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Kristina
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Studying multimedia design. Love archaeology, astronomy, scifi and weird marine animals.
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Kristina @spacejelly6.bsky.social · Nov 15
For #FossilFriday and a as a throwback, i went to this woolly rhinoceros exhibition. The fossil's name is Erik and he was found around 20 000 years ago in northwestern Croatia.
A fossilized skeleton of a woolly rhinoceros from the side on a black background Close up of the woolly rhinoceros' head and his giant horn Multimedia wall depicting a scene from the Ice age with a woolly rhinoceros in the foreground, right next to a river, with another woolly rhino behind him to the left and a woolly Mammoth in the background to the right
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Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.

(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)
April 26, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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I looove this, the years keep getting pushed further back and there is so much to learn
fossilhistory.bsky.social Paige Madison @fossilhistory.bsky.social · Mar 12
The presence of two types of early Homo at Atapuerca 200,000 to 300,000 years apart shows that more than one kind of hominin was already moving across Europe in the early Pleistocene. www.science.org/content/arti...
Fossil face found in Spanish cave belongs to first known Western European
Ancient remains suggest at least two types of early humans roamed Europe about 1 million years ago
www.science.org
March 13, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Doing my sacred duty.
doctorstardis.bsky.social Doctors TARDIS @doctorstardis.bsky.social · Mar 10
We can upload 3 minute videos now.

