Alexandra Schuh
@alexandraschuh.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Human Origins, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Paleoanthropology 💀 Bone growth 🦴
Paleoanthropology 💀 Bone growth 🦴
Reposted by Alexandra Schuh
Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social.
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.
All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.
All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
www.eva.mpg.de
November 13, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social.
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.
All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.
All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
Reposted by Alexandra Schuh
L’école n’est pas neutre. Pour certains adolescents, elle représente un stress constant, où l’incertitude de l’avenir se mêle à la pression quotidienne.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/shg
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/shg
October 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
L’école n’est pas neutre. Pour certains adolescents, elle représente un stress constant, où l’incertitude de l’avenir se mêle à la pression quotidienne.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/shg
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/shg
Reposted by Alexandra Schuh
Et demain, on consacrera notre émission à l'humain de Denisova :
Ce mystérieux cousin asiatique de Néandertal a enfin un visage ! Que nous apprend-t-il des interactions entre les différentes espèces du genre Homo ?
Ce sera à 16h sur @franceculture.fr ! #ScienceCQFD
Ce mystérieux cousin asiatique de Néandertal a enfin un visage ! Que nous apprend-t-il des interactions entre les différentes espèces du genre Homo ?
Ce sera à 16h sur @franceculture.fr ! #ScienceCQFD
October 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Et demain, on consacrera notre émission à l'humain de Denisova :
Ce mystérieux cousin asiatique de Néandertal a enfin un visage ! Que nous apprend-t-il des interactions entre les différentes espèces du genre Homo ?
Ce sera à 16h sur @franceculture.fr ! #ScienceCQFD
Ce mystérieux cousin asiatique de Néandertal a enfin un visage ! Que nous apprend-t-il des interactions entre les différentes espèces du genre Homo ?
Ce sera à 16h sur @franceculture.fr ! #ScienceCQFD
A new high-coverage Denisovan genome 🤩
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
A high-coverage genome from a 200,000-year-old Denisovan
Denisovans, an extinct sister group of Neandertals who lived in Eastern Eurasia during the Middle and Late Pleistocene, are known only from a handful of skeletal remains and limited genetic data, incl...
www.biorxiv.org
October 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A new high-coverage Denisovan genome 🤩
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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En 1600 un Européen consommait à peine 87 grammes de sucre par an
En 1800, 9 kilos
Et aujourd'hui jusqu'à 40 🍩
En 1800, 9 kilos
Et aujourd'hui jusqu'à 40 🍩
October 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
En 1600 un Européen consommait à peine 87 grammes de sucre par an
En 1800, 9 kilos
Et aujourd'hui jusqu'à 40 🍩
En 1800, 9 kilos
Et aujourd'hui jusqu'à 40 🍩
Reposted by Alexandra Schuh
En quelques clics, un vêtement apparaît à votre porte. Mais à quel prix pour ceux qui le fabriquent et pour la planète ? Explorez en cinq reportages les coulisses d’une industrie qui ne dort jamais.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/shL
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/shL
October 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
En quelques clics, un vêtement apparaît à votre porte. Mais à quel prix pour ceux qui le fabriquent et pour la planète ? Explorez en cinq reportages les coulisses d’une industrie qui ne dort jamais.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/shL
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/shL
Had such a great time at the excursion of #ESHE2025 visiting the Grotte à la peinture and the Musée de Préhistoire de Nemours. Thank you to the organizers!
September 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Had such a great time at the excursion of #ESHE2025 visiting the Grotte à la peinture and the Musée de Préhistoire de Nemours. Thank you to the organizers!
Reposted by Alexandra Schuh
Are digits modified fins, or evolutionary innovations? Read how we tackled this old question from a new angle🧪
A story with @chasebolt.bsky.social, @homeobox.bsky.social and myself, coordinated by @denisduboule.bsky.social from @college-de-france.fr and published in @nature.com today!
#InHoxWeTrust
A story with @chasebolt.bsky.social, @homeobox.bsky.social and myself, coordinated by @denisduboule.bsky.social from @college-de-france.fr and published in @nature.com today!
#InHoxWeTrust
September 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Are digits modified fins, or evolutionary innovations? Read how we tackled this old question from a new angle🧪
A story with @chasebolt.bsky.social, @homeobox.bsky.social and myself, coordinated by @denisduboule.bsky.social from @college-de-france.fr and published in @nature.com today!
#InHoxWeTrust
A story with @chasebolt.bsky.social, @homeobox.bsky.social and myself, coordinated by @denisduboule.bsky.social from @college-de-france.fr and published in @nature.com today!
#InHoxWeTrust
Reposted by Alexandra Schuh
1) I am delighted to present this terrific tour de force research conducted by my post-doc Dr. Gayani Senevirathne @gayani.bsky.social and published today in Nature -
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The evolution of hominin bipedalism in two steps - Nature
The human pelvis exhibits distinct spatiotemporal ossification patterns and an ilium cartilage growth plate that is shifted perpendicularly compared with those of other mammals and non-human primates—...
www.nature.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
1) I am delighted to present this terrific tour de force research conducted by my post-doc Dr. Gayani Senevirathne @gayani.bsky.social and published today in Nature -
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Alexandra Schuh
#Behaviour2025 – Join us tomorrow for Weaving the MacaqueNet 3.0 & connect with our international community of macaque researchers! 🐒
The workshop is free & open to all, even if you didn’t sign up yet.
📍 We'll be at the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, not the main conference venue!
The workshop is free & open to all, even if you didn’t sign up yet.
📍 We'll be at the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, not the main conference venue!
🎉 Just days to go until our MacaqueNet Workshop in Kolkata!
🗓️ Sun 24 Aug | 13:00–16:00 IST
✨ Open to all (online & in-person)
📋 Members-only Board Meeting (16:00–17:00)
🍽️ Optional Dinner
View the schedule & signup now via our website: macaquenet.github.io/symposia/
#MacaqueNet #Behaviour2025
🗓️ Sun 24 Aug | 13:00–16:00 IST
✨ Open to all (online & in-person)
📋 Members-only Board Meeting (16:00–17:00)
🍽️ Optional Dinner
View the schedule & signup now via our website: macaquenet.github.io/symposia/
#MacaqueNet #Behaviour2025
August 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
#Behaviour2025 – Join us tomorrow for Weaving the MacaqueNet 3.0 & connect with our international community of macaque researchers! 🐒
The workshop is free & open to all, even if you didn’t sign up yet.
📍 We'll be at the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, not the main conference venue!
The workshop is free & open to all, even if you didn’t sign up yet.
📍 We'll be at the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, not the main conference venue!
Reposted by Alexandra Schuh
[RDV 16h !] Des flûtes en os de vautour qui remontent à + de 35.000 ans jusqu’aux innovations d’aujourd’hui en passant par les lyres de l’époque gauloise, chaque époque a marqué l’histoire de la musique. Comment retracer cette évolution ? avec Laurent Davin et Julian Cuvilliez
Archéologie musicale, c'est le luth final
Des flûtes en ivoire de mammouth ou en os de vautour qui remontent à plus de 35.000 ans jusqu’aux innovations d’aujourd’hui en passant par les psaltérions et les lyres de l’époque gauloise, chaque époque a marqué l’histoire de la musique. Comment retracer cette évolution ?
l.franceculture.fr
August 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
[RDV 16h !] Des flûtes en os de vautour qui remontent à + de 35.000 ans jusqu’aux innovations d’aujourd’hui en passant par les lyres de l’époque gauloise, chaque époque a marqué l’histoire de la musique. Comment retracer cette évolution ? avec Laurent Davin et Julian Cuvilliez
Reposted by Alexandra Schuh
Attending #ESEB2025 has been an amazing experience!
If you are interested in more ancient DNA and museomics, please consider joining us in Stockholm for the first International Conference on Palaeogenomics (June 23-26 2026)!
Follow @palaeogenomics.bsky.social
👉icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
If you are interested in more ancient DNA and museomics, please consider joining us in Stockholm for the first International Conference on Palaeogenomics (June 23-26 2026)!
Follow @palaeogenomics.bsky.social
👉icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
August 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Attending #ESEB2025 has been an amazing experience!
If you are interested in more ancient DNA and museomics, please consider joining us in Stockholm for the first International Conference on Palaeogenomics (June 23-26 2026)!
Follow @palaeogenomics.bsky.social
👉icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
If you are interested in more ancient DNA and museomics, please consider joining us in Stockholm for the first International Conference on Palaeogenomics (June 23-26 2026)!
Follow @palaeogenomics.bsky.social
👉icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
Reposted by Alexandra Schuh
Léger, pratique, durable : le plastique devait révolutionner notre quotidien.
Il l’a fait.
Mais aujourd’hui, cette invention est devenue une inondation.
Chaque année, des millions de tonnes s’ajoutent. En 2050, ce sera peut-être un milliard.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/7oA
Il l’a fait.
