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It has arrived, the day of the superb owl! Here's a 10,000 year-old eagle-owl talon, incised to be used an ornament. My team recovered it in a pit next to the burial of a newborn girl nicknamed 'Neve' at Arma Veirana, a cave in the Italian Maritime Alps. 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-02804-z

The emergence of cooperative behaviors, norms, and strategies across five diverse societies Children’s cooperative behaviors and norms develop along distinct cultural pathways shaped by local norms.

Very excited that this paper is out!
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Led by the fabulous @dorsaamir.bsky.social with invaluable contributions from many awesome collaborators.

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...

A plot from the wife's age at first birth to the end of her life showing the contributions to family energy production by her, the husband, and their children. Initially, with no children, all energy is produced by the couple. As children arrive and gain foraging skills, their total contribution to family energy production grows and then begins to decline at the age of menopause as they mature and leave the family. Mortality takes its toll as the parents age.

I was surprised by children's large contribution to family food production in my hunter-gatherer family simulation. Of course, they're eating most of this food, too! From this paper linking the evolution of menopause to family energy balance: menopause-preprint.wisp.place 🧪 #BioAnth

After the World Trade Center was attacked (just four miles from Trump Tower), more than 40,000 Canadians in uniform fought alongside their U.S. allies in Afghanistan.

More than 2,000 Canadians were wounded.

These 158 didn't make it home.

And now this guy is giving lectures on gratitude.

Fantastic! There's not much postcranial material known for Homo habilis or other early Homo species, so this is a very welcome addition to the record. Those are long forearms!

Have you ever wondered why human bodies and health look so different from one person to the next? Hi. I’m Dr. Alison Murray and I’m interested in how our evolutionary past and our everyday lives shape our bodies, our physiology, and our health. I grew up in Saskatoon, spent some time in the UK, and eventually made my way to Victoria, obtaining degrees in paleobiology, archaeology, and biological anthropology along the way. My research asks a simple core question with complicated answers: why do human bodies and health vary so much? To do this I study both archaeological and living people, including athletes like ultramarathon runners, rowers, and soccer players, to explore things like how physical activity across a woman’s life influences her bone health, how fetal growth and early life influences everything from our body fat to our organ function, why not just too little but too much exercise can be bad for health, how different bodies solve the problem of moving efficiently, and how having babies shapes aging at a cellular level. Investigating these types of questions involves a lot of collaboration across disciplines - from anthropology and aging research to mechanical engineering – with a central goal of challenging old evolutionary stories and rethinking why we are the way we are. I’m excited to share what I’m learning – let’s reimagine what it means to be human, together.

Have you ever wondered why human bodies and health look so different from one person to the next?

@uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

Canada-Impact-Plus - Research - Western University

🚀 Launched! Here’s our call for applicants to the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Program at @westernu.ca. This is a remarkable opportunity for us to recruit outstanding scholars who are currently working internationally:

www.uwo.ca/research/can...

Earliest evidence for intentional cremation of human remains in Africa The world’s oldest in situ adult funeral pyre (~9500 years old) shows complex mortuary behaviors among ancient African foragers.

I'm happy to have been able to contribute, even in a small way, to the work of this fabulous team 😀
Earliest evidence for intentional cremation of human remains in Africa | Science Advances share.google/wEZTImBqzBgY...

OMG this is a good catch. We wrestled with this a long time ago when setting up Slice Geometry. The correct way to set slice spacing (pixel spacing in z) from a DICOM is to use the slice position info (0020,1041 or 0020,0032) and divide by (stack size - 1). It can be out by not much or quite a bit.

Why is there no acetaminophen in the UK? Because the parrots et em all. (Posted with apologies, I have studied Dad jokes on both sides of the Atlantic)

Cave dig expands to learn more about hunter-gatherers Humans inhabited Malta 1,000 years earlier than previously thought

Nice coverage of our ongoing research timesofmalta.com/article/cave...

It's Official: NASA Is Giving Up on Climate Change Science In a major blow to climate science, NASA is not continuing its work studying global warming and will instead just stick to space exploration.

Gonna focus on terraforming Mars rather than not venusifying Earth.

futurism.com/the-byte/nas...

