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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 www.killackeyillustration.com

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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · Nov 12

Website and mailing list:
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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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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 1d

You can tell me all about it!

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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 1d

But I will be in York for TAG and I believe you will too? At least I hear you’re signed up for our world building session!

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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 1d

Boo, closes 2 days before I get to London for the first time in 14 years.

ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 1d

An exhibition of fantasy maps all drawn by the fantasy author, Ursula K. Le Guin, has opened in central London.

www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/map...

Mapping Earthsea: Ursula K. Le Guin's maps go on display at the Architectural Association

An exhibition of fantasy maps all drawn by the fantasy author, Ursula K. Le Guin, has opened in central London.

www.ianvisits.co.uk

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 1d

An exhibition of fantasy maps all drawn by the fantasy author, Ursula K. Le Guin, has opened in central London.

www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/map...

Mapping Earthsea: Ursula K. Le Guin's maps go on display at the Architectural Association

An exhibition of fantasy maps all drawn by the fantasy author, Ursula K. Le Guin, has opened in central London.

www.ianvisits.co.uk

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 1d

I'm hiring! 4 year post doc on my Wellcome Trust grant -- come be inventive about isotopes in teeth with me in PPN Turkiye :) www.lancashire.ac.uk/jobs/post-do...

please share!

Post Doctoral Research Assistant - 1160-25

Thinking of the next step in your career? Take a look at our exciting new role, Post Doctoral Research Assistant based at our Other. Find out more and apply he…

www.lancashire.ac.uk

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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 1d

‘Tis the Season of Leftover Pie for Breakfast and I’ll take any on offer. Leftover Canadian or American Thanksgiving pie, leftover Christmas pie, leftover I-randomly-made-a-pie pie. The best part of any holiday.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 2d

The Nunalleq Digital Museum is a museum of Yup’ik archaeology in Alaska. Placing sovereignty in the hands of the descendent communities, it makes the #archaeology accessible whilst ensuring it is relevant to the community today #IndigenousPeoplesDay

Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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The digital museum home screen; an illustration of a coastal area with a village during four seasons.

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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 6d

Love the plan view of the last image! Informative but abstractly compelling too.

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 12d

As it turns out, coyotes are good climbers. They loped up and down these limestone cliffs like they were mountain goats. #mammals 🌿

A coyote perches on a few, small moss-covered ledges sticking out from an otherwise pretty shear limestone cliff. Boreal trees grow on the edges and on top of the cliffs.

A coyote perches on a few, small moss-covered ledges sticking out from an otherwise pretty shear limestone cliff. It's looking down at other coyotes (out of frame) on the ground. Boreal trees grow on the edges and on top of the cliffs.

A large coyote with a decent-sized fish in its mouth pauses in its climb up a limestone cliff. It's partially obscured by the frees growing on the cliffs.

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Ezequiel Vera @ezequielvera.bsky.social · 13d

Any paleobotanist (or palaeobotanist) here that is not included in this starter pack? Let me know and I'll add you

go.bsky.app/B7Y3ja7

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Elizabeth Preston @inkfish.bsky.social · 14d

Scientists rappelled down cliffs to reach the nests of bearded vultures, which have a diet of bones and paint their feathers red with mud. Inside the nests were perfectly preserved human artifacts from the Middle Ages. By me, for Nat Geo: www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti... 🧪

Found: 650-year-old shoe, in vulture nest

Many unexpected human artifacts have been preserved, for centuries, in vulture nests.

www.nationalgeographic.com

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Dr Izzy Wisher @izzywisher.bsky.social · 17d

Time to update your Palaeolithic palettes... 🔵

Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺

doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Close-up image of a sand coloured stone, with a diagonal crack. The sand rock has a textured surface, and small spots of blue can be seen towards the centre of the stone. The background is grey.

Microscopic photo of the blue spots, that are irregular in shape and size and positioned diagonally across the image. The rest of the photo shows the rough sand coloured texture of the stone.

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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 19d

Please please please everyone (pls reskeet) who is involved with a uni/college academic program (broadly speaking) conected to games Could you write a quick comment + links if any apply to what you and your institution are doing in that sphere? I need to show what's out there. 1/
#AncientBluesky 🗃️

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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 21d

The First Asian Land War

Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 21d

Read the book decades ago and I still think of this scene every time I come across a British sweet.

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 23d

Early bird registration and bursary applications are now open for Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) conference 2025 in lovely York: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/registrat...

Registration - TAG 2025

tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk

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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 22d

Beautiful expressive lines!

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 23d

Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches.

This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists!

Archaeologists! Please volunteer
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

a woman is smiling and holding a cup that says help me .

Alt: a woman is smiling and holding a cup that says help me .

media.tenor.com

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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 23d

Please

depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 23d

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

In early 2025, beaver activity in the Brdy Protected Landscape Area, Czech Republic, contributed to the restoration of a wetland ecosystem. A family of beavers constructed a series of dams that coincidentally accomplished environmental goals of the Czech government, which had delayed its proposed project since 2018 for bureaucratic and financial reasons. The beaver-built dams saved the Czech government approximately US$1.2 million,

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 23d

🏺 Can never get enough of this late prehistoric world where trees meant not just wood to people, but also bark/bast (and in other cases, roots) as a widely utilised material, likely with particular symbolic associations different to other fibres.

Photographs of both sides of an open armed bronze ornament, with wide cup-shaped finials. Around the central portion is a knotted piece of tree bast.

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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 24d

Hey so I’m reading some poems in Toronto this afternoon

Poster for event:

We Read Together
Sept 21, 2pm

MacGregor Playground
(Lansdowne & College)

Feat.
Shannon Quinn
Jiaqing Wilson-Yang
Lindsay K. Miles
Eugenia Zuroski

The background image is a shot of the blue sky with the tops of buildings at the bottom and a beam on which someone has written EAT THE RICH $$$ spanning the middle

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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 25d

#birdsky

Jen Golbeck @jengolbeck.bsky.social · 25d

I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited

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Jen Golbeck @jengolbeck.bsky.social · 25d

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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 25d

Your vote yesterday says different.

Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 27d

Ok, for those doing lots of work on an iPad, what’s your desk setup? How are you not destroying your neck?
#illustration #SciArt

Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · Sep 8

Reassure me I’ll be ok if I quit all Adobe products, please! Right now I’m using procreate in place of PS and am looking at Affinity to replace AI and Id. Any other suggestions? (I’m a Mac user).
#SciArt #Illustration

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