Pregnancy vaccine reduces baby hospital admissions for RSV by 80% A study confirms the vaccine gives excellent protection for babies against life-threatening chest infections.

Excellent news as RSV vaccine in pregnancy protects babies from developing RSV and massively reduces risk of getting seriously ill and needing Hospitalisation

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Yes is winning on 58%

Mail is running a poll on whether the UK should rejoin the EU.

Takes seconds to vote and it's going hilariously well...

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UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Come and work with us for 16 months! Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Evolutionary Anthropology with expertise in evolutionary medicine and quantitative methods. We are a friendly bunch. Deadline 30th of April! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Petition: Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership Hold a binding national referendum on whether the water industry should be returned to public ownership. Water is a basic human necessity; we believe our privatised system has failed, so the public sh...

If you're sick of water companies being allowed to pump s**t into our rivers with no accountability:

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Hungarian opposition ousts Viktor Orbán after 16 years in power Péter Magyar’s Tisza party wins election as prime minister concedes defeat, in result likely to reshape ties with EU

Congratulations Hungary!!
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I made a little Instagram reel about this image because it’s just so frickin’ cool

No Kings March 2026 | News From The States

Scenes from No Kings marches nationwide www.newsfromthestates.com/live-feed/no... #NoKings

long stretch of worked roman stone on Hadrian's Wall.

If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it.

Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22

Principal Researcher in Human Evolution:South Kensington

Job opportunity at the Natural History Museum in London! Principal researcher in human evolution. jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

The inscription to Nancy on the family monument in the Père Lachaise cemetery, reading "Marie Anne Dupont, veuve Aublay, décédée le 17 décembre 1839. Celui qui croit en moi, dit le Seigneur, vivra éternellement." © Amis et Passionnés du Père Lachaise.

New blog post for International Women's Day: "The forgotten labour of Nancy Dupont" inneskeighren.com/williammacin... #IWD2026 #C18

It's odd that the article does not mention the educational and scientific value of these collections. Nor the work that curators have done to understand their origin and to contact communities of descendants, often with no funding. The numbers are misleading, often reflecting bones, not individuals.

Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11.
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Example raincloud plot comparing a highly reproducible variable (left: FEM_M2; physiological length of femur) with a variable that shows differences between observers (right: TIB_M8a; Anteroposterior diameter at the nutrient foramen of the tibia) (mm) |Exemple de graphique en nuage de pluie comparant une variable fortement reproductible (à gauche : FEM_M2 ; longueur physiologique du fémur) à une variable présentant des différences entre les observateurs (à droite : TIB_M8a ; diamètre antéropostérieur au niveau du foramen nourricier du tibia) (mm)

🚩L'article de Siam Knecht et al. publié dans les #BMSAP
"Assessing #inter-observer reliability to support availability of #osteometric measurement data from the Olivier collection" est en ligne doi.org/10.4000/15sl6
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Some bot account complaining about pronouns in bio shit. I asked the bot to write a poem about pangolins and it did

It happened again

The Godless Students of London University

I've just read this fantastic article on the origin of University College London in opposition to the existing traditional religious universities of Oxford and Cambridge. UCL had no religious or age limitations, and offered education at a fraction of the costs. www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

Salary £54,931-£64,644. UCL Institute of Archaeology.

Let's not forget our optional fully-funded intensive module in field primatology in Tanzania. And from next year a new module in human evolutionary genetics co-taught with staff at UCL Genetics, Evolution and Environment. Come and study with us, and get in touch with me if you have questions!

Human Evolution and Behaviour MSc Develop the ability to generate, assess and synthesise empirical evidence and hypotheses related to human evolution and behaviour.

Quick promotion post for our fantastic Master's programme in Human Evolution and Behaviour at UCL. Taught by a great team of evolutionary anthropologists and covering human evolution, human behavioural ecology, primatology, evolutionary medicine and more. www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Is the human chin a spandrel? Insights from an evolutionary analysis of ape craniomandibular form Humans are unique among primates in possessing a chin, yet it is currently unclear whether the form of the symphyseal region of the mandible where the chin is located is the product of direct selectio...

New paper by PI Dr. Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel and former BHEML postdoc Dr. Lauren Schroeder! The human chin is a unique; investigating why and how it formed helps us to better understand ourselves and our lineage!

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Evolutionary Anthropology seminars Exploring the evolutionary roots of human behaviour, biology, and culture through interdisciplinary research and debate.

UCL Evolutionary Anthropology seminars starting up again for the new term every Tuesday pm. Anthropology Dept. 14 Taviton St. DFL 3.30-5pm followed by 🍷. All welcome.
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology in Human Reproductive Ecology APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

🚨Social scientists! @psuanthro.bsky.social & @ssripennstate.bsky.social are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor exploring how social & ecological environments shape reproduction, growth, &/or development. Review starts soon! Please share widely! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

Evolutionary Anthropology seminars Exploring the evolutionary roots of human behaviour, biology, and culture through interdisciplinary research and debate.

'21st century resurgence of eugenics and scientific racism' @rebeccasear.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk Evolutionary Anthropology seminar. Tomorrow TUESDAY 3.30-5pm DFL followed by 🍷 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

This whole thread really resonates. Especially on a day I was told I might want to postpone going for promotion, while working on the latest set of revisions of a paper and trying to support friends currently in less-than-supportive teams.

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Calling Medical Anthropologists - job at UCL Anthropology (cover for colleague who recently got ERC grant). Teaching to start in January 2026.

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WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you.

Apply by: 10 Oct

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Lucy Van Dorp is one of the best scientists and people that I know. Join her lab, and do amazing work.

Beyond the Fertile Crescent: Barley, Foragers, and the Forgotten Story of Central Asia Evidence from Uzbekistan pushes the roots of cereal exploitation deeper into Asia—and challenges what we thought we knew about the origins of farming.

Barley in a cave in Uzbekistan, 9,000 years old, suggests foragers far from the Fertile Crescent were harvesting cereals long before farming took hold. A mosaic of innovation, not a single birthplace. #Archaeology #Agriculture #HumanEvolution @pnas.org

Two Genetic Leaps That Set Us Walking New research traces the pelvic transformation that let humans rise from the trees

New research shows the human pelvis didn’t evolve gradually—it flipped its growth pattern 90° and rewired bone formation. These shifts let our ancestors walk upright and birth big-brained babies. #HumanEvolution #Anthropology #Bipedalism