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Julia Arias-Martorell

@julsam

Paleoanthropologist at Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (www.icp.cat)

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#SomCERCA | 🌍 Dilluns 23/03 👉 Taula rodona per abordar l’equitat de gènere en el desenvolupament professional a universitats i centres de recerca.
✔️ Parlarem de les mentories feministes CERCA-REMA i molt més...

📆 23/3 de 12 a14h
📍 Via Laietana, 2
🔗 https://tuit.cat/ivaw0

09.03.2026 10:07 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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#SomCERCA | 💪 #8M2026 Dia Internacional de les Dones

🔬 La igualtat no és opcional

🔗 https://genere.cerca.cat/

08.03.2026 08:14 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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The locomotor behaviour of subfossil Malagasy sloth-lemurs (Strepsirrhini: Indriidae) and koala-lemurs (Strepsirrhini: Megaladapidae): new insights from limb trabecular bone Abstract. The locomotion of Malagasy Quaternary subfossil lemurs, including palaeopropithecines (‘sloth-lemurs’) and megaladapids (‘koala-lemurs’), has bee

I’m very happy to share that our work on bone inner structure of Madagascar’s subfossil sloth- and koala-lemurs is finally out 🦴🐒 on @zoojlinnsoc.bsky.social
A big thank you to co-authors @julsam.bsky.social Carla Argilés Esturgó and Damiano Marchi!

academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

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07.03.2026 11:32 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 5 📌 0

New paper alert!!🚨

Trabecular structure of the Malagasy sloth-lemurs and koala-lemurs and its relationship with locomotion🐒🐒 led by @fabioalfieri2.bsky.social

It was great to work with all the people involved! Check it out👇🏽https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/206/3/zlag021/8509525

07.03.2026 08:15 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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#SomCERCA | 🌍 Una recerca sense excuses és aquella que entén la igualtat com a base de la qualitat científica. 

🔬 Fem dels centres CERCA espais segurs, diversos i justos.
💪 #8M2026 Dia Internacional de les Dones

🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/ajswjpuimp

#RecercaAmbRespecte

04.03.2026 10:33 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

🚨There is still time to apply! Deadline March 11

01.03.2026 08:53 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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🚨 Job alert! The University of Tübingen announces a W3 (Full) Professorship in Early Hominin Evolution in the framework of the DFG Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS':

uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Application deadline: 11.03.2026 🚨

29.01.2026 08:38 👍 38 🔁 53 💬 1 📌 5

Come and work with us on an exciting PhD project focused on dental evolution in tetrapods! 🦷🔬🦎🐊🐎🦌

22.01.2026 14:44 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Eskerrik asko @martamachos.bsky.social eta @zientziakaiera.eus!! 🦍🦴⚒️

#Nakali🇰🇪 #BPpostdoc

19.01.2026 14:46 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Early hominins from Morocco basal to the Homo sapiens lineage - Nature New hominin fossils from the Grotte à Hominidés at Thomas Quarry I (ThI-GH) in Casablanca, Morocco, dated to around 773 thousand years ago are similar in age to Homo antecessor, yet are morphologically distinct.

Hominin fossils discovered in Morocco, which have been dated to about 773,000 years ago, may be close ancestors of modern humans. The findings, published in Nature, provide insights into African populations before the earliest known Homo sapiens. 🏺🧪

18.01.2026 02:59 👍 139 🔁 37 💬 1 📌 1
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Ape-like locomotor adaptations in the radius of the stem catarrhine Pliobates shed light on hominoid evolution The 11.6. Ma pliopithecoid Pliobates was initially misinterpreted as a stem hominoid owing to multiple apelike postcranial features. Using 3D geometric morphometrics, we compare its radial shape with ...

Delighted to share our new paper about Pliobates!!

Its radius shows apelike adaptations providing interesting clues about the locomotor evolution of catarrhines.

