2 fully funded 4-years PhD positions at my group at the fantastic Department of Evolutionary Anthropology in Vienna! to start in February 2025 (or as soon as possible). The students will work on ERC SHADOWS project 🦊🐶🐺😀. PhD 1 on sedaDNA, PhD 2 on Megafauna genomics 🦁🐅🪨⚒️
Our paper out today in Cell Biology reports a new Neanderthal skeleton ("Thorin") from Mandrin (France) and the DNA from it shows that he represents a distinct population that stayed isolated for ~50,000 years in Europe from other Neanderthal groups.
https://t.co/gWTmkbwOeN
The big paper, as I've been calling it, is out! Amazing work by @lumilicious
my supervisor @PalaeoGARG and everyone involved. I was glad to be a part of it.
https://t.co/FQ1R09oLMc
So incredibly relieved and proud to announce that our BIG (in all senses) Gigantopithecus blacki paper has finally landed!! Massive shout out to all GIGANTONAUTS -thank you to everyone of you - please feel free to download its available for everyone
https://t.co/Fx1J2H1nHZ
Congratulations to Dr Chelsea Wiseman who has accepted a three year Lectureship in Maritime Archaeology. Chelsea is currently a Postdoc and will assume her new role in 2024. She becomes the first Australian woman to hold the title Lecturer in Maritime Archaeology at @Flinders
Australia’s oldest known human remains, from Lake Mungo, are dated to 42,000 years ago. The oldest archaeological site in the country, Madjedbebe, was first occupied 65,000 years ago, based on evidence from scientifically proven radiometric dating techniques.
We are dismayed to learn of ACU’s decision to gut its disciplines of History, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Pol. Science, and the entirety of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 1/4
New paper published in 'Organic Geochemistry' exploring the impact of organic carbon reworking upon GDGT temperature proxies during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) (1/5)
https://t.co/EEqwAxrqMJ
New video: "The Homo naledi Controversy! With Jamie Hodgkins and George Leader"
I sat down and chatted about naledi with Jamie (Reviewer #1 for the burial paper @elife) and @georgemleader (archaeologist of Southern African Paleolithic)
See it here: https://t.co/gL4ZzcCf9O
🦎Lizard posdtdoc position alert🚨 on this #WorldLizardDay! I am hiring 1 postdoc to work on an NSF project on squamate phylogenetics & evolution in my lab @Princeton. Reviews start on Oct1. Please share and contact me if you have any questions!🐍[1/2]
https://t.co/TZi08FDtj1
Postdoc alert! We're currently looking to fill a two-year #postdoc position as part of the @ERC_Research project "PROSPER". The successful candidate will work on #palaeoproteomics datasets of hominin fossils.