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Marta Mirazon Lahr

@martamlahr.bsky.social
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Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology & Prehistory @CamBioanth @UCamArchaeology - interested in #science, #humanevolution, #prehistory, #palaeontology, #bones #lithics, #fossils, #climatechange, #museums, #collections Can get distracted by much more 😍

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Rob Foley @robfoley.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Proud dad post! Hugh Foley shortlisted for Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets, for his ‘Recent Poems’ michaelmarksawards.org/shortlist/hu...
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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The #HEIRS Group Synthesis Project 2026 call is now open! We invite #HumanEvolution scientists worldwide to apply for collaborative groups of 10–15 researchers, including at least one #ICArEHB member. Deadline: 18 June 2026. #ResearchSynthesis #OpenScience heirs.icarehb.com
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Dr Laura T. Buck @ltbuck.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Abel Bosman, Hugo Reyes-Centeno, @martamlahr.bsky.social, @chrisbstringer.bsky.social, Rainer Gruen, Qinfeng Shao & @katharv.bsky.social
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Greetings from the 9th International Conference on Mammoths and their Relatives, being held in the beautiful National Museums of Kenya
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David Wright @davidkwright.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
My lab has a PhD position open! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Doctoral Research Fellowship in Archaeological and Palaeoenvironmental Geochemistry (293027) | University of Oslo
Job title: Doctoral Research Fellowship in Archaeological and Palaeoenvironmental Geochemistry (293027), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, March 1, 2026
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Bernadette Arnaud @narudaaarnaud.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Parmi les pionnières de l’archéologie du XXe siècle, figure Kathleen Kenyon (1906-1978). En 1952, elle avait relancé l’activité archéologique britannique en Palestine en reprenant les travaux sur le site de Jericho, tout en introduisant les méthodes de fouilles mises au point par Mortimer Wheeler.
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Pere Gelabert @peregx9.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Female researchers: interested in a postdoc at @univienna in #sedaDNA, #metagenomics or #ancientDNA? Apply via the E-STEEM fellowship through my group. Projects are flexible and can be shaped together! careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...
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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
This is really terrible. Devastating for Brenna Henn and her team, but also for Anthropology and Medical Genetics who will not benefit from their excellent research 😞
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 05/01/2026
Here's my latest contribution to the @nytimes "Lost Science" series. Brenna Henn's sweeping study of African genetics has been frozen. Gift link: nyti.ms/3Ypmm1A
Portrait of Brenna Henn next to an open freezer of samples.
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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
A confused Cambridge crow 🤣
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🤩🤩🤩
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primatesocietygb.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Fully funded PhD project available at Nottingham Trent University. Linked to a BBSRC funded grant, this project will investigate how primates perceive and respond to infants, combining cutting-edge cognitive testing with behavioural data. See 🧵
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Roberto Sáez @robertosaezm.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Acaba de salir mi nueva publicación "Bioarchaeology of Care Outreach: How Lessons from the Past May Help Improve the Present" en Applied Bioarchaeology: Making an Impact (Springer, eds. McKenzie et al) Exploro cómo el cuidado antiguo nutre debates actuales link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
One day into 2026… let’s hope it is a kinder year ❤️ And full of exciting scientific discoveries🤩, fun & fruitful collaborations, & open data too😁! And a big thank you to all who keep us so well informed🥰, specially @robertosaezm.bsky.social @mu-peter.bsky.social @chrisbstringer.bsky.social
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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy New Year 🥳🤩✨!
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Dr Sam Leggett @samleggs22.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
🌟New OA Publication🌟 doi.org/10.1086/738364 🧪🏰 "Biomolecular Archaeology and Medieval Studies: A Graphic Article" in @medievalacademy.bsky.social w @janetekay.bsky.social & an awesome team of ECR #WomeninSTEM 🧵⬇️ @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social
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Kaedan O'Brien, Ph.D. @deadbovids.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I finished 87 books this year, and it's time to rank my top ten! #booksky
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
As 2026 approaches a happy new year's toast to you all with this marvellous 4th century Roman cage-cup, which bears an inscription, a toast that reads: BIBE MULTIS ANNIS - Drink for many years! Cheers and here's to a far better year in 2026! 🥂 #NewYear2026 🍀
A close-up of a cage cup. It comprises an inner, translucent glass beaker and an outer decorative shell. The shell, affixed to the beaker via short stems or shanks, features circles at its body and an inscription at its top.
