iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Charlotte Brassey @cbrassey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

📢 18-month PDRA in computer vision/3D reconstruction coming very soon. Interested? Get in touch! In collaboration w. Selvino de Kort & Brad Cain (MMU), Peng Wang (Uni. Surrey), @adamvanc.bsky.social (MPI) and Lisa Holmes (Chester Zoo)

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Chimp&See @chimpandsee.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

April 22nd 2026 is our 11 year Chimp&See anniversary! Check out our anniversary post here: www.zooniverse.org/projects/sas...

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Natural History Museum. Apply for Principal Researcher in Human Evolution jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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Principal Researcher in Human Evolution:South Kensington

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Charlotte Brassey @cbrassey.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

We’re interested in folks applying from all manner of disciplinary backgrounds. Biology, zoology of course. But also computer science, remote sensing, architecture. If you’re keen to work with LiDAR and point clouds, we’d like to hear from you!

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Adam van Casteren @adamvanc.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

My post-doc Charlotte King will be starting her own Minerva research group in September and is looking for PhD students. Click here if you are into experimental biomechanics, apes and hominin evolution. www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...

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Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

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Konow lab at UMass Lowell @konowlab.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

We are hiring a POSTDOC on an NIH award to measure inertial effects of (in)active muscle. Please share and re-post widely! Please send expressions of interest to my UML email.

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Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

🚨Job Alert plz RT! Johns Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences is looking for a new colleague using behavioral or computational approaches to study cognition! We are excited about many areas of (esp higher) cognition in human adults, children, or nonhuman animals Open-rank apply.interfolio.com/178146

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Adam van Casteren @adamvanc.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Two great biomechanics talks at @primatesocietygb.bsky.social by lab postdocs @savannarhianna.bsky.social and Charlotte King. 👏👏🧗🏼‍♀️🦍🐵🌳

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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

#ESHE2025 Rhianna Drummond-Clarke ‘First documentation and quantification of wild chimpanzee rock climbing’ Camera traps, Issa Valley TZ & Moyen Bafing, Guinea chimps Rock vs tree climbing: more dynamic movements, biomech diff locomotor modes, reaching further- role of uneven substrates! Amazing 😍

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Helen Fewlass @helenfewlass.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Very excited to receive an ERC Starting Grant to study the earliest archaeological and biomolecular evidence of Homo sapiens in NW Europe Watch this space for new positions in Bristol in 2026! 🎉 #HorizonEurope #ERCStG

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Amanda G. Henry @phytolith.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I am offering two 4-year PhD positions (fully funded) and a 57 month combined post-doc / project manager position as part of my NWO-Vici grant, which starts in September.

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MPI-EVA Leipzig @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Behavioural diversity in animals threatened by #biodiversity decline. In @science.org, @ammiekalan.bsky.social @uvic.ca & Lydia Luncz @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social emphasise the urgent need to develop strategies for preserving animal cultural #behaviour. tinyurl.com/569u66sv & doi.org/10.1126/scie...

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Ammie Kalan @ammiekalan.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Happy to have a new piece in @science.org with my friend Lydia where we draw attention to the significance of animal material culture for understanding human technical evolution and why we should digitally preserve and protect primate tools and tool use sites. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Saving the cultural legacy of wild animals

Loss of biodiversity threatens the study of tool use and other cultural behaviors in animals

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MPI-EVA Leipzig @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Why #humans have a smaller #face than #Neanderthals: In Homo sapiens, facial growth stops at #puberty. New study in #JHE by @alexandraschuh.bsky.social & an intl. research team, incl. Philipp Gunz, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Sarah Freidline. More: tinyurl.com/ywkvwvej & doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

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Why humans have a smaller face than Neanderthals

In Homo sapiens, facial growth stops at puberty.

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Jake Holland-Lulewicz @archaeojake.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

🚨 Our new paper is out today in Communications Earth & Environment (@commsearth.bsky.social)!! “Modern coastal ecosystems of the American Southeast are shaped by deep-time human-environment interactions” Check it out! 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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Alejandra Pascual-Garrido @runnerape.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

📣🐵 🌿 Our study shows that Gombe chimpanzees act as 'engineers', choosing plant materials to make tools based on specific properties that make them ideal for the job. @runnerape.bsky.social, Susana Carvalho, Deus Mjungu, @ellenschulzk.bsky.social, @adamvanc.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

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Engineering skills in the manufacture of tools by wild chimpanzees

Biological sciences; Zoology; Evolutionary biology

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MPI-EVA Leipzig @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Not just any stick. #Chimpanzees understand material properties and choose just the right #tool for the job. New study in @cp-iscience.bsky.social by an intl. research team led by @runnerape.bsky.social & @adamvanc.bsky.social. @ox.ac.uk More: tinyurl.com/59c2wff4 & doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

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Chimpanzees understand material properties

Wild chimpanzees choose just the right tools for the job, demonstrating a remarkable understanding of material properties

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Adam van Casteren @adamvanc.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Really happy to see this paper out, using field biomechanics we show that wild chimpanzees don't just randomly select plants materials for termite fishing tools – they use a little “folk physics” choosing materials with specific properties! Study in iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful.... 1/5

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Engineering skills in the manufacture of tools by wild chimpanzees

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Matthew Skinner @matthewskinnerphd.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The Tai Chimpanzee Project is making available microCT scans from their collections on human-fossil-record.org. All proceeds are used to support their mission of conservation and non-invasive research in Tai National Park (taichimpproject.org).

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The Human Fossil Record: A Digital Resource for Research and Education

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Arev P. Sümer @arevsumer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I am very happy to share our new paper on the genetics of some of the first modern humans who ever lived in Europe! We sequenced nuclear DNA from 13 specimens from Ranis in Germany, and found that they belonged to at least 6 individuals. www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/n)

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Earliest modern human genomes constrain timing of Neanderthal admixture - Nature

Nature - Earliest modern human genomes constrain timing of Neanderthal admixture

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Laurits Skov @lauritsskov.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Very excited (and a bit nervous) to announce that I will be hiring two Postdocs for my new group(!) in Copenhagen to study the Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA which survives in present-day humans. Retweet will be much appreciated :) Link for application: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

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Adam van Casteren @adamvanc.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

🚨Job Klaxon🚨 Q: What links biomechanics, human evolution and apes? A: This 2-year post-doc position available in my new Human and Ape Biomechanics group in the Department of Human Origins @MPI_EVA_Leipzig 👇 www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...

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Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 31/01/2024

Buried under 8 meters of rock and debris in a German cave, researchers found proof Homo sapiens arrived in northern Europe thousands of years earlier than previously thought—and overlapped with our Neanderthal cousins for millennia. www.science.org/content/arti...

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