Mais aujourd’hui, cette invention est devenue une inondation.
Chaque année, des millions de tonnes s’ajoutent. En 2050, ce sera peut-être un milliard.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/7oA
August 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Léger, pratique, durable : le plastique devait révolutionner notre quotidien.
Il l’a fait.
Mais aujourd’hui, cette invention est devenue une inondation.
Chaque année, des millions de tonnes s’ajoutent. En 2050, ce sera peut-être un milliard.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/7oA
Il l’a fait.
Mais aujourd’hui, cette invention est devenue une inondation.
Chaque année, des millions de tonnes s’ajoutent. En 2050, ce sera peut-être un milliard.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/7oA
I think carrer del Perill is *objectively* the most beautifully decorated of the competition this year... No? 😊
#eseb2025 @eseb2025.bsky.social
#eseb2025 @eseb2025.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I think carrer del Perill is *objectively* the most beautifully decorated of the competition this year... No? 😊
#eseb2025 @eseb2025.bsky.social
#eseb2025 @eseb2025.bsky.social
On my way to join my very first ESEB conference in Barcelona! 🤩 Come to poster session 3 on Thursday, P110! I'll be happy to exchange about DNA/RNA extractions from bone samples and DNA methylation analyses 🧬
#eseb2025
@eseb.bsky.social @eseb2025.bsky.social
#eseb2025
@eseb.bsky.social @eseb2025.bsky.social
August 17, 2025 at 5:39 AM
On my way to join my very first ESEB conference in Barcelona! 🤩 Come to poster session 3 on Thursday, P110! I'll be happy to exchange about DNA/RNA extractions from bone samples and DNA methylation analyses 🧬
#eseb2025
@eseb.bsky.social @eseb2025.bsky.social
#eseb2025
@eseb.bsky.social @eseb2025.bsky.social
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✅ Published in @natureportfolio.nature.com today, the paper describing the initial whole-genome sequencing analysis of 500,000 UK Biobank participants.
Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Whole-genome sequencing of 490,640 UK Biobank participants - Nature
A study reports whole-genome sequences for 490,640 participants from the UK Biobank and combines these data with phenotypic data to provide new insights into the relationship between human variation a...
www.nature.com
August 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
✅ Published in @natureportfolio.nature.com today, the paper describing the initial whole-genome sequencing analysis of 500,000 UK Biobank participants.
Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Alexandra Schuh
My latest story is based on papers in @science.org and @cp-cell.bsky.social revealing Homo longi aka 'Dragon Man' was a Denisovan - or is it the other way around? Featuring @benceviola.bsky.social, @fridowelker.bsky.social and @chrisbstringer.bsky.social. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
This is the first ever confirmed skull of a Denisovan
Finally, we can put a face on a Denisovan.
www.nationalgeographic.com
June 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
My latest story is based on papers in @science.org and @cp-cell.bsky.social revealing Homo longi aka 'Dragon Man' was a Denisovan - or is it the other way around? Featuring @benceviola.bsky.social, @fridowelker.bsky.social and @chrisbstringer.bsky.social. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
Reposted by Alexandra Schuh
A very short summary of "Data Visualization against fascism":
Fascism conceals truths, disregards evidence-based decision-making, and jeopardizes the education of the next generation. Standing up against means: MONITOR, EXPOSE, and EDUCATE. As scientists we are ready for this!
#TCTeAC
Fascism conceals truths, disregards evidence-based decision-making, and jeopardizes the education of the next generation. Standing up against means: MONITOR, EXPOSE, and EDUCATE. As scientists we are ready for this!
#TCTeAC
June 13, 2025 at 10:08 AM
A very short summary of "Data Visualization against fascism":
Fascism conceals truths, disregards evidence-based decision-making, and jeopardizes the education of the next generation. Standing up against means: MONITOR, EXPOSE, and EDUCATE. As scientists we are ready for this!
#TCTeAC
Fascism conceals truths, disregards evidence-based decision-making, and jeopardizes the education of the next generation. Standing up against means: MONITOR, EXPOSE, and EDUCATE. As scientists we are ready for this!
