David Gaitero Santos

The Medical Anthropology Student Association and Society for Medical Anthropology are collaborating with Wenner-Gren to host a Zoom webinar about applying to Wenner-Gren’s Dissertation Fieldwork Grant on Friday, March 27th, 2026 from 3-4:30pm ET. buff.ly/QlO3aQX

Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11.
www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...

Israel didn’t think Hezbollah would join the fighting at the current intensity, Israeli official said to admit * * *

Fantastic. No es podia saber.

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Sánchez responde a Trump: “No seremos cómplices por miedo a las represalias” www.eldiario.es/politica/san...

Diguem que el dretà bocamoll Tucker "m'han detingut a l'aeroport de Tel Aviv" Carlsson no és font de la meva devoció.

A 40,000-year-old mammoth figurine from Vogelherd Cave in Germany. Image credit: Universität Tübingen/Hildegard Jensen

40,000-year-old engraved geometric signs suggest Europe’s early hunter-gatherers used intentional sign systems—sequences as complex as early protocuneiform. A new window into the origins of symbolic communication. In:

Scientific American: https://ow.ly/WPNh50YoajF
PNAS: https://ow.ly/rZro50Yo9L5

Job alert: open position for a Professor or Associate Professor of Computational Genomics in Health and Disease at University College London.

Based in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment of UCL, and UGI, and funded by the UCL Health Strategy.

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... 🧪

Open positions

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Opening positions (1 Post-doc and 2 Engineers) in #Archaeology, #Paleoanthropololy, #Prehistory, #Statistics at Bordeaux University

Application information ⬇️

sciences-archeologiques.u-bordeaux.fr/gpr/jobs/off...

New #jobs at @uni-kiel.de within the @clusterroots.bsky.social advertised: one doctoral & two postdoctoral positions. The postdoc positions are for any projects relating to archaeological science and are explicitely looking for for applicants from Africa and Asia: www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-r...

Cada cop em temo més que estem patint (incrementalment) d'els errors de càlcul d'idiòtes incompetents -a banda de racistes supremacistes.

Incised stone artefacts from the Levantine Middle Palaeolithic and human behavioural complexity In recent years, archaeological research has demonstrated the presence of abstract non-utilitarian behaviour amongst palaeolithic hominins, fuelling discussions concerning the origin and implications...

Grabados realizados sobre cinco artefactos de cuevas levantinas de entre 54 y 100 ka:
Incised stone artefacts from the Levantine Middle Palaeolithic and human behavioural complexity

Wow. Let's be thankful she is in office. So many wise words.
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Civilians should never pay the price of military action, their protection is essential.

All parties to the conflict should respect international humanitarian law and prioritize the protection of civilians.

These truths are universal.

#Iran

La dreta tirant pel dret.

Terrible headline (this is NOT what the new research - link below - shows!), terrible AI image! Argh!
Here’s the actual research:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Where do I start?! 1/4

Unashamed miserables.
#resistfascism

Humans 40,000 y ago developed a system of conventional signs | PNAS As humans, we store and share information. This allows us to distribute knowledge necessary for survival and to coordinate large groups. Our homini...

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Schließung des Instituts für Archäologie an der HU-Berlin Die Archäologie gehört seit fast 200 Jahren zur wissenschaftlichen Tradition der Humboldt-Universität. Ihre Schließung bedeutet den Abbruch einer gewachsenen Forschungstradition und eine dauerhafte Sc...

Petition against the planned closure of Archaeology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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Watch: Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, four years in Russia expected Kyiv to fall in three days. Military experts said it was not a matter of if, but when. But we are now in 2026.

Russia expected Kyiv to fall in three days. Military experts said it was not a matter of if, but when. But we are now in 2026. #EuropeToday

Husband’s ‘physical and sexual violence’ caused wife to kill herself, UK court told Christopher Trybus charged with manslaughter of Tarryn Baird, rape and coercive and controlling behaviour A woman took her own life after being subjected to a campaign of “physical and sexual violence” by her husband, a court has heard. Tarryn Baird, 34, was found dead at her home in Swindon, Wiltshire, on 28 November 2017, after leaving her family a note that said: “I am so sorry but I just couldn’t take it any more.” Continue reading...

Husband’s ‘physical and sexual violence’ caused wife to kill herself, UK court told

‘A global hero’: Jesse Jackson’s legacy of activism around the world From opposing apartheid in South Africa to supporting Palestinian rights, the US civil rights leader left his mark across the globe

‘A global hero’: Jesse Jackson’s legacy of activism around the world

What have the Romans ever done for us!!? -Amazing find.

‘Psychological torture’: Spanish tenants fight back against housing ‘harassment’ Court in Madrid will soon decide whether developers are using construction to force people out of their homes

‘Psychological torture’: Spanish tenants fight back against housing ‘harassment’

Relooted: the South African video game where players take back artefacts from western museums Creators say they’re offering Africans a ‘hopeful, utopian feeling’ of retrieving objects looted by colonial armies

Relooted: the South African video game where players take back artefacts from western museums

Reading that on my phone and thinking "see, a book will never tell you to put itself down and pick up a phone", and I'm not sure if that reflects either how your phone tries to tell you what to do, that a book is more loyal to its kind, or my stupidity driven by childhood TV.

Just a few more days to submit your abstract! Do not miss this occasion to share you work with a dynamic pyroarchaeology community! 🔥

These atrocities in Sudan were entirely predictable. So why did the rest of the world fail to stop them? | Husam Mahjoub Western governments have put elite bargains before civilian lives. If El Fasher is to mean anything, this approach must change, says Husam Mahjoub, co-founder of Sudanese TV channel Sudan Bukra

These atrocities in Sudan were entirely predictable. So why did the rest of the world fail to stop them? | Husam Mahjoub

Objects as big as a protein can be in two places at once, experimental ‘Schrödinger’s cat’ suggests Quantum superposition is 10 times more massive than any observed before

Researchers have observed the most massive objects ever to enter a superposition, a quantum state in which the objects can potentially exist in multiple locations at the same time—smashing the previous record by a factor of 10. https://scim.ag/4tHNCGQ

US succeeds in erasing climate from global energy body’s priorities Trump’s energy chief had threatened to leave the International Energy Agency if it continued to focus on climate.

The United States has succeeded in removing climate change from the main priorities of the International Energy Agency, following a tense ministerial meeting in Paris that reflected a dramatic shift in political mood around the clean energy transition.

Credit cards cancelled, Google accounts closed: ICC judges on life under Trump sanctions Kimberly Prost and Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza vow US reprisals will not affect work of international criminal court

Credit cards cancelled, Google accounts closed: ICC judges on life under Trump sanctions