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MOLA @museumofloot.bsky.social · 22h

At least 100 out of 1,000 well-known archaeological sites around Sudan have already been destroyed so far, especially through the use of heavy, gold-digging machinery.

allthatsinteresting.com/sudan-jabal-...

Illegal Miners Destroy 2,000-Year-Old Heritage Site In Sudan While Digging For Gold

Hundreds of archaeological sites have been vandalized in a similar fashion by illegal miners across Sudan.

allthatsinteresting.com

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 2d

Awful news from Wales, the St Fagan's Museum has been broken into and prehistoric goldwork has been taken. Its painful to think what objects might now be at risk. Thoughts with the museum team who must be devastated, all speed to the police and a curse on the crooks.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

St Fagans: Bronze Age gold jewellery stolen from musuem

Police are investigating a burglary at St Fagans museum in the early hours of Monday morning.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · Sep 19

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News.

Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors

The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).

www.thebookseller.com

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Palaeotrails @palaeotrails.bsky.social · 6d

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

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UoL EvoAnth Seminar Series @liverpoolevoanth.bsky.social · 6d

Please join us next week, 9th October 2025, at 13:00 BST, for our next seminar of the semester. We will be joined by @professorlacy.bsky.social, University of Delaware - more details 👇

If you'd like to join, please register here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We hope to see you there!

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 7d

📢 The #InternetArchive is celebrating an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved by the #WaybackMachine. 🎉

Join us!
📆 Weds, Oct 22

🎟️ IN-PERSON: 5–10 PM PT (SF) ⤵️
www.eventbrite.com/e/1626438133...

💻 ONLINE: 7–8 PM PT ⤵️
www.eventbrite.com/e/1626431011...

#Wayback1T

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MPI-EVA Leipzig @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social · 7d

Why women live longer than men. A new study #ScienceAdvances by an intl. research team led by Johanna Stärk and Fernando Colchero @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social traces the evolutionary roots of the #lifespan gap between women and men. tinyurl.com/yrt4ju9u & www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Why women live longer than men

Study traces the evolutionary roots of the lifespan gap between women and men

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Paige Madison @fossilhistory.bsky.social · 8d

#OnThisDay in 1861, Charles Darwin wrote to his friend "But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything." n.pr/3kVZvon

Black-and-white portrait photograph of an older man , darwin, with a long, full white beard and receding hairline, wearing a dark coat. He looks to the right in a serious, contemplative pose.

A small piece of handwritten text in cursive ink on paper, difficult to read but appearing to say: “But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything.”

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Science Magazine @science.org · 10d

Two recent studies shine a light on the earliest known artistic usages of blue pigment. https://scim.ag/3VDtE0r

Paleolithic painters had the blues

Two recent studies shine light on the earliest known artistic usages of blue pigment

scim.ag

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Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 11d

Looking for a job in research and conservation? Check out the advert 👇 and apply within the next two-and-a-half weeks.

Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 13d

📢JOB alert📢
Application for the camp manager position at the @taichimpproject.bsky.social is open now. We seek a new camp manager starting on January 1, 2026, for 2+1 years (3rd year optional) working with and for wild chimpanzees in Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire.👇

emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/I...

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Société d'Anthropologie de Paris (SAP) @sapanthropologie.bsky.social · 15d

🚩1 Fully-Funded PhD on Epipalaeolithic Food Practices in Southwest Asia, deadline September 30!

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HBES2026 @hbes2026.bsky.social · 17d

We’re delighted to share that the 37th annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference (HBES2026) website is now live!

#HBES2026

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Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · 17d

If you're keen to see the pop-up shop, you’ll need to book a free ticket, available from 1 October! Find out more and join the priority list to be among the first to access tickets: brnw.ch/21wVUx5

For those who can’t visit, the product range will also be available in our online shop. 🛍️

Two Pokémon, Pikachu and Eevee, shown from behind looking up at a giant blue whale skeleton hanging from the ceiling of the Natural History Museum.

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Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · 17d

Calling all Pokémon Trainers - get ready to catch the Pokémon x Natural History Museum pop-up shop! 🦖🔥

From 26 January - 22 March 2026, our Cranbourne Boutique will transform into a Pokémon pop-up shop experience, with exclusive products designed specially for the collaboration. 🙌

Pikachu and Eevee looking happy and excited standing at the front of the Natural History Museum’s Hintze Hall. A blue whale skeleton and Charles Darwin statue can be seen behind them.

