This is one of the most damning arguments against AI and one of the most damning indictments of the university admins who gleefully jumped on this bandwagon without once thinking about the long-term damage it might cause. Everyone should read this.

I am absolutely thrilled to announce that I have accepted the position of Independent Group Leader in Experimental Archaeology at the University of Tübingen! The program will focus on establishing a reference collection for taphonomic phenomena specific to Island Southeast Asia 😁

🐘🏝️🇮🇩🦴

#ESHE2025
Elizabeth Veatch ‘Behavioural complexity in Homo floresiensis reconsidered’
Did H floresiensis hunt & use fire? NO!
Tapho– Komodo Dragon prey bones fr Atlanta!
3D study of 3200 bones w marks fr Liang Bua: most match Komodo Dragons; a few actual c/m - scavenging.
🔥? ~10K rat bones 😳… NONE

Yes it is 🥰

We had a fantastic experience attending and presenting at #ESHE2025 for the first time. Even little Luca enjoyed the trip! Looking forward to attending next year 😁

New publication out today, on mammal endemism
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2025 Report: U.S. Science & Federal Funding Cuts How 300+ researchers are navigating federal funding cuts in science. This report reveals strategies, challenges, and what institutions are doing to stay afloat.

From postdocs to deans of research, over 300 researchers across 100+ institutions share how they’re navigating funding cuts and finding ways forward.

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Ancient human ancestor emerges from sunken Southeast Asian landmass Submerged fossils are revealing long-held secrets from a region known as Sundaland

Ancient human ancestor emerges from sunken Southeast Asian landmass | Science www.science.org/content/arti...

It’s been a week! Managed to spend some time in my favorite hobbit hole after 5 years of pandemic and childbirth 😁 Looking forward to the next 5 years of active fieldwork and lots of nasi goreng!

Sampai jumpa tahun depan 🫶

I know we could all use some good news right now, and I love Ice Age animals and Game of Thrones as much as the next person. But as someone who writes about evolution and extinction, ecology and conservation, for a living, I’ve gotta say this Dire Wolf hoopla is deeply problematic. A short thread 🧵🧪

The loss of a legend- Kanzi, the language-competent bonobo, has died age 44.
Kanzi was exceptional in so many ways and offered us profound insights into the linguistic & cognitive capacities of great apes. He has taught us so much and will be hugely missed.
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From EPA Staff: An Open Letter to the American Public • The Revelator “We cannot stand by and allow this to happen,” write current and former EPA employees. “We need to hold this administration accountable.”

From EPA Staff: An Open Letter to the American Public

-- republished today on @the-revelator.bsky.social from @ehnewsroom.bsky.social therevelator.org/epa-open-let...

Post from BioantTalks - YouTube List of Diamond OA journals: 1) Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris: https://journals.openedition.org/bmsap/ Palaeoanthropology http...

List of Diamond OA Journals in Bioanthropology:
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Today, I wrote two hearty result paragraphs and created two detailed figures from GIS all while being a full time solo parent of a three month old today 💪 time to get the baby some outdoor time and take a walk #StayAtHome #academicmom

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Coming back to work after maternity leave and it feels nearly impossible #AcademicMoms

Super cool research by @brianapobiner.bsky.social and team! Congrats!!

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Great work team! #Austronesian #ShellMidden #Pottery #Farming #Sedentism #Expansion #LiangBua

Additional evidence of cultural modifications of marine mollusks suggests that humans living at/around Liang Bua had strong cultural ties to the coast 🐚

The shell midden was comprised of mainly freshwater mollusks and is dated to between 4,400 and 3,300 years ago - with the majority broken at their apices indicating human consumption! 🐚😋

Through analysis of pottery and shell fragments, Agus and team show that pottery, which is often associated with Austronesian cultures at the time, was introduced at Liang Bua at ~3,300 years ago suggesting farming and sedentism 🐚🏺

New insights into human behavior at Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia) based on the temporal distribution of pottery and mollusks during the past 5000 years In addition to preserving a rich archaeological record spanning from ∼190 thousand years ago (ka) until the terminal Pleistocene, Liang Bua (Flores, I…

Check out the latest research from Liang Bua by Indonesian archaeologist I Made Agus Julianto!

"New insights into human behavior at Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia) based on the temporal distribution of pottery and mollusks during the past 5000 years"

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The editors are doing the right thing, but this is a terrible loss. For decades, Journal of Human Evolution has consistently been one of the best venues for publishing bread-and-butter technical work in the field of #paleoanthropology.

Maybe the open access journal PaleoAnthropology would be a good home for us now 🤷‍♀️ horrible to hear of this news 😔 #RIPJHE

“Through this exhibition, we remind the world that human civilization not only started in Africa, but also found its strength and complexity in the archipelago,"

The 130 Years Of Pithecanthropus Effectus Exhibition Strengthens Indonesia's Position As The World's Oldest Civilization The exhibition entitled "Indonesia: The Oldest Civilization on Earth? 130 Years After Pithecanthropus Erekus" celebrates 130 years of discovery of Pithecanthropus erectus or Javanese Ancient Humans ...

‘The 130 Years Of Pithecanthropus Exhibition Strengthens Indonesia's Position As The World's Oldest Civilization’ voi.id/en/lifestyle...

Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship Prof Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was ‘a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s national academy of sciences

"Any pleasure I may take in the distinction of the honour of an FRS is diminished by the fact it is shared with someone... who has immeasurable wealth & power which he will use to threaten scientists who disagree with him."

I do hope the RS is engaging with this🧪
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“We must remember that American higher education is imbricated with the American project writ large. To set aside this work entirely is to abandon the values of a liberal education, and what would that say about our hopes for a better future for our country and for our students?”

#SaveHumanities

Taphonomic Approach to the Interpretation of Isolated Human Skulls: Distinguishing Natural from Intentional Deposition - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory The human cranium is probably the most common single anatomical element manipulated after the death of the individual. However, it is not uncommon to find isolated crania for which it is difficult to ...

Taphonomic Approach to the Interpretation of Isolated Human Skulls: Distinguishing Natural from Intentional Deposition link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Extinguishing the Idea That Hobbits Had Fire Research has overturned earlier claims that a diminutive human relative, Homo floresiensis, lit fires—but big stories die hard.

Research has overturned earlier claims that a diminutive human relative, Homo floresiensis, lit fires—but big stories die hard www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...