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jinxlandband.bsky.social @jinxlandband.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Jinxland is back with a new song release, just in time for Friday revelry. Find Whiskey Demon on Bandcamp or your favorite music platform! jinxland.bandcamp.com

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eHawk (alana rivera) @eveninghawk.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

This is a fun redraw of a piece I made back in 2008. I didn't think about how much fun it is to retool panel layout!

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eHawk (alana rivera) @eveninghawk.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

A nice watercolor and colored pencil giant african snail (Achatina) with a feather-tailed centipede (Alipes). Building up color this way takes a lot of patience that is not always in reach for me! Do you like playing with gutters in sketchbooks? I love a full page spread but it's hard!

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eHawk (alana rivera) @eveninghawk.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I am forever amazed by colors in the natural world. Gecarcinus quadratus (the Halloween crab, among many many other common names) is absolutely stunning. What's your favorite crab?

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eHawk (alana rivera) @eveninghawk.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Caprellidae (skeleton shrimp) are some of my favorite organisms to watch!

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Guild of Natural Science Illustrators @gnsiart.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Many thanks to our intrepid keynote speaker, Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social! We had a delightful time learning about his journey into cultural entomology and #SciArt...and a little dance along the way! There was even a little collaboration cameo with GNSI member Tierney Brosius.

A photo of a man at a podium in front of a slide reading "under the influence of insects: the power of visualizing insects in science, art, and across human culture"

A photo of a long table full of insect things, and people leaning over to carefully study one particular box of insects

Barrett in front of a slide reading Insects in Art by Klein and Brosius 2022

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eHawk (alana rivera) @eveninghawk.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

A fun request that let me flex a little local fauna! Formica exsectoides was the field ant of choice for this project. Neohelix albolabris (Eastern whitelip) is probably the largest land snail we have up here in New England. A queen in battle needs her battle armor!

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eHawk (alana rivera) @eveninghawk.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Summer solstice hit last month, so I have my second snake piece for 2025. This time featuring Erpeton tentaculatum, the tentacled snake. I couldn't quite make out their facial details, but friends over in Herpetology let me come check out a couple specimens in the collection!

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Stunning urchin tests by Anders Hallan via National Geographic www.facebook.com/natgeo/posts...

Purple urchin with smooth plates on top, blunt fringe around edge

red urchin skeleton with white highlights

elongate spines with red/white bands on white center test

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eHawk (alana rivera) @eveninghawk.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

A new pink monster piece, to be friends with a blue monster i drew years ago. I can't decide if green or red will be the next color. What do you think? This is one of the pieces I'm bringing to Somerville Open Studios this weekend. I'll be at the Armory, 191 Highland Ave from 12-6pm Sat and Sun!

Illustration of a pink creature with puffs of yellow fluff reaching towards the viewer. The creature has multiple eyes and long antennae. The figure is on a gray black and white swirling background.

A collection of swirling lines and petals made of a variety of colorful art pieces. Text reads: "Flourish, SOS, 2025. Citywide, May 3+4, 12-6pm. Somervilleopenstudios.org."

Image of desk with computer monitor with one art piece and a large format printer, with a stack of prints on top.

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Phil Levin @phillevin.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

They canceled the National Nature Assessment. We kept going. The science didn’t stop. Neither did our hope, or our resolve. The work is still happening—independent, evolving, and grounded in purpose. Because weareunitedbynature.org 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...

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Opinion | We Found a Work Around to Trump Defunding Science

When knowledge is threatened, don’t just mourn it. Build around it.

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

#wormwednesday! A #newspecies of an unusual polychaete genus Ctenophoricola (#Phyllodocida, Phyllodocidae, Alciopini) from the Indian Ocean how interesting! www.mapress.com/zt/article/v...

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eHawk (alana rivera) @eveninghawk.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

My new band is playing a show April 12, come party with us!

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Today's additions to the science library: "What's a mollusk anyway?" mini-zine and "Mutual Aid & ism" Both by @eveninghawk.bsky.social! Thank you for sending these! They are fantastic! Do you have extra printed zines you'd like to add to the library? DM me!

Sarah holds up two zines, one large and red that says "Mutual aid & ism with people sharing an apple, and a small white one that says "What's a mollusc anyway?" Sarah's holding them in front of the adorably painted Science Library, which has shrimp on the front sitting on blades of seagrass. It's labeled Science Library in pink bubble letters.

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jinxlandband.bsky.social @jinxlandband.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Putting together all the perfect components to bring some music into being. We need a little joy, sharing, and weirdness right now. 🔮💫🌙🧙‍♀️🏳️‍🌈 #ComingSoom #music #musicsky

illustrated hand holding a sparkly vial on a swirly background with the text "Mixing up something special for you... Jinxland."

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Julia Sigwart @sigwartae.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Here is the mollusc tree. (We fixed it, you're welcome.) 😇 @sgn.one @oceanspecies.bsky.social @kmkocot.bsky.social @squamiferum.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

A few days ago I posted a photo of the diatom Auliscus sculptus. I found this little frustule of the same species in my sample this week, and I thought it was a good opportunity to show you its beautiful adornment. 🦑 #plankton

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Squeeee! 🥹 A Ctenophore (comb jelly) larva from this week’s sample. I love it! 🦑

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Jean-François Cudennec @limpetnerd.eurosky.social · 25/02/2025

I was quite confident on my knowledge of marine biodiversity in my area (I have a PhD in marine biology after all). But today I learn about Paromola cuvieri, one of the largest crab species of the Northeast Atlantic, that uses its last pair of legs to carry live specimens of sponges and corals 🦑 🌊

Paromola cuvieri carrying a deep sea coral
Source : @irisgorgona

Paromola cuvieri carrying a sponge

Image: OCEANA

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Classroom/Library enrollment was down pretty bad in February. National chaos and uncertainly likely has something to do with it. Can you help me make sure that all the educators on bluesky know Skype a Scientist exists and is ready to connect them with scientists? Every RT helps! #EduSky #STEMEd

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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Putative Batesian mimicry of gelatinous zooplankton by larvae of marine fishes: a closer look based on in-situ images by blackwater photographers Johnson et al. 2025 Larval fishes appear to mimic invertebrates as seen by deep ocean divers after sunset oceansciencefoundation.org/josf42d.html...

