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
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
03.10.2025 11:06 — 👍 8 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 1
YouTube video by Dr. Jane Goodall & the Jane Goodall Institute USA
Wounda's Journey - Jane Goodall Witnesses Release of Chimpanzee Into New Island Sanctuary Site
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?...
02.10.2025 07:42 — 👍 57 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 1
It's a wrap! #ESHE2025
3 days filled with stimulating discussions in the form of 35 podiums, 33 Pecha Kuchas, 169 posters.
Congratulations to the winners of the student prize - Harmony Hill & Gabriele Russo!
Massive thank you to the organisers for making it all happen.
See you in Burgos next year!
28.09.2025 20:28 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
It's a wrap! #ESHE2025
3 days filled with stimulating discussions in the form of 35 podiums, 33 Pecha Kuchas, 169 posters.
Congratulations to the winners of the student prize - Harmony Hill & Gabriele Russo!
Massive thank you to the organisers for making it all happen.
See you in Burgos next year!
28.09.2025 20:28 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Podium Day 3 #ESHE2025
H. Farrell, R. Sorrentino, C. Ruff, A. Toccacceli, R. Clarke, A. Robles on the architecture of human foot, gait in Dmanisi, dexterous rock climbing in chimps, craniofacial diversity in great apes and so much more!
27.09.2025 09:20 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Poster Session 2 #ESHE2025
83 wonderful posters. 169 in total.
Palaeotrails’ Jesse Martin & @martamlahr.bsky.social on detecting microevolutionary trends in fossil hominin populations.
26.09.2025 14:51 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
#ESHE2025
posting on Pecha Kuchas is hard 😅😅😅!
25.09.2025 11:17 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
#ESHE2025
Introduction by @mariesoressi.bsky.social – 14 years of ESHE! 340 participants in Paris 😊!
Welcome by MNHN, hosting: info on major cyber-attack in July, and how challenging it was to organise the meeting (thank you Paris team!!), thanking a number of supporting & funding institutions.
25.09.2025 07:15 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Celebrating our wonderful PI @martamlahr.bsky.social for such an incredible achievement 🎉🍾🥂
19.07.2025 12:04 — 👍 30 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Justus Erus Edung was only 25 years old when he discovered Kenyanthropus platyops in a team led by Prof. Meave Leakey in 1999.
This 3.5 million year old “flat-faced” skull quickly grabbed international headlines and changed the course of human evolution.
#fossils #turkana #humanevolution
17.07.2025 15:19 — 👍 35 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 4
Had such a fun time learning about species identification, phylogeny and palaeoecology with @deadbovids.bsky.social 🤩🤩
16.07.2025 11:32 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Episode 2: Faunal identification with @deadbovids.bsky.social
Other than identification, tooth wear pattern can give us exciting insights into faunal diet and palaeoecology.
15.07.2025 10:36 — 👍 30 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2
The joy of sorting LSA lithics from Turkana under the guidance of @robfoley.bsky.social
Follow us on Instagram for more www.instagram.com/palaeotrails...
13.07.2025 17:15 — 👍 25 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 3
We spend long periods of time in Kenya collecting data in the collections, understanding the landscape and looking for fossils.
Picture credits: Sarah Paris
The rest of the year is spent analysing data, honing skills and preparing for upcoming field work. During this time, we develop new methodologies, attend conferences, write papers and discuss our findings
Picture credits: Sarah Paris, Eleanor Williams
What does the Ng'ipalajem team do?
Ng’ipalajem, meaning Ancestors in Turkana, is an ERC-funded project.
Led by @martamlahr.bsky.social, the project investigates how the emergence of Homo sapiens is deeply intertwined with Africa’s long-term environmental and ecological history.
#humanevolution
11.07.2025 08:12 — 👍 22 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Research Assistant in the Ng'ipalajem Project (digital) (fixed-term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Assistant in the Ng'ipalajem Project (digital) (fixed-term) in the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge.
📢 We’re HIRING!
Are you experienced in 3D imaging and geometric
morphometric analysis? Do you have strong organisational and communication skills?
We want to hear from you! Apply below www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51730/
Join our passionate research team exploring Pleistocene African prehistory! 🦴
01.07.2025 16:08 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🎉 Fantastic new book by Jonathan R. Goodman Invisible Rivals: How we evolved to compete in a cooperative world’ forward by Palaeotrails @robfoley.bsky.social
21.06.2025 07:33 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Ochre and Identity: An Exploration of Perinatal Mortality, Personhood and Social Acknowledgement at Khok Phanom Di, Central Thailand | Cambridge Archaeological Journal | Cambridge Core
Ochre and Identity: An Exploration of Perinatal Mortality, Personhood and Social Acknowledgement at Khok Phanom Di, Central Thailand
🚨 More below!!
At Khok Phanom Di, red ochre pigment was applied to most burials. Infants who died around the time of birth were excluded. And yet, they were still buried in the same sacred ground.
What does this tell us about how ancient communities perceived personhood, grief, and belonging?
