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The Alchemist 🇨🇦 @alchemistsstudio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Emerging from the fire and smoke of raku - Borealis Bear 🐻 Deep browns, violet, blue and gold shimmer across a surface transformed by the magic of raku. Your reminder that strength can be quiet, grounded, and beautifully shaped by the elements. #bear #eastcoastkin

A deep brown and copper coloured raku bear sculpture. Right side

A deep brown and copper coloured raku bear sculpture with distinctive marks left by the raku firing. Left side

A closeup of the face of Ted E. Bear, a deep brown and copper coloured raku bear sculpture.

A ceramic bear sculpture being placed among the flames of the raku reduction container.

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Nelly Armstrong @biosciphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

dating a guy named Tyre. turned out he was not very nice.

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Skype a Scientist @skypeascientist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We at Skype a Scientist are deeply troubled by the closure of the Academy of Natural Sciences. We urge you to contact Drexel University Leadership and Academy interim leader Trish Wellenbach to urge them to reopen the museum. President Merlo president@Drexel.edu Trish Wellenbach tw958@drexel.edu

a block of text with a statement that reads We at Skype a Scientist are deeply alarmed by the decision of Drexel University leadership and the Academy of Natural Sciences Board to close the Academy’s public museum.

Skype a Scientist is based in Philadelphia with deep roots in our city. Making science accessible, in particular for Philly’s children, is a top priority for our organization. We operate in community centers, at street festivals, and at the intersection of science and art. For the last 10 years, we have worked to engage a broader coalition of Philly residents to care for our local biodiversity.

Our program does not exist in a vacuum. The work that we do, alongside environmental education centers, our museums, classroom teachers, and more, create an ecosystem of connections with science. The loss of any part of this fragile ecosystem is detrimental. The Academy of Natural Sciences grounds biodiversity education in Philadelphia. With grand fossil halls, historical connections, and engaging exhibits, it is a place where many Philadelphians develop a love of science. Loss of access to this space cannot be tolerated.

We are living through an erosion of public education, particularly in the life sciences. Philadelphia cannot afford to lose our flagship biodiversity museum.

We call on the leaders of Drexel University and the Academy board to reverse their decision to close the Academy’s public museum. The children of Philadelphia and future generations of Philly-made scientists are counting on you.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Made a digital collage of my #linocut prints for the #spacetober_challenge 🐡🧪🔭 prompt day 3: Artemis II, the crewed space flight mission aboard the Orion spacecraft, lead by NASA. The 10-day mission for NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and the

As described my digital collage of my linocut prints showing Earth, and moon in space with the Artemis II, the crewed space flight free-return trajectory around the Moon and back to Earth. My image shows Earth, moon and trajectory. Outbound in fuchsia and return in yellow. At the bottom it reads Artemis II in white.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The 12yo has declared it Peniagone Sp. Sea Cucumber nicknamed “Loki” awareness day! This little weirdo recently discovered in 2,577 metres depth in the Mar del Plata Submarine Canyon off Argentina has horn-like appendages which reminded researchers of the Norse god.

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Meet "Loki", the horned sea cucumber among 57 new species and five new genera identified from Mar del Plata Canyon in just two weeks.

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Per Ole Hagen @perole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #BokehBirds. My bird today is a mallet on its way to touch down.

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JBC @johnbcaddell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#Stunday on a #river in a #forest up in the #mountains

South Fork Sacramento River just upstream from a Forest Service bridge of W A Barr Road & located in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. rocks, of course, are everywhere, as are the trees. blue sky, wispy clouds, that sound of water rushing and the wind through the trees, why, it's time for a picnic.

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ℬσnViναnт ғғѕ @jennyluwho.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This Rose of Sharon bloom fallen perfectly onto the grass signaling the end of the season in the prettiest way. 🌸

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Tanager of the Day: Western Tanager 📷 Simon Boivin

Bird perched on a branch, photo, description from ebird: ‘Breeding males are stunning bright yellow with a black back and red head. Females and immature males are duller, sometimes mostly grayish with just faint yellow on the face and undertail coverts. Always note two white wingbars and pale bill. Breeds mainly in coniferous or mixed forests at middle or high elevations. Winters as far south as Central America, where it can be found in any forested habitat. Often stays high in the canopy. Listen for male’s burry song in the spring and summer and short, rising rattle year-round.’

