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NYCEP @nycep.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
The CUNY Graduate Center Anthropology Department is holding a virtual open house for students interested in the PhD program on Friday Dec 5th at 2pm EST. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
From "Night at the Museum" to digging up Miocene fossils in Spain, Ph.D. student Ariel Barrera shares how she is living her childhood dream www.gc.cuny.edu/news/digging... @nycep.bsky.social @amnh.org
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Digging Into a Dream: A Ph.D. Student Follows Her Passion for Paleoanthropology
Ariel Barrera returns to the American Museum of Natural History — where her fascination began — to study ancient teeth and human evolution.
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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Our article on Kayaca, a new Miocene locality in Turkey, is now out in the Senckenberg journal Paleodiversity and Paleoenvironments! Congratultions to George Konidaris, Ahmet Aytek and the whole team! The first result from this wonderful collaboration ✨🎉 #openaccess
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Kayaca, a new vertebrate locality from the Upper Miocene of Türkiye and its importance for the Turolian biogeography of the eastern peri-Mediterranean region - Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironment...
We present here a new Upper Miocene vertebrate locality, Kayaca, from the Beyağaç Basin in southwestern Türkiye that was discovered after surface survey and was subsequently systematically excavated. ...
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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The pollen analysis from Marathousa 1, an MIS12 Lower Paleolithic elephant butchering site in Megalopolis basin (Greece) is now published!! Congratulations to Stella Kyrikou and team!!! ✨ 🎉 It's wonderful to see this important work finally out! #openaccess #humanevolution doi.org/10.1017/qua....
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McNulty Lab @mcnultylab.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
How do you design exhibits on local African paleontology? You start by talking to the people who live where the fossils are from. Now we only have bare walls, but we got enough ideas to fill the space...and then some! #rusingaisland
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Megan Petersdorf @meganpetersdorf.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Do you have field work experience? Do you want more? Our team wants YOU to manage our field site studying Kinda baboons in Kasanka National Park, Zambia! Start date is this August 2025 so apply ASAP! Job ad here: tinyurl.com/KindaBaboon
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McNulty Lab @mcnultylab.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
A summary of our new paper, featuring the brilliant work of @munyaka.bsky.social and @danpeppe.bsky.social. Always new surprises from the fossil record!
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McNulty Lab @mcnultylab.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Excited to share this new #OpenAccess pub. It completely overturns our understanding of...nothing. It won't be in your newsfeed. Sometimes #science advances by basic, gut-it-out research. Would love comments about our approach to fossil alpha-taxonomy. paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...
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View of The Alpha-Taxonomy of Ekembo
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Deming Yang @demingyang.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
20 years ago, on April 22, 2005, Misha the zoo elephant was moved from Vallejo, CA to Salt Lake City, UT. Her relocation inspired a suite of studies about isotope turnover, including my recent one published in @commsbio.bsky.social Learn more about the study here: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Strontium isotope mapping of elephant enamel supports an integrated microsampling-modeling workflow to reconstruct herbivore migrations - Communications Biology
Comparisons of 87Sr/86Sr data from the tusk and molar enamel of a zoo elephant suggest that a microsampling-modeling workflow is the best practice strategy for geospatial reconstructions of seasonal m...
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Zachary Klukkert @zklukkert.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
New Anatomy Pub! 🦴🫁🧠 We report count and pattern of facial nerve branches near the TMJ based on cadaveric dissections - we also found that pics in anatomy texts are WAY OFF! Please pay for new #medicalillustration instead of repeating old errors! #anatomy #AnatomyEd #TMJ #MedEd #art 🔗 rdcu.be/egiKs
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Nic Thompson González @nic-tg.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
🚨 New pub 🚨 On the energetics 🔋 of cellular immune activity 🦠 in juvenile arboreal primates 🐒 (not toads and snakes) and its costs 💸 in terms of growth 📈 in lean body mass 💪. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Costs and constraints of cellular immune activity during development in an arboreal primate | Royal Society Open Science
Evolutionary life history theory predicts that, during development, investment in immunity must be balanced with the demands of growth. How, and at what time scales, this balance is negotiated is unclear. In this study, we examined the potential energetic ...
