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Kate Morozova @brushesandbiomes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just in time for the spooky season, Western spadefoot (spea hammondii) as a little gravedigger. They are widely distributed in California central valley. However their fossorial lifestyle makes them easy to miss and vulnerable to development. They just got CESA protection. #watercolor 🐡🧪

Spadefoot, an amphibian native to California, sits among the graves and pumpkins with a lantern hanging from a pole in their hand. Spadefoots have just gained protection as candidate species under California Endangered Species Act.

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Shawan Chowdhury @shawan-chowdhury.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

📢 PhD opportunity at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 🦋 We are looking for a motivated domestic/international PhD student to work on citizen science and insect conservation. Please share with anyone interested! 🌐 shawanchowdhurylab.com #PhD #Ecology #Conservation #CitizenScience #Insects

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🎧 Do you want to help us understand how humans perceive forest soundscapes in Costa Rica ? Answer this quick 5-min survey: 👉 www.biodiful.org/#/soundscapes_en Take a break and listen to the voice of the forest 💚 Please like & share on 🦋 to reach more participants 🙏 🌐🌍🦤🧪🍁🪴

Flyer for the BIODIFUL Soundscapes survey. Text reads: 'Do you want to help us understand how humans perceive forest soundscapes in Costa Rica? Please answer our online questionnaire: Voices of the Tropical Forest.' Photo of a lush tropical forest interior, overlaid with a translucent ear icon surrounded by sound waves. Text continues: 'This anonymous survey will take only 10 min. https://www.biodiful.org/#/soundscapes_en.' Logos at the bottom: BIODIFUL, ETH Zürich, CNRS, and Station d'Écologie Théorique et Expérimentale

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Kate Morozova @brushesandbiomes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Honestly, this is the kind of lack of difference to the social institution of marriage that I am here for.

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Kate Morozova @brushesandbiomes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A piece made for a colleague who is retiring. It has been an honor. Steve, thank you for your guidance. Oil on Fish and Game Code. Burrowing Owl are a CESA candidate species. #cesa #californiawildlife #birdsofprey #pirateowl #burrowingowl

Painting of a burrowing owl sitting on a post, on which a pirate tricorn hat hangs. He is looking towards the upper left corner. The background is pages of the California Fish and Game Code, showing section of California Endangered Species Act that names the intent of the act, as well as the definition of take.

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Kate Morozova @brushesandbiomes.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Picking up my old project of painting all #dnd classes as #CaliforniaNative species. Here is my take on a California newt wizard. Not really sold on the floating hat.... #watercolor #wildlifeart #amphibian #sciart

A pencil drawing of a California newt, a type of salamander, wearing a leaf as a cape, wizard's hat and an open spell book floating next to him.

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Kate Morozova @brushesandbiomes.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Oh to be a kitty in a basket, content in the queue to connect to the collective brain cell.

White shorthair cat sitting in a square metal basket lined with a red pillow.

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CassWArt 🌴 @casswart.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Inspired by this post and the 2026 Winter Olympics. Tina and Milo! A pair of Stoats / aka Eurasian Ermine, this year's official mascots. Went a little cartoony in the face with this one, just impossible not show how cute and happy they are. 🥰 #WildlifeArt #AnimalArt #SciArt #Stoat #Olympics

Inspired by this post and the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Tina and Milo! A pair of Stoats / aka Eurasian Ermine, this year's official mascots. Their names are derived from the names of the host cities of the games, Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo. They are portrayed as sister and brother. Showing a white fur for Tina's winter coat and Milos summer coat as brown tawny fur. Milo represents the Paralympic mascot.

Stoat skins were prized by the fur trade, especially in winter coat, and used to trim coats and stoles. The fur from the winter coat is referred to as ermine and is an ancient symbol of the Duchy of Brittany, forming its earliest flag. The winter fur is very dense and silky, but quite closely lying and short, while the summer fur is rougher, shorter and sparse.

