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Please join us next week, Thursday 30th October, for our next talk. We will be joined by Dr Jessica Thompson, Yale University. More details 👇

Please note the change of start time to 15:00 GMT!

Please register here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We hope to see you there!

Game Jam in the Garden, Adelaide Botanic Gardens, 7 November 2025, 9--5. Poster of the free event. Run by Playful Cultures Lab, IVE UniSA.

Game Jam in the Garden! We invite GLAM professionals, creatives, researchers & students to design & prototype games inspired by nature, the gardens, & the living world around us. Adelaide Botanic Garden, Goodman Bldg, Hackney Rd Adelaide Fri 7 Nov 9am - 5pm ACDT. events.humanitix.com/game-jam-in-...

Whoa! Well-deserved, Phil!

Mama snapping turtle on gravel driveway

Baby snapping turtle on the same gravel

The miracle of life played out in the driveway gravel this year.

How forensic analysis and traditional knowledge reveal the story of a unique boomerang Grip marks, blood and fire damage hint at the fascinating history of a non-returning boomerang.

Our new study of an Australian boomerang 🪃 is out! ‘How forensic analysis & traditional knowledge reveal the story of a unique boomerang’ in The Conversation: theconversation.com/how-forensic...

And our in-depth research article in ‘Australian Archaeology’: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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This was a ton of fun to work on, @alnorwood.bsky.social I have a whole new appreciation for the lives of zebra molars!

Simulating the formation of herbivore tooth death assemblages to improve expectations for paleoenvironmental reconstruction from intra-tooth isotopic analysis Isotopic analysis of serially-sampled dental enamel from fossil faunal assemblages is a popular paleoenvironmental proxy for its ability to inform on …

I'm really excited about this new paper, with @dayvees.bsky.social, where we use simulations to explore how herbivore tooth growth and development, demography, and dental wear mediate the seasonal signal preserved in serially sampled teeth!

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

Tufts PhD student on visa arrested by immigration authorities, school says Rumeysa Ozturk is a Turkish national, according to her lawyer, Mahsa Khanbabai.

This arrest is the latest in an alarming pattern to stifle civil liberties.

The Trump admin is targeting students with legal status and ripping people out of their communities without due process.

This is an attack on our Constitution and basic freedoms — and we will push back.

Rumeysa Ozturk was kidnapped in plain sight & sent to Louisiana to be locked in the same detention center Mahmoud Khalil was sent to.

She's a peaceful protestor, grad student, & my constituent who has a right to free speech & due process.

Now she's a political prisoner. Free her now.

A Lady Professor with brown hair and glasses, wearing a scarf in red, green, yellow, & black, a gift from an incredible lactation consultant, sitting in in front of cactus.

I escaped poverty because I am a scientist.

And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation.

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A student holds a sign in front of a picket line reading Professors teach, support, mentor and help students. Pay them well.

Day 2 of the historic Tufts full-time lecturer strike! We'll be picketing at the corner of Boston and College Ave all morning, starting at 9 (barring traffic—drive safely, friends). Join us! @seiu509.bsky.social

Somerville and Medford out in solidarity with Tufts lecturers in their 10th month of contract negotiations - calling on Tufts to settle a fair contract with their full time lecturers with @seiu509.bsky.social @willieburnleyjr.bsky.social

In a powerful display of worker solidarity, over 300 full-time lecturers, students, and labor allies rallied on the first day of the FTLs’ walkout! 📢 Tufts prides itself on academic excellence, but that excellence is made possible by our labor—and we deserve a fair contract NOW.

Let's go, Jumbos! Tufts full-time lecturers need a fair contact! @seiu509.bsky.social

Jumbo sez: Fair contract NOW! Let's go, Tufts Full Time Lecturers! @seiu509.bsky.social

When we fight, we win! @seiu509.bsky.social

I was today years old when I noticed you can put custom hex codes into my Canvas dashboard placards. Cribbing from the Zissou1 palette in wesanderson R package: github.com/karthik/wesa...

An archaeological site under low winter sunshine. Three archaeologists wearing hard hats and orange high visibility clothing are excavating with their backs to us, each of them on a different height terrace within a trench. Text reads “We’re hiring! Senior Geoarchaeologists”

We’re hiring TWO Senior Geoarchaeologists!

