Reposted by Neil BanasSardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 27/09/2026On the Outskirts of the City Jaromir Funke, 1940 18410
Neil Banas @neilbanas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"We thank the reviewers for their insightful comments, which have improved the manuscript." (www.britishmuseum.org/collection/i...) 010
Neil Banas @neilbanas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026@emilydoolittle.bsky.social , Michelle Campbell, Preeti Pansare, and I are in Studio 110 at The Briggait in #Glasgow this weekend with the #doorsopen (waspsstudios.org.uk/open-studios...). Triangles, #crochet, and #invertebrates in many combinations. Drop by! 031
Neil Banas @neilbanas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026(slightly) new #origami #nudibranch design. If you're in Glasgow, come by Doors Open Days at The Briggait for many more! waspsstudios.org.uk/open-studios... background: an Anna Atkins cyanotype, as seen recently in the @lrb.co.uk. (Algal cyanotypes are critical habitat for origami nudibranchs.) 14617
Reposted by Neil BanasMaija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · 01/09/2025#SciArtSeptember 1: Islet Somewhere in the waves of Barents Sea, a rocky islet acts as a perch for seabirds. Puffins, guillemots, razorbills and skuas are still here, though threatened by heating oceans and spreading disease. With them sits a lonely ghost of a great auk that once roamed these seas. 11844269
Neil Banas @neilbanas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Paris opera set designs by George Ciceri. I love how they conjure worlds and also call attention to their own flatness at the same time. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... (this is either vagueposting or theoryposting about my day job as an ecosystem modeller) 020
Reposted by Neil BanasAndrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Recently made an unwelcome discovery while digging up old papers for a lit. review. I wanted to cite Fasham, Ducklow & McKelvie (1990), AKA FDM90, a towering giant of a paper in 🌊 #BGCmodelling, only to discover that its #DOI no longer worked. (1/7) 101
Neil Banas @neilbanas.bsky.social · 01/08/2026John Montroll's raccoon, folded by me (one duo-colour sheet). I love this design #origami 070
Neil Banas @neilbanas.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Sometimes it crept with its Belly to the Ground, and ſtretched itſelf out ſo long that it ſeemed to reſemble a Serpent moving without Feet. It was let run looſe about the Houſe. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50196490 110
Reposted by Neil BanasDr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I especially love this diagram. 5248542011
Reposted by Neil BanasRemedios Varo @remediosvaro.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Allegory of Winter botfrens.com/collections/69/content… 09826
Reposted by Neil BanasNick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Fascinating story It’s almost impossible to get rid of rope drive.google.com/file/d/1CVHW...drive.google.comThe Impossible Task of Throwing Away Lobster Rope _ Local News _ midcoastvillager.com.pdf 001
Reposted by Neil BanasDr Daisy Abbott @daisyabbott.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Exciting collaboration with Australian First Nations Wardandi artists Vivian Brockman Webb and Mitchella Hutchins and Scottish/Australian land artist Elaine Clocherty as well as lots of Glasgow artists for @glasgow2026.bsky.social festival. More info: www.elaineclocherty.com/glasgow-2026... 121
Neil Banas @neilbanas.bsky.social · 09/06/2026from 2033, Exam Boards will take _mal du siècle_ under consideration as qualifying Personal Circumstances, if documented by an official note from a moody novelist aeon.co/essays/young...aeon.co 130
Reposted by Neil BanasGilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 28/05/20261777: Cut 24 fine cucumbers. Clouds flie different ways. Distant thunder. 0172
Neil Banas @neilbanas.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Bison giubato just got back from a festival. Bison giubato has borrowed some woodworking tools from Cabionara (vol. 3) but hasn't had time to do anything with them. Bison giubato isn't listening to your story but also won't talk about anything else. 010
Neil Banas @neilbanas.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Another world is possible (just usually not with camels) cheesemap.netlify.appcheesemap.netlify.appThe Cheese Map — Charting the Combinatorial Space of CheesemakingAn interactive reference mapping every intersection of milk, texture, rind, aging, and technique in cheesemaking — revealing where cheeses exist, where they're rare, and where the gaps are. 010
Neil Banas @neilbanas.bsky.social · 07/05/2026This is cool. A couple years ago I got a Here's-a-Hardhat-Look-Thoughtful tour of the sewage reclamation plant in Irvine—sewage in at one end in a big pipe, and drinking water out the other in a small pipe. Part of a real 1960s Spaceship Earth tradition, inseparable from the freeways. 100
Reposted by Neil BanasSardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 07/05/2026"Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis), Valdes Peninsula, Argentina". Sebastião Salgado, 2004, part of his "Genesis" project. 09826
