iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 48m

September 30 vs October 1

Digital painting of a beautiful light green luna moth with white furry body, yellow feathery antenna, and burgundy eyes and stripe decorating the wings. It is perched on a pink peony blossom.

Digital drawing in white ink against a black background of a cryptid with luna moth wings, tentacles for legs, deer hooves for hands, antlers, feathery moth antennae, a bird skull head with glowing red eyes.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 45m

I'm actually impressed the review process seemed swift enough for this name to still reference the current arc

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Blue Appaloosa @blueappaloosa.bsky.social · 1h

It's the first day of #Arachtober, a celebration of arachnids! I love sharing art, photos, and information about our eight-legged friends, but if that's going to stress you out you may want to mute that tag. However, consider learning more about the incredible creatures that share our world!

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 3h

Note that while you can continue to donate if you wish, any donations received at this point won't get a bird drawn. Thank you so much to everyone who contributed this year! I'll post the total with today's bird.

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 4h

This month, #Cheliceratime will be under the banner of #Arachtober!! :D🕷🕸🦂 For the occasion I prepared an arachnid-only planning, with various groups and cool topics about these critters, the post coming this Saturday 03/10 being a absolutely massive project finally making its way here!📚 #arachnid

IT’S ARACHTOBER! :D

An arachnid-only month to celebrate these wonderful critters, so here’s the planning for this special month on Cheliceratime!

I’ll be joining the #Spideroctober Drawing challenge too, so you’ll have addidtional drawing-only posts this month!^^

03/10 - Linguistics
04/10 - #Spideroctober week 1
07/10 - Mite
09/10 - Vinegaroon
11/10 - #Spideroctober week 2
14/10 - Solifuge
17/10 - Spider
18/10 - #Spideroctober week 3
21/10 - Biogeography
23/10 - Harvestman
25/10 - #Spideroctober week 4
28/10 - Scorpion
30/10 - Surprise group :D
31/10 - #Spideroctober week 5

Happy #Arachtober to all of you, let’s have fun! :D

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Scragglebird [Comms: OPEN] @scragglebird.bsky.social · 4h

Don't forget to submit your OC to be counted for the giveaway! Ends on October 5th!

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tine @tine5.bsky.social · 5h

It's the horror season and we've released a horror folklore visual novel - The Monster of the Bayou - for #SpooktoberVNJam! tine5.itch.io/the-monster-... Thank you so much to the team for their amazing work on this!! We hope you enjoy it! #Spooktober #Indie #indiegame #horror #folklore #VisualNovel

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The Monster of the Bayou by tine5, indooranimal, Zeonim, Laurie, randomdooodle

With intricate artwork and a haunting soundtrack, this is a story of loss, sacrifice, and what it means to be a monster.

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CassWArt 🌴 @casswart.bsky.social · 5h

Animal Awareness Days for October and 2026! 🎃🐙🦝 - Int. #SavetheVaquita Day - Oct 10 - Online #PortfolioDay October Tues, Oct 13 As always, Mark your calendars! Plan accordingly. 📑Google Sheets Link: tinyurl.com/52svzknm 📅Google Calendar Add on Link: tinyurl.com/bdzhycfn #AnimalCal #SciArt

Image of Animal Day Awareness Calendar for October 2026, There is a URL link for a web page view for easy text to speech.

This is an ongoing project of digital sketches featuring a wide variety of animals using the Animal Day Awareness Calendar as a prompt and guide. It's a way for me to take time to explore their anatomy and deepen an understanding of different fauna while also highlighting conservation efforts.

► * days that fall on different days from year to year
► Days highlighted in green, yellow, purple are highly recommended to participate

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 6h

QRP with your skull art! 💀

Cover art for Hocus Pocus: Magic, Mystery & The Mind! Issue #3 GHOSTS! featuring a spooky praying nun against the backdrop of a full moon, creating the illusion of a human skull (with a haunted mansion forming the "teeth")

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 6h

QRP with your skull art! 💀

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Ligus @greyauk.bsky.social · 10h

Vet month, so I am selling some old and new art at a lower priece. You guys were already so supportive 🙏💚 - Thank you! Small commissions are open too ;) .

photograph of a table full with paintings and prints of mostly fish and insects.

close up of the first photo. one can see a painting of a fish and a bee. on it lies a small round paper with a dog drawing saying "sale for Jettes vet bill"

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calisera @rolylowpoly.bsky.social · 18h

i want to thank everybody that has helped me playtest this puzzle <3 this pixel art community is awesome and i feel lucky to have found my place in it ^_^ here’s my third attempt at the puzzle, just to reaaally make sure this revised version has a unique solution hehe! #nonogram #puzzle #pixelart

photograph of a solved nonogram puzzle on a postcard-sized paper. the image it displays is of an isopod.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 12h

oh for fuck's sake redbubble's automated system suspended my account with no explanation. I've had that account for AGES.

