We were thrilled to welcome Professor Lee Berger to speak to our Year 12 Biology students.
He discussed his work, discovering Homo naledi & new technologies to explore archaeological sites. This is the first of a series of talks in our new partnership with National Geographic!

Amazing to hear about the Age of Exploration and amazing discoveries with Lee R Berger And thanks for the selfie! #NABT2023

My favorite parts of #nabt2023 …learning & attending amazing sessions, hanging out with biology friends, meeting new inspiring teachers, ⁦⁦Tangled Bank Studios⁩ movie night, & hearing ⁦Lee R Berger⁩ present! Thanks ⁦⁦NABT⁩ for an outstanding conference.

So excited to get to hear from ⁦⁦Lee R Berger⁩ ⁦NABT⁩ as the conference comes to an end. ⁦John S. Mead⁩ ⁦Dr. Amanda L. (Glaze) Townley⁩ #NABT2023

Lee R Berger hello! Just watching your programme on Naledi at rising star and it got me thinking. Have the skeletons been aged at death? Is there any pathology visible? Could they have spent a significant period of time there? Could they have walked in there themselves? Thanks.

Come and join me in Baltimore for Nat Geo Live November 3rd #CaveofBones my.bsomusic.org/18873

Pov : you are doing a skull reconstruction and you listen to Promiscuous from Nelly Furtodo xD this is the result of Neo the #homonaledi #hominid #paleoart #paleoanthropology #evolution #reconstruction #art #promiscuous
Homo Naledi discovered by Lee R Berger and his team

m.youtube.com/watch?v=AmtHeB… with Brian C. Muraresku

I am extremely honored to have had this very personal and meaningful exchange with Max Abelson and his Bloomberg crew 🙏📷 find out more about me at moriba.com and sign up for my newsletter #attune

Delivering a lecture to UCT Human Evolution students tomorrow on excavation at Gladysvale. Passing the torch looks like this. Thank you Becky and HERI for the opportunity.

Inspiration for the next generation: 'We may have walked over every inch of this planet, but we haven’t really seen it.' - Lee R Berger 🌎
news.tulane.edu/news/paleoanth…

I see a lot of dumping on Penn about Dr. Karikó, but as the article says, she couldn’t get research funding. That’s not Penn’s fault - that’s the fault of peer review and the research community. Same community that rejected her paper to Nature. Let’s talk about peer review.

It's not that complicated. We can and should simultaneously celebrate Dr. Kariko for her ideas and persistence in the face of adversity, while acknowledging that she succeeded in spite of us, and realize it is our duty to do whatever we can to never let it happen again.

Not to be a crankypuss, but awarding a Nobel for work that suffered from not being taken seriously for decades only *after* it proved to be of incredible value is not a triumph of prizemaking - it's a complete condemnation of it and the entire culture of modern academic science.

…meanwhile, somewhere in a National Geographic magazine 🤙🏾💜 #attune space environmentalism hits mainstream

I invite you to join myself and my colleagues for our panel, 'What goes up must come down: what are we going to do with all that junk?' for The Economist's Space Economy Summit happening October 11-12th.

We'll be discussing the scope of the space junk crisis and what we can do

- Statement on fossils sent to space -

I hear the concerns raised by the scientific community, which highlight the need for renewed engagement around the processes and permissions to use fossils and heritage artifacts for the public engagement in science. I strongly value the

My babes is done, but will have to wait until my break from Uni teaching #GladysvaleExpedition

I wrote on Boing Boing about Lee Berger's talk at The Explorers Club on Homo naledi: the extinct small-brained ape he says ritually buried their dead and created art. cc. The Explorers Club Lee R Berger
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For #FossilFriday , an image of high-resolution dental casts of the OH 62 Homo habilis individual, around 1.8 million years old, showing the grooves that this individual made using a toothpick for many years. From Almudena Estalrrich and coworkers 2020

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