Iain McKechnie
@iainmckechnie.bsky.social
🐳 archaeologist 🏺- anthropology - fish bones - coastlines - zooarchaeology 🦑 - historical ecology 🌏 - ocean histories 🐳 - uvic faculty member https://hecalab.blog
these social media places are often overflowing w flooded s#$! & yet are also places where its possible to strengthen channels, dikes, & riparian zones to eventually filter into cleaner, clearer, faster flowing water [aka. news?] 🗞️🧪
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/o...
October 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
these social media places are often overflowing w flooded s#$! & yet are also places where its possible to strengthen channels, dikes, & riparian zones to eventually filter into cleaner, clearer, faster flowing water [aka. news?] 🗞️🧪
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/o...
recovering and caring for big histories through small surviving objects and teams of good people - power amidst tragedy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/a...
August 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
recovering and caring for big histories through small surviving objects and teams of good people - power amidst tragedy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/a...
make sense like this?
July 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
make sense like this?
Japan transport agency singles out innocuous looking migratory shorebird as a "hazardous species" and... a "flight risk" including mug shots of males, females & juvenile stages www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
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July 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Japan transport agency singles out innocuous looking migratory shorebird as a "hazardous species" and... a "flight risk" including mug shots of males, females & juvenile stages www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
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an Ireland size fishery footprint in British Columbia? 🐟🧪
www.biv.com/news/environ...
www.biv.com/news/environ...
June 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM
an Ireland size fishery footprint in British Columbia? 🐟🧪
www.biv.com/news/environ...
www.biv.com/news/environ...
Fabulous new Indigenous shellfisheries publication on the historical ecology of crabs 🦀 using palaeontology techniques to detect sublethal scars on clams 🐚 led by @barnaclebarclay.bsky.social
open access & out now in BioConservation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
open access & out now in BioConservation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
May 13, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Fabulous new Indigenous shellfisheries publication on the historical ecology of crabs 🦀 using palaeontology techniques to detect sublethal scars on clams 🐚 led by @barnaclebarclay.bsky.social
open access & out now in BioConservation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
open access & out now in BioConservation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
brilliant @tomtomorrow.bsky.social - looking forward to next week's "TORTURING LOGIC UNTIL ADMITS WHAT IT DID!"
April 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
brilliant @tomtomorrow.bsky.social - looking forward to next week's "TORTURING LOGIC UNTIL ADMITS WHAT IT DID!"
there you go again, defending expertise
(as if it is under attack from nonsense which people have been telling me it is)
(as if it is under attack from nonsense which people have been telling me it is)
April 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
there you go again, defending expertise
(as if it is under attack from nonsense which people have been telling me it is)
(as if it is under attack from nonsense which people have been telling me it is)
the resemblance is remarkable
March 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
the resemblance is remarkable
here he is thinking now what has he done
March 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
here he is thinking now what has he done
a politically active developer bamboozles the Vancouver Sun into free advertising about his "cottage resort" so he can keep blasting away a shoreline bluff to build Airbnb-like rental units just above the splash zone - astonishingly tone deaf & absurd vancouversun.com/business/rea...
February 20, 2025 at 1:02 AM
a politically active developer bamboozles the Vancouver Sun into free advertising about his "cottage resort" so he can keep blasting away a shoreline bluff to build Airbnb-like rental units just above the splash zone - astonishingly tone deaf & absurd vancouversun.com/business/rea...
sure not much overlap or unintended overlap
February 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
sure not much overlap or unintended overlap
great cover image of a ball court in Arizona
February 4, 2025 at 5:07 AM
great cover image of a ball court in Arizona
this seems to indicate that people who watch PBS are seeking to balance the rank order of good/bad news they watch
January 30, 2025 at 7:06 AM
this seems to indicate that people who watch PBS are seeking to balance the rank order of good/bad news they watch
why didn't they use the bright colours or the hair on some actual chitons
January 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
why didn't they use the bright colours or the hair on some actual chitons
humour is therapeutic - subscribe to fab @tomtomorrow.bsky.social
January 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
humour is therapeutic - subscribe to fab @tomtomorrow.bsky.social
what timing on my timeline lolz
December 30, 2024 at 12:22 AM
what timing on my timeline lolz
and the timeline is sometimes just right
December 30, 2024 at 12:21 AM
and the timeline is sometimes just right
yes and even more humpbacks near Rocky Point on southern Vancouver Island (and a big increase over the past 10 yrs the green in their figure
December 25, 2024 at 2:23 AM
yes and even more humpbacks near Rocky Point on southern Vancouver Island (and a big increase over the past 10 yrs the green in their figure
great new paper looking at whale distributions in the Salish Sea - while not quite as long term as I'd like so excellent to have the whale watching and research community share visuals of their work www.frontiersin.org/journals/con...
December 24, 2024 at 6:25 PM
great new paper looking at whale distributions in the Salish Sea - while not quite as long term as I'd like so excellent to have the whale watching and research community share visuals of their work www.frontiersin.org/journals/con...
musical soundtrack suggestion
December 23, 2024 at 8:53 PM
musical soundtrack suggestion
current conceptual status
December 21, 2024 at 4:56 PM
current conceptual status