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Rebecca | Palaeoplushies @palaeoplushies.com · 23h

My sister has made a bunch of Betta dennisyongi- a species of wild betta fish! They're available here: www.palaeoplushies.com/shop/big-bet...

A group of five realistic plush Betta dennisyongi

The Betta plushies from the front, showing off their bulgy eyes

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fossils found in the Gobi Desert solve a mammalian mystery, introducing us to Cretaceous shrew rabbits that hopped through the same desert where Velociraptor lived. My latest newsletter for my premium subscribers! 🧪

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Ancient Mammal Skull Solves a Fossil Mystery

Imagine a little shrew rabbit, hopping away from Velociraptor.

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Standard-winged Nightjar for A.E.! Thank you for your #Waymakers donation! 🎨🪶 #SciArt #BirdArt We're down to the last day for donations, don't miss out! Every dollar goes to helping immigrant kids in the US! Donate here: youngcenter.donordrive.com/campaigns/Bi... @theyoungcenter.bsky.social

Illustration of a Standard-winged Nightjar doing a display flight in front of a big beautiful glowing full moon. The nightjar, a mottled gray/brown/white bird, has long pointed wingtips, a short stubby beak, and a big black eye. It is flying with wings bent low in an upside-down U shape while wiggling its strange "standards" - elongated huge shiny black primaries that bend upward from the wings and look like black pointed flags.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Digital artists, expose your current zoom level. I just got called out for my 475% zoom.

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Aromie Kim ~Commissions open~ @aromiekim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I contributed art for this awesome project!! Check out what Ava's cooking!!! 😚

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Libby 🎃Stink Gourd🎃 @libbystigaard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Good 🧵. My conversations about consent with my kid were kicked off by him REALLY wanting to pet other people's dogs. He understood having to ask first, but wanted to ignore anything other than an outright no. ("He's not really friendly.") We had a lot of convos about recognizing soft no's and

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sol @spider.florist · 29/09/2026

Senators of the 4th Parliament draw laws like warding charms, limiting their influence to their tiny chamber in exchange for assurance that they can never be removed from it. Their power is endless stalemate—better to make the same small moves forever than to lose, or to question the game itself.

Drawing of a Sabethes mosquito, with stylized wings. Lots of iridescent blues, fuchsias, and emerald.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

if you share my buggy braincell you're gonna enjoy this

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calisera @rolylowpoly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

UPDATED PUZZLE!!! the original puzzle is dummy hard since it can have multiple solutions, oops ^^; this revised version should only have one solution! therefore, it is much easier to solve! ;v;

nonogram puzzle on a grid size fifteen by twenty two. the key is in the top left corner and is inverted.

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 29/09/2026

i'm a Serious Artist™️ aplante.com/shop aplante.threadless.com

a blue-grey t-shirt that has a cartoon drawing of a white whale spouting "It's mobin' time!"

sticker of moby dick spouting "it's mobin' time!"

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Ligus @greyauk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Print of Argyropelecus olfersii #sciart 🐡 🐟 3 prints are now available in my shop 👇🧵 #art #print #noAI

a carton print of a roundish fish fith a big mouth and eye and little fins. sideview.
the black lines are fine and the body is coloured silver

same fish photographed from the side showing the silver paint catching the light

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feeb @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

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Aussie Moths @wa-moths.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Good news #invert story of the week 🦋 After a catastrophic decline in numbers over recent years that placed Australia’s iconic Bogong moth on the IUCN Red List, their numbers have really surged this year! #mothsmatter #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist www.smh.com.au/environment/...

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After a catastrophic decline bogong moths are back, and naturalists are celebrating

Bogong moths numbers have surged after years of decline, flying evidence of an ancient transfer of vital nutrients from lowlands to the fragile high country.