Reposted by Neil BanasSardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 02/05/2026Moche Vessel in the Form of an Owl Impersonator 100 B.C./A.D. 500 Peru www.artic.edu/artworks/915... 312840
Reposted by Neil BanasLorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Oh hey it's #EarthDay and @solarisbooks.bsky.social are having a sale on books full of the wild places, ecological themes and excellent (or fucked up) beasties! Go fill yer boots! 🌍📚🖤 0106
Reposted by Neil BanasJeff Noon @jeffnoon.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Seventeen vast crumbling bullet-ridden battle-scarred migration ships, each one the size of city, riding the waves of space along unknown routes, away from planet Earth. The dying Earth. The whole armada powered by the last remaining Commodore 64, circa 1987. 0154
Reposted by Neil BanasThe Marine Biological Association @thembauk.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Who else needed to see more rainbow sea slugs this week? 🌈 These photos of Babakina anadoni we're taken by @yolandave_24 in Falmouth. #nudibranch #seaslugs #intertidal #rockpooling 0134
Neil Banas @neilbanas.bsky.social · 09/04/2026So sad. I remember (90s) when Gifford Pinchot was a symbol of what environmentalists were fighting _against_—forest as harvestable crop vs forest as self-contained preexistent universe. Now the idea of sustainable harvest (as opposed to pure short-term asset stripping) is enough to make him a hero.hatchmag.comTrump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest ServiceLate Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy shift. Not a “reorganization.” An execution. 020
Reposted by Neil BanasCameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026This is so, so well-articulated. 97107603880
Reposted by Neil BanasReckoning @reckoningmag.bsky.social · 27/03/2026New today from Reckoning X, our celebratory, extra-fancy tenth anniversary issue: "Camouflage", a painting by @rainjordan.com in which a dodo cosplays as a fan coral to fake out approaching colonizers reckoning.press/camouflage/ 2187
Neil Banas @neilbanas.bsky.social · 14/03/2026saw a cool image—sort of Moebius x Ragged Trousered Philanthropists—which turned out to be midjourney, on a blog that should have known better. Searched upstream to likely influences, then downstream to contemporary humans with similar influences, rediscovered @harriorrihar.bsky.social. So great.harriorrihar.myportfolio.comJon Juarez 3253
Neil Banas @neilbanas.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Sara Cardona: "so many of the #preColumbian figures have gaping mouths and eyes—they are on shamanic journeys—and they give me the sensation that they are not just seeing an ancestral deity, but maybe…looking at us. So I…return them to the contemporary world" 1/2 www.revuecolle.com/issues/vol-2...revuecolle.comISSUE NO. 141 - Sara Cardona | ColléISSUE NO. 141 featuring Sara Cardona 100
Neil Banas @neilbanas.bsky.social · 03/03/2026[opens fridge] [condiments, sauerkraut, four bags of shredded cheddar, two large jars of experimental homemade nonalcoholic whisky] [aloud] Our fridge is weird. I will eat leftovers. [opens freezer] [drawer overflowing with crochet nudibranchs] 020
Neil Banas @neilbanas.bsky.social · 28/02/2026this is such good news. If anything happened to BHL it would change the course of waterwayscollective.org zine-making. 120
Neil Banas @neilbanas.bsky.social · 17/02/2026This showed up in my feed adjacent to the news that Meta is going to introduce versions of your feed that continue without you after you're dead. Same conjuration tradition. 100
Neil Banas @neilbanas.bsky.social · 14/02/2026There's an unrealised world of weird LLM variants, and then there's the form that big corps locked LLMs into within 5 min of creation. Katy Gero, LARB: "Artists of all stripes are allowed to play with technology. That’s our role: play with the world, test its limits, poke at the holes and problems."lareviewofbooks.orgMaking a Literary Future with Artificial Intelligence | Los Angeles Review of BooksFive writers and AI researchers discuss the future of literature. 100
Reposted by Neil BanasDr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching 5245181434
Reposted by Neil BanasSardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 11/02/2026There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” Philip K. Dick 312823
Neil Banas @neilbanas.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Not 1 but 2 evening #sciart events (w drinks) during #OSM26 in #Glasgow! * zine-making in the pub, Mon 23 Feb (link below) * opening for Constraint Made Visible (Transmission Gallery, 24 Feb)—collabs among local mathematicians, artists, crafters, and ocean modellers Pls help spread the word! 4169
Reposted by Neil BanasMarkus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 04/02/2026How much temperate rainforest could there be in the UK and Ireland, and where? Despite campaigns calling for restoration in both countries, these questions have been difficult to answer. In our new paper we assess the evidence base 🌏🧪🌐🌳🌲 1/9besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.comComparison of three temperate rainforest climate envelopes for Britain and Ireland: Where could our rainforest be?There are multiple methods for creating climate envelopes for temperate rainforest, and these climate envelopes result in different extents across Ireland and Britain. An awareness of these differenc... 38141
Neil Banas @neilbanas.bsky.social · 02/02/2026a hundred thousand idling diesel cars. Energy requirement of a quarter million homes. For *one* data centre. aprs.scot/press-releas... Can we replace the word "hyperscale", which sounds like slick sci fi but is hiding horrors? "earthcrusher-scale"? "demon-summoning-scale"?aprs.scotNew hyperscale data centre could have diesel generators equivalent of 106,000 idling cars - Action to Protect Rural ScotlandAPRS has calculated that a hyperscale data centre proposed for Edinburgh is planning to use diesel generators for back-up power which would be equivalent to over a hundred thousand idling diesel cars. 000
Neil Banas @neilbanas.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Ooh I like this one: Five classes I took at university * The End is Near! (actual title: apocalyptic traditions) * Chaos and Dynamical Systems * Introduction to Buddhist Art History * Quantum Mechanics * History of Jazz sort of eclectic but sort of all on a theme, in retrospect. 050
Neil Banas @neilbanas.bsky.social · 21/01/2026This makes me want to be a biochemist, or be Björk, or believe in gods, or I'm not sure. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn8A...youtube.com"Hollow" music video by Björk + Drew Berry (wehi.tv), 2010YouTube video by Drew Berry Animation wehi-tv 010
Neil Banas @neilbanas.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Ocean zine making in the pub during #OSM26! Please join waterwayscollective.org and the @mastscot.bsky.social Energyscapes Working Group for an evening of #zines and collage in a cosy #Glasgow pub, following day 1 of the 2026 Ocean Sciences Meeting. Sign-up link below, spread the word!events.humanitix.comOcean zine-making in the pubCome join the artists and scientists of the Waterways Collective for an evening of zine-making in the pub, following day 1 of the 2026 Ocean Sciences Meeting. 134
Neil Banas @neilbanas.bsky.social · 16/01/2026LivingMaps is hosting an online panel discussion with waterwayscollective.org on 3 Feb, where we will share some of the scientific visualisations, zines, and performance materials that have grown out of our #art-science field trips following #Scottish #salmon #rivers. Tickets below. Should be fun!eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.comThe Waterways Collective: Multidisciplinary mapping of Atlantic salmonJoin us to explore multidisciplinary mapping of Atlantic salmon migration and ideas of interconnectedness 031
Reposted by Neil BanasMarine Ecology Progress Series @meps-ir.bsky.social · 15/01/2026🧪🦤🌐 Why are North Sea sandeels getting smaller? New study finds prey community shifts, not warming, likely drive size declines. A growth model shows how prey, temperature, turbidity, and early-life timing interact under climate change. bit.ly/meps15010 @neilbanas.bsky.social @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk 093
Reposted by Neil BanasAmy Guidry, Artist @amyguidryartist.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Sharing another new painting included in my solo exhibition at LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans. In Our Veins is on view now through February 21st as well as online at lemieuxgalleries.com. "Void" Acrylic on canvas 12" x 12" #art #painting #surrealism #nature #wildlife #contemporaryart 422153257
Neil Banas @neilbanas.bsky.social · 11/01/2026yes @mobydickatsea.bsky.social-bot, I am in fact I am warming up for a weeklong meeting about the Atlantic Meridional Conveyor Belt, its moods and its long sufferings at our hands. Maybe all #leviathan literature is #AMOC literature. 140
Reposted by Neil BanasVictoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 10/01/2026My 'winter abstractions' embroidery series has just gone live! Snow and ice over water in various shades of blue and teal. There was a focus on shape for these aerial landscapes, both in the water and ice... it was great to explore! Now all here: victoriaroserichards.co.uk/collection/a... #art 8482108
Neil Banas @neilbanas.bsky.social · 08/01/2026@monicabyrne13.bsky.social 's novel _The Actual Star_ completely shook up how I think about radically transformed climate futures and resilience (in a good way!) and I bet this online course will be amazing. 171
Neil Banas @neilbanas.bsky.social · 07/01/2026"Breath…is repeatable and trainable, yet also unpredictable and resistant." This conversation about inspiration goes lots of unexpected places. Ultimately I think it's about finding comfort and rhythm in bodies and creative practices that are always a bit creakier and wheezier than one envisioned. 011
Neil Banas @neilbanas.bsky.social · 02/01/2026This megathread of "craziest archive stories" from @appuhn.bsky.social is like actually existing #troikarpg*. Radioactive books on radioactivity; trout; castles; nuns with ladder opinions; maybe I should become an archivist? *(sci-fantasy farce of your choice, if you don't yet play #troikarpg) 0115