Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias

Interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans was strongly sex biased Sex biases in admixture and other demographic processes are recurrent features throughout human evolution. For admixture between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans (AMHs), sex bias has been p...

Interesting study, and smart approach: "Interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans was strongly sex biased"

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in STEMM fields, at top institutions, and in senior positions. This study analyzes millions of biomedical and life science articles, revealing that f...

“Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review”

Definitely resonates...
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

The market for marriage - Works in Progress Magazine It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good agricultural surplus, must be in want of a wife.

“If marriage has a nature, it is to be reshaped to fit the world around it. In a world where many of the familiar constraints have disappeared, perhaps all that is keeping us together is love.” worksinprogress.co/issue/marria... fantastic piece on marriage systems by @olkcampbell.bsky.social

Glad that @science.org reposted our article from last year — there’s still a looooooooooooot we need to talk about as a community.

Spent my #WomenInScienceDay doing paperwork for yet another move (albeit one with conditions that are bit more compatible with family planning) 👩🏽‍🔬

The “I” in egalitarianism: Hadza hunter-gatherers averse to inequality primarily when personally unfavorable Abstract. Many economists contend that humans have strong, universal, other-regarding equality preferences with deep evolutionary roots. Indeed, many hunte

📢 New Paper 🚨

Hadza food-sharing is egalitarian, yet offers in giving games have never matched the equitable redistribution seen in real life.

In this study, we allowed people to give *or* take. Lifelike equitable distributions only appeared when people took from peers in surplus.

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For the ABM and networks enthusiasts: Special Issue of Social Networks on "Agent-based Modelling for Social Network Research" - co-ed by Andreas Flache, @squazzoni.bsky.social, Károly Takács and me

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Deadlines
Extended abstracts: 1 April
Full papers: 15 November

Extremely interesting study! And super relevant for some work I’m doing at the moment. However, our institution has lost access to PNAS 😕 any chance you could DM me a copy? Congrats!

Here's another exciting opportunity to join the ERC FORAGER team! This one is a 3-year postdoc on paleoclimate modelling with the fantastic Matt Osman here in @cam.ac.uk, with opportunity for synergies (pun intended 😜) with other team members in archaeology and zoology www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54411/

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...

I am looking for a PhD student to join my new Socio-Eco-Evo group, hosted in Katie Peichel's Evolutionary Ecology Division @ University of Bern. We're offering a fully funded 4-year position, studying social plasticity and behavioral adaptation among stickleback in Greenland. Please share around!

🚨 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 🚨

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

UCL is hiring a Research Fellow in computational phylogenomics. Positions for method developers and data analysts are available. Apply by 9 Feb 2026. Details: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?jobId=41139&jobTitle=Research+Fellow+in+computational+phylogenomics #postdoc

🚨 6th HAAM-RADIO Webinar
🌍 African Population Demography and Social Organizations of the Past
🗓️ Wed, 28 Jan 2026
Register here:
👉 forms.gle/FuBTTX4wreW4...

#AncientDNA #HumanGenetics #AfricanHistory #HAAM #Webinar
@abinstitute.bsky.social @cesarforteslima.bsky.social
@hildegunnink.bsky.social

PanAF Sessions The Local Organizing Committee is excited that almost 70 sessions and workshops will occur at PanAF Moz 2026. Pan-African Association members and non-members are welcome to submit paper abstracts t…

🚨CALL FOR PAPERS!🚨 @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social and I are running a session (S17) at PanAf2026 in Mozambique, titled: Pan-African Homo sapiens evolution: linking processes with data. More info: panaf2026moz.com/panaf-sessio... & submit an abstract: panaf2026moz.com/paper-submis... deadline March 15th

@mikleonardi.bsky.social

@oguzparasayan.bsky.social

Come next Wednesday! 🧬🧪

We are hiring – postdoc position exploring how kinship shapes social ageing in killer whales. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social and Prof Rufus Johnstone (Cambridge) starts 1st April 2026 and ends 31st March 2029. Apps close 2nd Feb. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ788/p...

Congrats!!!

🚨Two more days to express interest in presenting at our HAAM Radio Webinar on Africa @haam-community.bsky.social 🚨

PanAF Sessions The Local Organizing Committee is excited that almost 70 sessions and workshops will occur at PanAF Moz 2026. Pan-African Association members and non-members are welcome to submit paper abstracts t…

CALL FOR PAPERS ALERT 🚨 For the next PanAf2026 in Mozambique, we are organizing the session "Beyond the frontiers in Palaeoscience: renewing chronological, geoarchaeological, palaeolandscape and palaeoenvironmental approches to the African Pleistocene".

Feel free to get in touch if you want to discuss an abstract/ topic with us before submitting 😊

PanAF Sessions The Local Organizing Committee is excited that almost 70 sessions and workshops will occur at PanAF Moz 2026. Pan-African Association members and non-members are welcome to submit paper abstracts t…

🚨CALL FOR PAPERS!🚨 @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social and I are running a session (S17) at PanAf2026 in Mozambique, titled: Pan-African Homo sapiens evolution: linking processes with data. More info: panaf2026moz.com/panaf-sessio... & submit an abstract: panaf2026moz.com/paper-submis... deadline March 15th

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

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

Málaga Neandertal. Ruta por los orígenes de Málaga Este que presentamos es un libro divulgativo en el que confluyen una serie de trabajos científicos generados por varios grupos de investigación con.....

Libro descargable, muy bueno: "Málaga Neandertal. Ruta por los orígenes de Málaga" entorno.caminitodelrey.info/publicacione... Gracias por compartirlo, Pedro Cantalejo.

Accessible genomics training = career growth + representative workforce

Join our Jan 27 webinar to learn how education opens doors for paraprofessionals and builds a better workforce. Register now: https://bit.ly/3Kvl4Pg #ASHG #HumanGenetics #GeneticsEducation

We have put together this fantastic online event, and ECRs will have the chance to present their on work! Deadline for submitting short talks *14th of Jan*

(I also like their paraphrasing of your comments 😂) but yes, I’ve been listening to it for a while, and generally I like how they tease apart books like these

This episode is fantastic