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Piret Avila @piretavila.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
📢 I'm hiring! 3-year postdoc in theoretical evolutionary ecology at University of Helsinki 🇫🇮 Apply: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Theoretical-Evolutionary-Biology/1348955157/ #AcademicJobs #Postdoc #EvolutionaryEcology #TheoreticalEcology #ScienceJobs #AcademicChatter
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Theoretical Evolutionary Biology
Postdoctoral Researcher in Theoretical Evolutionary Biology
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Chris Jiggins @chrisjiggins.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Excited about our new preprint showing bidirectional adaptive introgression between invasive and native crop pests over ecological timescales www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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The collision of two genomes threatens global food security
Human activity alters selection pressures and species' ranges, creating opportunities for hybridisation through secondary contact. Ancient hybridization has enabled adaptive radiation, but its role in...
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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Fabulous fossils ! @robertosaezm.bsky.social ‘s top 10 #FossilFriday posts of 2025, includes KNM-ER 23000 🤩✨😁
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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
JOB KLAXON! The @nhm-london.bsky.social is recruiting a micro-CT specialist! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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CT Data and Micro CT Specialist :South Kensington
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HEAS @heasvienna.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
It's always lovely to see where the #HEASBottle ends up - here is #JustusErusEdung from the #NationalMuseumsinKenya who was gifted the bottle from HEAS Speaker @martamlahr.bsky.social using it on TransEvol fieldwork led by HEAS Speaker #AurelienMounier with #HEASMember #MarjoleinD.Bosch.
Justus Erus Edung holding the HEAS Bottle while on fieldwork in Kenya
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Deming Yang @demingyang.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Unlike most "mini pigs" on Instagram, Cainochoerus is a true mini pig, standing at ~knee height of a mid-sized human (image below). Unfortunately, it went extinct a few million years back. The fossils that we found consist of jaw fragments and teeth. More in the paper!
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Erik Svensson @evolodonata.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2025
Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity. Apply here no later than February 11 2026: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:8487…
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Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity
The Department of Biology was established in 2010 through the merger of the Departments of Ecology, Cell and Organism Biology, Biological Undergraduate Education, and the Biological Museums. The depar
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Chris Law @chrislaw.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Our manuscript is now out in @royalsocietypublishing.org! We tested hypotheses that Cenozoic climatic change influenced the evolution of the cranial, appendicular, & axial skeleton in carnivorans. @tsengzj.bsky.social @hlusko.bsky.social 🧵 1/n royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
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Ochre use in burial practices in Thailand, from the Neolithic to the Iron Age | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Ochre use in burial practices in Thailand, from the Neolithic to the Iron Age
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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Lovely new paper by @sarah-paris.bsky.social & Charles Higham "Ochre use in burial practices in Thailand, from Neolithic to the Iron Age" 😍!! @cam-archaeology.bsky.social
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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
The Mudumal megalithic menhirs in India have been added to UNESCO’s tentative list for World Heritage Sites in 2025. Mudumal’s menhirs are India's oldest menhirs, dating back 3,500–4,000 BP, and are located near the banks of the Krishna River. #StandingStoneSunday
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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
🥳🥳🥳🤩!!!
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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Simply beautiful 😍
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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
new study by Mark Dyble ‘Human monogamy in mammalian context’ 🤩🤩🤩 @cam-archaeology.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
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Human monogamy in mammalian context
Abstract. Monogamy has been argued to have played an important role in human evolution and, across animals more generally, evolutionary transitions to high
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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
This week I’ve been at a #UNESCO workshop in Aix en Provence, at the former internment and transit camp of Camp des Milles, which has a very impressive heritage presentation dedicated to genocide prevention. 👏🏻👏🏻
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Carina Schlebusch @cschlebu.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Our new ancient DNA paper has just been published! We present 28 new genomes from southern Africa - several of them high-coverage whole genomes. Exciting to be moving towards population-level representation of ancient southern African genetic diversity! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Homo sapiens-specific evolution unveiled by ancient southern African genomes - Nature
The genomes of 28 ancient southern African individuals dated to between 10,200 and 150 years before present offer insights into the evolution of Homo sapiens.
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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Challenging the name! Jesse Martin & colleagues argue Little Foot (StW 573) can’t be called Australopithecus prometheus… …dissent in the fossil world 🦴😅😁 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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The StW 573 Little Foot Fossil Should Not Be Attributed to Australopithecus prometheus
Objectives To test the hypothesis that the StW 573 (Little Foot) fossil specimen should be attributed taxonomically to Australopithecus prometheus. Materials and Methods We adopt the methods of cl...
