So… exciting job news 🎉 Very happy to announce I’ll soon be joining the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research!
Over the next 3 years, I’ll be exploring how artistic traditions changed over the Palaeo-Meso transition - did art play an active, adaptive role in response to climate changes?
As an Aussie living in Scotland, congrats to both teams for their wins yesterday in the World Cup that matters - the 2026 women’s cricket world cup
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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
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
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 💃🏺🧪
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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...
The final #kakapo chick (Pearl-4B) from this year's cohort has fledged the nest (defined as roosting outside the nest for the first time). There are 91 chicks alive. They won't be counted towards the population until they're 150 days old. 📸 Petrus Hedman #conservation #kakapo2026 #parrots #birds
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...
Thrilled to be joining @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social. More soon from our chimpanzee and bonobo relatives on the making of cooperation and culture
Dr Izzy Wisher
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Liran Samuni
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.
The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research is pleased to announce Dr Isobel Wisher @izzywisher.bsky.social and Dr Melina Seabrook as the eighth Renfrew Fellows in Archaeology.
👉 To find out more: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/isobel-...
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...
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Liran Samuni has started a new research group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig
