Good point!

this would have been Neanderthals favorite wine brand

Did Your Female Ancestors Fancy Neanderthals? YouTube video by Origins with Bridget Alex

Want to know more about sex between Neanderthals and Stone Age Homo sapiens? Watch my latest video: youtu.be/aUDUliwmiTY?...

Great pop-sci article written by a student in my Harvard science writing course: archaeology.harvard.edu/news/2026/04...

The eating what baby didn’t dinner

How I’ve spent my past two hours somehow … video coming soon youtube.com/@originsbrid...

Adding to syllabus!

Playing hooky today to catch a noon showing of Project Hail Mary

Sure! Will you DM or share your email and I’ll send.

Happy Iranian New Year! سال نو مبارک

Origins with Bridget Alex Trailer YouTube video by Origins with Bridget Alex

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I’m launching a YouTube channel! Stayed tuned for cool content about our shared human past.

Anyone else in the eat what baby tosses to the floor diet?

Surprising partner preference found in matings between Neanderthals and modern humans Male Neanderthals tended to pair up with female modern humans, but whether intercourse was consensual is unclear

Wrote this! Maybe answers a question we've long had: did male and female Homo sapiens partake in sex with Neanderthals? www.science.org/content/arti...

The dreaded 2-4 pm span. Too late for coffee, too early for alcohol.

The skill I’m most proud of: always swiftly returning my equipment and exiting a group exercise class, long before there’s a human traffic jam of people trying to put stuff away

New article! "Changing the Landscape of Archaeological Publishing" in Current Anthropology, by a giant collaborative group of coauthors fearlessly led by Jess Beck and including @bridgetalex.bsky.social @benmarwick.bsky.social @christinawarinner.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

I coauthored the part on media coverage! Check out Table 2, a framework for weighing risks/rewards of different levels of media engagement by scholars: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

I’ve seen babies do happy baby, but never once a child do child’s pose

Asked my 1 year old to get the monkey from this line up. She handed me the chimp. Might give her a pass.

To help me with chores this morning baby put my phone in the dish washer

The joy of going to uncork a wine bottle and realizing it’s twist off

‘Washington Post’ Publishes Editorial Defending FBI Raid On Its Reporter WASHINGTON—Saying that despite recent events, it would do everything in its power to continue obscuring the truth, The Washington Post published an editorial Thursday defending the FBI’s recent raid o...

‘Washington Post’ Publishes Editorial Defending FBI Raid On Its Reporter

Can anyone buy a baguette without immediately biting the end off?

Submitted an op-ed to Washington Post. They said they were interested but only if we cut 1 of the 3 coauthors from the by line. Huh. (We said no)

barreling toward oblivion, we are

maybe the most rewarding comment I've ever received on a course evaluation: "This course completely changed the way that I thought about myself as a human."

Fossils point to common ancestor of modern humans, Neanderthals Bones from a Moroccan quarry belonged to a hominin that lived when the human lineage was splitting

My, what a fine geomagnetic reversal. Wrote about more stuff from Middle Pleistocene www.science.org/content/arti...

Drugs have always been a boogeyman used to justify imperial intervention and resource extraction in Latin America.

I'm an anthropologist with a PhD in this subject, I made a video to explain the context: youtu.be/O7njXhwtuBA

2:1 odds this so called toy someone gave my baby is going to murder me

The Taste of Prehistory The Taste of Prehistory: Three recipes our Neanderthal cousins might have enjoyed.

along with some imagined Neanderthal recipes: nautil.us/the-taste-of...