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

Do you want to support students attending #AABA2026? Get your #AABA2026 t-shirt or hoodie! Proceeds will fund our various student programs
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AABA 2026 Denver, CO Meeting Swag | Bonfire

Buy AABA 2026 Denver, CO Meeting Swag merchandise that supports American Association Of Physical Anthropologists. Featuring Heather Carolina Blue Premium Unisex Tees, professionally printed in the USA...

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American Association of Biological Anthropologists @bioanth.org · 22d

Interested in becoming more involved in AABA? The deadline for nominations for President-Elect, Vice President, and Secretary are due October 15! bioanth.org/95th-annual-...

Call for Executive Committee Nominations (Deadline: October 15, 2025) - AABA

Executive Committee Positions: The Executive Committee manages the affairs of the association. The committee meets in person once a year, immediately before the Annual Meeting, and virtually […]

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

📌 Students attending #AABA2026: we've made some changes to simplify the submission process for Student Presentation Awards. Your award application is now due October 15, 2025, the same day as abstracts are due.
📖 Read about it here: bioanth.org/about/studen...

Student Presentation Awards - AABA

The AABA has long recognized the important contributions made to our discipline by students. Their work reflects the promise and future of our field. Conferring […]

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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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Katie Ranhorn @kathrynranhorn.bsky.social · Sep 3

New essay about our collaborative deep history work in Tanzania!

Thanks to @sapiens.org for inviting me to contribute & for editorial support

Fidelis Masao, Husna Mashaka, Sam Porter, & many more contribute to this work. Thanks @leakeyfoundation.org @asubeinghuman.bsky.social & @asuiho.bsky.social

SAPIENS Magazine @sapiens.org · Sep 3

“To truly safeguard and understand human origins in this region, we need a new model—one grounded in collaboration, mutual respect, and shared stewardship.”

Read more: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...

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Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social · Sep 2

I'm recruiting a PhD student to join the lab at @gtsciences.bsky.social in Fall 2026! Broad taxonomic and topical freedom under the umbrella of vertebrate joint form and function. Information here: www.manafzadeh.com – please share 🦴🩻

Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social · Jul 2

✨Some news✨: after finishing my postdoc, I’ll be starting my lab as an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech. Join us in Atlanta to study how joints work and where they come from!

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Rob Foley @robfoley.bsky.social · Jul 10

Breaking the barriers! Important new paper by Daniel Green and others discovering 18 million years of proteins of East African mammals!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Eighteen million years of diverse enamel proteomes from the East African Rift - Nature

The isolation of dental proteins from fossils deposited 1.5 million to 18 million years ago in the Turkana Basin in Kenya, a tropical region, demonstrate the promise of dental enamel for palaeoproteom...

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Palesa @palaeoprotpalesa.bsky.social · May 29

Hello,

Our paper on enamel proteins from Paranthropus robustus has finally been peer reviewed, please have a read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Paranthropus robustus has been puzzling scientists since its discovery in 1938 in South Africa, where a high number of fossils have been found.

Enamel proteins reveal biological sex and genetic variability in southern African Paranthropus

Paranthropus robustus is a morphologically well-documented Early Pleistocene hominin species from southern Africa with no genetic evidence reported so far. In this work, we describe the mass spectrome...

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Amanda G. Henry @phytolith.bsky.social · May 10

I am offering two 4-year PhD positions (fully funded) and a 57 month combined post-doc / project manager position as part of my NWO-Vici grant, which starts in September.

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Seth Chagi (World of Paleoanthropology🏺) @sethchagi.bsky.social · Apr 21

Unearthing the Past: The New Turkana Footprints with Dr. Kevin Hatala
youtu.be/vX-b4L3cxW0 @kevinhatala.bsky.social

Unearthing the Past: The New Turkana Footprints with Dr. Kevin Hatala

YouTube video by World of Paleoanthropology

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Adam van Casteren @adamvanc.bsky.social · Mar 25

Really happy to see this paper out, using field biomechanics we show that wild chimpanzees don't just randomly select plants materials for termite fishing tools – they use a little “folk physics” choosing materials with specific properties! Study in iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful.... 1/5

Engineering skills in the manufacture of tools by wild chimpanzees

Biological sciences; Zoology; Evolutionary biology

www.cell.com

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Leslea Hlusko @hlusko.bsky.social · Mar 24

Want to move to Spain?

Do you study craniodental evolution in human and non-human primate evolution?

Looking for postdoc position?

Interested in working with my @Tied2Teeth group here @CENIEH???

Deadline to apply: 28 March 2025

www.cenieh.es/en/about-cen...

Postdoctoral Researcher (R2) of ERC-2021-ADG TIED2TEETH Project | CENIEH

www.cenieh.es

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American Association of Biological Anthropologists @bioanth.org · Mar 19

🎊 Congratulations to the ten #AABA2025 student prize winners and honorable mentions! bioanth.org/about/studen...

