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Danna Staaf @dannastaaf.bsky.social · 4h

I'm obsessed with the newly discovered most ancient cephalopod, Eoceras shaangxiense. She is 0.05 apples tall #inktober2026

Simple ink drawing of an apple with an extremely tiny shelled cephalopod beside it.

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.ca · 14h

What will our world feel like when the Climate collapses? Sci-Fi authors partnered with artists and scientists to imagine. They created the prototypes of our uncertain future #ManufacturedEcosystems is funded by @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca New Frontiers in Research books.lib.uoguelph.ca/manufactured...

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Manufactured Ecosystems offers seven visions of ecosystems services in the future by science fiction writers from across Canada and North America. Featuring stories by Chinelo Onwualu, Jennifer Gougé,...

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 15h

I’m really pleased to see that FINALLY in its 10th year, Quartz has won the Mineral Cup! #MinCup26 Huge thanks to the tireless @mineralcup.bsky.social team who managed the yearly tournament with their usual flair & aplomb, including having to cope with some ridiculous cheating! Take a moment to

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 15h

For #spacetober_challenge day 2: galaxy - astronomer Vera Rubin (neé Cooper, ‘28-‘16) & her discovery that angular motion of galaxies deviates from predictions, 1st evidence for dark matter, now known as 5x as common as matter & the stuff which dictates dynamics of galaxies & 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🔭 #histsci

My linocut portrait of astronomer Vera Rubin with short hair, glasses and resting her face in her hand in burgundy on a background of outer space with stars and galaxies in black with blue and pink splotches to mimic how dust bends light in space. At the base of the print is a large spiral galaxy with a plot of orbital velocity versus distance going out from its centre (so the distance axis is indeed distance from centre). There are two lines labelled “observed” which goes up from the origin and then is a pretty flat wavy line all the way across. This line marks the bottom of Rubin. Below it is a wide empty gap of visible white paper down to the second line labelled “predicted”. The Predicted line goes up from the origin to a peak where it diverges from the observed and falls smoothly back down in a gentle curve.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Congratulations, Quartz! After a decade of #MinCup, this key rock-forming mineral of optical tricks is the #MinCup26 Champion! Due to intense manipulation attempts in the final hours, the exact winning margin is still being audited. Please join us tomorrow for celebration!

A clear double-terminated quartz crystal with petroleum inclusions. Credit: John Sobolewski

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Eos @eos.org · 01/10/2026

Quartz was the original inspiration to start #MinCup, and (anecdotally) it's an inspiration for many kids to fall in love with the big beautiful world of minerals. #Quartz has done a lot for us! And so, the least we could do is cast our final vote for this abundant—and abundantly stunning!—mineral.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Team #Quartz all the way! #MinCup26 Gets my physics vote as 20% of Earth’s crust & representative typical elastic moduli, piezoelectricity & its role in clocks, electronics, GPS, computers! Quartz has played a huge & varied role in art history since antiquity. Carved, in pigments, canvas prep…

My mini linocut with quartz crystals and word “Quartz” in script in slate grey. Some of the facets of the crystals are printed onto collaged iridescent translucent paper so they have a pink to pale blue sheen.

Debra Baxter, Devil Horns Crystal Brass Knuckles (Lefty), 2015, quartz crystal and sterling silver, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Rembrandt van Rijn, The Night Watch, a group portrait of Amsterdam's local militia, painted in 1642. Rijksmuseum. “Last year, a separate study found that The Night Watch’s canvas was prepared with lead-based and quartz-clay layers.” Via Smithsonian Magazine

Title: Cylinder seal
Period: Akkadian
Date: ca. 2350–2150 BCE
Geography: Mesopotamia
Culture: Akkadian
Medium: Quartz
Dimensions: 0.98 in. (2.49 cm)
Credit Line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941
Object Number: 41.160.290
Curatorial Department: Ancient West Asian Art

Via The Met

The translucent whitish carved quartz cylinder seal is shown next to its impression on a white background. The impression shows a sequence of standing figures which appear to be a man, a bull, a Minotaur and more.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Two faves for both my art or physics voting scheme, but I have always been #TeamQuartz #MinCup26! Quartz has been carved, used in pigments & the preparation of canvases since antiquity. 20% of the crust & representative elastic moduli, piezoelectricity & its role in clocks, electronics, GPS!

