Les 1851eme #JournéesdelaSAP à Genève, c'est parti ! Ouverture par @aurelienmounier.bsky.social, Président de la SAP et Anne Mayor, Directrice du laboratoire ARCAN

🦴 💀 🧬🦠🩺🩻🏺🕵🏼 My dear colleagues from @dai-weltweit.bsky.social have put together an outstanding program for the #PPAberlin2026 @paleopathology.bsky.social European Meeting 3-7 August! Check out events & speakers: www.dainst.org/en/the-25th-... #paleopathology #evolutionarymedicine #bonesinternational

🥳 Registration for our 2026 conference days, from 28 to 30 January 2026 in Geneva, is now open via this link: formulaire.unige.ch/outils/limeb... Early bird rates available until 21 December 2025 🚩 Provisional programme: www.sapweb.fr/index.php/fr... Details below ⏬

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Brace yourself for Stefan Potente's talk! Blunt and sharp force are daily fare in contemporary forensics. Crossbows and sabres have mostly disappeared, but fresh bone injuries still raise questions — especially “fall or assault?” This Friday 16h in HS2 or get in touch for the Zoom link!

Join us in Liverpool on 29-30/11 at the 2025 BAFA Conference to attend the practical CPD session on trauma and taphonomy, with keynote lectures by Dr. Tal Simmons and Prof. Rick Schulting. ℹ️ Find out more: bafa-uk.org/events/winte... ✅ Register for the conference here: forms.gle/4TUpGe4kB9zi...

Upcoming workshop in Visby, Gotland - application of forensic traumatology to archaeological skeletal remains - with a definite focus on medieval warfare. Looking forward to delivering this along with @tonypollard.bsky.social, Peter Johnsson, & Jo Buckberry @bradarch.bsky.social @uubrl.bsky.social

I am looking for a multispecies archaeologist with a strong theoretical and interpretive profile to join my group (100%, 3 years): uni.koeln/2E7CR Deadline: 30.09.2025. Apply here: uni.koeln/ZQMKA ("Wiss2508-21") @nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social

Day 2 of the FASE workshop on bone histology and skeletal trauma in Paris is in full swing. Awesome topic, great lectures and lecturers and tons of interesting trauma thin sections 🦴🔬🙌 #bonehistology #ForensicAnthropologySocietyofEurope #SocietyFASE

1) I am delighted to present this terrific tour de force research conducted by my post-doc Dr. Gayani Senevirathne @gayani.bsky.social and published today in Nature - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The evolution of hominin bipedalism in two steps - Nature

The human pelvis exhibits distinct spatiotemporal ossification patterns and an ilium cartilage growth plate that is shifted perpendicularly compared with those of other mammals and non-human primates—...

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New publication 📖 Trauma or damage? A study on the breakage patterns of the Apidima crania, which was part of my PhD research. OA book chapter: hdl.handle.net/10900/156259 Longer version in PhD thesis: hdl.handle.net/10900/119049 Congratulations to the editors & all contributors of this volume! 👏

Harvati Lab@harvatilab.bsky.social · last yr.

We’re excited to share that the #CROSSROADS VOLUME is published and also printed!🥳It features 28 contributions from the closing CROSSROADS symposium (Feb. 2022, Tübingen). It took time, but was worth the wait!✨️Edited by K. Harvati & M. Ioannidou. Congrats to all involved!🎉 Link: tinyurl.com/4s5mwdht

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Check out the exciting program of the FASE Symposium 2025 in Paris on August 30: event.forensicanthropology.eu/symposium-pr... Two days left to register - deadline July 31. #ForensicAnthropologySocietyofEurope #SocietyFASE

📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground! 🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome. 🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13 🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq Please share! @elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social

Marlen Fröhlich@marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉Exciting times ahead for @elmanubohn.bsky.social, Michael Franke, and me! We will soon be advertising 2 PhD positions (linguistics/biology/psychology) for our SFB subproject "Modeling Great Ape Signaling Behaviour" 🧮 🐵 Stay tuned!

#newpaper now out in @nature.com! A huge expansion of the human niche in Africa ~70 kya likely equipped later #outofAfrica dispersals with a unique ecological flexibility. www.nature.com/articles/s41... led by Emily Hallett, @mikleonardi.bsky.social, Andrea Manica, @elliescerri.bsky.social 1/4

Major expansion in the human niche preceded out of Africa dispersal - Nature

Analysis of species distribution models in a pan-African database comprising chronometrically dated archaeological sites over the past 120,000 years shows major expansion in the human niche from 70 ka...