Find it here!👇🏽
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

06.01.2026 13:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Setmana de la ciència 2025 – fenòmens naturals

Vaig anar a Ràdio Farró per la #SetmanaCiencia #SC25CAT!

Podeu escoltar el programa especial de Fenòmens Naturals, on parlem amb la Cristina Junyent dels primats del Vallès-Penedès i la seva evolució i locomoció aquí 👇🏽
fenomensnaturals.net/setmana-de-l...

03.12.2025 08:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A new anguine lizard (Squamata, Anguidae, Anguinae) from the Late Miocene (Vallesian) of the Vallès-Penedès Basin (NE Iberian Peninsula) - Swiss Journal of Palaeontology Post-Palaeogene anguids from Europe have been referred to three extant genera: Anguis, Ophisaurus s.l. (including Dopasia and Hyalosaurus), and Pseudopus. In recent years, a higher generic diversity h...

Glad to have contributed to this work lead by
Andrea Villa (ICP-CERCA) about a new new anguine lizard from the Miocene of Catalonia! #paleontology #fossil #reptiles
Paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@bristolpalaeo.bsky.social
Press release: www.icp.cat/index.php/en...

02.12.2025 20:37 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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#SomCERCA | 🟪 Acte en commemoració del 25N, Dia Internacional per l’Erradicació de la Violència vers les Dones

📅 Dimarts, 25 de nov.
🕖 De 10 a 12 h
📍 Sala d’actes del Dept. de Recerca i Universitats
🔗 Inscripcions I programa:  https://f.mtr.cool/unfqbwyumi

#25N2025

11.11.2025 11:22 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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#SomCERCA | 🔍 Què vol dir fer #Recerca sense excuses?
Vol dir comprometre’s amb la igualtat, la diversitat i el benestar com a condicions per a l’excel·lència científica.

🌍 La igualtat no és opcional.

🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/kzexousgew

#RecercaAmbRespecte

10.11.2025 09:38 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Just over a month left to apply for scholarships on this project. We will run internal pre-selection interviews end of November, so if you consider applying, please reach out now. I can guarantee amazing scientific and intellectual environment at the Institute for Eco Evo @edinburghup.bsky.social

05.11.2025 10:01 👍 10 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0

Isn't that interesting.... hmmmn🤔

06.11.2025 07:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Two photographs of Titanochelon richardi fossils, a Late Miocene giant tortoise from the Valle Penedes Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula. Top left: skull (IPS62095a) in left lateral view, scale bar at lower left 2 cm. On the right: plastron (IPS62095l) in visceral view, scale bar (mid right) is 4 cm.

Two photographs of Titanochelon richardi fossils, a Late Miocene giant tortoise from the Valle Penedes Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula. Top left: skull (IPS62095a) in left lateral view, scale bar at lower left 2 cm. On the right: plastron (IPS62095l) in visceral view, scale bar (mid right) is 4 cm.

New evidence of a European giant tortoise (Titanochelon richardi) from the Upper Miocene of the Vallès-Penedès Basin: taxonomic & phylogenetic implications onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology @morphobank.bsky.social

03.11.2025 11:51 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Our lab at the University of Málaga, Spain🇪🇸 is looking for a bioinformatician researcher for a postdoc position (1+1 years). Check the ad, and if you're interested, get in touch!
📅 Starting date early 2026, with some flexibility.
🙏Please, RT!

30.10.2025 17:50 👍 27 🔁 38 💬 0 📌 0
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The locomotor behavior of subfossil Malagasy sloth-lemurs (Strepsirrhini: Palaeopropithecidae) and koala-lemurs (Strepsirrhini: Megaladapidae): new insights from limb trabecular bone The locomotion of Malagasy Quaternary subfossil lemurs - including palaeopropithecids (sloth-lemurs) and megaladapids (koala-lemurs) -has been investigated on abundant postcranial remains. Proposed st...

