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Killackey Illustration
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Natural science 🐡 & archaeological illustration 🏺 by Kathryn Killackey. NEH-Mellon Foundation Fellow ('23 - '24). Available for freelance #sciart. Lover of #books, #textiles, and absurdities. She/her
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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · Nov 12
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Contact — Killackey Illustration
Killackey Illustration provides elegant and accurate scientific and archaeological illustrations for publications and interpretive displays.
www.killackeyillustration.com
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linneansociety.bsky.social
Wool-d you believe it? Wool is one of the UK's oldest materials, but there's still more to be learned!

Don't be sheepish, join Monica Stenzel and discover the past, present and future of wool.

📆 Feb 25 6pm
📍 Linnean Society
Fuzzy Logic | Wool as the Once and Future Fibre
Wool is one of the UK's oldest materials; is it the fibre of the future? Monica Stenzel shares her work on the sustainability of textiles.
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January 30, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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restingdinoface.bsky.social
I’m advising an illustrated paleo book and a significant part of the work has been saying “do not use that reference, it’s ai.”
January 30, 2026 at 12:41 PM
kjkillackey.bsky.social
Hard to pick just one. Maybe “NO (NEGATIVE)”. On the other hand, my anchor is definitely dragging.
pdfmerchant.bsky.social Old Sam @pdfmerchant.bsky.social · 1d
tag yourself i’m I AM MANOEUVRING WITH DIFFICULTY
January 30, 2026 at 3:06 AM
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oliverdietrich.bsky.social
Our volume on Stone Age clothing is now online and completely open access:

Jöris, O., Dietrich, O., Risch, R., & Meller, H. (Hrsg.). (2026). A Stone Age History of Clothing: Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag vom 26. bis 28. September 2024 in Halle (Saale).

doi.org/10.11588/pro...
January 28, 2026 at 9:39 AM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
Hilariously, a coyote walked behind a San Francisco reporter as she was doing a segment on the mountain lion. 🤣
Francis Wang in brown wool wrap holding mic with coyote in left hand side of screen behind her on street. Banner reads LOOK BEHIND YOU COYOTE WALKS THROUGH FRANCIS WANG'S LIVE SHOT
January 28, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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mattpope.bsky.social
Some inspiration for a cold day during bleak times.
Half million year old handaxes from Boxgrove, Sussex, laid out for a photoshoot with Dr Claire Harris at the @britishmuseum.bsky.social
#MondayMotivation
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January 26, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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profkfh.bsky.social
If you are in #NYC next week, come to “Weaving Dreams/#Quilting Community” a panel discussion-sewing demo featuring textile artists/writers/organizers who have inspired me. You’ll get swag to embellish!! #quiltsky #Artsky #Blacksky Pls register by 1/27!

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Weaving Dreams, Quilting Community
Dr. Kim F. Hall in conversation and hands-on demo with fellow quilters Dr. Christa Gilliam, Juandamarie Gikandi, and Jacqueline Johnson.
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January 24, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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microsff.com
"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?"

"I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands."

After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?"

"This, too, it's magic."
January 23, 2026 at 4:54 PM
kjkillackey.bsky.social
Blurry coyote going about their business, no time to chat, in SoCal yesterday.
A blurry photo of a large coyote trotting across a street just parallel to a crosswalk. The coyote is moving across the picture frame from right to left with their body in profile but their head is tilted slightly towards the viewer.
January 23, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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jordancollver.bsky.social
This is taken from a comic I made back in 2022 called "How to Read an Aztec Comic" and these panels are sadly more relevant than ever. You can read the full thing here: escholarship.org/uc/item/8cq5...
How to Read an Aztec "Comic": Indigenous Knowledge, Mothers' Bodies, and Tamales in the Pot 
Author(s): Lopez, Felicia Rhapsody; Collver, Jordan | Abstract: This visual text represents some of the content from the article, Women, Childbirth, and the Sticky Tamales: Nahua Rhetoric and Worldvie...
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January 23, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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jordancollver.bsky.social
Two comic panels depicting a historical scene of Cortez and his men looting and killing Aztec people, juxtaposed/mirrored with an ICE (long may they be fucked) detention centre. Text reads: "And historical racism... has an enormous influence on how racism looks in the modern day."
January 23, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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goddessammi.itch.io
As with all Canadian petitions, don't forget to check your email after signing to verify the signature!
January 21, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
If anyone would like to write about the value of this registry to Canadian environmental history for our website, get in touch!