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Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo @whiterabbit36.bsky.social · Mar 12

Our new paper 🥲 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The earliest human face of Western Europe - Nature

A Homo aff. erectus individual dated to 1.4 million to 1.1 million years ago found at Sima del Elefante (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain) does not display the modern-human-like aspect of Homo antecess...

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American Association of Biological Anthropologists @bioanth.org · Mar 7

🥁 Congratulations to the 76 awardees of the 2025 William S. Pollitzer Student Travel Award! The Pollitzer Student Travel Awards are designed to help students defray the costs of attending the AABA meetings. bioanth.org/about/willia... #AABA2025

William S. Pollitzer Student Travel Award - AABA

The Pollitzer Student Travel Awards are designed to help students defray the costs of attending the AABA meetings. The awards are named in honor of […]

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National Center for Science Education @ncse.bsky.social · Mar 9

"Could You Survive Living With Other Hominin Species?" asks PBS Eons. youtu.be/c4E6chPj-IQ?... #humanevolution

Could You Survive Living With Other Hominin Species?

YouTube video by PBS Eons

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American Association of Biological Anthropologists @bioanth.org · Mar 4

Get excited for #AABA2025 in Baltimore next week! Download the AABA 2025 app and start planning your meeting www.xcdsystem.com/mobile/index...

AABA 2025

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The Leakey Foundation @leakeyfoundation.org · Mar 4

Ever wondered what happens to your grant proposal once you submit it? Join a hands-on “mock review” workshop to learn about review processes at The Leakey Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation. March 12 at #AABA2025. Registration is limited so act fast! @bioanth.org bit.ly/4havY78

AABA Workshop in Baltimore: What happens to my grant proposal? Peek into the process through mock review!

This workshop introduces early career scholars to the grant review process through mock review exercises with experienced panelists and representatives from Leakey and Wenner-Gren. Date and Time: Marc...

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Deming Yang @demingyang.bsky.social · Feb 21

🚨New article🚨Our #research on #elephant🐘and #strontium #isotopes in #teeth🦷is published with
@commsbio.bsky.social
We show how Sr is recorded in teeth and how we use such records to help reconstruct migration. @kevinuno.bsky.social @kpodkovyroff.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Strontium isotope mapping of elephant enamel supports an integrated microsampling-modeling workflow to reconstruct herbivore migrations - Communications Biology

Comparisons of 87Sr/86Sr data from the tusk and molar enamel of a zoo elephant suggest that a microsampling-modeling workflow is the best practice strategy for geospatial reconstructions of seasonal m...

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McNulty Lab @mcnultylab.bsky.social · Feb 18

Exciting things happening on Rusinga Island!

www.sapiens.org/culture/loca...

Connecting Local Communities to Paleoanthropology in Kenya

On Rusinga Island, a group is celebrating field assistants who helped find famous fossils and inspiring locals to study ancient history.

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profmercader.bsky.social @profmercader.bsky.social · Jan 16

Groundbreaking research
on Homo erectus
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

#OldupaiGorge
BED III:

Using sedimentology, geochemistry, Ar/Ar dating, biome simulations, fire history, paleobotany, fauna, and lithics, we reveal how hominins navigated extreme environments in northern Tanzania 1 Ma

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American Association of Biological Anthropologists @bioanth.org · Jan 15

Congratulations to the 2025 AABA Award Winners! This year we honor Dr. Kay Behrensmeyer, Dr. Lorena Madrigal, and Dr. Sang-Hee Lee. Thank you for your contributions to biological anthropology! #AABA2025

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Kevin Hatala @kevinhatala.bsky.social · Jan 10

Important update for anyone with a manuscript in the JHE editorial pipeline. Thanks for sharing!

Chris Campisano @campisano.bsky.social · Jan 10

JHE Update: the previous JHE Editorial Board no longer has access to the editorial management system. Despite the previous editors and many other associate editors volunteering to finish handling any papers already in our pipeline, we have been cut-off without any notice. 1/2

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Austin Lawrence, PhD @humanaustinology.bsky.social · Jan 8

I'm very excited to share a new paper out this week with co-authors Ashley Hammond and Carol Ward.

doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

3D acetabular orientation vectors (normal vectors to the acetabular plane) overlayed on a human pelvis and shown in views representing the median plane, lumbosacral plane, and orthogonal comparative plane. Colors of the vectors and colors and symbols for the data points represent their taxonomic group. Within each view, all vectors are the same length. The view in the orthogonal comparative plane (top left), which approximates an anterior/ventral view, and the view in the median plane (center right) show that humans and most fossil hominins have more ventrally oriented acetabula than other groups but that groups do not differ in their acetabular orientation relative to the lumbosacral plane. The view in the lumbosacral plane (bottom left) approximates a cranial view and shows that humans have more ventrally oriented acetabula than other extant anthropoids, which have predominantly laterally facing acetabula.

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Peter Falkingham @peterfalkingham.com · Jan 5

Incredible site. If you want to see the length of these trackways, and a little walk through of some of the Sauropod tracks, I've uploaded a 4k60p video to YouTube:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dyH...

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