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Hidden Wilds Photography @hiddenwilds.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sunflower. Erie, Colorado. #sunflowers #sunflower

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Phew that’s much better

A big reef squid wheatpasted it on a wall

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The #sciArtSeptember prompt is star-shaped. 🧪 My lino block print of two Pisaster ochraceus, generally known as the purple sea star, ochre sea star, or ochre starfish, on a bed of kelp, is hand-printed on 8” x 8” (20 cm x 20 cm) delicate white Japanese paper with bark inclusions. A common sea star,

my linocut of two ochre starfish, one purple and one orange on a bed of kelp on speckled Japanese 8” x 8” paper bark inclusions

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Hello :) @piezostatik.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We only have a short time above ground.

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Shannon Walsh @flutterbyflora.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

🌱 a little perfection 🤍💚

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Another mostly wet week in the northwest so this #SixOnSaturday is wearing its rainy day diamonds (see alt-text for details). Have an excellent weekend sky-folk 😀🌱 #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Raindrops #UKGardening #GardensHour #EastCoastKin

Top left to bottom right: primula vialii, dahlia 'Pink halo', kniphofia 'papaya popsicle', osteospermum, water forget-me-nots and calendula 'citrus', yellows, oranges, reds, pinks and blues all captured in moments the sun broke through after heavy rain and decorated with shining raindrops

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Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦 @insideukraine.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Bambi and Thumper in real life! A deer and a little bunny sharing a super tender moment that seems straight out of a Disney movie... impossible not to melt with love! 🦌🐰✨ National Geographic

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I didn’t see any of them apply for a job while I was there. Not one. It’s like they’re not even trying.

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The Alchemist 🇨🇦 @alchemistsstudio.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The moose is loose! Bullwinkle is all fired up and ready for a new home 🍁 #sciart #canada

A chocolate brown and metallic silver raku pottery moose sculpture on a white background

A closeup of the face of a chocolate brown and metallic silver raku pottery moose sculpture on a white background

The other side of a chocolate brown and metallic silver raku pottery moose sculpture on a white background

A raku pottery moose sculpture being lowered into the reduction bin. Flames abound!

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Hello :) @piezostatik.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Let life surprise you. #fungi #mushrooms

Yellow fungi in brown leaves and a foresty green background

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Ya ever accidentally take a dead wife picture of a bug?

a praying mantis with a big fat ass looks back at you, as if you're her husband and she has cancer but she doesn't know it yet

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The #sciArtSeptember prompt is teardrop, so I thought of certain droplets. On the North Island of New Zealand or Aotearoa, there are caves near Waitomo with large populations of Arachnocampa luminosa, a glowworm (insect larvae and adult larviform females that glow through bioluminescence) native to

This is my 8”x8” reduction print linocut of glowworm caves of Waitomo in glow in the dark blue, shades of blue and grey and black. Glow in the dark threads hang from the cave ceiling and cast a glow on the rocks below.

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RK @rodsclicks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Show your tail and flare it if you can! #SmallBirdSaturday #Wildlife #Nature #Birds #GreenSat

Hummingbird with partial tail flare. A lot of green in the picture

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Judy³ 🇨🇦 @doolitzphotos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Monarchs are all over Toronto before heading south to Mexico. #bloomscrolling #flowers #photography #butterfly #wings #pollinators

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Hello :) @piezostatik.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Got room for some mushrooms? 🧐🍄‍🟫 #fungi #mushrooms

Soft soft white mushrooms straddle a stick in a very green forest.

