Journal Club and the launch of the PASC-SCPA Discord server

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the inaugural Journal Club meeting on March 26th! We had a great discussion about “good science” and the importance of collaboration and interdisciplinary approaches to to the study of human origins.

The PASC-SCPA Journal Club will continue to take place on the last Friday of each month. April’s topic of discussion will be Teixeira, J.C., Jacobs, G.S., Stringer, C. et al. (2021) Widespread Denisovan ancestry in Island Southeast Asia but no evidence of substantial super-archaic hominin admixture. Nat Ecol Evol. If you would like to join the discussion, meet us on Discord on April 30, 2021.

The newly launched PASC-SCPA Discord server is open to all PASC-SCPA members as well as non-member students interested in paleoanthropology. The goal is to foster greater interactivity between Canadian students and researchers. If you would like to join, please email Joshua Lindal and request an invite link.