Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪
@ruthfcarden.bsky.social
Commercial & research zooarchaeologist, artefact photography & palaeozoologist with Danu Ruadh Teoranta, Ireland 🇮🇪
P/T Senior Research Fellow (Zooarchaeology), ATU Galway City
#PALAEO-IRELAND | #IrishCaveBones | 🏺
Co-PI @howlsandhooves.bsky.social
P/T Senior Research Fellow (Zooarchaeology), ATU Galway City
#PALAEO-IRELAND | #IrishCaveBones | 🏺
Co-PI @howlsandhooves.bsky.social
All brushed and nearly full set of adult teeth now… and SO FLUFFY!!! (My fingers too are touching his skin)
November 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
All brushed and nearly full set of adult teeth now… and SO FLUFFY!!! (My fingers too are touching his skin)
Very weird evening outside - VERY warm at 14Cel (it’s November!!!) and it’s all misty too across the fields. The moon rising and trying to get around the cloud cover. It’s very still too, no breeze at all. The birds singing loudly so lovely … but weird for this time of year in Ireland.
November 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Very weird evening outside - VERY warm at 14Cel (it’s November!!!) and it’s all misty too across the fields. The moon rising and trying to get around the cloud cover. It’s very still too, no breeze at all. The birds singing loudly so lovely … but weird for this time of year in Ireland.
October 31, 2025 at 6:21 PM
SUN!!!! Though setting but I was out this morning to back while I had coffee, in my wool cardigan and wool scarf as a cold biting wind blowing. So glad to see after weeks of grey gloom and rain.
Also a window kitten and a cat 😸🐱
Also a window kitten and a cat 😸🐱
October 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
SUN!!!! Though setting but I was out this morning to back while I had coffee, in my wool cardigan and wool scarf as a cold biting wind blowing. So glad to see after weeks of grey gloom and rain.
Also a window kitten and a cat 😸🐱
Also a window kitten and a cat 😸🐱
October 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Pooka: “I’ve seen things…”
His face says it all! 🤣🫣
First time outside on a very windy bitter cold evening with heavy cold drops of rain falling.
Pouncing on anything that moved, even the wind 🤪
His face says it all! 🤣🫣
First time outside on a very windy bitter cold evening with heavy cold drops of rain falling.
Pouncing on anything that moved, even the wind 🤪
October 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Pooka: “I’ve seen things…”
His face says it all! 🤣🫣
First time outside on a very windy bitter cold evening with heavy cold drops of rain falling.
Pouncing on anything that moved, even the wind 🤪
His face says it all! 🤣🫣
First time outside on a very windy bitter cold evening with heavy cold drops of rain falling.
Pouncing on anything that moved, even the wind 🤪
Prince nearly always sleeps prettily, unlit she’s not 🤣🤣
Yeah his points are indeed showing and I can’t wait to see his coat at Xmas and what he looks like then. He’s growing up! He’s 5 months old today!
Yeah his points are indeed showing and I can’t wait to see his coat at Xmas and what he looks like then. He’s growing up! He’s 5 months old today!
October 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Prince nearly always sleeps prettily, unlit she’s not 🤣🤣
Yeah his points are indeed showing and I can’t wait to see his coat at Xmas and what he looks like then. He’s growing up! He’s 5 months old today!
Yeah his points are indeed showing and I can’t wait to see his coat at Xmas and what he looks like then. He’s growing up! He’s 5 months old today!
And we are charging the ring light …. When it turns green, it’s fully charged.
Then all go for marathon session of photogrammetry tomorrow evening!
Oh yeah!
Then all go for marathon session of photogrammetry tomorrow evening!
Oh yeah!
October 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
And we are charging the ring light …. When it turns green, it’s fully charged.
Then all go for marathon session of photogrammetry tomorrow evening!
Oh yeah!
Then all go for marathon session of photogrammetry tomorrow evening!
Oh yeah!
Emptied into sink and mug straight into dishwasher.
Meanwhile… had to get microchip feeders so Prince gets her food, and the pig Pooka doesn’t eat hers and his. It’s been a learning curve. Prince copped on on third attempt. Pooka thinks it’s a toy but has copped on … a bit. 👇 waiting by hers 😅
Meanwhile… had to get microchip feeders so Prince gets her food, and the pig Pooka doesn’t eat hers and his. It’s been a learning curve. Prince copped on on third attempt. Pooka thinks it’s a toy but has copped on … a bit. 👇 waiting by hers 😅
October 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Emptied into sink and mug straight into dishwasher.
