The apprentice Guardian of the Bones is coming along well…. #Caturday #cats #SiberianCat #kitten #zooarchaeology 🏺🦣

Very happy to contribute to this excellent paper on #dogs by @carlydigsit.bsky.social & collabs showing that dog appearances were changing far far earlier than Victorian era breeding. 🏺🧪🦣 🐕 #zooarchaeology Dog domestication, from the fierce to the feisty | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Applications are now open to join our 2026 Master's programme in human evolution. Covering the Palaeolithic, Palaeoanthropology & other key disciplines, the course is taught by experts from UCL and designed to equip you for a career in the deep human past. #PaPa 🦣🧪🏺 tinyurl.com/5duy6twh

There is no "ceasefire". There never was a "ceasefire".

@president.ie Farewell and many thanks to President Higgins for your 14 years of excellent service to Ireland and its people. Sincerely thank you (& Sabina) for such humility, grace, fairness, and integrity. Going to miss you a lot and Misneach (& Bród and Síoda ❤️). Keep enjoying life!

All brushed and nearly full set of adult teeth now… and SO FLUFFY!!! (My fingers too are touching his skin)

Head's up there is a Bluesky ban scam going around. This account just joined 40 mins ago and send me this DM. DO NOT CLICK THE LINK. Bluesky would NEVER send a DM like this and make you scared. This would come through email and would have a more professional email than this. Stay safe!

It’s a Trance music afternoon and evening ahead - love it! Beats relax me and make me happy, keeps the work flowing. Found this extensive 7hr playlist on Spotify! Let’s go!!! open.spotify.com/playlist/5uy...

I’ve seen things 😳 Time for bed but I’m not tired as I slept so well last night after falling asleep at my desk and then going to bed, never looked at the time. Got up at 7.30am feeling refreshed and that was all that mattered!

Pooka is teething at the moment and feeling very sorry for himself … look at that little sad face … 😞 #kitten #cat

A reminder that there are still a few days left to apply for this funded PhD, working on literary and cultural reception of the Vikings. University fees and a budget for conference attendance included in addition to the stipend: it's a great opportunity for someone! www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...

📹WATCH BACK from the recent 8th Annual NMS Conference #WithinWithout2025 The Archaeology of Partitions. ‘Where power lies: rethinking Ireland’s Iron Age linear earthworks as territorial oppida’ by @nationalmons.bsky.social archaeologist Cóilín Ó Drisceoil youtu.be/ac4MhNbAf-w #HeritageIreland2030

Alas, I said cut off was 10pm tonight as I was so tired after 5.5hrs sleep last night and promised myself id go to bed and get at least 7-8hrs sleep. Alarm set for 5.45am. Then I got stuck into bones and potentially discovering something but got to check. Always late night, hyper focus & noticing 🤣

Very weird evening outside - VERY warm at 14Cel (it’s November!!!) and it’s all misty too across the fields. The moon rising and trying to get around the cloud cover. It’s very still too, no breeze at all. The birds singing loudly so lovely … but weird for this time of year in Ireland.

Very happy to share, today, I started a part-time Senior Research Fellow (Zooarch) post with @shrewgod.bsky.social at ATU Galway City, on the COALESCE funded #PALAEO-IRELAND by @researcireland.ie The Irish Upper Palaeolithic can’t hide from us! 🏺😊

Do you know someone with age-related macular degeneration??? Guess what, there's unexpected good news!

I have 3 camera tripods. Can I find any of them right now? No. Back to the great search! I have much bone photography to do!!! Got the trance music playing About to get some coffee once I find a tripod (reward system).

Something lovely for the weekend! Magical amber animals from the Mesolithic. Carved between 10,000-7,000 years ago. Amber can generate static electricity⚡️ For their ancient owners, these small animals could give off sparks in the dark and make hair stand on end, as if by magic✨ 📷 me #Archaeology

November … let’s be having you! Lots going on this month for me. Long hard working days ahead but one day at a time and do the most I can per day. But I just burnt my tongue on homemade roasted pumpkin soup … time for cold water dilution to finish the rest 🤪

In the 1600s, thousands of people were buried in crypts under a Milan hospital & preserved by unusual conditions. “What is striking is how much you can extrapolate from an ancient body,” says one researcher, “and how much you can understand from that about the period they lived in." @science.org