Western expands PhD and postdoc funding - Western News Western is boosting funding for postdoctoral fellows and PhD candidates from the U.S. and other countries with expanded and new award programs.

To attract top global talent, #WesternU is doubling the number of Postdoctoral Fellowship Program awards and launching the new US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Awards. #CdnPSE #HigherEd

Trump is changing direction on Canada again. The Digital Services Tax is critical to the protection of Canadian news media. Without our media, we are left naked to US digital news disinformation, including Elon Musk's far right X influence. This is a tech oligarch move against Canada's sovereignty.

Two PhD positions open! Deadline end of June! Apply now!

Aging isn’t a disease—it’s a journey. #WesternU researchers say we should focus on health span, not just lifespan, by optimizing how we age through connection, movement and mindset.

Read more in the @westernualumni.bsky.social Magazine: buff.ly/r2Ao3XI

Logo of the Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins: a handaxe with a glowing lightbulb inside the outline of a hominin brain

A permanent job here at @archsoton50.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social in #Palaeolithic Archaeology and/or #Palaeoanthropology 🏺🧪
Please share widely!
jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Ex-Canada MP scorches Trump: ‘A sexual predator’ doesn’t understand ‘no means no’ “You deal with the felon in charge from Mar-a-Lago and then we can talk about helping your farmers."

American senators coming cap in hand to Ottawa to say the "healing has begun" is simply not believable.
A convicted felon in Washington is still saying "never say never" about destroying our country.
We know what is at stake.
@meidastouch.bsky.social
www.nj.com/politics/202...

The comparative anatomy of the mammalian larynx at Anglia Ruskin University ARU on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - The comparative anatomy of the mammalian larynx at Anglia Ruskin University ARU, listed on FindAPhD.com

Here's a fantastic opportunity: A funded PhD in the comparative anatomy of the mammalian larynx, with a tuition waiver! Even better, the supervisors, Jake Dunn, Emma Pomeroy, and Tom O'Mahoney are all awesome peeps (am I aging myself with that term?)

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

JennI Byrne smiling in a MAGA hat

Never forget, this is Jenni Byrne, the Conservative Party of Canada’s top political advisor and Pierre Poilievre’s campaign architect and closest ally.

They’re not “conservative.” They’re not “right-wing.”

They’re MAGA.

Maple MAGA

Think about this.

Pundits today are saying that Pierre Poilievre’s biggest chance to win tonight is thru the “enthusiasm of the motivated young male voters…”

…who have been the specific target, and the primary success, of the massive cultural disinformation campaign coming from the United States.

Musk is enabling election interference against political parties he dislikes. He will keep doing it until governments stop him.

In @nature.com we report the presence of the Mesolithic on Malta - upending everything we knew about the seafaring capabilities of late European hunter-gatherers and pushing back Maltese prehistory by 1000 years. Watch the clip, link to open access paper is below. 1/5
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A blog post from me about our discovery pushing back Maltese prehistory to the Mesolithic, and discovering that hunter-gatherers were making epic 100 km sea journeys!
communities.springernature.com/posts/discov...

The Grey Lady isn't interested in this essay about race. Maybe you are.

Campaign poster from Society of Authors with green background and colourful drawn images of people with placards. Text: "Lisa Nandy #DoTheWriteThing and protect authors livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in Al Training. #MetaBookThieves"

📚 A decade on from my last job in academia, my current career is only possible because 1000s of people had faith in the power of human literature as a means to illuminate, connect, enchant.
Big AI companies stealing our work threatens that.
#DoTheWriteThing
#MetaBookThieves

Diagram highlighting the distribution and directionality of cutmarks on the Dingsishan human skeletons.

How far would you go to save space? Cutmarks on human bones from Neolithic Dingsishan 🇨🇳 suggest the bodies were intentionally disarticulated before burial. It may have been a way to transport the corpses, or to fit them into small burial spaces. 🏺

🔗 from 2024 (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

As a geneticist, I will not mourn 23andMe and its jumble of useless health information | Adam Rutherford Millions paid to give away their most personal data. At least in return they found out more about their earwax, says academic and author Adam Rutherford

In which a do not lament the decline of 23andMe.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...