Born on this day 1647, naturalist & artist Maria Sibylla Merian. Here, Teucer Owl Butterfly & Rainbow Whiptail Lizard among the bananas, from her book The Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname, 1705.

This is an amazing 22 page list of human-made objects on the moon (including bags of poop, the “weight” being debated below).

This is very cool! I hear getting a patch is a big deal in nasa/space culture so WOOT to Anishinaabe artist Henry Guimond for sending them off in a good way. (quoted article gives good context for the designs)

Literally in their mandate, which is pretty dang neat.

Image: wiggly line graph looking more or less even for a very long time before, as with many climate change charts, it shoots up at the end. Title: Kyoto's Cherry Blossoms Are Blooming Earlier Than Any Time In Recorded History.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

I'd like to introduce you to Panulirus ornatus, the ornate rock lobster. They're native to the Indo-Pacific, with a large range centered on New Guinea & the Great Barrier Reef near Australia. They're a member of family Palinuridae, the spiny or rock lobsters. So why so colorful?

Deep dive into Hamilton Harbour’s waterbirds with the Hamilton Harbour Remedial Action Plan! Join a free webinar April 15, 5:30 pm to learn how human impacts shaped bird populations and what’s being done to restore balance. Register: hhrap.ca/events/deep-...

Might have to move to Nashville.

Today I've been making and decorating this replica Bronze Age beaker from Seahouses in Northumberland. The original is in the collection of the Great North Museum in Newcastle. It's one of the pots that inspired me to do what I do. 🏺 #Archaeology #Pottery potted-history.co.uk

My brother sent me a screenshot of the article with my image credit crossed out and replaced by “AI”. Siblings always know how to cut the deepest.

At potted-history.co.uk we have 100s of reference books that we use to create our replicas and today I'm using these two. But I suddenly realised that I bought my first copies of both from the Museum of Antiquities, in Newcastle, when I was a child! They started my career #Archaeology 🏺

15 years with these two (@aroddick.bsky.social and the Royal BC Museum’s mammoth).

The hidden perils of marrying an illustrator.

Archaeological Illustrator (Supervisor) AOC Archaeology Salary: £28,030– £29,244 (depending on experience; 26/27 pay review pending) Date: April 17, 2026 Location: Edinburgh www.bajr.org/job-ad/archa...

Grad school friends are the best friends.

New illustration in a new dog genetics article in Nature! I got to revisit my almost-old-stomping-grounds on the Anatolian plateau, Pinarbaşı (near-ish to Çatalhöyük where I used to work). I’ll share some details of the reconstruction soon. #SciArt 🐡 #archaeology 🏺

Me encantó la foto de tapa 😍🧪🏺

As close to a manifesto as I'll probably ever get. Make whatever weird, wacky thing your heart loves and then shout about it.

Got a mini iron for my birthday and already putting it to good use on this little bit of piecing! #textiles #sewing #quilts

Found elsewhere. Made me laugh.

Does NOAA’s live animated map of The Great Lakes’ currents still exist anywhere? I’d love to see it. The link in this 2015 Canadian Geographic article is dead and I fear it is no more. #NOAA #GreatLakes #SciArt #DataViz

Doing little wolf howls to my dog now.

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This is heartbreaking, and beautiful.

Leigh Brackett sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bracke... died on this day, so here are some interior magazine illustrations to her stories from 1949/1950 (Artist: [Uncredited], [Uncredited], Vincent Napoli and Virgil Finlay):

Late Autumn in Ichikawa — Kawase Hasui, 1930

I think about this a lot.

Love how empowering this is in its recognition of scale. You can't change it all, and that's reassuring & a call to change what you can.

This DOGE boy dissolved my Fort Negley grants, taking money earmarked for descendant-led archaeology and oral history collection because he was given power that indulged the fact that he is too arrogant to see the value in the histories of Black Tennesseans and how they have shaped ALL of the US.

I’m in the almost-finished-the-closer-I-get-to-done-the-more-there-is-to-do phase of a big illustration. Sigh. #SciArt #illustration

If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it. Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22

The thought experiment must have stayed with me because I created a whole series of drawings called “Something from Nothing” that exist in that liminal space between 2 and 3D. #drawing #graphite #FineArt

Still thinking about this Braille edition of the Little Prince. Saint-Exupéry’s drawings enthralled me as a kid, something you could turn over and over in your mind, walking the line between 2 and 3D. Just looking at the Braille dots, I can feel the bumps in my mind… 1/3

The rarest of the rare! This holy-grail dream fish is a larval-stage #monkfish, aka #goosefish. Shot in the wild, using scuba, while diving at night over water several thousand feet deep, several miles offshore from Kumejima, Okinawa. #larvalfish #blackwater #gug #deepseafish

Ooh, this looks fun.

Morning music. This version of “The Stable Song” with orchestral backing, byy Gregory Alan Isakov, is gorgeous. gregoryalanisakov.com/notes/the-st...

Been experimenting again with ways of automatically visualizing the data we collect with the Mothbox. New ones are doing shape packing instead of just rectangle packing and it makes it feel a bit more organic (i like how the bugs fill in the gaps between the big cicada for instance). #SciArt

Braille edition of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Wet Pets, Wet Pets, on San Pablo!”. Proud to say I lived in Berkeley when this shop existed and I have been in it. m.youtube.com/watch?v=gMbs...

I have watched this approximately 47 times and laughed out loud 47 times

For #FindsFriday this gorgeous depiction of the Deskford carnyx by Keith Henderson in Piggott’s Scotland Before History, 1958. Found c.1816 Near Deskford, just south of the Moray coast, it dates to the later 1stC AD, deposited in a bog c.2/3rdC. Now in the National Museum of Scotland. #CarnyxCrazy

The Museum of Scotland using small children in size comparison info panels is absolutely sending me.

Teaching Fieldwork & Digital Recording in our special topics module today. I'm still forever salty that one of the reviewers made us take this figure demonstrating the failings of photogrammetry for the creation of mental models out of our Aide Memoire paper. 🏺

Season by Christina Bothwell (American, b.1960 ) Medium: cast glass and ceramic.

Thoughtful writing on the often unrecognized work (both good and bad) of images in science communication.

The Bayeux Tapestry up in lights at Piccadilly Circus! Tickets on sale from 1 July for the exhibition at the British Museum, opening in September. First chance in 1,000 years to see this iconic object back on British soil.