This small linocut represents the chemical element Silicon, with its diamond cubic crystal structure shown in silver. Its symbol, atomic number and a couple of its forms are shown in lilac. Silicon is common in the Earth's crust in, especially in silicate minerals like the quartz crystals shown in each corner. The seafloor is litered with microscopic radialarians, which build their amazing skeletons with biogenic silica. Four such creatures circle the symbol for Silicon on the periodic table. The print is one of an edition of 14, each 6" x 6" (15.2 cm x 15.2 cm) printed on Japanese kozo paper.

Rembrandt, A Young Lady Smiling
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Medium: Oil
Support: Oak panel
Size: 52.4 x 44 cm
Art period: Baroque
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden – Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (State Art Gallery Dresden)
Gallery Nr 1556
Image credit: The Rembrandt Database, normal light studies: photograph, overall (front), 2005, (record number 15550); Rembrandt Bust of a young woman smiling possibly Saskia van Uylenburgh, dated 1633, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden – Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, inv./cat. no. 1556
The sitter was most probably Rembrandt’s wife Saskia van Uylenburgh.

Contains Quartz via Colourlex.

The strawberry blonde in big red hat and blue dress looks over her shoulder to smile at the viewer.

Title: Chalcedonic quartz seal set in a gold ring
Period: Late Classical
Date: 4th century BCE
Culture: Greek
Medium: Quartz, brown paste, gold
Dimensions: Length: 13/16 in. (2 cm)
Classification: Gems
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1923
Object Number: 23.160.72
Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art

Bacchic demon, half lion, half winged satyr carved into chalcedonic quartz seal in a gold ring via The Met

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Team #Quartz this is our year! #MinCup26 Gets my physics vote as 20% of Earth’s crust & representative typical elastic moduli, piezoelectricity & its role in clocks, electronics, GPS, computers! Quartz has played a huge & role in art history since antiquity. Carved, in pigments, canvas prep…

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

QUARTZ! QUARTZ! QUARTZ! #TeamQuartz #MinCup26

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This October I am going to use the #SpacetoberChallenge prompts as inspiration for sharing both new work and space art from my portfolio. Starting with my #linocut portrait of Félicette for the prompt “liftoff”. 🧪🐡🔭 #histsci Félicette was a Parisian stray tuxedo cat who was recruited into the

My linocut portrait of Félicette, a Parisian stray tuxedo cat who was recruited into the French space program. It's printed by hand, in black ink on pearlescent Japanese paper, 6" x 8". She peers from the side of the image, facing the viewer with the electrode on her head, the Véronique rocket, paw print, her name and starry sky behind her.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Raccoon Greetings for Raccoon Appreciation Day! This is a portrait of a former neighbour who showed up at my back door like this, to enquire as to where I had moved the compost bin. So I took his photo and made a print.

My linocut raccoon from torso up with upraised right paw in grey and black with the words “HIGH FIVE” in red above and below him.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For #InternationalCoffeeDay: Once I’ve had a coffee, I can face the day, and contemplate doing things which require higher brain functions, like carving letters in reverse, or the molecular structure of caffeine. 🧪🐡 This is a linoleum block print, in a rich, dark, coffee-brown on beige (like creamy

My ‘Mmm … coffee’ linocut on beige washi with a deckle edge. The illustration shows a mug viewed from above and off to the side with shadow and swirling aroma lines in which appears a caffeine molecule. At the top (at the edge of the swirling aroma lines) is written “Mmm” and at the bottom “COFFEE”. The print was made in dark brown on beige paper.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Shoutout to our yearly #SciArtSeptember ringleader and host! I love think about how to interpret all the great prompts. Many thanks!! Check out Liz’s artwork and all the fabulous artists’ work (use the hashtag or check the #sciart feed).

