Radical Anthropology
Radical Anthropology
@radicalanthro.bsky.social
London's longest running evening class. We study what it means to be human at UCL Anthropology dept. We are FREE, on Tues eves term time. Account run by Camilla Power. Radical anthropologists include Chris Knight, Ian Watts, Jerome Lewis and Morna Finnegan
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A much-needed critique of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES) as applied to human evolution, by @evoroseman.bsky.social and Ben Auerbach (2026).

Evolving a Field: Can Evolutionary Theory Provide What the Study of Human Evolution Requires? 🧪 #BioAnth
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
February 12, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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Ominous bird valentines.
February 12, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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Inspired by the work of @lallailaria.bsky.social, @sheinalew.bsky.social, @jeremykoster.bsky.social & many others, I've simulated hunter-gather family energy balance across the lifespan. If kids contribute, families can (barely) maintain energy balance, but if they don't, it's impossible 🧪 #BioAnth
February 12, 2026 at 1:43 AM
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Interested in the evo-devo of the mammalian cerebellum? This review is a must-read!

Really happy to have contributed to this work, led by @marisepp.bsky.social , together with @ioansarr.bsky.social .
How have concerted and mosaic evolutionary mechanisms shaped the expansion of the human cerebellum?

Our review with @tyamadat.bsky.social and @ioansarr.bsky.social available free till March 29:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1ma2wFzn7a...
February 12, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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📣 @brunelpsy.bsky.social and the @culturemindslab.bsky.social with @nicolewen.bsky.social and @loraadair.bsky.social is excited to support Nu Know’s Parent-Teen Summit 2026 at Boxpark Wembley 🧡 📣

🗓 Thursday 2nd April 2026

🔗👇
Nu Know
Working together to navigate adolescence.
nuknow.co.uk
February 12, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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Article w/ @mfhansen.bsky.social out and open access. In it we outline key historical patterns and the changes in primatology and the behavioural sciences regarding the concepts of primate culture.
Interested in primatology and culture (and history)? check it out!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The evolution of the concepts of ‘primate culture’ in Western science - Primates
While most scholars across the social and biological sciences acknowledge that human culture is distinctive in the comparative context there is widespread acknowledgment that some form of culture does...
link.springer.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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Palestine Action Has Defeated the Government: What Happens Next?

Police forces that made arrests under the Palestine Action ban could be hit with a wave of lawsuits following the group’s “monumental victory” in court, legal experts have said.

novaramedia.com/2026/02/13/p...
Palestine Action Has Defeated the Government: What Happens Next? | Harriet Williamson
The group’s proscription as a terrorist organisation was unlawful and ‘disproportionate’, judges have ruled. But the fight isn’t quite over yet. Harriet Williamson reports.
novaramedia.com
February 13, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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The 13% illuminated waning crescent on Saturday at 5 AM (UTC+7).

Happy Valentine's Day, Artemis! ♥️
We will visit you again soon. 🚀🌕
February 13, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Lunar New Year, eve of Ramadan, Pancake Day!

The Dark Moon this Tuesday is organising religious festivity of billions of people. Why?

#anthropology #religion #evolution #menstrualhut
Tues Feb 17, 18:30 (UTC London)
Camilla Power with the London Menstrual Hut
Lunar New Year: Why are the world's religions run by the Moon?

All welcome
LIVE in Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
February 14, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Owen Jones speaks with Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action

youtu.be/Tb2wCbOp0Fk?...
Palestine Action DEFEAT Government In High Court
YouTube video by Owen Jones
youtu.be
February 13, 2026 at 5:40 PM
So bullshit sky hits the goalposts again blocking a nice Guardian article on female nude self-portraits.

We could take this back to the Upper Palaeolithic...
February 13, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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This #bunnybuttFriday Jack is delighted to put his butt in the face of the unlawful Labour govt!

He might get more treats to celebrate!

