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April Neander 🏳️‍🌈 @aineander.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Latest #mending project. I tried #sashiko #embroidery for this one and loved the process and result. So excited that I'm wearing the pants today! #solarpunk

Jeans pocket with hole in lower right corner that is patched from behind with yellow fabric and embroidered down with light blue thread using a sashiko pattern that looks a little like a net and stars

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Dino Pulerà @dpulera.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I’ll be offering my online carbon dust course and workshop this Fall for the Lyme Art Association. Learn the century old technique of carbon dust which combines drawing and ‘painting’ using a dry brush to apply layers of carbon dust to achieve realistic 3D illustrations. #SciArt

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Ramon Nagesan @nagesanr.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

With my upcoming departure from the University of Michigan, I've found myself deep in the job hunt process. Moving back to Canada from the U.S is certainly something I'm really looking forward too. If any 🇨🇦 labs (especially in Alberta) are searching for a µ-CT expert, please let me know!

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Berensreverie @berensreverie.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Dimetrodon's Daydream #berensart2026 #paleoart

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April Neander 🏳️‍🌈 @aineander.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I forgot how nice it is to start off the day in the garden

Showing off a beautiful batch of strawberries still on the plant

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April Neander 🏳️‍🌈 @aineander.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Considering engaging in social media again after a long and much needed hiatus. It's been good to focus on people and groups I know IRL.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19/03/2025

3. “In the self-evident truth that ‘all people are created equal,’ all means all. Nothing more. And certainly nothing less," she said.

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April Neander 🏳️‍🌈 @aineander.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Oh hi new followers! Welcome! I'd be curious to hear where you're all coming from. I'm not super active at the moment - focusing on IRL stuff for myself - but I'm around. I'm working on a project that is a little different from my norm, but I'll share it when it's more complete, so that's coming.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Hello, internet! Things are bad for our trans & queer friends in the US, so I teamed up with bsky's nature artists to create this pack containing 80 wallpapers and growing. 1. Donate to one of the two orgs below 2. DM me your receipt 3. I'll give you a download link Valid til the end of the month

a collage of various artwork, ranging from birds, bugs, bears, and other things that don't start with B like whales and flowers

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April Neander 🏳️‍🌈 @aineander.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

There are people who think they are strong because they close themselves off from empathy, when in reality they are afraid to be vulnerable and they are letting their fear win.

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morningwitch 🌱 @morningwitch.com · 22/01/2025

necromancer linen tunic 💀 available now!

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April Neander 🏳️‍🌈 @aineander.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Leaving FB will be fairly easy for me. I think it's mostly just given the illusion of connectedness for a while. Instagram, however, will be harder. What are people using as alternatives? Is Cara good?

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April Neander 🏳️‍🌈 @aineander.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I've been very much focusing on making things lately - it's been good for my mental health. Been sewing and #mending lately for a bit of something different. My current works in progress are some elbow patches on a chambray shirt and a dress I'm #upcycling to a duster/surcoat!

A blue chambray shirt featuring elbow patches with a white and yellow zigzag design. There are some embroidered zigzag lines, but there will be more when I finish it.

A turquoise garment is laid out on a large table. It is dress-shaped, but has been opened up along the front like a jacket and also opened up along the sides to the waist. There are strips of light blue bias tape along the center opening.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Have yourself a merry little Carboniferous. #Art #SciArt #PaleoArt #Inverts

a pine tree with bugs hanging all around it. at the very top is a dragonfly-like meganeura with open wings, circling the base is the giant millipede arthropleura. on the branches sit various insects and circular pine cones.

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April Neander 🏳️‍🌈 @aineander.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Playing around with water soluble PVA support for the first time! At this point I'm not wowed by it, but maybe I'll feel different once I clean all the supports off. #3Dprinting

Four black skulls supported by clear-ish PVA supports on a build plate.

Cat skull printed in black with PVA supports still attached. The support material fills the eye socket and project off the back.

Opossum skull printed in black with PVA supports still attached. The support material fills the eye socket and project off the back.

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April Neander 🏳️‍🌈 @aineander.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Just found out that there are a lot of books from MIT Press: Open Access Materials on the Internet Archive, including Preparing Dinosaurs: The Work behind the Scenes. Check it out archive.org/details/mit_...

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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

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April Neander 🏳️‍🌈 @aineander.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I’ve been working with the NoCTURN team on developing the new Education & Training Resources 2.0 page – a hub of tutorials, videos, and peer-reviewed papers to help researchers understand the basics and intricacies of non-clinical CT data. #NoCTURN #microCT #tomography #NaturalSciences #morphology

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Education and Training Resources 2.0 – NoCTURN

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mark belan | science illustrator + info designer @markabelan.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Actually, the correct graphic that expands on the paper that @mjafreeman.bsky.social shared is this one :D

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Ramon Nagesan @nagesanr.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Since there’s finally been a proper migration of academia to bluesky, here’s a link to my most recent paper that’ll give you a sense of what I do. If you recently followed me and we were in touch on ‘twitter’ please say hi! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Differential performance of aqueous‐ and ethylic‐Lugol's iodine stain to visualize anatomy in μCT‐scanned vertebrates

We compared the performance of two common diceCT scan stains, ethylic-Lugol's iodine solution with aqueous-Lugol's, across several vertebrate orders to assess differential imaging outcomes. We found ...