Stoats were introduced into New Zealand during the late 19th century to control rabbits and hares, but are now a major threat to native bird populations. The species was nominated as one of the world's top 100 "worst invaders"

Stoats have a long history with humans, as such the story continues. Cute but also effective little hunters. They deserve so much more respect then we give them.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Alright bsky science + art community, I need your help. I was p confident we could get a grant to fund our upcoming biodiversity mural in Kensington. Last night, they called to say our partner school is 2 blocks outside of their service area. But ya know what? We're gonna do it anyway.

a slide with 3 pictures of schools with brightly colored murals stacked on top of one another under the words "Schools in service area". On the other side of the slide, a blank wall of a school under the label "Our partner"

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

This day always brings a smile to my face :)

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

ALEX JEFFREY PRETTI. Gone, but never forgotten... #RIP_Alex 💔

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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Look closely and you'll spot a mantis among the gravel! You're looking at a species likely in the Eremiaphila genus, joining fewer than 600 other observations on iNaturalist. 📷 ahmedriyami on iNaturalist 📍 Oman 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay

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Kate Morozova @brushesandbiomes.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Working on #California #native #pollinators these days. A San Francisco Leafcutter Bee on Chaparral pea and Hunt's bumblebee on a white-stem frasera. Lots of fun to explore these relationships in our landscapes. #sciart #watercolor #insect #botany

Two watercolor paintings, representing the San Francisco Leafcutter Bee approaching a Chaparral pea and Hunt's bumblebee sitting on a white-stem frasera.

Close up of the watercolor of leafcutter Bee approaching a Chaparral pea flower

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Kate Morozova @brushesandbiomes.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Hey #sciart, I've been painting traditionally for the last 7 years or so, but was gifted a Cintiq this year. What software are you all using to paint these days?

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

This winter's @instbirdpop.bsky.social thank you card might be my favorite one yet! I painted a pair of Sandhill Cranes investigating Ackerson Meadow in #Yosemite, where ongoing restoration of the meadow did actually draw in some of these birds during our 2025 banding season! 🎨 🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt 🌎

Digital painting of a pair of Sandhill Cranes in summer copper-stained plumage. They stand in shallow water running over meadow grasses, next to blooming larkspur, irises, and corn lily. In the background, Ackerson Mountain with its prior burn scar rises above a forest of conifers. The meadow is bordered with clumps of willow.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 08/12/2025

I am brimming with holiday spirit

a guillotine made from gingerbread, decorated with white icing snow and icicles

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Kate Morozova @brushesandbiomes.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I'm calling this one done. Hunt's bumblebee on a white stem frasera, both species native to the Sierras in California #sciart #insect #bumblebee #watercolor #science

Watercolor of a Hunt's bumblebee sitting on a white stem frasera plant. There is a rich background of blue and ocre to offset the white flower clusters

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Jenny M. @littletig2.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

1. 'Akohekohe without hair and makeup. 2. 'Akohekohe with hair and makeup. (Yes, it is the same bird) 😂 #birdart #birds #sciart #NatureArt #WildlifeArt #FiberArt #needlefelting

Needle felted 'Akohekohe bird, black with white, red, and gold markings, and a white tuft above the beak.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Hello! I’m off to the post office shortly. Need any #sciart? Cause there’s a sale on this week in minouette.etsy.com and I could have your print headed your way today!

My lino block print of a charming Grimpoteuthis octopus, one of a genus of pelagic cirrate (finned) octopods known as the dumbo octopuses. The fins reminded scientists of ears on the elephant in Disney’s 1941 film Dumbo. Hence their common name dumbo octopuses. The print is 9.25” by 12.5” on delicate ivory Japanese washi paper with visible margin, number, title and signature. The background is black. The octopus is reddish on top, then dark blue, with brown legs are spiralled up and drawn in close to its body.

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 19/11/2025

If you see this, post your bird art #sciart #birds

Enamel pins of Robin birds in different pride colours: rainbow, nonbinary, trans, lesbian, genderfae, and regular bird colour

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Sarcastic Shark Art @sarcasticsharkart.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Here it is!! Bigeye Thresher Shark (Alopias superciliosis) based on a photo by the talented Eli Martinez at SDM Diving. 🦈🤘 Marker and Prismacolor on Strathmore blue toned paper. Let me know thoughts! 🤙 #shark #Thresher #marinelife #sciart #fish #fishart #animal #animalart #nature #ocean #ArtYear

Illustration of a Bigeye Thresher Shark (Alopias superciliosis) in marker and Prismacolor on Strathmore blue toned paper.

