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Once upon a time, in the late 1800s, people in Japan got really into breeding mice. Coloured mice. Patterned mice. Even mice that danced. They became known as Japanese Fancy Mice, and that caught the attention of researchers in Europe and America, who imported them for study. 2/n

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i think the economic boycott has had further reach because the poster is so cute. okay bunny i will listen to you.

submitted 9 days ago • 35 comments

Calling #Moose. Linked paper about an exceptional discovery from Fort Selkirk likely dated to the late 1840s. #yukon #archaeology 🏺 read.dukeupress.edu/ethnohistory...

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Wordle 1,346 1/6 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 Not to distract from everything but …

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McIntyre Creek canyon. #Watercolour on paper, 11x14 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt Painting of the day 1820.

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

#alaska #usa not going to lie, it feels good to see decency out there.

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#Archaeology 🏺

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"On Qikiqtaruk, off Canada’s Yukon coast, scientists are wielding virtual-reality cameras, 3D models and digital archives to protect the island’s history and culture before it disappears" 🏺🇨🇦. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Saw my first Available Light Film Festival 2025 film (Flow, it’s up for the animation oscar)! Apart from the MC not wearing shoes while he did the intro it was pretty awesome. Full festival details at yukonfilmsociety.com/alff/. #Whitehorse #Yukon

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#archaeology

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Mother Nature has been dispensing some nice sunsets of late. Poplars. #Watercolour on paper, 11x14 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt Paint of the day 1802.

submitted 32 days ago • 12 comments

Unutterably horrible. I expect the Rwanda-boosters in wealthy countries simply to carry on boosting.

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

Cultural heritage is on the list 🏺

submitted 34 days ago • 10 comments

For folks wanting to buy Canadian: madeinca.ca

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music.apple.com/ca/album/a-s... To all the MAGA bullies that think this is great.

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Labret use among Pavlovian peoples 26kya may have caused odd buccal wear of teeth. 🦷🏺🧪

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

Some images from the YK Delta of partial Breakup thanks to the recent warm weather! Cold coming back next week! #climatechange #ice #winter #warmweather #ruralalaska 😳🤯😲 Pictured -napaskiak -akiak -Bethel (From members on BSAR facebook page) www.facebook.com/groups/10344...

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

For #FlintFriday I'm shameless promoting my paper that was published this week in Lithic Technology: "Core Concept: Defining Cores in the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia". doi.org/10.1080/0197... #AustralianArchaeology #Archaeology 1/5 🏺🧵

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

#Denali

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All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

submitted 46 days ago • 609 comments

Morning poplars. #Watercolour on paper, 11x14 in. #Watercolor #YukonArt Painting of the day 1788.

submitted 47 days ago • 8 comments

Awesome🏺

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Wordle 1,307 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟧🟧 ⬛🟧🟧🟧🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 I’m ashamed to call myself an archaeologist 🏺

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

Super interesting new study on archaeology + social media: 🏺 "This shows that negative emotions and misinformation do not have an inherent advantage in social media diffusion. The success of archaeological information depends on the broader subject or the target community"

submitted 53 days ago • 3 comments

Lights over Hadrians Wall ✨🌌🏛️🏺 #art #illustration #HadriansWall

submitted 81 days ago • 11 comments

BREAKING: Saruman announces that the Gap of Rohan shall henceforth be referred to as the Gap of Isengard

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

🏺if you’re there, check it out.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

10:53… 10 minutes till the sun rises

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

And sold! 🔴 “Dublin Bay”, oil on panel, 24”x16”, is heading to her new forever home soon. What a wonderful bright light in this holiday season! Please check out Pontone Gallery & Abbozzo Gallery for more currently available works!

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

If you are interested in #Glacial #archaeology consider submitting a talk / poster for Frozen Pasts 6 in Quito, Ecuador, July 7-12, 2025. 🏺 fp6.puce.edu.ec

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www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

“New 1-million-acre Teshekpuk Lake Conservation Right of Way acts on community-led proposal to offset Willow Project” Sure hope this works Alaska, because when the damage is done to Willow it can’t be undone. #akleg #akgov

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

and with the jug 🏺

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OOOOOH, C14 result Christmas present come early! Maybe pieces of a 2100 year old caribou fence. #archaeology

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Me: Looks like mastodon teeth? reads article Me: Oh, they know its mastodon teeth, but just think that's a sea creature. Meh. #paleontology #mastodon

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

Not going to make a habit of it, but #WhatIsItWednesday from the Applied Anthropology Laboratories. Found this summer during a metal detector survey. #archaeology #CRMArch #LearnWorkDiscover 🧪

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

📣PUBLISHED OA📣 In this study @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social @jesswitte.bsky.social @maltaweel.bsky.social assessed if refs to the ancient past in political debates on social media over-represent extreme views 🔗https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0308919 #Heritage #DataScience #EdinArch #Politics

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

It’s a memo where I forgot to attach the supporting documents.

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