And you, how’s science popularization in your country? On French YouTube, Léo from Dirty Biology (1.17M subs) challenges Gordon Childe’s early 20th‑c. evolutionism and Rousseau’s “state of nature,” using AI‑generated visuals. You can imagine my face when I saw his Florida “shell mounds”... 🧪 🏺

The sky is blue, but so are the caves... 💙 #PaleoSky 🏺 🧪

Do not have much inspiration for #FossilFriday, so here’s a cool helmet-shaped Neolithic limpet 🏺

As far as I understand this paper, our species, H. sapiens, could be 1 million years old, twice as old as previously estimated ! It came out in @science.org, and the proofs are still indirect, but wow 🤯 #PaleoSky 🧪 ⚒️ 🏺 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"Bluesky's emerging role as a credible platform for science communication and a promising source for altmetrics. The platform facilitate not only early visibility of research outputs but also more meaningful scholarly dialogue in the social media landscape." arxiv.org/abs/2507.18840 #AcademicSky 🧪

👩‍🔬J'ai commencé un kit de démarrage "chercheuses en France" go.bsky.app/TBEzKC #FemmesEnScience J'ai besoin de votre aide pour le remplir et donner de la visibilité aux chercheuses que vous connaissez et qui sont sur Bluesky ! ▶️Taguez celles que vous connaissez, je les ajoute !

‼️📣Extremely proud to see this great collaborative work out! Oldest Shell Ornament Workshop in Western Europe at Saint-Césaire: www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1... #Prehistory #Archaeology #Chatelperronian #Shells #Beads #Homosapiens #Neandertal #Ornament Details of discovery & implications ⏬ 🧵 1/20

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🌊 Ocean Photographer of the Year 2025 Conservation (impact), winner Hugo Bret, Faroe Islands

Very cool finding ! Not only is it the oldest shell-working workshop for beads and shell adornments, but at that time the sea was more than 100km away 🤯 🏺 🦑

Learn from my mistakes: check your adult filter before typing 'Fat Bear Week' in the search bar 🐻

You want to push young people toward marine biology and oceanography careers ? 🦑 🌊 Then stop with “challenging the future with innovative solutions” and show them this photo of Cousteau drinking wine, playing cards and smoking in his underwater house in the Red Sea. That's all we want.

Can’t tell which is worse 😭 🦑 🌊

So, is this a tautautonym ?

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More arcaheological limpets for #MolluscMonday 💙 In late prehistory HawaÏ (late 1500s/ early 1600s), shrines were built next to houses, and filled delicate food as offerings, including some neat limpet stacks, some still in their original position of deposition. Source : tinyurl.com/dbjurdw9

It was sold by a restoration specialist from the museum to the owner of a gold workshop for the equivalent of about $3,800 dollars… 💸

Don’t worry, I’m sure the second one is safe 🙃

Cringey Colossal Science strikes again 🧪 🪶 Their latest “breakthrough”: resurrecting the dodo (translation: genetically butchered pigeons). As always: oversimplifications, flashy pseudo–sci-fi imagery, AI slop, and sinister motives wrapped in marketing.

This week’s #FossilFriday features a very cool opalised dinosaur femur, belonging to an Early Cretaceous Australian ornithopod (Click the image to see it in full detail) #PaleoSky ⚒️🦕

The Sorcerer Grotte des Trois-Frères 13,000 BCE Ariège, France

Started from nothing, Ended up nowhere.

Oldest known mummies are coming from south-east Asia, are 10,000 yrs older than the Egyptian ones, and are coming from people that used to smoke dry their dead 🥰 #PaleoSky 🏺 🧪 go.nature.com/4poGAET

Archaeological interpretation saying more about the archaeologist than the archaeology, episode XXXX. Source : Jean-Loïc Le Quellec - La Caverne Originelle 🏺 #PaleoSky

This cool video is about debating. It is a bit off my usual topics, but, after presenting some technical and scientific stuff in front of a 30-strong panel last week, and being questioned about it, I still find it fascinating how techniques can help make an argument. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn0_...

