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Janin Wise @janinwise.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Today was the last day of my summer camp. This week, I taught 14 students about fiber arts: hand sewing, crochet, machine sewing, weaving, and cording techniques. They all did so well! I'm really proud of them and hope they have a great rest of their summer.

From top left to bottom right: a pink, hand sewn heart stuffy with a smile, a machine sewn pouch with drawstring, kumihimo in progress, an art weaving with a variety of materials, and an arm wearing bracelets made in the following way: Kumihimo, crochet, finger weaving, Kumihimo, and finger weaving.

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Domenic Pennetta @domenicpennetta.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I almost stepped on a little roly-poly out on a walk today 😭 Remember folks, look before you step! #krita #digitalart #sciart #scientificillustration #nature #invertebrates #invert #isopods #bugsky

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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Today is World Bee Day! 🐝 As a kid, I knew of only 2 types of bees: honey bees & bumblebees. Now I know there are 20,000+ bee species globally, incl ~4K in N. America I've documented at least 16 distinct native bee species right in my own backyard in Portland, Oregon! Photos below; IDs in Alt Text

a. Sitka bumblebee (Bombus sitkensis): Extremely plump, floofy, and yellow, like a bee that just emerged from a car wash
b. Mining bee (Andrena): small, slender, and dark with yellowish highlights; slightly fuzzy
c. Yellow-faced bumblebee (Bombus vosnesenskii): likely a queen + much smaller worker; mostly pitch black with yellow on head and near tail
d. Western leafcutting bee (Megachile perhirta): shiny black body outlined in bright yellow fur, carrying a small piece of leaf
e. Bicolored striped sweat bee (Agapostemon virescens): iridescent green thorax and zebra-striped abdomen
f. Nomad bee (Nomada): tiny, red, wasp-like
g. Long-horned bee (Melissodes): sharply striped with copious pollen clinging to fuzzy legs, long antennae
h. Mason bee (Osmia): small, shiny bluish-black body
i. White-shouldered bumblebee (Bombus appositus): large-ish, fuzzy, pale yellow with subtle stripes

j. Orange-rumped bumblebee (Bombus melanopygus): medium-sized bumblebee with black head, followed by a yellow scarf and prominent coppery-orange rump
k. Metallic sweat bee (Lasioglossum (Dialictus)): tiny, shiny, black, dusted with bits of pollen
l. Fuzzy-horned bumblebee (Bombus mixtus): fuzzy and pale yellow, with bulbous bare black dot on back, and extra thick antennae
m. Striped sweat bee (Agapostemon): Similar to previous Agapostemon, but green is lighter and slightly turquoise
n. Oval-headed sweat bee (Lasioglossum ovaliceps): tiny, slightly wasp-like, black head and thorax with thin wasit and reddish abdomen
o. Long-horned bee (Melissodes): Neatly striped, greyish black and very pale yellow, almost white; silvery eye, long roving antennae
p. Nevada bumblebee (Bombus nevadensis): large bumblebee, mostly black with fuzzy yellow back embedded with an obsidian dot
q. Sharptail bee (Coelioxys): small, slender, sharply pointed tail, stark black and white striped abdomen, bumpy grey head and thorax
r. California bumblebee (Bombus californicus): super frizzy, mostly black with yellow on head and tail

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Unseen History @unseenhistory.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

"One Hundred Townspeople" is a set of figurines showing people from all walks of life. Japan, Edo period, 1717 #WorldHistory #History

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Tim Osborne Photography 🍁 @timosborne.ca · 21/04/2025

A Great Horned Owl leaves her increasingly cramped nest located in the hollow of a tree. #wildlife #birds #owls

A Great Horned Owl launches out of a hole in a tree. Here wings are above her and one of her fluffy youngsters can be seen behind her in the tree cavity.

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Harold von Drehle @haroldvondrehle.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

#FlowerReport: Gilroy, California, yesterday. peace. .

Photo of a Peace Rose, with petals of pink edges fading to a creamy yellow inside, making for a pinkish center of unopened petals, all above a background of light and dark green leaves.

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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

A boyo taking a rest in the woods, as you do. #birds

Photo of a Mallard sitting in dried leaves with the sun shining off his bright green head

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Sarah O @erniebufflo.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

This kind of made me cry a little. Everyone get together and put the vulnerable ones in the middle is what we should all be doing right now.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Branch Manager is thriving with the April snow

A yellow lab on a snowy trail carrying a giant stick that is as wide as the trail

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Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Lichen windfall ...

Branch on ground, thick lichen covering it

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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

because some earthworms defy these categories, living in riverbeds or up trees or under bark. Some live in (marine!) beach sand; others just move about in the open without burrowing like dear old Archipheretima middletoni. Another worm fact: this really exists! www.inaturalist.org/observations...

