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@beccagoesoutside.bsky.social
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senior artist by day, conservation bio grad student by night. chicago. shop: weneedtogooutside.com comics/blog: beccagoesoutside.com

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 05/10/2026
I got a great The Only Way Out if Through sticker from @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social - feel free to incorporate herons wherever possible weneedtogooutside.com/products/onl...
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Only Way Out is Through Sticker
A 3-inch vinyl sticker featuring a great blue heron in flight.They're tough enough for outdoor use! Don't forget to clean the surface before you apply the sticker. Weatherproof, waterproof, and easy t...
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In one of the most important convos I’ve had this year, I talked with Sherry Turkle about how our interactions with AI platforms, simulated companions, and artificial personalities can reshape us, diminish our capacities, and alter our very conceptions of ourselves and what it means to be a person.
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Artificial Intimacy Is Changing Who We Are
“We start to judge our human interactions by what the chatbot can deliver,” says author Sherry Turkle.
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
now on my website at www.beccagoesoutside.com/comic-proces...
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comic & process: day's work
and it's damn hard work
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Cifer @teskariel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
As opposed to beavers, who do hard dam work.
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
and its damn hard work #birds #nature #comics #art
a 6-panel digital comic featuring a gull.
first panel: the gull with pizza in its bill flies away from reaching hands.
second panel: the gull bursts out of a trash can, screaming.
third panel: the gull smokes a cigarette.
fourth: the gull poops on a crowd.
fifth: the gull makes sweet love on the beach.
sixth: the gull rests on a wooden pillar at sunset and says "honest day's work."
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
One year ago, I started lifting weights to prove that picking up ten-pound dumbbells again would shatter my body once and for all. Last Monday, I deadlifted 300 lbs for the first time. www.beccagoesoutside.com/to-lift-myse... #powerlifting
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to lift myself up: one year of powerlifting
we interrupt your regularly scheduled bird programming to bring you this unrelated monologue
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
new comic at www.beccagoesoutside.com/comic-theres... #birds #nature #comics #art
a six panel digital black-and-white comic.
first panel: a warbler looks down at a nest of baby birds from the front.
second panel: a warbler looks down at a nest of 3 baby birds from behind the warbler's head.
third panel: a close-up of the three baby birds.
fourth panel: a close-up of the warblers neutral face.
fifth panel: a close-up portrait of a screaming, hairy baby bird.
sixth panel: the two adult warblers are perched over the nest of baby birds. one says "there's no way i was this ugly" while the other tells them to be nice.
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
we saw a VERY tired black witch at mothapalooza in ohio this year, and it was the highlight of the weekend for many!!
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
i got you
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
also, dragonflies:
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
YEEEAHHHHH!! 🎉🎉
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
dude moths get the craziest names, i do nooooot understand what those people were on
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"No sheet that I've attended previously could have prepared me for what we saw at Mothapalooza. The variety, density, and quality of moths (and beetles!) forced a total system reset in my brain." latest post is up at: www.beccagoesoutside.com/ego-death-at... 🌿 #wildlife #nature #photography #bugsky
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ego death at mothapalooza 2026
i am now 200 moths piloting a skin suit
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Well isn't this just the coolest thing I've ever seen
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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
There's so much great Mothy string art at Mothapalooza!!! #sciart
Yarn caterpillar!
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
learn how to build a basic moth bucket trap on my blog! www.beccagoesoutside.com/zine-moth-bu... #bugsky #nature
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zine: DIY moth bucket trap
Build a no-kill, no-skill bucket trap for mothing in under an hour!
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
suuuuuch a treasured weekend!!
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
just thrilled. not one, not two, but FIVE of these beauties visited my moth sheet and bucket trap over two nights while visiting my parents in michigan this week. 🪲🪳
photo of a polyphemus moth outstretched on a white sheetclose-up of a polyphemus mothside photo of a polyphemus moth on a white sheet with the wings closed
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Taylor Fischer @tcfischer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
These ones I am in love with... Somethin about goofy little scaley goobers I love. Baby alligator legs are adorable as well. #sketchbook
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
the bits! the bits!
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
just a widdle treat #birds #nature #comics #art
a gull in a four panel comic says across the first three panels, "i've been working too hard lately. i deserve a little treat. and i think i want..." 
and in the last panel, it says "that one." while glaring down a tray of fries that someone is eating out of frame.
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
where are we going? #birds #nature #comics #art now on my website www.beccagoesoutside.com/comic-proces...
a four panel comic of two birds against a darkening dusk sky. 
first panel: one bird asks, where are we going? and the other responds, north.
second panel: but how do you know when you've made it? the other responds: it's hard to explain.
third panel, the bird continues: but i feel it in my gut when i'm going in the right direction
fourth panel, it says: and that feeling always gets me where i need to go
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a grassland chase 🌾🌾🌾🌾 @chasesolidago.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
If I see one more person post “plant endangered plants to prevent ai data centers!” my brain is going to explode The level to which people assume our government has ANY plant protections is just so frustrating The bell bowl effect never goes away, I am still SO ANGRY
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
🦉
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
a cool stick!! 🦉🌿 www.beccagoesoutside.com/comic-proces...
a four-panel digital comic in which two tree sparrows find and bond over a cool stick.
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
grack want a snack www.beccagoesoutside.com/comic-proces... 🌿🦉 #nature #birds #art
a six panel comic featuring a common grackle noticing then approaching you before asking "you gonna eat that?"
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
🦉
a digital drawing of a grackle checking you out with a wide stance.
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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a drawing of a grackle noticing you from behind
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She's A Beast @shesabeast.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
dlvr.it
the art of bending down
Childcare is free "primal movement." Plus: public park stones; an ACL recovery documentary; why are so many men being told they have low testosterone? This is Link Letter 203!
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
join as a member for free to see sketches, reference photos, and other parts of my process 🦉 🌱🎨 www.beccagoesoutside.com/comic-3/
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comic & process: prothonotary
it's just hard to say ok
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
a creature of great dignity indeed 🦉
a front view photo of a grackle taking a wide stance.
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Rachel Leggett @rleggos.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I love this piece by @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social! I relate to it a lot. www.beccagoesoutside.com/my-own-refer...
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why i shoot my own reference photos
the joy of connecting camera and pen.
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
check out the sketch, reference photos, and process for the latest comic at www.beccagoesoutside.com/comic-proces... 🌎 🌿🦉 #nature #birds #art
a drawn 4-panel comic. 
panel 1: a chickadee sits on a branch, saying "chick-a-dee-dee-..." 
panel 2: the chickadee looks down and says "dee-dee-dee-dee..."
panel 3: the chickadee looks to the right and says "dee-dee-dee-dee..."
panel 4: the chickadee says "deez nuts" as the camera pans right to reveal two acorns.
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Robert Ball @robertball.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Wader
A coloured pencil drawing of a wading bird. I made some of the colouring up and am now living in fear of wading bird experts.
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
id have to agree 😂
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
oh my goddddddddDDDD
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
im glad!
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
do birds experience spring like we do? i like to think so. at least a little bit. read how the comic was made: beccagoesoutside.ghost.io/comic-signs-... #birds #illustration 🌎 🌿🦉 #wildlife #nature
a four panel comic. 
in the first panel, a robin hops along a trail saying "lovely!"
in the second panel, the robin perches on a tree with pink flowers and says "beautiful!"
in the third panel, they look up at a white flower and say "fantastic!"
in the final panel, their eye is up close to a pink flower and they say "wow" repetitively.
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
one of the coolest things about taking photography is how i can recall exactly where i was standing during every photo, even just quick shots that i took 6 years ago. i can remember the weather, even the time of day. but i cant remember what i had for breakfast yesterday. mmmmmm.
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
every time my sicko little brain comes up with shit like this
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
may or may not be horrifying myself by starting to sift through 420gb of old wildlife/plant photos so i can upload a chunk of them to inat as reference photos, wish me luck
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
urban coyotes illustration stages 🎨 #sciart #science #nature #art #illustration 🧪 🌎 🌿
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
this makes my brain go brrrrrrrrrrr
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
ready to give it a shot? learn more about the process in-depth at beccagoesoutside.ghost.io/anyone-can-d...
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
i used the grid method to create this illustration of an eastern towhee and their white-crowned sparrow friend from my own reference photos! #art #illustration #sciart #nature 🦉
a digital illustration of two sparrows perched on a dark branch
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
slowly, the image forms like puzzle pieces coming together into one cohesive image. one reason that i continue to occasionally use this method 10 years into my professional illustration career is because it is sooooooo satisfying. #art #illustration #sciart #nature 🦉
a grid is overlaid on the photo of an eastern towhee on the left. a drawing of the towhee is under the grid on the right.
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
there are two common methods: filling in each square one at a time, or working from large shapes down to the finer details. i prefer the latter, but it's all up to you! #art #illustration #sciart #nature 🦉
an image of two grids. a photo of an eastern towhee sits below the left grid. lines drawn within three squares appear within the right grid.an image of two grids. a photo of an eastern towhee sits below the left grid. the outline of the bird appears within the right grid.
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
the process is similar across digital and physical mediums. we start by creating a grid on top of our reference, and a second grid on our drawing surface (procreate file, paper, bedroom wall, etc.) #art #illustration #sciart #nature 🦉
an image of two grids, both numbered on the columns and rows. a photo of an eastern towhee sits below the left grid.
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
you can draw with a grid. yes, you. yes! you! and i'll tell you how! now public: beccagoesoutside.ghost.io/anyone-can-d... #art #illustration #sciart #nature 🦉
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anyone can draw with a grid
a beginner-friendly technique for accuracy, speed, and fun.
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becca | they/them @beccagoesoutside.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
the process is similar across digital and physical mediums. we start by creating a grid on top of our reference, and a second grid on our drawing surface (procreate file, paper, bedroom wall, etc.) #art #illustration #tutorial #birds #nature
an image of two grids, both numbered on the columns and rows. a photo of an eastern towhee sits below the left grid.
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