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Sie ist überall: die Rede vom #Spitzenforscher. Nur: Was soll das überhaupt sein? Über einen Begriff, der das Gros der Wissenschaftler_innen als zweitklassig degradiert & einem Geniekult zuarbeitet, der der Arbeitsrealität in der Wissenschaft weder angemessen noch zuträglich ist. ⬇️ #ArbeitInDerWiss

Keine Spitze ohne Berg: Zum Begriff des „Spitzenforschers“

Der Begriff des Spitzenforschers degradiert das Gros der Wissenschaftler_innen als zweitklassig und stützt einen Geniekult, der der Arbeitsrealität in der Wissenschaft weder angemessen noch zuträglich...

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Are you a forensic anthropologist or other biological anthropologist who considers skeletal trauma interpretation part of your skill set? We are running a study (survey, ~15 min) on how practitioners interpret skeletal trauma. It's kinda fun to do! Sharing this with others is much appreciated 🤩

Laure Spake@lspake.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Seeking practitioners, researchers, or students involved in forensic anthropology and/or skeletal trauma interpretation 🚨 Help us understand how forensic practitioners interpret gun shot and other trauma on long bones by participating in a short survey! binghamton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

#NextGenSci asked young scientists to write a rule that all principal investigators should be required to follow to improve the experience of young scientists in their lab. Check out their answers on #NationalHigherEducationDay: scim.ag/45zsFEr

🚨NEW PAPER from the @eegcam.bsky.social!🚨I have never been as proud of something as of the work that finally we can share today: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... - we show how a climatically driven Pan African meta population model explains our species genetic and morphological diversity 🧬💀

Pan-African metapopulation model explains Homo sapiens genetic and morphological evolution

Emerging evidence has challenged the traditional view of a single-region origin for Homo sapiens, suggesting instead that our species arose and diversified across multiple geographically distinct popu...

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Interested in investigating human history? Still a chance to join us in Uppsala as a junior or senior fellow! Closing date soon!

Center for the Human Past (CHP)@humanpastcenter.bsky.social · last yr.

The Call is open: Human Past #Fellowships 2026-27. Deadline: 2 June 2025. centerforthehumanpast.se/index.php/20... #opportunity #humanpast #research @haam-community.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social #genetics #linguistics #archaeology #indoeuropean #bantu #austronesian @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social

A great success for archaeology and human origins research in Germany 🥳 Two clusters of excellence to be funded for (another) 7 years. Congratulations to @clusterroots.bsky.social, @uni-kiel.de, @unituebingen.bsky.social, @harvatilab.bsky.social, @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social @ctennie.bsky.social!

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft@dfg.de · last yr.

The #ClustersOfExcellence have been selected: today, the Excellence Commission approved 70 projects for funding. 45 clusters will continue and 25 will be newly established. Funding starts on 1 Jan 2026 for 7 years, with €539 million per year. The full list: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3

📢 We're hiring! The Leibniz-Zentrum for Archaeology (LEIZA) is launching a new international, English-language, Diamond Open Access journal—and we're looking for a Managing Editor (m/f/d) to lead the way. 📍#Mainz or #Schleswig 🕒 Full- or part-time 💼 EG 13 TV-L #archaeology #journal #editing 1/4

Thank you so much for the invitation! #HumanEvo25

Marta Mirazon Lahr@martamlahr.bsky.social · last yr.

Following from the plague, @judithbeier.bsky.social tells us about cranial trauma in #Neanderthals and Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe 🥰 ☠️ #HumanEvo25

@judithbeier.bsky.social Judith presents a new method using GLMs to estimate cranial trauma prevalence in N. and H.s. Results overturn long held misconceptions that N. had sig. higher rates of trauma when compared to H.s 💀 Ev. suggests a relationship with age, revealing social diff. #HumanEvo25

Jerome Isle de Beauchaine: morphological reanalysis of the Aurignacian mandible from George-Des-Rois, France. Results suggest the mandible is consistent with modern human variability but there is much more variability in fossil modern humans than previously thought 🦷 #HumanEvo25

Exciting talk by @romangarba.bsky.social on cosmogenic nuclides for dating prehistoric sites - fabulous work at #Korolevo (western #Ukraine) and East-to-West dispersal into Europe 1.5-1.3 million years ago. Huge potential for new and old excavations 🤩🤩

Applying a new / adapted method Pheno-ABC to dental phenotypes to answer questions of prehistoric population dynamics by @hannesrathmann.bsky.social 🥰 #HumanEvo25

We are pleased to advise that the ISPH 2025 abstract submission deadline has been extended to 7 May 2025 5pm AEST. Don’t forget to register to ensure your submission is included in the program! #isph2025

Exciting start to 2nd day of #HumanEvo25 - @aliceleplongeon.bsky.social talk on “Beyond out of Africa”, mobility of HGs oc the Nile Valley badin in the late Pleistocene 🥰

@aliceleplongeon.bsky.social introducing @mmartinont.bsky.social to open the #HumanEvo25 conference with a keynote lecture 🤩 ‘East meets West’