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Dr. Emma E. Bird
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Palaeoanthropologist @ Natural History Museum, London. Interested in functional adaptation, the biological implications of behaviour, and humans of the late Pleistocene.
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🎥 Filming 💀💀 yesterday in the Earth Sciences library 📚 … some exciting things to come 🙈
#SciComm #HumanEvolution #AcademicSky
Two fossil hominin skull casts (Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis) are displayed on a table in the foreground of a grand, wood-panelled library filled with bookshelves. The room has a scholarly atmosphere, with a portrait on the wall and upper-level balcony shelving above.
July 25, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Historical #SciComm teaching objects - wood blocks representing variation in 🧠cranial capacity🧠 across extinct and extant hominoids 🦧🦍
#AcademicSky 👩‍🎓 #NaturalHistory 🌴 #HumanEvolution 💀
June 20, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Thank you to @amelinebardo.bsky.social, her colleagues, and @museedelhomme.fr for hosting me yesterday to talk about carpals and Homo floresiensis 👌🏻👊🏻one of my all time fave museums!
#AcademicSky
Dr. Emma Bird, in a floral dress and orange cardigan, stands smiling beside a projected slide in a classroom. The slide shows a stone tool and a skeletal hand with the caption “3 million years…”. The room has a laptop connected to a projector, chairs, and archaeological displays in the background.
June 12, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Happy #Caturday from King Solomon !
A large Siberian tabby cat sits on a garden path, looking directly at the camera. Behind it, a neatly manicured lawn stretches toward a row of cream-coloured Georgian-style terrace houses with multiple chimneys. The sky above is cloudy with patches of sunlight breaking through. Shrubs, flowers, and a small staircase add depth to the peaceful scene.
June 7, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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The most important lecture slide when teaching carpal identification
#AcademicSky #StarTrek #StarWars
Side-by-side images: Darth Vader in profile on the left, an anatomical illustration of the capitate bone labeled with articulations in the centre, and Captain Picard in profile on the right
June 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Looking at the Lady Smith Woodward's tablecloth yesterday - on the 4th floor of the NHM building where the palaeontologists work. 324 global signatures of the most influential scientists of early 20thC. In his true audacious style even Charles Dawson is there!
#Paleontology #AcademicSky
A faded cloth is densely covered in hundreds of handwritten signatures, randomly embroidered onto the cloth in various coloured thread, slanting in different directions. Some are underlined, many overlap, and a few are boxed or embellished. The photographer’s reflection is faintly visible in the center of the glass.
June 5, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Today’s editor #CatsofBluesky
Mimi the tortoiseshell cat lounges confidently on a wooden desk beside a vibrant monstera plant, with colourful art, vinyl records, and a TV visible in the sunlit living room.
May 2, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Crafting my first piece for @sapiens-org.bsky.social with my co-author by my side! #humanevolution #prehistory
A small, fluffy cream-coloured dog with curly fur and long ears stands on a wooden floor, looking directly at the camera. Behind the dog is a modern living room setup with a TV, record shelves, bright yellow speakers, a turntable, and colourful album covers displayed on the wall.
April 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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On my way to Harvard for the ASPR Science Communication Fellowship ✈️
#SciComm
April 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Despite being highly dexterous, our species only uses a small number of grips in daily life. Here is a sub-sample of grip types frequently used by Homo sapiens with Lower Palaeolithic tools (from Bird et al. 2024 PaleoAnthropology 2). (Thanks to my husband for being my hand model😂) #AcademicChatter
Black and white line drawing of four different hand grips. From left to right: a three-jaw chuck pad-to-side grip with an unspecified handaxe, three-jaw buttressed pad-to-side grip with the Boxgrove handaxe, a cradle grip with an unmodified rock, and a two-jaw chuck pad-to-side grip with a scraper tool. #griptypes #anthropology
March 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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New #ChappellRoan album just dropped #AcademicChatter
Close-up photo of an academic reprint highlighting the book Theropithecus: The Rise and Fall of a Primate Genus, edited by Nina G. Jablonski. Below, the title of the reprinted paper reads Theropithecus from Ternifine, Algeria by Eric Delson and Robert Hoffstetter.
March 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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My human origins Science Station at the Valentine’s Day after hours event at the Natural History Museum, London
#valentinesday #sciencecomms #AcademicChatter
The image shows a museum display. In the background, the wall is covered in e marine reptiles in wooden-framed cases. In the foreground, two human skeleton models—one modern and one a Neanderthal —stand facing each other. A table with labeled hominin skull replicas is nearby, alongside an informational poster on the skeletal differences between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens. The setting has warm lighting and a historic feel.
February 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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In honour of #ValentinesDay here is Denisova 11. A ~13 year old who girl lived in modern day Russia ~90,000 years ago. She was the result of interbreeding between a #Neanderthal mother and #Denisovan father - the only evidence for a first generation hybrid between hominins #AcademicChatter
A fossilized bone fragment shown from multiple angles against a black background. The fragment is irregularly shaped with a rough, textured surface exhibiting shades of beige, brown, and dark blue or black mineral deposits. A scale bar on the left indicates a length of 24.75mm. Two smaller images display the top and bottom views of the fragment. Photo by Buckley et al. CC BY SA
February 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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University of Liverpool's upcoming Evolutionary Anthropology Seminar Series. #AcademicChatter #HumanOrigins #Archaeology #Anthropology #Science
January 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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I’ll be at the museum’s Valentine’s event again this year, showcasing some the skeletal evidence we have for interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals! 💕 www.nhm.ac.uk/events/valen...
January 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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It took me an embarassingly long time to choose the colour palettes for my PhD publications but zero regrets 😅
#AcademicChatter #Science #anthro
January 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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#AcademicChatter #AcademicSky
January 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Merry cheesemas!
#christmas
December 24, 2024 at 10:29 PM
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#AcademicChatter #AcademicSky
December 22, 2024 at 10:21 AM
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Ah the abstract... my sworn enemy. We meet once again. #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #SciPub
December 20, 2024 at 11:22 AM
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December 15, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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Covid’s got me 💀
December 5, 2024 at 2:21 PM