Time flies and soon it will be time to close the Apidima excavation, after a very productive season!🔨👲 In the meantime, here's a Field Friday photo of the team in Cave D 😍 #fieldfriday #humanevolution #ERC

Out today in @commsearth.nature.com from some of my newest colleagues at UMMP: evidence that the extinction of dinosaurs led to fundamental shifts in terrestrial environments, and that this signal is recorded in facies shifts tied to the K-Pg boundary: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Not only is solar more than capable of supplying all the world’s energy, in the long term it’s the only power source that won’t fry the planet.

Last chance to apply!!

Excellent thread on what is going on at academic journals, from the perspective of an editor. Clearly highlights the strain (direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...) caused by quantitative incentives, and that publishers cannot be allies in solving the mess -- they are part of the problem & profit from it.

We are also looking for to fill the managing director position for the new Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS at the University of Tübingen! Please see below for English text and the link for the German advert. Deadline: Sept. 15! lnkd.in/gJZrvGnk

There is still time to apply to these great early career opportunities!! Three Junior Research Group leader positions at the new University of Tübingen Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS' (in biomechanics, phenotype-genotype interactions, experimental archaeology - see links) Deadline Sept. 10!

A history of multiple Denisovan introgression events in modern humans🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Review of evidence suggests several Denisovan populations, who likely had an extensive geographical range, were adapted to distinct environments and introgressed into modern humans multiple times.

Very cool!

The 2025 excavation season is now officially underway at Apidima in Greece! ⛏️✨️ #excavations #fieldseason #Paleoanthropology

New study led by Joanna Baker shows bigger brains and relatively longer thumbs coevolved in primates. Humans have huge thumbs, but only what our brain size (esp. neocortex) would predict. It’s NOT driven by tool use. A fantastic paper with a huge amount of work, and superb data presentation 🧪🏺👍🧠💀🐒🦧

🚨 We are hiring!! 🚨 The Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS' is looking for: - a scientific coordinator - a science communication officer 🚨 Deadline: September 15 🚨 See links for the full advertisements: uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

🚨 Job alert! The new Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS' is looking for a scientific coordinator to start as soon as possible. Please see link for full advertisement text and information. Deadline for applications: September 15 uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Deadline coming up on September 10th! Please circulate!

Deadline coming up on September 10th! Please circulate!

Deadline coming up on September 10th! Please circulate!

No paparazzi please!!! 😜😆🐕😍❤️ Bobiras wishes everyone a relaxing weekend! #kokoni #dogsofbluesky #rescue

📢Now hiring:independent junior research group leader-Biomechanics🦴💻 The #HumanOrigins Cluster at Uni Tübingen invites applications for a leader in biomechanics. 📝Start: Jan 1, 2026 🗓 Deadline: Sept 10, 2025 Interested? Apply now! 🔗 share.google/iIGo4jjQp7Ge... Share this ad! #HumanEvolution #Jobad

Job Alerts!🚨 We are looking to fill three Independent Junior Research Group Leader positions in the 'HUMAN ORIGINS' Cluster of Excellence at the University of Tübingen Application deadline: Sept. 10, Starting Jan. 1, 2026 1. Genotype-Phenotype interactions: uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Our new edited volume is finally out! It collects much of the team's work over the last several years in Greece and elsewhere. Thank you and congratulations to authors, reviewers, editors and the University of Tübingen Press for this exciting - and beautiful! - work!! 🎉✨ #openaccess #humanevolution

Since 2015, freshwater loss from land — mainly from pumping groundwater — has contributed more to sea level rise than melt from Antarctic ice sheet. 🧪

The pollen analysis from Marathousa 1, an MIS12 Lower Paleolithic elephant butchering site in Megalopolis basin (Greece) is now published!! Congratulations to Stella Kyrikou and team!!! ✨ 🎉 It's wonderful to see this important work finally out! #openaccess #humanevolution doi.org/10.1017/qua....

🚨 JOB APPLICATION 🚨 The University of Western Australia is looking for a Lecturer in Biological Anthropology Deadline for applying: August 29th More information on the link below 👇 external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/en/job/52090...

Our article on Kayaca, a new Miocene locality in Turkey, is now out in the Senckenberg journal Paleodiversity and Paleoenvironments! Congratultions to George Konidaris, Ahmet Aytek and the whole team! The first result from this wonderful collaboration ✨🎉 #openaccess

Super exciting work on rhythm in chimpanzee drumming!! with very interesting implications for the origins of music!

