Inici de campanya a Creu de Conill 20 en bona companyia @a-urciuoli.bsky.social, @gamarraptor.bsky.social i Josep Manel Méndez! Avui, a pic i pala⛏️ Start of the Creu de Conill 20 campaign, with some cleaning and shoveling for today! #fieldwork de l'ICP

#SomCERCA | 🔴 Acte de cloenda de CERCAREMA, el programa de mentoria feminista que ha teixit una comunitat de suport, aprenentatge i transformació entre dones dels centres CERCA. 📆 Divendres, 8 de maig ⏰ De 10 a 12 h. 📍 Sala d'actes del VHIR 🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/qhxdblwchg

2 PhD Opportunities! 🤩 We are recruiting two highly motivated PhD students to join an ambitious project advancing Robotic Paleontology—a rapidly emerging field that fuses paleontology, biomechanics, simulation, and robotics. nyakaturalab.com/news/ Please share!!

We're looking for an Associate Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology (mainly teaching Evo Med and Stats at UCL Anthro) as maternity cover! Please share - closing date 30th April www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Doctoral student in Historical Osteology within the ERC-Synergy grant project "FORAGER" lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

🦷🔬 Looking for PhD candidates with an engineering or a biological background. Fully funded PhD at @universitatURV on biomechanics & mechanical properties of vertebrate teeth ➡️Call opens in May here: www.urv.cat/en/research/... ➡️DM or email me for info.

🚨 TRAVEL GRANTS 🚨 The symposium “Advances on the histology of the mineralised tissues of vertebrates”, proudly sponsored by Anatomical Record, is offering 👇 💸 5 Travel Grants 💰 US$1000 each 🎓 For postgraduate students (including postdocs) ⚠️Only for symposium delegates

New paper out on the brain endocast of a distant relative of pangolins: Metacheiromys! We found a possible neurological convergence among myrmecophagous mammals 🧠🐜 Check it out, it's open access! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Finally our latest paper in the Journal of Mammalian Evolution is out!!! Have a look at what an additional Oreopithecus partial cranium can tell us about the phylogenetic position of this enigmatic Late Miocene Italian ape. rdcu.be/fa21y #paleoanthropology #apes #insularity

🚨 Two postdoc positions open in the #LHOSA team at @palevoprim.bsky.social! Passionate about Australopithecus and hominin paleobiology? Skilled in virtual study of long bones or #GIS applied to hominin-bearing sites? Join us 👇

There's also a Perspective on it, by Dr David M. Alba and I, check it out here👇👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Masripithecus was very interesting to learn and think about!

Check out this new Early Miocene ape, Masripithecus, from Egypt! 👀 Paper by Al-Ashqar et al.👇https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz4102

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Four-year fully funded PhD! The project is based on Campus Gotland (Visby), and would be suitable for students in archaeology, bioarchaeology, forensic archaeology or palaeoanthropology who have the necessary technical background. Application window closes on 27th April. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Job alert! Postdoc position in genetic data analysis to better understand the link between genotype and phenotype of teeth, with implications for the evolution of dental morphology in hominins. Please apply here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/417844

We all know lemurs like to move it move it, but how did they evolve to do this? Using fossil limbs of Malagasy sloth-lemurs & koala-lemurs, this paper uncovers the potential use of internal bone structure for reconstructing locomotor evolution! 🌍🧪👇

New job opportunities at the HUMAN ORIGINS Cluster of Excellence, University of Tübingen!

#SomCERCA | 🌍 Dilluns 23/03 👉 Taula rodona per abordar l’equitat de gènere en el desenvolupament professional a universitats i centres de recerca. ✔️ Parlarem de les mentories feministes CERCA-REMA i molt més... 📆 23/3 de 12 a14h 📍 Via Laietana, 2 🔗 https://tuit.cat/ivaw0

#SomCERCA | 💪 #8M2026 Dia Internacional de les Dones 🔬 La igualtat no és opcional 🔗 https://genere.cerca.cat/

I’m very happy to share that our work on bone inner structure of Madagascar’s subfossil sloth- and koala-lemurs is finally out 🦴🐒 on @zoojlinnsoc.bsky.social A big thank you to co-authors @julsam.bsky.social Carla Argilés Esturgó and Damiano Marchi! academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a... 1/6

New paper alert!!🚨 Trabecular structure of the Malagasy sloth-lemurs and koala-lemurs and its relationship with locomotion🐒🐒 led by @fabioalfieri2.bsky.social It was great to work with all the people involved! Check it out👇🏽https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/206/3/zlag021/8509525

#SomCERCA | 🌍 Una recerca sense excuses és aquella que entén la igualtat com a base de la qualitat científica.  🔬 Fem dels centres CERCA espais segurs, diversos i justos. 💪 #8M2026 Dia Internacional de les Dones 🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/ajswjpuimp #RecercaAmbRespecte

🚨There is still time to apply! Deadline March 11

🚨 Job alert! The University of Tübingen announces a W3 (Full) Professorship in Early Hominin Evolution in the framework of the DFG Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS': uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... Application deadline: 11.03.2026 🚨

Come and work with us on an exciting PhD project focused on dental evolution in tetrapods! 🦷🔬🦎🐊🐎🦌

Eskerrik asko @martamachos.bsky.social eta @zientziakaiera.eus!! 🦍🦴⚒️ #Nakali🇰🇪 #BPpostdoc

Hominin fossils discovered in Morocco, which have been dated to about 773,000 years ago, may be close ancestors of modern humans. The findings, published in Nature, provide insights into African populations before the earliest known Homo sapiens. 🏺🧪

Delighted to share our new paper about Pliobates!! Its radius shows apelike adaptations providing interesting clues about the locomotor evolution of catarrhines. Find it here!👇🏽 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Vaig anar a Ràdio Farró per la #SetmanaCiencia #SC25CAT! Podeu escoltar el programa especial de Fenòmens Naturals, on parlem amb la Cristina Junyent dels primats del Vallès-Penedès i la seva evolució i locomoció aquí 👇🏽 fenomensnaturals.net/setmana-de-l...