Our Contributor Guidelines: niche-canada.org/guidelines-f...

#cdnhist #cdnheritage #envhist #envhum
January 22, 2026 at 3:37 PM
kjkillackey.bsky.social
All Canadian archaeologists and anthropology departments should be writing Parks Canada to protest this decision and press them to find a solution.
#archaeology 🏺
petercoffman.bsky.social Peter Coffman @petercoffman.bsky.social · 9d
Nation-building isn’t just about infrastructure and resource extraction. It’s about culture. It’s about history. It’s about our stories, and the places that tell them.

This is the worst time imaginable to shut down the Register of Historic Places.
nationaltrustcanada.ca/online-stori...
Alarm as Canadian Register of Historic Places to Shut Down - National Trust for Canada
The Canadian Register of Historic Places, better known as the historicplaces.ca website, is coming down. Parks Canada announced in late...
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January 22, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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nearbirdstudios.bsky.social
Sharing to #SciArt feed for all the CSUMB Science Illustration alumni
heavyredaction.bsky.social Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social · 9d
Cal State University’s deal with OpenAI — providing ChatGPT to all faculty, students, and staff — will expire in June 2026. Amid the prospect of layoffs in the CSU, we’re asking the chancellor not to renew this costly and demoralizing contract.

Link below and anyone can sign:
Action Network petition: Cancel ChatGPT Edu. Invest in Humans. In February 2025, the California State University system announced a $17 million contract with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu to all faculty, staff, and students on its 22 CSU campuses as part of a larger “AI-Empowered University” initiative. This is the largest contract ever established between a university system and an artificial intelligence company. Despite the name, ChatGPT Edu is not educational technology. It is a general-purpose chatbot that is not designed, trained, or optimized for education. Beyond its privacy and security features, ChatGPT Edu is identical to the free online version of ChatGPT. ChatGPT Edu does not use reliable peer-reviewed sources to answer students' questions and is indifferent to whether its answers are correct. Experts argue that ChatGPT Edu is harmful to academic working conditions, diminishes the quality of teaching and learning, introduces new forms of discrimination, and is dangerous to students' mental health. Recent polling shows that CSU students share these concerns, with the majority of students expressing that they are worried about the negative impacts of generative AI on human creativity and the environment.
January 22, 2026 at 6:37 AM
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linneansociety.bsky.social
It's #PenguinAwarenessDay! Today we consider the penguin, their excellent vibes, and the threats they face. We can also enjoy these illustrations by Vieillot and Oudart in 'La Galerie des Oiseaux' (1820) of a Gentoo and Crested penguin.
A colour illustration of a Gentoo penguin facing right. A colour illustration of a crested penguin facing right.
January 20, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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aroddick.bsky.social
Reading Carolyn Dean’s terrific new book “Inside Abstraction: Interpreting Inka Visual Culture”. I love her exploration of this All- T’uqapu Unku (a textile like made for the Inka ruler) as a Gell like “mind trap” with all sorts of “unfinished business” given its carefully non-pattern chaos.
January 20, 2026 at 6:16 PM
kjkillackey.bsky.social
Where my love for Gorey (and Bellairs began). I can still envision the exact spot on my hometown library’s shelves where they lived.
upongoblinhill.bsky.social Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 14d
John Bellairs is most known for his book The House with a Clock in Its Walls, but did you know he wrote a small series of stories set in Minnesota featuring occult mysteries? He did! The Anthony Monday books, illustrated by Gorey. These novels had an influence on me as a native Midwesterner artist.
Image of the book cover design for The Dark Secret of Weatherend by John Bellairs, illustrated by Edward Gorey. Image of the book cover design for The Mansion in The Mist by John Bellairs, illustrated by Edward Gorey. Image of the book cover design for The Lamp From The Warlock's Tomb by John Bellairs, illustrated by Edward Gorey.
January 18, 2026 at 3:47 AM
kjkillackey.bsky.social
82% funded! Thanks to everyone who has donated so far.
kjkillackey.bsky.social Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 20d
I know everyone is spread thin but, if you can, please donate to this Go Fund Me for Luis Callisaya’s wife, Lourdes. Archaeological colleagues, including @aroddick.bsky.social , are raising funds for the medical care she needs after a devastating hit & run. More details on the Go Fund Me page.

