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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Huge congratulations to @malaikasb.bsky.social on the publication of this paper. It was such a pleasure to see this research take shape and see the function of these giants put to the test, and the potential symbolic impact of the objects explored. #PaPa @uclarchaeology.bsky.social 🏺🦣

A Scan of a Giant Ficron from Canterbury. An elongated pointed flint tool almost 30cm long

An sample of experimentally made flint ficrons

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Marwella Zhang @marwellaspaceart.bsky.social · 14h

Waxing crescent 14.3% illuminated at 6.09 PM (UTC 11.09 AM) on October 14, 2026.

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 21h

Tuesday Oct 20 18:30 🌔 @UCL #anthropology All welcome LIVE and ZOOM Valya Marinova '21st century sex strikes, social reproduction struggles and liberal feminism #sexstrike #femalestrategies #socialreproduction

Colombian women mount a demonstration for their rights

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 21h

We ask, why is it that Western liberal feminism disregards this tactic? LIVE in Daryll Forde, Room 230 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW and ZOOM ID 948 6108 7055 passcode Wawilak

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 21h

but also scrutinises the popular opinion that sex strikes represent a backward consolidation of patriarchal gender norms. Through interviews with community leaders, we will see how sex strikes function as part of the struggle for resources of social reproduction under patriarchy.

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 21h

Valya Marinova presents results from ethnographic interviews conducted with participants in three case studies: Turkey 2001, Cameroon 2003 and Colombia 2011. This project not only rectifies western media's sex-strike sensationalism by providing local context,

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 21h

This talk explores struggles of social reproduction under patriarchy and western feminist responses to women's strategic sex strikes. Beginning with a broad survey of existing literature on historic and recently reported sex strikes, & analysis of sex strike coverage by contemporary media,

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

both sad* and happy** to see this * for him and others subjected to it ** that this is getting a lot of attention 1/2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9ah...

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Chomsky was wrong.They taught me a lie.

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Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Very much looking forward to this workshop @ucl.ac.uk early November. Many presenters have inspired, & continue to inspire me. It will be great to learn more from them. Thanks @radicalanthro.bsky.social for putting this together, for inviting me, & for choosing a cool title for the event 🧪

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Four weeks today we're running an interdisciplinary workshop @UCL on the emergence of language: What made us "hunter-gatherers of words"? 🌑 Tues Nov 10 🌒 10:30-6pm A fantastic lineup of speakers -- details here

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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🚨 Our new lab paper, led by @amandinevisine.bsky.social, examines exploration, group composition, and play activities among BaYaka children and teens living in a village context! Amandine is currently on fieldwork following up on this for her PhD 🎯 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Congolese BaYaka children's learning and exploring in a village context

Childhood is a key period for acquiring and transmitting cultural knowledge and skill. Hunter-gatherer children, such as the Congolese BaYaka, learn a…

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"We propose that child-only exploration alongside more adult-like exploitation may operate as complementary components of an age-graded division of cognitive labor, with discoveries made by children during exploratory foraging informing adults' subsequent resource exploitation"

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Developmental and social variation in spatial behavior among BaYaka hunter-gatherers

Effectively choosing between exploring alternative strategies versus exploiting familiar ones is a keyaspect of adaptive behavior. Previous research suggests that exploration in early life gives way t...

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Press On @pressonsouth.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

For Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we’re lifting up Honor the Earth’s @honortheearth.bsky.social Indigenous-led movement to keep hyperscale data centers off of Indigenous lands. Their Data Center Tracker at honorearth.org/datacentertracker helps them provide more accurate news & info to their communities.

Graphic with images of the input survey for hyperscale data centers and the data center tracker, which features a map of the U.S., that says, “Help us track hyperscale data centers either on or within a 30 mile radius of a reservation. Fill out this form if you are tracking a data center in your community. Our team will then add this information to our tracker!”

Graphic with an image of the tracker that says, “No hyperscale data centers on Native land!! Visit honorearth.org/datacentertracker. Help us track the attacks on our Land and Water.”