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Harvati Lab @harvatilab.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
New #openaccess paper by our PhD student, Stephanie Lismann, and other colleagues on the reconstruction of the demographic profile of Final Neolithic and Early Bronze populations in Baden-Württemberg, Germany! Congrats! 🎉 ⛓️‍💥 Link to the paper ⬇️ journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ak...
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Harvati Lab @harvatilab.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
📢Job alert! W3 (Full) Professorship in Human Ecology at the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen. ⛓️‍💥 berufungen.uni-tuebingen.de Deadline for applications: May 22, 2025 🗓 Please share and repost 🙏🏼 🤩 For questions please contact Prof. Harvati.
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The Anatomical Record @anatrecord.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The vertebral column evolves through modularity & integration, shaping support & CNS protection. Studying 4 catarrhine primate taxa, researchers found widespread integration, w/hominoids showing more modularity than macaques Villamil & Middleton: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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McNulty Lab @mcnultylab.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Wonderful celebration of Terry Harrison's career at #AABA2025! Thanks @3dmandibleny.bsky.social and Denise Su for organizing, and thank you Terry for agreeing to be toasted (and roasted)! @magratnj.bsky.social @julsam.bsky.social
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Justin Pargeter @justinpargeter.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Here, we propose a new perspective on early stone tool technology: emulation of naturally occurring sharp-edged stones (naturaliths) instead of inventing via 'Eureka!' moments. Nature provided the blueprint; hominins took it further. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/arcm... #Archaeology #Stonetools
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McNulty Lab @mcnultylab.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
We're building a museum on Rusinga Island to tell the stories of fossils found there and the local people who discovered them! No luck getting funding for this, so we're doing it the old-fashined way: digging in the cushions for coins, and building bit by bit.
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Rich Kelley @richkelley.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Primatologists Shahrina Chowdhury and Marina Cords join Research Scientist Sergio Almecija (all in @nycep.bsky.social) on 3/22 at Ensemble Studio Theatre to discuss new ESTSloan play HAVE YOU MET JANE GOODALL AND HER MOTHER? by Michael Walek @sloanfoundation.bsky.social
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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I enjoyed the opportunity to present the diamond open access, community owned, PaleoAnthropology journal and discuss the situation at the Journal of Human Evolution at the NYCEP seminar, City University of New York last week! Thank you to Larissa Swedell for the invitation.
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McNulty Lab @mcnultylab.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Lots of primate and Early Miocene science presented by McNulty Lab at #AABA2025!
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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Yesterday was such a full day at the AABA! Highlights included the symposium on A. africanus, the symposium in honor of Terry Harrison, the Paleoanthropology sessions, and meetings with so many colleagues and friends! A very productive conference indeed! 🤩 #AABA
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Christopher Schmitt, Ph.D @fuzzyatelin.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
SO PROUD of my student Reese, who won the @anthgen.bsky.social OTPAG Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Presentation for their poster on Gut Microbial Sampling as a Proxy for SIV Status in Wild Vervet Monkeys! Well done, Reese, and so well-deserved!
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Christopher Schmitt, Ph.D @fuzzyatelin.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Also a HUGE congratulations to my PhD student Mel for winning the @bioanth.org Outstanding Presentation Award for her talk on A Reference Mitogenome for the Yellow-Tailed Woolly Monkey Using Oxford Nanopore Sequencing… AMAZING job Mel! So proud of you!
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Adela Cebeiro @adelacebeiro.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
My first #AABA2025 was a success! Really happy to share a photo from my talk as my first post here :)
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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Exciting new find from Atapuerca! Here is the write up in Science, with commentary from former Tübingen fellow Mirjana Roksandic and myself.
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Fossil face found in Spanish cave belongs to first known Western European
Ancient remains suggest at least two types of early humans roamed Europe about 1 million years ago
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Stephen Chester @purgatoriidae.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Mixodectes (foreground) was about three pounds and had an omnivorous diet that included leaves. It appears to have occupied a unique ecological niche in trees shared with smaller plesiadapiforms like Torrejonia wilsoni (background) 62 million years ago. Amazing illustration by Andrey Atuchin!
