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New preprint from my lab, presenting an in-browser AI tool for segmentation of tomographic scans, just dropped! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New paper in Cell Press Current Biology by Karl Bates (University of Liverpool EMB lab) ea. Karl's physics simulations (validated in a human model) suggest that although Lucy could run - top speed was limited, not leaving much headroom for endurance running. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…

Tagging all the co-authors on twitter: Sam Coatham, Charlotte Brassey, James Charles, Tom O'Mahoney, William Sellers (and myself =) Dr Ashleigh Wiseman wrote an accompanying dispatch: cell.com/current-biolog…

Unfortunately I cannot make it to this week’s #AnatSocWinter24 meeting but if there, do go and check out the poster by my excellent ARU Biomedical & Forensic Science Msc Student Prabajalini! #anatsocuclan

Call for projects - Postdoctoral Study Grants 2025

New post-doctoral position: “Spatial characterization of hominin environmental constraints in Eurasia” 👩‍💼Supervisor: Marie-Hélène Moncel 📂Project: LATEUROPE 📍Place of work: Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle CNRS 🌍 📩 emploi.cnrs.fr

Our paper on shape changes in humeral metaphyses and their usefulness for estimating age in skeletal individuals is out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj… Rebeca García Laura Rodríguez García Azahara The Harvati lab at University of Tübingen UBUinvestiga FUNDACION ATAPUERCA

Dr Sophie Miller Memorial Prize 2025 – Call for Applications Applications will open 22-Jan-25 Details: buff.ly/3JszoBH Deadline: 06-Mar-25

New publication on probable facial piercings ("labrets") in the Mid Upper Paleolithic of Central Europe. Really happy to finally see this in print: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Recruitment for the EMBL International PhD Programme is officially open! 🔊 At EMBL, we train young scientists to become skilled and creative future leaders in academia, industry and other sectors. Start your career in the life sciences with us! embl.org/about/info/emb…

My colleagues Lumila Paula Menéndez and I are organizing a survey on data sharing and open science practices and impacts on research, in Bioanth and related fields. If you are interested in participating, please send me a DM or an email and I will share the link with you!

Can't even describe how much I hate what AI has done to the process of grading student work. I hate finding it, I hate the paranoia it fosters, I hate the confrontations with students who have used it. Nothing else in my experience has ever changed my job this much for the worse

A short write up on our recent Lucy locomotion story in the The Conversation theconversation.com/we-modelled-ho… Many thanks to the whole team for their hard work on the paper! Pasha van Bijlert William Sellers Sam Coatham Charlotte Brassey James Charles. Work led by Karl Bates University of Liverpool EMB lab

Fabulous PhD opportunity, working with a superb supervisory team!

📣Applications are also still open for this one too! Closing date: 16 May 2025.

Technical staff at all levels and disciplines are invited to be a REF 2029 Panel Member. The deadline to apply is 28th April. Research Excellence Framework Director, Rebecca Fairbairn, has published a blog providing advice on how to apply: 2029.ref.ac.uk/resources/want…

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*Paid internship opportunity* We are looking for a 3-month intern this summer to work across the Node preLights and FocalPlane . If you're interested in #SciCommm & #publishing, and have the right to work in the UK. Apply by 5 June. biologists.com/about-us/work-…