Gopesh Jha

Classic Maya response to multiyear seasonal droughts in Northwest Yucatán, Mexico Stalagmite record reveals 1- to 13-year droughts in NW Yucatán from 871 to 1021 CE, a time of profound Maya cultural change.

Interested in #Maya history, #climate change, #stalagmites and #drought, and the #SYP autosampler? Read the latest in our detailed work on a sample from #Tzabnah cave! 😎 kudos to all our collaborators in #Mexico!
@andy-baker.bsky.social @mwclimatesci.bsky.social

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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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Hominins on Sulawesi during the Early Pleistocene - Nature Early Pleistocene artefacts at Calio suggest that Sulawesi was populated by hominins at around the same time as Flores, if not earlier.

Stone tools from Sulawesi at least a million years old may be even more ancient than those found on Flores, suggesting an even earlier presence of hominins on Wallacea www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations @nataliaeguez.bsky.social

From the archives:

Climate co-benefits of tiger conservation: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ancient DNA reveals genetic admixture in China during tiger evolution: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Youngest Toba Tuff (YTT) beds as a Late Pleistocene isochron in the Indian subcontinent? New geochronological and sedimentological insights The ~75 ka Young Toba super-eruption was a catastrophic extreme event that spewed vast quantities of volcanic ash and aerosols and is argued to have caused a drastic volcanic winter, climatic upheava....

Paper alert 📄

Led by Dr. Anil Devara.

That ~75,000-year-old Toba ash layer (YTT) in India? Our research shows it is not necessary if YTT is isochron! We found YTT at MVP (site) is significantly (40,000 years) younger than ~74ka mark.

Glad to be part of this work!

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A 150,000-year lacustrine record of the Indo-Australian monsoon from northern Australia Nearly two thirds of the world's population depend on monsoon rainfall, with monsoon failure and extreme precipitation affecting societies for millenn…

A 150,000-year lacustrine record of the Indo-Australian monsoon from northern Australia www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I love the title - cool paper!

Congratulations @martamlahr.bsky.social

So much to think about after "Not all that glitters is green" by Verónica Zuccarelli Freire. A powerful reminder that the costs of the energy transition are not shared equally, especially in the #Andes. True climate action requires environmental justice.

#ClimateJustice #IndigenousKnowledge

My inner self whispers,

"Incredible! This could be a living example of a 'primal throwback,' a manifestation of our ancient, arboreal instincts!"

I need a vacation! Probably after PhD🤔

Nós na Evolução | 5. Germinando a Amazônia Alô, Ciência? · Episode

Rethinking how #agriculture evolved. A new "We in #Evolution" podcast explores the sophisticated tech of #Amazonian gardens— a system of #exchange, #culture & #biodiversity, not machines. A fascinating listen.

Podcast features our very own, Laura Pereira Furquim

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Eighteen million years of diverse enamel proteomes from the East African Rift - Nature The isolation of dental proteins from fossils deposited 1.5 million to 18 million years ago in the Turkana Basin in Kenya, a tropical region, demonstrate the promise of dental enamel for palaeoproteom...

We published a new paper on enamel paleoproteomics from teeth up to 18 million years old from the Turkana Basin in Kenya. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Identifying late Pleistocene and Holocene refugia for baboons - Communications Biology Hindcasted species distribution modelling of baboons illuminates potential refugia across Africa and Arabia, with predicted maxima and minima of habitable ranges pulsed by orbital precession and obliq...

New paper alert! Led by @jblinkhorn.bsky.social, we look at refugia for baboons in the Pleistocene and Holocene, offering a potential analogue for early hominins where climatic tolerances are shared.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

300,000-year-old wooden tools from Gantangqing, southwest China Evidence of Early and Middle Pleistocene wooden implements is exceptionally rare, and existing evidence has been found only in Africa and western Eurasia. We report an assemblage of 35 wooden implemen...

300,000-year-old wooden tools from Gantangqing, southwest China 300,000-year-old wooden tools from Gantangqing, southwest China | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Interested in how ancient genomes are providing insights into the our evolutionary past? @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social and I are excited about the great program coming together for this meeting in London in November! Register now to join us!

