Like a time capsule: a #Roman tile marked with #finger lines, hobnail #shoe prints, #dog's paw prints, and a #stamp of the LEG(io) XIIII G(emina). Tiles with imprints are very common, since tiles were laid out to dry in the open air ahead of firing, where...🧵1/2 #TilesOnTuesday 🏺

The latest issue of PaleoAnthropology is out now! Volume 2025, Issue 2 #openaccess 📖Read Here: paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph... #paleoanthropology #humanevolution

Young people don't need more "Religious Education" to live in modern world. If it's inclusion/social cohesion govt is aiming for, then a better approach would be to drop RE, and create new subject Anthropology, on critical thinking, philosophy & belief systems. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

I wrote an article for the NHM magazine about how we study 💀Neanderthal💀 hand use through functional adaptation and artistic expression ... and what this means for our understanding of survival and extinction 💙 #AcademicSky 🌳 #NaturalHistory 🦴 #HumanEvolution issuu.com/immediatemed...

Funding for students!! New £6k UCL Anthropology MSc Bursary for Home students: www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships... You can also apply to the £10k UCL Bursary at the same time - so if you get both, it should cover all your fees & a chunk of living costs🤞 www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...

We are accepting 𝗥𝗔𝗜 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗖𝗛 𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗧 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀. 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 8 December 2025. Full details/application at www.royalarchinst.org/grants

OMG this is a good catch. We wrestled with this a long time ago when setting up Slice Geometry. The correct way to set slice spacing (pixel spacing in z) from a DICOM is to use the slice position info (0020,1041 or 0020,0032) and divide by (stack size - 1). It can be out by not much or quite a bit.

#OnThisDay in 2004, we were introduced to "a stranger from Flores," a new species of human called Homo floresiensis. @chrisbstringer.bsky.social's thoughts at the time on the big (or small) surprise: go.nature.com/34s9xbM 🏺🧪

About half of Americans believe ghosts and demons are real, according to a 2020 poll. An English scholar explores the literary record to uncover how people have imagined ghosts and demons — and what sets them apart. buff.ly/FuYV4Dv #Halloween 👻

On #NationalPumpkinDay, learn more about how pumpkin, squash, and gourds would likely have gone the way of the dodo were it not for humans domesticating them. https://scim.ag/3J7LNRl

The skull known as OH 5 was first uncovered by Mary Leakey in 1959, soon became the type fossil of the species Zinjanthropus boisei. Around 1.75 million years old, I'm sure that this individual would have loved pumpkins if they had existed in Africa at the time. #inktober

First look 👀 at 🦚Wildlife Photographer🦚 of the Year 61 #WildlifePhotography #Wildlife #NaturalHistory

Hand bones from a human relative, found in Kenya, reveal features similar to those of living gorillas, complicating the evolutionary history of hand and tool manipulation go.nature.com/4nQn3ff

Measuring antioxidant levels can be tricky, but one study analyzed and quantified them in more than 3,100 foods. Blueberries, pomegranates, and blackberries top the list for fruits. Cooked artichoke leads vegetables, followed by red kale and red cabbage.

Post-reproductive lifespan in wild mountain gorillas: "Almost one third of females in our study population (7/25) were “postreproductive” according to a commonly used criterion & lived more than a decade past their age of last reproduction, representing at least a fourth of their adult lifespan"

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/

“Women-led papers were more likely to be featured in local outlets than in national, international, or science-specialty media. They appeared more often in liberal-leaning outlets than conservative ones. And coverage of their work carried a more negative tone” www.science.org/content/arti...

Fancy some bog porridge this #WorldPorridgeDay? This is a photomicrograph of the 2,400-year-old gut contents of the Tollund Man; whose body was preserved after being deposited in a Danish bog. It shows his last meal consisted of porridge and some fish. (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

At least 100 out of 1,000 well-known archaeological sites around Sudan have already been destroyed so far, especially through the use of heavy, gold-digging machinery. allthatsinteresting.com/sudan-jabal-...

Awful news from Wales, the St Fagan's Museum has been broken into and prehistoric goldwork has been taken. Its painful to think what objects might now be at risk. Thoughts with the museum team who must be devastated, all speed to the police and a curse on the crooks. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News. Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

We are hiring a Project Co-ordinator! 🚨 Are you extremely organised with great interpersonal skills? Able to multitask efficiently? Interested in African prehistory? Keen to work with an enthusiastic team? We want to hear from you! Closing date: 17 October, 2025

Please join us next week, 9th October 2025, at 13:00 BST, for our next seminar of the semester. We will be joined by @professorlacy.bsky.social, University of Delaware - more details 👇 If you'd like to join, please register here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... We hope to see you there!

📢 The #InternetArchive is celebrating an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved by the #WaybackMachine. 🎉 Join us! 📆 Weds, Oct 22 🎟️ IN-PERSON: 5–10 PM PT (SF) ⤵️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1626438133... 💻 ONLINE: 7–8 PM PT ⤵️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1626431011... #Wayback1T

Why women live longer than men. A new study #ScienceAdvances by an intl. research team led by Johanna Stärk and Fernando Colchero @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social traces the evolutionary roots of the #lifespan gap between women and men. tinyurl.com/yrt4ju9u & www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#OnThisDay in 1861, Charles Darwin wrote to his friend "But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything." n.pr/3kVZvon

Two recent studies shine a light on the earliest known artistic usages of blue pigment. https://scim.ag/3VDtE0r

Looking for a job in research and conservation? Check out the advert 👇 and apply within the next two-and-a-half weeks.

🚩1 Fully-Funded PhD on Epipalaeolithic Food Practices in Southwest Asia, deadline September 30!

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