Disruptive Digital Darwinist
💀#Neanderthal is in my DNA!🧬
#Evolution #PaleoAnth #EvoMed #OpenScience
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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄
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An excellent postdoc opportunity at @cenieh.bsky.social🏺🧪
MU-Peter Shimon 🀄
MSCA Fellowship at CENIEH, Spain 🇪🇸 in African Acheulean archaeology. Research early human evolution, stone tools & Pleistocene studies. Excellent postdoc opportunity. Apply 👉 higherjobz.com/african-ache... #Archaeology #MSCA #Postdoc #HumanEvolution #ResearchJobs #AcademicJobs @cenieh.bsky.social
There's a hidden 'third eye' buried in your skull
Far from a spiritual metaphor, a new theory is shedding light on the bizarre evolutionary quirks that gave us a hidden third eye
Evolution of the vertebrate retina by repurposing of a composite ancestral median eye🧪
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Forgot to tag @jilldpruetz.bsky.social in this one!
Apply for the African Acheulean MSCA Fellow position at CENIEH, Burgos, Spain. Open to PhD holders in archaeology and human evolution.
The major animal body plans originated during the Cambrian explosion, yet the phylum Bryozoa has remained a conspicuous exception to this pattern
High-fidelity modular skeletons authenticate a Cambrian origin for Bryozoa🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I want to fly like an eagle...
But a red tail hawk will do. 🧪
Red-tailed Hawk - Buteo jamaicensis
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red-ta...
Evolutionary biology has traditionally inferred process from patterns in extant organisms and the fossil record
Synthetic and experimental approaches expand evolutionary access beyond natural observation
Synthetic biology as an empirical tool for evolutionary theory🧪
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Why there are so many definitions of fitness in models 🧪
academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...
Evolutionary “fitness” is operationalized in many different ways in models. Its role is to quantify that which is favored by natural selection.
"A Pox on Fools!"🧪
An urgent and profound history of vaccine skepticism,
seeking to understand how our three most common fears about vaccines hardened into a lethal ideology
— from leading science writer @tomlevenson.bsky.social
👇 Get your copy now!
Clacking wing bones together to woo mates
Male scissor-tailed nightjars create abrupt sounds by hitting the bones in their wings together
High-speed infrared video analysis of sonations in the scissor-tailed nightjar Hydropsalis torquata🧪
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Time for a book review! Starting out with Apes on the Edge: Chimpanzee Life on the West African Savanna by Jill Pruetz (University of Chicago Press, 2025)! (1/11)
🧪🦊 #Primates #Booksky #ScienceBooks #BookReview
Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒
Life in the Last Ice Age, as Told by Squirrel Scat
Ancient DNA, preserved for 700,000 years in ground squirrel poop, offers a new view of Pleistocene ecology
by @moiradonovan.bsky.social
www.biographic.com/life-in-the-...
Ancient DNA, preserved for 700,000 years in ground squirrel poop, offers a new view of Pleistocene ecology.
Publication day!
You can now get Pox on Fools wherever books are sold!
As RFK Jr.'s war on vaccines progresses, this book is way too timely. your circle includes vax-hesitant folks (not the die-hards), A Pox... can help you talk to them—or help them work through their concerns directly.
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An urgent and profound history of vaccine skepticism, seeking to understand how our three most common fears about vaccines hardened into a lethal ideology—from a leading science writer “Brimming...