*Paid internship opportunity* We are looking for a 3-month intern this summer to work across @the_Node @preLights and @focalplane_jcs . 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…

📢 Calling all researchers working with Artificial Intelligence! Are you using AI at any stage of your research? Whether you're exploring biological applications, computational methods, education, medicine, business, or innovative technologies using AI—this is your opportunity to share your work and discover how scientists in different fields are using and applying AI! 🎓 Join us at the next Research Café: AI & Research 🗓️ 19 June 2025 | 🕚 11:30 AM – 2:30 PM 📍 East Room, West Hub 🍕 Yes, there will be pizza! We’re looking for presenters from all disciplines and sectors to take part in a friendly, cross-disciplinary event designed to spark connections, raise your profile, and invite feedback. 👉 Submit your abstract by 18 May 2025, 23:59 🔗 Submission form here: forms.office.com/Pages/Respo… 🖼️ Choose from a lightning talk (6–10 mins) or/and an A0 poster presentation. 💬 “It’s an amazing way to connect and collaborate across departments.” — Past participant 📣 Please share with colleagues, postgraduates, and anyone exploring AI in research—let’s build bridges across disciplines!

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/wan…

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

Fabulous PhD opportunity, working with a superb supervisory team!

A short write up on our recent Lucy locomotion story in the @ConversationUK theconversation.com/we-model… Many thanks to the whole team for their hard work on the paper! @PashavanBijlert @wisellers @SamCoatham @cbrassey @james_charles90. Work led by Karl Bates @LivEvoBiomech

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

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/embl-int…

Our paper on shape changes in humeral metaphyses and their usefulness for estimating age in skeletal individuals is out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… @antrobiolubu1 @lrgagosto @AzaharaSF @Harvatilab_tue @UBUinvestiga @FATAPUERCA

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…

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

New post-doctoral position: “Spatial characterization of hominin environmental constraints in Eurasia” 👩‍💼Supervisor: Marie-Hélène Moncel 📂Project: @LATEUROPE 📍Place of work: @Le_Museum @CNRS 📩 emploi.cnrs.fr/

New preprint from my lab, presenting an in-browser AI tool for segmentation of tomographic scans, just dropped! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Call for projects - Postdoctoral Study Grants 2025

Tagging all the co-authors on twitter: @SamCoatham, @cbrassey, @james_charles90, @bones2bytes, @wisellers (and myself =) @ArchaeoAshleigh wrote an accompanying dispatch: cell.com/current-biology/abs…

New paper in @CellPressNews Current Biology by Karl Bates (@LivEvoBiomech) 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.2024.1…

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_BFS Msc Student Prabajalini! #anatsocuclan