iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Ellery Littlewood @paleomagpie.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

One of my absolute favourite things about the summer is seeing everyone's photos from various digs

000

Ellery Littlewood @paleomagpie.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Part 2 of how I do digital lithic illustration is now up! www.instagram.com/reel/DL7yWHj...

000

Reposted by Ellery Littlewood

The Leakey Foundation @leakeyfoundation.org · 09/07/2025

Looking for research funding? Is your work relevant to understanding human origins? Our next deadline is July 15! Learn more and apply! #ScienceFunding #HumanEvolution leakeyfoundation.org/grants-schol...

An image with text about applying for a Leakey Foundation research grant. A photo of a grantee in the field holding a fossil is on the right side of the graphic.

094

Reposted by Ellery Littlewood

Atlantic Laboratory for Avian Research @alar-unb.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

We haven't done a full check, but we might have captured the oldest puffin on Machias Seal Island. While the longevity record for Atlantic Puffin is 45 years (from Iceland), the North American record is 33 years. Last night we captured a bird banded as a chick in 1992, making it 33!🧪🪶

33 year old puffin captured on Machias Seal Island.

210421

Reposted by Ellery Littlewood

Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

It can't not-see the Ab Fab cast in this publicity shot as a Neolithic priesthood in front of a megalithic tomb. 🏺

Jennifer Saunders, Julia Sawalha, Jane Horrocks and Joanna Lumley in front of a dry stone and wicker construction

2476

Reposted by Ellery Littlewood

Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

🏺🧪🦣 #Neanderthal Fat Factory! V. exciting to see new, massive evidence of this grease-rendering behaviour which we've long believed was going on. (someone once commented I use the word "fat/fatty" a lot in the narrative/poetic sections of #Kindred, THIS IS WHY) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

58922

Ellery Littlewood @paleomagpie.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Want to see a bit of how I do digital #lithic illustration? I've started a new series over on Instagram: www.instagram.com/reel/DLknPcP... #digitalillustration #tutorial #archaeology #palaeolithic

000

Ellery Littlewood @paleomagpie.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

It's also apparently realising that one of my gender-affirming outfits includes a hi-vis, that my supervisor's 85 year-old PhD supervisor found stuffed in the boot of his car on day 1 of fieldwork. 2/2

010

Ellery Littlewood @paleomagpie.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I've been thinking about what pride month means in terms of research and #trans -ness, and sometimes it's stumbling across a photo from last year's fieldwork and going "ohh, that's me" 1/2

030

Ellery Littlewood @paleomagpie.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Finally got round to finishing this drawing of a 300,000 year old #handaxe from Stoke Newington, London, found by S.H. Warren in 1894. Now this little-un, along with others from Stoke Newington that I've drawn, lives at the British Museum

0101

Ellery Littlewood @paleomagpie.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Not usually my style, but I made a very little #comic last night about feeling rubbish followed by a little moment of reflection and hope

030

Reposted by Ellery Littlewood

Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

This is wonderful. So now Harbin can be grouped with the Denisovans and we can finally meet this population face to face, what shall we call them? 🏺🦣 arstechnica.com/science/2025...

arstechnica.com

We’ve had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s—only nobody knew

After years of mystery, we now know what at least one Denisovan looked like.

811323

Reposted by Ellery Littlewood

Caroline Clason @carolineclason.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

An appeal to dredge the River Wear for the benefit of a rowing event, but no mention of the cygnet that was hit by a boat and killed at the weekend during the regatta, despite the swans and their young having been spotted beforehand. Can't nature come first for once?! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Durham Regatta crowdfunding appeal to dredge River Wear

Durham Regatta organisers say low water levels are damaging boats.

031

Ellery Littlewood @paleomagpie.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Scruffy lil (slightly bashed) pointy handaxe, probably made on the spot as it was needed. Perhaps even to help butcher a horse or elephant for someone's dinner c.300,000 years ago. This handaxe lives in the British Museum collections, and was found in Stoke Newington, London, in the late 1800s.

030

Ellery Littlewood @paleomagpie.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Little work in progress of a lovely Lower Palaeolithic (c.300,000 years old) #handaxe from Stoke Newington, London. #palaeolithic #digitalillustration #workinprogress

020

Reposted by Ellery Littlewood

Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

QRA Postgraduate Symposium 2025 — a vibrant, inclusive space to share your research, build your network, and explore the past to understand our future www.eventbrite.com/e/qra-pgr-sy...

eventbrite.com

QRA PGR Symposium - Reading 2025

Hey there! Get ready for the QRA PGR Symposium in Reading 2025, where we'll dive deep into the latest research in our field!

012

Reposted by Ellery Littlewood

Kenneth Becker @geophotographer.org · 08/06/2025

Sediment cores from the Pacific reveal 5My of climate highs and lows, offering better insight into how Earth's climate shifts over long timescales. #Paleoclimate #OceanCores #ClimateScience 🧪⚒️ Alternate link www.earth.com/news/pacific... Paper agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

phys.org

Sediment cores from Pacific Highs reveal 100 million years of environmental change

Deep sea sediments contain treasure troves of information about marine ecosystems and past climate scenarios, yet remain understudied clues into Earth's environmental future, according to researchers.

0377

Ellery Littlewood @paleomagpie.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

One of my favourite things about digitally illustrating #handaxes is removing the flake scar outlines and looking at all the little flint fingerprints left behind.

040