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ok this is BLOWING MY MIND

i even unfocused and refocused my eyes like you would for a stereogram -- and i CANNOT SEE CIRCLES!

"Culture literally changes how we see the world ---
Where city dwellers see rectangles, people who live in round huts see circles"

#research #science #culture #architecture

https://www.science.org/content/article/culture-literally-changes-how-we-see-world

Himba people from rural Namibia can see right through optical illusions that trick people from the US & UK. Even when there’s no “right” or “wrong” way to interpret an image, what Himba people see is often vastly different from what people see in industrialized societies, a new preprint suggests. That could mean people’s vision is fundamentally shaped by the environments they’re raised in—an old but controversial idea that runs counter to the way human perception is often studied.

For example, when presented with a grid of line segments that can be seen as either rectangles or circles—an optical illusion known as the Coffer illusion—people from the U.S. and U.K. almost always see rectangles first, and they often struggle to see circles. The researchers suspect this is bc they are surrounded by rectangular architecture, an idea known as the carpentered world hypothesis. In contrast, the traditional villages of Himba people are composed of round huts surrounding a circular livestock corral. People from these villages almost always see circles first, & about half don’t see rectangles even when prompted.

“I’m surprised that you can’t see the round ones,” says Uapwanawa Muhenije, a Himba woman from northern Namibia, (through interpreter on Zoom). “I wonder how you can’t see them.” Muhenije didn’t participate in the research because her village is less remote than those in the study, & it includes rectangular as well as circular buildings. She sees both shapes easily.

The illusion. for me - it looks like a series of long, horizontal lines of some shade of white, black, or grey, then a series of lines of those various shades forming what looks to me like boxes. this pattern repeats horiztonally several times

What do you see when you stare at this grid of line segments: a series of rectangles, or a series of circles? The way you perceive this optical illusion, known as the Coffer illusion, may tie back to the visual environment that surrounds you, a recent preprint suggests.Anthony Norcia/Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute

@MU_Peter thank you!!

Super excited and honored for our Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS, selected for funding by the DFG! I look forward to the work ahead setting up this amazing new cluster at the University of Tübingen! Go team!!! 🥳🥳🥳

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Die Universität Tübingen erhält sechs #Exzellenzcluster, die von Bund und Ländern im Rahmen der #Exzellenzstrategie vom 1. Januar 2026 an sieben Jahre lang gefördert werden! Darunter drei Cluster, die bereits etabliert sind und eine erneute Förderung erhalten. Weitere Infos: 👉https://uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/aktuelles-und-publikationen/pressemitteilungen/newsfullview-pressemitteilungen/article/sechs-exzellenzcluster-werden-in-tuebingen-gefoerdert/

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https://xn--baw-joa.social/@ml4science@scicomm.xyz
https://wisskomm.social/@dfg_public
https://xn--baw-joa.social/@WissRat@wisskomm.social

#ExStra #Forschung #UniTübingen

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Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia
Katerina Harvati @kharvati , Chris Stringer, et al
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1376-z

Apidima 1 found to be ~ 210,000 years old, the oldest human fossil found outside of Africa

Apidima 2 found to be ~ 170,000 years old was a Neanderthal

The Apidima 1 fossil
Katerina Harvati, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

The fossil crania of Apidima 2 and Apidima 1.

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The latest issue of PaleoAnthropology is out now!
Volume 2025, Issue 1 #openaccess

📖Read Here: https://paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/paleo/issue/view/140

#paleoanthropology #humanevolution

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Great to see our PhD student Serena Lombardo presenting at the SAA meeting in Denver! Her talk, “Early Upper Paleolithic Technical Behavior at Apidima (Peloponnese, Greece): Technological Analysis of the Lithic Assemblage from Cave C,” highlighted our exciting ongoing research at Apidima! Congrats!🤩

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🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨

We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back!

https://airtable.com/appGKlSVeXniQZkFC/pag50h1IjrX5MHhCH/form

Please share widely!

#NSF #NIH

NSF Grant Termination Information Collection Form

Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NSF grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025.

We are tracking these grants to increase transparency, organize affected PIs, and facilitate responses, including via litigation. Please share the form as widely as possible with your networks.

We are actively building a pipeline to organize these terminations and will soon have a tracker akin to our NIH grant tracker at https://airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJLocRy/shrNto1NNp9eJlgpA

WE WILL NOT DISCLOSE THE IDENTITY OF ANYONE WHO USES THIS FORM TO PROVIDE INFORMATION. We will keep your identity confidential.

These resources are maintained by Noam Ross of rOpenSci and Scott Delaney of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with input and support from additional volunteers. For any questions, please contact Scott Delaney on Signal (sdelaney.84).

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE!

