🌴 The history of the Caribby-islands London: Printed by J.M. for Thomas Dring and John Starkey ..., 1666. [Source]

Take a clam shell in your hands and point the outer edge down and the hinge up. Point the beaklike umbones near the hinge away from you. The bivalve's left and right valves can now be distinguished! Pic via the Atlas of Ancient Life (192) www.digitalatlasofancientlife.org/learn/mollus...

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Excited to be the Chair of the newly established Indigenous data governance task force with the charge of asserting Indigenous rights and governance authority into one of the largest biodiversity repositories in the world. I’m joined by an amazing international team!

News flash! ⚡ GBIF establishes an international task group led by Dr Lydia Jennings on Indigenous data governance to offer input and guidance for implementing the #CAREPrinciples within the GBIF network 🌱 Read more: 🔗 https://gbif.link/IDG#CAREPrinciples @localcontexts.bsky.social

Our lab of archaeologists, historians, and ecologists studies social, economic, and environmental dynamics over the last 5,000yrs. From the earliest Indigenous villages on the US Atlantic coast, to nomadic Mongolian empires, to Black towns of the post-emancipation South. Follow for rad archaeology!

Charlotta Hillerdal, Alice Watterson, Lonny Alaskuk Strunk, Jaqueline Nalikutaar Cleveland all appear on the podcast! Check out their #ProjectGallery (co-authored with John Anderson) in Antiquity 🆓 buff.ly/eFzqooU And explore the museum: buff.ly/omwz2ZY

For my nerdy crafty pals, this is clearly for you

@barnaclebarclay.bsky.social (Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship @uvic.ca in collaboration with #uvic researchers @juliabaum.bsky.social & @iainmckechnie.bsky.social as well as a Tseshaht First Nation representative, Denis St. Claire.

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A similar photo of me, I got to go up in it! No idea what plane it is. Anyone know?

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newly published book: "The Teachings of Mutton: A Coast Salish Woolly Dog harbourpublishing.com/products/978... will be launched at a sold out event tomorrow at the Courtenay Museum & Palaeontology Centre www.courtenaymuseum.ca/upcoming-lec...

Under the Dewey Decimal System, books on wood carving and river systems would not be placed together, nor would books on conflict resolution and gardening. magazine.1000libraries.com/this-library...

Examples of wood fishweirs from the Cowichan River and Comox Estuary on the shores of #Vancouver Island, in #BritishColumbia, #Canada. Made and fished by #IndigenousPeoples of BC like the Quwʼutsun people, also known as the Cowichan Tribes and the Comox. 1/2

Since time immemorial Hwkw’akw’la’hwum has existed as a place where Indigenous people have grown food. Now, after more than a century of colonization and land theft, the land is finally being returned to Quw’utsun stewardship. Story by Jared Qwustenuxun Williams: thediscourse.ca/cowichan-val...

"Hey GBIF, what day is it?" Us: "The best day of the year - #InternationalDayForBiologicalDiversity!" 🤩🐛🧬 As a global biodiversity data infrastructure, GBIF works with our international network to provide anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth.💚 #BiodiversityDay

Calm Waters Roy Henry Vickers ~ Haida, Heiltsuk, Tsimshian 2000

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Transforming institutional governance and ethics for Indigenous control of Indigenous data Visit our website to learn more: indigenousdatalab.org #indigenousdatasovereignty #indigenousdatagovernance #IDSov #IDGov #indigenousdatalab

🚀 Webinar: Introducing the Darwin Core Data Package Join us as we share updates on a new data model for GBIF and exciting changes proposed for the Darwin Core standard! 📍 2 June 2025, 14:00–15:00 CEST 🔗 Register: gbif.link/DwC-webinar @tdwg.org

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No cheating. Post the last photo of your pet. Introducing: Vincent!

Because many Indigenous worldviews do not hold a clear separation between the human and animal spheres, common museum practices do not align with the ideas of respectful or culturally informed care of animal remains. Chance Ward & co-authors want to change this. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Calling #Moose. Linked paper about an exceptional discovery from Fort Selkirk likely dated to the late 1840s. #yukon #archaeology 🏺 read.dukeupress.edu/ethnohistory...

New paper out today! "The Entwined Human and Environmental Costs of the Colonial Project: Perspectives from Natural History Collections". I explored a few themes on how natural history #museums are now working to understand their colonial legacies. A little🧵: www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

In garfish, when the molecular iron component of hemoglobin degrades it produces a blue-green bile pigment, biliverdin. Biliverdin has an affinity for protein collagen. Collagen in archaeological bone degrades over time. This may explain the absence of colour.🧪🦴🐡🏺 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

big Pacific herring forum tomorrow hosted by W̱SÁNEĆ leadership council www.nanaimobulletin.com/news/salish-...

I just downloaded the Cruz Database. I was worried when I saw it was an .xlsx file and sure enough... it's not just "bad". It's "Kyle Lamb Spreadsheet" bad (IFYKNK). I will post the csv version to Github shortly - stay tuned.

Hi, Bluesky! After taking an extended break from socials, I'm trying to ease my way back! Had several pubs come out recently that I should share 🦀🐌🦪 👇

Landscape near the Alaskan site of Nunalleq and an illustration of a person hunting deer in the area. Photos were taken by Indigenous Yup'ik photographer Jacqueline Nalikutaar Cleveland, ensuring reconstructions are informed from a local perspective. 🆓 https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.235

Like a real-life anatomy diagram, these "double-prep" specimens of a frog, lizard and chicken have been prepared so they are half skeleton and half taxidermy. They're a great way of showing what animals look like with their clothes off. 🐸🦎🐔 At the Sorbonne Zoology Museum

Canadians: Sync.com has a 40% off flash sale: 2TB40PERCENT Bring all your data home before this trade war, somehow, cuts us off of US-based IT infrastructure

Kitasoo Dawn Roy Henry Vickers ~ Haida, Heiltsuk, Tsimshian 1998 #BritishColumbia

With yi'yuq in the air I thought I'd reshare one of my favorite language videos of them all. Lemut tu yi'yuq, aa muy' u' #indigenousforestpunk #Hulquminum #IndigenousLanguages

“Many, many cemeteries all over our territory have been decimated by development with not much regard for remains. It’s that sort of mentality that the western culture has imposed on us,” the late Wes Modeste (Qwustenuxun) told a reporter at The Pictorial in 1994. thediscourse.ca/cowichan-val...

Sharing our recent pub here and relational science model of practice (see visual map 🌀). "A values-centered relational science model: supporting Indigenous rights and reconciliation in research" ecologyandsociety.org/vol29/iss2/a...