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Edwin de Jager
@edwindejager.bsky.social
Neuroanatomist with hints of Human Evolution 💀🧠 | PhD Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge | MSc Anatomy | BSc (Hons.) Neuroanatomy | BSc Medical Science
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🦴 The #TaungChild fossil changed how we understand human origins in #Africa. Its story is shaped by prejudice, rivalry and hidden hands.
🎧 Unburied Season 2: The Taung Child from HERI and ARC explores its history and legacy.
Listen here 👉 linktr.ee/arcdocs
November 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Thrilled to join @palevoprim.bsky.social with @fondationfyssen.bsky.social to continue my "healthy" obsession with early hominin brains with Franck Guy and @ameliebeaudet.bsky.social. Thanks for the warm welcome!
@palevoprim.bsky.social accueille deux nouveaux arrivants ! 👏 @edwindejager.bsky.social a obtenu une bourse @FFyssen pour travailler avec Franck Guy et @ameliebeaudet.bsky.social sur le #cerveau 🧠 des premiers hominines @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univpoitiers.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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A fresh scenario for hominin brain evolution
📍 Thursday, Session 3 – 4 p.m.
September 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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✨ And to close it all out…I will tell you more about the project we are working on! Spoiler alert: it is about
Australopithecus, morphological disparity and hominin radiation 💀
📍 Saturday, Session 10 – 3.50 p.m.
September 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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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
September 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Interested in human evolution? Check out the virtual environment of the Sterkfontein Caves in South Africa's 'Cradle of Humankind', allowing learners, educators and scientists to access this rich Australopithecus site without damaging its #archaeology 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Towards a virtual environment for the Sterkfontein Caves, South Africa: developing a georeferenced and optimised digital dataset | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Accessibility at the Sterkfontein Caves UNESCO World Heritage Site limits public and scientific engagement. The authors digitally visualised part of the cave using laser scans and photogrammetry, geospatially integrating the digital cave and fossil datasets. This enables broader access for learners, educators and scientists and enhances scientific outreach potential.
doi.org
August 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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🚀 Today is the day! The #LHOSA project funded by the @AgenceRecherche officially kicks off. Excited for the journey ahead! 👉http://palevoprim.labo.univ-poitiers.fr/language/en/2025/04/01/lhosa/ @palevoprim.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univpoitiers.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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📣Don't miss our CAAG's last talk this term... Saharan prehistory and pastoralism with @martinadm.bsky.social . Tuesday 18th, 1pm, McDonald Inst. @cam-archaeology.bsky.social
March 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Join us tomorrow for the 2nd talk of Cambridge African Archaeology Group Seminar series...with @edwindejager.bsky.social at @cam-archaeology.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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ICArEHB is accepting expressions of interest for PhD topics, including a project led by @ricardomgodinho.bsky.social and me:
📌 "Augmenting palaeodemographic analysis: Geometric morphometrics and machine learning based sex estimation of mandibles"

Interested? 📩 rmgodinho@ualg.pt | ja807@cam.ac.uk
ICArEHB is looking for PhD candidates!
We are accepting applicants for the 2025 FCT PhD Fellowships Programme! Swipe through the images to explore potential project themes and supervisors.
For more details, visit: www.icarehb.com/fct-phd-fell...
#FCTPhDFellowships #ICArEHB #ResearchOpportunity
February 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Hot off the press! 📢
Honoured to have contributed to this special issue with @ameliebeaudet.bsky.social and team celebrating the iconic #Taung child for this centenary event. Stay tuned for more! #Palaeoanthropology #FossilFriday
To commemorate the #Taung centenary, a special issue of the SAJS came out today!

We present a collection of articles looking at aspects of the #history, #anatomy, #geology, #community and -#museum curation of the #Taung child in this post colonial era 🙌🏽

Link here 👇🏽👇🏽

sajs.co.za/index
sajs.co.za
February 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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And also see a collection of 100 papers on palaeoanthropology in Africa selected from Nature, Nature Ecology and Evolution, and Nature Communications..
February 5, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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This February is the 100-year anniversary of the discovery of the #Taung Child skull.

Join the #palaeoanthropology community in #SouthAfrica to commemorate at this free online webinar.

Happening Friday 7 Feb at 15.00 SAST / 08.00 EST

Register here: bit.ly/4hyV28M
January 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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📢Less than two weeks to the SAfA deadline!
Submit your abstract to our session on Digital Pathways (#56) and join us in Faro for an open discussion on the use of digital technologies to advance our understanding of the past.
@edwindejager.bsky.social

safa2025.icarehb.com/poster-and-o...
January 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM