Students: the deadline for #AABA2026 travel awards is this week!

A paper in Nature shows that a 3.4-million-year-old partial foot found in Ethiopia in 2009 belongs to an ancient human relative named Australopithecus deyiremeda, a more primitive species of Australopithecus than the famous ‘Lucy’ (A. afarensis). go.nature.com/49BkCZY 🏺 🧪

All NSF SBE DDRIG solicitations have been archived and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Grants currently submitted will be processed, but as always, chances of funding remain very low. This means anyone aiming for the upcoming deadline will not be able to submit. 1/3

Two postdoctoral opportunities in evolutionary anthropology at Duke University! The Pontzer Lab is hiring for projects on human ecology, energetics, and aging & health. More info: www.hbes.com/two-postdoct...

Join us next week on Nov 19th for a virtual workshop on writing op-eds 📝 Register here: burkinc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Paranthropus boisei is a human fossil cousin w/ giant jaws and teeth that lived in East Africa ~2.6 to 1.3 million years ago. Whether it could make & use tools has been a paleoanthropological mystery since the 1960s. Our new paper describes the first firmly associated hand and foot. 1/

Do you want to support students attending #AABA2026? Get your #AABA2026 t-shirt or hoodie! Proceeds will fund our various student programs www.bonfire.com/sales-will-s...

Interested in becoming more involved in AABA? The deadline for nominations for President-Elect, Vice President, and Secretary are due October 15! bioanth.org/95th-annual-...

📌 Students attending #AABA2026: we've made some changes to simplify the submission process for Student Presentation Awards. Your award application is now due October 15, 2025, the same day as abstracts are due. 📖 Read about it here: bioanth.org/about/studen...

📣 The abstract portal for #AABA2026 in Denver is open! Please read the abstract guidelines carefully before submitting your abstract. Submissions are due by October 15, 2025. bioanth.org/95th-annual-...

New essay about our collaborative deep history work in Tanzania! Thanks to @sapiens.org for inviting me to contribute & for editorial support Fidelis Masao, Husna Mashaka, Sam Porter, & many more contribute to this work. Thanks @leakeyfoundation.org @asubeinghuman.bsky.social & @asuiho.bsky.social

I'm recruiting a PhD student to join the lab at @gtsciences.bsky.social in Fall 2026! Broad taxonomic and topical freedom under the umbrella of vertebrate joint form and function. Information here: www.manafzadeh.com – please share 🦴🩻

Breaking the barriers! Important new paper by Daniel Green and others discovering 18 million years of proteins of East African mammals! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hello, Our paper on enamel proteins from Paranthropus robustus has finally been peer reviewed, please have a read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Paranthropus robustus has been puzzling scientists since its discovery in 1938 in South Africa, where a high number of fossils have been found.

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.

Unearthing the Past: The New Turkana Footprints with Dr. Kevin Hatala youtu.be/vX-b4L3cxW0 @kevinhatala.bsky.social

Really happy to see this paper out, using field biomechanics we show that wild chimpanzees don't just randomly select plants materials for termite fishing tools – they use a little “folk physics” choosing materials with specific properties! Study in iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful.... 1/5

Want to move to Spain? Do you study craniodental evolution in human and non-human primate evolution? Looking for postdoc position? Interested in working with my @Tied2Teeth group here @CENIEH??? Deadline to apply: 28 March 2025 www.cenieh.es/en/about-cen...

🎊 Congratulations to the ten #AABA2025 student prize winners and honorable mentions! bioanth.org/about/studen...

Our new paper 🥲 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🥁 Congratulations to the 76 awardees of the 2025 William S. Pollitzer Student Travel Award! The Pollitzer Student Travel Awards are designed to help students defray the costs of attending the AABA meetings. bioanth.org/about/willia... #AABA2025

"Could You Survive Living With Other Hominin Species?" asks PBS Eons. youtu.be/c4E6chPj-IQ?... #humanevolution

Get excited for #AABA2025 in Baltimore next week! Download the AABA 2025 app and start planning your meeting www.xcdsystem.com/mobile/index...

