Dr. Emma E. Bird

🚀 Postdoc Alert! Are you passionate about social learning & cultural evolution? @dominikdeffner.bsky.social & I have a 3-year position with freedom to develop your research and work on cutting-edge multiplayer and immersive experiments. Apply by March 30! hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni... Pls share 🙏

YouTube video by British Science Association Meet the scientists teaser 2026 | #SmashingStereotypes

It's almost British Science Week (6-15 March) and time for our annual (and biggest yet) #SmashingStereotypes campaign celebrating diverse people and careers in science, tech, engineering, and maths!

Meet this year's incredible scientists and get inspired:

youtu.be/PRXAMfXecb4

#BSW26 #NCW2026

🚨JOB alert🚨

We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol.

Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology

⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026
🙏Please circulate widely

😊Come join us!

Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc

UZH: Professorship for Evolutionary Anthropology and Primatology We are seeking candidates in the field of Comparative Evolutionary Anthropology and Primatology for the Irene Staehelin Endowed Professorship at the University of Zurich. This position focuses on the ...

🚨 Job Alert: Professorship in Evolutionary Anthropology / Primatology at University of Zurich, focused on understanding evolutionary and cultural evolutionary foundations of gender-based inequality and violence, with research in non-human primates.

jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

Biological Anthropology Research Associate 2 in New Haven, Connecticut, 06511 | Other at Yale University Apply for Biological Anthropology Research Associate 2 job with Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, 06511. Other at Yale University

Research Associate job.

👀 Post Doctoral Researcher - Osteoarchaeology (18mths/PT)

"This post is part of a Historic Environment Scotland-funded project to collate, record and disseminate the archive of a 1970s excavation of an important Pictish/Norse cemetery at Newark, Orkney ..."

www.uhi.ac.uk/en/staff/vac...

🚨MASTER AND SCHOLARSHIP ANOUNCEMENT🚨

The MSc in Human Evolution and Behaviour at University College London is a broad-based programme run by experts in the field. This year they are excited to share 2 bursaries for Home/UK students, and 1 for International students - based on financial need.

The ethical issues of gen AI are hardly limited to just scientific accuracy. There's also the IP theft, environmental damage, environmental racism, etc and so forth. There are so many good HUMAN artists out there, support them and the depictions will even look better, too.

Several exciting PhD opportunities here in the University of Vienna STEM-call. In our department fully funded positions in biomolecular zooarch, Pleistocene felid diversity and admixture, sedaDNA and popgen, and archsci and AMS 14C dating.
Apply below now!

careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/s...

Job alert in Malta on my ERC funded IslandLab Project for a post excavation research assistant. A bachalor's degree in Archaeology, or related fields is required, ideally with experience working on faunal assemblages and handling bones/fossils, and curating finds.
www.um.edu.mt/media/um/doc...

🚩Post-doctorat "biologie et taphonomie des fossiles humains du Paléolithique récent et du Mésolithique du Sud-Ouest de la France"
"Biology and taphonomy of Mesolithic and Upper Palaeolithic human fossils from the South-West of France"
contact bruno.maureille@u-bordeaux.fr

Research Fellow in Biomolecular Archaeology at UCL Searching for an academic job? Explore this Research Fellow in Biomolecular Archaeology opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

Job alert! 3 year post doc in my research group at University College London working on Roman Leather via biomolecular archaeology. #ZooMS #stableisotopes

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ187/r...

🚨 Job alert! The University of Tübingen announces a W3 (Full) Professorship in Early Hominin Evolution in the framework of the DFG Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS':

uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Application deadline: 11.03.2026 🚨

The surprisingly big health benefits of just a little exercise ‘Exercise snacks’ and other forms of everyday movement can greatly reduce the risk of heart disease and death.

How much exercise do you actually need?

go.nature.com/4q6KB02

We are looking for an enthusiast and motivated postdoc to join the Paleogenomics and Evolutionary Biology group at @liigh-unam.bsky.social, to lead a project working with human pre-hispanic samples. Interested candidates send a CV and letter of intent to fsanchez@liigh.unam.mx. Please #RT

We are delighted to announce our timetable of talks for Semester 2 of the 2025/26 academic year! 🥳🤩

As always, all of our talks will be streamed online and are open to anyone. Our first talk will be on the 12.02.26. More details will be released closer to the time.