Oldest known mummies are coming from south-east Asia, are 10,000 yrs older than the Egyptian ones, and are coming from people that used to smoke dry their dead 🥰 #PaleoSky 🏺 🧪 go.nature.com/4poGAET

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Here's a cute little limpet from an Early Neolithic sepulture (4988/4772 B.C.) near Paris, worn as a pendant 💙 I've missed the #MolluscMonday, but it's still time for #TombTuesday ! #PaleoSky 🏺 🦑

Messor ibericus female will mate with Messor structor males, clone male offsprings from the second species and keep them as captives. « The end result is fantastical but incredibly successful, with one species carrying another in its pocket »

There’s an interesting series of 5 free online paleobotany lectures via the Oxford University Botanic Garden this autumn. You can book all 5 lectures here (scroll down webpage to ‘Get your tickets now’ button) www.obga.ox.ac.uk/event/dr-san... #paleobotany

Naatsit : the Inuit seal fur thong 19th century National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen

And this isn’t the only case of a marine invertebrate fossil being used decoratively in stone tools. A 400,000-year-old Neanderthal handaxe from Swanscombe (Kent) contains the fossil of an echinoid that once lived on the floor of a Cretaceous sea some 65 million years ago. #PaleoSky 🏺 ⚒️

« they delved too greedily and too deep, and disturbed that from which they fled, Durin's Bane… »

Teach your children to use the internet the correct way (mostly just reading Wikipedia pages about plane crashes and deep sea creatures)

Reposting for the different Feeds 😬 #PaleoSky 🧪 ⚒️ 🏺

Après les fouilles, le tri ! Ici Breizh Izel est venu à la rencontre des archéologue et étudiants lors du stage post-fouilles à la faculté des sciences et techniques. 👉 www.francebleu.fr/emissions/le... #Archeologie #Coquillages #Agedebronze

1/ Today for #FossilFriday, a short thread about a strange “magma” of fossils 🦴 It may not look spectacular, but it tells an extraordinary story of palaeolithic horses, fossilized corals, “this is Sparta” hunting myth, and - since we’re in France - fine white wine.

Nothing says “new semester” like overestimating my reading capacity and overloading my TBR shelf 📚

Oh hey bluesky, any recs on a book about prehistoric fossils with illustrations and neat facts? (preferably of sea animals, and more than just dinosaurs, K1 is onto Cambrian now) (K1 has resorted to reading wikipedia, he asked me if there were books)

Government collapsed yesterday. Streets on fire today. Still no news about Scavenger Reigns season 2.

It's wednesday my dude 🐸

Stonehenge by Samuel Prout 1805.

These graphs are living rent-free in my head 💀

This summer I had the chance to work on an Early Medieval (Merovingian) cemetery, located on a small island, that was about to fall on the beach due to coastal erosion. Among the different remnants we rescued: this child´s jaw, with permanent teeth not yet erupted. #PaleoSky 🏺

On a trié tellement fort à l'UBO @univbrest.bsky.social la semaine dernière qu'on s'est retrouvés dans le journal ! www.francebleu.fr/emissions/le...

#MolluscMonday Miocene (Burdigalian) oyster bed at Sainte-Croix-du-Mont in SW France. Remarkably, this site is a tourist attraction and even has its own bar.

Just woke up from a social media pause and the first thing I see is an incredible footage of a sperm whale casually cruising with a giant squid in its mouth ?? 🦑 🌊 🌿

Hi, #evosky #EvoDevo #paleosky hivemind! I have a Q: Have there been any studies that build theoretical or empirical morphospaces that include and/or compare organisms from different kingdoms? I am looking for instances of research that meet that condition (regardless of their focus). Thanks a lot!

Iron age Paryzyk tatoos Central Asia - 6th to 3rd centuries BC 🏺