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Kate Morozova @brushesandbiomes.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

If you see this, post something toothy! Blast from the past from the 2025 March Mammal Madness. #art #sciart #watercolor

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Kate Morozova @brushesandbiomes.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

The auction is live and running until the end of July! Come check out and bid on all the great offers, including tons of lovely art! gazaaidcollective.betterworld.org/auctions/gaz... #sciart #birds #watercolor

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Gaza Aid Collective by Gaza Aid Collective

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Kate Morozova @brushesandbiomes.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

The lovely Palestinian Sunbird. This 6x8 #watercolor piece is made for an auction with @gazaaidcollective.bsky.social. More details to come. #sciart #birds

A watercolor piece of a Palestinian Sunbird sitting on a branch, looking to the right with beak half open. The bird has iridescent blue-green feathers on its head, shoulders and tail, while the rest are a dark brown.

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Mike Hendley 🎨 ✍️ 🇨🇦 @mikehendley.com · 08/06/2025

Just finished this brown-lipped snail from Mud Lake in Ottawa 🐌 Had such a relaxing time with it using QoR watercolors and a Pentel water brush in an Etchr sketchbook. Grabbed new references in Ithaca yesterday too – totally beat but happy this one’s done! #sciart #artist

Watercolor painting of a brown-lipped snail crawling on tree bark, rendered with high detail and realism in a small sketchbook.

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I’m edging towards thinking this a queen red-tailed cuckoo (Bombus rupestris) rather than a red-tailed bumblebee, ( B. lapidarius) but would appreciate any confirmation of which she is. Thank you! (NEEngland). #bees @nenature.bsky.social

A queen bee on an allium flower. She has a shiny black abdomen, dark wings, red tail, and the tibia of the back leg appears hairy

A queen bumblebee on an allium flower. She has a shiny black body, dark wings, red tail, and the tibia of the back leg appears hairy.

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Kate Morozova @brushesandbiomes.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Messing around with a new technique to paint nebula. Which version do you think looks better? #sciart #spaceart #watercolorart

Watercolor paintings of nebula in red and orange tones.

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Marcos Heredero @marcosup5.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Esta es mi reinterpretación del esquema anatómico de la piel y las células del sistema inflamatorio. Es muy divertido ver cómo escala el proceso creativo. #scientificillustration #sketches

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 19/05/2025

Want some of my Itty-Bitty #sciart Paintings? Come to Artscape in Baltimore this weekend

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An Itty-Bitty Love Story

Because everyone should have original art

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Javier Lazaro - scientific illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

The orangutans and bonobos are the first two illustrations of a series on behavior and movement of animals in their environment. #SciArt More coming soon! :) For @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

Illustration of orangutans climbing on trees

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Kate Morozova @brushesandbiomes.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Going back to an old project to paint all the #DnD classes as native #California animals. Here is #jackrabbit as a #warlock. The jackrabbit already has the air of a mad desert prophet so the arcane class felt fitting! Which class or animal do you want to see next? #wildlife #watercolor 🦊

A watercolor of a jackrabbit, a species of rabbit native to California, painted as a Dungeon and Dragons warlock class.

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Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Total deregulation of a/i where states cannot enact any guardrails of their own. That's what's in this bill. This is some real, truly awful shit for the future of all of us and everything we post online. U.S. House Switchboard: (202) 224-3121 5calls.org to get a script and quick dial to your rep.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

4 artists & 3 scientists created a series of posters to communicate some of the science issues most important to us. These posters are made to be shared! We're selling them in 4-packs, so YOU can share them outside of the science circles where we hang out online. get 'em squidfacts.bigcartel.com

4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel

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Kate Morozova @brushesandbiomes.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Awesome day at the farm with @norcalresist.bsky.social Hopefully the strawberries will be happy in their new home!

Wheelbarrow full of strawberry plants, ready to transplant

Prepared garden beds at the farm. The bed to the right is full of transplanted strawberry plants.

Volunteers plant strawberries into the ground

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Benjamin Delory @benjamindelory.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

🚨🔔 6-month technician position in plant-soil interactions available in @frantecol.bsky.social ‘s lab at the University of Amsterdam! 🌎🧪

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Kate Morozova @brushesandbiomes.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Such lovely country side. Chiang Mai, Thailand. Will likely keep messing with this some more. #art #landscape #wip #thailand

Watercolor painting of a mountain village overseen by a blue sky with clouds.

