Dr. E Grace Veatch

Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, guiding Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, died Sept. 30 in Cambridge, Mass. She was 90. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...

Congrats to our spokesperson @katharv.bsky.social on their new paper published today! 🏺 #paleosky

Likely no hunters of Elephants nor masters of fire - new paper on taphonomic analysis challenges former assumptions on Homo floresensis. Congratulations to Grace Veatch, who recently started her position as an Independent Junior Research Group Lead at Human Origins! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Seems like the “Hobbit” is even weirder than we once thought. 🏺🧪

So excited to be a co-author on this paper with an amazing team led by @egveatch.bsky.social, published today! Tl:dr - 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘰 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴 scavenged (not hunted) Stegodon and did not have control of fire at Liang Bua.

Were the hobbits of Flores clever hunters, or were they merely scavenging dragon leftovers? My latest for Nat Geo covers fascinating new work from @egveatch.bsky.social and the team at Liang Bua: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti... 🧪🏺

Amazing opportunity with one of the brightest minds in SEA Palaeolithic archaeology! @egveatch.bsky.social

✨New opportunity✨ Fully funded PhD position in our Experimental Archaeology Lab lead by @egveatch.bsky.social! Find all necessary information on our website: uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/... #HumanOrigins #EarlyCareerArchaeologists

I am absolutely thrilled to announce that I have accepted the position of Independent Group Leader in Experimental Archaeology at the University of Tübingen! The program will focus on establishing a reference collection for taphonomic phenomena specific to Island Southeast Asia 😁 🐘🏝️🇮🇩🦴

#ESHE2025 Elizabeth Veatch ‘Behavioural complexity in Homo floresiensis reconsidered’ Did H floresiensis hunt & use fire? NO! Tapho– Komodo Dragon prey bones fr Atlanta! 3D study of 3200 bones w marks fr Liang Bua: most match Komodo Dragons; a few actual c/m - scavenging. 🔥? ~10K rat bones 😳… NONE

We had a fantastic experience attending and presenting at #ESHE2025 for the first time. Even little Luca enjoyed the trip! Looking forward to attending next year 😁

New publication out today, on mammal endemism doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

From postdocs to deans of research, over 300 researchers across 100+ institutions share how they’re navigating funding cuts and finding ways forward. www.biorender.com/2025-science...

It’s been a week! Managed to spend some time in my favorite hobbit hole after 5 years of pandemic and childbirth 😁 Looking forward to the next 5 years of active fieldwork and lots of nasi goreng! Sampai jumpa tahun depan 🫶

I know we could all use some good news right now, and I love Ice Age animals and Game of Thrones as much as the next person. But as someone who writes about evolution and extinction, ecology and conservation, for a living, I’ve gotta say this Dire Wolf hoopla is deeply problematic. A short thread 🧵🧪

The loss of a legend- Kanzi, the language-competent bonobo, has died age 44. Kanzi was exceptional in so many ways and offered us profound insights into the linguistic & cognitive capacities of great apes. He has taught us so much and will be hugely missed. www.apeinitiative.org/remembering-...

From EPA Staff: An Open Letter to the American Public -- republished today on @the-revelator.bsky.social from @ehnewsroom.bsky.social therevelator.org/epa-open-let...

Today, I wrote two hearty result paragraphs and created two detailed figures from GIS all while being a full time solo parent of a three month old today 💪 time to get the baby some outdoor time and take a walk #StayAtHome #academicmom

Coming back to work after maternity leave and it feels nearly impossible #AcademicMoms

Super cool research by @brianapobiner.bsky.social and team! Congrats!!

The editors are doing the right thing, but this is a terrible loss. For decades, Journal of Human Evolution has consistently been one of the best venues for publishing bread-and-butter technical work in the field of #paleoanthropology.

“Through this exhibition, we remind the world that human civilization not only started in Africa, but also found its strength and complexity in the archipelago,"

“We must remember that American higher education is imbricated with the American project writ large. To set aside this work entirely is to abandon the values of a liberal education, and what would that say about our hopes for a better future for our country and for our students?” #SaveHumanities

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Bluesky, Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this

📣 ACADEMIC MOMS: Have you conducted research in museum collections in a foreign country with an infant (< 1 year old)? What worked for you and what are things you wish you had done differently? Looking for any and all advice for planning the upcoming year 🙏

So where is the larger Homo erectus founding population on Flores? 🤷‍♀️ They arrived small - probably from an early Homo-like population (maybe even early H erectus), but not likely from Javan H erectus. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Dr. Tocheri also thought the Homo erectus hypothesis was a stretch. “The evidence for this idea is very weak,” he said.”

New genus and species of GIANT SHREW RAT from LIANG BUA! Named in honor of Indonesian zooarchaeologist Pak Rokus Awe Due Check out the open access link below! journals.australian.museum/veatch-2023-...

Back to looking at these little guys 😍 #Rats #LiangBua #HappyPlace