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Marta Mirazon Lahr
@martamlahr.bsky.social
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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

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

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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 1h
Fabulous fossils ! @robertosaezm.bsky.social ‘s top 10 #FossilFriday posts of 2025, includes KNM-ER 23000 🤩✨😁

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Roberto Sáez @robertosaezm.bsky.social · 12h
🎅The Top 10 hominin #FossilFriday posts of 2025!!
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The Top 10 hominin #FossilFriday posts of 2025
The #FossilFriday tradition seems to be losing steam, and even hashtags themselves may no longer be so popular. This is also reflected in the declining number of #FossilFriday posts about hominin f…
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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 1d
Merry Christmas to you and Mike 🤩🥂❤️

Reposted by Richard J. Butler, John R. Hutchinson, Marta Mìrazón Lahr

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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 3d
JOB KLAXON! The @nhm-london.bsky.social is recruiting a micro-CT specialist! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
CT Data and Micro CT Specialist :South Kensington
jobs.nhm.ac.uk

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HEAS @heasvienna.bsky.social · 4d
It's always lovely to see where the #HEASBottle ends up - here is #JustusErusEdung from the #NationalMuseumsinKenya who was gifted the bottle from HEAS Speaker @martamlahr.bsky.social using it on TransEvol fieldwork led by HEAS Speaker #AurelienMounier with #HEASMember #MarjoleinD.Bosch.
Justus Erus Edung holding the HEAS Bottle while on fieldwork in Kenya

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Deming Yang @demingyang.bsky.social · 6d
Unlike most "mini pigs" on Instagram, Cainochoerus is a true mini pig, standing at ~knee height of a mid-sized human (image below). Unfortunately, it went extinct a few million years back. The fossils that we found consist of jaw fragments and teeth. More in the paper!

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Erik Svensson @evolodonata.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d
Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity.

Apply here no later than February 11 2026:

https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity
The Department of Biology was established in 2010 through the merger of the Departments of Ecology, Cell and Organism Biology, Biological Undergraduate Education, and the Biological Museums. The depar
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Chris Law @chrislaw.bsky.social · 9d
Our manuscript is now out in @royalsocietypublishing.org! We tested hypotheses that Cenozoic climatic change influenced the evolution of the cranial, appendicular, & axial skeleton in carnivorans. @tsengzj.bsky.social @hlusko.bsky.social

🧵 1/n

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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 11d
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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 11d
Lovely new paper by @sarah-paris.bsky.social & Charles Higham "Ochre use in burial practices in Thailand, from Neolithic to the Iron Age" 😍!!

@cam-archaeology.bsky.social

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 12d
The Mudumal megalithic menhirs in India have been added to UNESCO’s tentative list for World Heritage Sites in 2025. Mudumal’s menhirs are India's oldest menhirs, dating back 3,500–4,000 BP, and are located near the banks of the Krishna River. #StandingStoneSunday
Menhirs

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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 14d
🥳🥳🥳🤩!!!
egmitchell.bsky.social Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 14d
This #FossilFriday I am delighted to say that I have been awarded a @erc.europa.eu Consolidator Grant looking at selection in #Ediacaran animals. If interested in Ediacaran life, do come and chat at #palass2025 @thepalass.bsky.social

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 14d
This #FossilFriday I am delighted to say that I have been awarded a @erc.europa.eu Consolidator Grant looking at selection in #Ediacaran animals. If interested in Ediacaran life, do come and chat at #palass2025 @thepalass.bsky.social

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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 16d
Simply beautiful 😍
drnwillburger.bsky.social Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 16d
Fascinating world of ancient glass: The skill of ancient glassmakers never ceases to amaze me.

This a magnificent #Roman striped mosaic bowl was made of preformed rods and canes fused on or in a mold.
Dating late 1st c. BC/early 1st c AD.

Timeless beauty!

📷 Corning Museums of Glass

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Colorful glass bowl with thin, vertical, multicolored bands curving around the interior and exterior, creating a marbled, striped pattern in greens, blues, purples, browns, yellows, and white, shown on a plain gray background with a soft shadow underneath. Colorful glass bowl with thin, vertical, multicolored bands curving around the interior and exterior, creating a marbled, striped pattern in greens, blues, purples, browns, yellows, and white, shown on a plain gray background with a soft shadow underneath.

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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 16d
new study by Mark Dyble ‘Human monogamy in mammalian context’ 🤩🤩🤩
@cam-archaeology.bsky.social

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Human monogamy in mammalian context
Abstract. Monogamy has been argued to have played an important role in human evolution and, across animals more generally, evolutionary transitions to high
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 16d
Fascinating world of ancient glass: The skill of ancient glassmakers never ceases to amaze me.

This a magnificent #Roman striped mosaic bowl was made of preformed rods and canes fused on or in a mold.
Dating late 1st c. BC/early 1st c AD.

Timeless beauty!

📷 Corning Museums of Glass

🏺
Colorful glass bowl with thin, vertical, multicolored bands curving around the interior and exterior, creating a marbled, striped pattern in greens, blues, purples, browns, yellows, and white, shown on a plain gray background with a soft shadow underneath. Colorful glass bowl with thin, vertical, multicolored bands curving around the interior and exterior, creating a marbled, striped pattern in greens, blues, purples, browns, yellows, and white, shown on a plain gray background with a soft shadow underneath.

