Jean-François Cudennec
@jfcudennec.bsky.social
PhD. Old mollusks lover : Sclerochronology and isotopes in archaeological or paleontological context.
#PaleoSky curator and limpet nerd.
Also nature photographer:
https://bsky.app/profile/jfcphotos.bsky.social
#PaleoSky curator and limpet nerd.
Also nature photographer:
https://bsky.app/profile/jfcphotos.bsky.social
We're snailposting, post your snails !
November 10, 2025 at 9:05 AM
We're snailposting, post your snails !
Feeling down today ? Why don’t you just go to the lab and perform some destructive analysis on subfossil scallop from a Neolithic shell midden ?
November 5, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Feeling down today ? Why don’t you just go to the lab and perform some destructive analysis on subfossil scallop from a Neolithic shell midden ?
You may like it or not, but this is what peak phylogenetic looks like
November 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
You may like it or not, but this is what peak phylogenetic looks like
According to this paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social, two-thirds of cats prefer a leftward sleeping position.
Profound life lesson being taught here.
Profound life lesson being taught here.
October 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
According to this paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social, two-thirds of cats prefer a leftward sleeping position.
Profound life lesson being taught here.
Profound life lesson being taught here.
Pleistocene dude saw the eye of a cat. 5 cyclone and immediatrely felt the urge to invent religions
October 27, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Pleistocene dude saw the eye of a cat. 5 cyclone and immediatrely felt the urge to invent religions
After a quick search, it appears that "Sally the pet seal" has never been mentioned on here Bluesky, so let me fill in this shocking oversight.
October 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
After a quick search, it appears that "Sally the pet seal" has never been mentioned on here Bluesky, so let me fill in this shocking oversight.
Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards are out !
And like every year, it's just a big "wow".
And like every year, it's just a big "wow".
October 15, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards are out !
And like every year, it's just a big "wow".
And like every year, it's just a big "wow".
Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you Chaetopterus pugaporcinus, the pigbutt worm 🦑
October 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you Chaetopterus pugaporcinus, the pigbutt worm 🦑
17/ So, this Nobel week, we celebrate the lights of science, the crowning of intellectual ascent.
But remember: wisdom isn’t always found in cozy halls, nor genius in a calm laboratory. Sometimes it walks through Bakhmut’s fields, with a pen, convictions, and hope not to become what it hates.
But remember: wisdom isn’t always found in cozy halls, nor genius in a calm laboratory. Sometimes it walks through Bakhmut’s fields, with a pen, convictions, and hope not to become what it hates.
October 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
17/ So, this Nobel week, we celebrate the lights of science, the crowning of intellectual ascent.
But remember: wisdom isn’t always found in cozy halls, nor genius in a calm laboratory. Sometimes it walks through Bakhmut’s fields, with a pen, convictions, and hope not to become what it hates.
But remember: wisdom isn’t always found in cozy halls, nor genius in a calm laboratory. Sometimes it walks through Bakhmut’s fields, with a pen, convictions, and hope not to become what it hates.
16/ He was born in 1993, just two years after me. Though our academic fields differed, we shared the same bedside books.
He sharpened his ideals in the harsh reality of the world, while I moved within one of the most protected social categories.
And now, only one of us lives to continue.
He sharpened his ideals in the harsh reality of the world, while I moved within one of the most protected social categories.
And now, only one of us lives to continue.
October 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
16/ He was born in 1993, just two years after me. Though our academic fields differed, we shared the same bedside books.
He sharpened his ideals in the harsh reality of the world, while I moved within one of the most protected social categories.
And now, only one of us lives to continue.
He sharpened his ideals in the harsh reality of the world, while I moved within one of the most protected social categories.
And now, only one of us lives to continue.
15/ Osievsky did not hate. He deplored how war sanctifies hatred. In homage to his friend the Russian anarchist Dmitry Petrov, also an anarchist anthropologist killed while fighting for Ukraine, he wrote: “We did not choose this history. We have only ourselves and the freedom not to become monsters”
October 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
15/ Osievsky did not hate. He deplored how war sanctifies hatred. In homage to his friend the Russian anarchist Dmitry Petrov, also an anarchist anthropologist killed while fighting for Ukraine, he wrote: “We did not choose this history. We have only ourselves and the freedom not to become monsters”
14/ discussing the disastrous political misuse of genetic concepts, filling pages of his notebook he always kept close. He doubted determinism, biological or historical. He believed in freedom, not as a grand universal, but as lived, fragile, always threatened by circumstance, ideology, violence.
October 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
14/ discussing the disastrous political misuse of genetic concepts, filling pages of his notebook he always kept close. He doubted determinism, biological or historical. He believed in freedom, not as a grand universal, but as lived, fragile, always threatened by circumstance, ideology, violence.
11/ And I can't help but draw a parallel between the conditions under which he and I read the same books: classical Greek history, Graeber, Latour, Clastres... It reminds me of Konrad Lorenz studying fleas behavior on his own skin while held as a prisoner by the Soviets.
October 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
11/ And I can't help but draw a parallel between the conditions under which he and I read the same books: classical Greek history, Graeber, Latour, Clastres... It reminds me of Konrad Lorenz studying fleas behavior on his own skin while held as a prisoner by the Soviets.
8/ This constant analysis was not mere academic exercise but tied to a strong political commitment: leftist, feminist, vegan, anarchist. Evheny participated in the Maidan protests from 2014 and was involved in Ukraine’s Social Movement.
