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Lummaa Lab
@lummaalab.bsky.social
Professor Virpi Lummaa’s research group at the University of Turku, Finland https://lummaalab.utu.fi/

Research themes:
Human life history
Human Evolutionary Health
Human Diversity
Myanmar Timber Elephant Project
Mammal Behaviour Research
There is another Masters project in our group:

Examining the influence of climate on births in the Asian elephant 🐘🐘🐘

More details on both these projects at
sfecologie.org/offre/examin...

sfecologie.org/offre/fitnes...
November 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
We are looking for a Masters student for an exciting project!

Fitness consequences of cumulative silver-spoon 🥄🥄 effects in a long-lived mammal.

Study system could be humans 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 or elephants 🐘🐘 depending on your interest.

✉️ @hansraj88.bsky.social @axdela.bsky.social @nikos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy
November 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
@melissa-gagniere.bsky.social presented her PhD work at the Aura symposium. She works on 🦊🦡🦝 behavior following an urban gradient in Finland. Follow her for more update to come or even to participate in her study!
March 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Super proud of our PhD @markspa.bsky.social who was practicing his talk for the Aura symposium next week in Turku.
Mark will tell how studying former diseases spread can tell us about future epidemics. #humanhealth #historicaldata #humanresearch
March 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM