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Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social · 2h

Not mine, but it jumped out at me as soon as I saw it bsky.app/profile/near...

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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 3h

herons and egrets are gandalf-coded, i will not elaborate

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17h

Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.

wired.com

Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family

Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.

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Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Think I'm gonna try growing seedbox next year! Just look at this autumnal cuboid weirdo.

Seedbox, Ludwigia alternifolia. Focus is on one of the two eponymous cubic seed pods on a forked stem, which projects above long, bright red-orange foliage. The pods have a little hole in the center of the top face of the cube.

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Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Visit your local library: there may be nighthawks 🌿

A distant, very zoomed Common Nighthawk against evening clouds.

Two more nighthawks in a similarly bad picture.

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Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just got a Dem fundraising text asking for $46...that's what I spent on a minor grocery shop this week, and I shop *cheap*.

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Raven Amos (Spoopy Edition)🎨🐦‍⬛ @alaskanime.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Buy my #paleoart even if its wrong I guess: Stuff on Threadless: alaskanime.threadless.com Winter Moon on Neatoshop www.neatoshop.com/product/Wint...

alaskanime.threadless.com

Raven Amos's Artist Shop | Featuring custom t-shirts, prints, and more

Raven Amos (aka alaskanime)'s Shop

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fyi if you’re looking for something better

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In case you haven't been furious yet today

Screenshot from Upwork with added highlights:

Vector Illustrator Needed for Botanical & Scientific Plant Illustrations x 10

Posted 5 days ago
Worldwide

Summary
We are seeking an (highlight)experienced vector artist and illustrator to create a set of 10 highly detailed, botanically accurate plant images.(end highlight)

The final deliverables must be versatile, scalable, print-ready vector files.

Artistic Direction: (highlight) The artwork must reflect the craftsmanship of scientific illustration rather than modern flat clip art or cartoony graphics. (End highlight) Please review these references for the quality and stylistic benchmark required for this project:

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- Scientific Accuracy & Precision: NTBG: The Science of Art (focus on accurate leaf venation, structural geometry, and growth habit).

- Master Style Benchmark: Botanical Art & Artists (inspired by traditional line engraving, fine hatching, and classic field guide illustration). (End highlight)

- Elegance & Polish: Tipton & Hurst (high-end floral presentation and refined color palette).

Scope of Work: You will create master illustrations for 10 plant species:

1. Swiss Cheese Plant (Monstera deliciosa)
2. Snake Plant (Dracaena trifasciata)
3. Golden Pothos (Epipremnum aureum)
4. Fiddle-Leaf Fig (Ficus lyrata)
5. ZZ Plant (Zamioculcas zamiifolia)
6. Adanson's Monstera (Monstera adansonii)
7. String of Pearls (Curio rowleyanus)
8. Prayer Plant (Maranta leuconeura)
9. Pink Princess (Philodendron erubescens)
10. Spider Plant (Chlorophytum comosum)

(Highlight) AI generated are acceptable (End highlight) as long as quality and detail is met.

NOTES:
- images must not have backgrounds
- text should be its own vector layer, i.e. Common Name in nice bold font and Scientific Name in italic.
- Cohesive color scheme for this set.

(Highlight) $40.00 (End highlight)

(Highlight) Expert (End highlight)

Remote Job

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Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What's going on with this leafhopper? Looks like it has a friend and/or parasite.

Coppery Leafhopper, a medium-sized hopper in assorted browns, on an oak leaf. There's a spherical object attached to its side between its first two pairs of legs on the right. It looks a little like an enrolled isopod, but I don't think that's what it is.

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

*knocks door* Excuse me, do you have a moment to submit your invertebrate artwork to our periodical art book invertefest.com/#artbook

invertefest.com

InverteFest – Saimi Hanma

#InverteFest is a periodic online event where we invite you to celebrate the overlooked invertebrate fauna around you and share the joys of discovery online.

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Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Airy Reminiscence” American Crows 12”x16”, oil painting on panel I love crows

An oil painting of an American crow sitting on a lichen-encrusted dead tree limb in the foreground. Behind, warm sunset light touches a cloudy sky, with two more crows flying by above hilly terrain. The artist watermark reads: Copyright 2026 Jennifer Miller "Nambroth", featherdust dot com

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🚨🚨Emergency protest🚨🚨 The Drexel board will be at the constitution center in Old City (525 Arch St, Philadelphia, PA 19106) from 5-6. We're asking Drexel to disaffiliate from the Academy of Nat Sci to allow them to negotiate what's best for them w/o Drexel interference. Be there.