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Dr. Jaimi Gray @jaimiagray.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

#Education resource! Over the years I created this collection of colored skull #3Dmodels for teaching. They're available to download on MorphoSource & to view on Sketchfab. Because of recent changes to Sketchfab, I migrated them to my website: www.graysvertebrateanatomy.com/work/colorso... (1/3)

A screenshot of a website displaying 8 colored skull models of amphibians and reptiles, along with buttons that will allow the user to navigate to 3D models for each skull.

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April Neander 🏳️‍🌈 @aineander.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Hi Folks! Looks like it’s time for a reintroduction! I started my career as a scientific illustrator and visualizations person (3D, animation, etc.) at UChicago focusing on early mammals. #sciArt 1/6

Black and white illustration depicting a scene from the Early Permian near the edge of a small lake. In the foreground is Dimetrodon eating a small Casea, while a second Casea scurries off. In the background is Edaphosaurus at the water’s edge. The flora includes calamites, pteridosperms, and sphenophyllum.

Photograph of mounted opossum skeleton with colorful 3D printed models of the middle ear bones. There is a row of anatomy and mammalogy books in the background.

A rendering of reconstructed 3D model of Haramiyavia. The teeth and a majority of the ramus are rendered in a brown material, taken directly from CT data. Much of the coronoid and anterior-most part of the jaw are rendered in transparent blue, showing the parts that were modeled.

An illustration of early mammal, Microdocodon, perched at the axis, where branches meet, on an extinct Wielandiella plant, eating a scorpionfly. In view at the upper portion of the image are two red fruit structures at the center of a whirl of leaves. The light falls on the mammal and the fruiting structure in front, and transmits light through the leaves of the branch in the background which is in shadow. Other scorpionflies fly around the scene and a leaf falls.

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Stacy Mitchell @stacyfmitchell.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.

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The Mystery of Food Deserts

They didn’t materialize around the country for no reason. Something happened.

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April Neander 🏳️‍🌈 @aineander.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

@itgrrl.com Using clearsky, I saw I was on your solarpunk list. It made me so happy! I really vibe with solarpunk, but I'm still figuring out what that looks like - it's a bit nebulous. If solarpunk comes through in my content and art, then I consider that a win. Thank you!

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Keith Duncan @cygnusplantxray.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

This is part of who I am, I use X-ray tomography to study plant biology. This X-ray microscope scan shows a developing flower from a collard green, helping Antonio Brazelton to study collards in urban agriculture. Hoping to recapture my network from the other site!

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April Neander 🏳️‍🌈 @aineander.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

A reintroduction thread is coming. One problem I have with social media is that if I can't take the time to really edit and consider my posts, then I generally feel it's best not to post. As a result, I don't post much, and what I do takes more time than I'd like.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 14/11/2024

Time for the @bsky.app community to see one of my favorite visualizations of climate change... "Shifting Distribution of Land Temperature Anomalies" by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5211/ ⚒️🧪

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LAZER - T @lazer-t.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

New stickers available in my BigCartel store! #bsnm lazert.bigcartel.com/stickers I've been updating my store over the last couple of months, and I now have 22+ new sticker designs available! More new stuff in the thread below ↓

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April Neander 🏳️‍🌈 @aineander.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Some days you just need cute cat pics right?

Tabby cat, laying on his back looking up at the camera with adorable puppy-dog-eyes. He's at a green scratching post, stopped mid-scratch in this cute moment.

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April Neander 🏳️‍🌈 @aineander.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Unveiling the unseen! My first art tabling event featuring microCT-inspired creations will be at Words & Wonders on November 9th. Join me at Second Unitarian Church for readings, performances, and visual art starting at 3pm. #ChicagoArt #SciFiArt #WitchyArt #DarkAcademia #MicroCT #STEMArt

At the center of the image is a flier in rainbow colors that reads “Words and Wonders: a 2U Literary and Art Showcase. Saturday, November 9th at 3pm. Second Unitarian Church 656 W Barry Avenue, Chicago, IL www.SecondUnitarian.org.” Around that sign are two pieces of art that include a while swirly biological sculpture, and a large metal tooth with blue and turquoise patina.