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Donate to Support Lourdes’s Urgent Medical Care in Bolivia, organized by Jonah Augustine
Luis Callisaya is a dear friend of many of us who work in and around … Jonah Augustine needs your support for Support Lourdes’s Urgent Medical Care in Bolivia
www.gofundme.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
Knitting Nurses!

Prompted by @sarahebull.bsky.social yesterday I poked around #NewberryLibrary for 20th c. knitting patterns. These WWII Red Cross directions for a MAN'S SOCK from May 1942 looks to have been used by nurses or housewives to create at least 13 pairs for the war effort! #FiberArts
Corner of the sheet with 26 hatch marks. Printed sheet with a literal red cross at the top and title Man's Sock, followed by details about how to knit it.
January 15, 2026 at 1:43 PM
kjkillackey.bsky.social
C’mon Ottawa/Ontario/Hamilton. I don’t want to live in 19th c London anymore.
January 14, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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jhemiptera.bsky.social
There are plenty of Asian natural history artists unknown to the world. You might not able to search their works even you search their name. But still, their artworks were phenomenal and part of my childhood 20 years ago.
jhemiptera.bsky.social JH @jhemiptera.bsky.social · 28d
This panoramic artwork of Late Jurassic Europe was one of the most influential pieces in my life.
January 11, 2026 at 2:44 PM
kjkillackey.bsky.social
I know everyone is spread thin but, if you can, please donate to this Go Fund Me for Luis Callisaya’s wife, Lourdes. Archaeological colleagues, including @aroddick.bsky.social , are raising funds for the medical care she needs after a devastating hit & run. More details on the Go Fund Me page.

1/5
Donate to Support Lourdes’s Urgent Medical Care in Bolivia, organized by Jonah Augustine
Luis Callisaya is a dear friend of many of us who work in and around … Jonah Augustine needs your support for Support Lourdes’s Urgent Medical Care in Bolivia
www.gofundme.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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katlong.bsky.social
Road builders in Brazil dismantle ancient coastal middens in the 1940s-'50s. Random bones and artifacts sent to local museum, boxes stored for decades without being studied. Now, researchers finally look and discover oldest-known whale harpoons, pointing to Indigenous open-sea whaling 5000 yrs ago!
andrewcurry.com Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 21d
In a new study, researchers from @uab.cat claim people have been whaling for almost 5,000 years – and that the earliest evidence comes from the warm coastal waters of Brazil, not the Arctic. www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org
World’s oldest whale harpoons discovered in Brazil
Far from the icy Arctic, ancient South Americans hunted whales using whalebone tools
www.science.org
January 9, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
#DHmakes doesn't need to be advanced work, nor have anything to do w/DH (digital humanities)/your day job. Maybe you want to try some new art/craft in 2026? Or already do one & would enjoy supportive community? Please join us by using the hashtag! Feed of tagged posts here: tinyurl.com/dhmakesfeed +
literaturegeek.bsky.social Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 22d
#DHmakes is digital humanists (& other folks doing knowledge-work anywhere: library/academic-ish, or on your own!) sharing art/craft/making that has all or partial analog/physical components (ie not code/sites as those had more understanding/sharing in DH already). literaturegeek.com/2025/12/31/w...
quinnanya.me Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 23d
I'm not even joking about knitting and letterpress and weaving and friends being the next evolutionary step for digital humanities tech. #DHmakes
January 8, 2026 at 9:37 AM