iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Killackey Illustration

Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 18h

I haven't seen this posted here, but thank you to Jona Schlegel (archaeoink on Instagram) for making this #archink #inktober list. Not sure I'll be able to contribute this year, but I always love to see more archaeology drawings.

Archink prompts: 1. figurine 2. midden 3. hand axe 4. flotation 5. ditch 6. leather 7. Indus/Harappan 8. dating 9. antler 10. pXRF 11. Lapita

2108

Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 18h

Thinking some more about how archaeological illustration is always created and viewed in a larger context, in my case broadly Western culture. Does anyone have good examples of #SciArt created by and for consumption in a different cultural setting? … 🐡 #archaeology 🏺 #DataViz #ArtHistory

164

Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Baby’s first gif! An attempt to plan out a pop-up book page with a Late Formative spinning and weaving kit from the southern Lake Titicaca Basin. #textiles 🧶 #SciArt 🐡 #archaeology 🏺 #DHmakes #Bolivia

2111

Reposted by Killackey Illustration

Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 30/09/2026

This is delightful

0239

Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My “Variants” triptych is back on view, at the John Hansard Gallery in Southhampton, as part of the “Art of Creation” exhibit at the British Science Festival. The “Art of Creation” is a project of @slobodalab.bsky.social, exploring the early origins of health and disease through art. #SciArt 🐡

Photo of the "Variants" triptych hanging on the wall. The three paintings are 24 inches tall and 18 inches wide. They each in a thin maple frame with no mat.

1112

Reposted by Killackey Illustration

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

But we understand images by means of reference to other images (this is one way of understanding how images produce meaning), and within the US, the visual context for this ad is empirically undeniable.

114518

Reposted by Killackey Illustration

Virginia Schutte @vgwschutte.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#SciComm has for years been very funded by the same agencies that fund science- a product of shared priorities NIH, NASA, and NSF have requirements across directorates that science engagement be a part of receiving a science grant $ shrinking/disappearing for science = for outreach too

11911

Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One upping the gato andino’s general grumpy air, this new Bolivian cat gives off out-for-vengeance vibes.

281

Reposted by Killackey Illustration

Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#OTD 1940 – Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.

14415

Reposted by Killackey Illustration

David Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I am looking to hire two seasonal field/laboratory technicians to join the lab working at the MSU Kellogg Biological Station and Main Campus. The primary work will be dedicated to our switchgrass program with potential to expand into other roles in the lab with time. careers.msu.edu/jobs/profess...

careers.msu.edu

Professional Aide - East Lansing, Michigan, United States

Position Summary(Basic Job Function) This is a temporary or an on-call position. Provides professional support. Responsibilities may include general business, science, medical, agricultural or other p...

0814

Reposted by Killackey Illustration

Albert Anker @aanker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sitzende Bäuerin beim Stricken www.wikiart.org/en/albert-anker/sit…

031

Reposted by Killackey Illustration

Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 05/09/2026

My youngest son is autistic and finds a lot of comfort in small and dark spaces (like being in his toy box or a wardrobe). We took him to visit a small historic cave today, and he was a big fan. Makes think what stories archaeology is missing to do with how neurodivergent people across deep time...

1192

Reposted by Killackey Illustration

ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

ok look The Odyssey is very much a sequel

1053706426

Reposted by Killackey Illustration

Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

895493550

Reposted by Killackey Illustration

IbuMichele @ibumichele.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The main dome of the Hagia Sophia was the largest pendentive dome in the world until St. Peter's Basilica and the use of pendentives was revolutionary at the time. The current main structure was the world's largest church for over 500 years, until Cluny's abbey church in the 12th century.

0374

Reposted by Killackey Illustration

franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

someone challenged me to draw a dog and a crab from memory without reference and

a bad line drawing of a dog that looks like it was drawn by a 3 year old vs a fairly realistic fiddler crab with the proper anatomical parts

1060683

Reposted by Killackey Illustration

Christie Burke, MLIS @ceburke.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Y’all. This is CROCHETED

Handcrafted human skeleton with removable internal organs

13955310

Reposted by Killackey Illustration

The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The etching shows a plan of part of a Roman building at Haceby, Lincolnshire, with mosaic floors and also some pottery and a column base found there.

The etching shows a plan of part of a Roman building at Haceby, Lincolnshire, with mosaic floors (shown in detail), and also some pottery and a column base found there.