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Fried Eggs Worm (Archipheretima middletoni)

Fried Eggs Worm in July 2013 by Chien Lee

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Soxic @soxic.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

If you don't dial the toe beans do you even have a cat? #Caturday

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Unseen History @unseenhistory.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

A man and his dog in a photo booth, 1943.

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Karlovy Cross @karlovycross.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Cold Waters 𓆝 ⋆.

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Prasad Natarajan @prasadnatarajan.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Love is an Univeral emotion across all species! Eurasian Otters Pair (Lutra lutra) ink on paper, work got displayed at St. Petersburg at a national history museum. #art #nature #illustration #sciart #scientificillustration #wildlifeart #traditionalart #endangeredspecies #otters #ink #love #care

Eurasian Otters (Lutra lutra) handmade black and white illustration with Ink on paper of a pair. Female looking up with two tiny ears in darker shades of grey, furry forehead, two eyes in black, nose and mouth. Long wishkers Male in the foreground with similar features, slightly bigger in size. Background is reeds and blooms; foreground is a smooth stone.
Love is an Univeral emotion across all species!
Eurasian Otters (Lutra lutra)
Title: Eurasian Otters Study!
Watercolors on paper 180 GSM scholar A3 sketchpad!
11.7 x 16.5 inches
Reference: Carol Bennetto
This work got displayed at St.Petersburg in 2022 at a national history museum (International Animalistic Exhibition)!

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Gil Wizen @wizentrop.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

A few weeks ago I posted an adult bark roach (Lanxoblatta rudis) and today I'm posting its super flat nymph. The "starry night" look is a teneral stage right after molting and before camouflage pigmentation appears. You can also see the network of tracheal tubes responsible for respiration.

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でんか @k-hermit.com · 11/04/2025

Light stick

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

to be loved is to be changed

orange cat huddled in the snow. he is covered in blood and looks very sad

orange cat now cleaned up, bright eyed and holding a toy carrot

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

WOW, these baskets are about 9,500 years old! 🤯 Look like they were made yesterday rather than by hunter-gatherers during the Mesolithic! Made of esparto grass, they were found inside the Cueva de Los Murciélagos (Cave of bats), Spain. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows three small baskets woven from esparto grass. They have been radio-carbon dated to the Mesolithic period some 9,500 years ago. Dimensions:

Left basket: Height = 10.7 cm; Diameter = 7.2 cm
Central basket Height = 9.4 cm, Diameter = 6.5cm
Right basket: Height = 13.5 cm; Diameter = 8.6 cm

The exceptional preservation of the baskets is due to

“The unique conditions for the preservation of organic material in the cave are related to the null humidity resulting from the geological character of the cave. Moreover, a dry wind current is generated by the prevailing climate in the area, and the north-south direction and narrow and deep morphology of the Angosturas gorge channel the wind toward the cave, through the narrow upper entrance. The wind cools as it travels through the cave, increasing in speed; it is cold as it exits through another narrow entrance located in the lower part of the shelter. The lack of prevailing humidity in the area and the circulation of wind in the cave as it cools and dries prevent the proliferation of bacteria, increasing the amount and diversity of preserved perishable material at the site.” Quote from the research article: ‘The earliest basketry in southern Europe: Hunter-gatherer and farmer plant-based technology in Cueva de los Murciélagos (Albuñol)’

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Kurt Vonnegut man

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope:
"Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man.
You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?
And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.
I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by.
And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around
And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around.
And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."

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Niki Hubbard, PhD 🐙🦀 @nikihubbard.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

For a brief break from the world, please enjoy a tale of two slugs. #MarineLife #inverts 🧪🦑🐙 Nudibranch Jorunna pantherina (I think!) and not-nudibranch Elysia coodgeensis in a tidepool, about 1cm and 5mm long respectively. And with a few bonus microscopic epifauna video-bombing.

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Aussie Moths @wa-moths.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Authomaema pentacosma (I think) A new moth for our Perth Hills garden and a rare sighting in Western Australia if my ID is accurate. The colour and the details of the scales on this small moth's wings are just beautiful #teammoth #mothsmatter #ausinverst #wildoz #inverts

A small moth with wings of various colours. They are yellowish just behind the head moving to an irregular white transverse band, then a darker area, an area of mixed white/grey/blue patterns and and finally darker tips.

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Mary Leighton @maryleighton.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

What I take from this is: If you ever feel bad about not writing that thing, remember that people have been struggling with procrastination since writing was invented.

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Damien C-C @dccc-phd.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

musk de mus musculus

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Janin Wise @janinwise.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I don't know the grant #, but I do know that PRP and physical therapy healed a 1.5 year work injury. And I am eternally grateful.

