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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · 7d

So excited to announce the lineup of speakers here @heasvienna.bsky.social for the 2025/6 academic year! We have some outstanding speakers for our three seminar series in Archaelogical Science, Ancient Genomics and Human Evolution & the Palaeolithic. All hybrid! Register now at HEAS.at

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 7d

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · 7d

So excited to announce the lineup of speakers here @heasvienna.bsky.social for the 2025/6 academic year! We have some outstanding speakers for our three seminar series in Archaelogical Science, Ancient Genomics and Human Evolution & the Palaeolithic. All hybrid! Register now at HEAS.at

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Amanda G. Henry @phytolith.bsky.social · 13d

Had fun at my poster yesterday! Thanks for stopping by @adamvanc.bsky.social and thanks for the photo Philipp Gunz! #ESHE2025

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Amanda G. Henry @phytolith.bsky.social · 14d

Send me an email if you'd like a copy of either one!

Amanda G. Henry @phytolith.bsky.social · 14d

Second on differentiating different types of Job's tears from Han Dynasty tombs, led by Jingwen Liao, in Vegetation History and Archaeobotany: doi.org/10.1007/s003...

Revealing Coix lacryma-jobi var. lacryma-jobi (Job’s tears) in Han Dynasty burials with evidence from phytolith identification - Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany - Coix lacryma-jobi L. (Job’s tears, adlay, yiyi 薏苡in Chinese) is a tropical member of the Poaceae family which is widely grown in southeast...

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Amanda G. Henry @phytolith.bsky.social · 14d

Two new papers!

First on the origins of fire use, led by Femke Reidsma in a book celebrating the work of Wil Roebroeks: www.sidestone.com/books/intent...

Intent on the Paleolithic @ Sidestone Press

This collection of papers was compiled in celebration of the remarkable academic career of Professor Wil Roebroeks, who has established himself as one of Europe’s leading figures in Palaeolithic archa...

www.sidestone.com

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European Society for the Study of Human Evolution @eshesociety.bsky.social · 14d

The #ESHE2025 meeting in Paris starts tomorrow (please use this hashtag for sharing). If you are interested in the program, you find it here mcusercontent.com/9347aa3598d5... - Members have received an email for accessing the live stream! We hope you all enjoy the conference in person or online. /MW

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Amélie Beaudet @ameliebeaudet.bsky.social · 14d

We are getting ready for #ESHE2025 in Paris! 🎉
The #LHOSA #CoEvol #BrAIn team will share exciting new results on hominin evolution—talks & posters you do not want to miss.🧵👇 @palevoprim.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univpoitiers.bsky.social

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Amanda G. Henry @phytolith.bsky.social · Jun 26

Great news Frodo, Congratulations!!

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · Jun 3

🚨 Two PhD Positions Available!
Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠

Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history.

www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...

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European Society for the Study of Human Evolution @eshesociety.bsky.social · May 9

There are only a few days left to submit your abstract for #ESHE2025 — the deadline is Wednesday 14 May at 11:59 PM (PST). Looking forward to seeing you in Paris! Submit here: www.eshe.eu/abstract/

ESHE

European Society for the study of Human Evolution

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

Please share these advertisements with your communities, and I'm very happy to answer any questions - my email is in the job ads!

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

They'll additionally be responsible for data management of the entire project, permitting for plant collection and human research, and public engagement activities. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

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

The post-doc / project manager will use the data collected by the PhD projects (and other sources) to run Agent Based Models exploring how plant properties and distributions may have influenced Homo erectus migration patterns, and compare these to other potential explanations for the migration.

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

For both PhDs, I'm looking for candidates who have their master degree in Anthropology, Archaeology, or related field, and some degree of lab experience. I'm particularly interested in those who are familiar with Optimal Foraging models, habitat reconstruction, and paleoecology.

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

The second PhD position will explore the costs and benefits of plant foods, through the nutritional analysis of wild plants and energetics experiments designed to measure the caloric costs of food collection and processing. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

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

The first PhD position will explore whether it's possible to find evidence of smoke, bee products, and fermentation in dental calculus, using a model system developed in my lab. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

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

The project explores how plants and other "sessile" foods may have structured how Homo erectus first migrated into western Eurasia.

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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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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · Feb 12

I know there is some anxiety around how to protect yourself in light of Muskrat and his herd of shitler youth getting their hands on all our personal information so here are the steps you can take to protect yourself. I’ve seen these in various threads but thought it worth putting them together🧵 1/?

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · Feb 12

Here’s an interesting and important study on how fact-checking social media can lead to accusations of bias against right wing discourse - but it’s actually because that discourse is more likely to contain misinformation to start with. Paging @sheencr.bsky.social

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Elizabeth Dougherty, Ph.D. @hydrocycler.bsky.social · Feb 6

Reviewers for #NIH #grants, stop reviewing.

Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · Feb 6

Reviewers for NIH graduate student grants should stop work and allow no applications to proceed, since participating in this farce is, in the most literal way, upholding white supremacy.

Jeff Weiner @jlweiner.bsky.social · Feb 5

The CSR comm I'm on just pulled all Diversity F grants from the current review cycle. These apps are reviewed alongside (and by the same criteria) as all other F grants. So, instead of helping these trainees, they will actually be punished by having their grant reviews delayed at least 1 cycle !?!?

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Dr Beccy Scott @beccyscottuk.bsky.social · Feb 6

Happy Birthday Mary Leakey!

Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Feb 6

Happy birthday to #trowelblazer Mary Leakey, who was born #OnThisDay in AD 1913. She made countless contributions to palaeoanthropology, like the Laetoli footprints - evidence of early bipedalism.

🔗 to her 1978 announcement of Laetoli in Antiquity (£) https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00071969

Black-and-white photo of Mary Leakey excavating.

Black-and-white photo of the Laetoli footprints.

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · Feb 7

#FossilFriday The Taung child found in South Africa, 1924. Raymond Dart published this in Nature #OTD in Feb. 1925 naming Australopithecus africanus, the "southern ape from Africa", and described this as “an extinct race of apes intermediate between living anthropoids and man"

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · Feb 7

...they are shutting off parts of GPS for funsies.

See 6th paragraph here.

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