Strong geoarchaeological, prehistoric, or palaeoenvironmental background? Deposit modelling skills? Apply for these full time, permanent positions on our Sussex team!

Full job description & apply: direc.to/m4iy

Closes 5 Jan 2025

Français : Reconstitution taille rélle d'un mammouth laineux. Le corps est fait en panneaux de feutre, découpés et agencés de façon géometrique,vavec des textes et images d'explications inscrit dessus. À la patte avant droite et à la mâchoire, les panneaux sont transparents et laissent voir à l'intérieur le moulage des ossements correspondants. Muséographie très didactique qui permet de s'approcher, toucher et de se mesurer à ces géants ! English : Life-size reconstruction of a woolly mammoth. The body is made of felt panels, cut out and arranged geometrically, with explanatory texts and images written on them. On the right front leg and jaw, the panels are transparent and reveal the molding of the corresponding bones inside. Very educational museography which allows you to approach, touch and measure yourself against these giants!

One of the "Giants" who can be seen in the current exhibition AT the Musée d'histoire naturelle of Toulouse, France 🦣
(See Alt text for details)

Un des "Géants" à voir à l'Expo temporaire actuelle du museum d'histoire naturelle de Toulouse 🦣
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Adena points date to the Early Woodland (c. 2,500BP) and are very rare finds in New England. There are no Adena sites in the region, instead these are probably coming through trade networks from the moundbuilding cultures of Ohio and Kentucky (Boudreau 2016). 🧪🏺🐡

The Benefits of Being Social: Insights from Animal Societies How Social Behavior Shapes Lifespans, Intelligence, and Survival

Social species live longer and develop advanced social cognition. Fission-fusion societies, like those of humans and elephants, demand intelligence to navigate shifting group dynamics.
#SocialSpecies #Evolution #Cognition #Anthropology

Postdoctoral position in Palaeolithic gene-culture coevolution, Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University

Hi y'all, I have this really awesome 2.5y postdoc open in my group here @aarhusuni.bsky.social, on gene-culture coevolution in the European Upper Palaeolithic. international.au.dk/about/profil... - deadline Jan 15; get in touch if you are interested.

Text of a tweet saying that space junk is just like ships.

Map of north america covered in purple dots

Kessler denialism: believing that the Kessler Syndrome and the problems with space junk in Earth orbit are made up to paint Elon Musk as the bad guy. 🧪

Assistant/Associate Professor in Evolutionary Anthropology/Anthropology of Health University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

🎉IAS is recruiting🎉

UCSB Integrative Anth Sciences is hiring a tenure-track evo anthropologist (assist/assoc prof):

Apply by 1/06/25
To apply: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02866

Please retweet!

Estimate: Assist:$95,000-$135,000 & Assoc:$120,000-$180,000. UCSB is an AA/EOE, including disability/vets.

Hīkoi mō Te Tiriti: Flags of hope | E-Tangata “It was like a glimpse of the country as we want it to be: diverse and respectful and Māori-led.” — Catherine Delahunty on the Hīkoi mō Te Tiriti.

“It was like a glimpse of the country as we want it to be: diverse and respectful and Māori-led.” — Catherine Delahunty on the Hīkoi mō Te Tiriti.

Vacancies - Museum of Cultural History Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.

Two PhD positions at the University of Oslo Culture History Museum. One in Bronze Age rock art and one in glacial archaeology. Follow the link for more details.

A Wapanucket point from Massachusetts, quite a rare type dated somewhat tentatively at around 4,000 years old. Big Larurentian-style blades similar to vosburg and brewerton types. #Archaeology 🧪🏺🐡

Illustration of a computational workflow for cultural evolution that connects abstract theory to real-world data. The arrows indicate logical and computational dependencies among theoretical, statistical, and scientific elements of a project. For example, an effective inferential model depends upon generative models, a question about those models (estimand), and the structure of the available evidence (sample).

Theorist bridge trolls barking at you to formally connect theory to data? Wondering how, without troll magic? We can help! "Bridging theory and data: A computational workflow for cultural evolution" With @dominikdeffner.bsky.social @natyfedorova.bsky.social Jeff Andrews. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...