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junior research group leader:genotype-phenotype interactions🧬🔎
The #HumanOrigins Cluster at Uni Tübingen seeks an expert in genotype-phenotype interactions.
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Job Alerts!🚨 We are looking to fill three Independent Junior Research Group Leader positions in the 'HUMAN ORIGINS' Cluster of Excellence at the University of Tübingen
Application deadline: Sept. 10, Starting Jan. 1, 2026

1. Genotype-Phenotype interactions:
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Thank you! ☺️

Our new edited volume is finally out! It collects much of the team's work over the last several years in Greece and elsewhere.
Thank you and congratulations to authors, reviewers, editors and the University of Tübingen Press for this exciting - and beautiful! - work!! 🎉✨
#openaccess #humanevolution

We’re excited to share that the #CROSSROADS VOLUME is published and also printed!🥳It features 28 contributions from the closing CROSSROADS symposium (Feb. 2022, Tübingen).
It took time, but was worth the wait!✨️Edited by K. Harvati & M. Ioannidou.
Congrats to all involved!🎉
Link: tinyurl.com/4s5mwdht

Kayaca, a new vertebrate locality from the Upper Miocene of Türkiye and its importance for the Turolian biogeography of the eastern peri-Mediterranean region - Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironment... We present here a new Upper Miocene vertebrate locality, Kayaca, from the Beyağaç Basin in southwestern Türkiye that was discovered after surface survey and was subsequently systematically excavated. ...

Our article on Kayaca, a new Miocene locality in Turkey, is now out in the Senckenberg journal Paleodiversity and Paleoenvironments! Congratultions to George Konidaris, Ahmet Aytek and the whole team!
The first result from this wonderful collaboration ✨🎉
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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

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Congratulations to George Konidaris on successfully completing his #habilitation! A major milestone and well-deserved recognition of his academic dedication and expertise. ✨️👏🏻🎉
#PrivatDozent

New Dr. on the block! 👩‍🎓 Huge congrats to Dr. Stella Kyrikou on successfully defending her PhD on paleoenvironmental research in the Megalopolis Basin! ✨️👏🏻 Well done! 🎉

#PhDDefense #Paleoenvironment #MegalopolisBasin

What an amazing and packed week! Had an absolute blast at #EAVP2025 in Krakow. I also had the chance to present my latest updates on the dentition of #Ouranopithecus 🐵🦧 Huge thanks to all the organizers! ✨🙏🏼 @eavpalaeo.bsky.social
#Paleontology

It was fun participating in the Science Day of our Faculty yesterday with team members Frini Roditi and Stella Kyrikou! We enjoyed presenting our poster on paleoclimate reconstructions of the Middle Pleistocene Megalopolis Basin (Greece) 😎

Small flakes for sharp needs: Technological behaviour in the Lower Palaeolithic site of Marathousa 1, Greece Marathousa 1 (~430 ka BP), located in the Megalopolis Basin, Greece, represents the earliest documented butchery site in the Southern Balkans, providing clear evidence of a direct association between ...

Congratulations to PhD student Dalila DeCaro for the publication of her paper on the Marathousa 1 lithics at PLOS: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...!

Well done Dalila!!

Muzeum Przyrodnicze Instytutu Systematyki i Ewolucji Zwierząt PAN w Krakowie · Świętego Sebastiana 9, 31-049 Kraków, Poland ★★★★★ · Museum

🎉 Welcome to #EAVP2025! LET THE FOSSIL FUN begin!
Check-in (today only): Museum of Natural History ISEA PAS (Św. Sebastiana 9; maps.app.goo.gl/XA5mPrdVdz6Y...)
See you soon! #Palaeontology

Happy #FossilFriday from the TSR locality (Greece): a horse calcaneus, a carnivoran metapodial and a long bone shaft fragment, possibly leftovers from a Pachycrocuta brevirostris, the giant #hyena of the #Pleistocene! 🦴🐾🐺

Curious for more? See Katsagoni et al. (2023)⬇️
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Exciting week ahead! 🦴🛠 Paleontological #excavations kicked off this Monday at the TSR locality (Lower Pleistocene) in Greece - a joint effort between Uni Tübingen and Uni Thessaloniki. 🙌🏻🙏🏼 Stay tuned for some exciting discoveries! 👀✨️🦴

So nice to be back in Nairobi with the team working in the Museum after many years!

It was a pleasure to deliver a lecture on humanity's African origins as part of the special exhibit 'Planet Africa – Eine archäologische Zeitreise' at the Archäologische Staatssammlung Museum in Munich. Wonderful public, a full house and lots of questions! I look forward to the next time 🤩

PhD position in Virtual Anthropology Group - HEAS The Virtual Anthropology group at University of Vienna (Prof. Gerhard Weber) is now offering a position as a Ph.D. candidate (PraeDoc) in the area of 3D dental morphology. The position is funded by th...

#JobFairy #PhD #Anthropology

A PhD position in the Virtual Anthropology Group at @univie.ac.at with #HEASVienna member #GerhardWeber is now available.

More information and details on our website 👇🔗

🎉Exciting times ahead for @elmanubohn.bsky.social, Michael Franke, and me! We will soon be advertising 2 PhD positions (linguistics/biology/psychology) for our SFB subproject "Modeling Great Ape Signaling Behaviour" 🧮 🐵 Stay tuned!

🚨 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.

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Very proud to be part of this extraordinary team! What a time to be working and living in Tübingen ⚒️🐵🦧🦴💀

A great success for archaeology and human origins research in Germany 🥳 Two clusters of excellence to be funded for (another) 7 years. Congratulations to @clusterroots.bsky.social, @uni-kiel.de, @unituebingen.bsky.social, @harvatilab.bsky.social, @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social @ctennie.bsky.social!

Das Bild zeigt einen Brunnen vor der Neuen Aula. Darunter der Text: Sechs Exzellenzcluster werden in Tübingen gefördert.

Die Universität Tübingen erhält sechs #Exzellenzcluster, die im Rahmen der #Exzellenzstrategie vom 01.01.2026 an sieben Jahre lang gefördert werden! Darunter drei Cluster, die bereits etabliert sind und eine erneute Förderung erhalten. uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... #ExStra #Forschung #UniTübingen

Great news for #archaeology and #HumanEvolution research in Germany. The Excellence Cluster @clusterroots.bsky.social at @uni-kiel.de was extended and @unituebingen.bsky.social got a new Cluster funded @harvatilab.bsky.social. Seven years of 💶, positions, infrastructure building and science ahead.

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ESHE European Society for the study of Human Evolution

#ESHE2025 registration is still open! ✍️ Few spots left for the dinner & excursion. The deadline for abstract submission is May 14th: www.eshe.eu/abstract/