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April Neander 🏳️‍🌈 @aineander.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Don't miss my CT-derived art debut at Words & Wonders! Join me Saturday, November 9th at 3pm at Second Unitarian Church. Be the first to own one of my unique anatomical pieces. 656 W. Barry Ave, Chicago, IL. #chicagoArtist #sciArt #bioArt #boneArt #oddities #witchy #skulls #skullArt

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April Neander 🏳️‍🌈 @aineander.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

I’ll be selling my CT-derived, anatomically inspired art for the first time on Nov 9! Performance art at 3pm and visual art at 4. I’ll have stickers, #3Dprinted lucky rabbits feet and larger projects for sale. #supportartists #sciArt #spookyArt #bioArt #boneArt #oddities #witchy

A flier reading “Words and Wonders: a 2U Literary and Art Showcase. Saturday, November 9th at 3pm. Second Unitarian Church 656 W Barry Avenue, Chicago, IL www.SecondUnitarian.org” is framed by colorful, 3D printed rabbits feet skeletons and a purple iridescent cat skull.

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April Neander 🏳️‍🌈 @aineander.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

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April Neander 🏳️‍🌈 @aineander.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

It just occurred to me that animals with different sized eyes probably see in different focal lengths 🤯

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April Neander 🏳️‍🌈 @aineander.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

Cat skulls work in progress. These are essentially a proof of concept for a future, larger project, but are looking pretty cool on their own. Testing joining two part prints and sandable filler-primer here. #WIP #3DPrinting #skull

Two 3D cat skulls covered in gray filler primer with some sanding tools

Two 3D printed cat skulls, one is whole and the other is split in half across the cranium

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Astra Fauna (Sarah Dahlinger) -> Rhode Island Comic Con is Next! @astrafauna.bsky.social · 13/08/2024

These are the 1st ever full body images of our 5 scientists! They've existed solely as portraits since like 2020. Next up, I'm going to sculpt game minis for them! (Alt text on the previous one. Hashtags in this one. I'm a train wreck today apparently😅. ) #astrafauna #creature #furry #furryart

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April Neander 🏳️‍🌈 @aineander.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

I got to show some of my work at an art and music fundraiser event for the Bonokollie Foundation and I had a blast! It was so inspiring to see what the other artists were working on and chat about art. It was also gratifying to see people's reactions to my art and to hear what questions they had.

Photo of an art show. Artworks are hung on or sit in front of white walls in a space with wooden floors. In the foreground two pieces of sculptural art sit atop black stools and a third piece of multimedia sculptural art hangs between them.

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April Neander 🏳️‍🌈 @aineander.bsky.social · 31/07/2024

My latest piece from the artists at the Field meetup group! My new easel worked great and I enjoyed practicing color. #watercolor and #gouache #pleinair

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Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com · 18/07/2024

To respond to what is becoming a frequently-asked question, a note from Dark Horse regarding AI-generated material:

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April Neander 🏳️‍🌈 @aineander.bsky.social · 19/07/2024

I would feel a lot of schadenfreude if it turns out that the CrowdStrike outage was caused by code written by AI. I wonder what the power grid looks like right now with so many computers down?

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April Neander 🏳️‍🌈 @aineander.bsky.social · 23/06/2024

I just finished my transit easel and I can’t wait to use it! My social media handle is inscribed on the tray so when people take pictures they’ll be able to find me on social media afterwards. Lots of fun to design and build! #pleinair #diy #3DPrinting #craft

A small 8”x10” easel made from plywood and green 3D printed parts is set up in front of my bookshelf. My social media handle “@aineander” is inscribed on the tray of the easel, which can be hooked into the easel at one of three heights. The top of easel can be raised or lowered with a screw.

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April Neander 🏳️‍🌈 @aineander.bsky.social · 17/06/2024

I think this is the largest gooseberry harvest we’ve had! Into a pie they go with homegrown strawberries!

I'm holding a Tupperware full of green gooseberries in front of the bush they came from.

Gooseberries and strawberries cooking down in the pan with lots of juicy red syrup.

Finished pie topped with cinnamon sits on a baking tray on my stove. The discarded aluminum crust protectors are around it.

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Maddie Machine @theuglymachine.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

My weapon for pride month is finished. Say hello to Mariposa. I'll post more pics below

A chain flail with a butterfly shaped weight at the end.

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April Neander 🏳️‍🌈 @aineander.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

Black raspberry season is here! My favorite!

My hand can just be seen in frame holding some black raspberries with the bush in the background. Many red, not-yet-ripe raspberries are on the bush.

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April Neander 🏳️‍🌈 @aineander.bsky.social · 03/06/2024

This is might be my first installation piece! Designed to help liven up and bring some color to a drab hallway, the pattern of the 3D printed panels is based on stained glass throughout the building. A fun little side project, it's nice to have my work out there for people to experience. #3Dprinting

3D printed panels in color changing red, blue, and yellow filament. The pattern is composed of beveled square shapes with diamond shapes at the corners.

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