Spread the word! We are recruiting for 6 new research professors at UC Davis' California National Primate Research Center. Open rank, open area, but must leverage 🐒 resources.
recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07561
Postdoctoral Fellow in Agent-based Human–Earth System Modelling at the Anthropocene Laboratory at the Stockholm Resilience Centre.
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Deadline: June 15.
@brunelcce.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @durhamdcerc.bsky.social @michael.muthukrishna.com
I truly feel for all the future PI’s who won’t have this resource. How much talent is going to go unfunded.
Absolutely incredible.
NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.
Watch with sound on.
In case anyone is still wondering why the social sciences and humanities have been systematically defunded and marginalized over the past generation. Seems like a basic knowledge of anthropology would be useful right about now.
This 🔽 but read the entire thread.
New preprint with Rafael Leite, Sandro Reia and Paulo Campos
Cumulative Cultural Evolution in Structured Populations
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
In which we take an old model of cumulative cultural evolution of mine and see what happens if you add social networks
NASA astronaut Christina Koch sits in an U.S. Navy MH-60S Seahawk attached to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23 on the flight deck of the San Antonio Class amphibious transport dock USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) after returning from space on Apr. 10, 2026.
This picture of Astronaut Christina Koch after the Artemis landing is frankly incredible and beautiful.
There is a fully-funded PhD position at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology to pursue dissertation research among the Mayangna of Nicaragua, expanding a longitudinal study of subsistence strategies and behavioral ecology. Please share the posting!
www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
New paper alert. My new article just published in Quaternary Science Reviews, "Revolution, modernity, and the dispersal of Homo sapiens beyond Africa". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our new paper exploring the measurement of complexity in tools - the result of significant and ongoing work, including that which emerged from our Complexity in Lithics Conference!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🚨🧪NEW PAPER!🚨 Led by the great @jclark997.bsky.social - We present the Tool Systems Approach: A method to calculate cultural complexity in a way that allows comparisons between the archaeological, ethnographic and primatological records, hence tackling big Qs in CE link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@michael.muthukrishna.com and I are hiring a postdoc to join our labs at NYU! We're looking for someone excited to work on one of society's newly emerging and potentially generation-shaping challenges: the multi-agent alignment problem.
This is partly why I’m very pro lab names that seem like they should be an acronym, but aren’t and just sound cool
An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.
POSSIBLE RESEARCH TOPICS
If you are interested in macroevolution, macroecology, fossil record, stratigraphy and stuff, please consider applying for the 2026 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA PF) grant this year in my lab.
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio
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I'm hiring! 2 x postdocs in Cognitive Anthropology, Archaeology and Linguistics, to work on the cultural history of Australia and Papua. More details in link below, and please do repost or share elsewhere!
www.isle.uzh.ch/en/jobs/post...
Grayscale image of the capsule under the parachutes, which look silvery. The capsule is glowing brilliantly along the bottom where the heat shield took the brunt of the atmospheric beating.
Love this shot. I think this is a thermal infrared camera, showing how the bottom of the capsule is still glowing due to its warmth after hypersonically ramming the atmosphere — compressing a gas heats it up a LOT when you're moving at superorbital speeds.
#ArtemisII
I was fist pumping
Earth moving really fast past the window now, swelling larger and larger
New paper alert. Led by my PhD student, Amy Hatton, we explore the use of machine learning methods to detect prehistoric stone structures in Arabia. Well done Amy, she did a huge amount of work to do this paper! And excited that this marks my 100th published journal article! Paper: lnkd.in/d6GRDRxY
Enjoying being in Dushanbe to study the beautiful lithics from the Middle Paleolithic site of Soii Havzak, Tajikistan
@hcelab.bsky.social
@gerda-henkel-stiftung.de
#CentralAsia
#Paleolithic
#lithics
low key why the Climate Corps is a idea. men should graduate college, get a few years romping around the forest planting trees and shit to get these hangups out of their system so they can realize working in AC sending emails is chill instead of making it everyone's problem
Awhile back I meet the brilliant Jenni French & and now been lucky to collab on a project w/ her for the last ~3 yrs. Along with Somaye Khaksar & @anthrofuentes.bsky.social our 1st project paper is out, on origins & development of mobile containers (1/n) 🧪 🧺
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
If the claims about mythos are even remotely true, the folks who’ve been warning about the need to wall off our work lives from our personal lives online are going to be vindicated even more than usual (thinking of @tressiemcphd.bsky.social among others here)
It’s been a long road but I’m finally Dr!
Congratulations!!
25th amendment. Impeachment. I will support any avenue to remove Donald Trump from office. We cannot leave this man in charge of America’s nuclear weapons as he threatens to end an entire civilization. And Congress must not fund this reckless administration.
New Anthropology Watch page from @americananthro.bsky.social is tracking program closures and suspensions of admissions at universities and colleges. Currently listing six graduate programs with admissions pauses, six impending program closures.
americananthro.org/anthropology...
