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Lucy Timbrell @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social · 1d

Our first speaker of the academic year in the Human Palaeosystems in Focus seminar series will be Prof Miikka Tallavaara!

His talk will be on “The evolution of human niche size in East Asia across the Pleistocene”

Join us on Wednesday here: www.gea.mpg.de/177637/the-e...

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Lucy Timbrell @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social · 1d

Our first speaker of the academic year in the Human Palaeosystems in Focus seminar series will be Prof Miikka Tallavaara!

His talk will be on “The evolution of human niche size in East Asia across the Pleistocene”

Join us on Wednesday here: www.gea.mpg.de/177637/the-e...

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Margherita Colucci @margheritac17.bsky.social · 5d

The seminar series is back! Don't miss the FIRST talk of the 2025/26 Human Palaeosystems in focus - the perfect way to get inspired for the new academic year ahead ➡️
www.gea.mpg.de/177655/the-e...

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Lucy Timbrell @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social · 21d

We are happy to share the programme of speakers for our global symposium on lithic technology 🪨🔎

There are just a few spaces left for in-person participation! DM for more information.

You can join us online via this Zoom registration link: eu02web.zoom-x.de/webinar/regi...

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Lucy Timbrell @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social · 21d

We are happy to share the programme of speakers for our global symposium on lithic technology 🪨🔎

There are just a few spaces left for in-person participation! DM for more information.

You can join us online via this Zoom registration link: eu02web.zoom-x.de/webinar/regi...

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Lucy Timbrell @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social · 21d

No, it’s free to attend online and in-person 😊

Lucy Timbrell @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social · 21d

Deadline for in-person registration is tomorrow!

Lucy Timbrell @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social · Aug 12

Join us at the MPI-GEA or online for a free symposium on Quantifying Complexity in Stone Tools on the 21st of October! 🪨

With a keynote lecture by Charles Perreault. Full speaker list will be released soon!

Secure your spot here: shh-cloud.gnz.mpg.de/index.php/ap...

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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · Sep 11

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised!

3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution

2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions.

Please share and apply!

www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Fees and Funding - Durham University

www.durham.ac.uk

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Lucy Timbrell @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social · Sep 9

Registration for in-person or online participation for our symposium is still open!

Lucy Timbrell @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social · Aug 12

Join us at the MPI-GEA or online for a free symposium on Quantifying Complexity in Stone Tools on the 21st of October! 🪨

With a keynote lecture by Charles Perreault. Full speaker list will be released soon!

Secure your spot here: shh-cloud.gnz.mpg.de/index.php/ap...

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Lucy Timbrell @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social · Aug 12

Join us at the MPI-GEA or online for a free symposium on Quantifying Complexity in Stone Tools on the 21st of October! 🪨

With a keynote lecture by Charles Perreault. Full speaker list will be released soon!

Secure your spot here: shh-cloud.gnz.mpg.de/index.php/ap...

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Lucy Timbrell @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social · Aug 28

It was a brilliant talk! Thank you so much 😊

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Lucy Timbrell @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social · Aug 27

Today! Don’t miss it 😊

Lucy Timbrell @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social · Aug 25

Join us on Wednesday for our final webinar of series by @jcsvenning.bsky.social on:

“Deep-time, large-scale perspectives on biodiversity and ecosystems: implications for biosphere stewardship in the Anthropocene.”

More information and link to register here: www.gea.mpg.de/168423/deep-...

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Lucy Timbrell @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social · Aug 25

Join us on Wednesday for our final webinar of series by @jcsvenning.bsky.social on:

“Deep-time, large-scale perspectives on biodiversity and ecosystems: implications for biosphere stewardship in the Anthropocene.”

More information and link to register here: www.gea.mpg.de/168423/deep-...

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Armando Falcucci @armandofalcucci.bsky.social · Aug 22

Co-organizing a session at #SAA San Francisco with T. Kovach: "Toward an Integration of Quantitative Approaches in #Lithic Analysis." A few spots still open! Abstracts due Sept. 4.

Email me if you’d like to join the conversation: [email protected]

#Archaeology #FlintFriday #FossilFriday 🏺

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Margherita Colucci @margheritac17.bsky.social · Aug 22

Thank you @prelights.bsky.social & Alejandra Leffer's group for choosing our preprint on @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social and for this chance to talk about human- #malaria coevolution!🦟
@eegcam.bsky.social @elliescerri.bsky.social @MPI_GEA

preLights @prelights.bsky.social · Aug 20

The distribution of early human settlements in Sub-Saharan Africa might have been influenced by avoidance of mosquitoes that spread malaria

A new #prelight of Alejandra Leffer's group talks about the preprint by @margheritac17.bsky.social , and the team.

Malaria shaped human spatial organisation for the last 74 thousand years - preLights

The distribution of early human settlements in Sub-Saharan Africa might have been influenced by avoidance of mosquitoes that spread malaria

prelights.biologists.com

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Annemieke Milks @annemiekemilks.bsky.social · Aug 21

And Palaeolithic archaeology, which remains hugely behind too. 'This is not about political correctness or ticking boxes....Diverse teams deliver better science: they ask different questions, challenge old assumptions, and produce richer, more nuanced insights.'
www.heriuct.co.za/news-content...

