Australian archaeologist, PhD, obsessed with tool-using animals. Steward at Skara Brae, Orkney | http://twig.technology | writing Intelligence Hallucinated with @abigaildesmond.bsky.social for Harvard Uni Press (2027)
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Chimpanzees in dry environments dip in similar ways for army ants as those in forests. A new study from my primate archaeology buddy Adriana Hernandez Aguilar and colleagues found Senegal chimp tools/tactics depend on ant aggression 🧪🏺
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📷 Instituto Jane Goodall
Up to 7km deep. 1200km long. Almost 500 fossil whales, some over 5 million years old. An epic new finding that shows how much unknown natural treasures the sea floor holds 🧪🐋
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
When I die, please scoop out my brains and sharpen my bones. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
Thrilled to be joining @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social. More soon from our chimpanzee and bonobo relatives on the making of cooperation and culture
The ‘Zenith’ poster at the new Cambridge AI launch is classic slop. The sun rises/sets behind a mountain but somehow also illuminates the opposite face
At least I found the monkeys that day too…
📷 9 June 2018
I’m determined to get gastroliths accepted as stone tools (most definitions insist tools have to be used outside the body, or grasped while in use).
It’s not this sea lion’s fault it doesn’t have hands and has to grind its food internally! 🦭🪨🛠️
Another new report on wild chimpanzee plant tool use, this time breaking down the fundamentals of fishing for algae in Guinea (part of the @mbchimp.bsky.social project). It comes with a figure on fishing techniques that doubles as dance instructions 💃🏺🧪
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In his fears about AI, historian Yuval Noah Harari comes perilously close to understanding what his friends at the world economic forum already do…
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Eight years ago today, I stumbled across this Tropidurus helenae while surveying capuchin monkey archaeological sites in Serra da Capivara National Park, Piauí, Brazil.
First described from this area in 1990 and named to honour herpetologist Helena Ribas Lopes.
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Researchers say the modifications may represent a previously unknown funerary ritual in Iron Age Britain
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Researchers uncovered an enormous deep-sea accumulation of whale remains in the southeastern Indian Ocean, showing long-term, specialized ecosystems and an extensive fossil record that offers new insi...
We are delighted to welcome a new Max Planck Research Group to @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social! 🥳 Led by @lirsamuni.bsky.social, this group will study wild #apes to address fundamental questions about the ecological & social bases of #cooperation & #culture. @maxplanck.de www.eva.mpg.de/press/news/a...
Liran Samuni has started a new research group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig
On Friday I took my *luckiest* and *most disgusting* wildlife shot so far: a California sea lion (Z. californianus) puking up a bunch of rocks! 🤮🪨 That's right - many pinnipeds use gastroliths. The gastroliths are in mid-air! 🦖🐬🦑 #nature #photography #sealion
UK AI takes a leap forward.
Zenith – the UK’s largest AI supercomputer – launches at Cambridge, alongside a new Sovereign AI Innovation Lab.
From transforming cancer care to fusion energy, collaboration and investment will unlock huge progress in meeting some of the world's greatest challenges.
