🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 Join @palevoprim.bsky.social as part of the #ReVol project (@cnrs.fr & Wits Joint PhD Programme)! Spend 3 years investigating the southern African fossil cercopithecoids to reconstruct past ecology and behavior through skeletal morphology and dental microwear.

My department has funding for 2-year MByRes studentships (full tuition fees and research allowance) on ecosystem resilience, broadly defined. Apply to do a project with me modelling social-ecological networks. #culturalevolution #socialnetworks ecologyconservation.exeter.ac.uk/masteer-coho...

What a fabulous paper, by Michelle Langley (who doesn't appear to be on bsky) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

If walking costs you $1, we all pay $0.01. If biking costs you $1, we all pay $0.08. If bussing costs you $1, we all pay $1.50. If driving costs you $1, we all pay $9.20. Via study that still underestimates climate cost. This isn’t about choice. It’s about who pays for your choice. #citymakingmath

Mini but mighty! Exciting new paper from @compevohumang.bsky.social showing that the stapes (the smallest bone in the human skeleton) is one of the best sources of ancient DNA preservation. A promising advance for maximizing DNA recovery while minimizing destructive sampling! doi.org/10.1101/gr.2...

📸 “Photogrammetry in Three Acts” follows #archaeologist Patricia G. Markert’s journey documenting a Texas ruin - revived digitally through photos, 3D models, and #community #collaboration. Read the #blog and #openaccess article now. 🔗 https://cup.org/4c6VOdd @saa-aap.bsky.social#archaeologist#community#collaboration#blog#openaccess#archaeology

It Takes Two to Tango: A Pluralist Account for Building Comprehensive Explanations in Human Evolution - Menéndez - American Anthropologist - Wiley Online Library anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I use the case of He Jiankui genetically modifying human embryos in my teaching about the relationship between science and society, but I must admit I haven't followed the entire story, now with a Canadian twist. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

A 430,000 year old digging stick. How cool! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New pub! Part review, part hypothesis presentation. Review: the various process that activate and fuel brown fat. Hypothesis: brown fat relies on aerobic & anaerobic metabolism. This was a fun one to write with current & former mentees. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Evidence for more terrestrial locomotion in Australopithecus, and more frequent climbing in Paranthropus from Sterkfontein/Swartkrans. Cool! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Evidence suggests that birth weight may influence how kidneys respond to extreme endurance exercise, with both low and high birth weights linked to greater kidney stress in ultramarathon athletes. doi.org/hbz3pp

More new work with awesome colleagues: Birth weight, a marker of maternal investment, correlates with later life kidney function and markers of renal damage incurred during ultra endurance events. LHT is 🔥 for generating predictions of human physiology. www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...

I'm so pleased to have this paper out, with work led by @dannylongman.bsky.social and a team of outstanding collaborators. Experimental evidence of life history trade-offs during ultra-endurance physical activity | Evolutionary Human Sciences | www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Awesome paper alert!

Just out: Recently discovered chimp gene-tool-culture are more likely due to permanent population splitting & expansion (i.e. "demic diffusion") than to female dispersal. *free* pdf link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1n3XqAlZXf... #ces2026 @ces2026.bsky.social #hbes2026 @hbes2026.bsky.social

A new exhibition at Bata Shoe Museum showcases decades of research and many of the Roman leather shoes discovered by #WesternU prof Elizabeth Greene at #Vindolanda, a #UNESCO World Heritage Site, where she has been uncovering artifacts for decades.

Couple of scholarships for Palestinian nationals available at the University of Malta, to do masters in 1) heritage management, and 2) artificial intelligence. www.um.edu.mt/study/feesfu...

📸 “Photogrammetry in Three Acts” follows #archaeologist Patricia G. Markert’s journey documenting a Texas ruin - revived digitally through photos, 3D models, and #community #collaboration. Read the #blog and #openaccess article now. 🔗 https://cup.org/4c6VOdd @saa-aap.bsky.social#archaeologist#community#collaboration#blog#openaccess#archaeology

Fantastic new paper from @elliescerri.bsky.social 's group and colleagues, led by @margheritac17.bsky.social: "Malaria shaped human spatial organization for the past 74 thousand years"

A nice News piece in @science.org on our recent article about Jojosi with comments by some colleagues (featuring @huwgroucutt.bsky.social among others!). www.science.org/content/arti...

What a great paper. Functional morphology has come a long way in the past 30 years! royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Our new paper exploring the measurement of complexity in tools - the result of significant and ongoing work, including that which emerged from our Complexity in Lithics Conference! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

✨Thinking about a career beyond academia?✨ 📢 Join us for #AltAc Paths on 11 May 16:00 GMT 🎤 Sarah-Louise Decrausaz – research strategy & funding 🎤 Alice Novello – project management & outreach 💬 Career stories + live Q&A 🔗 Join via Zoom | zoom.us/j/9429649076...

