It's almost like they're trying to erase trans people, bit by bit

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

Part 2 of how I do digital lithic illustration is now up!

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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...

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!🧪🪶

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

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#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/...

Want to see a bit of how I do digital #lithic illustration? I've started a new series over on Instagram:
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#digitalillustration #tutorial #archaeology #palaeolithic

Anthropocentric bias may explain research disparities between animal tool use and nest building www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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.

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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"

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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

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

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?
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arstechnica.com/science/2025...

I've been out for a few years now and I'm really not surprised - people are generally ok on an interpersonal level, but even getting organisations to admit we exist is like pulling teeth

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...

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.

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

#palaeolithic #digitalillustration #workinprogress

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...

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
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Alternate link

www.earth.com/news/pacific...

Paper
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

What's that first one made of? Those stripes are beautiful, but I can imagine it being frustrating to knap across

Why Dippy the dinosaur remains beloved, 120 years after arriving at the Natural History Museum theconversation.com/why-dippy-th...

More delightful flint fingerprints, c.300,000 years old.

#handaxe #lowerpalaeolithic #illustration

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.