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My joint work w/ Matteo Bedetti is now officially out in Biology & Philosophy! [Re-sharing the 🧵, with full-text link 👇] We examine how evidential standards are negotiated in funerary #archaeology debates, using the Homo #naledi burial controversy as a case study in epistemological practice.🧪🏺💀

Buried, or maybe not: adherence to evidential standards in paleoanthropology - Biology & PhilosophyThis paper examines how evidential standards are constructed, interpreted, and enforced in paleoanthropology and funerary archaeology, focusing on claims of deliberate burial practices in Homo naledi....link.springer.com

My first #SPSP conference in Cambridge was fun. Best bits: getting a glimpse of the many facets of philosophy of science in practice, presenting my work as part of a fun symposium on "making data speak" in archaeology, cows on campus, and a fantastic final gig ✨️ #philsky #philbio #evosky #hps 💀🏺

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The Ramsey Lab has started making images to celebrate our newly accepted papers. I told Grant that I wanted ours to look gory, and he did not disappoint. (The title kinda lends itself to it, you know.) Working on trait individuation does curious things to philosophers... Preprint 👇🔗 #philsky

Had a great time at the "Earliest Symbols" conference in Bologna. Kudos to Silvia Ferrara, Ludovica Ottaviano, Adhi Agus Oktaviana and all the #sapience team for putting together such a stimulating event on one of the hard problems of archaeology 🏺 #sapiencefis #archaeosky #evosky #preliteracy

👉Very happy to share a new preprint w/ Matteo Bedetti, forthcoming in Biology & Philosophy. We examine how evidential standards are negotiated in funerary #archaeology debates, using the Homo #naledi burial controversy as a case study in epistemological practice.🧪🏺 #evosky #philbio #philsky

A few more highlights from day #3 at the ##CES2026. Captivating plenary by Nicole Creanza on the evolution of learned behaviors in birds & humans. Also found myself in a kickass archaeology session & took a great deal from every talk. It's been great fun, Rabat! 🇲🇦 #evosky 🏺 #archaeosky #philbio

Speed-running between amazing sessions at #CES2026 and different perspectives on shared cultural evolutionary questions feels like my life now. Some highlights from day #2.

PIPoLS è su Bluesky! 🦋 Seguiteci per ricevere aggiornamenti sulle iniziative della rete italiana di filosofia delle scienze della vita! 🧪🧬🌿🐙

Il mio intervento andato in onda stamattina a Radio 3 Scienza sull'immagine della "scimmia nuda"di Desmond Morris, scomparso la scorsa domenica 📻🎙 Dal minuto 17:05 👉 www.raiplaysound.it/audio/2026/0... #scicomm

Now out in PTRSB!🔥 Wherein Francesco d'Errico, Ivan Colage & I track the emergence & trajectory of hominin epistemic #nicheconstruction through material culture—the alteration of the informational landscape via spaces, bodily ornaments, & artificial memory systems. #evosky #archeosky #philsky

Scaffolding minds: human collective intelligence through space, body and material symbolsAbstract. Human collective intelligence (CI)—the capacity of groups to solve problems, make decisions and acquire knowledge beyond individual capabilities—royalsocietypublishing.org

A very interesting volume edited by Mathilde Lequin (@pacea.bsky.social) & Juan Manuel Rodríguez Caso examining historical & epistemological dimensions of human evolutionary research. A much welcome contribution to the growing field of the philosophy of paleoanthropology. #hpbio #paleosky #philsky

The Field of Human Evolution: Critical Perspectives from History and EpistemologyThis book explores critical perspectives on human evolution through history, epistemology, and inclusive scientific approaches.link.springer.com

Probably the best indicator that you're done with literature review is when you catch yourself searching Google Scholar for the exact paper you're supposed to be writing. (And 0 results is clearly good news.) #academicsky