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mara lawniczak @marakat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

this was a fun one -- found a beautiful but doomed privet hawkmoth caterpillar -- see those tiny tachinid eggs on its side? wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/11-...

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Fiona @fionatel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The t-shirt shop has been live for a few weeks now 😂

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Fiona @fionatel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Wouldn't it be easier to have "written by a human" button? That would only be about 10 unsuccessful minutes of scrolling vs days worth of reporting posts?

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Fiona @fionatel.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Yep, I woke up at like 11 yesterday and I absolutely slept through my first alarm today as well 😅 did make it to my 9.15 meeting almost on time though. But worth it!

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Fiona @fionatel.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It's such a pain with android, there is always so much software that I don't need/want and you can't get rid of it. Might look into something different for my next phone (not iPhone though, can't deal with that either)

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Fiona @fionatel.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Funnily enough it looks like neither and I have neither apps installed on my phone... But it's recently had an update I think. And I've only ever had Google assistant pop up before and it was never as persistent

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Fiona @fionatel.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Also, popped up totally unprompted, annoyed me while navigating a road closure and unfamiliar roads and did not go away when asked nicely... How can I permanently make it go away?

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Fiona @fionatel.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The plant pot on the inside is 7cm diameter, the wooden slice is about 12cm diameter!

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Fiona @fionatel.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Obviously these are issues because of Brexit, if we were still in the EU we would only need to worry about the packaging laws...

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Fiona @fionatel.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

You need an EU representative and there are packaging laws for quite a few countries. That all applies to our products, I guess maybe it doesn't apply to fine art, but even then I thought a representative was necessary? And the EU removed de minimis last week, so customers pay more.

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Fiona @fionatel.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I know, that is why I didn't want to move away for the most part. Even though we won't ever be selling to the EU with all the new laws in place 🙁 kinda ironic considering we are both EU citizens

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Fiona @fionatel.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Yeah, I've taken all our t-shirt designs down as they are print on demand, so I'll make a (free) shop through our print on demand supplier. But Etsy also makes shipping abroad at least slightly easier (although impossible the the EU nowadays anyways)

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Fiona @fionatel.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I think unfortunately a lot of people have. But for a small business it's a lot to set up our own website and all that. Most of our sales are in person and the Etsy orders are mostly through directing people to our shop through social media or word of mouth.

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Fiona @fionatel.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I can confirm it is the worst yellow in existence

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Fiona @fionatel.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Oh that might explain why my crochet patterns have completely stopped selling... I thought it was because of the new shop but maybe it is all either virus or slop or both...

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Fiona @fionatel.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It's the devil's coach horse beetle, it's always the devil's coach horse beetle!

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Fiona @fionatel.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Insects I saw in the garden this weekend

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Fiona @fionatel.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

On the road with Raven, our quality control and H&S officer 😂

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Fiona @fionatel.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Can't wait for next weekend! Although still not sure I can call myself a geneticist 😂

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The Introvertebrates @introvertebrates.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

we are a duo of geneticists with a love of all things science-y and fossil-y, if you visited our stall last year we now have new t-shirt designs, new planters designs, and even coasters! #FossilFriday #SciArt #DinoCon

A hall full of people setting up tables, two people are sitting down onr with a light blue ammonite blouse the other dark blue cartoony ammonite, the table has multicolor dinosaur crochet planters, paleonthology tshirts, a rack with jewelry, an anti ai sign.

A red purple t-shirt with white and black #SciArt doodles of four extinct invertebrates, the text above says "Fossils are more than dinosaurs!" with their names by them:
Opabinia (505 mya)
Jaekelopterus (410 mya)
Pseudopulex jurassicus (165 mya)
Callichmaera perplexa (95 mya)

crochet stegosaurus in bright yellow, red, blue and green thread, glued to a wooden disk, with a tiny little asparagus plant in it, sitting on a wooden table.

four white coasters with drawings on a wooden table, all with tea-puns on them. from top left:
sTEAgosaurus, green with yellow spikes, sitting in a fancy pink teacup with roses and a little custard cream cookie
a thylacine in bright orange with black stripes sipping out of a glass cup with chamomile flowers at the bottom and a jammie cookie on the side, the text above says TEAlacine
TEAktaalik, brown and shiny coming out of a teal camping mug with LIVE WILD written on it, next to the mug is a teabag and a chocolate chip cookie
TEA-rex, bright feathery and red, peeking out of a brown blue office cup, with a scone covered in clotted cream and strawberry jam next to the cup

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

AI generated cover, probably all 56 figures inside as well, with absolutely no genAI use disclosure on the main page. Not to mention if AI was used for the cover, who is to guarantee that the text wasn't AI generated as well? Did a human check the text or references for hallucination? Very sloppy...

screenshot of black text on a white background
Number of Illustrations
1 b/w illustrations, 54 illustrations in colour

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The Introvertebrates @introvertebrates.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

@fionatel.bsky.social is hard at work making more amazing little guys* for Lyme Regis #FossilFestival and @dinoconuk.bsky.social * crochet dino planters for those tiny nursery plants you never know where to put * plant not sold #SciArt #crochet

crochet diplodocus in a black sparkly thread, glued to a wooden disk, with a tiny little asparagus plant in it, sitting on a wooden table.

crochet diplodocus in a gradient thread of pink, purple and blue, glued to a wooden disk, with a tiny little asparagus plant in it, sitting on a wooden table.