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · 24d

PhD Studentship alert!
I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia.
Details in the link below!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

University assistant predoctoral 1

jobs.univie.ac.at

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Alain Queffelec @alainqueffelec.bsky.social · Nov 17

Hi Annemieke, did you see the paper by Lloyd Courtenay (one of my colleagues) just out yesterday? Should give you matter of thinking
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

An open letter to evolutionary and human sciences; statistics has moved on and so should we. A proposal for more transparent research, and some notes on p < 0.003

Statistical reasoning and inference have become integral to how we reach conclusions as scientists. Few papers in evolutionary, biological, and human …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Dr. Emma E. Bird @dremmabird.bsky.social · 27d

🚨Call for papers 📝 on the history of natural history 🌸

#AcademicSky #NaturalHistory #ERCs

shnh.org.uk/news/cfp-ear...

CALL for PAPERS for ‘Early Career Researcher Symposium – showcasing research into the history of natural history’ Online, Thursday 19 February 2026 - Society for the History of Natural History

The Society for the History of Natural History is a diverse community of people united by an active interest in the study of natural history through time, believing that a greater awareness of how nat...

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Dr. Emma E. Bird @dremmabird.bsky.social · 27d

It was a pleasure to help 📺 #TheBBC and ✨ Ella Al-Shamahi behind the scenes to produce this video at #NHM @nhm-london.bsky.social
💀Meet our Fellow Humans 💀
#Anthropology #Archaeology #Homonaledi #Homofloresiensis
www.tiktok.com/@bbcearth/vi...

Meet our fellow humans 💀 Paleoanthropologist @Ella Al-Shamahi takes us behind-the-scenes at the Natural History Museum to meet some of our ancient ancestors. Learn more at the Natural History Muse...

TikTok video by bbcearth

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Science Magazine @science.org · 29d

Massive datasets in #ScienceAdvances confirm that higher adherence to a diet friendly to Earth and human health correlates with lower all-cause mortality. https://scim.ag/46bE644

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Dr. Emma E. Bird @dremmabird.bsky.social · Sep 9

💥 #JobOpportunity 💥 in ⛏️ #Archaeology ⛏️ and 💀 #HumanOrigins 🦴 at University of Tübingen

Independent Junior Research Group Leader in Experimental Archaeology

uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

#AcademicSky 💙

Independent Junior Research Group Leader (m/f/d, 100%)

uni-tuebingen.de

Dr. Emma E. Bird @dremmabird.bsky.social · Sep 9

🚨 #JobOpportunity 🚨 in #Anthropology 🚶‍♂️ and #HumanOrigins 🦴 at University of Tübingen

Independent Junior Research Group Leader in Biological Anthropology and Biomechanics

uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

#AcademicSky 💙

Independent Junior Research Group Leader (m/f/d, 100%)

uni-tuebingen.de

Dr. Emma E. Bird @dremmabird.bsky.social · Sep 8

🚨 #JobOpportunity 🚨 in #Archaeology ⛏️ and #HumanOrigins 🦴 at University of Tübingen

Independent Junior Research Group Leader in Experimental Archaeology
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

#AcademicSky 💙

Independent Junior Research Group Leader (m/f/d, 100%)

uni-tuebingen.de

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · Aug 29

“When something that has previously been considered good and desirable – [e.g.] an extremely high-emitting lifestyle – is suddenly revealed to have disastrous consequences for our common society, then we all have a responsibility to find quick ways of making that lifestyle socially unacceptable.”

Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · Aug 29

Waiting for that tipping point when most sensible people realise that transporting a single 80kg person in 2.5 tonnes of SUV was not the height of technical advancement but peak stupidity for the human race.

Tax SUVs out of existence

Safety and space at risk as SUVs reach 30% of car market in English cities, researchers warn

Campaigners call for Paris-style parking charges amid fears big vehicles are taking up excessive public space

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Emma E. Bird @dremmabird.bsky.social · Aug 20

A 🦋 #NaturalHistory 🦋 and 🟨 #Lego 🟨 superfan dream job??
#MuseumJobs
jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Creative Producer: LEGO Programme:South Kensington

jobs.nhm.ac.uk

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Dr. Emma E. Bird @dremmabird.bsky.social · Aug 18

jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job...

Postdoctoral Researcher role in 🌊 #Ocean 🌊 🐡 #Biodiversity 🐡 and 🪸 #Seaweed 🪸
#AcademicSky #MuseumJobs #PDRA #ECR

Postdoctoral Researcher, DEFRA GCBC GlobalSeaweed:South Kensington

jobs.nhm.ac.uk

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