Amanda G. Henry

Great news Frodo, Congratulations!!

🚨 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...

ESHE European Society for the study of Human Evolution

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/

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

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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

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.

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/?

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

Reviewers for #NIH #grants, stop reviewing.

Happy Birthday Mary Leakey!

#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"

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

See 6th paragraph here.

Screenshot from "Letter from our correspondent" in "Papua New Guinea Courier"

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

Best grant writing advice I ever received:

"Write your proposal as if someone from a completely different field will search through it looking for 100 banned words"

You might find good resources here: www.diamondopen.com/journals-list/, and there's also a list specifically for archaeology (though with some anthro overlap) here: diamond.open-archaeo.info

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Some important statistics and information for those thinking about submitting to the PaleoAnthropology journal.

PaleoAnthropology has a >20 year-history as a community owned, diamond open access, peer-reviewed journal.

No fees, no subscription.

We look forward to your papers!

Diamond open access model means that publication in scientific journal is free for both readers and authors. No APCs = equal publishing, but also no profit = need for external funding. There are relatively few diamond OA journals, and some of them (including GHSP) were funded by USAID.

Hey, that's my article, cool!

Why Are Hospitals Bowing to Trump’s Illegal Gender-Affirming Care Ban? The president doesn’t actually have the power to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth. So why has Children’s National “paused” certain forms of care?

FINALLY someone explaining EOs are 👏🏻 not 👏🏻 laws!!! As someone who has worked on EOs, this groveling to THINGS THAT ARE NOT THE LAW is bizarre. “While it’s true the order says that, that does not actually change the legal status of prescribing these treatments.” newrepublic.com/article/1910...