🔥Before farming, hunter-gatherers already transformed nearly half of Europe’s #landscapes via burning and hunting! Our new study using an #AI approach shows #Neanderthals began reshaping ecosystems; later foragers continued this process 👉 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #Paleoecology #Anthropocene

On the ecological impact of prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Europe: Early Holocene (Mesolithic) and Last Interglacial (Neanderthal) foragers compared

Recent studies have highlighted evidence of human impact on landscapes dating back to the Late Pleistocene–long before the advent of agriculture. Quantifying the extent of vegetation transformations b...

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So excited to announce the lineup of speakers here @heasvienna.bsky.social for the 2025/6 academic year! We have some outstanding speakers for our three seminar series in Archaelogical Science, Ancient Genomics and Human Evolution & the Palaeolithic. All hybrid! Register now at HEAS.at

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Tom Higham@tommyhigham.bsky.social · 10mo ago

So excited to announce the lineup of speakers here @heasvienna.bsky.social for the 2025/6 academic year! We have some outstanding speakers for our three seminar series in Archaelogical Science, Ancient Genomics and Human Evolution & the Palaeolithic. All hybrid! Register now at HEAS.at

Had fun at my poster yesterday! Thanks for stopping by @adamvanc.bsky.social and thanks for the photo Philipp Gunz! #ESHE2025

Two new papers! First on the origins of fire use, led by Femke Reidsma in a book celebrating the work of Wil Roebroeks: www.sidestone.com/books/intent...

Intent on the Paleolithic @ Sidestone Press

This collection of papers was compiled in celebration of the remarkable academic career of Professor Wil Roebroeks, who has established himself as one of Europe’s leading figures in Palaeolithic archa...

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The #ESHE2025 meeting in Paris starts tomorrow (please use this hashtag for sharing). If you are interested in the program, you find it here mcusercontent.com/9347aa3598d5... - Members have received an email for accessing the live stream! We hope you all enjoy the conference in person or online. /MW

We are getting ready for #ESHE2025 in Paris! 🎉 The #LHOSA #CoEvol #BrAIn team will share exciting new results on hominin evolution—talks & posters you do not want to miss.🧵👇 @palevoprim.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univpoitiers.bsky.social

🚨 Two PhD Positions Available! Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠 Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history. www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...

There are only a few days left to submit your abstract for #ESHE2025 — the deadline is Wednesday 14 May at 11:59 PM (PST). Looking forward to seeing you in Paris! Submit here: www.eshe.eu/abstract/

ESHE

European Society for the study of Human Evolution

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I am offering two 4-year PhD positions (fully funded) and a 57 month combined post-doc / project manager position as part of my NWO-Vici grant, which starts in September.

I know there is some anxiety around how to protect yourself in light of Muskrat and his herd of shitler youth getting their hands on all our personal information so here are the steps you can take to protect yourself. I’ve seen these in various threads but thought it worth putting them together🧵 1/?

Here’s an interesting and important study on how fact-checking social media can lead to accusations of bias against right wing discourse - but it’s actually because that discourse is more likely to contain misinformation to start with. Paging @sheencr.bsky.social

Reviewers for #NIH #grants, stop reviewing.

Alex Wild@alexwild.bsky.social · last yr.

Reviewers for NIH graduate student grants should stop work and allow no applications to proceed, since participating in this farce is, in the most literal way, upholding white supremacy.

Happy Birthday Mary Leakey!

Antiquity Journal@antiquity.ac.uk · last yr.

Happy birthday to #trowelblazer Mary Leakey, who was born #OnThisDay in AD 1913. She made countless contributions to palaeoanthropology, like the Laetoli footprints - evidence of early bipedalism. 🔗 to her 1978 announcement of Laetoli in Antiquity (£) https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00071969

#FossilFriday The Taung child found in South Africa, 1924. Raymond Dart published this in Nature #OTD in Feb. 1925 naming Australopithecus africanus, the "southern ape from Africa", and described this as “an extinct race of apes intermediate between living anthropoids and man"

...they are shutting off parts of GPS for funsies. See 6th paragraph here.

Earthquake warning system among projects threatened by NSF funding freeze

Small nonprofit that helps manage network could soon run out of money

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Rude Law Dog@esghound.com · last yr.

I still can't get over that we're gonna let them gut NOAA and then dance around covered in its bloody entrails screaming "I bet you are owned now, lib!" No one wants to lose weather forecasts and there literally isn't even a private option available. This would be like shutting off GPS for funsies

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

Best grant writing advice I ever received: "Write your proposal as if someone from a completely different field will search through it looking for 100 banned words"

‪ Some important statistics and information for those thinking about submitting to the PaleoAnthropology journal. PaleoAnthropology has a >20 year-history as a community owned, diamond open access, peer-reviewed journal. No fees, no subscription. We look forward to your papers!

PaleoAnthropology Journal@paleoanthjourn.bsky.social · 2y ago

Learn more about our Journal at our Insights page! 🔗 paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/paleo/JournalInsights If you're interested in submitting to us you can learn about our publishing timeline, acceptance rate, and more. Our Journal is #openaccess and has no publication fees #paleoanthropology

Diamond open access model means that publication in scientific journal is free for both readers and authors. No APCs = equal publishing, but also no profit = need for external funding. There are relatively few diamond OA journals, and some of them (including GHSP) were funded by USAID.

Kate Clancy@kateclancy.bsky.social · last yr.

Well just received this email regarding a paper under review:

Hey, that's my article, cool!

Biological Anthropology@bioanth.bsky.social · last yr.

Starch-rich plant foods 780,000 y ago: Evidence from Acheulian percussive stone tools: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

FINALLY someone explaining EOs are 👏🏻 not 👏🏻 laws!!! As someone who has worked on EOs, this groveling to THINGS THAT ARE NOT THE LAW is bizarre. “While it’s true the order says that, that does not actually change the legal status of prescribing these treatments.” newrepublic.com/article/1910...

Why Are Hospitals Bowing to Trump’s Illegal Gender-Affirming Care Ban?

The president doesn’t actually have the power to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth. So why has Children’s National “paused” certain forms of care?

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