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Hiné Mizushima/水島ひね @sheishine.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

バンクーバーはすっかり秋なので、このかっこいいキノコのシャツの出番よ。🍄 Vancouver is definitely feeling like fall, so it’s time to wear this cool mushroom shirt. 🍄 #mushrooms #fall #vancouver #canada #shirt

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Lady-Rain @lady-rain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If I could bottle a moment it would be the way the world softens around you… #RomanticSaturday #photography #ArtInNature #BloomOnPurpose

A delicate rose holding the sweet secret of two hearts finding each other.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

An alien in the sunflowers: Chinese Mantis (Tenodera sinensis). 🧪🌿🌎🐡 #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #scientificillustration #naturephoto #visualscicomm #scicomm #Mantidae

My close-up photo of the head and upper body of a Chinese Mantis within a bunch of yellow sunflowers.

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The Alchemist 🇨🇦 @alchemistsstudio.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

These are my latest one-of-a-kind raku pieces. No one’s buying right now, and I understand - art isn’t always the priority in difficult times. But I’m still making, and sharing a little beauty feels worthwhile. A like or share might help these pieces find their people. 🙏

A 6 panel image on white with 4 raku vases and 2 spirit animals. All were handmade by Alchemy.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Julienite is blue, but Calcite? No contest for my art/physics voting scheme. Pigments, chalk, sculpture… all of art history! Calcite has brought us all of marble art and limestone sculpture, chalk drawing, pigment and extender. Also fossils! Trilobite eyes! Birefringence. VOTE CALCITE! #MinCup26

Rembrandt, A Young Lady Smiling 1633 Medium: Oil Support: Oak panel Size: 52.4 x 44 cm Art period: Baroque Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden – Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (State Art Gallery Dresden) Gallery Nr 1556 Image credit: The Rembrandt Database, normal light studies: photograph, overall (front), 2005, (record number 15550); Rembrandt Bust of a young woman smiling possibly Saskia van Uylenburgh, dated 1633, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden – Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, inv./cat. no. 1556 The sitter was most probably Rembrandt’s wife Saskia van Uylenburgh. Via ColourLex. This dramatically lit paint shows a smiling red haired woman in blue dress and red hat with blue plume looking over her left shoulder to smile at the viewer. Couldn’t have been painted without calcite.

My Linocut print of Mary Anning in green in large coat and bonnet with geological hammer and basket in front of blue lias cliff in silver with fossils she found

The Winged Victory of Samothrace, or the Niké of Samothrace, is a votive monument originally discovered on the island of Samothrace, north of the Aegean Sea. It is a masterpiece of Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic era, dating from the beginning of the 2nd century BC (190 BC). It is composed of a statue representing the goddess Niké (Victory), whose head and arms are missing and its base is in the shape of a ship's bow. The photo shows the now headless winged woman statue in white marble at the Louvre (via Wikipedia)

This is one of a series of my prints of one of the ubiquitous and wildly successful trilobites, prehistoric creatures which lived for hundreds of millions of years, carved by hand in linoleum, printed onto lovely Japanese washi papers and collaged with papers in different colours. This trilobite was a Cheirurus ingricus which lived during the Late Cambrian through the Early Devonian era. This print is on charcoal coloured paper with imbedded fibres, with the trilobite headed down towards the right corner with front and back on sand coloured paper. Each of many segments is on varied washi in pinks, yellows, blues, turquoise, purples, orange, red and more, predominately pale, pastel colours.

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Atheistwon @rhaw5n.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🌱 Your Daily Moment of Sanity

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mollygagne11-63.bsky.social @mollygagne11-63.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hello=)💖Lopud, Croatia💙-The Franciscan monastery of Our Lady of the Cave on the island🩵. 💖Lopud, Croatie💙 Le monastère franciscain de Notre-Dame-de-la-Grotte sur l'île🩵. #Photography #Photographie #PhotographersOfBlueSky #Lopud #Croatia #AdriaticSea #ElaphitesIslands #sky #architecture #blue

The Franciscan monastery of Our Lady of the Cave on the island of Lopud, Croatia, was founded in 1483 and transformed into a private retreat known as Lopud 1483. Built in 1483 in the Elafiti Islands near Dubrovnik, the dilapidated structure was restored by Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza to serve as an art space and hotel. The original 13 monks' cells were converted into five suites; while the main complex is now an exclusive private property, the adjoining church occasionally opens to the public.

Le monastère franciscain de Notre-Dame-de-la-Grotte, situé sur l'île de Lopud en Croatie, a été fondé en 1483 puis transformé en une résidence privée baptisée « Lopud 1483 ». Érigé en 1483 dans l'archipel des Élaphites, près de Dubrovnik, cet édifice alors délabré a été restauré par Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza pour devenir un lieu d'art et un hôtel. Les treize cellules de moines d'origine ont été aménagées en cinq suites ; si le complexe principal constitue désormais une propriété privée exclusive, l'église attenante ouvre occasionnellement ses portes au public.

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The Partial Historians 🏺 @partialhistorians.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Let’s hope your weekend doesn’t all take a turn like this riot in the amphitheatre at Pompeii which led to the closure of the amphitheatre in 59 CE! There’s partying hard and then whatever brawl *this* turned into! #FrescoFriday #Pompeii

This fresco depicts fighters in the arena but also outside the arena. Fighting for displays seems to have turned into a a riot that broke out in 59 CE during games involving people from Pompeii and Nuceria. This riot led to the closure of the amphitheatre for ten years. The fresco was found in the house of Actius Anicetus in Pompeii. It is now held in the Naples National Archaeological Museum. Photo credit to Carole Raddato via The World History Encyclopedia.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Posters ready Speakers lined up See you at the rally on Tuesday at 10am in front of the academy of natural sciences. We’re asking Drexel, the Academy Board, and the city to find a way to keep the museum open to the public. RSVP luma.com/1qwnrqz2

8 protest posters
A triceratops says “save the frills”
“Defund science you’re history”
“Don’t let us disappear again” with dinosaurs
“Save our dairy”
Tell Fred save y. Rex”
“Ouch: closing in the middle of an indigenous exhibit”
“This is not the time to defund science
“Closing the academy is a bone headed move”

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RK @rodsclicks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Fun to run across this bloom floating in a pond’s blue sky reflection #MondayBlues #MondayFunday #MagentaMonday #BlueSkyMonday #BloomScrolling #BloomSmiles

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@mariasteuer.bsky.social @mariasteuer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Gentle Beauty….

A Monarch Butterfly On A Purple Butterfly Flower , With Greenery In The Background

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Pam Brown @pamlivengoodbrown.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We’re gonna have a glorious day: the heat has broken, morning temps in the 60s, sunny skies, and it’s a holiday here in the US. Wishing you all a glorious day too! For #MacroMonday a close up of the liriope 🌱

Liriope leaves and flowers in dappled light. The leaves are long and narrow, like grass, with creamy white coloring on the edges and a green center. The flowers are lavender and look like little balls on a long stalk. Also called monkey grass.

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Hello :) @piezostatik.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Be patient with yourself. Nothing in nature blooms all year. 🥰

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

September 7 is Threatened Species Day in Australia so I thought I would share this hard-carved and hand-printed linocut print of a little semi-transparent, white amphipod crustacean in the Neoniphargidae group from the Pilbara. 🧪🐡 This is a large, dry, sparsely populated region in northern part of

As described this is a hard-carved and hand-printed linocut print of a little semi-transparent, white amphipod crustacean in the Neoniphargidae group from the Pilbara. On cream coloured 8” x 8” washi paper there’s a black rectangle with a white and blue side view of the amphipod.

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The Alchemist 🇨🇦 @alchemistsstudio.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

3x the indifference from Purrebus, our latest raku pottery sculpture! Happy #Caturday! #sciart #pottery

A raku pottery sculpture of a cat with 3 heads. The sculpture is brown, grey and violet. Front view

A closeup of one of the faces of a raku pottery sculpture of a cat with 3 heads. The sculpture is brown, grey, red, and violet.