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Stephen Chester @purgatoriidae.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Excited to share our new paper on the most complete mixodectid fossil ever discovered! Phylogenetic results support Mixodectes as most closely related to primatomorphans (primates and colugos) among mammals. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New remarkably complete skeleton of Mixodectes reveals arboreality in a large Paleocene primatomorphan mammal following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - New remarkably complete skeleton of Mixodectes reveals arboreality in a large Paleocene primatomorphan mammal following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction
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Christopher Schmitt, Ph.D @fuzzyatelin.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Join us as a Lecturer of Ecology & Marine Biology in the Boston University Department of Biology! We’re especially eager for colleagues who support our commitment to ensuring BU is inclusive, equitable, and diverse. Details: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29783 #AcademicJobs #HigherEdJobs
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Boston University, Department of Biology
Job #AJO29783, Full-time Lecturer, Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, US
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Dr. Emma Thurau @emmabee16.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Officially became a doctor yesterday after completing my dissertation defense so a new bluesky handle needed, Dr. or PhD 🌴🌿🐒
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Megan Petersdorf @meganpetersdorf.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Thrilled to have received an @bioanth.org Cobb Professional Development grant! 🙏🏼 ✨ I’m sad I won’t be at #AABA2025 this year but so grateful for this support to help fund new Kinda baboon research! 🐒
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Stephen Chester @purgatoriidae.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Check out our children’s book on paleontology and life in the Eocene! This work stems from our NSF funded research on mammalian response to the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum in the Wind River and Bighorn basins of Wyoming. digitalcommons.unl.edu/zeabook/165/
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A Day in the Badlands: A 52 Million-Year-Old Safari Adventure
with Amy Chew, Christopher Gilbert, Ross Secord, and Stephen Chester Illustrations by Jenn Paul • Book design by Aaron Sutherlen About the Badlands Fossils -- This story tells about the fossils of anc...
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NYCEP @nycep.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The Black in BioAnth Collective is hosting their annual online BiBA Week next week mostly (entirely?) on Instagram (follow them there @blackinbioanth)
Black in bioanth poster for online events on February 18th through the 21st. Follow them on instagram @blackinbioanth for more details.
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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
‪ Some important statistics and information for those thinking about submitting to the PaleoAnthropology journal. PaleoAnthropology has a >20 year-history as a community owned, diamond open access, peer-reviewed journal. No fees, no subscription. We look forward to your papers!
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Harvati Lab @harvatilab.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Excited to share a new #openaccess paper by Salazar-Fernández et al. on shape changes in humeral metaphyses and their usefulness for estimating age in skeletal individuals. ☠️ Congratulations to all authors! 😊🥳 Check it out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
In addition to our recent special issue on Integration of ZooMS and Zooarchaeology at Paleolithic Sites (2024:2, paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...) the spring 2025 issue (In progress) is now online, with several exciting contributions!
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Vol. 2024 No. 2 (2024): PaleoAnthropology | PaleoAnthropology
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Megan Petersdorf @meganpetersdorf.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
New paper! 🐒 🧪 We found the Kinda baboons have long-lasting female-male relationships that are largely male-driven and persist across female reproductive states. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Megan Petersdorf @meganpetersdorf.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Still a work in progress but I've updated my website! meganpetersdorf.com 🐒🤩
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Megan Petersdorf, PhD
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Justin Pargeter @justinpargeter.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
A short video by the talented @piepergrantham.bsky.social showcasing the amazing student stories behind the 2024 Boomplaas Cave excavations youtu.be/sK9m0vvNTwA?...
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Boomplaas Excavation and Student Stories 2024
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McNulty Lab @mcnultylab.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Cool new research from the Pleistocene of Romania! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Hominin presence in Eurasia by at least 1.95 million years ago - Nature Communications
When hominins dispersed into Eurasia is unclear. Here, the authors present multiple cut-marked bones from Grăunceanu, Romania dated to at least 1.95 million years ago and suggest hominins would have l...
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McNulty Lab @mcnultylab.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Thinking about a project at the National Museums of Kenya? Consider the Broader Impact of digitizing their archives. More than a century of field notes, maps, photos, films, and other priceless documents. We're starting this work but with > 4M items there's room to get involved! DM me for details.
Archives in the National Museums of Kenya.Archives in the National Museums of Kenya.Archives in the National Museums of Kenya.Archives in the National Museums of Kenya.
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