1st paper in our Deep History & Community Joy collection is live!
Dr. Matt Kroot: projects working within non-descendant host communities can and must think beyond archaeological knowledge and historical narratives when designing & implementing Stone Age research
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Names matter! Siembo and colleagues rename a fossil hominoid site with community input to reflect its local place-name.
Their important work aligns scientific practice with local lived reality, and is another example of how deep time research impacts everyone.
Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Grantee spotlight on lab member Husna Mashaka, who is doing her PhD research on fossil plants in Tanzania @leakeyfoundation.org @asubeinghuman.bsky.social
Congrats!
New essay about our collaborative deep history work in Tanzania!
Thanks to @sapiens.org for inviting me to contribute & for editorial support
Fidelis Masao, Husna Mashaka, Sam Porter, & many more contribute to this work. Thanks @leakeyfoundation.org @asubeinghuman.bsky.social & @asuiho.bsky.social
FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
note about studying evolution (esp of human behavior):
Variation = differences in traits
Variability = how those differences arise
✨ Methods ✨
Variation: morphometrics, typologies, stats
Variability: experimental & developmental studies, behavioral observations, modeling
Yohannes Haile Selassie, Director the the Institute for Human Origins makes a powerful statement for inclusivity in the study of human origins www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00695-y?WT.ec_id=NATURE-202503&sap-outbound-id=F5E8493EC49A5A7A599C4A9CA2D5898F57CCC092
the way the 1-day slack outage has forced me to... call people (gasp)
The project "The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans (interner Link)" (ROCEEH) is a research project of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences within the framework of the Academy Program of the German Federal and State Governments. It explores the changing interactions of cultural and ecological developments as well as spatiotemporal expansions in the course of human evolution between 3 million and 20,000 years ago in Africa and Eurasia. ROCEEH is projected to run until 2027. The Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities is seeking for the project ROCEEH at the work place of the University of Tübingen starting on 01.05.2025 a Data Curator (m/f/d) with a background in Palaeolithic Archaeology (TV-L E13, 100% for two years) Your tasks: Data maintenance and quality control of the project's database ROAD Support of archaeological areas of the ROAD database, incl. compilation of relevant data on material culture (e.g. stone tools, organic artefacts etc.) Conceptual development of the database applications Input of literature and maintenance of literature data in ROAD Coordination of work on ROAD between the research centres in Tübingen and Frankfurt Technical supervision of students working on the ROCEEH project Participation in the preparation of specialist publications Presentation of the database at conferences, as part of training courses and in public relations work Involvement in university teaching is possible. Your profile: A university degree with a doctorate in the field of material culture in Palaeolithic archaeology Experience in working with relational databases Experience with SQL and R programming is an advantage Experience in the completion of specialist publications Very good knowledge of written and spoken English, other language skills are an advantage Very good communication and teamwork skills The position is limited to two years. Severely disabled applicants will be given …
💼Open position in the ROCEEH Project!
Join the team as Data Curator for Paleolithic Archaeology and help expand the ROAD database!
🔍Details: www.hadw-bw.de/aktuelles/au...
📅Deadline: 28.02.2025
quantum *community* paleoecology 😛
have archaeology chemistry samples but no funding yet to process them? Andrew Zipkin shares a new award where students can receive up to $3000 credit toward analytical chemistry lab work
socarchsci.org/awards/eag-l...
Ursula K. LeGuin on technology
Science reporting on the mass resignation of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution, highlighting some of the problems with commercial scientific publishing.
OA PaleoAnthropology journal (www.paleoanthropology.org) highlighted among JHE's successors
#openaccess #humanevolution
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@chelachir.bsky.social is breaking barriers for students and teachers, making anatomy accessible, exciting, and impactful for communities that need it most! ow.ly/tvKj50UAKWa
#Anatomy25 #anatomy #science #research #education #AAA
what's one more form? "it's only one page" is the new "it's only wafer-thin!"
thank you! I'm co-creating a new course atm and these are very helpful!
Reminder: The deadline for AABA Pollitzer travel award applications is 1 week away (Jan 6). If you are a student traveling to the Annual Meeting in Baltimore, please apply!
This thread 🧵 collects all the #archaeology 🏺 starter packs
Share far & wide. We could all use a little more archaeology in our lives
@cjfrieman.bsky.social made the OG Archaeology and heritage list with first wave Twitter refugee scholars & orgs. Go follow Catherine now!
bsky.app/starter-pack...
thanks to the leadership of the JHE EB - their decision to resign reflects what many of us have experienced over the years. Given these challenges, what advice to people have for ECRs to share their work? Resources for workflows appreciated! what's your favorite repository and why? #courseprep #TT
slowly coming back to academic socials after a 2+ year hiatus
*emerges from cocoon*
hello world!
