Fossils and artifacts from Ethiopia’s Afar Rift from around 100,000 years ago help fill gaps in a sparse later-Pleistocene record of African human evolution from the era before modern human expansion into Eurasia . In PNAS: https://ow.ly/HJLn50YJZ4m

Scientific jewelry picks up “forever chemicals” that can harm wildlife and humans. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4sDLU7U

Large language models can teach other models unwanted traits, which can persist even when training data has been scrubbed of the original trait, according to research in Nature. In one example, a model seems to transmit a preference for owls to other models via hidden signals in data. 🧪

🪨 Earliest Oldowan toolmakers selected distant stone sources? #ICArEHB Jonathan S. Reeves (w/ Finestone, Plummer et al.) in Science Advances: doi.org/10.1126/scia... #Lithics #Archaeology

Vox encuentra en neonazis y gimnasios de artes marciales una nueva cantera juvenil en Catalunya

🌴🌲🌳The richer you are the more likely you are to live among the trees. That's one of the findings coming out of a recent EU study looking at access to green spaces across 862 European cities. Read all about it👇: www.politico.eu/article/acce...

🦴 Breaking: Tinshemet Cave (Israel) reveals #Neanderthals & #Sapiens didn't just coexist—they SHARED a culture. From hybrid tools to hunting Persian Fallow Deer, the "Gap" is a myth. 🦌 Read my full Deep Dive: open.substack.com/pub/deephist... #Paleoanthropology #Hominins #Evolution #Culture

Protester arrested yesterday with sign reading: “We deserve a government that isn’t afraid of peace.” This government is afraid of our fight for our future. It’s afraid of a people’s fight for safety and freedom in our homeland and it’s afraid of our power when we’re organized. (1/3)

On how factors such as living with economic difficulties (social) and/or polluted environments and cities (physical), both translate into speeding up brain function and structure leafing to advanced issues such Alzheimer and dementia.

In a letter to the EU, the Airports Council International warned that if Hormuz does not reopen within three weeks, paraffin shortages in Europe will be critical.

Lebanese Health Ministry says people killed in Israeli attacks since March 2 rises to 1,953 with 6,303 wounded.

A paper in Nature Communications describes the discovery of nickel-rich Martian rocks in Neretva Vallis — an ancient river channel that once carried water into a lake in Jezero crater — by NASA’s Perseverance rover. go.nature.com/4152MZW 🔭 🧪

🧬 Research Assistant Prof in Human Environment Interactions – University of South Carolina, USA 🔬 Apply for archaeology & environmental research role using faunal, archaeogenomics & trace element methods 🎓 Eligibility: PhD higherjobz.com/research-ass... #AcademicJobs @sc.edu

James Gadson obituary

Repurposed drug may extend survival in aggressive ovarian cancer, trial shows

We are offering two 4-year PhD positions in our new SNF project "The Evolutionary Roots of Altercentrism"

Even Roman emperors had more modesty.

I am very happy to be able to let you all know that the volume "Alterity and Human Evolution: Deep-Time and Multispecies Perspectives on Difference and Variation" has now been officially published by @berghahnbooks.bsky.social! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Abadia... /1

Leaked calls show Hungary's Foreign Minister briefing Russia's Lavrov during a key EU summit, offering confidential EU documents to Moscow, and arranging a meeting between Orbán and Vladimir Putin. #EuropeNews

I'm hiring! 📢 Fully funded 4-year PhD position in Language Evolution using Communication Games at @mpi-nl.bsky.social. Come work with me on how different social pressures shape the evolution of new communication systems in the lab! Deadline for application is May 18th! share.google/fGTKbFS4v4Gb...

New paper out! ✨ What goes into making and maintaining a grinding stone? This study explores the technological choices behind shaping and sustaining these tools over time. 🔗 Read more: sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Prehistory #Lithics #3DPhotogrammetry

Mediterranean migrant deaths mounting towards 1,000 in 2026: UN https://aje.news/15tq0h

A paper in Nature Aging presents a multiscale atlas of aging breast tissue that shows a nonlinear loss of cellularity and a compositional shift favoring inflammation. The findings could help with understanding the development of breast cancer. go.nature.com/4tKlH8L #medsky 🧪

Up to 1.2 million people forced to flee as Israel pummels Lebanon https://aje.news/1nauv8

It's mindboggling that anyone employed in academia in 2026 would defend "cold winters theory", an incredibly silly just-so story which - very literally - claims Europeans & Asians are more intelligent than Africans because Africa doesn't experience cold winters (dismantled here by an archaeologist)

BREAKING: Trump administration terminates several agreements to protect transgender students in schools.

