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Dr. Emma E. Bird

@dremmabird

Palaeoanthropologist : British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow @ Natural History Museum, London. Interested in functional adaptation, the biological implications of behaviour, and humans of the mid to late Pleistocene.

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Happy #Caturday from my Siberian x Norwegian x Maine Coon ✨Solomon✨

07.03.2026 22:01 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Jobs - The University of York

🧬 NEW JOB: @york-bioarch.bsky.social is hiring a Postdoc in Ancient DNA

Work on the RoBMobS project to explore mobility and diversity in Roman Britain using genomic data.

💰 £37k - £39k
⏳ 34 months
📍 York, UK
📅 Apply by 24 March 2026

jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

07.03.2026 09:58 👍 4 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
Professorship in population genetics in the field of evolutionary anthropology and medicine (W2) Faculties & Facilities

Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11.
www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...

05.03.2026 16:38 👍 52 🔁 84 💬 0 📌 0
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🦖 Free Webinar: 200 Years of Vertebrate Paleontology in South Asia
Join Dr. Advait Jukar for a fascinating look at the history and future of vertebrate paleontology in South Asia.
📅 March 11 | 12-1 PM ET
🔗 Register: anatomy.org/ANATOMY/Meet...

06.03.2026 12:00 👍 57 🔁 26 💬 0 📌 1
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Job Vacancy: Lecturer (Teaching) in Museum Studies The UCL Institute of Archaeology currently has a vacancy for a Lecturer (Teaching) in Museum Studies (Ref.: B03-02901).

The UCL Institute of Archaeology currently has a vacancy for a Lecturer (Teaching) in Museum Studies (Ref.: B03-02901)

Further info & link to application here:

bit.ly/3MSVbKt

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04.03.2026 15:16 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Job Vacancy: Lecturer (Teaching) in Archaeology and Anthropology The UCL Institute of Archaeology currently has a vacancy for a Lecturer (Teaching) in Archaeology and Anthropology (Ref.: B03-02939).

The UCL Institute of Archaeology currently has a vacancy for a Lecturer (Teaching) in Archaeology and Anthropology (Ref.: B03-02939).

Further info & link to application here:

📲 bit.ly/3OKUMdw

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04.03.2026 12:00 👍 3 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Postdoc position -- Social Learning and Cultural Evolution Postdoc position -- Social Learning and Cultural Evolution posted on March 2, 2026 We are currently seeking a highly motivated individual...

🚀 Postdoc Alert! Are you passionate about social learning & cultural evolution? @dominikdeffner.bsky.social & I have a 3-year position with freedom to develop your research and work on cutting-edge multiplayer and immersive experiments. Apply by March 30! hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni... Pls share 🙏

02.03.2026 10:45 👍 59 🔁 62 💬 2 📌 3
Meet the scientists teaser 2026 | #SmashingStereotypes
Meet the scientists teaser 2026 | #SmashingStereotypes YouTube video by British Science Association

It's almost British Science Week (6-15 March) and time for our annual (and biggest yet) #SmashingStereotypes campaign celebrating diverse people and careers in science, tech, engineering, and maths!

Meet this year's incredible scientists and get inspired:

youtu.be/PRXAMfXecb4

#BSW26 #NCW2026

02.03.2026 13:54 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 3
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol

🚨JOB alert🚨

We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol.

Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology

⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026
🙏Please circulate widely

😊Come join us!

Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc

23.02.2026 18:13 👍 63 🔁 97 💬 0 📌 0
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UZH: Professorship for Evolutionary Anthropology and Primatology We are seeking candidates in the field of Comparative Evolutionary Anthropology and Primatology for the Irene Staehelin Endowed Professorship at the University of Zurich. This position focuses on the ...

🚨 Job Alert: Professorship in Evolutionary Anthropology / Primatology at University of Zurich, focused on understanding evolutionary and cultural evolutionary foundations of gender-based inequality and violence, with research in non-human primates.

jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

19.02.2026 16:09 👍 17 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 0
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Biological Anthropology Research Associate 2 in New Haven, Connecticut, 06511 | Other at Yale University Apply for Biological Anthropology Research Associate 2 job with Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, 06511. Other at Yale University

Research Associate job.

18.02.2026 02:36 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Staff - Vacancies - Post-doctoral Researcher - University of the Highlands and Islands Current listing of UHI jobs with vacancies from all across our partnership.

👀 Post Doctoral Researcher - Osteoarchaeology (18mths/PT)

"This post is part of a Historic Environment Scotland-funded project to collate, record and disseminate the archive of a 1970s excavation of an important Pictish/Norse cemetery at Newark, Orkney ..."

www.uhi.ac.uk/en/staff/vac...

12.02.2026 12:04 👍 32 🔁 26 💬 2 📌 2

🚨MASTER AND SCHOLARSHIP ANOUNCEMENT🚨

The MSc in Human Evolution and Behaviour at University College London is a broad-based programme run by experts in the field. This year they are excited to share 2 bursaries for Home/UK students, and 1 for International students - based on financial need.

11.02.2026 14:31 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

The ethical issues of gen AI are hardly limited to just scientific accuracy. There's also the IP theft, environmental damage, environmental racism, etc and so forth. There are so many good HUMAN artists out there, support them and the depictions will even look better, too.

09.02.2026 21:04 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Several exciting PhD opportunities here in the University of Vienna STEM-call. In our department fully funded positions in biomolecular zooarch, Pleistocene felid diversity and admixture, sedaDNA and popgen, and archsci and AMS 14C dating.
Apply below now!

careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/s...

06.02.2026 16:38 👍 19 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 1

Job alert in Malta on my ERC funded IslandLab Project for a post excavation research assistant. A bachalor's degree in Archaeology, or related fields is required, ideally with experience working on faunal assemblages and handling bones/fossils, and curating finds.
www.um.edu.mt/media/um/doc...