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Kristin Henry @kristinhenry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today's #SciArtSeptember prompt is "Bone". So I'm taking inspiration from spongiform bone structures for today's #inkyDays drawing. Here's an in-progress shot. #SciArt #ink #drawing #art #wip #bone #biology #GenerativeArt #ProceduralArt

Hand drawn generative/procedural art in ink on an open page of my sketchbook. The abstract pattern is inspired by structures in bone.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Herkimer diamonds are naturally double-terminated quartz crystals with exceptional clarity, mined primarily in Herkimer County, New York. Double termination is very rare in quartz. Link for more info in ALT! #Quartz #MinCup26

"Herkimer diamond" quartz crystals. More at: https://geology.com/articles/herkimer-diamonds.shtml

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today in Canada we observe Truth and Reconciliation Day in Canada, also known as Orange Shirt Day to honour the Indigenous victims and survivors of residential schools and their families. It’s a good day to read the TRC list of 94 calls to action and think about progress we still need to make.

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Calls to Action - Indigenous Watchdog

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada believes that in order for Canada to flourish in the twenty-first century, reconciliation between Ab...

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Somehow we’ve almost made it to October! I’m going to be doing the #Spacetober challenge again, hosted by @spacetober_challenge on IG. If you want to share space science and astronomy #sciart, join in or follow along! 🎢🔭🧪

A poster for the 2026 Spacetober Challenge lists 31 prompts:

Spacetober 2026
1 liftoff
2 galaxy
3 Artemis II/moon joy
4 Mercury
5 space station
6 rover/robotic explorer
7 Venus
8 supernova
9 landing
10 Earth
11 crew or cargo spacecraft
12 Roman space telescope
13 Mars
14 space history
15 crew/astronaut
16 Jupiter
17 moon
18 launch vehicle/rocket
19 Saturn
20 aeronautics
21 Artemis III
22 Uranus
23 Nebula
24 Dragonfly (mission to Titan)
25 Neptune
26 star/sun
27 engine(s)
28 Pluto
29 missions
30 eclipse
31 future

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bonus #sciArt for the carbon #SciArtSeptember and the graphite #MinCup26 contender: I lino block printed circuits using graphite-based electrically conductive inks! A printed spiral on paper and a strong magnet makes an interactive print which *is* a speaker.

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Multimedia & Interactive | minouette

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m #TeamQuartz in #MinCup26 but today’s #sciArtSeptember prompt carbon lines up with graphite, so I am sharing my #linocut of Millie Dresselhaus (née Spiewak; 1930 – 2017). She was a professor of physics & electrical engineering at MIT, known as the Queen of Carbon Science. In this linocut I’ve

My linocut portrait of Millie Dresselhaus in white sweater, red blazer, and C for carbon necklace, with the structure of a carbon nanotube behind her, in red, silver and black ink.

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a scientist, I wish everyone knew that getting ‘bogged down’ isn’t actually a bad thing. Here’s why. 🧵 1/

Image of a scientist - me! - waist deep in peat.

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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#MinCup26 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology #geosky #GIS 🍎 🪐 🔭 🌋 📚 🌿 #StaySalty #Halite

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Confirmed: We’re cozying down with minerals that will never mature you stress-cry when memorizing composition to prepare for mineralogy exams

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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I like big cubes and I cannot lie! Vote for the mineral that literally moves mountains. #StaySalty Vote #Halite! #MinCup26 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology #geosky #GIS 🍎 🪐 🔭 🌋 📚 🌿

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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#MinCup26 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology #geosky #GIS 🍎 🪐 🔭 🌋 📚 🌿

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Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 29/09/2026

It has to be #halite for #MinCup26 ! You can make a laser out of salt droplets - place them on a superhydrophobic surface and the droplets are round and stable, making good laser cavities. web.archive.org/web/20111018...