A raku pottery sculpture of a cat with 3 heads. The sculpture is brown, grey, red, blue, violet. Back view

Purrebus going into the reduction container

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Vote #Orpiment for the 17th century Dutch masters who subjected themselves to foul smelling toxic fumes so their paintings could glow! #MinCup26 This '“Festoon with Flowers and Fruit” (1660s) is an oil painting by Jan Davidsz. de Heem which contains orpiment. #artHist #minerals #scicomm

Jan Davidsz. de Heem, 'Festoon with Flowers and Fruits' 1670. "This painting features at least four Semper Augustus tulips. These flowers were considered extremely valuable at the time this paintings commission." The bouquet also features morning glory, carnation, purple grapes and red apples and is dramatically lit on a black background. Contains orpiment pigment. Via Wikipedia.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Vote #Orpiment for its role in global art history! #MinCup26 #arthist Consider this personification of wisdom from Kashmir or western Tibet:

Fragmentary Leaf from an Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra
Artist: Unidentified Artist, Kashmiri
Date: 12th century
Culture: Kashmir or western Tibet
Medium: Gold, lapis lazuli, cinnabar, indigo, and orpiment pigments and black ink on paper
Dimensions: Image: 8 1/16 × 6 1/2 in. (20.5 × 16.5 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Gift of Chino Franco Roncoroni, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary, 2020
Object Number: 2020.74.2
Curatorial Department: Asian Art, The Met

"This painting depicts the personification of the wisdom text Prajnaparamita. She is represented in six-armed form, the central hands are held over the heart in a variation of the dharmacakramudra, whilst her upper hands display the sacred book (pustaka) and the thunderbolt scepter (vajra), whilst her lower hands hold a rosary (mala) and gesture boon granting. She wears golden jewelry on her body and a tripartite diadem adorns herhead, which is framed by a red halo. A girdle, seemingly of strings of pearls, secures her waistcloth, beautifully decorated with large red rosettes in blue hexagonal frames. Slender ribbons fly through the air, one supporting a blue lotus bloom and stem. She is seated in a mediation posture, enthroned on a golden lotus and she is encircled in a rainbow colored nimbus. Particularly noteworthy is the tonal modelling of the bodily forms, heightened with finely controlled orange-red lines. The swelling breasts and constricted waist are hallmarks of the Kashmir style."

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Nelly Armstrong @biosciphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

they are going to be a supahstar

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“I’m going to relax tonight. I ran around the city with my brother all day, time for a relaxing evening” “I’m not going to overthink this, just doodle whatever comes to me” “…Oh dear”

A reverse mermaid kneels in a puddle wearing a seaweed wig which she’s jzushing with her pectoral fin, with a jarring abalone shell background with a half tone overlaid on the shell

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Evidence of speed. Can't take a focus-stacked picture of a bug on the move lol

a trippy almost animorphs-cover style pic with what looks like 7 partial tiger beetles skittering away, but it's just one beetle in different miliseconds

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Several years ago I added a page to my blog with some resources for artists who want to add some electronics to their artwork. I used to teach a university physics for arts students, but it was more about the history of physics. But I know a lot of artists who didn't study physics & it would come up

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Resources

How to put a little science in your art I'm interested in combining my technical background as an experimental physicist with my artisti...

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Oooh, a bracket! www.mineralcup.org/2026/bracket

A sports-style elimination bracket of 32 minerals labeled "Mineral Cup 2026". Text below reads, "Daily voting takes place on www.MineralCup.org in September. Campaign on your favourite social media using #MinCup26."

The starting matches are, in chronological order in pairs from top to bottom alternating from left to right each match:
Azurite vs Smithsonite
Erythrite vs Skutterudite
Sphalerite vs Anorthite
Bournonite vs Vesuvianite
Cuprite vs Orpiment
Quartz vs Asagiite
Monazite-(Ce) vs Andalusite
Stichtite vs Talc
Hafnon vs Putnisite
Pyromorphite vs Gypsum
Calcite vs Julienite
Pyrrhotite vs Cylindrite
Arsenopyrite vs Halite
Riebeckite vs Gadolinite-(Y)
Chrysocolla vs Xocolatlite
Cassiterite vs Graphite

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s International Bat Night 🦇

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