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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 14h

If you want top musicians, you have to have students taking music degrees.

That includes the ones who didn't go to university, but took guitar lessons or were inspired by a school music teacher, rely on top producers or session musicians who acquired their skills on a music degree, etc etc etc.

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American Association of Biological Anthropologists @bioanth.org · 2d

#AABA2026 abstracts are due next week! Submit your abstract for presentation in Denver!

American Association of Biological Anthropologists @bioanth.org · 23d

📣 The abstract portal for #AABA2026 in Denver is open! Please read the abstract guidelines carefully before submitting your abstract. Submissions are due by October 15, 2025. bioanth.org/95th-annual-...

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Caley Orr @caleyorr.bsky.social · 1d

Svante Pääbo, father of paleogenetics: ‘The reason for the Neanderthals’ extinction lies in how numerous we’ve become’ | Science | EL PAÍS English

Svante Pääbo, father of paleogenetics: ‘The reason for the Neanderthals’ extinction lies in how numerous we’ve become’

The Nobel Prize winner in Medicine is investigating genetic changes that could have given our species a competitive advantage, and the possibility of extracting the genome of the Flores hobbit

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Caley Orr @caleyorr.bsky.social · 2d

Ugh.

Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 2d

The new Wiley journal review system is an absolute nightmare. Editorial assistants have been replaced by a clunky, AI-enabled website that makes it harder to find and invite reviewers. Associate editor workloads have increased. I'm not convinced the invitations to reviewers are even going through.

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Caley Orr @caleyorr.bsky.social · 6d

Looking forward to the 2025 Rocky Mountain Biological Anthropology Association meeting this Saturday (Oct 4th) on the CU Boulder campus. RMBAA has developed into a nice regional association with a great community. Come on out if you're in the Denver area. #RMBAA2025

2025 Meeting Information – RMBAA

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Caley Orr @caleyorr.bsky.social · 6d

Get you some Fishbone to get you through Thursday. 🔥🔥🔥 #partyatgroundzero

Fishbone - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

YouTube video by KEXP

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Caley Orr @caleyorr.bsky.social · 7d

Sadly, I never met Jane Goodall. But the tributes from anthropology friends speak volumes. So many folks were inspired by her to pursue our science, which connects humanity to the living world. Whatever's beyond, I hope it involves her embraced in the nature she worked so hard to get us to care for.

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Cara Ocobock @caraocobock.bsky.social · 7d

New paper out! This was a fun collaboration with Dr. Trent Holliday, Libby Cowgill, and Scott Maddux to work up a broad review on Neanderthal cold adaptations ranging from technological to physiological. This is a good one for teaching.

We referred to our collaboration as the "Coldies but Goodies"

Neandertal Cold Adaptation: Technological, Anatomical, and Physiological Responses to Cold Stress in One of Our Closest Fossil Relatives

Neandertals occupied western Eurasia for over 100 000 years, repeatedly enduring climates that ranged from seasonally cold to glacial. This paper reexamines the question of Neandertal cold adaptation...

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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 7d

📢 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

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Caley Orr @caleyorr.bsky.social · 7d

Yes. Science and beverages at T-Street soon, please!

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Caley Orr @caleyorr.bsky.social · 7d

Apes with graspy big toes and less-graspy big toes.

Hominoid Hallucal Metatarsal Divergence and Tarsometatarsal Joint Morphology

Objectives The objective of this study is to test the hypothesis that variation in hallucal metatarsal divergence and tarsometatarsal joint morphology reflects mobility and stability across hominoid...

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Caley Orr @caleyorr.bsky.social · 8d

Very cool. Congrats to you and the team!

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Christian Mosimann @chrmosimann.bsky.social · 8d

Out @natcomms.nature.com:
our work on how the ❤️-supporting pericardium forms & acts in pediatric heart conditions.🎈🫀

Expanding our preprint & with our first HCR (thx to @thelovelylab.bsky.social!).