Fig. 1 of the linked paper, showing the experimental setup, along with the broad-spectrum glow of the droplet, and the narrow spike of the laser spectrum. In the experimental setup you'll note that it took two lasers (a green one and an infrared one) to get red laser light out of the salt droplet.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cuprite is used as a red pigment in glass, artificial gems, enamels, & ceramics. Colour can range from blood red to purple/brown in a reducing atmosphere & change to green in an oxidizing kiln. Halite is part of us, used in art: carving, watercolour effects, installations & EM geophysics. #MinCup26

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Hugh Cornwall Robertson
Chelsea Keramic Art Works, Chelsea, Massachusetts, United States
Stoneware; Oxblood glaze
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Gift of Edward W. Hooper
for more information see: MFA Online Collections Database

Via cameo.mfa.org

This is a simple elegant stoneware vase with oxblood and iridescent colouring. Used cuprite pigment.

Chinese, Jin dynasty, 12th century
Jun-ware; stoneware, with copper-red glaze
Overall: 8.8 cm (3 7/16 in.) Other (diameter of mouth): 14.8 cm (5 13/16 in.) Other (diameter of foot): 5 cm (1 15/16 in.)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Charles Bain Hoyt Fund
for more information see: MFA Online Collections Database

Via cameo.mfa.org

This round bowl with short cylinder foot is delicately coloured with umber lip and base, the exterior is in an irregular top to bottom gradient of indigo to purple to oxblood. The interior is grey through pale blue.

“A depiction of the legend of Princess Kinga, now a saint, having her engagement ring returned. These statues are carved from pillars of salt within the mine. Photo by Emily Fata.” In the A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland.

Bottoms-up cup or stirrup cup (Sturzbecher), ca. 1550-1570
German, Cologne
Salt-glazed stoneware, height 38.3 cm | 15.1 in
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This is a little bearded male figure with hat, shirt, elaborate vest, shaggy breeches, stockings and shoes on a cup shaped vessel. An example of halite/salt use in a stoneware glaze.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Day 29 of #SciArtSeptember the prompt is pelt, so I am sharing my beaver print. The trade in beaver pelts had a profound impact on the history of this country. My beaver lino block print is hand printed on delicate, translucent, handmade

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ImPRESSed Yet? I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social, thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! #CoverReveal 1/5

Cover art for Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric!

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John F Tollefson @jftollefson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Day 28 (back on track)- #linen Had to dig for this one. Rajella lintea - known as the Linen Skate by some. Native to the North Atlantic. Ref: FishBase Watercolor + colored pencil #SciArtSeptember #fishart #watercolor

Watercolor and colored pencil illustration of brown skate on a blue background facing right.

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Sarage @sarahcpjones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

28. Linen. Tūī (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae) aka flax bird. I'm fatigued. #SciArt #SciArtSeptember

A blue/black bird with a yellow forehead and white feathers at the neck

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OUGS Social Media @ougeolsoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#Graphite aka black lead or plumbago has been mined for 100s of years, but the discovery that it is made up of 2D sheets of graphene is really recent Graphene was only theorised in 1947 and isolated, using adhesive tape (!) In 2004. (See the Wikipedia entry) vote #graphite in #MinCup26

Model of 2D sheet of graphene consisting of linked rings of carbon atoms

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Once again I vote #graphite, which is what French artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres used to create this portrait. Plate from my copy of “Les portraits dessinés par J. A. D. Ingres" published in Paris in 1896. #MinCup26 This, btw, is how I casually dress to go grocery shopping.

A man wearing a long coat and period clothes with a top hat looking very smug and dapper.

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spooky murwolf the wereduck 〓〓🏳️‍🌈𓅄✊🐺🪄🎡 @murduck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Graphite helps my pencil to write. My locks are not frozen up tight. My screen door slides free, And I've drawings to see. So please vote for Graphite tonight! VOTE GRAPHITE! #MinCup26

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