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Alum UC Davis EVE / Duke MEM in Taiwan 台灣 partaking in #SundayFishSketch, #TaiwanFishes, #FishBooksForKids, and other fishy adventures! 🐟 betterknowafish.com 📸 instagram.com/betterknowafish 🧡 @younglandis.bsky.social

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Better Know a Fish! / 曉得多魚! @betterknowafish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🐟🌲♻️ @jdkiernan.bsky.social This came up in my Instagram feed!! www.instagram.com/p/DeKN2mMGrUp/ #SciArt #TeamFish 🐡🦑🧪
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Jasmine 🏴‍☠️ @abyssangler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Grumpy grandpa goby 🐟 #SciArt #NatureArt #naturalhistoryillustration #fishart
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Better Know a Fish! / 曉得多魚! @betterknowafish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#SundayFishSketch BONUS: Another full page! Although this skips the few we all did during #SciArtSeptember, and my one sick day this year.
Photo of a sketch book page with six crayon drawings of sucker mouth cat fishes, lizard fish, and parrot fish
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Better Know a Fish! / 曉得多魚! @betterknowafish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Was slurping noods at lunch when I heard TV news mention parrotfish. Apparently confusion over whether they're being overfished off Penghu 澎湖. Probably? They do appear in seafood stalls in Taiwan, often generically labeled as 青衣、紅衣、鸚哥 etc. So here' a generic Scarinae for #SundayFishSketch 🐡🦑🧪
Photo of a crayon sketch of a parrot fish with strong beak
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John F Tollefson @jftollefson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Day 4 - #Cactus A Porcupine Fish (Diodon hystrix) doing its best barrel cactus impression. Looks like something socked them in the eye, causing the puff-up? **reposted - an edit function would be nice for typos** #Inktober #SundayFishSketch #fishart #sciart
Ink drawing of a porcupine fish inflated like a spiky balloon. Facing right
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Diego Ortega @diegooa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#SundayFishSketch 🐠I completed the 2nd row quickly, so third page completed! Top row: Corusichthys megacephalus, Maraldichthys verticalis, Gladiopycnodus karani Bottom row: Monocerichthys scheuchzeri, Ichthyoceros spinosus, Stenoprotome hamata #paleoart
Drawings of pycnodonts, a group of prehistoric fish
Top row: Corusichthys megacephalus, Maraldichthys verticalis, Gladiopycnodus karani
Bottom row: Monocerichthys scheuchzeri, Ichthyoceros spinosus, Stenoprotome hamata
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Kristen Behrens, PhD @behrenskristen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#SundayFishSketch is a quick little Red Handfish, since he ended up being the fish of choice for my field trip presentation this week!
Colored pencil drawing of a red handfish. As the name implies, his pectoral fins are red and very human hand-looking. He also has a fin coming out of his forehead shaped like a triangle that reminds me of a dinosaur.
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Ligus @greyauk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#SundayFishSketch
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Quake & Quiver @quakeandquiver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A salmon 🐟 for today's #SundayFishSketch #sciart
A pen drawing of a male salmon, crosshatched in red, blue, and green
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Titus Seilheimer @drfishsg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A smorgasbord of fishes for #SundayFishSketch.
Head-on ink sketches of 7 fish species.
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Ben Young Landis @younglandis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“'The microplastic footprint Helene left behind was pretty substantial,' said Austin Gray, a Virginia Tech biologist. 'Microplastics are depositing all over terrestrial and aquatic areas, especially after a storm event...'" news.vt.edu/content/news... 🧪
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Hurricane Helene deposited nearly one-fifth of annual microplastics at one North Carolina site
Microplastics are often linked to urban areas near roads and development, but a new study shows that wind and rain carry them from the atmosphere into remote headwaters — a process intensified by majo...