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David Connolly BAJR @bajr-badger.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Zooarchaeologist MOLA Salary: £30,048 - £33,164 (depending on location and experience)) Closing Date: December 12, 2025 Location: Northampton www.bajr.org/job-ad/zooar...
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Zooarchaeologist - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources
Salary: £30,048 - £33,164 (depending on location and experience)Closing Date: 12/12/25Location: Northampton
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Marc Cadotte @urban-sci.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
The problems with academic publishing in one graph. The big for-profit publishers get product for free and sell it back to us. Their profits rival those from the big tech companies. This is money that could have supported research, teaching and graduate students. From: danielroelfs.com/pos...
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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Wonderful talk by @jclark997.bsky.social for the great UoL Evo Anth Seminar Series - fabulous to see the synthesis of so much fantastic work and so many dxciting ideas and models 🤩
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 26/11/2025
A paper in Nature shows that a 3.4-million-year-old partial foot found in Ethiopia in 2009 belongs to an ancient human relative named Australopithecus deyiremeda, a more primitive species of Australopithecus than the famous ‘Lucy’ (A. afarensis). go.nature.com/49BkCZY 🏺 🧪
The Burtele foot (left) and the foot embedded in an outline of a gorilla foot.
Image credit: Yohannes Haile-Selassie
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Kévin Salesse @kevinsalesse.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Come to work with us in an international team. I am hiring a lab tech in isotope chemistry. More information below. www.euraxess.cz/jobs/389191
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Laboratory technician
Workplace: Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Type of Contract: temporary position with 1-year contract, non-academic
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Dr Ross Barnett @deepfrieddna.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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Ancient DNA from Palaeoloxodon naumanni in Japan reveals early evolution of Eurasian Palaeoloxodon
Palaeoloxodon, the extinct genus of straight-tusked elephants, originated in Africa and dispersed across Eurasia. We analyzed ancient mitochondrial DNA of Palaeoloxodon naumanni, a species of the Japa...
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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Don’t miss it 🤩!!!
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PLOS @plos.org · 25/11/2025
We are recruiting Academic Editors for our new journal, PLOS Ecosystems—a selective open science journal dedicated to research that informs evidence-led decisions and supports sustainable, healthy ecosystems. ➡️ Apply now: plos.io/47RBDhb
Promotional graphic for PLOS Ecosystems featuring Henrique M. Pereira. The left side displays the PLOS Ecosystems logo and text detailing a board membership opportunity, emphasizing global scientific impact. On the right, a headshot of Henrique M. Pereira, smiling, with a blurred natural background.
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Pontus Skoglund @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
🐺 Wolves in dog's clothing 🐺 Our latest in @pnas.org uncovers a surprise three to five thousand years ago: 2 canids in human contexts on a tiny island in the middle of the Baltic Sea, that ate marine food—but had 100% gray wolf ancestry. Where they tame wolves, or even an incipient domestication?
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David Gokhman @david-gokhman.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Such a fantastic resource by @kuhlwilm.bsky.social's lab. We’re using this catalog in half our projects www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A curated dataset of great ape genome diversity - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - A curated dataset of great ape genome diversity
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HigherJobz @higherjobz.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Project Coordinator – University of Cambridge, UK ERC-funded STEPS project in #HumanEvolution Research Deadline: 2 Jan 2026 🔗 Details: higherjobz.com/project-coor... #UKJobs #AcademicJobs #PartTimeJobs #ResearchOpportunities #ERCFunded @universitypress.cambridge.org @mcdonaldinstitute.bsky.social
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Project Coordinator – Human Evolution Research Cambridge | HigherJobz
Join the University of Cambridge as a Project Coordinator in Human Evolution Research. Part-time, fixed-term, apply by 2 Jan 2026.
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UoL EvoAnth Seminar Series @liverpoolevoanth.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
We hope you are enjoying the series so far! Please join us again next Thursday, 27th November 2025 at 13:00 GMT for a talk by Dr James Clark, University of Cambridge. More details 👇 If you would like to attend, please register here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Isabelle Crevecoeur @isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
‼️📢 Neandertal as prey‼️ We demonstrated selective cannibalism behavior at the end of the Middle Palaeolithic in Northern Europe #Neandertal #Prehistory #Cannibalism #MiddlePaleolithic #Goyet
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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Deadline extended to Nov 26!
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