Reference photo of the village near Chiang Mai, Thailand

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 08/04/2025

in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list

The mission of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is to work with others to “conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people.”

The Department of the Interior is excited about the potential of “de-extinction” technology and how it may serve broader purposes beyond the recovery of lost species, including strengthening biodiversity protection efforts and helping endangered or at-risk species.

The Endangered Species List has become like the Hotel California: once a species enters, they never leave. In fact, 97 percent of species that are added to the endangered list remain there. This is because the status quo is focused on regulation more than innovation.

It’s time to fundamentally change how we think about species conservation. Going forward, we must celebrate removals from the endangered list - not additions. The only thing we’d like to see go extinct is the need for an endangered species list to exist. We need to continue improving recovery efforts to make that a reality, and the marvel of “de-extinction” technology can help forge a future where populations are never at risk.

Since the dawn of our nation, it has been innovation – not regulation – that has spawned American greatness. The revival of the Dire Wolf heralds the advent of a thrilling new era of scientific wonder, showcasing how the concept of “de-extinction” can serve as a bedrock for modern species conservation.

The Dire Wolf revival carries profound cultural significance as it embodies strength and courage that is deeply encoded within the DNA of American identity and tribal heritage.

Breakthroughs of this nature will inspire leading minds and future generations of innovators to chase the impossible, capture it, and unleash its potential!

The Department of the Interior looks forward to a vibrant future full of innovation that advances core missions such as wildlife conservation.

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Kate Morozova @brushesandbiomes.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I am off to #Thailand until the 22nd. Kind of a long shot, but if anyone in the area wants to chat about endangered species permitting, biological illustration or anything in between, I'd be down to meet up. #science

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Kate Morozova @brushesandbiomes.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Messing around with my new Manta @supernote.com Pretty decent functionality and feel. Shot from the #DnD campaign, where our party got invited to dinner at a creepy mansion. #wip #art

Sketch of a creepy gothic mansion. Three adventurers walk through the gate as a tiefling and war forged remain behind with the cart. Two rats sit in the cart with the tiefling. One of them has a mushroom growing out of his shoulder.

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Kate Morozova @brushesandbiomes.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

The flowers are coming back and with them some cool native #pollinators. Saw a lovely yellow-faced #bumblebee queen and what I think is a caterpillar of the variable checkerspot #butterfly. Super cool. This is Steven's trail. #california #wildlife #flora

A yellow-faced bumble bee queen sits on a white phacelia flower.

The variable checkerspot caterpillar crawls along the stem of the blue dicks plant towards the purple flower.

The yellow flower of the bush poppy held up by a hand

Two hikers explore the stream, surrounded by vegetation. One person in the foreground smiles at the camera.

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

#Mesozoic 100 m sprint: a juvenile #Tyrannosaurus - legitimately thought to be one of the fastest of all predatory #dinosaurs - chases down Ornithomimus. T. rex leg muscle configs suggest that they were ambushers, not marathon runners, so outrunning them was one means of escape. #paleoart #Sciart

A scaly juvenile tyrannosaur chases a feathered ostrich-like dinosaur across a dusty landscape. Background details are sparse but the foreground is littered with low plants. The tyrannosaur is countershaded, with a darker top than flanks, while the ostrich dinosaur has light brown feathers over its dorsum with a white head and neck. Its legs and chest are devoid of feathers, as is suggested by fossils.

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Kate Morozova @brushesandbiomes.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

It has come to my attention that the Flying Frog, #2025MMM wildcard contestant and very cool #amphibian did not make it onto the sticker store. This has been fixed, and the whole set should be up there. Tell me if I'm wrong. You can get these watercolor stickers here: brushesandbiomes.printful.me

Sticker design for the March Mammal Madness contestant flying frog. The sticker shows the green and yellow frog sitting on a branch, the text around it says MMM 2025 and it's species name.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 25/03/2025

Thank goodness for this morsel of positive news in the midst of relentless ongoing barbarism in Gaza, where electricity, water, and aid have been cut off for weeks and Gazans are starving, and in the West Bank, where settlers continue to attack Palestinians with state sanctioned impunity

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‘No Other Land’ Co-Director Hamdan Ballal Freed, Says Yuval Abraham

The filmmaker had reportedly been attacked by settlers and detained by Israeli police, sparking international outcry.

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