09.06.2025 14:40 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
What Ancient Burials Can Teach Us About Grief: New Study Links Prehistoric Thai Cemetery to Today’s Perinatal Loss Conversations
🚨 New research by Palaeotrails' @sarah-paris.bsky.social
beautifully connects Neolithic infant burials in Thailand with today’s evolving conversations around perinatal loss.
"This isn't just about pigment—it's about belonging."
From ancient ochre to Ronaldo's 7th-minute tribute—grief unites. 🕊️
09.06.2025 14:35 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Please join us next week, 8th May 2025, at 13:00 BST, for our final talk of the academic year which will be given by Dr John Rowan, University of Cambridge. More details below 👇
If you would like to attend, please register here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
We hope to see you there!
03.05.2025 09:23 — 👍 19 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
🎉 Members of the Palaeotrails team were recently awarded bursaries to attend this years #HumanEvo25 🧬💀
The team were delighted to participate in the dynamic interdisciplinary programme ranging from genetic 👻 🏜️ 🦠 🧫 to evolutionary 🤰👣⚔️🌍
Thank you @eventswcs.bsky.social
02.05.2025 10:50 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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01.05.2025 08:12 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A huge congratulations to all the #HumanEvo25 prize winners 👏
🎉 including Palaeotrails’s @avantikab.bsky.social who won a a prize for her poster Tracing Ancient Footsteps using sulphur isotopes 🏆
30.04.2025 13:47 — 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
Mark Stoneking ⚒️🗣️💻🧬🌏
Combining linguistic, archaeological, computer simulations & genetic data to resolve long held questions about the timing and direction of migration and settlement of the Pacific.
Exciting results overturn 💻 simulations that suggested voyaging wasn’t possible! ⛵️
#HumanEvo25
30.04.2025 11:30 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
into brain evolution & development, open science, art & science https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hMNZHsrNHw, music, making, javascript, contemporary dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZfHj7F2FzQ
website: katjaq.github.io
Instructor at Johns Hopkins University (USA), Associate Researcher at Uppsala University (Sweden), and Editorial Board Member at Communications Biology (UK).
MSCA postdoctoral fellow in palaeoproteomics at the University of Copenhagen, working on improved methods for Pleistocene hominin skeletal proteomes 💀🦴
NERC CREATES DLA PhD student, University of Cambridge | Human Evolution in Africa, Plio-Pleistocene, Palaeoanthropology, Archaeology | she/her
Professor of Human Evolution and Fellow of King's College Cambridge. Emeritus, so I now do the research there was never time to do before. Interested in anything evolutionary, from humans to lithics to ecology and stars.
Research Assistant with the Ng’ipalajem Project at the University of Cambridge.
Interested in Biomolecular archaeology | Isotopes | Proteomics | Zooarchaeology
@palaeotrails.bsky.social
Archaeologist in Patagonia, Argentina. Full professor at Universidad de Buenos Aires/ Researcher at Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas - CONICET. Hunter-gatherers, landscape archaeology. Born and raised in Buenos Aires
Stone Age Archaeologist, lithic analysis, and technologies. PhD student at The Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and the Evolution of Human Behaviour @icarehb.bsky.social
Posting the latest discoveries in human evolution and primatology. We also spotlight the broader field of biological anthropology—from the history of our discipline to talks, conferences, and job opportunities.
Doctoral Researcher in Archaeological Sciences at @univie.ac.at -
Department of Evolutionary Anthropology. Exploring Late Neanderthal sites in the Palaeolithic - Radiocarbon dating, Paleoproteomics, Stable Isotopes. Yorkshire lass in Vienna.
Community-driven, free, open and transparent peer-review for #preprints in #Archaeology
http://archaeo.peercommunityin.org
also @PCI_Archaeology@archaeo.social
Posting the latest in primate research, conservation news, and insights into primate evolution #Primatology #BiologicalAnthropology
Video interview series: https://m.youtube.com/@ourprimatepast
Phd fellow in Pop gen at BHU | interested in studying domestication, human migration and archaic introgression, selection | Neolithic in India
Archaeologist & PhD candidate @ University of Cambridge
He/him
Dr. 🎓
Geologist ⚒️
Paleoanthropologist 💀🦴🦷 #Miocene apes 🐒
Postdoc and lecturer @Harvatilab at Uni Tübingen ✨️
PhD Candidate in ancient DNA & population genomics at @CINVESTAV (@Moreno_Lab). Alumna of @lcgunam (UNAM).
📍Mexico | 🧬 Ancient DNA | 📊 Bioinformatics
A digital magazine about everything human, told through the stories of anthropologists.
Research group in the Biochemistry department @cambiochem.bsky.social at the University of Cambridge exploring the RNA Universe! 🧬✨ https://www.ericmiskalab.org/
Managed by lab members
Organisers of @cambridgerna.bsky.social
PhD candidate at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE, UPF-CSIC), Barcelona.
Bioinformatician inferring local adaptation and introgression in Humans 🧬
Fan of coalescence theory.
