Kudos to Ted Present 🌎 🌅 who led the charge, and all co-authors Louise Leakey Carrie Mongle (and other not on X) who contributed to this wonderful project! It has been a long time in the making! We found the material back in 2012! Honored to be part of it.

Herbert’s “Dune” was filled with Arabic, most of which has been cut from the films in the name of a believable sci-fi world. In my new The New Yorker essay, I explore the art of making fictional languages & what gets lost in the pursuit of speculative realism. newyorker.com/culture/cultur…

Truly fascinating article from Manvir Singh, describing among other things how and why Hollywood has scrubbed Arabic from its latest adaptation of Dune. A great read!

Happy International #WomensDay ! The #MoyenBafing Chimpanzee Project is a women-led initiative that is proud to center and support women as leaders in #chimpanzee conservation and research! 💪👩‍💻

Exciting new paper by Tanya & team, which I’m proud to have contributed to. A favorite line from results: “Rapid oxygen isotopic shifts … [in δ18O] spanning M1 to M3, which may represent one or more supra-annual ENSO events captured during the ~9–11 years these molars [formed].

Don't miss this amazing speaker from the National Museums of Kenya! 👇👇👇👇

📍# Gaza: as of today, UNRWA, the main lifeline for #Palestine Refugees, is denied from providing lifesaving assistance to northern Gaza. Despite the tragedy unfolding under our watch, the Israeli Authorities informed the UN that they will no longer approve any UNRWA food

Profile update 👆🎉 Pleased to say I’ve been promoted to Associate Curator of Human Evolution at Cleveland Museum of Natural History!

🚨New article alert 🚨 Our article on the the seasonal dietary variations of wild pigs in Africa has been published in Current Zoology. IDPAS UofU Geology & Geophysics RGGS at AMNH American Museum of Natural History academic.oup.com/cz/advance-art…

We had a successful session discussing climate change, human evolution, adaptation and extinction today. #EGU24 Big thank you to my co-conveners from the IBS Center for Climate Physics, friends and colleagues Daniel Green @bumbanian Souron Antoine

Congratulations UoI for gaining this phenomenal scientist to join your faculty!!!

A 485-million-year history of Earth’s surface temperature | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Researchers have created three-dimensional maps of the interstellar dust extinction curve within the Milky Way galaxy. The results provide improved extinction corrections for astronomical observations. Learn more in this week's issue of Science: scim.ag/4kLqvXp

1/ Paper alert nature! Our study, led by Monika Markowska, reveals 8 million years of #GreenArabia. nature.com/articles/s4158…