Launching explody rockets in a vain attempt to be the first man on Mars and in the process decimating enormously rich biomes on the only known habitable planet in the universe is the worst kind of contemptuously dumb supervillainism.

Congratulations to George Konidaris on successfully completing his #habilitation! A major milestone and well-deserved recognition of his academic dedication and expertise. ✨️👏🏻🎉 #PrivatDozent

New Dr. on the block! 👩‍🎓 Huge congrats to Dr. Stella Kyrikou on successfully defending her PhD on paleoenvironmental research in the Megalopolis Basin! ✨️👏🏻 Well done! 🎉 #PhDDefense #Paleoenvironment #MegalopolisBasin

Interesting paper on the feebdack loops that influence the peer review process in scientific publishing and what to do about the reviewing crisis we currently face

Neil Shubin, an evolutionary biologist best known for discovering an important fish fossil, has been nominated to head the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. scim.ag/46IG9hG

Our climate seems to be more sensitive to greenhouse gases than we thought, which means we have to up our decarbonisation efforts.

Exciting new finds from China provide a rare glimpse into the plant-based technology of ancient humans!

AI summaries kill search traffic. This has been an obvious consequence of Google's AI summary strategy since its inception. Apparently the training data is so valuable that Google is willing to risk the neck of the goose that lays golden eggs. Screenshot: thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-9-blu...

It was fun participating in the Science Day of our Faculty yesterday with team members Frini Roditi and Stella Kyrikou! We enjoyed presenting our poster on paleoclimate reconstructions of the Middle Pleistocene Megalopolis Basin (Greece) 😎

Congratulations to PhD student Dalila DeCaro for the publication of her paper on the Marathousa 1 lithics at PLOS: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...! Well done Dalila!!

🎉 Welcome to #EAVP2025! LET THE FOSSIL FUN begin! Check-in (today only): Museum of Natural History ISEA PAS (Św. Sebastiana 9; maps.app.goo.gl/XA5mPrdVdz6Y...) See you soon! #Palaeontology

Over tens of thousands of years, waves of Homo sapiens set out across Europe and Asia, only for their societies and cultures to mysteriously vanish. At last, ancient DNA is revealing why.

📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground! 🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome. 🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13 🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq Please share! @elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social

Out and about with Bobiras on this hot Sunday morning 🥰😍 Have a great Sunday! #dogsofbluesky #kokoni #rescue

Happy #FossilFriday from the TSR locality (Greece): a horse calcaneus, a carnivoran metapodial and a long bone shaft fragment, possibly leftovers from a Pachycrocuta brevirostris, the giant #hyena of the #Pleistocene! 🦴🐾🐺 Curious for more? See Katsagoni et al. (2023)⬇️ doi.org/10.1080/0891...

A very productive and fun week working at the National Museum of Kenya with colleagues and friends Drs. Christian Tryon and Emma Mbua, and PhD student Ben Chamberlain. So grateful to be able to study the fossils of human ancestors! 🙂

Exciting week ahead! 🦴🛠 Paleontological #excavations kicked off this Monday at the TSR locality (Lower Pleistocene) in Greece - a joint effort between Uni Tübingen and Uni Thessaloniki. 🙌🏻🙏🏼 Stay tuned for some exciting discoveries! 👀✨️🦴

Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine. If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.

So nice to be back in Nairobi with the team working in the Museum after many years!

Leakey Foundation invites applications for research on human origins philanthropynewsdigest.org/rfps/rfp1793...

A summary of our new paper, featuring the brilliant work of @munyaka.bsky.social and @danpeppe.bsky.social. Always new surprises from the fossil record!

It was a pleasure to deliver a lecture on humanity's African origins as part of the special exhibit 'Planet Africa – Eine archäologische Zeitreise' at the Archäologische Staatssammlung Museum in Munich. Wonderful public, a full house and lots of questions! I look forward to the next time 🤩

Revisiting the Anatomy of the Florisbad Hominin Cranium: Visualization of New Internal Features and Observations on Its Supposed Pathologies paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...

Somehow this is comfortable...😆 Bobiras' afternoon nap 😍🥰 #kokoni #dogsofbluesky #rescue