We’re delighted to share that the 37th annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference (HBES2026) website is now live! #HBES2026

If you're keen to see the pop-up shop, you’ll need to book a free ticket, available from 1 October! Find out more and join the priority list to be among the first to access tickets: brnw.ch/21wVUx5 For those who can’t visit, the product range will also be available in our online shop. 🛍️

Calling all Pokémon Trainers - get ready to catch the Pokémon x Natural History Museum pop-up shop! 🦖🔥 From 26 January - 22 March 2026, our Cranbourne Boutique will transform into a Pokémon pop-up shop experience, with exclusive products designed specially for the collaboration. 🙌

PhD Studentship alert! I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia. Details in the link below! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Hi Annemieke, did you see the paper by Lloyd Courtenay (one of my colleagues) just out yesterday? Should give you matter of thinking www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨Call for papers 📝 on the history of natural history 🌸 #AcademicSky #NaturalHistory #ERCs shnh.org.uk/news/cfp-ear...

It was a pleasure to help 📺 #TheBBC and ✨ Ella Al-Shamahi behind the scenes to produce this video at #NHM @nhm-london.bsky.social 💀Meet our Fellow Humans 💀 #Anthropology #Archaeology #Homonaledi #Homofloresiensis www.tiktok.com/@bbcearth/vi...

Massive datasets in #ScienceAdvances confirm that higher adherence to a diet friendly to Earth and human health correlates with lower all-cause mortality. https://scim.ag/46bE644

💥 #JobOpportunity 💥 in ⛏️ #Archaeology ⛏️ and 💀 #HumanOrigins 🦴 at University of Tübingen Independent Junior Research Group Leader in Experimental Archaeology uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... #AcademicSky 💙

🚨 #JobOpportunity 🚨 in #Anthropology 🚶‍♂️ and #HumanOrigins 🦴 at University of Tübingen Independent Junior Research Group Leader in Biological Anthropology and Biomechanics uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... #AcademicSky 💙

🚨 #JobOpportunity 🚨 in #Archaeology ⛏️ and #HumanOrigins 🦴 at University of Tübingen Independent Junior Research Group Leader in Experimental Archaeology uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... #AcademicSky 💙

“When something that has previously been considered good and desirable – [e.g.] an extremely high-emitting lifestyle – is suddenly revealed to have disastrous consequences for our common society, then we all have a responsibility to find quick ways of making that lifestyle socially unacceptable.”

A 🦋 #NaturalHistory 🦋 and 🟨 #Lego 🟨 superfan dream job?? #MuseumJobs jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job... Postdoctoral Researcher role in 🌊 #Ocean 🌊 🐡 #Biodiversity 🐡 and 🪸 #Seaweed 🪸 #AcademicSky #MuseumJobs #PDRA #ECR

The British Academy is still inviting proposals for the next round of International Interdisciplinary Research Projects. Work with international partners to develop genuinely interdisciplinary projects that range across all SHAPE and STEM disciplines. Apply now: buff.ly/a4f8IWc

This is super cool. New paper: "New discoveries of Australopithecus and Homo from Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia," phys.org/news/2025-08... 🧪🏺

Are you an earth or environmental scientist with an interest in climate change mitigation? Join our upcoming scientific meeting looking at enhanced weathering as leading researchers discuss the scientific and societal challenges ahead: royalsociety.org/science-even...

Join us as Assistant #Curator of Vertebrates @ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿NMS! Large collections of #birds & #mammals + very active specimen prep = cool place! The ad doesn't say, but I say there's a good chance of prolongation beyond 1y. Hurry up and apply/spread the word: careers.nms.ac.uk/job/748553! 🪶🧪 #museumjobs #job

Pleased to share my article 'Climate change and the new building regulations: Limitations and urgent opportunities for construction and building design over the next 25 years' from the Journal of Building Survey, Appraisal & Valuation. www.linkedin.com/posts/sean-m...

A new study adds support to the so-called “drunken monkey” hypothesis by examining just how often living apes indulge in fallen—presumably boozy—fruits. scim.ag/3UoyyO3

What a fantastic new paper out today in @pnas.org: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... - and what a great resource, summarising the climatic niche of primates and tackling the hypothesis on whether primates evolved in warm tropical forests 😍

The discovery of ancient stone tools on Sulawesi suggests that this Indonesian island was populated by hominins at around the same time as the nearby island of Flores, if not earlier, according to a paper in Nature. go.nature.com/4oq7zzw 🏺 🧪

Funding Opportunity: Simons Collaborations in #Ecology and #Evolution www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... #AcademicSky #ResearchFunding

