Jean-François Cudennec
PhD. Old mollusks lover : Sclerochronology and isotopes in archaeological or paleontological context.
Also nature photographer:
https://bsky.app/profile/jfcphotos.bsky.social
- Bug season is here folks !🐞
- There is a ringed plover nest on this picture. Can you see it ? 🪶
- Reposted by Jean-François CudennecBird photography tips, an oldie that is hopefully useful for spring migration right now.
- On today’s science headlines : A newly discovered species of carnivorous caterpillar on the Hawaiian island of Oahu has earned the nickname “bone collector” for its eerie habit of adorning itself with the remains of its prey, such as ant heads and fly wings. 🪲 🧪
- Abenaki petroglyphs Bellows Falls, Vermont #Paleosky 🏺
- Ouch
- Every year the cuckoos tagged by the British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social are competing in a spring race from Africa to their nesting grounds in the UK. And we now have a winner, congrats Wilfrid 🎉🦉
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- 👉 #PaleoSky 🏺
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- Amazing discovery ! #PaleoSky 🏺
- In @nature.com we report the presence of the Mesolithic on Malta - upending everything we knew about the seafaring capabilities of late European hunter-gatherers and pushing back Maltese prehistory by 1000 years. Watch the clip, link to open access paper is below. 1/5 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- If you are interested in both unusual macromutations among amphibians and academic witticisms, may I recommend this piece of art ? assets.cambridge.org/97811088/347...
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- A startup claims to have resurrected dire wolves using genetic engineering methods. A sinister April Fool’s joke, and a week late. I saw Beth Shapiro’s keynote at the INQUA in Dublin in 2019, and it was good. What has happened to her since ? #PaleoSky 🧪 🌍
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- Well, I owe some people an apology... 🪶
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- The academic sphere in shambles : paying people to do the job increase the efficiency without affecting the quality. Two journals paid reviewers and saw an increase in acceptance and speed at which reviews were carried, with no difference in quality. www.nature.com/articles/d41... #AcademicSky 🧪
- From #PaleoSky to Paleo No Man’s Sky ⚒️ You can now dig up bones and design your own fossil exhibit in No Man’s Sky. I knew about #ArchaeoGaming, now we have #PaleoGaming ? 😍🔥
- Name a paper that lives rent-free in your head ! #AcademicSky For me, it's "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" (Nagel, 1974) where the author argues that subjective experience cannot be fully explained by objective physical processes. We can still imagine what is the bat's point of view, 1/
- Riding is cool, but can he fish from his mount ?
- You want to see an octopus riding a shark. 🎥: University of Auckland www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/s...
- Casual Friday rabbit hole : doing my readings about vikings camps organisation to determine my base layout in Valheim theconversation.com/hideouts-har...
- 🛢️ 🌊 On that day in 1978, after drifting for hours due to a rudder failure and facing poor weather conditions, the Amoco Cadiz ran aground off the coast of Brittany, releasing 227,000 tons of crude oil and causing an oil spill that is still considered one of the worst ecological disasters in history.
- New stamp from the national French mail « La Poste » is trolling hard www.wikitimbres.fr/public/stamp... #PaleoSky 🏺 🧪 ⚒️
- Maybe smart, but not very subtle.
- 8/10 on the « William the Egyptian faience hippo » scale 🏺
- A beaver dam in British Columbia holds back sediment after heavy rainfalls. Source : @davethroup.bsky.social on X
- Reminder : it’s Monday #PaleoSky 🏺
- Has science gone too far ?
- Finest Paleo connoisseurs chose the Prehistoric side
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- Isotopes hitting the headlines once again ! According to this paper in @science.org, "Australopithecus [...] did not engage in regular mammalian meat consumption". Did the humanizing process was really ignited by meat consumption? Another blow to the "Man the Hunter" anthropology? #PaleoSky 🧪 ⚒️
- Reposted by Jean-François Cudennec“Do not bend your neck for that which cuts necks.” A Sumerian proverb, as relevant today as it was thousands of years ago.
- Today for #FossilFriday: post-hatching care among Dinosaurs ! This remarkable assemblage from the Yixian Formation (Lower Cret., China) includes no less than 35 Psittacosaurus specimens. These babies were preserved in a volcanic debris flow, alongside with the adult in charge... #PaleoSky ⚒️ 🧪
- This is what archaeologists actually looked like before all this woke nonsense 🏺
- Reposted by Jean-François CudennecGet in good trouble, necessary trouble.
- « CO2 is good it’s food for plants » 🤡