YOU KNOW THE RULE
March 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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The nights were so clear the past few days, I could see the stars so perfectly. Especially the Orion belt . I took my binoculars and watched the moon, and then I turned to the stars and saw so many. I really loved this short period of warm weather that allowed me to observe the night sky.
March 10, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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The biggest science fictional thing in Star Trek is that the characters have energy to hang out after the shift. I could never
December 28, 2024 at 4:28 PM
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I love when Jelly Welly Space Telly does its thing and gives us *this*. Just to add some Interstellar soundtrack so I can daydream about what else is out there
astrojaz.bsky.social Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · Dec 8
jwst’s recent images 🌌
A spiral galaxy with a wide, oval-shaped disc. It has a shining spot at the centre from which two curving, pale red spiral arms emerge, wrapping once each around the galaxy. They’re surrounded by a whirl of bright threads and patches of dust, with spots of star formation scattered throughout. The glow of the disc fades smoothly into the background where some patches of dust can be seen, as well as foreground stars. Image of a galaxy on the black background of space. The galaxy is a very oblong, blue disk that extends from left to right at an angle (from about 10 o’clock to 5 o’clock). The galaxy has a small bright core at the center. There is an inner disk that is clearer, with speckles of stars scattered throughout. The outer disk of the galaxy is whiteish-blue, and clumpy, like clouds in the sky. There are different colored dots, distant galaxies, speckled among the black background of space surrounding the galaxy. Two spiral galaxies take the shape of a colorful beaded mask that sits above the nose. The galaxy at left, IC 2163, is smaller, taking up a little over a quarter of the view. The galaxy at right, NGC 2207, takes up half the view, with its spiral arms reaching the edges. IC 2163 has a bright orange core, with two prominent spiral arms that rotate counter clockwise and become straighter towards the ends, the left side extending almost to the edge. Its arms are a mix of pink, white, and blue, with an area that takes the shape of an eyelid appearing whitest. NGC 2207 has a very bright core. Overall, it appears to have larger, thicker spiral arms that spin counter clockwise. This galaxy also contains more and larger blue areas of star formation that poke out like holes from the pink spiral arms. In the middle, the galaxies’ arms appear to overlap. The edges show the black of space, including extremely distant galaxies that look like orange and red smudges, and a few foreground stars. A large spiral galaxy takes up the entirety of the image. The core is mostly bright white, but there are also swirling, detailed structures that resemble water circling a drain. There is small white and pale blue light that emanates from stars and dust at the core’s center, but it is tightly limited to the core. The rings feature colors of deep red and orange and highlight filaments of dust around cavernous black bubbles.
December 8, 2024 at 4:42 AM
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Tiny graceful alien 💜
montereybayaquarium.org Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · Dec 6
When life gets you down, just know that we sea you like this breathtaking bumpy jelly–floating gracefully with the currents of the ocean of life.
A bumpy jelly is highlighted against the black backdrop of the exhibit waters as it sways gracefully with its semi transparent gelatinous body
December 6, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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Help out a fellow geoarchaeologist!
geokate.bsky.social Katarina Šprem @geokate.bsky.social · Dec 5
I've been doing an analysis on Late Neolithic assemblage from northern Croatia, but almost all of the lithic pieces are covered with hard, impossible-to-remove amorphous lumps. Does anyone have similar experiences? How can I remove it without damaging the pieces?
#lithicanalysis #helpneeded
Left hand holding a piece of light brown coloured lithics covered in amorphous sediment.
December 5, 2024 at 9:09 PM
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I've been doing an analysis on Late Neolithic assemblage from northern Croatia, but almost all of the lithic pieces are covered with hard, impossible-to-remove amorphous lumps. Does anyone have similar experiences? How can I remove it without damaging the pieces?
#lithicanalysis #helpneeded
Left hand holding a piece of light brown coloured lithics covered in amorphous sediment.
December 5, 2024 at 9:06 PM
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This is beautiful. I wanted to study rock art of the ice age and seeing this makes me happy
mattpope.bsky.social Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · Dec 2
As we approach mid-winter, an illustration of cave art showing two Reindeer; from Font de Gaume cave, France.
One is licking or smelling the other who appears to be sleeping? giving birth? dead or dying?.
Originally rendered by someone of the Magdalenian culture, 16,000 years ago.
#AncientSky 🦣🏺
Drawing of two Reindeer, outlined in black and unfilled with light brown colouring. One, large, bodly coloured with elaborate, forward facing antlers is, bending their neck down to sniff or lick the other. The other is large and appears to be laying down, head on one side?
December 2, 2024 at 7:20 PM
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Japan in pastel colours 💗
November 21, 2024 at 2:00 PM
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Hubble Jupiter images in the UV suggest polar hazes are stirred by a vortex created by mag field interactions with the ionosphere and Jupiter's moon Io! A cool new UV view of this giant planet (image credit: T. Tsubota & M. Wong, UC Berkeley) See links in next comment for details . . .
Weirdly-colored image of Jupiter on a black background. The Hubble data were taken at ultraviolet wavelengths, hence the planet is shown in false colors, with bands of pale blue, white, and lavender. The Great Red Spot appears as a dark royal blue spot. The southern pole is swathed in haze colored dark orange and crimson colors, with a reddish oval vortex visible. Credit: Troy Tsubota and Michael Wong, UC Berkeley
November 26, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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If you were on Saturn, you’d quickly learn how reflective the rings are…

The rings reflect sunlight and illuminate the night side. Instead of moonshine, it’s Ringshine!
Saturn showing bright ringshine on the night side. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill Saturn showing bright ringshine on the night side. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill Saturn showing bright ringshine on the night side. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill Saturn showing bright ringshine on the night side. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill
November 25, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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I adore the idea that Neanderthals were among the first avocational paleontologists, collecting Cretaceous mollusks, & bringing them home to show off to their family & friends. 🧪🪨🐚
johnhawks.net John Hawks @johnhawks.net · Nov 20
Between 55,000 and 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals collected at least 15 Cretaceous fossil shells which were left on the floor of Prado Vargas cave, in northern Spain. The intent or purpose is not clear, but they must have noticed these in the rock formations north of the cave.
Several fossil shells from Prado Vargas cave level N4, shown in multiple views with scale. Image: Marta Navazo Ruiz and coworkers 2024 https://doi.org/10.3390/quat7040049
November 20, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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Kate knows how much I love marine animals, so she made octopuses, jellyfish and one plesiosaurus for me. They always fill me with warm fuzzies when I look at them.
Colorful crochet jellyfish with big black eyes, resting on my palm. It has intertwined blue, green, purple, gray and pink colors. Look slightly more like an octopus with the tentacles, but that's why I adore it A blue crochet octopus the size of a big grapefruit sitting on my palm. It has big black eyes and its tentacles are curled inward towards its head A blue green crochet plesiosaurus with black horizontal stripes, covering its back, short tail and long neck. I'm holding it in my left hand
November 23, 2024 at 11:13 AM
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TODAY’S NEW HUBBLE IMAGE SHOWS AN EDGE-ON VIEW OF SPIRAL GALAXY UGC 10043 WHICH IS 150 MILLION LIGHT-YEARS AWAY!!
A spiral galaxy seen directly from the side, such that its disk looks like a narrow diagonal band across the image. A band of dark dust covers the disk in the center most of the way out to the ends, and the disk glows around that. In the center of the galaxy, a whitish circle of light bulges out above and below the disk. Each end of the disk curves slightly. The background is black and mostly empty.
November 22, 2024 at 6:09 PM
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Ancient and beautiful amber pendants worn by hunter-gatherers some 10,000 years ago during the Mesolithic period.