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Janin Wise @janinwise.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I wish I had known this word 10 hours ago! After 4 at work, I finally paused, actively thinking about the flurry of motion I had been all day-- I was the very embodiment of fluckadrift 😊

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tawny fritz ⏩ Dallas Oddities & Curiosities Expo! @tawnyfritz.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I call this one "I have a star stencil and I'm not afraid to use it, 2025"

Pencil sketch of a succubus with stars in her wings, boots, armbands, and leotard. She has tattoos with moons and vines.

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Domenic Pennetta @domenicpennetta.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

In addition to having the coolest name in existence, diabolical ironclad beetles are notable for their immense durability. 🪲💪 They can withstand forces 39,000 times their body weight... Not even a car can crush them! #sciart #scientificillustration #wildlifeart #nature #invert #insect #bugsky

Pen and ink drawing of an adult diabolical ironclad beetle, Phloeodes diabolicus. Art by Domenic Pennetta.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A pair of bronze foot-guards, found in Ruvo di Puglia, Italy. Dating 520-480 BC. Only a few examples of foot-guards survived. The might have been too cumbersome to be of practical purpose. On display at British Museum. 📷 me 🏺 ancientbluesky #archaeology

A pair of bronze foot guards with anatomically detailed toes, hinged at the middle, with worn surfaces and small holes. Laid side by side on a beige display surface.

toe-shaped bronze foot armor, hinged at the middle, with worn surfaces and small holes.

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cya 西田 🩵 working on comm/zine @cyanishida.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Pinterest updated their terms of use and they're going to use all of the content you saved to train their AI. Go to options > your privacy rights > disable GenAI Please do it 🫠

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Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘

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Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 04/04/2025

Have 용기. Have courage. #tiger #linocut planning #courage #sketchbook

A graphical style tiger sketch. It is following a spiraling composition stepping down and forward towards the viewer. In the lower right corner it reads “HAVE 용기 (pronounced yong-gi)” meaning “have courage”.

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Leila Belkora PhD, astrophysics @leilabelkora.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

A fun little story that I missed when it came out a week ago. Multispectral imaging, a zoology department’s CT scanner, and other science tools used in “digital unfolding” of a medieval text of Arthurian tales. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...

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Medieval Tales of Merlin and Arthur, Hidden for Centuries, Return to Light (Gift Article)

Cambridge University researchers found a manuscript with rare Arthurian tales bound into a ledger more than 400 years old and used advanced technology to reveal its contents.

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

First Painted Lady of the season in the yard! I was coming back from a neighborhood walk and lamenting that I've seen so few butterflies this year. And then I came across this beauty right by the back door! #invertebrates 🌿

An orange butterfly with a black and white pattern perches on a white flower, probing it with its proboscis

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

My mum's magnolia tree ♥️ #SpringVibes

A blooming magnolia tree with large pink and white flowers, set against a vibrant blue sky on a sunny day.

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Dr. Oliver Dietrich @oliverdietrich.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

An image of 10th/9th millennium BC Göbekli Tepe from the earlier days of the excavations, around 2007, with the central pillars of Building D still mostly covered by sediments. This was a great opportunity to study the reliefs and pillar heads in detail.

An archaeological excavation: Two large T-shaped limestone pillars, still mostly covered by sediments.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

It's an undeniable fact that the sound of rain on the roof enhances the reading experience by a minimum of 57%.

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Janin Wise @janinwise.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Locally, we always get one more cold snap around Easter.

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Janin Wise @janinwise.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

This reminds me that my cat was actively watching the laundry room. So, of course, I came to see. Somehow, a very large bee has gotten in and was flying around the ceiling. I headed in, opened a door to outside, then used a broom to gently herd it back outside.

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Moths in a human suit (they/them) @lycomorpha.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

6. Never ever miss an opportunity to sharpen your damfucken pencil. Whether shading or detailing. Sharpen. Always.✏️ 🔪 #ArtNoteToSelf

Two columns of three circles each, shaded in colour pencil in blue and greens. The first column is labelled 'sharpened' and the circles in it are very evenly and smoothly shaded. The second is labelled 'not sharpened' and the circles in it have shading that looks less even and more rough.

A WIP shot of a Fritillaria flower head being drawn in colour pencil. It has 3 bell-shaped, speckled, 6-petalled flowers on a narrow stem with small oval leaves next to each flower stalk.

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Moths in a human suit (they/them) @lycomorpha.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

4. One of the best art advices I was ever given (thanks Peggy) is Remember to see what's there. Notice what IS there. Not what you think SHOULD be there, or what you WANT to be there. In art, as in science… If u decide what ur gonna see before you look? You're not actually looking #ArtNoteToSelf

A deliberately unfinished colour pencil drawing of a small nail, a beech leaf with a feather threaded through it, and a paper match torn out of a match book. Underneath are the words "is the sense of loss worth it? I think so." in scrawly handwriting. The leaf and feather are the unfinished parts, being only a graphite outline. The nail and match are fully drawn in detail.

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