05.02.2026 10:16 👍 11 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 0

🚩Post-doctorat "biologie et taphonomie des fossiles humains du Paléolithique récent et du Mésolithique du Sud-Ouest de la France"
"Biology and taphonomy of Mesolithic and Upper Palaeolithic human fossils from the South-West of France"
contact bruno.maureille@u-bordeaux.fr

04.02.2026 07:24 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Research Fellow in Biomolecular Archaeology at UCL Searching for an academic job? Explore this Research Fellow in Biomolecular Archaeology opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

Job alert! 3 year post doc in my research group at University College London working on Roman Leather via biomolecular archaeology. #ZooMS #stableisotopes

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ187/r...

04.02.2026 08:56 👍 27 🔁 40 💬 1 📌 0
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🚨 Job alert! The University of Tübingen announces a W3 (Full) Professorship in Early Hominin Evolution in the framework of the DFG Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS':

uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Application deadline: 11.03.2026 🚨

29.01.2026 08:38 👍 38 🔁 53 💬 1 📌 4
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The surprisingly big health benefits of just a little exercise ‘Exercise snacks’ and other forms of everyday movement can greatly reduce the risk of heart disease and death.

How much exercise do you actually need?

go.nature.com/4q6KB02

28.01.2026 12:28 👍 27 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

We are looking for an enthusiast and motivated postdoc to join the Paleogenomics and Evolutionary Biology group at @liigh-unam.bsky.social, to lead a project working with human pre-hispanic samples. Interested candidates send a CV and letter of intent to fsanchez@liigh.unam.mx. Please #RT

27.01.2026 22:55 👍 16 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 1
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We are delighted to announce our timetable of talks for Semester 2 of the 2025/26 academic year! 🥳🤩

As always, all of our talks will be streamed online and are open to anyone. Our first talk will be on the 12.02.26. More details will be released closer to the time.

We hope to see you there!

26.01.2026 10:31 👍 21 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 2

Excellently written article! vibed with my experience of doing a PhD

25.01.2026 13:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Two human skeleton displays on stands sit on a table in a museum or laboratory setting, surrounded by cameras, lights, and tripods, indicating a professional filming or documentation setup. On the table is a fossilised large elephant vertebrae and a Woolley mammoth jaw. Behind them are glass cabinets filled with skeletal specimens and a large screen on the wall.

Two human skeleton displays on stands sit on a table in a museum or laboratory setting, surrounded by cameras, lights, and tripods, indicating a professional filming or documentation setup. On the table is a fossilised large elephant vertebrae and a Woolley mammoth jaw. Behind them are glass cabinets filled with skeletal specimens and a large screen on the wall.

More 👀Behind👀 the Scenes at the Natural History Museum, London - @nhm-london.bsky.social Filming a Middle Pleistocene straight tusked elephant from Swanscombe & Woolley mammoth from SE London - coming soon to 🌼Naturally Curious 🌼 www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...

22.01.2026 11:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Prehistoric tool made from elephant bone is the oldest discovered in Europe A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in southern England and analysed by archaeologists from UCL and the Natural His...

🐘 Prehistoric tool made from elephant bone 🦴 is the oldest discovered in Europe

New paper from Simon Parfitt @ucl.ac.uk IoA & Scientific Associate @nhm.org & Silvia Bello
Merit Researcher at the NHM

Read more via the links:
📲 bit.ly/45JQp8r
📚 bit.ly/3ZqKAsG

#LocalAndGlobal

22.01.2026 11:05 👍 27 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
A behind-the-scenes view of a video shoot in an anatomy lab, showing professional cameras, lighting equipment, and two human skeleton models behind a table of skulls.

A behind-the-scenes view of a video shoot in an anatomy lab, showing professional cameras, lighting equipment, and two human skeleton models behind a table of skulls.

LIGHTS💡CAMERA 🎥ACTION🎬
A new course on 💀 #Neanderthals 💀coming soon to the @nhm-london.bsky.social educational platform 🌼Naturally Curious🌼 www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...

21.01.2026 08:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’ve tired with a few we’ve received. Twice in a row I received vile misogynistic and ageist abuse so I’ve just stopped replying. I don’t think they want to have a conversation, anyway.

20.01.2026 08:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Research Associate (PDRA), Heritage (Fixed Term) The Fitzwilliam Museum: Opening up the past to transform our futures. As the principal museum of the University of Cambridge and the largest cultural venue in the region, The Fitzwilliam Museum acts

👀 1 yr PDRA - The Fitzwilliam Museum: Opening up the past to transform our futures.

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

17.01.2026 15:23 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
A leafy green houseplant in a pink ceramic pot sits on a bright windowsill. In front of it are four small pastel cups holding different legumes and seeds, including pistachios, lentils, broad beans, and mustard seeds, arranged on a white countertop.

A leafy green houseplant in a pink ceramic pot sits on a bright windowsill. In front of it are four small pastel cups holding different legumes and seeds, including pistachios, lentils, broad beans, and mustard seeds, arranged on a white countertop.

First time trying experimental archaeology….. making a modern iteration of Neanderthal flatbread. Spelt, lentils, pistachios, broad beans, mustard seeds.

17.01.2026 13:06 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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And then there was us In 1987, the academic conference ‘Origins and Dispersals of Modern Humans: Behavioural and Biological Perspectives’ was held in Cambridge, UK. Subsequently referred to as the ‘Human Revolution’ confe...

rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🚨new article alert 🚨 I’ve been sorting through historical documents on the development of the Out of Africa theory with @chrisbstringer.bsky.social - this is the fascinating BBC radio transcript about the 1987 Human Revolution conference #AcademicSky

16.01.2026 09:13 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0