Katerina Harvati

The EDCH at the CRaft-OA conference: 1. The EDCH: a collective for Diamond OA 2. The EDCH Training platform 3. The EDCH Registry and forum

Excited to kick off #CRAFT_OA2025 in Göttingen at the @craft-oa.bsky.social Conference!

The whole EDCH team is on its way, ready to share our work and connect with the amazing #DiamondOA community.

We have three sessions lined up – explore the full programme here: buff.ly/DOhyE5U 👀

🚂 Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne Signez la pétition maintenant !

Hier geht’s zur #Petition zur Rettung des #Nachtzug von #Paris nach #Berlin und nach #Wien!

Knapp 60.000 haben schon unterschrieben. Nächste Etappe: 75.000! 💪

Unterschreibt jetzt! Und teilt sie mit Euren Freundinnen und Freunden! 🙏

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

« Ils ont traîné la petite Greta [Thunberg] par les cheveux sous nos yeux, l'ont battue et l'ont forcée à embrasser le drapeau israélien. Ils lui ont fait tout ce qu'ils pouvaient imaginer, en guise d'avertissement pour les autres » www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

We can avoid the agonising wait for advances in women's healthcare Simply listening to the experiences of women with conditions such as endometriosis will help to end the long-standing inequalities they face when it comes to medical progress

Simply listening to the experiences of women with conditions such as endometriosis will help to end the long-standing inequalities they face when it comes to medical progress

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

Thrilled to have won the Student Poster Prize at #ESHE2025! 🏆 Grateful for the opportunity to share my work on Lebanese fauna and for all the inspiring conversations throughout the conference!

It’s a wrap! 🎉 Huge thanks to the organizers, members and everyone involved for making #ESHE2025 a success! 🙌 Special thanks to our Christina Siali for her wonderful work. 😊 And big congrats to Harmony Hill and Gabriel Russo for winning the student prizes! 🏆👏 See you next year in Burgos, Spain! ✨

A snapshot from Katerina Harvati’s podium presentation at #ESHE2025 earlier today! ✨️ Her talk: “Middle Pleistocene funerary ritual at Apidima? An examination of evidence.” ☠️🌍🪨

feel better Marta!! We miss you!

#ESHE2025
Katerina Harvati ‘Middle Pleistocene funerary ritual at Apidima? An examination of evidence’
2 homs– 2 dates: Ap2: >170 ka (NEA), Ap1 >210 ka (early H sapiens).
Could it be mortuary ritual instead (Otte 2020)?! NO.
Analysis of tapho, homs in fissure! no pebbles, no pigments 😀

And finally today, team members Gabriel Russo and Marya Soubra presented their latest work on sites in Lebanon at #ESHE2025 poster session! 🌍🐆🦴🐾 Congratulations to both! 🤗🤗

#ESHE2025 featured posters from our team members on Greek sites: Klissoura (Marciani et al.), Megalopoli (Roditi et al.), and Apidima (Lombardo et al.)! 🌍🦴🐵 They couldn’t attend in person, but their work was well represented. 👏

The #ESHE2025 poster session was on fire today! 🔥 Check out the great work from our team members Katerina Harvati, Laura Limmer, David Naumann, and Caroline Röding. 🤗✨ Huge congratulations to all authors and co-authors! 👏👏👏

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Watching online @katharv.bsky.social talk about Apidima at #ESHE2025 , extremely important and intriguing site: what is the taphonomic context of these two skulls of different ages?

Team member Majid Aljaber Abo Fakher kicked off this morning’s Pecha Kucha session at #ESHE2025 in Paris! His talk: “A strictly modern human trait? Tracing hypoconulid absence in first molars and its evolutionary implications.” 🦷🌍 Congrats, Majid! 👏🏻

Team member Melania Ioannidou presented her poster on Ouranopithecus macedoniensis at #ESHE2025! 🐵🐒🦧 Congrats, Melania! 👏✨

and on the Munich subway :-)!

„Fridays For Future“-Aktivistin Maria Papatheodorou: Sie malt über ihre Sorgen Maria Papatheodorou hat in Athen „Fridays For Future“ gegründet, jetzt greift sie in München in ihren Bildern die Sorgen vor dem Klimawandel auf.

So proud of my daughter Maria (www.instagram.com/ria.roz/) whose art - and activism - was featured in the Süddeutsche Zeitung yesterday😀😍✨

www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/mue...

Time flies and soon it will be time to close the Apidima excavation, after a very productive season!🔨👲

In the meantime, here's a Field Friday photo of the team in Cave D 😍
#fieldfriday #humanevolution #ERC

Dinosaur extinction can explain continental facies shifts at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary - Communications Earth & Environment Dinosaurs promoted open habitats in the Late Cretaceous, and their extinction could have led to a radical reorganization of the landscape and ecosystem structure at the beginning of the Paleogene, acc...

Out today in @commsearth.nature.com from some of my newest colleagues at UMMP: evidence that the extinction of dinosaurs led to fundamental shifts in terrestrial environments, and that this signal is recorded in facies shifts tied to the K-Pg boundary: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Why solar power is the only viable power source in the long run Not only is solar more than capable of supplying all the world’s energy, in the long term it is the only power source that won’t fry the planet

Not only is solar more than capable of supplying all the world’s energy, in the long term it’s the only power source that won’t fry the planet.

Last chance to apply!!

Excellent thread on what is going on at academic journals, from the perspective of an editor.

Clearly highlights the strain (direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...) caused by quantitative incentives, and that publishers cannot be allies in solving the mess -- they are part of the problem & profit from it.

We are also looking for to fill the managing director position for the new Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS at the University of Tübingen!

Please see below for English text and the link for the German advert.

Deadline: Sept. 15!
lnkd.in/gJZrvGnk

There is still time to apply to these great early career opportunities!!

Three Junior Research Group leader positions at the new University of Tübingen Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS' (in biomechanics, phenotype-genotype interactions, experimental archaeology - see links)

Deadline Sept. 10!

Overview of the distinct Denisovan populations that introgressed into modern humans.

A history of multiple Denisovan introgression events in modern humans🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Review of evidence suggests several Denisovan populations, who likely had an extensive geographical range, were adapted to distinct environments and introgressed into modern humans multiple times.

Humans inhale as much as 68,000 microplastic particles daily, study finds Particles are small enough to burrow into lungs, says report, with health impacts ‘more substantial than we realize’

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Very cool!

The 2025 excavation season is now officially underway at Apidima in Greece! ⛏️✨️
#excavations #fieldseason #Paleoanthropology

Human dexterity and brains evolved hand in hand - Communications Biology Thumbs and brains coevolved in primates. Across living and extinct species, longer thumbs predict bigger brains, highlighting the neural cost of dexterity.

New study led by Joanna Baker shows bigger brains and relatively longer thumbs coevolved in primates. Humans have huge thumbs, but only what our brain size (esp. neocortex) would predict. It’s NOT driven by tool use.

A fantastic paper with a huge amount of work, and superb data presentation 🧪🏺👍🧠💀🐒🦧