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Marta Mirazon Lahr

@martamlahr.bsky.social

Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology & Prehistory @CamBioanth @UCamArchaeology - interested in #science, #humanevolution, #prehistory, #palaeontology, #bones #lithics, #fossils, #climatechange, #museums, #collections Can get distracted by much more 😍

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Fascinating @ameliebeaudet.bsky.social ! I wish I’d been there to listen & learn!

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Post Doctoral Research Assistant - 1160-25 Thinking of the next step in your career? Take a look at our exciting new role, Post Doctoral Research Assistant based at our Other. Find out more and apply he…

I'm hiring! 4 year post doc on my Wellcome Trust grant -- come be inventive about isotopes in teeth with me in PPN Turkiye :) www.lancashire.ac.uk/jobs/post-do...

please share!

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Thank you Sarah !

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Thank you!!

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thank you!

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Thank you Clement!

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Thank you 😁!!

13.10.2025 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you 😍!!

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Today was the ceremony for new fellows at the #BritishAcademy - it was wonderful 🀩. I am thrilled and so grateful to the colleagues who nominated me, elected me, and the many colleagues, students, friends, our kids & family, & specially Rob 😍 who have so enriched my life and career ❀️

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And what a woman 🀩!!
Hugs to you fab @profaliceroberts.bsky.social 😘

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Early career group leaders We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.

The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders

- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology

Deadline 27 Nov

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

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Darwin-Hamied Senior Research Fellowship (stipendiary) in the Social Science of Biodiversity | Christs College Cambridge

Five-year research fellowship, based at Christ's College, Cambridge, for working at the intersection of biodiversity science and economics.
www.christs.cam.ac.uk/darwin-hamie...

10.10.2025 10:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Full Professorship(s) in Archaeology - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University

Are you going to be our new colleague at @au.dk @auarcher.bsky.social? Full professorship in #archaeology, deadline November 9.

international.au.dk/about/profil...

09.10.2025 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

PhD-opening in our ancient genomics lab this year, apply below!

We work on:
πŸ“œ Genetic history integrated with archaeology and history
πŸ“ˆ Natural selection and trait genetics
🐺 Evolutionary genomics of dogs and wolves
🦠 Ancient pathogen genomics
πŸ’€ Hominin evolution and ancient proteomics

09.10.2025 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

BioAnth friends--I have an awesome student looking for field school or research opportunities for this Winter or Summer in Primatology, Paleoecology, or Paleoanthropology--I know the typical programs, but please let me know if you know of any programs accepting students!

09.10.2025 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Assistant Professor in Paleontological Vertebrate Evolution The School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) and the Department of Ecology,Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers University-New Brunswick invite applicants for atenure-track positio...

Position right next door for vert paleo!
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...

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Last week I matriculated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge to start my NERC-funded (CREATES DLA) PhD in Archaeology!

@caiuscollege.bsky.social
@cam.ac.uk
@cam-archaeology.bsky.social

06.10.2025 10:50 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Do you know anyone with an interest in pursuing a PhD studying the genetics, development, and evolution of skeletal morphology and life history? If so please encourage them to apply to work with me through any of the University of Illinois' EEB or PEEC programs. 1/4 πŸ§ͺπŸ¦·πŸ¦΄πŸ­πŸ’

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Bayesian analyses of radiocarbon dates suggest multiple origins of ceramic technology in Early Holocene Africa Nature Communications - Several possible points of origin have been proposed for the spread of ceramic technology in Saharan Africa between 11–10,000 years ago. Here, the authors...

⚠️Paper Alert!⚠️
Excited to share this paper with @roccoro.bsky.social where we examined whether ceramic technology in Saharan Africa was the result of a single or multiple episodes of innovation & diffusion
rdcu.be/eJi3g

03.10.2025 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Wounda's Journey - Jane Goodall Witnesses Release of Chimpanzee Into New Island Sanctuary Site
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 β™₯️

If only we could find the will to stop destroying the extraordinary natural world around us...

youtu.be/ClOMa_GufsA?...

