Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches. This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists! Archaeologists! Please volunteer www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

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🏺 Can never get enough of this late prehistoric world where trees meant not just wood to people, but also bark/bast (and in other cases, roots) as a widely utilised material, likely with particular symbolic associations different to other fibres.

Hey so I’m reading some poems in Toronto this afternoon

I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited

Ok, for those doing lots of work on an iPad, what’s your desk setup? How are you not destroying your neck? #illustration #SciArt

A major perk of being a science illustrator is constantly learning new things. I recently got to delve into the world of North American mastodons while creating this editorial illo to accompany new research from @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social Ancient DNA Centre. 1/2 #SciArt #paleoart #illustration

Orestes Pursued by the Furies https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-singer-sargent/orestes-pursued-by-the-furies-1921

Reading deeply about animals for the chapter I hope to finish this semester, thinking about how they created early medieval landscapes with their communities. What are folks favorite articles/chapters/books on horses, pigs, cows, sheep or goats? Any period or field! #medievalsky 🏺 #academicsky

Me reading another headline saying “Spending as little as 5 minutes outside with nature improves quality of life”: “yeah, yeah, yeah” Me tearing myself away from my computer to walk the dog around the neighborhood and spotting a large clump of goldenrod with pollinators buzzing:

I ran into him once at a hotel in Ankara. He quizzed me on Çatalhöyük plants, looking for fermentation possibilities. This was soon after he & Dogfish Head made Midas Touch, a beer based on plant remains from Gordion. He really popularized creative approaches to plant cultivation beyond subsistence.

Williams was a photographer for Jet magazine. He took the photo himself. The OG selfie. Iconic. Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1956

What exactly is #archInk? It started in 2018 by Dr. Katherine Cook with daily drawing prompts exploring archaeological themes. The goal is not to create perfect "art" but should be rather seen as a daily practice connecting with archaeology and each other through creative practices 1/3

20 Visibility 21 Embodiment 22 Provenance 23 Absence 24 Toolmark 25 Reclamation 26 Ephemeral 27 Justice 28 Looted 29 Temporality 30 Becoming 31 Afterlife

Here the list in writing: 1 Pigment 2 Shell 3 Residue 4 Bronze 5 Flint 6 Horn 7 Textile 8 Stratigraphy 9 Ivory 10 Palimpsest 11 Transformation 12 Echo 13 Pseudoscience 14 Network 15 Bioarchaeology 16 Gatekeeping 17 Ownership 18 Exclusion 19 Preservation

Here's the official #archInk2025 prompt list - 31 days of archaeological (illustration) prompts for October. From pigment and bronze to provenance and afterlife, each prompt open to be explored through drawing or other techniques and mediums. Ready to join in? #archInk

The talented Louis Ginnett painted this mural for Brighton + Hove Grammar School Sussex in 1937 Entitled *Hollingbury Camp: Full Circle* it depicts the excavation of a Bronze Age burial The motorcyclist is TE Lawrence, who died in 1935 Did he really visit a dig in Brighton? 🤔 #HillfortsWednesday

Come make maps with me on Saturday at Hope Artiste Village in Pawtucket! I've done this activity at three conferences and now you'll get to experience it yourself! Families with kids older than 13 are welcome 🗺️

Fellow citizens of Hamilton Ontario, a thoughtful musing :

darth I've been drawing televisions from movies Mars Attacks (1996) I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (2018) Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) E. T. the Extraterrestrial (1982) marcusjmerritt.com/objects-from...

I was influenced by some tiktokkers to start playing with playdoh for printing! It has potential, and I like the imperfectness of it (very wabi suki). I’ll be testing it on medieval tiles next!

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Incredible #SciArt. Imagine a zoologist telling their origin story in 2045: “I first became fascinated by animal behavior while on a family holiday to Disney World. I begged my mom to buy me the Animal Poop Candy & then ran around the park, eating each one in front of the matching animal enclosure.”

