Young people don't need more "Religious Education" to live in modern world. If it's inclusion/social cohesion govt is aiming for, then a better approach would be to drop RE, and create new subject Anthropology, on critical thinking, philosophy & belief systems. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Please join us next week, Thursday 30th October, for our next talk. We will be joined by Dr Jessica Thompson, Yale University. More details 👇 Please note the change of start time to 15:00 GMT! Please register here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... We hope to see you there!

Very grateful to everyone who joined our symposium and workshop last week, inspiring discussions and wonderful company all around!

Join us tomorrow online for our symposium on quantifying complexity in stone tools! 😊

Next Tuesday at UCL 😊

Fully-funded 4-year #PhD in Cultural Evolution! Join my @erc.europa.eu project exploring how compression & compositionality drive cultural innovation: hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur... Apply by Nov 12! Maybe of interest to folks from #COSMOS2025 or @eslr.bsky.social? Please feel free to share! 🙏

On the 4th December 2025, @eesaupe.bsky.social will be giving an in person lecture at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social as part of the MENDLS series. There will be tea and cake, a panel discussion, and a reception to follow! Open to all, more details 👇 Register here: forms.gle/hHEQA4mSZEXg...

Our first speaker of the academic year in the Human Palaeosystems in Focus seminar series will be Prof Miikka Tallavaara! His talk will be on “The evolution of human niche size in East Asia across the Pleistocene” Join us on Wednesday here: www.gea.mpg.de/177637/the-e...

Our first speaker of the academic year in the Human Palaeosystems in Focus seminar series will be Prof Miikka Tallavaara! His talk will be on “The evolution of human niche size in East Asia across the Pleistocene” Join us on Wednesday here: www.gea.mpg.de/177637/the-e...

The seminar series is back! Don't miss the FIRST talk of the 2025/26 Human Palaeosystems in focus - the perfect way to get inspired for the new academic year ahead ➡️ www.gea.mpg.de/177655/the-e...

We are happy to share the programme of speakers for our global symposium on lithic technology 🪨🔎 There are just a few spaces left for in-person participation! DM for more information. You can join us online via this Zoom registration link: eu02web.zoom-x.de/webinar/regi...

We are happy to share the programme of speakers for our global symposium on lithic technology 🪨🔎 There are just a few spaces left for in-person participation! DM for more information. You can join us online via this Zoom registration link: eu02web.zoom-x.de/webinar/regi...

Deadline for in-person registration is tomorrow!

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised! 3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution 2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions. Please share and apply! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Registration for in-person or online participation for our symposium is still open!

Join us at the MPI-GEA or online for a free symposium on Quantifying Complexity in Stone Tools on the 21st of October! 🪨 With a keynote lecture by Charles Perreault. Full speaker list will be released soon! Secure your spot here: shh-cloud.gnz.mpg.de/index.php/ap...

Today! Don’t miss it 😊

Join us on Wednesday for our final webinar of series by @jcsvenning.bsky.social on: “Deep-time, large-scale perspectives on biodiversity and ecosystems: implications for biosphere stewardship in the Anthropocene.” More information and link to register here: www.gea.mpg.de/168423/deep-...

Co-organizing a session at #SAA San Francisco with T. Kovach: "Toward an Integration of Quantitative Approaches in #Lithic Analysis." A few spots still open! Abstracts due Sept. 4. Email me if you’d like to join the conversation: [email protected] #Archaeology #FlintFriday #FossilFriday 🏺

Thank you @prelights.bsky.social & Alejandra Leffer's group for choosing our preprint on @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social and for this chance to talk about human- #malaria coevolution!🦟 @eegcam.bsky.social @elliescerri.bsky.social @MPI_GEA

And Palaeolithic archaeology, which remains hugely behind too. 'This is not about political correctness or ticking boxes....Diverse teams deliver better science: they ask different questions, challenge old assumptions, and produce richer, more nuanced insights.' www.heriuct.co.za/news-content...

Archaeologists, historians, classicists: can your research into our past inform our future? The ‘Lessons from the Past’ (March ‘26) conference is looking for papers on tangible sustainability changes informed by human history lessonsfromthepast.info @livancworlds.bsky.social #AcademicSky

Join us at the MPI-GEA or online for a free symposium on Quantifying Complexity in Stone Tools on the 21st of October! 🪨 With a keynote lecture by Charles Perreault. Full speaker list will be released soon! Secure your spot here: shh-cloud.gnz.mpg.de/index.php/ap...

Interested in the functional morphology of mammal heads and want to come join us in Liverpool? Apply for this exciting new PhD project with Alana!

Both proxies and models provide key resources More is not always better: Delta-downscaling climate model outputs from 30 to 5 min resolution has minimal impact on coherence with Late Quaternary proxies🏺🧪 @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social, @elliescerri.bsky.social , et al cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/...

