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Dr James Cole
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Dean for the School of Applied Sciences; Principal Lecturer in Archaeology @uniofbrighton. Human evolution & prehistoric cannibals. @IgNobel prize winner 2018
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Michael Haslam @twigtechnology.bsky.social · 2d
Brilliant new study (preprint) led by @noraslania.bsky.social on how wild eastern chimpanzees observe each other.

'Peering'—or close-range attentive observation—happens in all kinds of contexts and esp. for young chimps, opening the door to new cultural traits 🧪👀

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 3d
Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
The value of public R&D
www.gov.uk
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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 3d
Nanotyrannus is real.

For years I’ve considered many mid-sized gracile tyrannosaurs to be juvenile T. rex.

But I was wrong. This stunning new skeleton of a mature long-armed small tyrannosaur is clearly a different species.

Isn’t science fun?!

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Researchers discover new tyrannosaur species in ‘duelling dinosaurs’ fossil
Analysis of Montana fossils shows the battling predator was a fully grown Nanotyrannus, not a young T rex
www.theguardian.com
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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 19d
I'm hiring! 4 year post doc on my Wellcome Trust grant -- come be inventive about isotopes in teeth with me in PPN Turkiye :) www.lancashire.ac.uk/jobs/post-do...

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Post Doctoral Research Assistant - 1160-25
Thinking of the next step in your career? Take a look at our exciting new role, Post Doctoral Research Assistant based at our Other. Find out more and apply he…
www.lancashire.ac.uk
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Bob Patalano @robertpatalano.bsky.social · 23d
Interesting new publication on the genomes of living apes, suggesting the split between humans and chimps is more recent than previously thought.

“Our analyses dated the human–chimpanzee split between 5.5 and 6.3 million years ago (Ma; minimum to maximum estimate of divergence)”
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Complete sequencing of ape genomes - Nature
Complete sequences of chromosomes telomere-to-telomere from chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, Bornean orangutan, Sumatran orangutan and siamang provide a comprehensive and valuable resource for future evolutionary comparisons.
www.nature.com
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Sharma Centre for Heritage Education, India @sche-archeo.bsky.social · 25d
From Trowels to Pixels: A 4-day special workshop was held for the Archaeological Staff of the Department of Archaeology, Government of Tamil Nadu, on 3D Modelling in Archaeology
September 17-20, 2025
www.instagram.com/share/p/BBHE...

#DigitalArchaeology #3DModelling #SCHE #ArchaeologyIndia
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Agent of Chaos @fionacoward.bsky.social · 26d
PDRA Storymachine
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Project StoryMachine at University of London
Apply for the Postdoctoral Research Associate, Project StoryMachine role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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Agent of Chaos @fionacoward.bsky.social · 26d
Ass Prof/Prof in humanities
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Assistant Professor or Associate Professor in Humanities at Waseda Institute for Advanced Study
Discover Assistant Professor or Associate Professor in Humanities jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
www.jobs.ac.uk
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Agent of Chaos @fionacoward.bsky.social · 26d
Assoc/assistant Prof in digital methods
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Assistant or Associate Professorship in Digital Methods at Aarhus University
Apply for the Assistant or Associate Professorship in Digital Methods role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
www.jobs.ac.uk
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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 27d
so... the wellcome trust gave me a £1,000,000? and i didnt even have to hold the world to ransom.

i am super excited, going to be recruiting SOON for a phd and a postdoc, and could not do anything without my amazing collaborators <3

www.lancashire.ac.uk/news/grant-t...
Archaeology research project receives £1 million grant to better understand how people got sick
University of Lancashire’s Dr Brenna Hassett receives Wellcome funding to understand how the invention of farming, herding, and sedentism changed human disease.
www.lancashire.ac.uk
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Bob Patalano @robertpatalano.bsky.social · Oct 3
For more on this site and others in central Tanzania, check out our recent paper in African Archaeological Review 🏺
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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · Oct 2
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...

youtu.be/ClOMa_GufsA?...
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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Dr James Cole @jamescolearch.bsky.social · Oct 2
An incredibly sad loss of an amazing and inspirational champion
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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · Oct 1
One more conceptual layer of the Bretskyan hierarchy: how organisms map on their range and environments or what is the geometry of their movement (as exemplified by dogs and cats).
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Macroecology
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Ridge densities for canids and felids for the nine landscapes in which at least one species from each clade was tracked together.
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UoL EvoAnth Seminar Series @liverpoolevoanth.bsky.social · Oct 1
There's still time to sign up for tomorrow's talk, given by @jcmoreno.bsky.social, looking at the biocultural evolutionary approach applied in South American Archaeology!

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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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · Sep 27
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Our common Neanderthal ancestor could be a million years old, says Chris Stringer
YouTube video by New Scientist
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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · Sep 23
Look out for some news on Thursday evening!
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Lucy Timbrell @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social · Sep 23
We are happy to share the programme of speakers for our global symposium on lithic technology 🪨🔎

There are just a few spaces left for in-person participation! DM for more information.

You can join us online via this Zoom registration link: eu02web.zoom-x.de/webinar/regi...
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UoL EvoAnth Seminar Series @liverpoolevoanth.bsky.social · Sep 19
We are thrilled to announce our timetable of seminars for the upcoming semester!

As always, all of our talks will be on Zoom and open to everyone. Our first talk will take place on the 2nd October at 13:00-14:00 BST. The Zoom link will be available closer to the time.

We hope to see you there! 🥳
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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · Aug 19
The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying!

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
ecoevojobs.net 2025-26
docs.google.com
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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · Aug 13
The history of late Quaternary-to recent European bisons:
"The abundance of European bison specimens responded negatively to the extent of forest cover, including Holocene cycles."
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Macroecology
Diets of bisons and the climate change in the late Quaternary. Variation of bison occurences through time and the tree cover and climate proxies.
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · Aug 12
Two new studies in @antiquity.ac.uk show that people with mixed ancestry lived in early medieval south England. 🏺🧪
1,300-year-old skeletons found in England had grandparents from sub-Saharan Africa, DNA studies reveal
A DNA analysis of two people who lived in Britain in the seventh century reveals they had recent African ancestry.
www.livescience.com
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Andy I.R. Herries at La Trobe Archaeoogy @ozarchaeomaglab.bsky.social · Jul 27
Long form news article in @science.org covering our latest collaborations between the Drimolen and Kromdraai teams as part of a new 4 year @Australian Research Council Discovery Grant
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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · Jul 28
The pollen analysis from Marathousa 1, an MIS12 Lower Paleolithic elephant butchering site in Megalopolis basin (Greece) is now published!!
Congratulations to Stella Kyrikou and team!!! ✨ 🎉

It's wonderful to see this important work finally out!
#openaccess #humanevolution

doi.org/10.1017/qua....
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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · Jul 24
www.discoverwildlife.com/prehistoric-...
5 ancient human species that lived BEFORE us: Meet the prehistoric pioneers who changed history forever | Discover Wildlife
We're not the first species of ‘human’ to walk the Earth; thousands of years before us there was a rich diversity of hominins…
www.discoverwildlife.com
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