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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 15h

(Looking to see if you could tell the difference between the two when charred and fragmented in flotation samples. It involved a day out in the village closest to Çatalhöyük collecting samples.)

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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 15h

I too have spent time in the sheep (and goat) shit mines.

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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 15h

It seems this is specific to US Amazon. My Canadian account only has the option to volunteer info about myself. As I only use my US account to get books for my kindle, it thinks I’m a single adult monomaniacally reading multiple British crime fiction series at once.

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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The rippling water effect on the images is…dreamy (and you can turn it off if you’d prefer).

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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Presumably they throughly digested the rest of the human/s these belonged to.

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Continuing posting on making comics accessible for blind/low vision readers, this part of our comic shows 6 possible ways of translating just a single panel, to really illustrate how one size doesn’t fit all needs. Accessibility is messy & an artistic act itself! spinweaveandcut.com/mitcomic/

A part of a comics page, it mostly shows a cube that represents six views of the same comics panel (we can only see three because this is flat paper, but can infer all six sides look the same) with a Batman like character swooping down on some villains. Emanating from it are voice captions that describe this panel in different styles - minimalist to radio drama and others.
See full description here https://spinweaveandcut.com/mitcomic/

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

These fragments from a Roman villa in Spain are not from a mosaic but from a fresco. If you look closely you’ll see a grid of lines, many following the contour of the figures, much as tesserae do on mosaics. This trompe-l’oeil technique simulates mosaics. 1/ 🏺 1st-2nd c. Museo de Málaga 📸 me

Fragment of a fresco depicting part of a human face, mostly the eyes. Thin lines form a grid pattern, simulating the edges of tesserae.

Fresco fragment showing a naked torso of a woman, her legs and pubic area covered in a red himation (cloak). Her right hand carries a basket laden with fruit, which look like giant globes of grapes. Grapevine leaves appear in the background. A Dionysian scene. The faux tesserae grid lines follow the curves of the body.

Fresco fragment depicting some sort of half-human creature with wild hair and bare torso, gesturing upwards with his right hand and holding a branched stick with his left. The faux tesserae grid lines follow the curves of his garment and body.

Fresco fragment with the torso of perhaps a god with golden skin, a red himation flowing outwards and partially covering his or her legs. Perhaps Dionysos?

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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

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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

…something looking at this in comics but haven’t relocated it yet. And I’ve seen more broadly isolated examples of natural history subjects but not the discussion around them. Please let me know if anything comes to mind!

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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

…scan images from L to R, top to bottom, to create visual entry points and draw the viewer in. I can use tried and true compositional techniques to elicit emotion, or even defy expectations to disquiet or confound the viewer. I’m wondering how this plays out in other cultures. I vaguely remember…

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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

…survey of this. For me, my cultural context can constrain thinking (see quoted thread) and also aid communication. Meaning I, as the artist, can keep in mind things such as viewers tend to…

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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

…For ex, a piece by a Japanese artist, for the Japanese public, about Japanese archaeology, that draws on Japanese artistic conventions and culture? I’d love to see some sort of global…

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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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

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

When the lid is open, you can see balls of yarn, unspun fiber, several delicate spindles, a little dish to rest the spindle on while spinning, and a disassembled back strap loom with an in-progress weaving of parading Late Formative attendant figures.

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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

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

This is delightful

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

Has there been any movement on this? Would be nice to know before the election!

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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The disconnect between supply and demand has made my head spin.

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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m in the middle of “The Water Knife” by Paolo Bacigalupi which is adding water scarcity nuance and texture to my existential dread.

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

The Variants triptych presents the viewer with beauty and terror of knowing that from all the many possibilities we end up with one, unique person. Research into the early origins of health and disease helps us come to terms with this.

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

Finally, the third painting contains a single variant out of all the possible alternatives. In turn, this unique individual and their life experiences becomes one of many factors affecting the health of future generations, circling the viewer back to the first painting.

Image of “Variant 3”. The watercolor and colored pencil painting contains a single amorphous shape such as the ones at the center of the “Variant 2” clusters. The shape fills the paper and has areas of wet-into-wet watercolor contrasted with detailed renderings of histology images from the placenta, colon, and testes. There is one perfect circle of white negative space. It is painted with wet-in-wet watercolor technique in shades of alizarin crimson.

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

…fetal development with the rows and columns of abstract shapes containing fragments of histology images. The second painting combines some of these shapes into new, overlapping forms, drawing on the idea of Venn diagrams. Each group of overlapping shapes creates a unique possibility in its center.

Image of "Variant 2". The watercolor and colored pencil painting contains 6 clusters of overlapping amorphous shapes such as the ones in "Variant 1". These clusters echo Venn Diagrams and each create a new shape at its center. Each center shape also contains a perfect circle of white negative space. It is painted with wet-in-wet watercolor technique in shades of alizarin crimson.

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

My statement accompanying “Variants”: “The sequence of paintings in this triptych guides the viewer through the process of a hypothetical fetus becoming a physical reality.The first painting gives the viewer a sense of the wide range of factors and possibilities influencing…

Image of "Variant 1". The watercolor and colored pencil painting consists of 35 amorphous shapes arranged in 5 columns and 7 rows. Each shape is painted with wet-in-wet watercolor technique in shades of alizarin crimson. Some of the shapes also contain detailed renderings of histology images from the placenta, colon, and testes. Each shape also contains a perfect circle of white negative space.

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

I'm really grateful for the patience the AOC team showed the many times I was "almost finished" but then scrapped everything and started over again. I learned a lot from the experience, both about the origins of early health and disease, as well as my artistic process.

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

This residency was a wonderful opportunity to push beyond the bounds of science illustration into fine art. I'll admit I really struggled to switch gears and create something less explanatory and more open-ended.

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

"Variants" addresses the complexity of factors affecting the early origins of health and disease. The sequence of paintings in this triptych guides the viewer through the process of a hypothetical fetus becoming a physical reality.

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

In 2022, I was one of the artists picked to learn about the lab’s research & create a piece of art in response. Our works were originally exhibited at the Art Gallery of Hamilton in 2023, and have travelled around the city ever since, This Southampton exhibit is their first international showing.

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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.

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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.

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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Maybe she is an early adaptor of THE GARMENT (currently the hot topic of conversation in crafting circles). www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

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The Garment pattern by Robert Cole

Let the Garment envelop you; experience its heft and splendor.

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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

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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Also, pleased to see press including the detail that the cat is new to scientists but not the indigenous community where it was found. The binomial (Leopardus tilcayo) reflects this, tilcayo is the already established local name for the cat.

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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Natgeo’s video of the new cat with extra vengeance vibes. bsky.app/profile/dong...

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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.

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

I’ve been impatiently tapping my fingers all year, awaiting this book’s publication day!

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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Passing on to my 13 yo daughter, who recently gave a report on Cleopatra at school.

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

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

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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...

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Professional Aide - East Lansing, Michigan, United States

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

I added milk to mine and it was lovely.

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

Wait! My friend replied lightening fast when I asked her details, it was Vanilla Almond Rooibos from Genuine Tea (a Canadian company so maybe be tricky at the moment but I’m sure you can find something similar across the border).

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

I’ve got the same taste in teas and was just pleasantly surprised by a vanilla rooibos tea. It was chai adjacent and not fruity. It was at a friend’s house so don’t have a brand for you, unfortunately.

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

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

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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

(Yes, that is my illustration in the link thumbnail. No, it’s not of Tiwanaku, it’s Khonkho Wankane, a nearby Late Formative site.)

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