New paper in collaboration with @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social and @jblinkhorn.bsky.social, with several of us involved (@mikleonardi.bsky.social @margheritac17.bsky.social @andreavpozzi.bsky.social) shows that downscaling palaeoclimate models doesn't necessarily improve coherence with proxy data.

Very pleased to see our paper published online at Climate of the Past: cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/... We present model-data comparisons of Late Quaternary climate across the Northern Hemisphere, showing that increasing model resolution has little net effect on coherence with pollen proxies 😊

Last week, Andrea sat down with Dr Chris Smith of Naked Scientists to talk about our paper on the expansion of the human niche 70k year ago: www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/int...

Very pleased to see our paper now out in Communications Biology! 🥳

📢 We’re HIRING! Are you experienced in 3D imaging and geometric morphometric analysis? Do you have strong organisational and communication skills? We want to hear from you! Apply below www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51730/ Join our passionate research team exploring Pleistocene African prehistory! 🦴

1/5 Why do all non-Africans descended from a group that left Africa 50k ago? In @nature.com we model 120k years of human niche dynamics. From 70ka, a big expansion of the human niche in Africa likely equipped later OOA dispersals with a unique ecological flexibilty. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 NEW preprint🚨 Our latest study @HPS MPI-GEA @elliescerri.bsky.social & @eegcam.bsky.social models #malaria risk over the past 74,000 years revealing its powerful role in shaping human habitat choice and dispersal since the late Pleistocene in sub-Saharan Africa 🦟🌍 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very much looking forward to chatting with colleagues about some of our latest work 😌

🤩🤩🤩 Happening now 😁

🚨NEW PAPER from the @eegcam.bsky.social!🚨I have never been as proud of something as of the work that finally we can share today: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... - we show how a climatically driven Pan African meta population model explains our species genetic and morphological diversity 🧬💀

Re-advertising this post as no suitable applicants were found in the first round. If you are interested in an exciting PhD opportunity at the University of Sydney, do get in touch! Deadline 9 July. Updated information and link here: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...

Happy to share a PhD opportunity in my new lab at the University of Zurich! Application deadline: June 30. Do not hesitate to contact me for any questions!

Don't forget, if you're local to Liverpool, our next MENDLS lecture is on Wednesday 14th May. We are welcoming Prof. Andrea Manica from @eegcam.bsky.social to speak to us about 'The Role of Climate in Shaping Past Demography and Evolution in Human.' Should be a fascinating evening!

Merseyside Evolutionary Network Distinguished Lecture Series Presents: Professor Andrea Manica - The Role of Climate in Shaping Past Demography and Evolution in Humans. Wednesday 14th May at 17:00. Sign up here: forms.gle/fs1iwPCeTNVF...

In 1 week, we will be welcoming Prof Andrea Manica @eegcam.bsky.social to Liverpool @livancworlds.bsky.social to give the Spring MENDLS Lecture - don’t miss it! Sign up for this in person event (and complimentary wine reception!) via the QR code 👇🏼

In 1 week, we will be welcoming Prof Andrea Manica @eegcam.bsky.social to Liverpool @livancworlds.bsky.social to give the Spring MENDLS Lecture - don’t miss it! Sign up for this in person event (and complimentary wine reception!) via the QR code 👇🏼

Looking forward to our next MENDLS talk on Wednesday 14th of May with Prof Andrea Manica of the University of Cambridge @eegcam.bsky.social Join us in Liverpool! Sign up via the QR code below

In @nature.com we report the presence of the Mesolithic on Malta - upending everything we knew about the seafaring capabilities of late European hunter-gatherers and pushing back Maltese prehistory by 1000 years. Watch the clip, link to open access paper is below. 1/5 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Paper alert, @nature.com. Our study reveals 8 million years of #GreenArabia. We document environmental variability - ranging over the entire course of human evolution. Arabia is a key bridge at the cross-roads of continents. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚀 Apply now 🚀 The new Max Planck #Postdoc Program offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. postdocprogram.mpg.de #ScienceCareer #PostdocProgram

Join the Human Palaeosystems Group tomorrow (9th April 2pm CET) for a seminar by Dr Will Gosling on “Drivers of vegetation change in tropical Africa” www.gea.mpg.de/129765/drive...

Our paper “Climate seasonality and predictability during the middle stone age and implications for technological diversification in early Homo sapiens” has been published in Scientific Reports 🥳 rdcu.be/egqwZ

There's still time to register for today's talk, given by @eslembenarous.bsky.social, looking at recent developments of ESR dating applied to Human Evolution in Western Africa! Register here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... We hope to see you there!

Levallois Alert ⚠️ Moving beyond classic metric measurements, @eshallinan.bsky.social and @jmcascalheira.bsky.social applied a geometric morphometric approach to Nubian Levallois cores, offering novel insights into shape variability at an inter-regional scale. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Today!