“vocal production learning [in birds], through imitation and innovation, can shape a vocal signal differently at different levels of its structure and maintain vocal polymorphism, a process reminiscent to what is proposed for language evolution” nice birdsong study @lecd-upn.bsky.social 🧪

He's one of the few guys who make us proud to be British!

'Carrying on years of British tradition by playing punk music ...why have the Dept of Education gone to war against us?!'
Bob Vylan crew have never been charged. One Radical Anthropologist HAS been charged as a terrorist (unlawfully).
See great film by DDN...

Fantastic!

War ecologies and their seductions: an introduction How can we engage ethnographically with the often overlooked toxic and explosive effects of war and their harmful, frequently multi-generational, legacies? The oversight is notable because war wast...

How can we engage ethnographically with the often overlooked toxic and explosive effects of war and their harmful, multi-generational, legacies? This OA Introduction traces some possible coordinates @multispecies.bsky.social @ceobs.org @militaryemissions.org www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Meet the 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners Six environmental activists from around the world will be awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize on April 20. Known as the “Green Nobel Prize,” the Goldman Prize honors activists from the six…

Six women have been awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for 2026. This year’s winners secured major victories against fracking in Colombia, oil projects in the U.K., and mining in Papua New Guinea.

Their work proves that local action can drive global environmental justice.

Get to know them!

I'm so honored to have received this award in memory of Frans de Waal for my PhD thesis! His work (and briefly working with him) truly shaped my scientific thinking and research.

@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

The 13.3% waxing crescent and Orion Nebula on Monday evening.

"joy is resistance, community is resistance, and you know what, dancing is resistance"

www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/20/gre...

Start as you mean to go on!

New genetic evidence from Stajnia Cave reveals the oldest Neanderthal group reconstructed in Central-Eastern Europe An international study published in Current Biology presents the results of the analysis of ancient mitochondrial DNA obtained from eight Neanderthal teeth discovered in Stajnia Cave, Poland.

Genetic analysis of Neanderthal teeth from Stajnia Cave provides the earliest reconstruction of a Neanderthal group in Central-Eastern Europe, offering new insights into their population structure.

What function did ~100k-year-old engravings from Blombos Cave & Diepkloof serve? Decoration, identity marking, proto-writing? osf.io/preprints/ps... uses transmission chains + cognitive experiments to find out & help answering one of the hardest questions in cognitive archaeology. long thread! 1/

This looks really interesting too on childhood collaborative reasoning as key to each other's perspectives

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The 6.1% waxing crescent, and my rookie mistake with new camera, my moon is out of focus. 😅
I only had a little more than a minute to take the pics before it set behind the trees.

My first Milky Way with Nikon D7200.
How I wish we have power outage during clear night again. I'm so curious with the result.

Processing colouring materials during the Upper Palaeolithic: Evidence from Parpalló Cave, Gandía, Spain In recent years, research has focused on the characterisation of pigments used for the production of cave art in Upper Palaeolithic contexts. In contr…

we present the first results of the use-wear analysis of pigment processing tools found at Parpalló Cave, Gandía, Spain. This site has yielded one of the most important collections of Palaeolithic portable art....

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Processing colouring materials during the Upper Palaeolithic: Evidence from Parpalló Cave, Gandía, Spain In recent years, research has focused on the characterisation of pigments used for the production of cave art in Upper Palaeolithic contexts. In contr…

we present the first results of the use-wear analysis of pigment processing tools found at Parpalló Cave, Gandía, Spain. This site has yielded one of the most important collections of Palaeolithic portable art....

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Parpalló Cave a rich source of complex #ochre processing
'artefacts used to process colouring materials, such as grindstones, palettes, containers, and other ochre-stained artefacts from Upper Palaeolithic contexts have rarely been the primary focus of systematic studies. ...we present the first […]

No evidence that hominin dispersal across Eurasia was part of a wider turnover in mammal distributions - Nature Communications Hominin dispersal out of Africa may have corresponded with exchanges of other fauna out of Africa. Here, the authors examine taxonomic and functional similarities in Eurasian and African fossil communities across 10 million years, finding no evidence of changes associated with faunal dispersal waves or hominin perturbations.

'Our results indicate that hominin dispersals from Africa to Eurasia during the Plio-Pleistocene were not part of a larger faunal expansion'

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-71648-w

3 diagrams showing dating of cultural evolutionary developments in a) structuring of space b) body culturalization c) information storage

The most interesting paper of the Royal society collective intelligence isdue.
'Scaffolding minds: Human collective intelligence through space, body and material symbols'

https://t.co/mYDNWUiYok

Strait of Hormuz crisis should catalyze African biofertilizer production (commentary) In early mornings across rural Kenya, as the long rains approach, farmers are already at work. Fields are being cleared, seeds checked, and planting plans quietly rehearsed. But this year, alongside…

[COMMENTARY] Tensions in the Strait of Hormuz expose Africa’s reliance on imported fertilizer.

Susan Chomba argues this crisis should catalyze local biofertilizer production to secure the continent’s food future.

Read the full article! 👇️

*The views expressed are those of the author.

Can nature outcompete war in Eastern Congo? In eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, discussion of conservation often centers on loss: forests cleared, wildlife depleted, conflict spreading across landscapes that once supported some of the ...

Interesting insights into the most difficult and dangerous conservation job. I knew him as a PhD student. Really dedicated even then. news.mongabay.com/2026/04/can-...

Volume 381 Issue 1948 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal Society Influential themed journal issues across the life sciences.

Phil Trans Roy Soc B theme issue ‘The evolution of collective intelligence’ is out! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

Children at an Edinburgh hospital painted pebbles for the penguins at Edinburgh Zoo and will be able to watch them choose and present them to their mates via livestream.

#SundayMorning

Exploring matrilocality in history: insights from ancient DNA | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core Exploring matrilocality in history: insights from ancient DNA - Volume 8

Exploring matrilocality in history: insights from ancient DNA | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Ancient teeth reveal clues to the environment humans’ early ancestors evolved in millions of years ago Through fossilized tooth enamel, scientists are reconstructing the diets and landscapes that existed millions of years ago. We really are what we eat.

The ancient environment of #hominin ancestors as evidenced in fossil teeth. (And it's not dry savannah!)

theconversation.com/ancient-teeth-reveal-clu...

Genetic clues tell the story of Neanderthals' decline — New Scientist The Neanderthal population shrank during a cold spell around 75,000 years ago, and the loss of genetic diversity may have contributed to their eventual extinction

More interesting genetic insights into the dwindling of the Neanderthals - with their population contracting during an ice age, rallying again, before they finally disappear (some having blended into the expanding modern human population)
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Link for special issue on 'collective intelligence'
royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...?

‘Such a mix of people’: Ireland of 1926 was not monocultural, release of census shows Archive is freely available online from 18 April, revealing the lives, occupations and secrets of 2.9m people

The 1926 Irish National Census has been digitised and is being made available online from today - a treasure trove for researchers and for families!
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Rhinoceros teeth of El Castillo and Pech de l’Azé II with traces related to anthropogenic origin. (For interpretation of the references to color in this figure, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)

Elucidating the use of rhinoceros teeth by Neanderthals:
Between experiments and the fossil record🏺🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This is the first in-depth multidisciplinary investigation into the potential use of rhinoceros teeth by Neanderthals.