I’ve read 6 out of 10, the other 4 are going on the reading pile.

Or, put another way: we need the carefully crafted nonsense of the jabberwocky. We also need to be attentive to making rhythm for the sake of feeling its cadence, not because it makes technology better. bsky.app/profile/chan...

Reference vs Art, p. 2. Call me oldschool, but I like creating my own maquettes and models from the available real life materials. They are useful for determining the lighting & cast shadows, but also come in handy in tricky perspective & foreshortening spots. Various older work.

✨ Step into the world of living textiles with the Clothworkers’ Team who are hosting 3 research sessions exploring the Museum’s textile collections from Syria, Palestine & Yemen, as part of the MultakaOxford Artweeks Display: Living Textiles. 16-25 May during opening hours. bit.ly/4dcADFL

Art of the ancient Americas may not be your thing, but you have to love this earthenware crab vessel. I'm sorry, I don't make the rules. 🦀 This is going into our imaginary museum replica store, pronto. #LACMA Colombia, Calima style, Ilama period, ca. 1500 BCE-100 CE. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

Congratulations to centenarian Sir David Attenborough! Here he is as controller of BBC2 in 1968, running Britain’s first live televised archaeological dig at Silbury Hill 🏺🪏🎥

On the weekend, white supremacists in black masks held a demonstration on James Street North. Nearly 100 years ago, the KKK, in white hoods, did the same. If you don't think this is an issue in our city, I hope this is the wake up call you need. Here's my motion on this from yesterday. #HamOnt

Newest member of our family and my instant favorite. #textiles #craft #fiberarts

There’s never a bad time to learn about your clothing But now might be a REALLY good time to learn. I don’t know if the era of cheap clothing is gonna last much longer and you might wanna be prepared

All I want to know is what Penelope’s loom looks like and how anachronistic it is on a scale from 1 to 10.

Always love to be reminded of this. A lot of it was hand-stitched too. Really amazing, precise work. Women’s work is so often minimised and forgotten.

If I remember correctly from my undergrad European Folklore class, this news story falls into 1 of the test or task motifs from Thompson’s Motif Index of Folk Literature. The gold-ring-loser and the gold-ring-finder must now wed and live happily ever after, them’s the rules. #folklore #fairytale

I'm obviously an Avebury girl but this woodcut of Stonehenge by Yoshijiro Urushibara is v nice

The Clothworkers’ Team are delighted to share this beautiful hand embroidered work by Raja, inspired by a historic dress in our collection ✨ Over recent months, a project dedicated to preserving Yemen’s embroidery heritage has brought together 25 women artisans across Yemen.

Don't we just love it when people wrote like this? 😂 #archives

Alice & Martin Provensen

I’ve now bound the edges and added pockets on the back. Next up, adding some zippered pouches and a couple of felt pages to turn it into a little needle book/ sewing kit. Maybe that way there will be less free floating pins and needles around my house… #textiles, #sewing, #quilts #craft

Imagine a giant stone monument to your weaving prowess. @aroddick.bsky.social, next anniversary? Tho I guess I better focus on my weaving prowess.

Kristin Link (@linkkristin.bsky.social), one of my #CSUMB Science Illustration cohort, has a book out today. Kristin is an expert in lively field sketching and intense observation. Buy her book, “Discover the Art of Field Sketching”! 1/2 #SciArt 🐡 #Sketching

I whisper this to myself all the time.

And an absolute beauty for #FlintFriday #Archaeology too.

Every time I start composing a archaeological burial scene, I slam right into the unconscious of “Lamentation of Christ” art. I find it nearly impossible not to think of them when illustrating this subject. 1/3 #SciArt 🐡 #archaeology 🏺 #illustration

Fascinating culture of indigenous dyeing #TextileHistory

For the past two years, the final project in my pseudoarchaeology class (ANT2290) was to craft a zine on an archaeological site, that presents both the actual evidence and a fanciful interpretation of it based on pseudoscientific practices covered in class. This year's crop was outstanding!

A little time-lapse video, colouring my live conference sketches from the weekend’s Medieval Settlement Research Group Spring conference in Lincoln. #medievalsky 🏺🏛️🗃️ #sketchbook #illustration #skystorians (🔈for commentary)

We too are grateful, @aroodick.bsky.social and I got to relive our youth at a recent Wolf Parade show in #HamOnt.

MAJOR UPDATE: I found the best free restaurant bread in the United States www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Plant-y #SciArt opportunity!

We have a new symposium at this year's European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference in Muenster, Germany: Plant Paleoart: Perspectives and promises", organised by @palaeojules.bsky.social and myself! Both scientists and artists are welcome to contribute! www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeonto...

I love work like this. Anything that makes the past present is good for us. Especially when it's a past many aren't taught or think about.

Archaeology is a driver of scientific innovation. Rather than being a perceived financial burden, it is actually a high-value investment that can improve human health and environmental sustainability. 🏺1/7 doi.org/10.11141/ia....

The problem is: earlier forms of imagery are perceptually immensely different from AI images. While human perception will flag paintings as “fictional” with ease, it is powerless against AI images which it will flag as “real” because they feature the necessary visual cues for our brains.

if you listen to the recording, you can hear the astronauts talk amongst each other about what settings to use, to pass around lenses among each other, asking about framing and talk about how difficult and a little frustrated they were trying to capture what they're seeing with their eyes. it's cool

This is one of the reasons why #stem has been gloriously updated to #steam. Art and science go hand in hand, especially when we want more folks to understand. :)

There comes a moment when you realise your weirdness is you strength. Lean into it. There comes a moment when you realise you are Fully-grown Changeling. Celebrate it. We are strange and we are here.

The nature of my work means that literature constantly gets moved about, buried and lost, moved again. Every now and again I have to try and rearrange things. It never goes well. ps it's 2026 and physical literature is STILL essential for this kind of research. The Internet is just about useless.

Ooh I’ve just started a personal project illustrating archaeological containers (inspired by @ursulakleguin.com’s carrier bag essay). Gonna go digging for new subjects in this database. 🏺 #archaeology 🐡 #SciArt #illustration

Woo-Hoo! First comprehensive assessment of the evidence for Pleistocene mobile containers! A biocultural perspective viewing container use and manufacture as a process of niche construction! Jennifer C. French, Somaye Khaksar, me & @marckissel.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Once, while attempting to take a local train one stop east from Tarragona, Spain, late at night, I accidentally got on the last express train to Barcelona, a one hour journey with no stops. I miraculously had my passport on me but, less miraculously, only 10% phone battery…1/4

Looking forward to reading as my foray into DH has driven me to pop up books.

“It had its own biography, its own deep history. It seemed like an archaeological site between covers.” @marlabroadfoot.bsky.social takes a deep dive into biocodicology, the study of ancient manuscripts as biological objects. New @nature.com @marlabroadfoot.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My favorite psychedelic Easter book from my childhood, “The Easter Pig”, published in 1982.

can't beat that

New Tana French!!! I am deeply committed to Bleak House but also NEW TANA FRENCH helpppp!!! 🔒

If just 7 more people tap on the SciArt Feed, tap the 3 dots in the corner, and tap 🧡, it will become the #38 most popular Feed on Bluesky, ahead of NBAsky. If you already have it pinned, make sure to like the feed! 🐡

A paper out today by my team (led by the cutting edge work of Kalyan Chakraborty) on some collaborative residue analysis work done on long curated materials. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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.