Alexandra Schuh

HEAS Seminar Series - Ancient Genomics - HEAS As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Ancient Genomics, Elena Irene Zavala from the University of Copenhagen will give a talk on Human Identification with Sediment DNA on the 23rd February 2026 at 10:...

We are looking forward to welcoming #ElenaIreneZavala to #HEASVienna next week for a #HEASSeminar in #AncientGenomics.

More information and registration on our website 👇🔗

Reminder: If you are applying for a 2026 Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, the deadline to submit your application is this Thursday 19 February, 4pm. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career...

When someone believes in you How the ARTEMIS mentoring programme connects African students and doctoral researchers with scientists of the Max Planck Society — and why mentoring means more than just offering professional advice

Being part of the ARTEMIS program last year was an amazing experience. If you are a scientist in a MPI, check out the new call! www.mpg.de/26122924/art... I am also very happy to see that the Bridging Minds Program will continue :) @maxplanck.de

#FossilFriday DAN5/P1, Gona, Ethiopia ~1.6 Ma: intricate evolutionary transition from early Homo to H. erectus + long persistence of small-brained, plesiomorphic Homo group(s) alongside other Homo groups that experienced continued encephalization doi.org/10.1038/s414...

#Préhistoire #Paléoanthropogie
💀 « Sapiens remplace Neandertal »
📌 Cours du Pr Jean-Jacques Hublin, titulaire de la chaire chaire Paléoanthropologie. 
⏰ 7 janvier → 16 février 2026
👉 https://urls.fr/fRRnay

Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social.
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.

All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏

L’école n’est pas neutre. Pour certains adolescents, elle représente un stress constant, où l’incertitude de l’avenir se mêle à la pression quotidienne.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/shg

Et demain, on consacrera notre émission à l'humain de Denisova :
Ce mystérieux cousin asiatique de Néandertal a enfin un visage ! Que nous apprend-t-il des interactions entre les différentes espèces du genre Homo ?
Ce sera à 16h sur @franceculture.fr ! #ScienceCQFD

A high-coverage genome from a 200,000-year-old Denisovan Denisovans, an extinct sister group of Neandertals who lived in Eastern Eurasia during the Middle and Late Pleistocene, are known only from a handful of skeletal remains and limited genetic data, incl...

A new high-coverage Denisovan genome 🤩
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

En 1600 un Européen consommait à peine 87 grammes de sucre par an
En 1800, 9 kilos
Et aujourd'hui jusqu'à 40 🍩

En quelques clics, un vêtement apparaît à votre porte. Mais à quel prix pour ceux qui le fabriquent et pour la planète ? Explorez en cinq reportages les coulisses d’une industrie qui ne dort jamais.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/shL

Had such a great time at the excursion of #ESHE2025 visiting the Grotte à la peinture and the Musée de Préhistoire de Nemours. Thank you to the organizers!

hoxd13a reporter in a zebrafish larva

Are digits modified fins, or evolutionary innovations? Read how we tackled this old question from a new angle🧪
A story with @chasebolt.bsky.social, @homeobox.bsky.social and myself, coordinated by @denisduboule.bsky.social from @college-de-france.fr and published in @nature.com today!
#InHoxWeTrust

The evolution of hominin bipedalism in two steps - Nature The human pelvis exhibits distinct spatiotemporal ossification patterns and an ilium cartilage growth plate that is shifted perpendicularly compared with those of other mammals and non-human primates—...

1) I am delighted to present this terrific tour de force research conducted by my post-doc Dr. Gayani Senevirathne @gayani.bsky.social and published today in Nature -
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Behaviour2025 – Join us tomorrow for Weaving the MacaqueNet 3.0 & connect with our international community of macaque researchers! 🐒

The workshop is free & open to all, even if you didn’t sign up yet.

📍 We'll be at the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, not the main conference venue!

Archéologie musicale, c'est le luth final Des flûtes en ivoire de mammouth ou en os de vautour qui remontent à plus de 35.000 ans jusqu’aux innovations d’aujourd’hui en passant par les psaltérions et les lyres de l’époque gauloise, chaque époque a marqué l’histoire de la musique. Comment retracer cette évolution ?

