Laura Watson

🇨🇦 PhD student at @Senckenberg who’s interested in evolution, paleoanthropology, human osteology, and paleo-obstetrics. Working in the Push@IT Project 🤰🦴

[Laura Watson @AnthroLaura]

Peep our poster!

Submit an abstract to our session here: https://t.co/lJ5zhKUt3i
Deadline Feb. 5th 2026
Further conference info: https://t.co/cFgjXkFZ2B
Reach out if you have any questions!

[Dr Ashleigh Wiseman @ArchaeoAshleigh]

Do you teach anthropology? Research human evolution? Studied the topic? Or have an interest in the field? 🐒🦧🦴🦍🚶

Then please help us out by completing this survey:

https://t.co/vGqXFelf2F

-IRN Bipedal Team

@UCamArchaeology @CamBioanth

[The Anatomical Record @AnatRecord]

📢 Call for Papers!
Anatomical Record Special Issue: Evolution of Birth Difficulties

✨ Focus: Obstetrical dilemma, pelvic anatomy, neonatal & primate adaptations
📅 LOI: Sept 1 | 📝 Manuscript: Dec 1

Guest Editors @PaleoNicole & @cedric_pp
https://t.co/WqziJte9Os

[nature @Nature]

In families with several children of the same sex, the odds of having another baby of that sex are higher than of having one of the opposite sex

https://t.co/q7X2UwkWLy

[Alessandro Urciuoli @a_urciuoli]

🧵 1/2 PhD Opportunity! Join my new HEAR lab @UZH_en (Sept 2025) to research hominin hearing evolution. 4yr contract, SNSF funded. Focus: cochlear anatomy, computational modeling, fossil hearing. https://t.co/OPdpTE0c6f

[The Anatomical Record @AnatRecord]

Excellent symposium today at AABA "Evolution of birth difficulties: Interdisciplinary approaches to the 'obstetrical dilemma' ". Keep an eye out for the resulting AR Special Issue!

[Laura Watson @AnthroLaura]

First ⁦@BiologicalAnth⁩ conference was a success! #AABA2025 ⁦@Senckenberg⁩ ⁦@geobiodiversity⁩

[Alexandros Karakostis @AlexKarakostis]

Thrilled to share our new study, the first to use EEG to explore brain activation during early hominin tool use, with fascinating insights! Congrats to Simona Affinito and team! @geobiodiversity @uni_tue

Link: https://t.co/4hepgm3R7A
Press Release: https://t.co/ta34Wg94hu

[Alexandros Karakostis @AlexKarakostis]

Another nice news piece on our recently published study showing human-like grasping patterns in early hominins: https://t.co/9VjzQ0BrLb

[Laura Watson @AnthroLaura]

@Tifanosaurus This is amazing!! 😻

[Laura Watson @AnthroLaura]

What an impactful ceremony! Really glad I could be there today @geobiodiversity 🤝

[Senckenberg Research @geobiodiversity]

HAPPENING NOW: Intergenerational Return of Significant Cultural Heritage Material to Yuendumu and the Warlpiri Project
📹Watch the ceremony @Senckenberg via livestream 👉https://t.co/QyDS3HEoSQ
More about the project 👉https://t.co/31JvFD8jCV

[Senckenberg Research @geobiodiversity]

🐒#Birth is a tight squeeze for #chimpanzees too!

A new study in @NatureEcoEvo shows that the 'obstetrical dilemma' evolved gradually over the course of primate evolution, rather than suddenly in humans as originally argued. 👉 https://t.co/6lNEredkv0
📸 P. Rolands/Adobe Stock

[Laura Watson @AnthroLaura]

https://t.co/Zq1S0QrgXa it's publication day! Check out our most recent work 🐵

[University of Zurich @UZH_en]

Chimpanzees, like humans, must contend with a confined bony birth canal when giving birth. In humans, the problem was exacerbated by our unique form of upright walking since this led to a twisting of the bony birth canal. The “obstetrical dilemma” therefore evolved gradually over the course of primate evolution.
https://t.co/eXcuGBDfaC

@evmed_ch @Senckenberg

[Laura Watson @AnthroLaura]

@Coley_Webb Yippee! Hot off the press!

[Nicole M. Webb (PUSH@IT) @Coley_Webb]

Check out our latest paper on chimpanzee birth that shows us how great apes can help shed light on the evolution of our own complex birth mechanism 🐵

https://t.co/0wwmVfvEl6

[American Journal of Biological Anthropology @AmJBioAnth]

Workshop: “Ethical Futures for Curation, Research, and Teaching in Biological Anthropology”. Read the summarized conversations and major points of the participants, and join the conversations initiated into the wider field and international community
#AJBA
https://t.co/dMjk84dHCM

[Laura Watson @AnthroLaura]

Krapina with @ESHE_society #ESHE2024