🔥Before farming, hunter-gatherers already transformed nearly half of Europe’s #landscapes via burning and hunting! Our new study using an #AI approach shows #Neanderthals began reshaping ecosystems; later foragers continued this process 👉 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #Paleoecology #Anthropocene

So excited to announce the lineup of speakers here @heasvienna.bsky.social for the 2025/6 academic year! We have some outstanding speakers for our three seminar series in Archaelogical Science, Ancient Genomics and Human Evolution & the Palaeolithic. All hybrid! Register now at HEAS.at

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Had fun at my poster yesterday! Thanks for stopping by @adamvanc.bsky.social and thanks for the photo Philipp Gunz! #ESHE2025

Two new papers! First on the origins of fire use, led by Femke Reidsma in a book celebrating the work of Wil Roebroeks: www.sidestone.com/books/intent...

The #ESHE2025 meeting in Paris starts tomorrow (please use this hashtag for sharing). If you are interested in the program, you find it here mcusercontent.com/9347aa3598d5... - Members have received an email for accessing the live stream! We hope you all enjoy the conference in person or online. /MW

We are getting ready for #ESHE2025 in Paris! 🎉 The #LHOSA #CoEvol #BrAIn team will share exciting new results on hominin evolution—talks & posters you do not want to miss.🧵👇 @palevoprim.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univpoitiers.bsky.social

🚨 Two PhD Positions Available! Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠 Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history. www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...

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/

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.

I know there is some anxiety around how to protect yourself in light of Muskrat and his herd of shitler youth getting their hands on all our personal information so here are the steps you can take to protect yourself. I’ve seen these in various threads but thought it worth putting them together🧵 1/?

Here’s an interesting and important study on how fact-checking social media can lead to accusations of bias against right wing discourse - but it’s actually because that discourse is more likely to contain misinformation to start with. Paging @sheencr.bsky.social

Reviewers for #NIH #grants, stop reviewing.

Happy Birthday Mary Leakey!

#FossilFriday The Taung child found in South Africa, 1924. Raymond Dart published this in Nature #OTD in Feb. 1925 naming Australopithecus africanus, the "southern ape from Africa", and described this as “an extinct race of apes intermediate between living anthropoids and man"

...they are shutting off parts of GPS for funsies. See 6th paragraph here.

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

Best grant writing advice I ever received: "Write your proposal as if someone from a completely different field will search through it looking for 100 banned words"

‪ Some important statistics and information for those thinking about submitting to the PaleoAnthropology journal. PaleoAnthropology has a >20 year-history as a community owned, diamond open access, peer-reviewed journal. No fees, no subscription. We look forward to your papers!

Diamond open access model means that publication in scientific journal is free for both readers and authors. No APCs = equal publishing, but also no profit = need for external funding. There are relatively few diamond OA journals, and some of them (including GHSP) were funded by USAID.

Hey, that's my article, cool!

FINALLY someone explaining EOs are 👏🏻 not 👏🏻 laws!!! As someone who has worked on EOs, this groveling to THINGS THAT ARE NOT THE LAW is bizarre. “While it’s true the order says that, that does not actually change the legal status of prescribing these treatments.” newrepublic.com/article/1910...