![The Social Movement (Ukrainian: Соціальний рух, romanized: Sotsialnyi rukh;[a] abbreviated SR) is a Ukrainian left-wing community organization founded in 2015, which stands on the principles of democratic socialism, opposing capitalism and xenophobia.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:estv6ozzvjyzz526rtb7ln7f/bafkreibjcdjabnmbmwrre7jeyimf7tmpukeiqaj7xnumkzs2aujjixev5u@jpeg)
October 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
8/ This constant analysis was not mere academic exercise but tied to a strong political commitment: leftist, feminist, vegan, anarchist. Evheny participated in the Maidan protests from 2014 and was involved in Ukraine’s Social Movement.
7/ A true "touche à tout", with a characteristic critical mind, humor and irony, never falling into cynicism. He described his work as “gonzo anthropology.”
October 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
7/ A true "touche à tout", with a characteristic critical mind, humor and irony, never falling into cynicism. He described his work as “gonzo anthropology.”
4/ His master’s thesis already focused on the John Frum cargo cult in Tanna, Vanuatu, but at the dawn of his academic career, he had published widely on a stunningly diverse range of subjects: Foucauldian behavioral economics, Melanesian ethnography, cycad ethnobotany...
October 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
4/ His master’s thesis already focused on the John Frum cargo cult in Tanna, Vanuatu, but at the dawn of his academic career, he had published widely on a stunningly diverse range of subjects: Foucauldian behavioral economics, Melanesian ethnography, cycad ethnobotany...
2/ Evheny Osievsky was one of them. He died near Bakhmut, killed by shellfire on May 22, 2023, while serving as a volunteer rifleman-medic in the 77th Air Assault Brigade. His body was identified not by uniform or papers, but by a vegan tattoo on his wrist and a cinema magazine in his pocket.
October 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
2/ Evheny Osievsky was one of them. He died near Bakhmut, killed by shellfire on May 22, 2023, while serving as a volunteer rifleman-medic in the 77th Air Assault Brigade. His body was identified not by uniform or papers, but by a vegan tattoo on his wrist and a cinema magazine in his pocket.
1/ It is Nobel week: the giants of world science gather beneath gilded halls of leading global institutions.
But what about those whose approach to knowledge is radically different? Those who base their science on lived experience, fragments from human worlds, often silent or marginal ?
But what about those whose approach to knowledge is radically different? Those who base their science on lived experience, fragments from human worlds, often silent or marginal ?
October 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
1/ It is Nobel week: the giants of world science gather beneath gilded halls of leading global institutions.
But what about those whose approach to knowledge is radically different? Those who base their science on lived experience, fragments from human worlds, often silent or marginal ?
But what about those whose approach to knowledge is radically different? Those who base their science on lived experience, fragments from human worlds, often silent or marginal ?
#UnrelatedPicsWednesday !
Left : 28 late Cretaceaous dinosaur eggs from China, deposited 85 million years ago
Right : 27 Mesolithic skulls from the "Skull nest" of the Ofnet Cave in Germany
Left : 28 late Cretaceaous dinosaur eggs from China, deposited 85 million years ago
Right : 27 Mesolithic skulls from the "Skull nest" of the Ofnet Cave in Germany
October 8, 2025 at 8:14 AM
#UnrelatedPicsWednesday !
Left : 28 late Cretaceaous dinosaur eggs from China, deposited 85 million years ago
Right : 27 Mesolithic skulls from the "Skull nest" of the Ofnet Cave in Germany
Left : 28 late Cretaceaous dinosaur eggs from China, deposited 85 million years ago
Right : 27 Mesolithic skulls from the "Skull nest" of the Ofnet Cave in Germany
[🚨 Breaking News ]
Baffled scientists discover 12,000-year-old human-shaped plastic trash at the Karahantepe archaeological site in southeastern Türkiye 🏺
Baffled scientists discover 12,000-year-old human-shaped plastic trash at the Karahantepe archaeological site in southeastern Türkiye 🏺
October 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
[🚨 Breaking News ]
Baffled scientists discover 12,000-year-old human-shaped plastic trash at the Karahantepe archaeological site in southeastern Türkiye 🏺
Baffled scientists discover 12,000-year-old human-shaped plastic trash at the Karahantepe archaeological site in southeastern Türkiye 🏺
🇦🇮 Anguilla Island now gets 47% of it’s state revenue from selling .ai domains
October 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
🇦🇮 Anguilla Island now gets 47% of it’s state revenue from selling .ai domains
Preparing for the new week like a 5th Place 2025 Small World in Motion Competition (newborn sea urchin walking along the seabed)
October 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Preparing for the new week like a 5th Place 2025 Small World in Motion Competition (newborn sea urchin walking along the seabed)
For #FossilFriday, meet Inoceramus : the largest bivalve to ever exist. This genus lived in the Cretaceous seas of North America and Europe.
This one is 178 cm long. And look at these rings ! It must an amazing palaeoenvironmental recorder to work with 😍
#PaleoSky 🦑 🧪 ⚒️
This one is 178 cm long. And look at these rings ! It must an amazing palaeoenvironmental recorder to work with 😍
#PaleoSky 🦑 🧪 ⚒️
October 3, 2025 at 8:36 AM
For #FossilFriday, meet Inoceramus : the largest bivalve to ever exist. This genus lived in the Cretaceous seas of North America and Europe.
This one is 178 cm long. And look at these rings ! It must an amazing palaeoenvironmental recorder to work with 😍
#PaleoSky 🦑 🧪 ⚒️
This one is 178 cm long. And look at these rings ! It must an amazing palaeoenvironmental recorder to work with 😍
#PaleoSky 🦑 🧪 ⚒️
Today's find on r/MapPorn : the Viking expansion in Europe, 790 - 1066 AD
Credit : u/PisseGuri82
Credit : u/PisseGuri82
October 3, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Today's find on r/MapPorn : the Viking expansion in Europe, 790 - 1066 AD
Credit : u/PisseGuri82
Credit : u/PisseGuri82