🏺Facebook archaeology groups might not be completely dead after all

🪶 Just a few days after this post, a remarkable bird is causing a stir in a small village of my native Brittany: a Belted Kingfisher, coming from North America. As a result, between 30 and 40 twitchers on site, , coming from all over the country, sometimes up to 150 ??

Happy winter solstice ! ❄️🌞

External and SEM pictures of Cardita antiquatus (left), living in Tunisia today, and Centrocardita squamulosa ampla (right), that lived in the North Sea, 4 million years ago. They are both about the same size, but the modern one is 3/4 years old while the fossil one is about 30. #FossilFriday

On the 4th day of fossils, my true love gave to me... A 4 toed amphibian track! Batrachichnus is from the Carboniferous Mansfield Formation of southern Indiana. This is the name of the trace fossil because it's unknown exactly what animal produced it. The print is ~2cm long. 1/x #12DaysofFossils

I once thought wildlife photography could raise awareness of biodiversity loss. Yet with the hobby's popularization and gear affordability, the race for clicks and likes has seemingly outweighed the conservation value. And I say this as a practitioner myself. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🏺 For #TombTuesday, nothing less than the oldest monument of Europe : the Cairn of Barnenez (Finistère, France). A 75m long chambered cairn , 2300 years older than the Great Pyramids of Egypt, made of 11 different chambers. As André Malraux called it, "a true prehistoric Parthenon".

+1 point pour la dame des sciences à la radio 🫶

What if the real treasure was the grant proposal we wrote along the way ?

🌍 Human impact is largely associated with biodiversity decline, but in Holocene Europe (11,700–150 years BP), human ecological influence led to increasing landscape, habitat and biological diversity. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Finally ! "Stone Simulator" has deployed a free multiplayer update on Steam. Becoming a stationary stone and observing environmental changes over simulated time can now be done with four of your friends in the same lobby ! ⚒️ 👾

General De Gaulle visits Military Uranium Enrichment Plant at Pierrelate. We already had Giscardpunk, but how about De Gaulle the Techno-Priest ?

Funny timing to post this. Probably zero link with the recent breakthrough from EURatom and EUROfusion programs 🥸 🇪🇺

My lab at @univbrest.bsky.social hitting headlines again! A giant fishweir made of 62 monoliths and measuring 120x20m, has been discovered near Sein island (Brittany). It's the largest underwater construction in France, and it was built by Mesolithic hunter gatherer 🤯 #PaleoSky #MegalithMonday🏺

#MolluscMonday Another fossil in the galleries of the South Australia Museum, the heteromorph ammonite Tropaeum imperator, Collected from Early Cretaceous rocks at Coober Pedy, this is claimed to be the largest known ammonite from Australia with an uncoiled length of 3 metres.

Kees Scherer - Relief at a Ptolemaic Temple Egypt, 1968 🏺

I know this is casual shitposting, but seen from Europe we might expect a little more from the « resistance ».

Nerineids and bivalves on the floor of Bilkent Concert Hall, Ankara🥳 #UrbanGeology

Amazing find ! But (and I don’t want to be too chauvinistic here) we have an older example in Brittany 🤓 Menez Dregan rock shelter in Finistère harbored several hearth dated back to 475ka (probably made H. heidelbergensis) #PaleoSky 🏺⚒️

This #FossilFriday it's one we found a couple of days ago but a perfect split to reveal this stunning calcite ammonite! Sadly not ideal tides to head out today to find bits but who knows what's lurking out there for next week!

Wow

Reposting for #FossilFriday, #MolluscMonday, #PaleoSky and all the rest of it 🏺🦑🧪

It took the cat a millennium to reach Ireland from England

1/ Last week I attended to a conference entilted "Interactions between human societies and marine invertebrates" (I love how niche and obscure these meetings are), and I learned about the Neolithic desert kites, these huge traps in Middle East. The link with marine inverts ? A quick thread ! 🦑🏺

1/ I don't know why but I'm weirdly attracted to shipwrecks maps. I live in Brittany, so there's quite a few shipwreck around, too. Here's two examples from WWI and WWII only.

Mandatory repost for the #TrilobiteTuesday

#TrilobiteTuesday From the public galleries of the South Australia Museum in Adelaide, a very fine fossil of the Cambrian trilobite Redlichia rex.

Could 2026 be your year? We've added some more new #PhD opportunities to our website, with a total of 12 new incredible studentships across all sorts of disciplines... Check them out here: pml.ac.uk/Working-with... #PhDopportunity #PhDlife #PhDopportunities

Just received a Christmas card from the Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social and omggfgdvqjdg

Do I have a blog now ? So cringe. medium.com/@jf.cudennec...

We found the coolest bugs on the beach look at these glorious lads 🦑

An absolute unit of a polar bear, feasting on the carcass of a whale somewhere on the coast of Norway. Someone is getting ready for winter.

Kīlauea is showing off : the main fountain reaches 300m high, and 800m laterally 🌋⚒️

Please forgive me for all the bad things I've said about AI.

Can’t resist but to rewatch the storm scene in the movie Océans, shot in the Iroise Sea (home!) during the 2008 gale.

1/ I don't know why but I'm weirdly attracted to shipwrecks maps. I live in Brittany, so there's quite a few shipwreck around, too. Here's two examples from WWI and WWII only.

1) Harbermas has a Twitter account 2) He’s still alive (I just checked) 3) he was a Hitler Youth Quite a lot of information to process from just one tweet

Cool find that makes you wonder what those shells meant. www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

What if we simply ate Neandertals into extinction? A new study shows that female and young Neandertals were consumed by H/ sapiens as food rather than in a ritual context, as suggested by traces similar to those found on other animal bones hunted by humans. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Running from my family duties straight into the arms of this 4,000-year-old scallop fragment, with beautifully preserved daily growth increments.

This is Calappa, the same crab that I made a pumpkin of (next skeet) and one of bluesky's favorite crabs. Not only does it run funny, it has an adorable face and its claws are specialized like a can opener for snails 🦀🦑

Be ungovernable

We’ve uncovered a new species of snake! 🐍 Paradoxophidion richardoweni lived 37 million years ago and has a strange mix of features that suggest it's an early caenophidian, the group containing 80% of living snakes. Discover what it reveals about snake evolution 👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

We're snailposting, post your snails !

Feeling down today ? Why don’t you just go to the lab and perform some destructive analysis on subfossil scallop from a Neolithic shell midden ?

Collared mangabey, close-up portrait Canon EOS mkII + RF 100-500mm #Photography

You may like it or not, but this is what peak phylogenetic looks like

According to this paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social, two-thirds of cats prefer a leftward sleeping position. Profound life lesson being taught here.

Pleistocene dude saw the eye of a cat. 5 cyclone and immediatrely felt the urge to invent religions