Oíche Shamhna shona daoibh go léir #Samhain #Halloween

SUN!!!! Though setting but I was out this morning to back while I had coffee, in my wool cardigan and wool scarf as a cold biting wind blowing. So glad to see after weeks of grey gloom and rain. Also a window kitten and a cat 😸🐱

So proud to see our new paper out in PNAS spearheaded by @emilypigott.bsky.social She found a tiny 46,000 yr old Neanderthal bone at Starosele (Crimea). DNA work revealed long-distance connections across Eurasia, supported by stone tool evidence @heasvienna.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

>50,000-year-old worked tree resin from the Raja Ampat islands, north-west of New Guinea. Resin was used by ancient humans for fire-lighting, hafting tools and constructing boats. This is the oldest example of tree resin processing outside of Africa! 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

I got to reset my winter rhythm and see more sunrises, greet the sun, light stove in the office and get some early morning writing hours in as part of my daily routine. I’ve been finding it hard to get up past few weeks in the darkness. Too tired with fatigue. I’m back taking iron supplements due to

Same vibe #Caturaday #cats #kitten

Pooka: “I’ve seen things…” His face says it all! 🤣🫣 First time outside on a very windy bitter cold evening with heavy cold drops of rain falling. Pouncing on anything that moved, even the wind 🤪

you have been visited by Baby Bison and will now enjoy 48 hours of elevated serotonin

Pooka and Prince very sleepy after much zoomies and play this morning. Prince found her sun spot and Pooka on his favourite shelf #Caturday #cats #kitten

"With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?" Oscar Wilde In 1925 a young Pamela Lyndon Travers, living in London, contacted the poet, George William Russell, a Lurgan man living in Dublin. Russell, known as Æ, was editor of the Irish Statesman… 1/

And we are charging the ring light …. When it turns green, it’s fully charged. Then all go for marathon session of photogrammetry tomorrow evening! Oh yeah!

When a person in a national institution gives a profile on you at conference, but never contacted you for info & then proceeds to tell half truths. It’s a poor reflection on them, not me. Shows their lack of respect at basic level. I won’t forget & when time is right I’ll put record straight.

Pooka and Prince in a (cat) tree (ish) …. S. L. E. E. P. I. N. G. #cats

That’s it… that’s the week ruined! #coffee

Pooka’s adult canines are coming down … woohoo! Must watch out for his baby teeth in due course, around the house. #kittens #cats

Prince’s marvellous yeti feet strike again ….. #onlyfans 🤣😅 I know @apocalypsehere.bsky.social loves to see them 🤣🤣🤣 #cats #catsofbluesky #feet

Pooka playing with his toy mouse … getting in practice for real thing if any get into the house this winter. #kitten #catsofbluesky

Processed a few more photos from our excavation at Castlepook cave last July. Been so busy haven’t had time, so many excavated bones and prob close to 100 bulk bags of cave sediment from diff contexts to wet sieve! We were busy!!! #CastlepookCaveProject 🏺 Main funders @ria.ie 1/2

Only two weeks left to pre-order Christmas sweaters. Cut off date is Nov 1st.

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This day last year, when Prince was a 6 month old kitten … and earlier today … what a difference a year makes ! #cat

Prince is so wrecked tonight from all the playing and her filming debut, that she fell asleep half way through grooming herself at this very odd angle on the couch 😅 #cat

Well that’s another filming done for a new documentary which will come out late next year. Can’t say much more than that … but Pooka and Prince were also filmed play fighting with each too. This was my deal breaker, they had to appear ! 🤣 We are all tired now…

Bernard Ngeneo found the first pieces of this skull, KNM-ER 1470, in July of 1972. Sieving from the site produced more than a hundred fragments, which Meave Leakey and Alan Walker reconstructed. The skull came from sediments now thought to be between 1.95 and 2.03 million years in age. #inktober

I’m about to fling my phone into the fire … one of those days, where I can’t type as fast as my thoughts and then my fingers fumble and get loads of typos and I have to delete nearly every word … why can’t the letter buttons be bigger on phones ?!?! I’m getting so angry now at my fingers and phone!

I cannot turn the page for the Israeli regime or anyone who supports them. This is horrific, and one can imagine that if they do this to a young woman from a country which has diplomatic relations, ( albeit they were useless) what do they do to those with no diplomatic protection?

Pooka: “After looking at the draft, I have some text suggestions …” #cats

Interesting thread related to triple negative breast cancer among others.

@apocalypsehere.bsky.social look at his baby yeti hind paws 🥰😅