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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Pelegrina tillandsiae, a salticid species so named because they live their entire lives in Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides). A fellow naturalist in Georgia introduced me to these pale children today. We love a highly specialized creature 🤍 #EmotionalSupportSpood 🧪

Pale grey jumping spider with faded brown stripes, chilling on my bright orange sleeve

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mr Attidops cinctipes, in a lovely little mossy crevice in magnolia bark. Very small 🤎 #EmotionalSupportSpood

Lumpy brown jumping spider with stripy stubby legs, peering at you from a mossy crevice

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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 27/09/2026

Baby sausages this morning

Two freshly hatched leachianus geckos with their egg shells.

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Hello :) @piezostatik.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We only have a short time above ground.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Tanager of the Day: Western Tanager 📷 Simon Boivin

Bird perched on a branch, photo, description from ebird: ‘Breeding males are stunning bright yellow with a black back and red head. Females and immature males are duller, sometimes mostly grayish with just faint yellow on the face and undertail coverts. Always note two white wingbars and pale bill. Breeds mainly in coniferous or mixed forests at middle or high elevations. Winters as far south as Central America, where it can be found in any forested habitat. Often stays high in the canopy. Listen for male’s burry song in the spring and summer and short, rising rattle year-round.’

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Tsun. All Tsun. @alltsunnodere.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If you see this, could you please reskeet it? I want to test something.

Maya rolled over on the back of the couch

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Artist residency working as intended

Heather presents a crab in jazz-hands style

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

pt 5. last one, i need to get back to work a bat, a flying mammal, and a palaeodictyopteran, an extinct "six-winged" flying insect from the paleozoic

a badly drawn bat that's halfway between a bat signal and zubat from pokemon vs a reasonable drawing of an insect with four big wings and two stubby wing-like projections behind its eyes, and two tail-like thingies in the butt similar to zubat's

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

someone challenged me to draw a dog and a crab from memory without reference and

a bad line drawing of a dog that looks like it was drawn by a 3 year old vs a fairly realistic fiddler crab with the proper anatomical parts

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Alexandra Weber @toedtoad.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My first paper is officially out in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! We found that snake embryos coil due to a mismatch in growth rates between the gut and spine. This tight coil is one of the reasons why snakes are able to get so long. Read the paper here!

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Kezrek Laczin @kezrek.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Are we in space? Are we in water? Are we peering through a window of time, to the late Triassic, watching a plesiosaur eat the sun? ~Yes~ (posca markers on scrap wood)

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Today I saw a locust borer beetle chillin on some goldenrod. Ever since doing this bug mural with Nick D’Auria, I feel like I’m seeing a celebrity every time I see one of these bugs in the city 🥰

A picture locust borer beetle plopped on top of a picture of a mural depicting a locust borer beetle

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Marc A. Milne @forthespiders.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Momma centipede with her legs wrapped around her eggs. #invertefest

A photo of a brown centipede in a burrow clutching a batch of yellow eggs with her legs.

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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 27/08/2026

Rare photos of the Loch Mess monster.

A closeup of Stu’s face: he’s olive green with white scales around his mouth and he has a long tubular nose somewhat like a snorkel.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I heard bluesky launched video upgrades this week?? Let’s talk about how sometimes being a scientist is observing something you can’t explain, trying to figure out what the heck is going on, then still having no idea what’s going on, and just enjoying the process of learning as you go.

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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 25/08/2026

Nice little leopard gecko that hatched this week.

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Welcome to Night Vale @nightvaleradio.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Let's circle back to that. Let's circle around that. Let's surround that so it can't escape. Let's lay siege .

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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Some tiny “pill millipedes” from Tennessee. On the right is an Onomeris, a member of order Glomerida, all of which are adapted to roll into spheres. Left is Desmonus earlei, a modified polydesmidan “flat-backed” millipede. Several polydesmidan families have independently adapted a volvating form.

two brown millipedes are curled tightly into spheres. the left one is bumpy and paler, and the right one is darker brown, smooth, and shiny

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Dr Mark D. Scherz @markscherz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Here are two of the four new species of moss-camouflaged frogs we just described in the journal Salamandra: Spinomantis fohitstilo and S. chlorostictus! The article is OA, available here: www.salamandra-journal.com/salamandra/6... 🧪🐸

Spinomantis fohistilo, a mossy-looking frog with big finger and toe pads, green and brown patterning above, and rather white flanks. The legs have a series of little white spines, which are the source of the name, which means white spines in Malagasy.

A brown frog with a two-toned eye, and little green splotches over its back. Those green splotches are the source of the name, which is of Greek derivation. This one is quite smooth without fringes or spines, but still has well expanded finger and toe tips.

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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Alexander Humboldt noted that several of these headlight beetles in a perforated gourd make an acceptable reading lamp. In the western slopes of Ecuador, instead of the typical green color usually associated with these beauties- these guys glow cigarette orange.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Beautiful beautiful beautiful squid

A Doryteuthis (market squid) hanging out in a tank looking stunning and iridescent

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Found a teddy bear out front of my house. Tiniest teddy bear I've ever seen. Couldn't believe it.

a jumping spider looking so cute oh my god. All balled up so cute. on a leaf.