Glad to have contributed to this work lead by Andrea Villa (ICP-CERCA) about a new new anguine lizard from the Miocene of Catalonia! #paleontology #fossil #reptiles Paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1... @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social Press release: www.icp.cat/index.php/en...

#SomCERCA | 🟪 Acte en commemoració del 25N, Dia Internacional per l’Erradicació de la Violència vers les Dones 📅 Dimarts, 25 de nov. 🕖 De 10 a 12 h 📍 Sala d’actes del Dept. de Recerca i Universitats 🔗 Inscripcions I programa:  https://f.mtr.cool/unfqbwyumi #25N2025

#SomCERCA | 🔍 Què vol dir fer #Recerca sense excuses? Vol dir comprometre’s amb la igualtat, la diversitat i el benestar com a condicions per a l’excel·lència científica. 🌍 La igualtat no és opcional. 🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/kzexousgew #RecercaAmbRespecte

Just over a month left to apply for scholarships on this project. We will run internal pre-selection interviews end of November, so if you consider applying, please reach out now. I can guarantee amazing scientific and intellectual environment at the Institute for Eco Evo @edinburghup.bsky.social

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New evidence of a European giant tortoise (Titanochelon richardi) from the Upper Miocene of the Vallès-Penedès Basin: taxonomic & phylogenetic implications onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology @morphobank.bsky.social

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Our lab at the University of Málaga, Spain🇪🇸 is looking for a bioinformatician researcher for a postdoc position (1+1 years). Check the ad, and if you're interested, get in touch! 📅 Starting date early 2026, with some flexibility. 🙏Please, RT!

Very happy to share the preprint of our work on Quaternary subfossil lemur trabecular structure! Thanks to co-authors @julsam.bsky.social, Carla Argilés Esturgó and Damiano Marchi www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We’re looking for a motivated & curious researcher to join our team as a PhD candidate! You’ll work with Prof. Bridget Waller, Dr. Annika Bremhorst, & me at the Dog Cognition Centre, UoP. Are you fascinated by the dog–human bond & dog-human communication? 🐶 Interested? Get in touch with me.

New paper out! It was an honor to collaborate with the legend Leah Krubitzer on this review to show that paleontologists and neurobiologists working together can only improve our understanding of brain evolution 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s44... Full access to the paper: rdcu.be/eK167

Congrats @fabioalfieri2.bsky.social & colleagues!!

Interesting new publication on the genomes of living apes, suggesting the split between humans and chimps is more recent than previously thought. “Our analyses dated the human–chimpanzee split between 5.5 and 6.3 million years ago (Ma; minimum to maximum estimate of divergence)” 🏺🧪

Paranthropus: The Forgotten Cousins of Humanity Who May Have Made the World’s First Tools

🚨 New paper out! This work combines 3D geometric morphometrics, multivariate statistics, and machine learning to assess sexual dimorphism in great ape long bones — aiming to classify unsexed skeletal remains and reveal patterns relevant to human evolution. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The #TaungChild has been silent for over 2 million years — until now. Our new podcast takes you back to 1924 #SouthAfrica, where one fossil would upend colonial narratives to centre human origins #Africa. 🌍Unburied Season 2: The Taung Child 🔗 Listen: linktr.ee/arcdocs

Hot off the press! 🔥 Enjoy 50 days of free access to our new paper revisiting the linear marks on the StW 53 cranium. 💀 Our experiments, GM & ML analyses point to a natural origin. authors.elsevier.com/c/1lvBj15SlU...

Use the next weekend to apply for the Camp Manager position @taichimpproject.bsky.social if you want to observe and protect wild chimpanzees, you are stress resilient and have good organisational skills, speak and write English AND French.👇

Research with EQUALITY, a campaign by @cerca.cat. Important stuff if there is any. Take a look at the videos at genere.cerca.cat/recerca-amb-...! They feature lovely staff from ICP, @nacarino-meneses.bsky.social and Xènia Aymerich.❤️

🔬 RECERCA AMB IGUALTAT 📊 El 40,4 % de les dones han patit assetjament sexual o per raó de sexe. També a la recerca. 🔍 Comentaris sexistes, gestos insinuants, dificultats per promocionar… Són conductes estructurals, no casos aïllats. 👉https://f.mtr.cool/wgjfbuhtty

📚 Biaixos en la ciència 🔎 Menys cites d’autores, preguntes de recerca esbiaixades, mostres poc representatives… 💡 Incorporar la perspectiva de gènere no és opcional: és ciència de qualitat. 🌍 Fem visible l’invisible 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/phjzlrpyor #SomCERCA #RecercaAmbIgualtat

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