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The Introvertebrates @introvertebrates.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

and here are all the designs! can be mixed and matched to whatever you want #SciArt

a photo of 8 yellow jewelry cards with 8 pairs of different wooden stud earrings. some are of black trillobites, some are pen sketches of extinct invertebrates, one is a ceratops skull, one is a yellow pink ammonite, and one is mosquitoes in amber

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

day 2 of #InverteFest we are channeling our inner @minouette.bsky.social with a) trying linocut for the first time b) trying to print on the worst possible surface success or failure? either way we will have these at out @introvertebrates.bsky.social Lyme Regis #FossilFestival table!

A white fan with three trillobite stencils on the side, all on carboard, there are stenciled black trillobites all over the top of the fan. #SciArt

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

the non invertebrate version let's fly into the shimmery sunset with mama

Me holding a paper fan, with a gradient of shimmery rose gold, two tiny sillhoutes of pterodactyls flying on the left side

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Fiona @fionatel.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I have recently decided I want to get back into drawing (after a 10 year hiatus) and made this last weekend! Really enjoyed drawing on an iPad for the first time! #inverts

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The Introvertebrates @introvertebrates.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

man we really hope we get a table @dinoconuk.bsky.social again this year, esp with all the recent (in our eyes) positive publicity! the con was such a joy last year, even for two introverts surrounded all weekend by people

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

and here is this year's silly #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience #SciArt doodle i spent mine breaking @mariloumercedes.bsky.social python scripts and giving a seminar on @fionatel.bsky.social paper in review 👩‍🔬

doodle on a green background with the text in the middle saying 11th Feb '26 International Day of Women & Girls in Science, the women and girl doodles are:
head with an orange cornsnake and cat glasses with pink hair
head in a blue cloudy headscarf looking at some triangles
head with wavy brown greying hair looking at stars
a white and black kid excitedly looking at some antibodies with a red liquid flask behind them

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The Introvertebrates @introvertebrates.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

check out the new #TheIntrovertebrates #crochet dinosaur patterns, all ready for @dinoconuk.bsky.social (in all new glorious gradients) they are fancy goths 💀🦕

crochet planter of a multicolored thread diplodocus, with a dark leafed peperomia, sitting on a table.

triceratops crochet planter, in dark pinks purples and navy blues, with a very thin leaf plant, on a wooden table.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

You want to collect insects (and maybe other arthropods) for reference genome sequencing, but don't want to spend a fortune on dry ice shipping! All you gotta do is SQUISH. THAT. BUG! More details in our recent preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

a silly #SciArt redraw of the squish that cat meme, but it is a grey stickfigure squishing a mosquito (that looks like a little cat) with the text SQUISH THAT BUG!

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Fiona @fionatel.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Yes, once we have a stable internet connection 😂

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Fiona @fionatel.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

She also wouldn't cope without her weekend lie ins or having to set up at 7.30 😂

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

And while you are enjoying the #LymeRegisFossilFestival why not come over to our #TheIntrovertebrates stand in The Hub for some more #SciArt goodies! We got keychains, t-shirts, stickers, dinosaur crochet planters, and more! ⭐ So happy to be sharing the space with so many other "cool dudes" (tm) 😎

screenshot from the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival Stalls and Traders 2025 website, the text is black on a white background with out name higlighted in blue
The text:
Stalls & Traders for 2025
Lister Gardens Marquees
Button and Squirt
Charmouth Heritage
Coast Trust
Chris East Fossils
Cretaceous Creations
Dailydinosketch
Dino-soar Studio
Dorset Geologists Association Group
Dorset Wildlife Trust
Emily Higgs Art
Everything Dinosaur
Fossil Atelier Ltd
Fossil Fanatic
Fossils Rock
Geologists’ Association & Junior Rockwatch

The Hub – (Museums & Artists Quarter)
Dinosaur Isle Museum
Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
Natural History Museum
Emily Juliet Stevens
Haider Syed Jaffri
James Pascoe
Julianne Kiely
KakapoJay Paleoart & AugustJosephCo
Karen Fawcett studios
Marcin Ambrozik
Phoebe Ginger
The Etches Collection
The Introvertebrates
Tokyo Modelling

collage of four panels, from top left:
- a hand holding a rainbow triceratops crochet planter, she has face higlights in orange
- jewelry stand full of triceratops and ammonite earrings, some with christmas hats, three keychains of various goofy dinosaur scientists, in the ring compartment there are invertebrate metal pins
- cream colored t-shirt with a realistic drawing of a triceratops skull
- cream colored t-shirt with silly paleonthology items, like an indiana jones hat and a shovel

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

me and my friend @fionatel.bsky.social have a lil etsy shop for bug 🐛 and dinosaur 🦕 aficionados, going to our first festival next week! theintrovertebrates.etsy.com

theintrovertebrates.etsy.com

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I think this is another sign of the huge disconnect between scientists and the public. If you are willing to use known plagiarism machines to write a paper, THEN NOT EVEN DISCLOSE IT, how is the public supposed to trust you haven't plagiarised or straight up "made up" your data and results?

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

coming to the next event in max #SciArt bling 💎 Triceratops skull drawing by @fionatel.bsky.social

four earrings on a wooden background, two mirrored triceratops skulls on gold clips, a pink geneticist velociraptor holding an ipad and a green archaeologist diplodocus holding a little hammer on rose gold clips.

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weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

doctor dog treating sick cat, 15th century

a medieval drawing of a dog standing upright wearing a hood and holding a bottle. beside him is a cat laying in bed wearing what looks like a nightcap. both have distraught expressions on their faces.

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