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Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My tooth is fiiiiixed, I just drank some water and it didn't hurt at ALL

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026

awoke this morning with a Vision

that diagram showing the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile

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Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"True horror is seeing something approach" -William Friedkin

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Raven Amos (Spoopy 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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Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of the fun things about having a bird is that you can just make noises at each other and they love it

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EveryHeron 𓅣 @everyheron.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Atwood has spent much of her career examining the implications of societies that allow their freedoms & ecosystems to erode. But she is also a critic of those who neglect the relationship between humans & the natural world, cautioning that neglecting one can have dire consequences for the other 1/3

Birdwatching is close to rapture’: Margaret Atwood on why she has given C$1m to avian research

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smibosart @smibosart.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Hot Spring, oil on paper, 6x9. Prints available. @bsky.art

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

en.wikipedia.org

Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think I have very, very small geckos 🌿

A loose cluster of thirteen tiny, translucent eggs on a black wooden interior door. Each egg is about a millimeter across, and the whole assembly is about a centimeter long. The eggs have hatched.

The eggs from a lower angle relative to the plane they were laid on. They're flat on the bottom.

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Jake Lawrence @timecowboy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

some creatures you might find in the woods.

Two panels; top is of some glowing sprite type creatures huddled together in the grass and the second is a big black serpentine creature with blank yellow eyes moving slowly through the forest.

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Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The dentist's office has TVs in the waiting areas and exam rooms that are constantly showing game shows and ads for gold and medications. It's been hours and I can't stop thinking about the woman who knew where Three Mile Island was, but thought Keith Moon was in the Beatles.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There is no such thing as art without a human on one end of the line and a human on the other end. In communication with each other.

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Cliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is a canary resuscitator, which miners would use to revive canaries that had passed out from toxic gas, because ideally not only do you care, you don't even leave the bird behind. just a little mining history and not at all a furious scream

A canary in a sealed box attached to an oxygen tank

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maimonides nutz @maimonidesnutz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

On Rosh Hashanah it is written, but on Yom Kippur it is Yaaaaasss!

Yaaaaasss! Yom Kippur Banner Jewish New Year Decor Rosh Hashanah
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Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Saw a great big Tenodera mantis eating a lanternfly's head today. Very interesting to see another introduced species doing its part!

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Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Love an "urgent care" dentist that doesn't pick up the damn phone

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Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A development: it's not a new crack or something in the tooth I've had work on twice this summer, it's a huge chunk missing from the one behind it. I somehow did this overnight with my night guard and didn't wake myself up.

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Borntobe Free 🌎 ☸️ 🌏🏳️‍🌈 🌍 @vernal3.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#ActionPost !!! It’s been awhile since. . . Here’s a chance to make your voice heard. We ABSOLUTELY can’t give in or give up. We, the People do & have made a difference. Sometimes small, sometimes big. 🌎🪶🦑🦉 #RoadlessRule

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Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Nonreplaceable teeth were such a bad idea

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yemeni Anthropomorphic Stele (3rd–1st Century BCE)

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Thomas MacGillavry @thomasmacgillavry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When a female doesn’t show up, a camera will have to do (yes, he also mounted it)

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

conjuring up some weekend plans with the coven

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Research Cruise AR103 Thread: Work & Life Onboard Why does the clock say cheese on it? 🧀 every day on the R/V Armstrong we enjoy “cheese thirty” at 2:30pm, when a full charcuterie board is laid out. Phenomenal boat tradition.

A clock with a sticker over 2:30 that reads “cheese”

A cutting board covered with assorted cheeses

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My grandfather, who is 102 and a medical doctor, has told me about the times before polio was cured. Most years, upon returning to school after summer’s break, there would be some children would didn’t make it back to school because of polio.

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Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you'd like to support me but don't want to buy a print, I just made a ko-fi. $3 buys a coffee for me, or, more importantly, sixteen hats for Louie ko-fi.com/nearbirdstud...

A Crimson-bellied Conure in his travel cage, balancing a somewhat chewed-up paper cup lid on his head like a wide-brimmed hat. This is one of his favorite things to do.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

the cognitive dissonance required to pour myself into job applications while also wondering how much of society as we know it will still be around in a decade sure is something

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just made a very pretty packet of Hebrew, Latin, and Arabic paleography handouts for my @simmonsuniversity.bsky.social LIS students. Anyone want some? Here you go! Feel free to use (but please credit me if you do)...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters

Someone has to do it. It's all very well calling for eye of newt, but do you mean Common, Spotted or Great Crested? Which eye, anyway? Will tapioca do just as well? If we substitute egg white will the spell a) work b) fail or c) melt the bottom out of the cauldron? Goodie Whemper's curiosity about such things was huge and insatiable*.

* Nearly insatiable. It was probably satiated in her last flight to test whether a broomstick could survive having its bristles pulled out one by one in mid-air. According to the small black raven she had trained as a flight recorder, the answer was almost certainly no.

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