#TCTeAC
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Ce matin dans « Avec Sciences » sur @franceculture.fr avec @alexandradelbot.bsky.social on a parlé de notre dernière recherche sur la #bipédie des #babouin. A retrouver en replay sur cette page :
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
L'origine de la bipédie humaine à travers la démarche des babouins
Une nouvelle étude révèle que la bipédie occasionnelle des babouins présente des ressemblances avec la nôtre. Avec de légères modifications du bassin, leur locomotion pourrait être aussi énergétiqueme...
www.radiofrance.fr
June 12, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Ce matin dans « Avec Sciences » sur @franceculture.fr avec @alexandradelbot.bsky.social on a parlé de notre dernière recherche sur la #bipédie des #babouin. A retrouver en replay sur cette page :
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Reposted by Alexandra Schuh
Une nouvelle étude révèle que la bipédie occasionnelle des babouins présente des ressemblances avec la nôtre. Avec de légères modifications du bassin, leur locomotion pourrait être aussi "efficace" que celle des humains. Un résultat qui éclaire l'origine de la bipédie humaine
Avec François Druelle 🚶
Avec François Druelle 🚶
L'origine de la bipédie humaine à travers la démarche des babouins
Une nouvelle étude révèle que la bipédie occasionnelle des babouins présente des ressemblances avec la nôtre. Avec de légères modifications du bassin, leur locomotion pourrait être aussi énergétiqueme...
www.radiofrance.fr
June 12, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Une nouvelle étude révèle que la bipédie occasionnelle des babouins présente des ressemblances avec la nôtre. Avec de légères modifications du bassin, leur locomotion pourrait être aussi "efficace" que celle des humains. Un résultat qui éclaire l'origine de la bipédie humaine
Avec François Druelle 🚶
Avec François Druelle 🚶
Reposted by Alexandra Schuh
Infant craniofacial diversity in Early Pleistocene Homo
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Infant craniofacial diversity in Early Pleistocene Homo - Nature Communications
Craniofacial development and structure in early Pleistocene Homo is unclear due to a lack of well-preserved specimens. Here, the authors examine infant craniofacial fossils from eastern and southern A...
www.nature.com
June 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Infant craniofacial diversity in Early Pleistocene Homo
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Together with Sarah Freidline's team, we finally published the bone modeling pattern of the entire human face 💀🎉
doi.org/10.1002/ar.2...
doi.org/10.1002/ar.2...
Shaping the human face: Periosteal bone modeling across ontogeny
Facial morphology is a defining aspect of Homo sapiens that distinguishes our species from fossil ancestors and plays a central role in estimating age, sex, and ancestry in both past and present popu...
doi.org
May 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Together with Sarah Freidline's team, we finally published the bone modeling pattern of the entire human face 💀🎉
doi.org/10.1002/ar.2...
doi.org/10.1002/ar.2...
Reposted by Alexandra Schuh
Phalangeal cortical bone distribution reveals different dexterous and climbing behaviors in Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Phalangeal cortical bone distribution reveals different dexterous and climbing behaviors in Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi
Phalangeal bone structure provides evidence for variable locomotor strategies across South African fossil hominins.
www.science.org
May 15, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Phalangeal cortical bone distribution reveals different dexterous and climbing behaviors in Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Alexandra Schuh
Loin de moi l'envie d'être mauvaise, mais... le CNRS "choose" déjà pas grand monde non ? Viendez donc take un contrat à durée determined, not very well rémunéré, dans des labos mis en compétition to lower the budget alloué à la recherche ?
Le CNRS tend la main aux chercheurs menacés par le retour de Trump
Le CNRS lance "Choose CNRS" pour accueillir des chercheurs menacés, notamment aux États-Unis. Objectif : offrir un refuge scientifique et renforcer l’attractivité de la France dans un contexte de recu...
www.sciencesetavenir.fr
May 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Loin de moi l'envie d'être mauvaise, mais... le CNRS "choose" déjà pas grand monde non ? Viendez donc take un contrat à durée determined, not very well rémunéré, dans des labos mis en compétition to lower the budget alloué à la recherche ?
Reposted by Alexandra Schuh
Very excited to be part of two manuscripts which are now on biorxiv!
arxiv.org/pdf/2504.15156
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Archaic humans such as Neanderthals and Denisovans are extinct but their DNA lives on in many humans today because our ancestors met and had children with them.
arxiv.org/pdf/2504.15156
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Archaic humans such as Neanderthals and Denisovans are extinct but their DNA lives on in many humans today because our ancestors met and had children with them.
arxiv.org
May 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Very excited to be part of two manuscripts which are now on biorxiv!
arxiv.org/pdf/2504.15156
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Archaic humans such as Neanderthals and Denisovans are extinct but their DNA lives on in many humans today because our ancestors met and had children with them.
arxiv.org/pdf/2504.15156
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Archaic humans such as Neanderthals and Denisovans are extinct but their DNA lives on in many humans today because our ancestors met and had children with them.