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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

It is not permitted to ask about said fish. Ever. 😅😅😅

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Yey!! 😅 My friend has a goldfish called Fishy Flaps - not much meat on that though!

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Ah! Yes, scale is important! Cod? (Which is essentially a big whiting...... 😆). The diagnostic biy is a bit hidden so if not cod then ling or pollock/saithe (putting all my eggs in the Gadiformes basket!)

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

My 'I glance at this on the school run' answer is whiting. I'll give a 'I've checked 3 times because I dont want to say something stupid on the internet' answer later! 😅

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I've been contemplating leaving archaeology in a very serious way. 26 years in and I'm all out of fight. Fight I shouldn't ever have needed. I can't encourage anyone into our discipline in good conscience. It's a snake pit. Maybe there's improvements. Hard won. But still. I'm broken.

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Life is pretty challenging right now 😓 My daughter took this pic of a little friend that comes visit us around 7pm each evening. I hope it makes you smile as much as it did us. ❤️🦔❤️🦔❤️🦔❤️🦔❤️🦔❤️🦔

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Took these quick pics today to help someone out with an ID, so if you've ever wondered what the quadrate bone of the allis shad (Alosa alosa) looks like, wonder no more! ❤️🐟🦴

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Absolutely! 😊 We're not sure she'll be able to sit them anyway. She has sensory issues around paper and sometimes can't be in the same room as paper. We have a separate room and a scribe on hand in case she can face it, so she'd not need to touch any paper 💓 There's so many treats planned! 😊

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I made a cake for my daughter's birthday tomorrow 🎂🌻 Well, a tiny cake and 7 buns technically, I guess! 11 years old, gifted with SATs exams all week! 😅

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Right?! Never seen one like this before!

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

😍🦴💮 On first glance, I thought this was intricately decorated bone, but the surface pattern is almost certainly caused by fungal growth! 🍄‍🟫🍄 So beautiful! ❤️🦴

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I was appointed to teach it at one point, but it was going to cost me money to do so, so I had to turn the role down 😢

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

A level archaeology no longer exists 😢 But I had so much fun and this 2-year course gave me an amazing head start for my degrees in archaeology, which focussed on plants and animals ❤️

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Oh a bird skull! 🤩🐦💀 Nope, nope, wait. It's gum. 😂

White Gum smear on pavement in a shape similar to a bird skull

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Petrosal bones of domestic cattle (left) and equid (right, probably domestic horse). As well as being species diagnostic, they are also a good element to note because of their dense bone structure that preserves genetic material well 🐄🐎🦴🧬

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Well hi there wee fella 🙂🦴 I'm glad one of us is smiling.

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I've been told for 30+yrs that I'm "too soft" I need to "toughen up" 🙄 I don't need to "grow thicker skin". People need to stop being bullies. Stop gate keeping. Stop abusing their positions. I'm done changing so that ppl can continue to think their shit behaviour is ok.

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Yup, I feel like that too, sheep/goat maxillary M3 tooth roots. I feel ya 🐑🐐🦷🥴

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

🌳🪵🔥🔬 Beautiful example of oak (Quercus) wood charcoal (x40 magnification). Rocking the ring-porous. You can compare with English oak wood (Quercus robur) here: www.wood-database.com/wp-content/u... and with English oak charcoal here: www.wsl.ch/land/product...

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Because no one owns the copyright on archaeological objects!

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Sometimes it's sacral 💕🦴🐐🐑

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Definitely not bass, but could be an ass!

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Right occipital condyle of a horse of course! 💀🐎🦴 (well, equid, but that doesn't rhyme. It's most likely a horse, but donkey or mule can't be ruled out!) The only Equid bone for this context! www.archaeology.biz

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Baaaaaaayybeeeee pig, du doo, du do du doo 😂🦴🐖👶 Humerus of a young pig. Archaeological example on the left, recent reference specimen on the right ❤🦴

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I share my office with a #sherdnerd My favourite thing is his reference collection. Wee snips of pot, 100s, nay 1000s of them, sorted by ware type & location! This is only part of his reference collection just for Roman period York 🤩😱 I'm just jealous. His collection smells way better than mine 😆🦴

Roman pottery reference collection of pot snips for identification of Roman pottery from sites in and around York.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 17/03/2025

Lungfish xkcd.com/3064

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Ric Morris @skull-bloke.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

"Hello! I'm at #AstonOnClun this morning for @shropshirewildlife.bsky.social ... and everything on the table is dead! No idea how that happened; don't tell my boss!"

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Friends! Please take your seats! The turkey is ready 🦃❤️🦴🍽😅

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Jamie Wood @larusnz.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Once widespread, now critically endangered: New study shows kākāpō are the 4th most common bird in NZ's late-Quaternary deposits (>1351 individuals from 274 sites), and occupied all forests and adjacent habitats, on the NZ mainland prior to human settlement authors.elsevier.com/c/1klUo-4PSD...

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Left dentary of a bluefish and a right premaxilla of an angler/monkfish ❤️🦴🐟

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Second pic is a right premaxilla of an angler fish Lophius sp. I think over there you only have Lophius americanus. In the UK we have Lophius piscatorius and it is sold as 'monkfish tail' A real beaut of a fish! :-) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lophius...

en.wikipedia.org

Lophius - Wikipedia

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Ok, first pic is a left dentary of a bluefish: Pomatomus saltatrix Here is a link to the same bone in an ID guide :-) osteobase.mnhn.fr/region.php?l...

osteobase.mnhn.fr

OsteoBase

Web interactive exploration for osteology

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Sorry, I was home yesterday with a poorly little schmoops. Back at school today though! I'll send over some IDs later today 😊

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

❤️ thanks Alison! Hope all is good with you!

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The others I can't tell from the photo. A couple of close ups of each might help me get an ID! 😊

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

OK! Yellow circle is a furcula/wishbone of an Anatidae bird - something like a goose 🪿 Blue circles a fish - a premaxilla (upper jaw) and a dentary (lower jaw). If you send close ups of these I should be able to get an ID for you. The big vertebra looks like deer or cattle.

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

It's the C1/atlas and C2/axis vertebrae fused together! Looks good for dolphin - I couldn't rule out porpoise though. 🐬🦴

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I demand teeth of the finest walrus ivory! Past folks of Whitby - You got it! ❤️🦷🤩 #Whitby #WhitbyMuseum #Walrus #CoolTeefs

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

When you have to stop the car to let the wildlife off! 😅❤️🦎 We jumped so hard when it appeared on the car window screen!

A small reptile on the car window screen in the desert in the dark

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Dr Hannah Russ FSA @dr-fishbones.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Even holidays have bones 😅🐋🦴 The famous blue whale jaw bones in Whitby, North Yorkshire. A reminder of industries past. Framing St Mary's church and the abbey ruins in the distance 🩷☀️🩵

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