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The Cottage Garden @simonecannon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A Golden Columbine in the morning sun, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. The long spurs are specially shaped to fit the tongues of long-nosed hawkmoths that pollinate them at night and their foliage resists munching from deer and rabbits #BloomScrolling #OnlyBeautifulThings #Flower #FlowerReport #Gardening

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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Fun bird news: Scans of the internal contours of dodos's skulls hint at the sensory abilities of these famous extinct birds. (Via Nautilus.) nautil.us/inside-the-n...

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Inside the Not-So-Dumb Head of the Dodo Bird

Inside the Not-So-Dumb Head of the Dodo Bird: Cranial scans reveal a brain with clever sensory adaptations

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Bumblebike @bumblebike.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social this was about 0200h your time last night on ROV dive and I swear it was the squeals that were heard round the world. Even the geologist begrudgingly admitted interest.

A peach coloured magna pinna squid drifts in the benthi. water column in fishing posture, tentacles extended, looking like an ethereal chandelier.

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Found a silly swamp titi tree covered with a bunch of tiny Enchenopa treehoppers I'd never seen before, just absolutely perfect curvy thorny lumps. Made my day. They might even be an undescribed species?? *refreshing iNat a normal number of times per hour*

Silly dark brown and black treehopper with a sweeping horn curved forward at the tip. Perched on a twig

Another individual, just chilling on the underside of a green leaf

Wider view of the 1st individual, showing another beside them on the twig.

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Julia @julia11.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Good Saturday morning friends. I was able to spend some time with this handsome Northern Cardinal the other day. Have a pleasant day all. #birds #birding #birdphotography

A bright red male Northern Cardinal perched on a tree branch with green leaves in the background.

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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 06/08/2026

I just think they’re neat

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

And the NICE! award for the 69th species of invertebrate observed at the sidewalk pollinator garden of 2026 goes to the Red-Banded Hairstreak butterfly.

A butterfly puts its proboscis on closed milkweed flowers. It has an orange streak

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Derek Hennen, Ph.D. @derekhennen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The second edition of The Bee Genera of North and Central America just dropped! Updated from the 1997 edition! And it's free! Look at the bees! scholarlypress.si.edu/publications...

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The Bee Genera of North and Central America (Hymenoptera: Apoidea): Second Edition | Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press

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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 03/08/2026

All of these are different gecko and there’s still more lmao

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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 03/08/2026

1. Me yelling at the leopard geckos in the spring to make babies 2. A monkey's paw curls 3. Baby leopard geckos fill every hatchling rack I have, I am overrun by tiny screaming eublepharines.

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Bristlepede 🤎 Polyxenus sp bristle millipede. Just a couple millimeters long.

Tiny brown millipede which looks like a swiffer mop head or something - floof between each body segment and bristly tufts covering the legs all around the lower edge of the creature. Chilling on a flake of pine bark

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Good morning from the sidewalk garden

A little black butterfly sits on a hibiscus leaf

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🦇Bram Stoker’s Grantula🦇 @grantthethief.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I said what about Breakfast at Jimothy’s

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Hey Philadelphia!! Do you want this mural on your building?? Here’s what we’re looking for: You must own the building. Must be in Philly The flatter the surface the better! The more people that will see it the better. We want to install in September Email me if that's you SkypeAScientist@gmail.com

words say "Do you want this mural on your building?" with a bunch of lightning bugs and native plants on a mural that is labeled as being 10 by 10 ft

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Please say hello to Austronaga, an aquatic trachelosaurid from Triassic Asia. In a new OA paper published yesterday in Science Advances, Dr. Wei Wang , @stephanspiekman.bsky.social and colleagues presented a description of a COMPLETE Austronaga #paleoart #sciart

Illustration showing Austronaga swimming pursuing some fish while some ichthyosaurs swim in the background

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I get excited every time I see an assassin bug because 1) they look so cool 2) they have a needle for a face??? 3) implied danger! ooh!

a bright yellow assassin bug with black and yellow striped legs and black spikes on its butt, and yellow and black stripey face and antennae

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LAZER - T @lazer-t.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Diplocaulus salamandroides Originally drawn for the #DinoConUK 2026 Art Exhibition #paleoart

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CuttleDreams @cuttledreams.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Kind of obsessed, I had to draw it

A stylized drawing of an apache degeeri, a very orange leafhopper with bright red wing veins and a sawblade-looking head crest.

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HummingVoid (Comms 0/0) @hummingvoid.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Uemura Kanae - Amagiri [Deemo] 9th attack! Antlers for @kaidashade.bsky.social . I love this beep boop, so it's only right for me to finally draw them. #Art #ArtFight

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JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Watch how this baby cuttlefish exhibits rolling ripple-like waves across its body, known as a "passing cloud display". And wait until the end for the disappearing act. 😆 #marinelifephotography #marinelife #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #scuba #eastcoastkin #photography

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