Yes, do it! The team behind it is also v helpful

Some Meso datasets are also here analytics.huma-num.fr/archeoviz/ho..., plus it’s an awesome package/gui for actually analyzing such data, too

Wish I could be there!

That goes straight on my birthday wishlist.

This sounds really interesting - keep us (me!) posted!

It’s so lame right? I mean ❤️ democracy but some of these campaigns…!

Dann right!

I wrote an essay on Australopithecus in my first or second semester at uni. I seriously misspelled it throughout but still got an A - look at where that got me...

That looks SO interesting!

🚨Job alert!🚨 The Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS announces 2 junior Professor (W1) positions:
A W1 Tenure track Professorship in Evolutionary Modelling (shorturl.at/FN102) and a W1 Professorship (non Tenure-track) in Primatology (shorturl.at/sH0Mk)
Deadline: April 6 2026! Please share! 🔄

A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.

Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels:

www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a...

Deadline: May 4th, 2026

We simply have to make our rondelle images spin in silico!

What a job - maybe the most awesome in the world?

If you are interested in cross-cultural analysis, play and human cognition do yourself a favor and reach this amazing post - and the preprint. I’m so chuffed to be part of this research!

Early sneak peek of an upcoming #Sidestone book on archaeological #types and #typologies I am co-editing with @felixthehauskat.bsky.social and Sébastien Plutniak. All chapters underwent open peer-review at @pciarchaeology.bsky.social - stay tuned. 🧪🏺

It’s rather brilliant! Make sure you watch it to the end.

For those biogeographers interested in these topics, consider joining @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social !

This morning, I’m at the biocultural geography session at #TIBS2026 - and it’s pretty awesome! Lots of cultural evolution and creative transfer of methods from biogeography to issues of linguistic and cultural evolution.

Excited to showcase the impressive work of @econovoau.bsky.social at #TIBS2026! Stop by to explore the posters by Xiao Huang (4002), @mattkerr.bsky.social (2010), Peter Yaworsky (2015 & 2017), Hanchen Shuai (1022), @cmlmagneville.bsky.social (4031), and @muditjoshi.bsky.social (1012)

Direct evidence for poison use on microlithic arrowheads in Southern Africa at 60,000 years ago Earliest proof of plant poisons on arrows reveals complex Pleistocene hunting in southern Africa.

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

60,000 year old arrow poison in S Africa (link in the thread 👇)! One random professor calls this find 'spectecular' in the @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/s...

The Royal Society Wolfson Fellowships, jointly funded with the Wolfson Foundation, are now open for applications. These fellowships enable UK institutions to attract international research leaders who wish to relocate. #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/royal-society-wol...

@mathildevm.bsky.social, check it out. Another (!) toy horse!

The rate of global sea level rise doubled during the past three decades - Communications Earth & Environment Global mean sea level rise amounted to 4.5 mm per year as a result of warming oceans and melting land ice, more than twice the rate of 2.1 mm/year observed at the start of satellite data in 1993, base...

The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

The Fate of Behavioral Modernity - Biological Theory Biological Theory - Over the past twenty years, empirical and theoretical advances have significantly reshaped the research agenda on “behavioral modernity” and its conceptualization....

Hey @andrameneganzin.bsky.social, this is such a great paper on why defining, capturing, and (most of all) analyzing the emergence of 'behavioural modernity' still is such an important topic link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Congrats.

Europe’s earliest blue mineral pigment? From the Palaeolithic, you ask?? Indeed - read it here first, now even fully paginated 👇

Exactly - the origin of many tech innovations lies in toys (=scale models)! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Record rains drive flooding in Vietnam, submerging ancient city Vietnam's weather agency has recorded its highest level of rainfall for a 24-hour period in the historic city of Hue.

Unprecedented rain. We're taking our climate outside the range our entire agriculture & trade based human civilisation has grown up in.

I think this site is ~400 to 1800 AD. It wasn't built for this.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Deadline extended to Nov 26!

Dear assessment committee would be a fine choice, I reckon - but that won’t be make or break!