1286

Reposted by Killackey Illustration

Albert Anker @aanker.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Strickendes Mädchen mit Korb www.wikiart.org/en/albert-anker/str…

012

Reposted by Killackey Illustration

Dr. Michelle I. Turner @chaco-arch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“We present evidence that samples from two Etowah Complicated Stamped pottery sherds recovered from 11th to 12th century contexts at the Etowah site in the modern state of Georgia contained highly fragmented ancient Theobroma cacao DNA.” 🏺

journals.plos.org

Cacao in the Mississippian World: Archaeogenomic evidence for T. cacao consumption at the Etowah Site, Georgia

The discovery that people living at the great Ancestral Pueblo site of Chaco Canyon consumed cacao changed our understanding of the history of chocolate by demonstrating that networks moving cacao rea...

24816

Reposted by Killackey Illustration

Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art

A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’”

Jennifer Nelson

6342611314

Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Dig detritus can be fascinating. On occasion, I helped re-catalog artifacts from the 1960s Mellaart excavations at Çatalhöyük. The range of re-purposed bits of paper used as labels, business cards, cigarette packets, gave me double vision, a simultaneous glimpse of the Neolithic and the 1960s. 🏺

2405

Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Ok, I am now seeing critique of the basketry techniques and materials used to make Alexander Skarsgård’s body in “Wicker”. Excellent.

140

Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I recently discovered Stubbs, while very good at painting horses, was not as good at painting other animals. Admittedly, he only had a description and the skin of the kangaroo to go on, not sure about the dingo. These two paintings from 1772 hang in the UK’s National Maritime Museum. #SciArt 🐡

George Stubbs’ 1772 painting of a kangaroo. The kangaroo stands on a rocky outcrop in the center of the composition. Their body is orient toward the left, while their head is turned to the right. Behind them is a green landscape with a mountain peak in the distance and pink tinted cumulus clouds. Stubbs uses atmospheric perspectiveto create a sense of depth. The kangaroo is proportioned incorrectly, standing straight legged. Their forelimbs are too short, tail lacks muscles, and forehead has a sharp slope. The painting is in an elaborate gold frame.

Detail of Stubbs’ kangaroo painting, cropping in on the kangaroo.

Detail of Stubbs’ dingo, showing the animal up close.

0120

Reposted by Killackey Illustration

Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It’s been two years and I don’t think I’ve ever shared this story here: When we were making an animated mural for the Chicago Archaeopteryx display, we wanted to make sure it didn’t upstage or compete with the 1920s Charles Knight paintings it would share space with. 🧵

Rich oil painting of a seaside scene with prehistoric plants, birds, small dinosaurs, and pterosaurs.

Museum display with projected sea side scene overhead. Bronze Archaeopteryx on a pedestal beneath.

411634

Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Just pulled up to my daughter’s soccer game near Rogers Stadium to find it’s at the same time as a BTS concert. Enjoying the line up of fans in their best K-pop get ups.

010

Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A good entry into my favorite film/TV review genre: Specialist Weighs In On Their Niche Interest. Which reminds me, I’ve heard grumblings about Penelope’s loom in The Odyssey. Nothing as egregious as the one in The Return, but.

120

Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The extra pointy indicator hand pairs well with the totally-over-it indicator lady shared by @infowetrust.com last year. For when just words can’t fully express your exasperation. #illustration #BookSky bsky.app/profile/info...

Line illustration of a woman dressed in 1960s fashion gesturing with both arms towards a knob on a typewriter. Her facial expression is slightly bored and cross. She is drawn with red lines and the typewriter is drawn in black.

0122

Reposted by Killackey Illustration

UHI Archaeology Institute @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

An exhibition by Jemima Hall, part of her MA Contemporary Art and Archaeology final project, runs at the Clook Gallery, Stromness, from September 12 -16.

archaeologyorkney.com

Coast & Cairn exhibition in Stromness

An exhibition by Jemima Hall, part of her MA Contemporary Art and Archaeology final project, runs at the Clook Gallery, Stromness, from September 12 -16.

063

Reposted by Killackey Illustration

Laurel @laurelfynes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

😍 “Small kids passed through to say funny names out loud, sniff… or point out something they recognized from their yards. Simply seeing each plant showcased on its own highlighted beauties that are easy to miss… Each one granted a little dignity, treated as worthy to be displayed, named, admired.”

46316

Reposted by Killackey Illustration

Rebecca Lambert (She/Her) ♾️🐭🍉 @reblambert.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Nobody can stop my Friedrich freeking, NOBODY 😉

0391

Reposted by Killackey Illustration

Allan T Adams @allantadams.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A brilliant film.