Very happy to share the preprint of our work on Quaternary subfossil lemur trabecular structure! Thanks to co-authors @julsam.bsky.social, Carla Argilés Esturgó and Damiano Marchi

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

22.10.2025 13:42 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Shaped by domestication: Did the evolution of facial muscle anatomy and ear morphology in dogs reflect adaptations to humans’ unconscious preferences?

We’re looking for a motivated & curious researcher to join our team as a PhD candidate! You’ll work with Prof. Bridget Waller, Dr. Annika Bremhorst, & me at the Dog Cognition Centre, UoP.
Are you fascinated by the dog–human bond & dog-human communication? 🐶
Interested? Get in touch with me.

21.10.2025 18:16 👍 18 🔁 27 💬 0 📌 0
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The functional adaptations of mammalian brain structures through a behavioural ecology lens - Nature Reviews Biodiversity Palaeontologists and comparative neurobiologists share a common interest in the evolution of the mammalian brain, but often fail to realize the benefits of this shared interest. This Review draws thes...

New paper out! It was an honor to collaborate with the legend Leah Krubitzer on this review to show that paleontologists and neurobiologists working together can only improve our understanding of brain evolution 🧠
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Full access to the paper: rdcu.be/eK167

15.10.2025 09:52 👍 48 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 0

Congrats @fabioalfieri2.bsky.social & colleagues!!

15.10.2025 06:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Complete sequencing of ape genomes - Nature Complete sequences of chromosomes telomere-to-telomere from chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, Bornean orangutan, Sumatran orangutan and siamang provide a comprehensive and valuable resource for future evolutionary comparisons.

Interesting new publication on the genomes of living apes, suggesting the split between humans and chimps is more recent than previously thought.

“Our analyses dated the human–chimpanzee split between 5.5 and 6.3 million years ago (Ma; minimum to maximum estimate of divergence)”
🏺🧪

10.10.2025 22:03 👍 31 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 2
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Paranthropus: The Forgotten Cousins of Humanity Who May Have Made the World’s First Tools Our robust Paranthropus cousins thrived in Africa for a million and a half years, making stone tools and sharing the landscape with different Homo species at the dawn of human cultural innovation.

Paranthropus: The Forgotten Cousins of Humanity Who May Have Made the World’s First Tools

11.10.2025 08:12 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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External Long Bone Morphology as a Tool for Sex Identification in Great Apes: The Case of the Humerus and Femur Objectives Sexual dimorphism in primates reflects evolutionary, ecological, and social pressures and varies widely across species, complicating its analysis. This study builds on previous research t.....

🚨 New paper out!

This work combines 3D geometric morphometrics, multivariate statistics, and machine learning to assess sexual dimorphism in great ape long bones — aiming to classify unsexed skeletal remains and reveal patterns relevant to human evolution.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

11.10.2025 09:56 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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The #TaungChild has been silent for over 2 million years — until now.

Our new podcast takes you back to 1924 #SouthAfrica, where one fossil would upend colonial narratives to centre human origins #Africa.

🌍Unburied Season 2: The Taung Child
🔗 Listen: linktr.ee/arcdocs

08.10.2025 08:30 👍 7 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1

Hot off the press! 🔥

Enjoy 50 days of free access to our new paper revisiting the linear marks on the StW 53 cranium. 💀

Our experiments, GM & ML analyses point to a natural origin.

authors.elsevier.com/c/1lvBj15SlU...

09.10.2025 09:23 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Use the next weekend to apply for the Camp Manager position @taichimpproject.bsky.social if you want to observe and protect wild chimpanzees, you are stress resilient and have good organisational skills, speak and write English AND French.👇

03.10.2025 09:46 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
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Research with EQUALITY, a campaign by @cerca.cat. Important stuff if there is any. Take a look at the videos at genere.cerca.cat/recerca-amb-...! They feature lovely staff from ICP, @nacarino-meneses.bsky.social and Xènia Aymerich.❤️

03.10.2025 09:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0