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Marta Mirazon Lahr
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Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology & Prehistory @CamBioanth @UCamArchaeology - interested in #science, #humanevolution, #prehistory, #palaeontology, #bones #lithics, #fossils, #climatechange, #museums, #collections
Can get distracted by much more 😍
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kevinsalesse.bsky.social
Come to work with us in an international team. I am hiring a lab tech in isotope chemistry. More information below. www.euraxess.cz/jobs/389191
Laboratory technician
Workplace: Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Type of Contract: temporary position with 1-year contract, non-academic
www.euraxess.cz
November 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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deepfrieddna.bsky.social
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Ancient DNA from Palaeoloxodon naumanni in Japan reveals early evolution of Eurasian Palaeoloxodon
Palaeoloxodon, the extinct genus of straight-tusked elephants, originated in Africa and dispersed across Eurasia. We analyzed ancient mitochondrial DNA of Palaeoloxodon naumanni, a species of the Japa...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
martamlahr.bsky.social
Don’t miss it 🤩!!!
liverpoolevoanth.bsky.social UoL EvoAnth Seminar Series @liverpoolevoanth.bsky.social · 1d
Still time to sign up for our next webinar this Thursday!
liverpoolevoanth.bsky.social UoL EvoAnth Seminar Series @liverpoolevoanth.bsky.social · 6d
We hope you are enjoying the series so far! Please join us again next Thursday, 27th November 2025 at 13:00 GMT for a talk by Dr James Clark, University of Cambridge. More details 👇

If you would like to attend, please register here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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plos.org
We are recruiting Academic Editors for our new journal, PLOS Ecosystems—a selective open science journal dedicated to research that informs evidence-led decisions and supports sustainable, healthy ecosystems.

➡️ Apply now: plos.io/47RBDhb
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November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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pontus-skoglund.bsky.social
🐺 Wolves in dog's clothing 🐺

Our latest in @pnas.org uncovers a surprise three to five thousand years ago: 2 canids in human contexts on a tiny island in the middle of the Baltic Sea, that ate marine food—but had 100% gray wolf ancestry.

Where they tame wolves, or even an incipient domestication?
November 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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david-gokhman.bsky.social
Such a fantastic resource by @kuhlwilm.bsky.social's lab. We’re using this catalog in half our projects
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A curated dataset of great ape genome diversity - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - A curated dataset of great ape genome diversity
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November 24, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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higherjobz.bsky.social
Project Coordinator – University of Cambridge, UK
ERC-funded STEPS project in #HumanEvolution Research

Deadline: 2 Jan 2026
🔗 Details: higherjobz.com/project-coor...

#UKJobs #AcademicJobs #PartTimeJobs #ResearchOpportunities #ERCFunded
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Project Coordinator – Human Evolution Research Cambridge | HigherJobz
Join the University of Cambridge as a Project Coordinator in Human Evolution Research. Part-time, fixed-term, apply by 2 Jan 2026.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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liverpoolevoanth.bsky.social
We hope you are enjoying the series so far! Please join us again next Thursday, 27th November 2025 at 13:00 GMT for a talk by Dr James Clark, University of Cambridge. More details 👇

If you would like to attend, please register here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social
‼️📢 Neandertal as prey‼️
We demonstrated selective cannibalism behavior at the end of the Middle Palaeolithic in Northern Europe

#Neandertal #Prehistory #Cannibalism #MiddlePaleolithic #Goyet
quentin-cosnefroy.bsky.social Quentin Cosnefroy @quentin-cosnefroy.bsky.social · 6d
Did Neandertals choose their prey when practicing cannibalism?🍖

Check out our new study, just published in Scientific Reports - @natureportfolio.nature.com!

We provide the strongest evidence to date for a highly selective cannibalism at the end of Neandertal lineage, 41-45.000 years ago.

1/7
Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey
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November 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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felixthehauskat.bsky.social
Deadline extended to Nov 26!
November 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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jaysongillpaleo.bsky.social
Join us for an archaeological field school exploring the Armenian Palaeolithic! Open to students from any university and any major. More info here: app.studyabroad.uconn.edu/index.cfm?Fu...
November 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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cylex.bsky.social
Call for Session - UISPP 2026 - Poznan (Poland)

Deadline extented until November 30!

