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👩‍🔬 Erica Flores, MS, MDA 🔬 Research Scientist & Freelance Artist 🎨 💌 Commissions: erica@celestialwhale.studio linktr.ee/celestialwhale.studio

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JoyousJoyfulJoyness @joyousjoyness.com · 23h
My painting, "Capybaras in a Pumpkin"! Capybaras chill everywhere, even in a jack o' lantern! #art #pumpkin #capybara
Painting of a capybara sleeping in a large glowing jack o lantern. The artist's signature and watermark @joyousjoyfuljoyness are at the bottom left.
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cambrian epic wet animal @dinoserious.bsky.social · 16h
#invertober 6, SOME PIG #invertober2026
color block art of a very pink sea pig floating on a deep blue backdrop with an "explosion" type pattern surrounded by little four point stars
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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 06/10/2026
In 2016, I used blue light for my 'Cerebral Wilderness' neuron art installation as nod to optogenetics! ✨ Why blue light? The foundational experiments by @deisseroth.bsky.social that launched the Nobel Prize winning technology of optogenetics in 2005 used blue light at ~ 470 nm #sciart 🧪
Detail of ‘Cerebral Wilderness’ which highlights the structures of Perineuronal Nets. Neuronal dendrites wrapped in netted fabric illuminated by blue lights. 

#contemporaryart Illuminated blue neurons in a full room installation called Cerebral Wilderness 