Once again, it is ordinary people who are being killed in this reality, and families are left shattered after paying the highest price for a futile war. We send our condolences to the families who lost their loved ones and who are experiencing unimaginable grief. (2/3)

Video captured the moment of a direct hit by an Iranian missile on a residential building in Israel’s Haifa. Multiple injuries were reported and some people are feared trapped under the rubble of the partially collapsed structure.

Several Palestinians were rushed to hospital with severe injuries after an Israeli air strike hit a crowd near the Al Jazeera Club in central Gaza City. Near-daily Israeli attacks have killed more than 700 people since the so-called “ceasefire” entered into effect in October 2025.

El arte rupestre más antiguo conocido hasta ahora: Rock art from at least 67,800 years ago in Sulawesi

Ella Tsahar and colleagues just published this (open access) paper about archaeological ostrich eggshells from Middle Paleolithic sites in the Levant as paleoecological markers. doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...

Rescuers say they lost hope for the humpback whale that has become stranded repeatedly off Germany’s Baltic Sea coast.

Eastern Neanderthals who lived ~120,000 years ago and Western Neanderthals ~60,000 years ago were as genetically differentiated as the most divergent modern human populations today. A lot from one “unremarkable” bone! Here's the full publication: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 4/4

Trump signed an executive order on his return to the White House last year decreeing that children born to parents in the United States illegally or on temporary visas would not automatically become US citizens

The « limpet nerd » nerding about limpets 👇 🔗 medium.com/@jf.cudennec...

Spain has banned U.S. military aircraft involved in the Middle East war from using its airspace, reaffirming Madrid’s opposition to Washington’s operations in Iran.

Several European countries have condemned Israel over a proposed bill that would expand the use of the death penalty. But Israel is pushing back on that criticism.

There is still time to apply!💼📝Deadline: April 6, 2026⌛ #jobalert #Humanevolution #academia

In mid-March, a pro-Russian bot network began pushing a false and incendiary claim on X. A video falsely attributed to a Moldovan media outlet alleged that Hungarians were being urged “to take up arms, resist the authorities and kill Viktor Orbán.” 👇

Evidence from Tinshemet Cave in Israel suggests behavioural uniformity across Homo groups in the Levantine mid-Middle Palaeolithic circa 130,000–80,000 years ago www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A study in Nature Communications of an archaeological sequence and paleoenvironmental proxies from the Buhais Rockshelter shows that human occupation of this arid landscape corresponded with increased water availability, expanding a limited archaeological record in this region. 🏺 🧪

Mesolithic burials in Sweden show ancient fur and feather headgear uncovered by new microscopic analysis archaeologymag.com/2026/02/meso...

Decenas de exembajadores y altos funcionarios israelíes firman una carta pública contra la violencia en Cisjordania. “Esta violencia intolerable, que se ha intensificado al amparo de la guerra, es diametralmente contraria a cualquier valor de gobernanza y moralidad”, afirman

El ministro de Defensa de Israel afirma que el ejército aumentará y expandirá sus ataques contra Irán

A war of regression: how Trump bombed the US into a worse position with Iran

Out today is our paper 'Genomic history of early dogs in Europe', in which we uncover the identity of the dogs that lived in Europe before agriculture—during the Paleolithic & Mesolithic periods: doi.org/10.1038/s415.... A thread ⬇️ (10) @biouea.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social

According to a new study, Russian energy giants Gazprom and Rosneft have played an important role in indoctrination of forcefully deported Ukrainian children.

La ofensiva en Gaza no para. Pero la atención del mundo, sí. El olvido tiene consecuencias: menos ayuda, más escasez, más sufrimiento. UNRWA sigue trabajando desde dentro, pero necesita apoyo urgente. 🙏 Si puedes: www.ayudagaza.com

Researchers say they have developed a new way to transplant healthy mitochondria into animals harboring defective versions—a strategy the team hopes could one day treat certain neurodegenerative disorders and inherited genetic diseases in people. https://scim.ag/4uND3mi

Meta ordered to pay $375m after being found liable in child exploitation case