Please consider submit something in the scope of the Middle Palaeolithic/Middle Stone Age Commision 🌟

► uispp2026.syskonf.pl

#UISPP2026
November 7, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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archglosouth.bsky.social
Hi all! We're a working group focused on integrating information from palaeoecology, archaeology and traditional knowledge to address urgent Anthropocene crises. Together, we form ECHOES: Exploring Climate and Human Observations from the Global South.
October 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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aylwyn-scally.bsky.social
Come and join us here in Cambridge! Applications open for a new faculty position, for a researcher in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here.

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/faculty...
Faculty Position in Computational Biology
Applications are invited for an Assistant/ Associate Professorship in Computational Biology to commence on 1 April 2026 or shortly thereafter. This is a joint post between the Department of Applied
www.cam.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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christinawarinner.bsky.social
What an inspiring CARTA Symposium on “Ancient DNA: New Revelations”! Thank you so much to the whole CARTA organizational team for making it possible!
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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fridowelker.bsky.social
⚠️Just a quick reminder, there are a few days left to apply for these two positions in #palaeoproteomics.
fridowelker.bsky.social Frido Welker @fridowelker.bsky.social · Oct 27
I'm hiring!⭐ As part of the DFF Sapere Aude-funded project MiddleEarth, I am looking for 1 postdoctoral researcher and 1 research assistant.
November 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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felixthehauskat.bsky.social
Deadline approaches for our open professorship here at @au.dk @auarcher.bsky.social. Get in touch if you have q

international.au.dk/about/profil...
Full Professorship(s) in Archaeology - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University
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November 5, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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trinityhallcamb.bsky.social
Congratulations to Dr Tamsin O’Connell on being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

This well-deserved recognition highlights her exceptional contributions to chemistry and her work in bioarchaeology.

Read more about Tamsin's research below.👇

www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/news/trinity...
Dr Tamsin O'Connell chatting to a student in a lab at the MacDonald Institute.
November 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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annaalexandrova.bsky.social
A permanent post in my department. Closing date Dec 14th 2025, interviews in March. Please spread #histsci
Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400
Applications are invited for the position of Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Please note
www.cam.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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deadbovids.bsky.social
Two Hartebeest molars in a maxilla, from the Last Interglacial of Turkana, Kenya--a time period in which we desperately need more research! #FossilFriday
October 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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chslane.bsky.social
This week with our 2nd year @camunigeography.bsky.social students we’ve been learning about varve lake sediments and what they’ve revealed about abrupt climate change. It’s been fun! Here is a peek at some diatomaceous varves in the Lake Chala cores from Kenya/Tanzania. Enjoy…
The surface of a split sediment core, with a cm scale along each edge. You can see about 8 cm of the core. The surface shows fine mm-scale to cm-scale laminations, which for the most are alternating light-dark couplets. There is a cocktail stick marking a ~1 cm grey layer, which is a volcanic ash deposit.
October 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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w-plus-ebs.bsky.social
For this #WplusEBSWednesday, we wanted to highlight some job opportunities closing November 1st & 2nd!

First, Penn State University is hiring for a position as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology in Human Reproductive Ecology! (1/3)

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Assistant Professor of Anthropology in Human Reproductive Ecology
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
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October 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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deadbovids.bsky.social
We now have studies from Kenya, Ethiopia, and Malawi all suggesting the same thing: that African savanna mammals migrated *very little* before the Holocene!
caleyorr.bsky.social Caley Orr @caleyorr.bsky.social · 28d
"We found no evidence of migratory behavior in species that exhibit this behavior today. Ancient foragers likely hunted prey that were available year-round, consistent with zooarchaeological and genetic evidence for reduced mobility at the end of the Pleistocene." 🏺🧪🦣
Biogeochemical evidence for targeted landscape use in ancient foragers of Malawi - Communications Earth & Environment
Foragers hunted small game locally and procured most large prey in riparian habitats and Afromontane grasslands to the southeast of the Kasitu Valley of northern Malawi, suggesting that migratory beha...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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fridowelker.bsky.social
I'm hiring!⭐ As part of the DFF Sapere Aude-funded project MiddleEarth, I am looking for 1 postdoctoral researcher and 1 research assistant.
October 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Congratulations 🥂 to @jjrowan.bsky.social for receiving the #PhilipLeverhulmePrize from @leverhulme.ac.uk 🥳🤩!!
So special to have such an amazing #CamBioAnth team in
@cam-archaeology.bsky.social - brilliant, interesting, fun and nice. The best colleagues 😍

www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/2025PLP
www.leverhulme.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM