Marta Mirazon Lahr
@martamlahr.bsky.social
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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 😍 .. more

Marta Mirazón Lahr is a palaeoanthropologist and director of the Duckworth Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.

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deadbovids.bsky.social
BioAnth friends--I have an awesome student looking for field school or research opportunities for this Winter or Summer in Primatology, Paleoecology, or Paleoanthropology--I know the typical programs, but please let me know if you know of any programs accepting students!
eleanormw.bsky.social
Last week I matriculated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge to start my NERC-funded (CREATES DLA) PhD in Archaeology!

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evoroseman.bsky.social
Do you know anyone with an interest in pursuing a PhD studying the genetics, development, and evolution of skeletal morphology and life history? If so please encourage them to apply to work with me through any of the University of Illinois' EEB or PEEC programs. 1/4 🧪🦷🦴🐭🐒
palaeotrails.bsky.social
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
Project Coordinator (Fixed Term)
Applications are invited for a 12-month Project Co-ordinator position on the NG'IPALAJEM project, funded by the ERC. The project aims at collecting new palaeontological, archaeological and geological
www.cam.ac.uk
crick.ac.uk
Motivated graduates with backgrounds in biological or biomedical sciences, physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering and/or computer science are invited to apply to our 4-year fully funded PhD programme.

Apply by 05 November 2025

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PhD students
Our PhD programme attracts the brightest scientific minds and is an opportunity for talented people to embark on their career in biomedical research.
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martamlahr.bsky.social
Like you, I've read so many nice things about Jane Goodall's amazing life and legacy today, but this video of the realease of the chimp called Wounda is beyond words ♥️

If only we could find the will to stop destroying the extraordinary natural world around us...

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Wounda's Journey - Jane Goodall Witnesses Release of Chimpanzee Into New Island Sanctuary Site
YouTube video by Dr. Jane Goodall & the Jane Goodall Institute USA
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JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91
Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
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annepisor.bsky.social
📢 Come join us! Penn State Anthropology is hiring *two tenure-track assistant professors*, one in human reproductive ecology and one in archaeology. Here are just a few reasons why working at Penn State is awesome:
A photo of the Susan Welch Liberal Arts building at sunrise

martamlahr.bsky.social
Gracias! Siempre util, pero particularmente el resumen del tercer trimestre, ya que muchos estamos en campo y es dificil mantenerse al dia de lo que se publica 😍

martamlahr.bsky.social
Congratulations @mariaguagnin.bsky.social abd team🥳!!! What a lovely paper

martamlahr.bsky.social
No… no discussion of longi/Harbin

palaeotrails.bsky.social
It's a wrap! #ESHE2025
3 days filled with stimulating discussions in the form of 35 podiums, 33 Pecha Kuchas, 169 posters.
Congratulations to the winners of the student prize - Harmony Hill & Gabriele Russo!
Massive thank you to the organisers for making it all happen.

See you in Burgos next year!
harvatilab.bsky.social
It’s a wrap! 🎉 Huge thanks to the organizers, members and everyone involved for making #ESHE2025 a success! 🙌 Special thanks to our Christina Siali for her wonderful work. 😊 And big congrats to Harmony Hill and Gabriel Russo for winning the student prizes! 🏆👏 See you next year in Burgos, Spain! ✨
gabrieleru1.bsky.social
Thrilled to have won the Student Poster Prize at #ESHE2025! 🏆 Grateful for the opportunity to share my work on Lebanese fauna and for all the inspiring conversations throughout the conference!

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#ESHE2025
Amelie Beaudet ‘A century after the Taung child: New insights into the evolutionary history of Australopithecus’
High var at Sterkfontein– signature of adaptive radiation? Brain sulci patterns, arteries, face shape, inner ear, verts– exploring morph disparity!!
Fantastic last talk ♥️!!!

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#ESHE2025
Phil Hopley ‘The age and environment of the Taung child’
Taung geol & spatial outlier within the Cradle
S Afr cave ages controversial!
Problem w U/Pb dating?
235U-207Pb dating: >accurate Taung at border of lake/pond env during Mid-Pliocene warm period 🥰

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#ESHE2025
Clement Zanolli ‘Endostructural investigation of the Middle Pleistocene craniodental remains from Kabwe, Zambia’
Complex tax interpretation!
EDJ & inner ear GMMs: mix of primitive & derived traits! Some ~erectus, some unique
Taxonomy unresolved - unclear African MP evolutionary patterns☹!

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#ESHE2025
Martin Haeusler ‘Statistical shape modelling (SSM) reveals significant taxonomic variability in early Pleistocene hominin pelves from South Africa’
Diversity at Sterkfontein🤩!
GMM & metaspecies shape modelling: Sts 14 & StW 431 prob taxonomically diff
StW 573: what is preserved is v diff!

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#ESHE2025
Harold Berghuis ‘Madura Strait, the first subsea Homo erectus site in Sundaland (Indonesia)’
Underwater fossils 🌟!
Subsidence in Sundaland: key to biogeography. Submerged river valley-MIS6, w rich fossil record! hunting bovids?
H erectus: frontal & parietal frags– aff Java late erectus
😍

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#ESHE2025
Elizabeth Veatch ‘Behavioural complexity in Homo floresiensis reconsidered’
Did H floresiensis hunt & use fire? NO!
Tapho– Komodo Dragon prey bones fr Atlanta!
3D study of 3200 bones w marks fr Liang Bua: most match Komodo Dragons; a few actual c/m - scavenging.
🔥? ~10K rat bones 😳… NONE