Nice article about our @CIHR_IRSC funded research in the New York Times today @westernu.ca www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/m...

Awhile back I meet the brilliant Jenni French & and now been lucky to collab on a project w/ her for the last ~3 yrs. Along with Somaye Khaksar & @anthrofuentes.bsky.social our 1st project paper is out, on origins & development of mobile containers (1/n) 🧪 🧺 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 Publication alert🚨 Early humans in South Africa were quarrying stone as long as 220,000 years ago at the site of Jojosi @natcomms.nature.com - specialized, long-term use of a source of a raw material source in Stone Age Africa: Read the paper #openaccess here www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We don't have enough open access resources for reading about ethics, and there's some really great looking chapters in there. I'm excited to spend some time with this! 🏺🧪https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-10354-3

What a great paper. Nice to see a collaborative effort by two researchers trained on two sides of a contentious issue 😃

📢 Scholarship for a student / PhD candidate in an NCN OPUS 23 project at PCMA UW! Project: “Life in the Makurian Metropolis: A Bioarchaeological Inquiry into Medieval Old Dongola, Sudan” (PI: Dr Antonio Caruso). ⏰ Deadline: 1 April 2026 🔎 Details: pcma.uw.edu.pl/en/2026/02/2...

REMINDER: The Society for the Study of Human Biology 2026 call for grants is open, deadline 27th March. Details of how to apply & past awardees: www.sshb.org/funding-gran.... DM me with any questions.

Our new Tübingen research cluster 'HUMAN ORIGINS' is now on bsky: @humanorigins.bsky.social

For our recent paper - on naive humans reinventing how to shape early stone tools - we did sth unusual and sth (hopefully) useful: We included an FAQ section in the supplementary material New methods may benefit from such FAQ's being included. [available at ars.els-cdn.com/content/imag... ]

It has arrived, the day of the superb owl! Here's a 10,000 year-old eagle-owl talon, incised to be used an ornament. My team recovered it in a pit next to the burial of a newborn girl nicknamed 'Neve' at Arma Veirana, a cave in the Italian Maritime Alps. 🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-02804-z

Very excited that this paper is out! www.science.org/doi/full/10.... Led by the fabulous @dorsaamir.bsky.social with invaluable contributions from many awesome collaborators.

Job alert! 3 year post doc in my research group at University College London working on Roman Leather via biomolecular archaeology. #ZooMS #stableisotopes www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ187/r...

I was surprised by children's large contribution to family food production in my hunter-gatherer family simulation. Of course, they're eating most of this food, too! From this paper linking the evolution of menopause to family energy balance: menopause-preprint.wisp.place 🧪 #BioAnth

After the World Trade Center was attacked (just four miles from Trump Tower), more than 40,000 Canadians in uniform fought alongside their U.S. allies in Afghanistan. More than 2,000 Canadians were wounded. These 158 didn't make it home. And now this guy is giving lectures on gratitude.

Fantastic! There's not much postcranial material known for Homo habilis or other early Homo species, so this is a very welcome addition to the record. Those are long forearms!

Have you ever wondered why human bodies and health look so different from one person to the next? @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

🚀 Launched! Here’s our call for applicants to the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Program at @westernu.ca. This is a remarkable opportunity for us to recruit outstanding scholars who are currently working internationally: www.uwo.ca/research/can...

I'm happy to have been able to contribute, even in a small way, to the work of this fabulous team 😀 Earliest evidence for intentional cremation of human remains in Africa | Science Advances share.google/wEZTImBqzBgY...

OMG this is a good catch. We wrestled with this a long time ago when setting up Slice Geometry. The correct way to set slice spacing (pixel spacing in z) from a DICOM is to use the slice position info (0020,1041 or 0020,0032) and divide by (stack size - 1). It can be out by not much or quite a bit.

Nice coverage of our ongoing research timesofmalta.com/article/cave...

Gonna focus on terraforming Mars rather than not venusifying Earth. futurism.com/the-byte/nas...

To attract top global talent, #WesternU is doubling the number of Postdoctoral Fellowship Program awards and launching the new US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Awards. #CdnPSE #HigherEd

Trump is changing direction on Canada again. The Digital Services Tax is critical to the protection of Canadian news media. Without our media, we are left naked to US digital news disinformation, including Elon Musk's far right X influence. This is a tech oligarch move against Canada's sovereignty.

Two PhD positions open! Deadline end of June! Apply now!

Aging isn’t a disease—it’s a journey. #WesternU researchers say we should focus on health span, not just lifespan, by optimizing how we age through connection, movement and mindset. Read more in the @westernualumni.bsky.social Magazine: buff.ly/r2Ao3XI

A permanent job here at @archsoton50.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social in #Palaeolithic Archaeology and/or #Palaeoanthropology 🏺🧪 Please share widely! jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...