2203

Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Laguna’s goats graze around the corner from my parents’ house, I visited them last week (both the goats & my parents). I was in HS during the 93 fire, I had been sent to the front office to fetch something for a teacher when I looked up & saw a wall of flames coming over the ridge above the school.

230

Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I thought these were preserved textiles, decorative knots and lace, when I first saw them.

093

Reposted by Killackey Illustration

Crow @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 14/08/2026

I think about this a lot.

Tim Henke
@TimHenke9
eat shit, René Magritte
Translate Tweet
Mauv @ThatsMauvelous • 1d the machine refused to recognize my humanity until i professed to believe that a sign painted to look like a traffic light is indeed a traffic light.
Show this thread
Select all squares with traffic lights

7895082494

Reposted by Killackey Illustration

Ticia Verveer @ticiaverveer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A display of noses once used to "repair" Roman and Greek marble statues in the 19th century. The Nasothek (Latin for “nose” and Greek for “container”) was born when the fake noses were removed in the interest of authenticity. At the Copenhagen’s Glyptotek art museum in Denmark.

0226

Reposted by Killackey Illustration

Ticia Verveer @ticiaverveer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The Upton Lovell Shaman, long thought to have been male, has now been shown to be female. She was a gold-worker and lived in the early Bronze Age, around 4,000 years ago and was buried on the chalk downland of Salisbury Plain at Upton Lovell, less than 10 miles from Stonehenge 📷 Wiltshire Museum

12711

Reposted by Killackey Illustration

Exhausted archaeologist-exhausteologist @hknorton.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I have updated the #S106 Resource page. Currently we are being asked to CONTACT OUR ELECTED REPS. Both CHP and NTHP have great how-to's on this that I will link in a quick thread. #archaeology #historicpreservation #architecture thisblogdoesnthaveanameyet.wordpress.com/2026/07/23/r...

thisblogdoesnthaveanameyet.wordpress.com

Resource Page for ACHP changes to S106

On the left, an aerial view of 1940s Denver. On the right is a post-urban renewal image from the ealy 1970s. Note the expanse of parking lots where vibrant neighborhoods once stood. So this is why …

253

Reposted by Killackey Illustration

Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

🧪 Des premières modifications corporelles à la fast fashion : que nous apprend l’archéologie sur l’histoire de la mode ? Dans @theconversation.com , 400 000 ans d’évolution des façons dont les humains transforment leur apparence shorturl.at/88yyp @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

shorturl.at

Avant la haute couture : 400 000 ans d’histoire de la mode

Bien avant la fast-fashion, les humains utilisaient déjà leur apparence pour communiquer. L’archéologie révèle l’origine sociale de la mode.

061

Reposted by Killackey Illustration

Jennifer Jordan @sociologyofplants.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Another stage of my textile journey, digging deep into tide mills. Most were sawmills or gristmills, but here and there the tides powered some fulling (and maybe carding?) of wool, as in East Boothbay, Maine. www.tidemillinstitute.org/tmi-database/

tidemillinstitute.org

Tide Mill Database - Tide Mill Institute

The Tide Mill Institute is developing a database of information about tide mill sites worldwide. The database is available to the public at https://tidemillinstitute.org/Portal/. Currently, the databa...

3153

Reposted by Killackey Illustration

Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I did a thread on paleontologists contributing to eugenics & fascism. What about the opposite end of political spectrum?🧵 Ernst Untermann (1864–1956) palaeontologist by trade, painted murals for the Dinosaur National Monument. A prolific socialist, first in US to translate Das Kapital into English.

Stegosaurus landscape by Ernst Untermann

9622213

Reposted by Killackey Illustration

Nick Tsergas @nicktsergas.ca · 07/08/2026

Again and again, people have been asking for a national map. So we made one. Other maps exist, yes. But they're either out of date or woefully overinclusive. I don't need to see every hospital's tiny datacentre. stopthedatacentre.ca/map

stopthedatacentre.ca

Datacentre proposals map · Stop the Datacentre

Interactive map of active datacentre proposals and local campaigns across Canada.

39464

Reposted by Killackey Illustration

Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I thought I was ready for the WVMC ball with my Lamproderma fruiting body ensemble, but was IMMEDIATELY humbled by this gasteromycete

Posing like a superstar in my sequined myxomycete outfit made of iridescent balloons

A cheerful mycologist dressed in the biggest fucking puffball costume I’ve ever seen, and buddy she DANCED in it too

519836

Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

“It was anyway all a long time ago; the world, we know now, is as it is and not different; if there was ever a time when there was passages, doors, the borders open and many crossing, that time is not now. The world is older than it was. Even the weather… 1/2 #BookSky

150