Congrats all! #devbio #zebrafish #CHD @cupediatrics.bsky.social @cudevbio.bsky.social
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Taylor Mitchell Brown @tmitchellbrown.bsky.social · 8d

New research finds that 12,000-year-old camel art in Saudi Arabia’s Nefud Desert once marked ancient water sources.

Hunter-gatherers may have used the ephemeral water bodies to penetrate deeper into the barren landscape.

#RockArt #Archaeology

New for @science.org 🧪🏺

Prehistoric camel art pointed to precious water sources in the Arabian Desert

Hunter-gatherers may have used the engravings to find water 12,000 years ago

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Evolution Soup @evolutionsoup.bsky.social · 8d

Hobbits of Flores evolved to be small by slowing down growth during childhood, research suggests
#evolutionsoup #evolution #paleoanthropology #science #fossils
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Jon Savage @jonsavage.bsky.social · 10d

Ace live version of Hero by Neu! in 1974/5 - pre punk or what? www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPuB...

NEU! - Hero live 74

YouTube video by Álvaro Vega

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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 11d

#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

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 13d

New @gutsickgibbon.bsky.social video with thumbnail art by yours truly ^^

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New Australopith Just Dropped...What Does it Mean?

YouTube video by Gutsick Gibbon

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Caley Orr @caleyorr.bsky.social · 13d

If correct ("Homo longi" sits within a clade that includes H. sapiens & Denisovans to the exclusion of Neanderthals), this supports the hypothesis of a deep divergence of the H. sapiens & Neanderthal lineages (at least 0.94 -1.10 million years ago based on age of Yunxian). #paleoanthropology 🧪

The phylogenetic position of the Yunxian cranium elucidates the origin of Homo longi and the Denisovans

Diverse forms of Homo coexisted during the Middle Pleistocene. Whether these fossil humans represent different species or clades is debated. The ~1-million-year-old Yunxian 2 fossil from China is impo...

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 13d

I discuss the ~1 million year old Yunxian cranium.. youtu.be/YmtjPnuaUro?...

Chris Stringer discusses the 1 million year old Yunxian cranium

YouTube video by Chris Stringer

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Caley Orr @caleyorr.bsky.social · 14d

Counter to how I've always known and taught it, the levator veli palatini attaches solely to the pharyngotympanic ("Eustachian") tube & not the inferior aspect of the petrous temporal bone. I love that there are still little mysteries to solve in human anatomy. #anated #anatomy #anatomyeducation

The Anatomical Record @anatrecord.bsky.social · 14d

For centuries, anatomists debated true origin of levator veli palatini—vital for speech & swallowing. Researchers found it arises from cartilaginous Eustachian tube not petrous bone, reshaping understanding of vocal tract evolution
Pagano et al: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Colin D. Wren @cdwren.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨Tenure-track job posting!!🚨 My department at Uni of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) is seeking applicants for our Assistant Professor of Medical Anthropology position! Please share and distribute widely! 🏺 cu.taleo.net/careersectio...

Landscape photo showing UCCS in the foreground and the Rocky Mountains in the background

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Caley Orr @caleyorr.bsky.social · 16d

Drive-By Truckers - First Air Of Autumn (Live on KEXP)

YouTube video by KEXP

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Caley Orr @caleyorr.bsky.social · 17d

Jayde also collaborated with our team to identify tiny shards of glass (cryptotephra) from a different volcano at the late Pleistocene sites of Arma Veirana & Riparo Bombrini in northwestern Italy. She's a topnotch pro. I highly recommend her if anyone is looking to do this work at other sites. 🏺

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Jack Tamisiea @jack-tamisiea.bsky.social · 19d

How did the ostrich cross the ocean? This fossil holds clues!

This is the holotype of Lithornis promiscuus at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. This heron-sized bird lived in a swampy floodplain in Paleocene Wyoming. #FossilFriday thread (1/4)

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