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A fire rescue division chief shares how understanding human origins made her a better leader. How has your interest in human origins changed your perspective? We'd love to hear! @firefighternation.bsky.social www.firefighternation.com/fire-leaders...
Origin Stories, Trauma, and the Firehouse: Learning to Lead with Love
Understanding our personal and professional origin stories is fundamental to strengthening leadership, trust, and resilience among firefighters.
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Join us in congratulating our outstanding members who have received the prestigious AABA annual awards for 2026. The 2026 AABA and @leakeyfoundation.org Communication and Outreach Award in Honor of Camilla Smith recipient is Himani Nautiyal!
Meet our fall 2025 research grant recipients! Thanks to our donors, we awarded grants to 30 scientists exploring fundamental questions about human origins, including 17 PhD candidates at the start of their careers.
Introducing the fall 2025 Leakey Foundation research grant recipients
Meet the 30 scientists who received Fall 2025 research grants from The Leakey Foundation to study human origins, evolution, behavior, and survival.
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Pastoralism remains central to survival in the Turkana of northwest Kenya, where heat and water scarcity pose constant challenges. New research uncovers the genetic signatures that underlie adaptation to arid living in this pastoralist community. Learn more this week: https://scim.ag/4nxcJbx
🚨New Publication🚨 So happy to have this final chunk of my phd out, and the fruits of my @leakeyfoundation.org research grant 🙉 "arboreal, and especially suspensory, locomotion can be advantageous for foraging in a savannah-mosaic and not just closed forest habitats" #phddone #womeninscience #wild
Frontiers | Foraging strategy and tree structure as drivers of arboreality and suspensory behaviour in savannah-dwelling chimpanzees
IntroductionThe association between an open habitat (e.g., savannah-mosaics) and increased terrestriality is central to hypotheses of hominin evolution, espe...
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Three ancient human relatives once shared the same valley. Did they meet—and compete? www.science.org/content/arti...
Three ancient human relatives once shared the same valley. Did they meet—and compete?
The world’s greatest concentration of ancestral human remains, in South Africa, poses a 2-million-year-old riddle of coexistence
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Wrapping up my first month in Italy! From exploring collagen yields using NIR, to examining bone surface modifications, running modern specimens through the MALDI-TOF, and learning to interpret collagen signatures—it's been full-on. @leakeyfoundation.org @National Museum, Bloemfontein
Looking for research funding? Is your work relevant to understanding human origins? Our next deadline is July 15! Learn more and apply! #ScienceFunding #HumanEvolution leakeyfoundation.org/grants-schol...
🎉 Congratulations to the spring 2025 Leakey Foundation grantees! We'll be sharing more about these amazing scientists and their work as their projects progress. leakeyfoundation.org/introducing-...
Introducing the spring 2025 Leakey Foundation grantees
Meet the spring 2025 Leakey Foundation grantees. Their innovative research will shed new light on human origins, evolution, and behavior.
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My PhD student Emmanuel, co advised with @mcnultylab.bsky.social, is a Baldwin fellow 🎉🍾🙌🏽👏🏽! Thanks Leakey Foundation for supporting these talented scholars :-) learn more about Emmanuel’s work and background here: www.nievescolonlab.org/about-emmanuel
About 1 — Anthropological Genetics Lab at UMN
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The Leakey Foundation@leakeyfoundation.org · last yr.We're thrilled to announce the 2025 Leakey Foundation Baldwin Fellows! Click through to learn about these 14 scholars and their exciting human origins research. leakeyfoundation.org/announcing-t...
Congratulations to the new Baldwin Fellows, including 2 of my students, Penina Kadalida (c/a with Martha Tappen) and Emmanuel Ngetich (c/a with @mitopr.bsky.social)! Thanks to the @leakeyfoundation.org for supporting all of these students and their staunch support for Paleoanthropology!
The Leakey Foundation@leakeyfoundation.org · last yr.We're thrilled to announce the 2025 Leakey Foundation Baldwin Fellows! Click through to learn about these 14 scholars and their exciting human origins research. leakeyfoundation.org/announcing-t...
We're thrilled to announce the 2025 Leakey Foundation Baldwin Fellows! Click through to learn about these 14 scholars and their exciting human origins research. leakeyfoundation.org/announcing-t...
Announcing the 2025 Baldwin Fellows
Meet the 2025 Baldwin Fellows! This year, 14 scholars from 11 countries have received fellowships, empowering them to become future leaders.
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Proud of UMich grad student Rosa Muñoz for being awarded an @leakeyfoundation.org grant for her dissertation research on "The evolution and psychology of possession in macaques." Congrats Rosa, and all the new grantees! leakeyfoundation.org/introducing-...
