Dr. Briana Pobiner + @brianapobiner.bluesky.social

I now have an expanded professional website! Learn more about my paleoanthropology research, my evolution education research, and see some examples of videos & podcasts I've done: naturalhistory.si.edu/research/anthr…. Thanks to the @NMNH website team for working with me to put this together!

The @SAfAarchaeology conference in Faro, Portugal begins tomorrow! To celebrate the occasion, we've put together a collection of articles on #AfricanArchaeology and they will all be *absolutely free* for the duration of the event. 🔗 cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Anthropology collections manager job at the AMNH @AMNH in New York! More info: A PhD (or PhD candidacy) is required to apply. Prior training in collections management and databases is essential. This is not a research position. Salary range $93-98k/year. careers.amnh.org/postings/4509

Check out the TMP's newest paper, led by Daniel Green, Tim Cleland and Kevin Uno with many other TMP members, on Miocene proteins in fossil teeth! What's the take home? We hope to use protein fingerprints to study mammal and hominin phylogenetics! bit.ly/OldProteome

Calling all palaeolithic archaeologists. Come and work with me on a really exciting new survey and excavation project in Uganda: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/348570

TFW your former postdoc chairs a session at #SAA2025 & gives a great talk in the session, too. 🙌🏻 When I asked to take her photo before the session started, Thaís Pansani @thaisrpansani joked I was like a proud parent on their kid’s first day of school… guilty as charged. 🤩

Great (pre-recorded) talk just now by @FlintDibble at #SAA2025 on how to combat pseudoarchaeology! The room was packed and many of us were standing in the back & outside the doors to listen 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻👏🏻

Hands down, Kate Fish from @gwCASHP wins the best slide at the Paleoanthros conference today. 😂☠️

Heading to Denver for the Paleoanthro & #SAA2025 conferences! If you’re there thru the bitter end (aka Sunday morning 😄), come see my 9:45am talk in the “Animal Matters: Ethics in Zooarchaeology from Discovery to Display” symposium about our new Symbiota taphonomy online portal.

On my way to Indiana to give a talk on the paleo diet for the Fifth Annual Wittman Lecture Series at @indianastate! indianastate.edu/events/ees/fif…

Job opening!⚠️ Matthew Collins and the CODICUM ERC SyG are looking for a Laboratory Manager. #palaeoproteomics #aDNA #parchment and more. Based at @Globe_UCPH in lovely #Copenhagen. ⬇️ See here for more details. employment.ku.dk/staff?show=163…

My take on how the human story should be told. nature.com/articles/d4158…

🌿 Become a Field Site Manager for the Moyen Bafing Chimpanzee Project in Guinea! 🌿 We're seeking a dedicated individual to oversee operations and support research starting as early as April 2025. Be part of a team exploring chimpanzee behavioral ecology in the stunning PNMB!

Our research shows that ~50% of mothers globally decline at least half of opportunities to participate in conferences after becoming parents (N=3995). We are offering travel grants to help you overcome these challenges. Apply now - deadline 31st March! shorturl.at/gnCU2

I’m glad the timing worked out for this impromptu tour (thanks @VA_Lockwood for reaching out just in case…). I always enjoy showing off our exhibit to colleagues ☺️ Nice to meet you and @Charchotte in person!

The empathetic low laughs by anyone who has done fieldwork when @Keneiloe said “… where I’m building character” while finishing her introduction of the history of Gladysvale (South Africa) talking about how in 2022 she became the first woman to lead the fieldwork there #AABA2025

Kicking myself right now for not pulling out my phone to take a photo fast enough when the Zoom autocaptions corrected ‘Bernard Wood’ to ‘Burnt Wood’ as he was introduced to start off the “Australopithecus africanus turns 100”symposium at #AABA2025 🤣 (b/c I think he’d laugh)

Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University is hiring an Education and Program Manager. Hybrid position with onsite work in Bristol & Providence RI. Salary range $65,000-$99,000, midpoint $82,000, depending on qualifications and experience. brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-ca…

Tina Lüdecke and collaborators this year have published the first nitrogen-15 measurements from Australopithecus. This is the first crack of a new window into the trophic level of many fossil human relatives. johnhawks.net/weblog/trophic…