Meanwhile… had to get microchip feeders so Prince gets her food, and the pig Pooka doesn’t eat hers and his. It’s been a learning curve. Prince copped on on third attempt. Pooka thinks it’s a toy but has copped on … a bit. 👇 waiting by hers 😅
Meanwhile… had to get microchip feeders so Prince gets her food, and the pig Pooka doesn’t eat hers and his. It’s been a learning curve. Prince copped on on third attempt. Pooka thinks it’s a toy but has copped on … a bit. 👇 waiting by hers 😅
October 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
October 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Prince’s marvellous yeti feet strike again …..
#onlyfans 🤣😅
I know @apocalypsehere.bsky.social loves to see them 🤣🤣🤣
#cats #catsofbluesky #feet
#onlyfans 🤣😅
I know @apocalypsehere.bsky.social loves to see them 🤣🤣🤣
#cats #catsofbluesky #feet
October 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Prince’s marvellous yeti feet strike again …..
#onlyfans 🤣😅
I know @apocalypsehere.bsky.social loves to see them 🤣🤣🤣
#cats #catsofbluesky #feet
#onlyfans 🤣😅
I know @apocalypsehere.bsky.social loves to see them 🤣🤣🤣
#cats #catsofbluesky #feet
Pooka playing with his toy mouse … getting in practice for real thing if any get into the house this winter.
#kitten #catsofbluesky
#kitten #catsofbluesky
October 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Pooka playing with his toy mouse … getting in practice for real thing if any get into the house this winter.
#kitten #catsofbluesky
#kitten #catsofbluesky
Until the next season! Done & dusted!
We have lots to wet sieve, wash, dry bones… lots of analyses to do, to add pieces of the unknown jigsaw and continue to tell the stories of all animals and the cave system as we go!
Main funders @ria.ie 2/2
#CastlepookCaveProject 🏺
We have lots to wet sieve, wash, dry bones… lots of analyses to do, to add pieces of the unknown jigsaw and continue to tell the stories of all animals and the cave system as we go!
Main funders @ria.ie 2/2
#CastlepookCaveProject 🏺
October 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Until the next season! Done & dusted!
We have lots to wet sieve, wash, dry bones… lots of analyses to do, to add pieces of the unknown jigsaw and continue to tell the stories of all animals and the cave system as we go!
Main funders @ria.ie 2/2
#CastlepookCaveProject 🏺
We have lots to wet sieve, wash, dry bones… lots of analyses to do, to add pieces of the unknown jigsaw and continue to tell the stories of all animals and the cave system as we go!
Main funders @ria.ie 2/2
#CastlepookCaveProject 🏺
Processed a few more photos from our excavation at Castlepook cave last July. Been so busy haven’t had time, so many excavated bones and prob close to 100 bulk bags of cave sediment from diff contexts to wet sieve! We were busy!!! #CastlepookCaveProject 🏺
Main funders @ria.ie 1/2
Main funders @ria.ie 1/2
October 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Processed a few more photos from our excavation at Castlepook cave last July. Been so busy haven’t had time, so many excavated bones and prob close to 100 bulk bags of cave sediment from diff contexts to wet sieve! We were busy!!! #CastlepookCaveProject 🏺
Main funders @ria.ie 1/2
Main funders @ria.ie 1/2
Prince is so wrecked tonight from all the playing and her filming debut, that she fell asleep half way through grooming herself at this very odd angle on the couch 😅
#cat
#cat
October 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Prince is so wrecked tonight from all the playing and her filming debut, that she fell asleep half way through grooming herself at this very odd angle on the couch 😅
#cat
#cat
Well that’s another filming done for a new documentary which will come out late next year. Can’t say much more than that … but Pooka and Prince were also filmed play fighting with each too. This was my deal breaker, they had to appear ! 🤣 We are all tired now…
October 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Well that’s another filming done for a new documentary which will come out late next year. Can’t say much more than that … but Pooka and Prince were also filmed play fighting with each too. This was my deal breaker, they had to appear ! 🤣 We are all tired now…
October 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
@apocalypsehere.bsky.social look at his baby yeti hind paws 🥰😅
October 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
@apocalypsehere.bsky.social look at his baby yeti hind paws 🥰😅
She’s really enjoying her new giant cat bed …. Aka the sofa !
October 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
She’s really enjoying her new giant cat bed …. Aka the sofa !