Honored to be a Spring 2025 Leakey Foundation Research Grant recipient. I’m deeply grateful to the @leakeyfoundation.org for supporting research in human origins, and to my supervisor @naelnadifkasri-lab.bsky.social for the invaluable guidance and encourargement. leakeyfoundation.org/introducing-...
Introducing the spring 2025 Leakey Foundation grantees
Meet the spring 2025 Leakey Foundation grantees. Their innovative research will shed new light on human origins, evolution, and behavior.
leakeyfoundation.org
#Nakali🇰🇪 🦍⚒️🦴 Thrilled to be awarded a Research Grant from the @leakeyfoundation.org I’m happy to count on a great team, some of them are on @bsky.app 👇🏽 @dmartinperea.bsky.social @albavicente.bsky.social Congratulations to the other amazing awardees 👏🏼 leakeyfoundation.org/introducing-...
Second week is over. While first week focused on launching this season dig and field lab, second week led us to some rock art sampling, #ochre outcrop sampling, exciting finds on the dig 🤩 . @justinpargeter.bsky.social with support of @leakeyfoundation.org and PAST.
Our two southern African masters students working on #ochre M. Sepamo and P. T. Alfeus collected their raw material for their experimentation and started to learn how to describe them. @justinpargeter.bsky.social @leakeyfoundation.org and PAST.
Incredibly proud that our paper on the #palaeoproteomics analysis of the Penghu mandible, led by @tsutatsuta.bsky.social and in collaboration with Chun-Hsiang Chang, Enrico Cappellini and co, is out now in @science.org! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
A male Denisovan mandible from Pleistocene Taiwan
Denisovans are an extinct hominin group defined by ancient genomes of Middle to Late Pleistocene fossils from southern Siberia. Although genomic evidence suggests their widespread distribution through...
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Our friends at @ncse.bsky.social have launched a podcast to help combat misinformation, disinformation, and misconceptions about #ClimateChange with actual science. Check it out!
National Center for Science Education@ncse.bsky.social · last yr.Episode 2 of Safeguarding Sound Science is now out wherever you listen to your podcasts! Historian Naomi Oreskes (@naomioreskes.bsky.social) discusses a century of disinformation - ncse.ngo/safeguarding... #SciencePodcast #SciSky #HistorySky
Did Neanderthals eat maggots? High nitrogen in Neanderthal bones doesn’t mean they were uber-carnivores. www.science.org/content/arti...
Neanderthals may have eaten maggots as part of their diet
High nitrogen in Neanderthal bones doesn’t mean they were uber-carnivores
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Need a last minute #StandUpForScience sign? Head to our website and download our free graphic. We have 3 sizes and 2 colorways. leakeyfoundation.org/stand-up-for...
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Ever wondered what happens to your grant proposal once you submit it? Join a hands-on “mock review” workshop to learn about review processes at The Leakey Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation. March 12 at #AABA2025. Registration is limited so act fast! @bioanth.org bit.ly/4havY78
AABA Workshop in Baltimore: What happens to my grant proposal? Peek into the process through mock review!
This workshop introduces early career scholars to the grant review process through mock review exercises with experienced panelists and representatives from Leakey and Wenner-Gren. Date and Time: Marc...
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Thanks a lot @leakeyfoundation.bsky.social for supporting our work! leakeyfoundation.org/earliest-evi...
Earliest evidence for humans in rainforests
New research shows that humans lived in African rainforests 150,000 years ago. This is more than twice as early than previously thought.
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Live right now! The Origin of Love from our friends at CARTA. Click through to watch! ❤️
CARTA: The Origin of Love
YouTube video by UCTVSeminars
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Happy Darwin Day! “There is grandeur in this view of life–that from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
1 hour left until our Darwin Day Webinar with Katie Hinde begins! TODAY @ 7 ET 4 PT. The event is free and open to the public! If you don't have a link, make sure to register nabt.wufoo.com/forms/m1dcb9... #DarwinDay2025 #2025MMM @mmmletsgo.bsky.social @mammalssuck.bsky.social @nabtbio.bsky.social
Can stress help monkeys survive? New research shows that on wild capuchin monkeys with stronger stress responses during previous droughts were more likely to survive an extreme drought. Study by Leakey grantees @sccarrera.bsky.social @irene-godoy.bsky.social @jbeehner.bsky.social & colleagues.
Stress responsiveness in a wild primate predicts survival across an extreme El Niño drought
White-faced capuchins with a stronger stress response to previous droughts were more likely to survive a severe El Niño drought.
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