[RDV 16h !] Des flûtes en os de vautour qui remontent à + de 35.000 ans jusqu’aux innovations d’aujourd’hui en passant par les lyres de l’époque gauloise, chaque époque a marqué l’histoire de la musique. Comment retracer cette évolution ? avec Laurent Davin et Julian Cuvilliez

Attending #ESEB2025 has been an amazing experience!

If you are interested in more ancient DNA and museomics, please consider joining us in Stockholm for the first International Conference on Palaeogenomics (June 23-26 2026)!

Follow @palaeogenomics.bsky.social

👉icp2026.palaeogenomics.org

Léger, pratique, durable : le plastique devait révolutionner notre quotidien.
Il l’a fait.
Mais aujourd’hui, cette invention est devenue une inondation.
Chaque année, des millions de tonnes s’ajoutent. En 2050, ce sera peut-être un milliard.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/7oA

I think carrer del Perill is *objectively* the most beautifully decorated of the competition this year... No? 😊
#eseb2025 @eseb2025.bsky.social

On my way to join my very first ESEB conference in Barcelona! 🤩 Come to poster session 3 on Thursday, P110! I'll be happy to exchange about DNA/RNA extractions from bone samples and DNA methylation analyses 🧬
#eseb2025
@eseb.bsky.social @eseb2025.bsky.social

Whole-genome sequencing of 490,640 UK Biobank participants - Nature A study reports whole-genome sequences for 490,640 participants from the UK Biobank and combines these data with phenotypic data to provide new insights into the relationship between human variation a...

✅ Published in @natureportfolio.nature.com today, the paper describing the initial whole-genome sequencing analysis of 500,000 UK Biobank participants.

Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is the first ever confirmed skull of a Denisovan Finally, we can put a face on a Denisovan.

My latest story is based on papers in @science.org and @cp-cell.bsky.social revealing Homo longi aka 'Dragon Man' was a Denisovan - or is it the other way around? Featuring @benceviola.bsky.social, @fridowelker.bsky.social and @chrisbstringer.bsky.social. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

A very short summary of "Data Visualization against fascism":

Fascism conceals truths, disregards evidence-based decision-making, and jeopardizes the education of the next generation. Standing up against means: MONITOR, EXPOSE, and EDUCATE. As scientists we are ready for this!

#TCTeAC

L'origine de la bipédie humaine à travers la démarche des babouins Une nouvelle étude révèle que la bipédie occasionnelle des babouins présente des ressemblances avec la nôtre. Avec de légères modifications du bassin, leur locomotion pourrait être aussi énergétiqueme...

Ce matin dans « Avec Sciences » sur @franceculture.fr avec @alexandradelbot.bsky.social on a parlé de notre dernière recherche sur la #bipédie des #babouin. A retrouver en replay sur cette page :

www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

L'origine de la bipédie humaine à travers la démarche des babouins Une nouvelle étude révèle que la bipédie occasionnelle des babouins présente des ressemblances avec la nôtre. Avec de légères modifications du bassin, leur locomotion pourrait être aussi énergétiqueme...

Une nouvelle étude révèle que la bipédie occasionnelle des babouins présente des ressemblances avec la nôtre. Avec de légères modifications du bassin, leur locomotion pourrait être aussi "efficace" que celle des humains. Un résultat qui éclaire l'origine de la bipédie humaine
Avec François Druelle 🚶

Infant craniofacial diversity in Early Pleistocene Homo - Nature Communications Craniofacial development and structure in early Pleistocene Homo is unclear due to a lack of well-preserved specimens. Here, the authors examine infant craniofacial fossils from eastern and southern A...

Infant craniofacial diversity in Early Pleistocene Homo
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I would like to thank all the little hands that helped going through this gigantic amount of data, in particular Madison Hubbard and Najielie Burgos! 🔬🙏👏

Future studies on fossil hominins will tell if this is a unique human trait reflecting a developmental shift in our evolutionary history.

In all 3 populations studied, we show that the upper and mid-face are actively resorbed during early developmental stages, reflecting the need to maintain a non-projecting face. 👶

Shaping the human face: Periosteal bone modeling across ontogeny Facial morphology is a defining aspect of Homo sapiens that distinguishes our species from fossil ancestors and plays a central role in estimating age, sex, and ancestry in both past and present popu...

Together with Sarah Freidline's team, we finally published the bone modeling pattern of the entire human face 💀🎉
doi.org/10.1002/ar.2...