I didn’t know you could “milk” them! Now I need to look into this snail dye vs. the Mediterranean Murex dye practices…

What’s in a Name? For These Snails, Legal Protection

Fascinating culture of indigenous dyeing #TextileHistory

For the past two years, the final project in my pseudoarchaeology class (ANT2290) was to craft a zine on an archaeological site, that presents both the actual evidence and a fanciful interpretation of it based on pseudoscientific practices covered in class. This year's crop was outstanding!

A little time-lapse video, colouring my live conference sketches from the weekend’s Medieval Settlement Research Group Spring conference in Lincoln. #medievalsky 🏺🏛️🗃️ #sketchbook #illustration #skystorians (🔈for commentary)

We too are grateful, @aroodick.bsky.social and I got to relive our youth at a recent Wolf Parade show in #HamOnt.

MAJOR UPDATE: I found the best free restaurant bread in the United States www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Plant-y #SciArt opportunity!

We have a new symposium at this year's European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference in Muenster, Germany: Plant Paleoart: Perspectives and promises", organised by @palaeojules.bsky.social and myself! Both scientists and artists are welcome to contribute!

www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeonto...

I love work like this. Anything that makes the past present is good for us. Especially when it's a past many aren't taught or think about.

We really have tried our hands, or are actively doing, a surprising number of these: various laces and basket making, bone working, pysanky, flax and nettle processing, nalbinding… (and yes, several of us have adhd and are hoarding all the craft supplies).

I got so excited I replied to this multiple times. Oops.

My craft group has already perused the list though haven’t seen this updated version. Matte painting! Figurehead carving is intriguing…

I’m taking up figurehead carving.

Legacy and Springboard: The Untapped Potential of Archaeological Archives for Scientific Innovation Archaeological archives form a public resource that enables the reinterpretation of original findings from archaeological investigations, provides the raw material for further research, informs mu...

Archaeology is a driver of scientific innovation. Rather than being a perceived financial burden, it is actually a high-value investment that can improve human health and environmental sustainability. 🏺1/7

doi.org/10.11141/ia....

The problem is: earlier forms of imagery are perceptually immensely different from AI images. While human perception will flag paintings as “fictional” with ease, it is powerless against AI images which it will flag as “real” because they feature the necessary visual cues for our brains.

if you listen to the recording, you can hear the astronauts talk amongst each other about what settings to use, to pass around lenses among each other, asking about framing and talk about how difficult and a little frustrated they were trying to capture what they're seeing with their eyes. it's cool

This is one of the reasons why #stem has been gloriously updated to #steam. Art and science go hand in hand, especially when we want more folks to understand. :)

There comes a moment when you realise your weirdness is you strength. Lean into it. There comes a moment when you realise you are Fully-grown Changeling. Celebrate it. We are strange and we are here.

Untidy, cluttered bookcase.

Untidy, cluttered bookcase.

Pile of books on the floor.

The nature of my work means that literature constantly gets moved about, buried and lost, moved again. Every now and again I have to try and rearrange things. It never goes well. ps it's 2026 and physical literature is STILL essential for this kind of research. The Internet is just about useless.

Ooh I’ve just started a personal project illustrating archaeological containers (inspired by @ursulakleguin.com’s carrier bag essay). Gonna go digging for new subjects in this database.

🏺 #archaeology 🐡 #SciArt #illustration

Woo-Hoo! First comprehensive assessment of the evidence for Pleistocene mobile containers! A biocultural perspective viewing container use and manufacture as a process of niche construction! Jennifer C. French, Somaye Khaksar, me & @marckissel.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

*station*

…Trains and Barcelona has not been the best combo for me. On another occasion, @aroddick.bsky.social and I ended up sleeping in the entryway to Barcelona’s bus stain after being unable to retrieve our reservation for a sleeper car on a night train from Barcelona to Madrid. 4/4

…Thankfully I got the address right when giving it to a taxi driver and was tucked up in my hotel bed by midnight. Sorted everything else out in the morning while enjoying the hotel’s breakfast spread. Some of my most foolish and quick thinking combined…3/4

…After panicking for a bit and confirming there were no trains back that night, I got on Expedia and frantically booked a hotel. No-one around me admitted to having a pen, so I memorized the hotel address and got messages off of to my travel companions before my phone died…2/4

Once, while attempting to take a local train one stop east from Tarragona, Spain, late at night, I accidentally got on the last express train to Barcelona, a one hour journey with no stops. I miraculously had my passport on me but, less miraculously, only 10% phone battery…1/4

Looking forward to reading as my foray into DH has driven me to pop up books.

Still scarred by seeing the “not quite done cooking” clone scene in theaters as a kid.

How DNA forensics is transforming studies of ancient manuscripts Scientists are exposing the biological information hidden in ancient parchments without leaving a mark.

“It had its own biography, its own deep history. It seemed like an archaeological site between covers.” @marlabroadfoot.bsky.social takes a deep dive into biocodicology, the study of ancient manuscripts as biological objects. New @nature.com @marlabroadfoot.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It’s genAI which probably accounts for the three legged space pyramids (look at the mathematical formula and text for the tells).