#radicalanthropologyrabbits
#rabbitsofmastodon
February 13, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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China’s Yangtze River shows signs of remarkable recovery after fishing ban

- the most positive freshwater conservation story in the world in 20 years, says one veteran biologist

Story by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
China’s Yangtze River shows signs of remarkable recovery after fishing ban
Doubling of fish biomass and rebounding of endangered species shows government measures starting to work, biologists say
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:58 AM
✊✊✊yay!
Let Palestine Action go!
Action and judgement tomorrow deciding if we're dragged through the courts!
RAPID RESPONSE ACTION

The Royal Courts have just announced that the judgment for the Judicial Review over the ban on Palestine Action will take place this Friday at 10am

wedonotcomply.org - all links and info

Action will take place in London and Edinburgh.

Lift The Ban on Palestine Action!
February 13, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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FREE THEM ALL
Following the many acquittals and no convictions at the first Filton trial last week, Palestine Actionists should be released.

It is not in the public interest to hold these political prisoners on remand.

Release them now.
February 13, 2026 at 11:04 AM
BREAKING - WE HAVE WON!

Following a successful Judicial Review brought by Huda Ammori, and a sustained campaign of defiance by defend our juries leading to almost 3,000 ‘terror’ arrests, the ban on Palestine Action has been ruled unlawful in the courts.
February 13, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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Lunar New Year, eve of Ramadan, Pancake Day!

The Dark Moon next Tuesday is organising religious festivity of billions of people. Why?

#anthropology #religion #evolution #menstrualhut
Tues Feb 17, 18:30 (UTC London)
Camilla Power with the London Menstrual Hut
Lunar New Year: Why are the world's religions run by the Moon?

All welcome
LIVE in Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
February 11, 2026 at 10:02 AM
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Now the Conference has a Blue Sky account we can shout about it on here.
Finally, Unravelling The Palaeolithic is coming to London and UCL. Tickets sales and the the Call For Papers are open. Follow their account, and join us when we gather together at the @uclarchaeology.bsky.social this June! 🏺🦣
Unravelling the Palaeolithic 2026!

Join us for two days of all things Palaeolithic, Pleistocene and Early Human Origins at UCL Institute of Archaeology 19-20th June.

Call for papers is now open and tickets are on sale! Check out our website for more information.

sites.google.com/view/unravel...
Unravelling the Palaeolithic
Welcome to the website for the Unravelling the Palaeolithic conference 2026! Unravelling the Palaeolithic is an ECR and student-led conference with a history of showcasing excellence in research in P...
sites.google.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:31 AM
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🏺 Brilliant stuff Harry! Genetics of people inhabiting the Lower Rhine-Meuse area through prehistory highlights the variable dynamics and regional diveristy in the interactions between groups carrying disparate ancestries. Lots of complicated stuff to unpack. Rhine-Meuse ancestry associated with...
February 12, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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This is, first, fascinating, and then, horrifying: on the past and present of Maya peoples in Guatemala

www.theguardian.com/news/2026/fe...
Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong
For many years the prevailing debate about the Maya centred upon why their civilisation collapsed. Now, many scholars are asking: how did the Maya survive?
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:16 AM
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'Patterns of genetic diversity on the X and Y chromosomes suggested that European-farmer ancestry seemed to arrive mostly through females.

“We really do think that the bits and pieces of the farming lifestyle that were incorporated by these hunter-gathering groups came in through...women".'
Hunter-gatherers took refuge in European 'water world' for millennia
Ancient inhabitants of the Rhine-Meuse river delta resisted population shifts that transformed most of Europe — until they helped catalyse the expansion of ‘Bell Beaker’ culture.
www.nature.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:19 AM
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Study of the changes to the entrance of #bruniquel Cave, which became an extraordinary #neanderthal ritual site with structures made from speleothems U-series dated to 176.5 ± 2.1 ka

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379126000752
February 12, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Action and judgement tomorrow deciding if we're dragged through the courts!
RAPID RESPONSE ACTION

The Royal Courts have just announced that the judgment for the Judicial Review over the ban on Palestine Action will take place this Friday at 10am

wedonotcomply.org - all links and info

Action will take place in London and Edinburgh.

Lift The Ban on Palestine Action!
February 12, 2026 at 12:53 PM