#artinstallation
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John F Tollefson @jftollefson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Day 6 - #Ogre Settled on the Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum). A venomous lizard of the southwest. Armored, slow-moving, primarily subterranean, maybe a little brutish. Thought it was a decent fit for today’s prompt. #Inktober #reptileart #sciart #scicomm
Illustration of a Gila monster (lizard).  Dark background color with reticular ions of dull orange.  Mouth opened, facing right at the entrance of an opening in the earth
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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 06/10/2026
How about a smol green snek friend for today's #Whistober? A recent visitor in the garden... #SciArt #art #herps #snake
Digital drawing of the head and upper body of a small, thin green snake that is facing away from the viewer as though it were headed into the dark space beyond a pile of stylized green leaves.
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Celestial Whale Studio @celestialwhale.bsky.social · 16h
Juniper Hairstreak Butterfly 🦋 D26: Cedar #SciArtSeptember #sciart #butterflyart #digitalillustration
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Langit Saga @skybuster98.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#SharkTober the Greenland Shark (Somniosus Microcephalus) 🦈❄ #SciArt #GreenlandShark #SavetheSharks #Ocean #Sealife #Sharks #Animals #Wildlife #SharkArt #AnimalArt #WildlifeArt #BskyArt #ArtYear #ArtShare #Art
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Langit Saga @skybuster98.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#SharkTober the Zebra Shark (Stegostoma Tigrinum) 🦈🦓 #SciArt #ZebraShark #SavetheSharks #Ocean #Sealife #Sharks #Animals #Wildlife #SharkArt #AnimalArt #WildlifeArt #BskyArt #ArtYear #ArtShare #Art
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John F Tollefson @jftollefson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Day 5 - #Smack Green iguanas use their tails as a primary defense mechanism. Smacks from a large adult are poweful enough to leave welts, draw blood, and break small bones. #Inktober #reptileart #sciart #scicomm
Ink and alcohol marker drawing of an adult male iguana with its tail curved over its back ready to whip.
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Allison 美林 Chin @allisonchinart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Chromis viridis #SciArt
Art of a school of chromis viridis, a light-blue fishArt of a school of fish swimming on top of table coralArt of some green-blue fish swimming on the sea floor near some coral.
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Day 5 of #spacetober_challenge by is space station, so I am sharing a tiny linocut print I made of the track of the ISS across the night sky. #linocut #printmaking #spaceArt #sciArt
Tiny 4” by 4” linocut of vertical rectangle of blue sky with Milky Way and track of the ISS behind the silhouettes of b CB coniferous trees in black. Signed Ele Willoughby 2023.
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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Redpoll for lazyscience on tumblr! Thank you for the #Waymakers donation! 🪶🎨 #SciArt #BirdArt The Waymakers challenge is a race and fundraiser hosted every September by @theyoungcenter.bsky.social to help immigrant kids in the US. Join us again next September!
Illustration of a Redpoll perched delicately on the dead head of a pink flower, part of a cluster growing from below the viewer's perspective. The bird is a small pale finch with a yellow beak and little red crown patch, and brown flank streaking. It looks to be a bright sunny day, which illuminates the spiderwebs strung between the drying twigs.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/10/2026
Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. scim.ag/4rTKck8
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How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t
New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51
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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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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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Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Science center @heureka.fi ’s new exhibition The Evolution of Dinosaurs is open! I had the pleasure of being involved in several roles with the exhibition, including illustrating the info screens. Here’s the undisputed star of any dino media: T. rex. #SciArt
An illustration of Tyrannosaurus rex walking towards the viewer with its mouth open, looking threatening. It is coloured brown, pale blue and cream, wading through orange wildflowers. There are silhouettes of palm trees against the dusky blue background.
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A throwback for Ctenophore Day! 🧪🐡🪼 If you ever wondered how to pronounce Ctenophore, today is October 4, the 10th month, fourth day and it sounds like ten oh four. They are a phylum of marine invertebrates, like this comb jelly which look a bit like jellyfish, but instead of stinging tentacles 🧵
This multimedia piece combines my linocut comb jelly on translucent Japanese paper, and self-flashing rgb LEDs to replicate their incredible bioluminescence. The translucent white comb jelly in in a dark blue glowing rectangle with two stripes of dashes along its body where changing coloured light glows through. There are white bubbles and part of two other comb jellies on the top and bottom edge of the box. It’s shot on a white background and is approximately 8”x10”2.5”
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Langit Saga @skybuster98.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#SharkTober the Great White Shark (Carcharodon Carcharias) 🦈⚪ #SciArt #GreatWhiteShark #SavetheSharks #Ocean #Sealife #Sharks #Animals #Wildlife #SharkArt #AnimalArt #WildlifeArt #BskyArt #ArtYear #ArtShare #Art
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cambrian epic wet animal @dinoserious.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
coupla two marked treehoppers (on black walnut) for #invertober 4 #invertober2026
symmetrical drawing of a pair of two marked treehoppers, drawn very simplistically as black silhouettes with minor markings. the background contains leaves and fruit of the black walnut tree, with the treehoppers perched on either side of a thin branch
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Noll @nollthere.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's the last year of #Drawtober prompts and there aren't that many, hey, let me give it a go. This one is for the first prompt, "Witch's Garden." #Art
Digital art of an elderly woman in a black dress and pointed hat sitting and dissolving into the ground as mushrooms, vines, and leaves overtake her. Her face has green markings making it resemble a skull in places, and her expression is serene.
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Sarcastic Shark Art @sarcasticsharkart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Inktober 2026 Day 4: Cactus. 🦈🌵🤘 Happy Sunday everyone! 🤙💙 #Inktober #Inktober2026 #cactus #artchallenge #shark #marinelife #sciart #surrealism #illustration #animalart #ArtYear #bskyart #art
Barrel cactus in the shape of a shark with its jaws openInktober 2026 prompt list
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KetrinaDrawsALot @ketrinadrawsalot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sometimes my lemon tree produces fruit with weird nubs, alas none of them have been shark-like 🦈🍋 #sharktober #shark #lemon #art
Sheila as a literal lemon shark
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Monica Morrill @mmorrillart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Out of the Blue XXIV 30x48 acrylic on canvas
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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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Celestial Whale Studio @celestialwhale.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Jade Tree Snake 🐍💚 D25: Jade #SciArtSeptember #sciart #snakeart #digitalillustration
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JoyousJoyfulJoyness @joyousjoyness.com · 03/10/2026
A compilation of bird Detox Doodles! These animals are from my 100-day journey to swap scrolling for sketching: www.joyousjoyness.com/pages/detox-... #art #bird #owl #duck #chicken #sketch #DetoxDoodles #sciart #inkart
Compilation of 16 sketchbook pages of drawings of birds: Flamingoes, Ostriches, Adelie Penguins, Swans, Blue Footed Boobies, Secretary Birds, Pelicans, California Quail, Kakapos, Albatross, Canadian Geese, Chickens, Shoebill Storks, Bitterns, Kiwi Birds, Seagulls, Ducks, Burrowing Owls, Owls, and Cassowaries.
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Morgan Denman | Space-Focused Designer & Illustrator @morgandenman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#SpacetoberChallenge Day 2: Galaxy In our house, we often say, "I'm a Galaxy" when we begin to spiral for any reason at all, whether it be humorous or serious. So I when I think of a galaxy, I think "spiraling". Featuring an artistic interpretation of a (of course) spiral galaxy. #sciart #spaceart
Illustration of a spiral Galaxy, scattered with stars. Both above and below the Galaxy is the word “spiraling”. The illustration is in shades of pink and orange.
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Shelly 🦑 @inki-drop.com · 02/10/2026
#Smoltober - because Smol is Best! 🦑Day 2: squid / hawaiian bobtail #cuteart #cephalopod #acrylicgouache #painting
Acrylic gouache mixed media painting of hawaiian bobtail squid. Text overlaid on illustration reads:

Smol
is
Best

@inki-drop.com

MR 2026

#smoltober
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cambrian epic wet animal @dinoserious.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#invertober 2, king ragworm (Alitta virens) #invertober2026
colorblock drawing of a rather colorful king ragworm curling around itself. its labeled in stylized text, each word in an opposing corner. there are four point stars dotting the empty blue background space, and a little gold crown hovering over its head
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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 02/10/2026
An unreasonably happy little eel for today's #Whistober! I'll be sketching random things all month and would love suggestions! Feel free to drop a comment if there's something you'd like to see me draw 👀
Digital drawing of a small skinny pea green and medium blue eel snaking its way among stylized red coral. There's a pink and purple anemone with feathery fronds hanging out on some rocks in the foreground.
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John F Tollefson @jftollefson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Day 2 - #Relic The tuatara - found in New Zealand 🇳🇿 Sole survivors of a lineage which diverged from lizards and snakes over 250 million years ago. #Inktober #reptileart #sciart #scicomm
Illustration of a tuatara. A lizard-like reptile in profile facing right with the back half behind the horizon. Green-brown with toothy crests on neck and back. 

Fun facts: they have a functional third eye on the top of their heads and can live over 100 yrs.
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Langit Saga @skybuster98.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#SharkTober the Basking Shark (Cetorhinus Maximus) #SciArt #BaskingShark #SavetheSharks #Ocean #Sealife #Sharks #Animals #Wildlife #SharkArt #AnimalArt #WildlifeArt #BskyArt #ArtYear #ArtShare #Art
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Kerstin Sailer @kerstinsailer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Decided to try watercolours for some #Birdtober2026 fun. Here's a gray wagtail for the day 2 theme 'Shades of gray' 🩶 #Birdtober #BirdArt
Watercolour painting of a gray wagtail on a stone, head bowed down towards the water. Plumage in white, yellow and shades of gray
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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
SciArt September, Day 29: Pelt. Many animals have fur that camouflages them in the environment. Leopard fur has beautiful, patterning that resembles the dappled sunlight of their surroundings. 🐡🎨 #sciartseptember2026 #pelt #leopardfur
Ink and colored marker drawing of irregular dark shapes on a lighter tan background in various shades. 
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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A very cozy Willow Ptarmigan for tisorridalamor on tumblr! Thank you so much for the #Waymakers donation! 🪶🎨 #SciArt #BirdArt The Waymakers challenge is a race and fundraiser hosted every September by @theyoungcenter.bsky.social to help immigrant kids in the US. Join us again next September!
A cozy-looking Willow Ptarmigan cuddled up in a loaf with eyes closed, amid grass and leaves and purple flowers. The bird has a short, stout black bill, a red eyebrow, and beautiful mottled gold and black and white feathers for camouflage among the summer browns and dappled sunlight.
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KetrinaDrawsALot @ketrinadrawsalot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#Sharktober is back! 🦈🍍 #pineapple #shark #art
Sheila the Shark as a pineapple
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Lynnguini @lynnguini.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#BirdOfTheDay #BestBeaks #Boat-billedHeron #Watercolor #Watercolour #TraditionalArt #BirdArtAndArtists #ECK I literally just finished this
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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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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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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bonus #sciArt for the carbon #SciArtSeptember and the graphite #MinCup26 contender: I lino block printed circuits using graphite-based electrically conductive inks! A printed spiral on paper and a strong magnet makes an interactive print which *is* a speaker.
theminouette.wixsite.com
Multimedia & Interactive | minouette
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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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Non-Euclidean Dreamer @noneucldreamer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#Sciartseptember Prompt: Mutation is this Month's High-resolution Render for Patrons of Level Square and up! Physarum Simulation with nutrients and survival-driven mutation in full 5120×2880 pixel
Physarum Simulation still with my Ambigram Signature Detail of regions with high agent density At full resolution you see the smaller off-road trails
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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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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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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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Andra @andramarie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#Owltober Day 1: Barn Owl. #Inktober #Artober #InkArt #BirdArt
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