Only a few days left to register to #EMBOpopgen in June - see below! Enza Colonna Andrea Manica

Sad to be leaving the wonderful UZH Science but I couldn’t be more excited for the next step in this adventure at Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge & Emmanuel College, Cambridge and to delve even more into researching mobility, genetics and all sorts of interesting evolutionary questions 😍

Ending the #AncientBio24 conference brilliantly with a very fascinating keynote by Andrea Manica Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge about connections between past climate and demographies!

📢 Call for Papers! The @Palaeosys research group at MPI-GEA Jena is excited to invite submissions for the upcoming "West Africa and the Origins of Humankind - A Deep Time Perspective" conference. Learn more about the key topics and how to submit here: bit.ly/4bLWilE

What a cool preprint by Michela Leonardi & others on the ecological niche of Acheulean technology in Europe: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 😍

Welcome to our Wonderful Wetland Wildlife display🌞 Created by children from four local primary schools with artist Rebecca Cahill Roots - the artwork is inspired by minibeasts & birds seen in their school grounds. Entry FREE. University of Cambridge Museums

What drives #handaxe distribution in Europe? Here is our large-scale analysis, performed with Alastair Key (Cambridge Archaeology), Stephen Lycett, and Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge (Dept of Zoology) "The #Acheulean niche: #climate and #ecology predict handaxe production in Europe" biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

#newpaper alert! What drives #handaxe distribution in Europe? A large-scale analysis performed by our Michela Leonardi (Dept of Zoology) et al (Cambridge Archaeology)suggests it's the interaction between #climate and #demography! And there's a surprise... (see 📷) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

ops... I forgot to say that our #newpreprint contains a surprise that is not evident from the title alone! Go check it on the text, it is shown in figure 5🤯biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #acheulean #prehistory #newpaper

📢Date for your diary! Tues 13th August - pop into the Museum for crafts & family activities, including using microscopes to discover aquatic insects 🕷️ & creating a link in our huge nature connections paper chain 😀 All activities & Museum entry FREE University of Cambridge Museums

I just saw an email that I got on of the SAPIENS Public Scholars Training Fellowships and I'm so so so happy 😍😍🥳🥳 - I can't wait to learn to tell better stories, and stay tuned for all the PopSci to come!

🚨AMAZING: the 1️⃣st #article of the #MappingAncientAfrica #SpecialIssue, of which I am one of the handling editors, is ONLINE💻!!!! 👉Past fire dynamics 🔥in sub-Saharan Africa 🌍during the last 25,000 years tinyurl.com/4apa2vzv INQUA HABCOM INQUA William Gosling Rahab Kinyanjui

What is the optimal model resolution for capturing climatic conditions in the past? 🤔 In our preprint in Climate of the Past, we investigate the coherence between climatic time series from models and proxy reconstructions across the Northern Hemisphere 👇🏼 cp.copernicus.org/preprints/cp-2…

If you work with paleoclimatic reconstructions - check out this new preprint by Dr Lucy Timbrell, Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge and others looking at the congruence of climatic reconstructions and proxy data at different resolutions!

Join us! We are looking for a PT technician to support the Agroecology lab Dept of Zoology, working on #pollinator conservation for 3 years, with the RestPoll project. Apply by 28 August 2024. jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47643/

What's the optimal model resolution for capturing past climatic conditions? More is not always better! Check it in our #newpreprint by Dr Lucy Timbrell et al. comparing models and proxy climate reconstructions in the Northern Hemisphere. cp.copernicus.org/preprints/cp-2…

Don't miss this!

Interested in #SpeciesDistributionModelling? Don't miss this British Ecological Society seminar by Michela Leonardi about #tidysdm, our most recent piece of software! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #Ecology Rstats #conservation #paleobiology

Yesterday the whole Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge sat in our seminar room to watch Michela Leonardi give a fabulous talk on #tidysdm and why it’s such a useful tool for anyone working on Species Distribution Models (especially to predict past dynamics!) 🤩

#EESHuman was an amazing event, and I couldn't be happier to have been awarded one of the poster prizes for my work on reconstructing human genetic and morphological diversity in Africa with Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge 😍. If you're interested - have a read embl.org/about/info/cou…