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Marc Kissel @marckissel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"“The chimps there have many more important stories to tell us,” Mitani says. “This is one of the reasons I am so concerned about the war on science and truth in this country.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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‘I didn’t want to write about this’: the man who first saw chimps waging civil war

John Mitani spent years studying a huge community of chimpanzees in Uganda. But then things took a dark turn – and his findings stunned the scientific world

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

TONIGHT Tues Oct 13 18:30 🌒 'The Fire of the Jaguar: Problems with perspectivism' Chris Knight All welcome LIVE Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St WC1H 0BW ZOOM ID 948 6108 7055 passcode Wawilak

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I don't think anyone has an idea. We need much more background context for Denisovans. But it's very remarkable.

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

TOMORROW Tues Oct 13 18:30 🌒 'The Fire of the Jaguar: Problems with perspectivism' Chris Knight All welcome LIVE Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St WC1H 0BW ZOOM ID 948 6108 7055 passcode Wawilak

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

A key site for the emergence of the #Neolithic in the Zagros mountains of Iran, 11,700 to 9600 cal BP #archaeology #plantdomestication #ovicaprids www.sciencedirect.com/science/artic…

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

A seasonal well-watered environment reconstructed for the earliest #Oldowan at Nyayanga, western Kenya www.sciencedirect.com/science/artic…

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

A robust defence of the U-Th dating of travertine at Quesang, Tibet, where ?Denisovan children made handprints 'Closed-system geochemical behavior supports Middle Pleistocene hominin activity at ∼169 - 226 ka BP.' www.sciencedirect.com/science/artic…

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Tues Oct 13 18:30 🌒 'The Fire of the Jaguar: Problems with perspectivism' Chris Knight All welcome LIVE Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St WC1H 0BW ZOOM ID 948 6108 7055 passcode Wawilak

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Here by contrast some quintessential English-style protest bsky.app/profile/defe...

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Here by contrast some quintessential English-style protest bsky.app/profile/defe...

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

'France’s republic was born of insurrection and has never forgotten it. French pupils learn that protest, uprising and rioting are the origin story of their freedoms, so these methods are championed in promoting change. We grew up in school with the idea that if you don’t like something, you […]

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

So, umm, for all of you arguing that progressive leftists are ruining the social sciences (Vandy report and its sub-reports), what's your take on this? www.science.org/content/arti...

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‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research

Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Fyssen Foundation International Prize is open for nominations, this year on the theme of "Technology and the Social Organisation of Prehistoric Human Groups" . The prize is for 100,000 euros - consider applying if your research is relevant! culturalevolutionsociety.org/news-and-eve...

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Fyssen Foundation International Prize: Technology and the social organisation of prehistoric human groups - Cultural Evolution Society

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 08/10/2026

Poland is using "WarWilding" to turn the ancient Białowieża Forest into a natural border defense against potential attacks. Known as the Green East Shield, this nature-based barrier avoids concrete, but scientists warn road construction still threatens the delicate ecosystem. By Marta Kasztelan.

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Can WarWilding defend Poland’s borders and save Europe’s last ancient forest?

BIAŁOWIEŻA, Poland — Michal Żmihorski, deputy director of the Institute of Environmental Protection, will never forget the morning of Aug. 1, 2023. Two Belarusian helicopters entered Polish airspace,…

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

His intro is truly remarkable. A race scientist wrote the chapter on evolutionary psychology and anthropology because there isn’t an evolutionary anthropologist in the world who is anti-woke enough to write about ev psych

There are also personal anecdotes, extremely close to home, that equally demonstrate the exceedingly politically activist nature of the current generation of anthropologists. As you will see, Part Ill of the current Handbook includes chapters that survey evolutionary psychology's relationship with and influence on neighboring social sciences. For the chapter on 'Evolutionary psychology and anthropology, I wanted to recruit a young evolutionary anthropologist who could write on the topic in an objective and scientific manner, without any political bias. I looked long and hard for such a person - trust me, I really tried and looked everywhere - but, in the end, I was not successful. The extensive, worldwide, and ultimately unsuccessful search for an anthropologist to author a chapter on evolutionary psychology and anthropology purely from a scientific perspective, without political agenda, delayed the completion of the current volume by six months. In the end, however, I was not able to find a single junior anthropologist anywhere in the world to author such a chapter, so I had to recruit a senior psychologist instead. Such is the very sad current state of scientific anthropology.