Reposted by Marta Mìrazón Lahr

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 21d
This week I’ve been at a #UNESCO workshop in Aix en Provence, at the former internment and transit camp of Camp des Milles, which has a very impressive heritage presentation dedicated to genocide prevention. 👏🏻👏🏻

Reposted by Marta Mìrazón Lahr, Caroline Robion‐Brunner

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Carina Schlebusch @cschlebu.bsky.social · 23d
Our new ancient DNA paper has just been published!
We present 28 new genomes from southern Africa - several of them high-coverage whole genomes.
Exciting to be moving towards population-level representation of ancient southern African genetic diversity!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Homo sapiens-specific evolution unveiled by ancient southern African genomes - Nature
The genomes of 28 ancient southern African individuals dated to between 10,200 and 150 years before present offer insights into the evolution of Homo sapiens.
www.nature.com

Reposted by Simon J. Greenhill

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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 25d
Challenging the name!
Jesse Martin & colleagues argue Little Foot (StW 573) can’t be called Australopithecus prometheus…
…dissent in the fossil world 🦴😅😁

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The StW 573 Little Foot Fossil Should Not Be Attributed to Australopithecus prometheus
Objectives To test the hypothesis that the StW 573 (Little Foot) fossil specimen should be attributed taxonomically to Australopithecus prometheus. Materials and Methods We adopt the methods of cl...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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David Connolly BAJR @bajr-badger.bsky.social · 28d
Zooarchaeologist
MOLA
Salary: £30,048 - £33,164 (depending on location and experience))
Closing Date: December 12, 2025
Location: Northampton
www.bajr.org/job-ad/zooar...
Zooarchaeologist - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources
Salary: £30,048 - £33,164 (depending on location and experience)Closing Date: 12/12/25Location: Northampton
www.bajr.org

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Marc Cadotte @urban-sci.bsky.social · 29d
The problems with academic publishing in one graph. The big for-profit publishers get product for free and sell it back to us. Their profits rival those from the big tech companies. This is money that could have supported research, teaching and graduate students.

From: danielroelfs.com/pos...

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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 29d
Wonderful talk by @jclark997.bsky.social for the great UoL Evo Anth Seminar Series - fabulous to see the synthesis of so much fantastic work and so many dxciting ideas and models 🤩

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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · Nov 26
Congratulations 🥳 🥂!!

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Nov 26
A paper in Nature shows that a 3.4-million-year-old partial foot found in Ethiopia in 2009 belongs to an ancient human relative named Australopithecus deyiremeda, a more primitive species of Australopithecus than the famous ‘Lucy’ (A. afarensis). go.nature.com/49BkCZY 🏺 🧪
The Burtele foot (left) and the foot embedded in an outline of a gorilla foot. Image credit: Yohannes Haile-Selassie

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Kévin Salesse @kevinsalesse.bsky.social · Nov 26
Come to work with us in an international team. I am hiring a lab tech in isotope chemistry. More information below. www.euraxess.cz/jobs/389191
Laboratory technician
Workplace: Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Type of Contract: temporary position with 1-year contract, non-academic
www.euraxess.cz

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Dr Ross Barnett @deepfrieddna.bsky.social · Nov 25
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Ancient DNA from Palaeoloxodon naumanni in Japan reveals early evolution of Eurasian Palaeoloxodon
Palaeoloxodon, the extinct genus of straight-tusked elephants, originated in Africa and dispersed across Eurasia. We analyzed ancient mitochondrial DNA of Palaeoloxodon naumanni, a species of the Japa...
www.cell.com

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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · Nov 25
Don’t miss it 🤩!!!
liverpoolevoanth.bsky.social UoL EvoAnth Seminar Series @liverpoolevoanth.bsky.social · Nov 25
Still time to sign up for our next webinar this Thursday!
liverpoolevoanth.bsky.social UoL EvoAnth Seminar Series @liverpoolevoanth.bsky.social · Nov 20
We hope you are enjoying the series so far! Please join us again next Thursday, 27th November 2025 at 13:00 GMT for a talk by Dr James Clark, University of Cambridge. More details 👇

If you would like to attend, please register here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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PLOS @plos.org · Nov 25
We are recruiting Academic Editors for our new journal, PLOS Ecosystems—a selective open science journal dedicated to research that informs evidence-led decisions and supports sustainable, healthy ecosystems.

➡️ Apply now: plos.io/47RBDhb
Promotional graphic for PLOS Ecosystems featuring Henrique M. Pereira. The left side displays the PLOS Ecosystems logo and text detailing a board membership opportunity, emphasizing global scientific impact. On the right, a headshot of Henrique M. Pereira, smiling, with a blurred natural background.

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UoL EvoAnth Seminar Series @liverpoolevoanth.bsky.social · Nov 25
Still time to sign up for our next webinar this Thursday!
liverpoolevoanth.bsky.social UoL EvoAnth Seminar Series @liverpoolevoanth.bsky.social · Nov 20
We hope you are enjoying the series so far! Please join us again next Thursday, 27th November 2025 at 13:00 GMT for a talk by Dr James Clark, University of Cambridge. More details 👇

If you would like to attend, please register here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Reposted by Marta Mìrazón Lahr, Catherine J. Frieman

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Pontus Skoglund @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social · Nov 24
🐺 Wolves in dog's clothing 🐺

Our latest in @pnas.org uncovers a surprise three to five thousand years ago: 2 canids in human contexts on a tiny island in the middle of the Baltic Sea, that ate marine food—but had 100% gray wolf ancestry.

Where they tame wolves, or even an incipient domestication?