre...

🔥 New in HPGG: The Legacy of Luca Cavalli-Sforza on Human Evolution Led by @margheritac17.bsky.social & @mikleonardi.bsky.social, with @chrisbstringer.bsky.social, Jason Hodgson & @elliescerri.bsky.social 🔗 Read: www.pivotscipub.com/hpgg/5/1/0001 #HumanEvolution #HPGG #OpenAccess

Fully agree. The same is true with CR Palevol published by the @mnhn.fr

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@unileiden.bsky.social celebrates 450 years of intellectual freedom requiered for innovation, progress, quality education and service to the society. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/dossiers/...

Learn more about our Journal at our Insights page! 🔗 paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/paleo/JournalInsights If you're interested in submitting to us you can learn about our publishing timeline, acceptance rate, and more. Our Journal is #openaccess and has no publication fees #paleoanthropology

🏺🚨 New paper alert! 🚨🧪 Early Upper Palaeolithic marine mollusc exploitation at Riparo Bombrini (Balzi Rossi, Italy): shellfish consumption and ornament production. Interested in early Homo sapiens ornamentation and subsistence?... 1/n link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Curiosity stargazing on Mars. This actually made my jaw drop open a little. So. Many. Stars. It's good to look up from our feet every now and then. Night y'all

Call for projects - Postdoctoral Study Grants 2025

Proud to announce that I am one of the Fall 2024 Leakey Research Grant Recipients It has been a dream to be funded by the @leakeyfoundation.bsky.social who made my research possible A huge thank you to my supervisors for their encouragement and support leakeyfoundation.org/fall-2024-re...

Human Evolution now has a place to do synthesis 🎉 The #heirs opening @icarehb.bsky.social demonstrated how fun, eye-opening and powerfull synthesis can be. Call for funding now open heirs.icarehb.com/2025/01/29/c...

PaleoAnthropology Journal has made it to Bluesky! We are a fully externally peer-reviewed, Open Access, online-only journal. We have no publication fees, and are accessible free of charge to all. Find our website above to read our current issue, or if you are interested in submitting to our journal

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

Exciting news! With the HEIRS program @icarehb.bsky.social will support researchers conducting research synthesis✨ in human evolution 👇

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Pleased (and surprised!) to announce the publication of my new book ‘Notes from Ivory Flats: Reflections on the Changing Landscape of Academic Life’.

What a difference a century makes! Kroeber (1917) arguing that birdsong couldn't possibly be a socially learned tradition. Research since has shown how wrong he was.

Thrilled to share this paper born from a workshop uniting researchers for hands-on analysis of lithic assemblages Though they share the same stratigraphic and chronological window, the Châtelperronian and Uluzzian are fundamentally distinct link.springer.com/article/10.1... @mariesoressi.bsky.social

Science reporting on the mass resignation of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution, highlighting some of the problems with commercial scientific publishing. OA PaleoAnthropology journal (www.paleoanthropology.org) highlighted among JHE's successors #openaccess #humanevolution

🏺🦣🧪 New study examining the #Neanderthal remains from Grotte du Bison, Arcy-sur-Cure. "Our results indicate that the collection represents at least nine to 17 individuals, comprising mostly children and adolescents." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

‪ Can we use mere stone flakes to track cultural change? @hannesrathmann.bsky.social and I test this with simple flake attributes & a newly developed statistical method! All data, methods and code are #openaccess www.nature.com/articles/s41... #archaeology #statistics #openscience Feedback welcome!