Perspectives from the Global South on the Anthropocene" poster at SB 62 in Bonn was all about decolonising climate narratives and raising the Global South perspective. Here is a copy of our poster👉 unfccc.int/sites/defaul...

Here is an exclusive snippet from the ACE gallery, hats off to Veronica👏

Exciting news! 🌿 Dr. Verónica Zuccarelli Freire is attending the 13th Facilitative Working Group meeting (LCIPP—UNFCCC) as an observer, nominated by RINGO.

Next up: she’s heading to SB62 @ the Bonn Climate Conference to share our project at the UN Campus! ✨🌍

#ClimateJustice #IndigenousRights

Thrilled to share that our very own Veronica Zuccarelli Freire represented the @maxplanck.de as an observer at the 13th Facilitative Working Group (FWG) of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (LCIPP) from June 10-13! 🌍

Here are meeting highlights: lcipp.unfccc.int/sites/defaul...

Human Evolution 2025 - YouTube

Human Evolution 2025 Keynote lecture by María Martinón-Torres
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Pan-African metapopulation model explains Homo sapiens genetic and morphological evolution Emerging evidence has challenged the traditional view of a single-region origin for Homo sapiens, suggesting instead that our species arose and diversified across multiple geographically distinct popu...

🚨NEW PAPER from the @eegcam.bsky.social!🚨I have never been as proud of something as of the work that finally we can share today: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... - we show how a climatically driven Pan African meta population model explains our species genetic and morphological diversity 🧬💀

PhD students in STEM: Nature wants to hear from you Buried in lab work or drowning in data? Take a break and help shape the future of PhD education.

📣Calling all #PhD students everywhere in all #STEM fields, please take our @nature.com 2025 Survey (in 15 min or less)!

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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I like it: Cultural Mosaic Model.

Intriguing term "Non-Handaxe assemblage"

Such assemblages are big part of mid Pleistocene enigma. Southern Asia is filled with such variants that are significantly different from Classic Acheulian or levalloisian assemblages.

Neue Studie stellt Theorie des "vulkanischen Winters" nach Toba-Ausbruch in Frage Der Ausbruch des Vulkans Toba auf Sumatra vor rund 74.000 Jahren galt lange als die Ursache für einen jahrelangen vulkanischen Winter, der die Menschheit an den Rand des Kollapses gebracht haben soll....

More news coverage on our work!

#TobaTuesday #HumanOrigins #SouthAsia

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Postdoc opportunity at the University of Cologne, Germany, to support the ECOLITHIC project: A Radical Ecosystems View of Lithic Macro-Evolution!

ecolithic.uni-koeln.de/opportunities

Looking forward to our next MENDLS talk on Wednesday 14th of May with Prof Andrea Manica of the University of Cambridge @eegcam.bsky.social

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New Study Challenges ‘Volcanic Winter’ Theory After Ancient Toba Eruption

Another news piece on our recent paper.

"New Study Challenges ‘Volcanic Winter’ Theory After Ancient Toba Eruption"

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@aliceleplongeon.bsky.social introducing @mmartinont.bsky.social to open the #HumanEvo25 conference with a keynote lecture 🤩

‘East meets West’

Rapid flips between warm and cold extremes in a warming world - Nature Communications Rapid temperature flips between hot and cold extremes will become more frequent, more intense, and more rapid globally by the end of the twenty-first century, which is exacerbated in world’s breadbask...

New study by Wu et al. shows that rapid #temperature flips between #hot and #cold extremes will become more frequent, more intense, and more rapid under #GlobalWarming, with the world’s breadbasket regions and low-income countries being the most exposed. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ancient supervolcano eruption had surprisingly mild impact on climate Rather than a volcanic winter, the Toba eruption 74,000 years ago resulted in several years of warm and dry weather, geochemical evidence from India suggests

Our research led by @gopesh.bsky.social fails to show Toba volcanic winter drama on the ground. www.newscientist.com/article/2477...