Marta Mirazon Lahr
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Marta Mirazon Lahr
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Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology & Prehistory @CamBioanth @UCamArchaeology - interested in #science, #humanevolution, #prehistory, #palaeontology, #bones #lithics, #fossils, #climatechange, #museums, #collections
Can get distracted by much more 😍 .. more

Marta Mirazón Lahr is a palaeoanthropologist and director of the Duckworth Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.

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History 22%
What an inspiring CARTA Symposium on “Ancient DNA: New Revelations”! Thank you so much to the whole CARTA organizational team for making it possible!

Congratulations 🥳!

Thanks

Hi @alanrogers.bsky.social -it’s been ages! Thank you for this - fascinating. Couldn’t a 3rd option for the ((M,N)D) be excess human genes in Neanderthals in comparison w Denisovans? Consistent w the M Ple gene flow fr Africa to Nea ancestors observed in mtDNA and Y
Deadline approaches for our open professorship here at @au.dk @auarcher.bsky.social. Get in touch if you have q

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Full Professorship(s) in Archaeology - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University
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⚠️Just a quick reminder, there are a few days left to apply for these two positions in #palaeoproteomics.
I'm hiring!⭐ As part of the DFF Sapere Aude-funded project MiddleEarth, I am looking for 1 postdoctoral researcher and 1 research assistant.
Congratulations to Dr Tamsin O’Connell on being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

This well-deserved recognition highlights her exceptional contributions to chemistry and her work in bioarchaeology.

Read more about Tamsin's research below.👇

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This week with our 2nd year @camunigeography.bsky.social students we’ve been learning about varve lake sediments and what they’ve revealed about abrupt climate change. It’s been fun! Here is a peek at some diatomaceous varves in the Lake Chala cores from Kenya/Tanzania. Enjoy…
Two Hartebeest molars in a maxilla, from the Last Interglacial of Turkana, Kenya--a time period in which we desperately need more research! #FossilFriday
A permanent post in my department. Closing date Dec 14th 2025, interviews in March. Please spread #histsci
Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400
Applications are invited for the position of Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Please note
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For this #WplusEBSWednesday, we wanted to highlight some job opportunities closing November 1st & 2nd!

First, Penn State University is hiring for a position as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology in Human Reproductive Ecology! (1/3)

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Assistant Professor of Anthropology in Human Reproductive Ecology
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
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"We found no evidence of migratory behavior in species that exhibit this behavior today. Ancient foragers likely hunted prey that were available year-round, consistent with zooarchaeological and genetic evidence for reduced mobility at the end of the Pleistocene." 🏺🧪🦣
Biogeochemical evidence for targeted landscape use in ancient foragers of Malawi - Communications Earth & Environment
Foragers hunted small game locally and procured most large prey in riparian habitats and Afromontane grasslands to the southeast of the Kasitu Valley of northern Malawi, suggesting that migratory beha...
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I'm hiring!⭐ As part of the DFF Sapere Aude-funded project MiddleEarth, I am looking for 1 postdoctoral researcher and 1 research assistant.

Thank you, Iain!

I am so sorry to miss the symposium today, but was back in hospital 😞 I’m sure it was fabulous

Congratulations 🥂 to @jjrowan.bsky.social for receiving the #PhilipLeverhulmePrize from @leverhulme.ac.uk 🥳🤩!!
So special to have such an amazing #CamBioAnth team in
@cam-archaeology.bsky.social - brilliant, interesting, fun and nice. The best colleagues 😍

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So absurdly true

Fascinating @ameliebeaudet.bsky.social ! I wish I’d been there to listen & learn!

Thank you Sarah !

Thank you!!

thank you!
I'm hiring! 4 year post doc on my Wellcome Trust grant -- come be inventive about isotopes in teeth with me in PPN Turkiye :) www.lancashire.ac.uk/jobs/post-do...

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Post Doctoral Research Assistant - 1160-25
Thinking of the next step in your career? Take a look at our exciting new role, Post Doctoral Research Assistant based at our Other. Find out more and apply he…
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Thank you Clement!

Thank you 😁!!

Thank you 😍!!

Today was the ceremony for new fellows at the #BritishAcademy - it was wonderful 🤩. I am thrilled and so grateful to the colleagues who nominated me, elected me, and the many colleagues, students, friends, our kids & family, & specially Rob 😍 who have so enriched my life and career ❤️

And what a woman 🤩!!
Hugs to you fab @profaliceroberts.bsky.social 😘
Five-year research fellowship, based at Christ's College, Cambridge, for working at the intersection of biodiversity science and economics.
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Darwin-Hamied Senior Research Fellowship (stipendiary) in the Social Science of Biodiversity | Christs College Cambridge
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The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders

- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology

Deadline 27 Nov

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Early career group leaders
We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.
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