Dr Gillian Wong
@gillianwzooarch.bsky.social
Archaeologist. Mom. Anthropology faculty at University of Texas at El Paso. Zooarchaeology, Paleoecology, Women in science. She/Her/Hers
I’m also behind on fighting the decisions this administration is making about academia, LGBTQIA+ rights, healthcare access, museums, public lands…the list goes on. But let’s go send some letters, sign petitions, donate to orgs that make change, and march. This is a disaster!
August 20, 2025 at 4:44 AM
I’m also behind on fighting the decisions this administration is making about academia, LGBTQIA+ rights, healthcare access, museums, public lands…the list goes on. But let’s go send some letters, sign petitions, donate to orgs that make change, and march. This is a disaster!
Everyone is just going to have to receive emails from me late at night American continents time. Childcare is in flux right now so this is me every night working from my home office in my PJs to catch up. I’m too tired to schedule send all this. #AcademicMom
August 20, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Everyone is just going to have to receive emails from me late at night American continents time. Childcare is in flux right now so this is me every night working from my home office in my PJs to catch up. I’m too tired to schedule send all this. #AcademicMom
Attempting a return to social media. Stay tuned for updates about the field, teaching, and microfauna. Enjoy this photo of me and the little kiddo in South Africa this summer! #archaeology
August 16, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Attempting a return to social media. Stay tuned for updates about the field, teaching, and microfauna. Enjoy this photo of me and the little kiddo in South Africa this summer! #archaeology
Everyone’s trays in process! I’m so impressed with how quickly they moved from working with mostly medium and large vertebrates to the very small verts in this assemblage.
April 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Everyone’s trays in process! I’m so impressed with how quickly they moved from working with mostly medium and large vertebrates to the very small verts in this assemblage.
Students working on modern owl pellets collected by Dr. Tyler Faith (University of Utah) in the Western Cape, South Africa last summer. They are doing taxonomic and element IDs for one pellet each then working together to combine and analyze their data as a whole. #zooarchaeology
April 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Students working on modern owl pellets collected by Dr. Tyler Faith (University of Utah) in the Western Cape, South Africa last summer. They are doing taxonomic and element IDs for one pellet each then working together to combine and analyze their data as a whole. #zooarchaeology
Page proofs!!! 🤩🤩
March 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Page proofs!!! 🤩🤩
It’s #zooarchaeology lab day! First day of birds after 3 weeks of mammals. (Articulated cat assisting me in discussing differences between bird and mammal skeletons.) Always have my wagon of bones on lab day! 😂🦆🦅🦉🐦⬛🦃🦢🐓
March 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
It’s #zooarchaeology lab day! First day of birds after 3 weeks of mammals. (Articulated cat assisting me in discussing differences between bird and mammal skeletons.) Always have my wagon of bones on lab day! 😂🦆🦅🦉🐦⬛🦃🦢🐓
Opened my office and the smell of osteological comparative collections came wafting out 😂😂 awwwww nothing like the smell of #zooarchaeology class prep in the morning 😂🦴🦴
March 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Opened my office and the smell of osteological comparative collections came wafting out 😂😂 awwwww nothing like the smell of #zooarchaeology class prep in the morning 😂🦴🦴
Humans and Animals course today! Students continued to learn the mammal skeleton. What animals do you see?? 👀 #zooarchaeology
February 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Humans and Animals course today! Students continued to learn the mammal skeleton. What animals do you see?? 👀 #zooarchaeology
P.s. and I’m a mom! My kids come with me to conferences and the field. It’s nuts and fun all at the same time. Please enjoy my future posts about our misadventures! 😂😂 Here’s my son and I in Cairns, Australia for a conference in 2023.
February 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
P.s. and I’m a mom! My kids come with me to conferences and the field. It’s nuts and fun all at the same time. Please enjoy my future posts about our misadventures! 😂😂 Here’s my son and I in Cairns, Australia for a conference in 2023.
First day in the lab with bones in my course Humans and Animals at UTEP!! Students were excited to put these skeletons in anatomical position! #zooarchaeology
February 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
First day in the lab with bones in my course Humans and Animals at UTEP!! Students were excited to put these skeletons in anatomical position! #zooarchaeology