📷 National Museum of Denmark en.natmus.dk/historical-k...

#Archaeology
Nine amber pendants in a range of sizes, shapes, and different shades of amber, from translucent orange to brown. The surfaces are finely incised, some with dots, others with lines. Holes have been bored in each piece to suspend/wear on a string
November 20, 2024 at 7:50 PM
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A work in progress image of a depiction of Aurignacian mammoth ivory jewellery I made for the Urgeschichtliches Museum Blaubeuren in Germany.
September 8, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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This figurine carved from mammoth ivory is about 40,000 years old (Hohle Fels, Germany). Neanderthals might still have been around when it was made. There is no head, just an eyelet, presumably for suspension...Photo: H. Jensen. © Universität Tübingen
November 17, 2024 at 8:30 AM
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@geokate.bsky.social finally, my favorite geoarchaeologist. @lemoustier.bsky.social can you add her to your archaeology starter packs?
November 15, 2024 at 9:11 PM
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For #FossilFriday and a as a throwback, i went to this woolly rhinoceros exhibition. The fossil's name is Erik and he was found around 20 000 years ago in northwestern Croatia.
A fossilized skeleton of a woolly rhinoceros from the side on a black background Close up of the woolly rhinoceros' head and his giant horn Multimedia wall depicting a scene from the Ice age with a woolly rhinoceros in the foreground, right next to a river, with another woolly rhino behind him to the left and a woolly Mammoth in the background to the right
November 15, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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Colours wouldn't be as bright with inks on paper, but they might work okay!
A portrait of a blue and yellow nudibranch on a pink BG Comet Moth illustration on a purple background A magnificent sea anemone Yellow sea sponge illustration
November 9, 2024 at 2:55 PM
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📣 🏺
A Palaeolithic #Archaeology & Human Origins people starter pack!

Nearly 80 people here, if you work in these fields and want to be added, let me know (I'm keeping the list to trained/ qualified professional/academic/researchers etc at the moment)

go.bsky.app/6hXVX57
November 11, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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Hi, I'm Kristina and I was preparing to enrol to study archaeology. But my health declined and that's off the table permanently. Instead, I'm on here trying to learn everything from archaeologists, paleontologists, astronomers and marine biologists. Hi there!
November 10, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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Current oil painting on the easel: Cassiopeia A supernova remnant

What are those weird triangles? That’s where I’ll single out one particular portion of the electromagnetic spectrum (x-ray, ultraviolet, & infrared) from the composite telescope image, which will be like windows in light ✨
24x24” oil painting on an easel. Ring-shaped feature in bright orange and pink. Details taking shape in lime green and yellow. Surrounding area is dark teal. 3 triangles are unpainted and showing through the turquoise underpainting. 🐡🔭 Composite telescope image of supernova remnant. Field is covered with small stars. Ring shape has complex shapes and patterns in colors of yellow, orange, lime green, light blue.
November 10, 2024 at 3:59 PM