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Kristine Hardy

@krishardy.bsky.social
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Archaeology student investigating Pacific pottery. Previously a bioinformatician, I analyse p-xrf, LA-ICPMS, micro-CT data from pottery. I also experiment with using VR to convey archaeological concepts.

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Kristine Hardy @krishardy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
White staffy dog on rock
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Kristine Hardy @krishardy.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I don’t want to click on this ad that appeared in my Apple News feed- is it AI? Click bait? Or did Idaho really move?
Ad featuring map of Australia with very odd states like Idaho
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Kristine Hardy @krishardy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
While in Australian universities….
Panel in ceiling removed by possum for entry to office.Possum in office trying to get out
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Kristine Hardy @krishardy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
White staffy chewing a chew toy.
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Kristine Hardy @krishardy.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
My achievement for the month, getting the microscope camera software working again (or rather getting uni IT to get it working again). I took a photo of a pyroxenic placer temper, from a sherd found in Vanua Levu, to celebrate.
Bright pink, green and purple minerals- pyroxenes, in a dark clay matrix.Pyroxenes in PPL light, they appear very pale yellow-green, with angular shapes and cleavage lines.
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Kristine Hardy @krishardy.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
Spent last week in Adelaide with the Geo Axioscan, capturing more petrographic slides for the kuden database (kudenfabrics.anu.edu.au). Including this one of an oceanic basaltic Samoan pottery fabric with beautiful lithic fragments (from Auckland University's collection- Fiona Petchey).
A plane polarised light image under low magnification with white-grey-green sub-rounded inclusions.A cross polarised light image under 10x magnification with feldspars, pyroxene and degraded olivine crystals in lithic fragments.A cross polarised light image under 10x magnification with feldspars, pyroxene and degraded olivine crystals in lithic fragments.A plane polarised light image under 10x magnification with feldspars, pyroxene and degraded olivine crystals in lithic fragments.
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Kristine Hardy @krishardy.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
Models of pots from Papua New Guinea sitting on a map
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