Ever wondered what happens to your grant proposal once you submit it? Join a hands-on “mock review” workshop to learn about review processes at The Leakey Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation. March 12 at #AABA2025. Registration is limited so act fast! @bioanth.org bit.ly/4havY78

🚨New article🚨Our #research on #elephant🐘and #strontium #isotopes in #teeth🦷is published with @commsbio.bsky.social We show how Sr is recorded in teeth and how we use such records to help reconstruct migration. @kevinuno.bsky.social @kpodkovyroff.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Exciting things happening on Rusinga Island! www.sapiens.org/culture/loca...

Groundbreaking research on Homo erectus www.nature.com/articles/s43... #OldupaiGorge BED III: Using sedimentology, geochemistry, Ar/Ar dating, biome simulations, fire history, paleobotany, fauna, and lithics, we reveal how hominins navigated extreme environments in northern Tanzania 1 Ma

Congratulations to the 2025 AABA Award Winners! This year we honor Dr. Kay Behrensmeyer, Dr. Lorena Madrigal, and Dr. Sang-Hee Lee. Thank you for your contributions to biological anthropology! #AABA2025

Important update for anyone with a manuscript in the JHE editorial pipeline. Thanks for sharing!

I'm very excited to share a new paper out this week with co-authors Ashley Hammond and Carol Ward. doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

Incredible site. If you want to see the length of these trackways, and a little walk through of some of the Sauropod tracks, I've uploaded a 4k60p video to YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dyH...

📣 Students: applications for Pollitzer Student Travel Awards to attend #AABA2025 in Baltimore are due on January 6! Apply now! bioanth.org/about/willia...

Reminder: The deadline for AABA Pollitzer travel award applications is 1 week away (Jan 6). If you are a student traveling to the Annual Meeting in Baltimore, please apply!

After the amazing paper by @kevinhatala.bsky.social & colleagues on locomotor variation in early #hominins, an exciting new study led by George Brill on forms of locomotion in #foragers 'Extensive locomotor versatility across a global sample of hunter–gatherer societies' doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

📣 AABA is excited to announce two new initiatives to provide funding for our community, the AABA Community Fund and the AABA Presidents’ Fund! bioanth.org/donate/

Paranthropus Boisei (der "Nussknackermensch") trifft Homo Erectus - zwei Urmenschenarten am Ufer eines Sees in Kenia, allein das ist schon eine Super-Geschichte. Aber dass man dieses Treffen nun durch fossile Fußabdrücke nachweisen konnte, ist besonders cool. #Anthropologie

In this week's #SciencePodcast🎙️, kevinhatala.bsky.social joins Meagan Cantwell to discuss fossil footprints unearthed in the Turkana Basin of Kenya that indicate two ancient hominins crossed paths within days of each other. 🎧 Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...

In the throes of conflict, this close encounter between two of our prehistoric ancestors feels extra remarkable somehow. Thanks @kevinhatala.bsky.social and Craig Feibel for talking to me about what they unearthed about this moment from 1.5 million years ago. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024...

Fossilized footprints reveal 2 extinct hominin species living side by side 1.5 million years ago

Follow @jackiehmatthes.bsky.social , co-curator of our childhood rock collection, for the latest on carbon cycles and climate change!

Wake up, babe! New fossil footprints just dropped! 🏺🧪 Trackway found in Kenya shows that H. erectus and P. boisei basically lived side-by-side, which is bonkerballs cool! www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Excited to share our latest paper, new in Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

My lab at OSU is hiring a postdoc in skeletal morphology to start fall 25. Salary is at NIH base pay. Deadline to apply is March 2 2025. osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

Thrilled to share: out in @natureportfolio.bsky.social (!) just in time for Thanksgiving, the dinosaurian history of how your turkey does the twist. Fibular reduction enabled mid-drumstick mobility, unlocking extreme knee long-axis rotation in theropods 🍗🦖🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08251-w

The William S. Pollitzer Student Travel Award topic has been announced! This year we are increasing the amount of the award and the number of awards given. Students, submit your essay to apply for #AABA2025 travel awards! bioanth.org/about/willia...