We need a feminist palaeoanthropology that finally listens to all of us — HERI - Human Evolution Research Institute

Palaeoanthropology asks profound questions: Who are we? What makes us human? Too often, answering these answers has been done by a privileged few. HERi Co-director Prof Rebecca Ackermann calls for tha...

www.heriuct.co.za

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Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL @livunihss.bsky.social · Aug 20

Archaeologists, historians, classicists: can your research into our past inform our future? The ‘Lessons from the Past’ (March ‘26) conference is looking for papers on tangible sustainability changes informed by human history lessonsfromthepast.info
@livancworlds.bsky.social #AcademicSky

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Lucy Timbrell @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social · Aug 12

Join us at the MPI-GEA or online for a free symposium on Quantifying Complexity in Stone Tools on the 21st of October! 🪨

With a keynote lecture by Charles Perreault. Full speaker list will be released soon!

Secure your spot here: shh-cloud.gnz.mpg.de/index.php/ap...

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Liverpool EMB lab @livevobiomech.bsky.social · Jul 17

Interested in the functional morphology of mammal heads and want to come join us in Liverpool? Apply for this exciting new PhD project with Alana!

Dr Alana Sharp @acsharp.bsky.social · Jul 3

Are you looking for a PhD project starting this year?

I have a funded (UK rates) project on mammal skull diversity and function, looking at skull allometry and how mammal heads adapt to trade-offs in tissue demands during growth 🦌🦘🐘🦥

Please share and apply: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/buil...

Building giants: tissue relationships during skull growth in large mammals | Courses | University of Liverpool

From elephants to rhinos to bison, enormous increases in body mass have repeatedly evolved within Mammalia over relatively short timescales, leading to a diversity of size and shape. In this project, ...

www.liverpool.ac.uk

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · Jul 11

Both proxies and models provide key resources

More is not always better:
Delta-downscaling climate model outputs from 30 to 5 min resolution has minimal impact on coherence with Late Quaternary proxies🏺🧪
@lucytimbrell96.bsky.social, @elliescerri.bsky.social , et al
cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/...

A sample from each regional group of simulated mean annual temperature (left), mean July temperature (middle), and total annual precipitation (right) time series, comparing different model outputs (solid lines) and corresponding non-interpolated proxy reconstructions from LegacyClimate 1.0 (Herzschuh et al., 2021) (dashed lines).

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Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge @eegcam.bsky.social · Jul 10

New paper in collaboration with @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social and @jblinkhorn.bsky.social, with several of us involved (@mikleonardi.bsky.social @margheritac17.bsky.social @andreavpozzi.bsky.social) shows that downscaling palaeoclimate models doesn't necessarily improve coherence with proxy data.

Lucy Timbrell @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social · Jul 10

Very pleased to see our paper published online at Climate of the Past: cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/...

We present model-data comparisons of Late Quaternary climate across the Northern Hemisphere, showing that increasing model resolution has little net effect on coherence with pollen proxies 😊

More is not always better: delta-downscaling climate model outputs from 30 to 5 min resolution has minimal impact on coherence with Late Quaternary proxies

Abstract. Both proxies and models provide key resources to explore how palaeoenvironmental changes may have impacted diverse biotic communities and cultural processes. While proxies are thought to pro...

cp.copernicus.org

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Lucy Timbrell @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social · Jul 10

This project ended up taking the best part of 3 years 😅 Thank you very much to @margheritac17.bsky.social, @mikleonardi.bsky.social, @jblinkhorn.bsky.social, @elliescerri.bsky.social, Manuel Chevalier, Matt Grove, Andrea Pozzi and Andrea Manica from @eegcam.bsky.social for your hard work!!

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Lucy Timbrell @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social · Jul 10

Very pleased to see our paper published online at Climate of the Past: cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/...

We present model-data comparisons of Late Quaternary climate across the Northern Hemisphere, showing that increasing model resolution has little net effect on coherence with pollen proxies 😊

More is not always better: delta-downscaling climate model outputs from 30 to 5 min resolution has minimal impact on coherence with Late Quaternary proxies

Abstract. Both proxies and models provide key resources to explore how palaeoenvironmental changes may have impacted diverse biotic communities and cultural processes. While proxies are thought to pro...

cp.copernicus.org

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Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge @eegcam.bsky.social · Jun 23

Last week, Andrea sat down with Dr Chris Smith of Naked Scientists to talk about our paper on the expansion of the human niche 70k year ago: www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/int...

Humanity's road to dominance began earlier than expected

Getting sapient about sapiens...

www.thenakedscientists.com

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Lucy Timbrell @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social · Jul 5

Very pleased to see our paper now out in Communications Biology! 🥳

Eleanor Scerri @elliescerri.bsky.social · Jul 5

New paper alert! Led by @jblinkhorn.bsky.social, we look at refugia for baboons in the Pleistocene and Holocene, offering a potential analogue for early hominins where climatic tolerances are shared.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Identifying late Pleistocene and Holocene refugia for baboons - Communications Biology

Hindcasted species distribution modelling of baboons illuminates potential refugia across Africa and Arabia, with predicted maxima and minima of habitable ranges pulsed by orbital precession and obliq...

www.nature.com

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