Reassure me I’ll be ok if I quit all Adobe products, please! Right now I’m using procreate in place of PS and am looking at Affinity to replace AI and Id. Any other suggestions? (I’m a Mac user). #SciArt #Illustration

Incredible #SciArt. Imagine a zoologist telling their origin story in 2045: “I first became fascinated by animal behavior while on a family holiday to Disney World. I begged my mom to buy me the Animal Poop Candy & then ran around the park, eating each one in front of the matching animal enclosure.”

I always learn new things when I leave the house and sit outside for eight hours on a Saturday, and today I learned that it is now fashionable for teens and adults to walk around with black pimple patches shaped like stars, like the velvet/mouseskin beauty marks of pox-scar-ridden Old Venetians

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

Here are the just published findings of 2 years of basic income for artists in Ireland. 🎨 Recipients worked 11 hours more per week on their creations and worked 3.5 hours less per week outside the arts. ⚕️ Depression dropped by 15 percentage points and anxiety by 16. assets.gov.ie/static/docum...

An infinite variety of patterning in this fantastic collection of shells, plus deadly white and blood red coral rising up from among them, painted by Jacques Linard. Today is his day.

Reminding me of @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social and Jackie Morris’ exquisite book “The Lost Words”. “The words were becoming lost: no longer vivid in children’s voices, no longer alive in their stories.”

A-maize-ing

It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!

As I am writing about the art inspired by the challenge of remembering nuclear waste, I wanted to share a unique award-winning design that exemplifies how people who aren’t convinced you can just disappear waste think about this task. On a runway so this may be short… 1/

🚨An asbolute disgrace on the part of the EAA! "Intimidation Tactics Force Archaeological Association to Abandon Gaza Solidarity" cc @archagainstaparth.bsky.social blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...

Real excited to build some worlds with @clmorgan.bsky.social and @apolitopoulos.bsky.social at #TAG2025 in York! #archaeology 🏺

I just published my article Archaeology as Worldbuilding, an effort that grows out of 20+ years of digital (and analog) archaeological making. Adjacent to recent arguments about storytelling, I broaden our scope to make past worlds & tell stories in community with others. doi.org/10.1017/S095...

My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post: bsky.app/profile/nsou...

if you've ever wanted to know EXACTLY what makes a squid a squid, I made this helpful diagram last #Squidtember

Skatepark excavation by @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social the absolute legend: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm a historical archaeologist in VA. For the past 25 yrs I've been immersed in the material remains of slavery. The daily, tactile realities of enslaved people & enslavers. It's very hard to communicate to people who don't have this lens, because it just does not compute- how bad and normal it was.

The kind of tiny cultural difference that makes the archaeologists in me despair.

I lied! This was my field school but I had already spent two seasons working at Çatalhöyük as an archaeobotanist. So my answer should be lots of carbonized seeds via the flot machine. I did talk my way into a couple days digging as well so add bits of bone and ceramic from Neolithic room fill.

This is an official Skype a Scientist HQ Mayday Alert to all Archaeologists. We've already gotten more requests for archaeologists than we have archaeologists. We have 38. We need a lot more than 38! Dig yourself into this database, we NEED ya www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

First dig finds - some nails at the Petaluma Adobe.

every SI exhibit is vetted at the highest possible levels and at every stage of development: peer review by top scholars, extensive visitor, studies panels with every type of stakeholder. I'd like to see reporters covering the curatorial process and the actual experts at these museums #publichistory

Stone vessels from Göbekli Tepe's sister site Karahantepe 🏺 Imagine the possible wooden artworks and daily life items these guys probably had made

My life-long compulsion to save every scrap of paper that crosses my path is finally paying off, I’ve just found a stash of other paper objects w/ outreach potential! Such as entrytickets w/ imagery that can serve as souvenirs (places & approx. date visited in alt text) 🏺 #archaeology 🐡 #SciArt

The Smithsonian museum allows all its images to be shared for free, no asking needed. More than a #cooltool for schools, this is an open door to authentic sources in our increasingly artificially manipulated world, with access to more than 4.9 million 2D and 3D digital items. www.si.edu/openaccess

Always a pleasure to see hominin graffiti. Tbilisi, Georgia.