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Evidence potentially supporting human-driven extinction of American megafauna by refuting one of the most commonly-cited (and tired) "climate-only" extinction talking points

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The world has lost one of the biggest figures in Anthropology, Biology, and Conservation to have ever lived. Science will be an emptier place without her, and I can only take solace in knowing that she has inspired entire new generations of researchers who will continue her work. Rest in peace, Jane

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Jane Goodall, conservationist and chimpanzee expert, dies aged 91 The Jane Goodall Institute says famed primatologist died in California during US speaking tour.

😒❀️
aje.io/zp6gdr

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A photo of the Susan Welch Liberal Arts building at sunrise

A photo of the Susan Welch Liberal Arts building at sunrise

πŸ“’ Come join us! Penn State Anthropology is hiring *two tenure-track assistant professors*, one in human reproductive ecology and one in archaeology. Here are just a few reasons why working at Penn State is awesome:

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The Last Glacial Maximum in the Tropics: Human Responses to Global Change, 30–10Β ka - Journal of World Prehistory The world at 18,000 BP, published by Gamble and Soffer (The world at 18,000 BP. Vol. 2: low latitude, Unwin Hyman, 1990), represents the first, and so far the only, attempt at characterising and discussing the impact of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) on human societies on a global scale. At the time, they highlighted that research and data on the LGM in southern latitudes and the tropics in particular were scant. Since 1990, however, many sites dated to the LGM and located in tropical latitudes have been published. Many paradigms have changed regarding the peopling of the Americas, which allows the archaeology of this continent to be integrated into global scale studies of the LGM. The development of Pleistocene archaeology in tropical contexts, in parallel with methodological advances in cultural, geosciences and palaeoenvironmental studies have strongly reshaped what we know of the antiquity of human occupation in tropical regions and specific human–environment interactions. This article provides for the first time a pan-tropical perspective on the impact of the LGM on human groups living within the tropical latitudes, drawing from case studies in Southeast Asia, Africa and South America, specifically regions which have up until now never been discussed together. To this end, we focus on six different tropical regions between 30 and 10 ka. We present the archaeological and paleoenvironmental data available in these areas, along with proposed relationships for variations in these two records. Finally, we discuss at the regional scale the presence or absence of human changes (site density and techno-cultural change or continuity) before, during and immediately after the LGM.

πŸ“£New paper alert

doi.org/10.1007/s109...

How did populations in tropical regions cope with the global climatic change around the LGM?

While the tropics are often perceived as having been less impacted by the LGM, we show that -as is often the case - it is more complex than it seems!

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PaleoantropologΓ­a: novedades 3er trimestre 2025 Este trimestre que cerramos ha venido cargado de novedades: nada menos que 49 trabajos recopilados, que muestran cΓ³mo este campo sigue despertando interΓ©s, tanto en la comunidad cientΓ­fica como en …

πŸ”₯ PaleoantropologΓ­a: resumen de novedades publicadas en el tercer trimestre 2025

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Gracias! Siempre util, pero particularmente el resumen del tercer trimestre, ya que muchos estamos en campo y es dificil mantenerse al dia de lo que se publica 😍

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World Heritage Officer in Dorchester | Dorset Council View details and apply for this World Heritage Officer vacancy in Dorchester. Join a passionate and collaborative team at the heart of Dorset's environmental and heritage work. As part of the Dor...

AMAZING JOB ALERT!!! Dorset Council are recruiting a World Heritage Officer to support the management of the Jurassic Coast! Would suit an Earth Science graduate with an interest in digital comms and content: deets here: www.jobs.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/vacancies/32...

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Monumental rock art illustrates that humans thrived in the Arabian Desert during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition | Nature Communications Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

Our new paper is out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 12,000 year old camel engravings marked water sources in the desert. A great team effort @mdpetraglia.bsky.social @finnstileman.bsky.social @stewiestewart.bsky.social et al!

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