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120 light years from Earth, there's a planet that may be covered in a living ocean. Here's my story on a tantalizing hint of life beyond the Solar System. Gift link: https://nyti.ms/3GbrEaZ

An artistic rendering of an exoplanet with an ocean

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New #openaccess paper by our PhD student, Stephanie Lismann, and other colleagues on the reconstruction of the demographic profile of Final Neolithic and Early Bronze populations in Baden-Württemberg, Germany! Congrats! 🎉

⛓️‍💥 Link to the paper ⬇️
https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ak/article/view/110269

Katerina Harvati boosted:

📢Job alert!

W3 (Full) Professorship in Human Ecology at the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen.

🔗 https://berufungen.uni-tuebingen.de/#

Deadline for applications: May 22, 2025 🗓

Please share and repost 🙏🏼 🤩

For questions please contact Prof. Harvati.

@coreyspowell incredible!

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That's spectacular: The partially eclipsed Sun rising over the St Lawrence River in Quebec, captured on March 29. Video by Jason Kurth.

(I sped up the footage 4x for the impatient...like myself.)

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250401.html #space #science #art

Very excited and honored to be awarded the Alumni Achievement award by my alma mater, the City University of New York Graduate Center! Thank you!!

https://bsky.app/profile/thegraduatecenter.bsky.social/post/3llof3fdd7k2h

Great to spend some time at UCONN this week, and have a chance to meet with colleagues and students. I enjoyed the opportunity to speak about my long-term research in South-East Europe and share recent results on new discoveries and new analyses! Thank you to Christian Tryon for the hospitality!
Will be heading to NYC for another lecture later this week🤩

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New #openaccess paper by Carolin Röding et al. "Dentition of the Mugharet El'Aliya Fossil Human Maxilla, Morocco". 🦷🔎

Congrats to all authors!👏🏻🎉

Check it here ⬇️
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.70015

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Dentition of the Mugharet El'Aliya Fossil Human Maxilla, Morocco
Carolin Röding, Chris Stringer, @kharvati et al
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.70015

Dentition supports previous findings on the morphological analysis of the maxilla, placing this closest to H. sapiens

Three-dimensional models of the ULC, ULP3, and ULP4 from Mugharet el'Aliya. In the respective upper row, each tooth crown is shown in (a) distal, (b) buccal, (c) occlusal, (d) lingual, and (e) mesial view. In the respective bottom row, each dentine surface is shown in (f) distal, (g) buccal, (h) occlusal, (i) lingual, and (j) mesial view. Occlusal views are shown with buccal to the top; lingual to the bottom, distal to the right, and mesial to the left. Mugharet el'Aliya is courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 39-69-50/N3635.0.

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DFG-Impulspapier für die 21. Legislaturperiode: 10 Handlungsfelder mit konkreten Empfehlungen für zentrale wissenschaftspolitische Weichenstellungen mit dem Ziel, die erkenntnisgeleitete Forschung auch im internationalen Raum wettbewerbsfähiger aufzustellen.

Es braucht langfristige, mutige Investitionen in Bildung u. Forschung für die Innovations-/Zukunftsfähigkeit des dt. Wissenschaftssystems. Diese müssen für die nächste Bundesregierung hohe Priorität haben.
Papier:➡️ https://www.dfg.de/resource/blob/352134/908b9ec587e758a0e5d25f8f0c317706/250226-impulspapier-legislaturperiode-data.pdf

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An #arrowhead made of #meteorite iron: around 1,500 BC, a meteorite struck #Estonia. A fragment of it arrived - presumably in the baggage of an amber trader - at what is now Lake Biel, #Switzerland. An arrowhead was then made there from the cosmic iron.

From Mörigen, 900-800 BC.

📷 me

#archaeology

A corroded iron arrowhead with a triangular shape and two protruding barbs on one side, displayed on a thin metal stand against a dark background. The surface of the arrowhead appears rough and pitted due to oxidation, giving it an aged and weathered look

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Large-scale loss of Mediterranean coastal marshes under rising sea levels by 2100 https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02099-2

#Mediterranean #coastal #wetlands account for important biodiversity and ecosystem services. But climate-change induced #sealevel rise poses a critical risk to their survival. Here, we assess these risks for Mediterranean coastal marshes, one key type of Mediterranean coastal wetlands, and identify main drivers for future coastal marsh change for the Mediterranean and comparable coastlines. We apply an integrated modelling approach that accounts for future sea-level rise, sediment accretion, coastal management and marsh inland migration processes. Depending on climate mitigation scenarios, widespread coastal marsh loss is projected, ranging from 8% to 92% of current extents. For Egypt, France, and Algeria, we predict (near) total loss of coastal marshes by 2100 for current coastal management and sediment supply scenarios. Overall, losses could at least be halved if additional inland migration space were created, e.g. through passive or active habitat restoration. Bold climate mitigation and local adaptation are needed to preserve existing coastal marshes.

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