Excited to have been awarded the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship 🎓🎉 www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/post... Massive thanks to everyone who supported my application – can’t wait to get started at the Natural History Museum in January! #AcademicSky #BiologicalAnthropology

fellowships.si.edu/opportunity/... #ResearchFunding opportunity in #HumanEvoultion at the Smithsonian #AcademicSky #AcademicJobs

I see this every time I work with community groups. Women stepping in to fill gaps left by LAs and government, only to find the more they step in, the more gaps appear, as government sees this free labour as a solution that their funding crises. It is not. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job... #AcademicJobs #MuseumJobs in 🧪Molecular Biology🧬

Born #OnThisDay in 1920 was Rosalind Franklin. Her work on X-ray diffraction images of DNA helped lead to the discovery of its structure, but her efforts were only recognised posthumously. Liz Sockett FRS and Isabelle Moss reflect on her enduring legacy:

🎥 Filming 💀💀 yesterday in the Earth Sciences library 📚 … some exciting things to come 🙈 #SciComm #HumanEvolution #AcademicSky

Join us!!! 2 (!) PhD positions on wild chimpanzees and bonobos in the Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group and Wildminds Lab!!! 🤩🤩🤩

Nous recrutons un.e assistant.e ingénieur.e dans le cadre du projet ANR #LHOSA à @palevoprim.bsky.social ! Passioné.e par les fossiles et la numérisation 3D ? Venez rejoindre l'équipe ! 📍 CDD 14 mois 🔗 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... 👉 palevoprim.labo.univ-poitiers.fr/2025/04/01/l...

Do any of these plastics look familiar to you? While these were collected from the river Thames in 2019, many were made and disposed of between 1980-1998 - designed to be used once, then in our waters forever.

jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job... #MuseumJobs Senior Curator in Charge 🦋Lepidoptera 🦋 #AcademicSky #NaturalHistory

Want to catch up on some exciting discoveries from the past month? First up is a fantastic new dinosaur that’s now on show in the Museum – but what does Enigmacursor’s name mean? 🧵 (1/7) - Puzzling dancer 💃 - Mystery runner 🏃 - Confusing skater ⛸️

Historical #SciComm teaching objects - wood blocks representing variation in 🧠cranial capacity🧠 across extinct and extant hominoids 🦧🦍 #AcademicSky 👩‍🎓 #NaturalHistory 🌴 #HumanEvolution 💀

jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job... Curator, Fossil Cnidaria - Natural History Museum, London #AcademicJob #AcademicSky #MuseumJobs #NaturalHistory

A toolkit outlines how academia can prevent various forms of misconduct https://go.nature.com/444BLGO

A smidgen of pigeon for National Pigeon Day. ⬆️Learn more about our collections and how to visit us via the link in our bio. #NaturalHistoryMuseum #SpecialCollections #Birds #NationalPigeonDay #NaturalHistoryIllustration #NatureInArt #SciArt

A 4-year postdoc position in population genomics is available in my group at the University of East Anglia, to work on a project sequencing a thousand fox genomes across rural and urban environments in the UK. vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/15...

Thank you to @amelinebardo.bsky.social, her colleagues, and @museedelhomme.fr for hosting me yesterday to talk about carpals and Homo floresiensis 👌🏻👊🏻one of my all time fave museums! #AcademicSky

🚨 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...

Happy #Caturday from King Solomon !

The most important lecture slide when teaching carpal identification #AcademicSky #StarTrek #StarWars

Looking at the Lady Smith Woodward's tablecloth yesterday - on the 4th floor of the NHM building where the palaeontologists work. 324 global signatures of the most influential scientists of early 20thC. In his true audacious style even Charles Dawson is there! #Paleontology #AcademicSky

The University of Southampton seeks to appoint a full-time, permanent Lecturer (A) in Archaeology specialising in Palaeolithic Archaeology and/or Palaeoanthropology. jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

#DEI has roots in decades of civil rights progress–and research shows it boosts innovation, profits and access to opportunity. As backlash grows, the real question is: What does the data say?

Join us tomorrow at 4pm UK/11am EDT as Dr Bridget Alex @bridgetalex.bsky.social pulls back the curtain on popular science coverage of archaeology! I'm super excited for this one! youtube.com/live/mvg4GrN...

Urgent Support Needed for SAPIENS Magazine! The #anthropology magazine is under threat of being closed down - send your support now #AcademicSky actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

Join me in calling on the Government to resist lobbying from food giants, and make minimally processed food accessible to everyone #UPF You can find out more about it and sign the petition here: act.soilassociation.org/the-whole-tr...

Is there *really* a spoons-worth of plastic in our brain?? 🧠 Hmmmmm probably not…… Great episode breaking down some dubious science methods and claims 📝 #ScienceNews open.spotify.com/episode/2ZwZ...