Devin Ward, PhD

Reporter, Nature News Job Title: Reporter, Nature Location: Washington DC or New York (Hybrid Working Model) Application Deadline: March 27, 2026 About Springer Nature Springer Nature is one of the leading publishers of re...

Nature Magazine is hiring! This is a rare and wonderful chance to join our US news team as a physical sciences reporter. US$85,000 - $100,000. Based in Washington, DC or New York City (you must have the right to work in the US, sorry). springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

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Because Style Never Takes a Snow Day: Your J.Crew Winter Olympics Gift Guide This month’s coverage of [global sporting event in Italy] is underwritten by Runners’ Edge Alaska. We sincerely appreciate their support of the site. By Devin L. Ward, Ph.D. This recent…

In a change of pace from my weekend race reports for Nordic Insights, I wrote a review of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard x J.Crew Collection for the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics. Check out my hot takes and gift recommendations: nordicinsights.news/2026/02/01/b...

160,000-year-old sophisticated stone tools discovered in China may not have been made by Homo sapiens Archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of hafted tools in East Asia, and they challenge a previously held assumption about stone tool use.

Their toolmaking techniques "appear to be well established and involve several intermediate steps, showing evidence of planning and foresight." 🏺🧪

Tracing social mechanisms and interregional connections in Early Bronze Age Societies in Lower Austria - Nature Communications Here, the authors present genome-wide aDNA from 138 Early Bronze Age individuals from Lower Austria. Their findings point to a patrilocal society with non-strict female exogamic practices and long-dis...

Tracing social mechanisms and interregional connections in Early Bronze Age Societies in Lower Austria @natcomms.nature.com
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Be sure to take a look at the zoomorphic carvings in Figure 6!
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Jellyfish sleep like humans — even though they don’t have brains Studying ancient sea creatures’ snoozing habits could shed light on the origins of sleep.

Neither jellyfish nor sea anemones have brains. But these animals sleep in ways strikingly similar to humans

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@natcomms.nature.com is a great place for interdisciplinary work! Happy to co-edit this with @gustontini.bsky.social

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Not only will I be at #SVP2025 for @springernature.com but I believe my colleagues @devinleaward.bsky.social @joaovascoleite.bsky.social @lukegrinham.bsky.social will be there too.

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This is figure 1 from “Human biomass movement exceeds the biomass movement of all land animals combined.” It shows total biomass movement of land animals and birds.

Human biomass movement may be up to 40 times greater than that of all land animals combined, according to research in Nature Ecology & Evolution. A second Nature Communications paper finds that wild mammal biomass has more than halved since 1850. go.nature.com/4oID33i go.nature.com/3LhSD7n 🧪

@a-urciuoli.bsky.social is looking for a PhD student to study hominin hearing evolution! Ears are great (I'm not biased at all): uzhcareer.ch/de/jobs/deta...