Concept by my daughter for the main character in a children’s book we are developing.

My daughter texted to let me know that Kermit the Frog is dressed like me in The Muppets Take Manhattan. She meant it in general, but the similarity today is particularly striking.

Happy Maggieversary! Maggie joined our family 3 years ago today, after frequent meetings in our garden over a month. We thought he was a young female but realized several months later that he is (gasp!) actually a boy and must have been a kitten when we met. This is him the day after he moved in.

The wonderful 'Archaeological Fish Resource' is back online and available to use again! The digital reference collection hosts more than 90 species of Mediterranean and North Atlantic freshwater and marine fishes. Follow the link to explore. fishbone.nottingham.ac.uk #ICAZ #Zooarch

"Chief Wallace offers insight about Serpent Mound’s very existence. Why would a people whose days were consumed by farming, hunting, and sustaining communities invest such enormous labor in building a huge earthwork? 'Native American people are spiritual people,' she said. 'We feed our souls.' ...”

My latest for @hyperallergic.com is a new study which found DNA preserved in Paleolithic wall pigments in caves in Spain & Portugal 🎨 Art is an archive! Thanks so much to Dr. @monicamedhist.bsky.social for speaking to me about the present and future of paleogenetics. Thanks for reading!

Just remembered that there’s a cookie in my lunch #winning

Valentin, called ‘the Boneless’ because of his great flexibility, training new dancers in “At the Moulin Rouge: The Dance” by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1889-1890), now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Happy Tunguska Event Day, to all those who celebrate it!

Artist Frederic Leighton was so taken with Nanna Risi that he painted her more than twenty times including “Portrait of a Roman Lady (La Nanna)” in 1859, now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Picked enough juneberries today that it stained my fingers purple

🔎 The Society for American Archaeology has launched its search for a new Executive Director. The search committee is working with Kittleman & Associates to identify candidates and guide the process, with interviews planned for this fall and onboarding expected in November. Learn more:

There are many construction dudes driving tiny steamrollers around my neighborhood right now and all I can think of is every Loony Tunes cartoon I’ve ever seen.

The moon tonight from Denver, painted in wildfire smoke orange

I’m sad to report that our cat is dying Oh! No, I retract that statement. I’m being told now that he’s had some wet food and has made a miraculous full recovery!

Vincent van Gogh’s “A Pair of Lovers (Eclogue en Provence),” painted in Arles in 1888, and now at the Cleveland Museum of Art. He disliked the full originally planned painting and only kept this part.

Details from a tapestry (ca. 1470) depicting rabbit hunting with ferrets, by a now unknown Franco-Flemish artist, now at the Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco.

Cleveland! You smoke too tough. Your swag too different. Your bitch is too bad. They’ll kill you.

boom boom boom boom

big thunder right now

In 1836, Henry Cole found a dead rat with a stomach full of chewed-up documents in the public records office. It was used as proof that the archives needed a better home, becoming the National Archives. Today, the National Archives shop sells soft toy rats.

Waking to thunder rumbling and rain on the roof - oh no, golly and here I’d planned to be up at dawn doing the yard work I’d put off yesterzzzzzz zzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzz

Muttering to myself "this is a whereas clause not a stipulation" is still punk rock.

We just saw Backrooms. I was on the fence at first but it drew me in pretty quickly and I really liked it, especially that crazy puppet. Oddly, the guy sitting next to me really perked up whenever they were checking out the electrical box at the beginning, saying hmmm and ah! to himself.

Cashier — Special occasion? Dude buying 7 airplane-size tiny bottles of vodka — No, just Saturday.

“Ah man, there’s some fuckin japanese beetles on my lovage.” - me in the garden right now as if that was a normal thing to say.

Maple shadows this morning

My cat & me on #Caturday

zoomies

Out for an evening walk, watching the fireflies blinking

My latest research has just been published in @uk.theconversation.com Check it out here: theconversation.com/a-goats-toot...

Glad to have my daughter’s recent painting installed in our hallway art gallery (which is nearly all her work). This sphinx was inspired by the sculptures at Untermyer Gardens in Yonkers, NY.

This flint core dates to the end of the last Ice Age, around 12,000 years ago, when mobile hunter-gatherers travelled seasonally across the lost landscape of Doggerland, now submerged beneath the North Sea. #FindsFriday #Archaeology #Palaeolithic

Rookwood Pottery is also found inside of the Carew Tower arcade, elevating this exquisitely designed space to Art Deco perfection. Architect: Walter W Ahlschlager, 1931 Cincinnati, Ohio

Oh no! Is there algae on the Quadriga?

Come to the cat parade if u want an ass kicking

Rattlesnake Master and Blue Vervain in bloom on the Minnesota State Capitol Mall.

Sage and butterfly weed at the base of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa’s national flag, at the Minnesota State Capitol Mall in the Tribal Flag Plaza.

This is how we’ve dealt with #WorldCatDominationDay in the past. He may be expecting more tricks this year, so I had best prepare.

MACKINAW CITY, MICHIGAN—Archaeologists preparing for the 2026 field season at Colonial Michilimackinac uncovered a brass jaw harp in the central cellar of the 18th-century fort and fur trading village. Read more:

what must a Hornyman do to get knighted 🤔

Triptych painting of Olympic diver VMD by Jenifer K Wofford (2024) at SFMOMA: Vicki Manalo Draves, the first Asian American gold medalist, at the London Olympics in 1948.

How did cats take over the world? #CatWorldDominationDay 😼 Domestic cats' common ancestor is the Near Eastern wildcat. Tamed around 10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent, they spread west with the help of the Greeks, Romans, Vikings & more! 🔗 from 2022 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

“Live Ammo (Tzing!)” by Roy Lichtenstein (1962), at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Great blue heron flies above of the Mississippi River Valley. Minneapolis skyline on the horizon. Sunday night.

Ninja Turtles coming out of this

a feel good story about algae, which actually is responsible for the air you're breathing right now, as well as certain misadventures in my home and on the world stage! www.deardara.com/so/bbPxifNVE...

Out in the garden picking juneberries