Figure 7. Mimics and models based on Greer et al (2016) with live blackwater images substituted: see other figures for
photographer credits, except the salp (AW).

Model organisms on left including salps and ctenophores and larval fish mimics shown on the right

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Dr Andrew Mahon @andyantarctica.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I've fallen down the pit of politics lately so here's my start to claw back....I'll try and balance that with science. This is Austropallene cornigera, sea spider he's a dad. MOST pycnos reproduce like seahorses....females pass eggs to males to brood until they crawl off dad! #Antarctica 🦑🧪🌎🇦🇶🐧

Austropallene cornigera, male, with brood

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

A nice lavender squat lobster from Pioneer Seamount in the North Pacific #Okeanos 2015

purple colored squat bodied lobster with elongate spiny arms and legs

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Emily S. Damstra @emilydamstra.com · 21/02/2025

This #paleoart shows 3 views of the Devonian brachiopod fossil Paraspirifer bownockeri; one is reconstructed w/ some epifauna and boreholes. These are fun to find; they're an impressive size (for brachiopods). I had an excellent specimen to use as a reference for this painting. #FossilFriday #sciart

Detailed color illustration showing 3 different views of the same specimen. Two at the bottom are the unreconstructed fossil from different angles. The reconstruction at the top shows the brachiopod in life position, with 9 visible boreholes and the common epibionts Cornulites and a bryozoan. The shell has pinkish and whitish horizontal stripes and the valves are slightly agape, with cirri lining the opening.

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Japanese exhibition of "ULTRA DEEP-SEA" animals! Here are some sea pigs from 7300 m! www.chiba-muse.or.jp/UMIHAKU/exhi...

9 examples of sea pigs, sea cucumbers with 8 "legs"

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Yes, this is the lab that hosts “drag and tag,” shark tagging research with drag queens that raises money for Florida LGBTQ youth. We could sure use your support, and you get an amazing adventure out of it! www.scientificamerican.com/article/drag...

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Drag Queens Tag Sharks in Annual Florida Science Celebration

The annual “Drag ’n Tag” expedition takes place amid a wave of antitransgender legislation

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Encountering a warty leaf beetle is always a minor holiday 🖤

Small pellet of dark metallic beetle, all appendages fitting into slots and crevices of its body. Playing dead in the palm of my hand

The creature on the move on my hand, very lumpy and "warty"

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Emily S. Damstra @emilydamstra.com · 30/01/2025

I don't always have access to a specimen when I need to illustrate something, so I was pretty happy to find an excellent specimen of a Western diamondback at the UMich Museum of Zoology's herpetology collection in 2006. This gouache painting shows the rattle, sectioned. #sciart #snake #Crotalus

Detailed color painting of the rattle of a Western diamondback snake. The rattle is illustrated as if cross-sectioned, so you can see inside and understand the way the parts nest.

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Lindsey Munson Art and Design @lindseymunson.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Just finished drawing an Ostracod Aka seed shrimp. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracod #art #natureart #science #interesting #discover #bluesky #painting #animal

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Gil Wizen @wizentrop.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Male orchid bee (Euglossa sp.) collecting fragrant compounds from a moss patch in the Ecuadorian Amazon. This is one of my favorite subjects to photograph, and I keep going back to it even though I probably have hundreds of photos by now. I mean, look how awesome these bees are!

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Gil Wizen @wizentrop.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

How about some blue spiders? Here is a Brazilian jewel tarantula (Typhochlaena seladonia). This species is now iconic so if you are not familiar with it... you're welcome. A very small tarantula that lives in a makeshift tent on tree bark in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest. #BlueBugs #BlueMonday

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Emily Graslie @ehmee.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Everyone saying “just rebuild on another platform” — take it from me, whose biggest audience belonged to another entity: sit down. 😅 I had tremendous success on YouTube and the -day- I lost access was a complete reset and I never recovered. Today, I struggle to get funding for a single video.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Seeing my biggest platform destroyed, then watching many younger women in SciComm have *their* biggest platforms destroyed is weighing on me. I’ve rebuilt here. I know they can rebuild too. Having our delicate careers subject to billionaire whims has me wishing for a stability I don’t think exists.

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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Some parasitic isopods go through an awkward developmental phase where the back half of its body reaches maturity while the front half of its body is still a juvenile. Puberty for cymothoid isopods is kinda wild. #Invertebrate 🧪 journal.kagoshima-nature.org/046-093/

Three specimens of Nerocila phaiopleura isopods.
Left: An ovigerous female individual, Centre: a transitional-stage individual in between juvenile and adult, Right: A juvenile individual.

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Neil @uk-wildlife.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Brown Hydra trying to catch a Cyclops. Definitely need to film both of these some more this year and make a video on these amazing creatures #UKWildlife #PondLife #inverts #BugSky

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Kelporama @kelporama.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

The Veiled Chiton is the Venus flytrap of the kelp forest. This is a predatory chiton who waits for prey to wander under its extensive mantle before pinning them down to be eaten.

A damp rock surface with a head-on view of a mollusc like creature's fleshy tongue shaped extension above its head. It has other narrow tapered extensions like sensors at the base of the tongue shaped projection. The entire thing is pink and yellow marbled.

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