Marta Mirazon Lahr
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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 😍 .. more

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

Source: Wikipedia
Biology 22%
History 22%
Female researchers: interested in a postdoc at @univienna in #sedaDNA, #metagenomics or #ancientDNA? Apply via the E-STEEM fellowship through my group. Projects are flexible and can be shaped together!
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This is really terrible. Devastating for Brenna Henn and her team, but also for Anthropology and Medical Genetics who will not benefit from their excellent research 😞
Here's my latest contribution to the @nytimes "Lost Science" series. Brenna Henn's sweeping study of African genetics has been frozen. Gift link: nyti.ms/3Ypmm1A

A confused Cambridge crow 🤣
Pioneering British archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon was born #OTD in 1906

Best known for her excavations at Jericho (1952–1958), she is one of the most influential archaeologists of the 20th century & was the first female president of Oxford University Archaeological Society. #WomenInSTEM #archaeology
Here's my latest contribution to the @nytimes "Lost Science" series. Brenna Henn's sweeping study of African genetics has been frozen. Gift link: nyti.ms/3Ypmm1A

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Started up a bioarch starter pack 🤩
Let me know if you want to be added or have suggestions 😊
#archaeology #bioarchaeology

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Fully funded PhD project available at Nottingham Trent University. Linked to a BBSRC funded grant, this project will investigate how primates perceive and respond to infants, combining cutting-edge cognitive testing with behavioural data. See 🧵
Acaba de salir mi nueva publicación "Bioarchaeology of Care Outreach: How Lessons from the Past May Help Improve the Present" en Applied Bioarchaeology: Making an Impact (Springer, eds. McKenzie et al)
Exploro cómo el cuidado antiguo nutre debates actuales
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I’m very sorry 😞

And to you!

Thank you, Iain!! Rob sends his best wishes as well 🥰

One day into 2026… let’s hope it is a kinder year ❤️

And full of exciting scientific discoveries🤩, fun & fruitful collaborations, & open data too😁!

And a big thank you to all who keep us so well informed🥰, specially
@robertosaezm.bsky.social
@mu-peter.bsky.social
@chrisbstringer.bsky.social
Fabulous fossils ! @robertosaezm.bsky.social ‘s top 10 #FossilFriday posts of 2025, includes KNM-ER 23000 🤩✨😁
🎅The Top 10 hominin #FossilFriday posts of 2025!!
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And to you too ✨🥂!!!

Happy New Year 🥳🤩✨!

And a very happy new year to you ❤️!!
I finished 87 books this year, and it's time to rank my top ten! #booksky
As 2026 approaches a happy new year's toast to you all with this marvellous 4th century Roman cage-cup, which bears an inscription, a toast that reads:

BIBE MULTIS ANNIS - Drink for many years!

Cheers and here's to a far better year in 2026! 🥂

#NewYear2026 🍀
🌟New OA Publication🌟 doi.org/10.1086/738364 🧪🏰 "Biomolecular Archaeology and Medieval Studies: A Graphic Article" in @medievalacademy.bsky.social w @janetekay.bsky.social & an awesome team of ECR #WomeninSTEM 🧵⬇️ @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social

Fabulous fossils ! @robertosaezm.bsky.social ‘s top 10 #FossilFriday posts of 2025, includes KNM-ER 23000 🤩✨😁
Excited about our new preprint showing bidirectional adaptive introgression between invasive and native crop pests over ecological timescales www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The collision of two genomes threatens global food security
Human activity alters selection pressures and species' ranges, creating opportunities for hybridisation through secondary contact. Ancient hybridization has enabled adaptive radiation, but its role in...
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Merry Christmas to you and Mike 🤩🥂❤️
JOB KLAXON! The @nhm-london.bsky.social is recruiting a micro-CT specialist! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
CT Data and Micro CT Specialist :South Kensington
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It's always lovely to see where the #HEASBottle ends up - here is #JustusErusEdung from the #NationalMuseumsinKenya who was gifted the bottle from HEAS Speaker @martamlahr.bsky.social using it on TransEvol fieldwork led by HEAS Speaker #AurelienMounier with #HEASMember #MarjoleinD.Bosch.
Unlike most "mini pigs" on Instagram, Cainochoerus is a true mini pig, standing at ~knee height of a mid-sized human (image below). Unfortunately, it went extinct a few million years back. The fossils that we found consist of jaw fragments and teeth. More in the paper!
Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity.

Apply here no later than February 11 2026:

https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity
The Department of Biology was established in 2010 through the merger of the Departments of Ecology, Cell and Organism Biology, Biological Undergraduate Education, and the Biological Museums. The depar
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Our manuscript is now out in @royalsocietypublishing.org! We tested hypotheses that Cenozoic climatic change influenced the evolution of the cranial, appendicular, & axial skeleton in carnivorans. @tsengzj.bsky.social @hlusko.bsky.social

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Lovely new paper by @sarah-paris.bsky.social & Charles Higham "Ochre use in burial practices in Thailand, from Neolithic to the Iron Age" 😍!!

@cam-archaeology.bsky.social