A fire rescue division chief shares how understanding human origins made her a better leader. How has your interest in human origins changed your perspective? We'd love to hear! @firefighternation.bsky.social www.firefighternation.com/fire-leaders...
2026 AABA and Leakey Foundation Communications and Outreach Award in Honor of Camilla Smith. Himani Nautiyal, Howard University. Dr. Nautiyal has been involved in research (as founder and director of the Himalayan Langur Project) and community engagement in the Garhwal Himalayas. She uses YouTube, Instagram, and documentary film to educate and unite science, traditional ecological knowledge, and visual storytelling to convey the realities of human–wildlife coexistence, conservation, and climate change.
Join us in congratulating our outstanding members who have received the prestigious AABA annual awards for 2026.
The 2026 AABA and @leakeyfoundation.org Communication and Outreach Award in Honor of Camilla Smith recipient is Himani Nautiyal!
Yuting Gao working in the primate collection in The Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum in Singapore.
Yuting Gao from the University of Colorado, Boulder is investigaing how oral microbiomes vary across primates and what evolutionary factors drive the variation.
Ellen Dyer kneeling in a green forest, wearing a backpack and dressed for fieldwork.
Ellen Dyer from the University of New Mexico is asking how access to social support affects stress responses.
Kévin Di Modica is touching a cave wall that has archaeological site flags marking significant spots.
Kévin Di Modica from Espace Muséal d’Andenne is investigating the earliest human settlements in North-West Europe with a focus on Belgium.
Maria Creighton in an open yellow grassland taking data on baboons.
Maria Chreighton from Duke University is exploring how sociality links to health and longevity in primates. (Pic by Susan Alberts)
Olayemi Ajayi working with a pipette in a lab. She's wearing a blue lab coat and sitting at a lab bench.
Here are a few examples of their fascinating projects: Olayemi Ajayi of The University of Cincinnati is studying how rainfall variation shapes gene regulation patterns in thick-tailed galagos.
Meet our fall 2025 research grant recipients! Thanks to our donors, we awarded grants to 30 scientists exploring fundamental questions about human origins, including 17 PhD candidates at the start of their careers.
Young Turkana herders guide camels across Kenya’s arid landscape near Lake Turkana at sunset.
Pastoralism remains central to survival in the Turkana of northwest Kenya, where heat and water scarcity pose constant challenges. New research uncovers the genetic signatures that underlie adaptation to arid living in this pastoralist community.
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🚨New Publication🚨
So happy to have this final chunk of my phd out, and the fruits of my @leakeyfoundation.org research grant 🙉
"arboreal, and especially suspensory, locomotion can be advantageous for foraging in a savannah-mosaic and not just closed forest habitats"
#phddone #womeninscience #wild
Three ancient human relatives once shared the same valley. Did they meet—and compete? www.science.org/content/arti...
Wrapping up my first month in Italy! From exploring collagen yields using NIR, to examining bone surface modifications, running modern specimens through the MALDI-TOF, and learning to interpret collagen signatures—it's been full-on.
@leakeyfoundation.org @National Museum, Bloemfontein
We're thrilled to support her and her work!
Congratulations to CASHP member, Joyce Waweru!
Congratulations to CASHP member, Sims Patton!
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Looking for research funding? Is your work relevant to understanding human origins? Our next deadline is July 15! Learn more and apply! #ScienceFunding #HumanEvolution leakeyfoundation.org/grants-schol...
🎉 Congratulations to the spring 2025 Leakey Foundation grantees! We'll be sharing more about these amazing scientists and their work as their projects progress. leakeyfoundation.org/introducing-...
We're very proud to support Emmanuel and to be part of his PhD journey!
My PhD student Emmanuel, co advised with @mcnultylab.bsky.social, is a Baldwin fellow 🎉🍾🙌🏽👏🏽! Thanks Leakey Foundation for supporting these talented scholars :-) learn more about Emmanuel’s work and background here: www.nievescolonlab.org/about-emmanuel
Congratulations to the new Baldwin Fellows, including 2 of my students, Penina Kadalida (c/a with Martha Tappen) and Emmanuel Ngetich (c/a with @mitopr.bsky.social)! Thanks to the @leakeyfoundation.org for supporting all of these students and their staunch support for Paleoanthropology!
We're thrilled to announce the 2025 Leakey Foundation Baldwin Fellows! Click through to learn about these 14 scholars and their exciting human origins research. leakeyfoundation.org/announcing-t...
Proud of UMich grad student Rosa Muñoz for being awarded an @leakeyfoundation.org grant for her dissertation research on "The evolution and psychology of possession in macaques." Congrats Rosa, and all the new grantees!
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Honored to be a Spring 2025 Leakey Foundation Research Grant recipient. I’m deeply grateful to the @leakeyfoundation.org for supporting research in human origins, and to my supervisor @naelnadifkasri-lab.bsky.social for the invaluable guidance and encourargement. leakeyfoundation.org/introducing-...
#Nakali🇰🇪 🦍⚒️🦴
Thrilled to be awarded a Research Grant from the @leakeyfoundation.org
I’m happy to count on a great team, some of them are on @bsky.app 👇🏽
@dmartinperea.bsky.social
@albavicente.bsky.social
Congratulations to the other amazing awardees 👏🏼
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We're thrilled to support her research, and we're excited about our stellar new cohort of grantees!
We're so proud to fund your research! Congratulations!
We're so proud to fund your work! Congratulations!
Second week is over. While first week focused on launching this season dig and field lab, second week led us to some rock art sampling, #ochre outcrop sampling, exciting finds on the dig 🤩 .
@justinpargeter.bsky.social with support of @leakeyfoundation.org and PAST.