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Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Delighted to share our new preprint, which places what we have learned about the polygenic basis of the globular human brain shape into a broader evolutional/developmental context 🧪🧠🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"The inventory of wooden remains from Abric Romaní is extensive and represents a particularly unique case as it comes from a prehistoric domestic archaeological context." Important, cornerstone-paper from Saladie et al on Neanderthal wooden artefacts from Spain. 🦣🏺 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Neanderthal woodworking at Abric Romaní: Insights into the role of wood in a Middle Palaeolithic domestic context

Wood technology likely played a key role in human evolution, yet it remains poorly documented because organic materials rarely preserve in archaeological contexts. The Middle Palaeolithic site of Abri...

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yup and it's us human who make up Moon gods! That's our secret.

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

LIVE and ZOOM Tues evening Oct 13 🌒 18:30 London time @UCL #Anthropology Chris Knight 'The Fire of the Jaguar: Problems of perspectivism' #Amazon #cosmology #gender

Decorations of 'jaguar' design on a Piro girl initiate who is coming out of her first menstruation seclusion (Kigimawlo). She has a beautiful feathered cap and rafia armbands

Drawing pen and ink after Peter Gow's photo

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Marwella Zhang @marwellaspaceart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Waning crescent 8.4% illuminated at 5.21 AM (UTC+7) on October 8, 2026.

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Primatology.net @primatology.net · 22/03/2026

New research on 100 primate species finds that mild and lethal aggression are evolutionarily decoupled — species that fight often aren’t more likely to kill. Bickering and murder follow different evolutionary paths. #Primatology #HumanEvolution #Aggression @evolletters.bsky.social

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Killing Is Not Just Fighting Turned Up

A new comparative study of 100 primate species finds that lethal and mild aggression have decoupled evolutionarily — and that how often a species bickers tells you almost nothing about whether it kill

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 07/10/2026

Neanderthals were talented hunters AND home decorators. Evidence from a Spanish rock shelter includes new tool types and evidence for windbreaks and other domestic arrangements. “Now we can start to imagine the spaces they were living in,” says archaeologist @annemiekemilks.bsky.social. @science.org

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Neanderthals were skilled woodworkers, first-of-its-kind tool trove reveals

Find in Spanish cave provides rare window into the domestic lives of our closest relatives

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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

delighted to share my review article, out now in Trends in Cognitive Sciences! i have been thinking a lot about dynamics lately. this article outlines three key principles - persistence, parallelism, and time-stamped encoding - that support human speech comprehension 🧠✨🌀

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Brendan Barrett @bjjbarrett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Our paper on how orangutan mothers plan and alter their space use at personal costs so their offspring may play with similarly aged offspring (independent of kinship and fruit productivity) has transitioned from preprint to peer reviewed publication doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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Maternal ranging strategies facilitate offspring social play at energetic cost in the most solitary ape | PNAS

In most vertebrates, social play among peers is considered essential for behavioral development. Yet in solitary species bearing single offspring, ...

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is very cool - the lifting of postwar sugar rationing in 1953 created a natural experiment in the impacts of sugar consumption. Good piece which doesn’t overclaim but shows there is an emerging associative evidence base coming from research in this area www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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The generation raised on sugar rations – and what their health reveals 70 years later

From blood pressure to ageing, research suggests the first 1,000 days of sugar exposure could leave a decades-long mark on health

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

LIVE in Daryll Forde, Room 230 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW and ZOOM ID 948 6108 7055 passcode Wawilak

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