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

Impressive work!

wennergren.org/article/glob...

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)

💼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

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
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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

Funded by our Innovations Grant, check out how
@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!"

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!
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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!