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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Once again, I'm finally, FINALLY back on my bullshit. It feel great to be drawing monster girls again
A piece of paper on a clipboard with hand-drawn line art of a character with crustacean-like exterior, including segmented/jointed exoskeleton, a hood over her head which has compound eyes and antennae, and arms covered in spines and ends in a curved claw
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Better Know a Fish! / 曉得多魚! @betterknowafish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
BONUS: #SciArtSeptember 2026 compilation. Gratitude again to @lizlagomorph.bsky.social and all my fellow #SciArt #SundayFishSketch kin who shared the love this past month! 🦑🐡🧪
Photo of sketch book page with crayon sketches of Sci Art September themes Malachite Violet Sanguine Azure Saffron Coral Fawn Ruby IvoryPhoto of sketch book page with crayon sketches of Sci Art September themes Woad Heart Teardrop Diamond Crescent Honeycomb Scallop Eyelet AlmondPhoto of sketch book page with crayon sketches of Sci Art September themes Star Meander Kaolin Silk Copper Down Jade Cedar QuillPhoto of sketch book page with crayon sketches of Sci Art September themes Linen Pelt Carbon
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Celestial Whale Studio @celestialwhale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Halfmoon Copper Betta Fish 🐟🧡❤️ D23: Copper #SciArtSeptember #sciart #fishart #digitalillustration
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Celestial Whale Studio @celestialwhale.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Emperor Penguin Chick 🐧☁️ D24: Down #SciArtSeptember #sciart #penguinart #digitalillustration
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Better Know a Fish! / 曉得多魚! @betterknowafish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sending love back, Liz! Thank you soooooooo much again for another heartwarming #SciArtSeptember!! We all made it!! 🧪🎨🤩
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AAAS Mass Media Fellowship @aaasmassmedia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
¿Es un científico o ingeniero interesado en periodismo! También puede completar este programa en español. Escribe y reporta ciencia en español durante diez semanas durante este verano. ¡Aplica ahora! bit.ly/3KugH6D #CienciaEnEspañol #SciComm
El plazo de solicitud para el programa Mass Media Science & Engineering de la AAAS se abre el 1 de octubre y cierra el 4 de enero de 2027.
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AAAS Mass Media Fellowship @aaasmassmedia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Are you ready to try something new and work in #SciComm? Apply now to be a part of the 2027 cohort of @aaas.org #MassMediaFellows! Spend the summer using your STEMM background as a journalist writing the news. English and Spanish language placements available. bit.ly/3KugH6D
The 2027 AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship Application opens on October 1 and closes January 4, 2027.
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Kokopelli Design @kokopellidesign.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#SciArtSeptember Day 14: Crescent Crescent Honeyeater #SciArt #SciComm 🐡 #NatureJournal #kleineKunstklasse (I'm sorry....so behind, but trying my best.)
Aquarellskizze eines Goldflügel-Honigfressers
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Ben Young Landis @younglandis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So join us for our 10/21 Taipei Science Café 台北科普咖啡! Bring a friend or come meet new ones—and leave with a deeper appreciation for our planet and humanity. Let’s toast to knowledge! 敬幾杯,科學會!歡迎大家: www.facebook.com/events/14299... #Taiwan #台灣 #生物多樣性 #海洋科學 #海龜 #CommunityScience #MarineConservation 🧪
Taipei Science Cafe poster with text "Have a drink and fill your brain! DAYBREAK presents our new TAIPEI SCIENCE CAFÉ speaker series, where you can hear from brilliant creative minds who connect science knowledge with our community and our daily life. No prior science expertise required to attend — our multilingual talks will translate the language of science for you and your big curious brain. Bring a friend or come meet new ones — and leave with a deeper appreciation for our planet and humanity. Let’s toast to knowledge! 敬幾杯,科學會!"
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Ben Young Landis @younglandis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Affectionately known around Taiwan as 海龜姊姊 / Miss Sea Turtle / Miss Umigame, Dr. Fong co-founded 海龜點點名, a community science project crowdsourcing public photos of Taiwan sea turtles. Fong is also President-Elect of the International Sea Turtle Society: www.facebook.com/events/14299... #Taipei #台北 🧪
Taipei Science Cafe poster with archival illustrations of green sea turtles dorsal and ventral view
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Ben Young Landis @younglandis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Science friends in Taiwan 台灣, our next #TaipeiScienceCafe #台北科普咖啡 talk on October 21 will be “Every Turtle Has a Story: How Citizen Scientists Turn Photos Into Research and Conservation” featuring co-founder of TurtleSpot Taiwan 馮加伶 Dr. Chia-Ling Fong: www.facebook.com/events/14299... #SciComm #科普 🧪
Taipei Science Cafe poster with text “Every Turtle Has a Story: How Citizen Scientists Turn Photos Into Research and Conservation”
A photograph of a sea turtle can be more than a holiday memory! In this talk, we will dive into how thousands of photographs contributed by divers, tourists, and local residents can become scientific evidence, and help researchers identify individual turtles, monitoring the numbers of aggregation and understand how long they stay, and what threats they face. Join us as our speaker Dr. Chia-Ling Fong teaches us about Taiwan’s amazing sea turtles!
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Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I love this. 🌟❤️✨🌈
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Better Know a Fish! / 曉得多魚! @betterknowafish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
cc @haleygrunloh.bsky.social !
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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
More geekery tonight. Trying to make sure my code worked as intended and generating Raup's Figure 2 from his 1962 paper "Computer as Aid in Describing Form in Gastropod Shells" #marinelife #SciArt #paleobiology #MolluscMonday #paleontology
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Milton Tan @mtanichthys.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Neat, didn't know you worked with Peter! Small world!
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John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Check out this lovely profile of the University of California, Davis’s Peter Wainwright, whose lifelong fascination with fishes inspired a remarkable career in research and teaching. Peter was my postdoc advisor years ago when he was at Florida State University, and is awesome dude and mentor.
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Among the Academies: A Lifelong Fascination With Fish
For Peter Wainwright, the academic path was simple: he simply followed his fascination with fish.“I dare say there wasn't a lot of deep thought about what direction I should go in my life,” he said. “...
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Better Know a Fish! / 曉得多魚! @betterknowafish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And for Day 30 of #SciArtSeptember #Carbon, I give my thanks to the life around us — and to wonderful #SciArt friends like @lizlagomorph.bsky.social who bring us all together in creative joy. Live long and prosper, peace and long life, my fellow carbon-based lifeforms 🖖🧡🦑🐡🧪
Photo of a crayon sketch of a wreath pattern teeming with lifeforms from vines to kelp to flowers to sea stars to salps to butterflies and more
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Better Know a Fish! / 曉得多魚! @betterknowafish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Preserve their innocence and don't tell them about the indestructible raccoon poop parasites!!
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The 12yo has declared it Hawaiian Monk Seal Awareness Day! The only seal endemic to Hawai’i & one of the most endangered seals, they got their name from skin folds around the neck like a monk’s caul. They eat fish, cephalopods & crustaceans Some of you might remember their eel snorting fad.
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Hawaiian monk seal - Wikipedia
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Annabell @annabellfischer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tag 29 & 30 #SciArtSeptember #pelt #carbon #SciArt #KleineKunstklasse #graphite #squirrel #artChallenge
Zeichnung eines sitzenden Eichhörnchens
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Annabell @annabellfischer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Das waren meine Beiträge für den #SciArtSeptember Vielen Dank für die tolle Liste @lizlagomorph.bsky.social ! 🫶 #kleineKunstklasse #artsky #art #artchallenge
12 Bilder, unterschiedliche Medien, gemalt und gezeichnet, 1 Collage, 1 Foto,12 Beiträge
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Shoutout to our yearly #SciArtSeptember ringleader and host! I love think about how to interpret all the great prompts. Many thanks!! Check out Liz’s artwork and all the fabulous artists’ work (use the hashtag or check the #sciart feed).
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Kristen Behrens, PhD @behrenskristen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Somehow it’s already #SciArtSeptember Day 30 Carbon. To wrap things up I drew a peat bog, as these bogs are a major carbon sink. www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
Colored pencil drawing of a peat bog. There’s an area of standing water surrounded by dark rich soil on either side with some pine trees in the back. The ground is populated by little mounds of plant matter that rather look like little haystacks.
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John F Tollefson @jftollefson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The whole shebang (+2) #SciArtSeptember Thanks to @lizlagomorph.bsky.social for curating this. It was great to see everyone’s work!
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Sarage @sarahcpjones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thanks for #SciArtSeptember @lizlagomorph.bsky.social I like to see everyone's efforts and interpretations. It's a light burden but good for me 😄 And it's something fun on the timeline amongst all the doom
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Better Know a Fish! / 曉得多魚! @betterknowafish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As #SciArtSeptember draws to a close, what great #BestKidsFishBooks #FishBooksForKids with #TeamFish #SciArt can you recommend? Add your favorites below so we can make #BookSky #KidLit a fishier place everywhere 😍🐟🦑🐡🧪📚 List So Far: bit.ly/FishBooksForKids Add a Title: bit.ly/BestKidsFishBooks
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BKAF Crowdsourcing Dossier: Best Fish Books for Kids (of All Ages)! (Responses)
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Kristen Behrens, PhD @behrenskristen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#SciArtSeptember Day 29 Pelt is the American Mink. Once again the mammals kick my butt, but look at that long noodle girl!
On the left, a colored pencil drawing head on of an american mink. It’s a dark brown ferret shaped guy with white splotches on the chest. Mine looks like a cat but it’s fine. On the right is an ink drawing of a side view of the same mink. She is a long long gal. Very noodle shaped.
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Celestial Whale Studio @celestialwhale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Silk Moth 🦋🪡 D22: Silk #SciArtSeptember #sciart #mothart #digitalillustration
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Sarage @sarahcpjones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
30. Carbon. Coral pencil fish. #SciArt #SciArtSeptember
A drawing of an orange and black striped fish
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Ezequiel Vera @ezequielvera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#Sciartseptember 30 (and last!): carbon Yetapá negro / Long-tailed tyrant Colonia colonus Mechanical pencil and black polychromos in Brugge Artista Pocket Sketchbook. #sciart
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Sarage @sarahcpjones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It is done. #SciArt #SciArtSeptember #SciArtSeptember2026 #WildlifeArt
All 30 coloured pencil sketches I did of various animals this September stuck to a wall.
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John F Tollefson @jftollefson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Day 30! - #carbon Double duty! It’s also #BirdWhisperer Project posting day. Black Woodpecker (Dryocopus martius). Found in mature forests across Europe and parts of Asia. The deep black was a challenge, but it fit the carbon theme nicely. #SciArtSeptember #birdart #watercolor
Watercolor illustration of a crow-sized black woodpecker. Facing right and clinging to a tree trunk in front of a large nest cavity. The bird has a red cap and a powerful ivory-colored bill.
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Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
An Abyssinian roller that is also a little book. It begins: “Why is a roller like a writing desk? The need for fire and acacia, both. One for blood - the other, ink.” Written in India ink. - #SciArtSeptember Day 30: Carbon
A painted, cut-out paper bird in the shape of an Abyssinian roller. The bird has one wing folded back, which reveals a small booklet of pages under the wing. The underwing is brown and has uneven letters painted on it in another shade of brown reading, “Some small words about the medium of carbon.” The booklet pages are bright blue, like the bird, and the words inside are unclear. The bird rests on a wooden table top.A painted, cut-out paper bird in the shape of an Abyssinian roller. The bird appears to be in flight, with the wings positioned in a downward flap. The bird is bright blue, with a brown back and long, black tail. The bird rests on a wooden table top.
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m #TeamQuartz in #MinCup26 but today’s #sciArtSeptember prompt carbon lines up with graphite, so I am sharing my #linocut of Millie Dresselhaus (née Spiewak; 1930 – 2017). She was a professor of physics & electrical engineering at MIT, known as the Queen of Carbon Science. In this linocut I’ve
My linocut portrait of Millie Dresselhaus in white sweater, red blazer, and C for carbon necklace, with the structure of a carbon nanotube behind her, in red, silver and black ink.
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Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thanks for joining in by creating work, sharing posts & supporting artists during #SciArtSeptember! I love this yearly opportunity to reconnect with friends & meet new folks. 🌟 - While I’ll be posting less during the rest of the year, please reach out any time if you have ideas for collaborations. 🌱
An illustration of an azure jay, perched on a stick. The bird has its back to the viewer and its head turned to the left. The background is a light pink colour.A photograph of a tiny sculpture of a fawn suspended in a small wooden box. The fawn appears to be leaping. The back of the box is lined with green and gold paper. The box rests on a wooden table.A hand holding a small book made with a scallop shell cover. The book is fanned open, to show the pink pages inside the book. The background is a wooden table top.A graphite drawing of a moon bear, also called an Asian black bear. The bear is sitting up, with its front paws near its chest. The bear looks towards the right. The bear is tinted in shades of purple.
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Ezequiel Vera @ezequielvera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#sciartseptember 2026: 1-30, the end Thank you @lizlagomorph.bsky.social for hosting again this event and encouraging artists to produce and share art based on the natural world! Already waiting for 2027's list! #sciart
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