We hope to see you there!

Excellently written article! vibed with my experience of doing a PhD

Two human skeleton displays on stands sit on a table in a museum or laboratory setting, surrounded by cameras, lights, and tripods, indicating a professional filming or documentation setup. On the table is a fossilised large elephant vertebrae and a Woolley mammoth jaw. Behind them are glass cabinets filled with skeletal specimens and a large screen on the wall.

More 👀Behind👀 the Scenes at the Natural History Museum, London - @nhm-london.bsky.social Filming a Middle Pleistocene straight tusked elephant from Swanscombe & Woolley mammoth from SE London - coming soon to 🌼Naturally Curious 🌼 www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...

Prehistoric tool made from elephant bone is the oldest discovered in Europe A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in southern England and analysed by archaeologists from UCL and the Natural His...

🐘 Prehistoric tool made from elephant bone 🦴 is the oldest discovered in Europe

New paper from Simon Parfitt @ucl.ac.uk IoA & Scientific Associate @nhm.org & Silvia Bello
Merit Researcher at the NHM

Read more via the links:
📲 bit.ly/45JQp8r
📚 bit.ly/3ZqKAsG

#LocalAndGlobal

A behind-the-scenes view of a video shoot in an anatomy lab, showing professional cameras, lighting equipment, and two human skeleton models behind a table of skulls.

LIGHTS💡CAMERA 🎥ACTION🎬
A new course on 💀 #Neanderthals 💀coming soon to the @nhm-london.bsky.social educational platform 🌼Naturally Curious🌼 www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...

I’ve tired with a few we’ve received. Twice in a row I received vile misogynistic and ageist abuse so I’ve just stopped replying. I don’t think they want to have a conversation, anyway.

👀 1 yr PDRA - The Fitzwilliam Museum: Opening up the past to transform our futures.

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

A leafy green houseplant in a pink ceramic pot sits on a bright windowsill. In front of it are four small pastel cups holding different legumes and seeds, including pistachios, lentils, broad beans, and mustard seeds, arranged on a white countertop.

First time trying experimental archaeology….. making a modern iteration of Neanderthal flatbread. Spelt, lentils, pistachios, broad beans, mustard seeds.

And then there was us In 1987, the academic conference ‘Origins and Dispersals of Modern Humans: Behavioural and Biological Perspectives’ was held in Cambridge, UK. Subsequently referred to as the ‘Human Revolution’ confe...

rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🚨new article alert 🚨 I’ve been sorting through historical documents on the development of the Out of Africa theory with @chrisbstringer.bsky.social - this is the fascinating BBC radio transcript about the 1987 Human Revolution conference #AcademicSky

Eating less ultraprocessed food supports healthier aging, new research shows Older adults whose diets consisted of only 15% ultraprocessed foods – rather than the usual 50% – had lower weight, insulin and cholesterol.

Eating less ultraprocessed food supports healthier aging, new research shows theconversation.com/eating-less-...

Museum of Stone Tools The Museum of Stone Tools is an online, open-access resource for learning about stone tools from all over the world.

Maybe I am late to the party... but I have just discovered the Museum of Stone Tools stonetoolsmuseum.com
Amazing 3D models from around the world.. how am I meant to get any work done now??
#StoneTools #HumanEvolution #AcademicSky

The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.

“Reclaiming academic publishing as a public good requires a return to not-for-profit models & sustainable open-access systems. Quality, accessibility & integrity need to be put ahead of profit. Change is needed to protect the purpose of academic research: to advance knowledge in the public interest”

🤚🏻 hiya I’d like to be added, please 😊

Fully funded PhD studentship here with @katerinad.bsky.social on palaeoproteomics. Apply below!

jobs.univie.ac.at/job/PhD-Stud...

A small dormouse sleeping on a tree log. It has light brown fur and its eyes closed.

Brr, it’s chilly outside! 🥶❄️

You might put an extra layer on to stay warm, but animals actually get a little more creative! Today, we’re looking at the fascinating ways animals survive the cold. ⬇️