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Earl GreyGory (he/him) @earlgreygory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pass without Trace from start to finish. This piece will be on display in Lititz, PA for the month of October at Weaving Willow Crafts, stop by to check it out! #sciart #videoart #gardeningfeed #invertefest

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Istrian GOAThic" 🐐 never drew an anthro/furry goat but saw some absolutely awful generated slop so had to make a cute version as Istrian grandparents the goat is our national animal en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istria

silly little redraw of the american gothic image, but with two little Istrian white goats wearing traditional Istrian clothes, the left one is an old grandma goat holding a yellow chicken and a basket of eggs wearing a headscarf, blouse, brown skirt and apron, right is an old grampa with huge horns holding a pitchfork, wearing a little brown jacket with white shirt and light brown pants, the background is top blue bottom green on white behind them and the text below says "Istarska GOATika"

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Raven Amos (Autumn Edition)🎨🐦‍⬛ @alaskanime.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just a guess, but I'm thinking it's the "have you checked out where those datasets came from?" question I asked - you guys should probably have your harddrives forensically examined 😘 just friendly advice, dweebs

Awww, the Earth BioGenome Project decided to block me. I bet it's because they downloaded those datasets that had all the illegal images and stolen embargoed data on it.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wish all science teams who advertise their work with GenAI a very pleasant emergency meeting to mitigate the damage to public trust.

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Raven Amos (Autumn Edition)🎨🐦‍⬛ @alaskanime.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Heads up, #science people, this "Earth BioGenome Project/Genomes on a Tree (GoaT)" uses generative AI extensively in their advertising, so I would definitely not trust anything that comes out of this. If they can't be bothered to use real graphics and make their own posts, I doubt their app is good.

Screenshot of a post from "Earth BioGenome Project" bluesky account advertising a new "science app" that has "we vibe coded the shit out of this" stink all over it. The post shows two slides, one which looks normal-ish with text over the top of slices of different photos of animals, plants, and fungi. The other one is definitely generated by some kind of Gen-AI steal prompt. It shows a goat in a lab coat by a weird looking "tree" and for some reason there are infographic type logos above sets of text, something that gen AI loves to do when "creating" slides.

The text of the main post reads:
How do you coordinate a global genome-sequencing effort? Before starting a new genome, researchers need to know: What's already been sequenced? What's underway? And where are the gaps? That's where Goat — Genomes on a Tree — comes in. Explore GoaT.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 28/09/2026

Data supporting the point above: “34–40% of our sample would trust research findings and scientists less when AI is used.” doi.org/10.1016/j.re...

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Redirecting

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Raven Amos (Autumn Edition)🎨🐦‍⬛ @alaskanime.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm probably going to get muted or blocked for this, but as a fellow science communicator, using AI-generated imagery/text is really a bad look all around. It not only steals from your fellow scientists because it's all trained on stolen data, it also makes up fake science.

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

FWIW, there are three versions of the death's head hawkmoth associated with this movie: the doctored image on the movie poster; the real deal (Acherontia atropos); and the live stunt moths they used in filming Buffalo Bill's house, which were (IIRC) Manduca sp. with fake skull prosthetics

Movie poster for 'Silence of the Lambs," with Jodie Foster's ghostly visage and a retouched Acherontia atropos specimen (the skull has been altered to look much more human and the colors are brighter than the real thing)

Actual specimens of Acherontia atropos in our collection. The "skull" marking is much less distinctly human and varies between individuals.

promotional (?) photo of Ted Levine as the movie's lepidoptera enthusiast, posing dramatically with a pair of Manduca who have had little fake nails with skulls painted on them glued to their backs. The moths themselves seem chill about it.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the perpetual problem: too burnt out to do work art, too busy to do fun art

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Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A private commission from 6 years ago this month. A beautiful garden in Scotland. Watercolour.

A watercolour painting of a garden filled with flowers with a cottage in the background

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savin dos louvadeus 🦗 @sav.trevastropicais.art.br · 27/09/2026

pelo amor de deus rapazeada chegou o quadro que comprei como teste de fluxo da minha loja e eu tô passando MAL com a qualidade da parada pqp 😭😭😭 que alegria ver foto minha no plano físico e em acabamento bonito 😔😢😭🖤

Foto em ambiente interno onde mostro um quadro segurando-o com a mão esquerda dentro da sala de casa, com as paredes, sofá e leve bagunça do cômodo ao fundo. O quadro retangular de moldura fina em madeira "freijó" traz uma fotografia de natureza de minha autoria, de um besouro-tartaruga caminhando sobre uma folha seca caída sobre folhas verdes. A composição com as cores das folhas e o formato redondo do besouro faz lembrar a bandeira do Brasil.

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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 27/09/2026

what pisses me off about the endless conversations on how to develop and scale carbon capture is that we already know of a very good way to do this: bogs if a company was really interested in capturing carbon, they'd simply pump lots of money into peatland and bog restoration projects, and yet...

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