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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sturgeon Carl Ray ~ Anishinaabe 1975

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Quake & Quiver @quakeandquiver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

On This Island: a minizine horror story for mammals #zine #sciart

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Quake & Quiver @quakeandquiver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Shovelnose sturgeon - hackleback, sand sturgeon, or switchtail #SundayFishSketch #sciart 🐡

a pen drawing in blue, green and dark red of two shovelnose sturgeon circling each other; the fish are surrounded by swirling water

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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This crinoid was damaged and started to regenerate the arms, just like starfish & other echinoderms. This one did not have a snail attached, but studies have shown increased regeneration if a snail was present. Armored fish may have been looking for a snail dinner and broke an arm. #FossilFriday

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Quake & Quiver @quakeandquiver.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

End of summer collage minizine 🍊🧡🍎🌻 #collage #zine

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Quake & Quiver @quakeandquiver.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Saw a beautiful longnose gar at the New England Aquarium yesterday #SundayFishSketch #sciart

a pen drawing of a longnosed gar, a long fish with a long skinny nose, done in blues, red, and greens. the fish is outlined in contours of green and blue

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Vote Calcite for trilobite eyes! #MinCup26 #Calcite #FossilFriday

My hand holding a large trilobite fossil (belonging to my son)

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Quake & Quiver @quakeandquiver.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

One of the wildest things I've learned recently! As an avowed Devonian fan I'm surprised I never encountered this guy before #FossilFriday #sciart

A pencil sketch of an Erbenochile trilobite with tall eye shades and spikes

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Here is the most important part, the mechanism that allows political appointees to override expert consensus on whether a proposal should be funded, so that the money can instead be directed to via a shell corporation to cocaine and yachts just like every other Trump venture.

Funding Mechanisms. The NSF merit review process remains the gold standard of grantmaking, but other models exist that may be better suited to identify particular types of meritorious research activities, such as projects that span disciplinary boundaries.1 NSF will experiment with various proposal review mechanisms, such as providing "Golden Tickets" that empower individual reviewers to champion exceptional proposals that may not survive panel consensus; employing distributed review to reduce administrative burden and speed time to decision; and developing new measures to identify and support novel research.2 Our goal in this experimentation is to surface high-potential ideas that may be too divisive for committee consensus and to attract higher-quality reviewers by empowering them to exercise independent scientific judgment, while ensuring every funded proposal meets a level of scientific rigor appropriate for Gold Standard Science.

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Quake & Quiver @quakeandquiver.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#1 species whose names sound like curses from Captain Haddock: You spurdog, you mudshark, you Squalus acanthias!! #SundayFishSketch #sciart #spinydogfish

A photo of a sketchbook with a pencil drawing of a spiny dogfish who is sraring wide-eyed at the viewer

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Quake & Quiver @quakeandquiver.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Was very charmed by how much Papa Painted Snipe looks like he's wearing an apron. Male snipes apparently do all the incubation and childcare, and the females who are larger and more colorful do all the courting (photo by 周俊雄) #birdart #sciart

A drawing of a male painted snipe with two babies, in black red and blue. the male's white chest markings have been replaced with an apron that says Kiss the Cook and a speech bubble reads "ok kids set the table"

A male Greater Painted Snipe with two babies.

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Quake & Quiver @quakeandquiver.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Some fossiliferous flimestone for #FossilFridays - one of my favorites #sciart

a digital painting of a fossiliferous limestone sample, a red-grey stone filled with crinoid and shell fossils

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Quake & Quiver @quakeandquiver.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

But first they must catch you - 🐇🐇🐇

a set of six drawings of a rabbit in a simplified graphic style, on red backgrounds. The rabbit startles, runs, then settles down once more.

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

All the people who are anti-The Precious, I have one question: If The Precious disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire day of catching fish so juicy sweet and guessing what a tricksy hobbit has got in its pocketses?

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Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Generally enjoyed The Odyssey, but spoiled by the fact that at no point does Odysseus stare at his sword and mutter “made with the finest Cornish tin.” Completely took me out of it what a waste.

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Quake & Quiver @quakeandquiver.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

#SundayFishSketch Been doing exercises from Lynda Barry's 'Making Comics' - here's a pair of ratfish(ish) critters!

A colorful drawing of two ratfish, one red and one blue, over a background of green and blue seaweed, with a seaweed border

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Dr Andrew Mahon @andyantarctica.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The bighead and silver (aka Asian) carp have been swimming north into Lake MI for years....this was an effort to help protect the $multi-BILLION tourism, fishing, etc. industries in the region. This is VERY bad for not only MI but all Great lakes states and Canada. 🧪🦑🌎🧬

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Great Lakes carp barrier project halted without explanation again

New stoppage comes four months after Trump officials shifted management of the $1.15 billion project to Michigan and claimed it would move forward aggressively.

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Quake & Quiver @quakeandquiver.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Lake scenes! I had a proper week off for vacation last week 🥰

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Quake & Quiver @quakeandquiver.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

More sketches from Friday Harbor and UW's Friday Harbor Laboratories that I forgot to post! #sciart

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Quake & Quiver @quakeandquiver.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Two of my favorite fossil finds for #FossilFriday, found in the Finger Lakes - a tabulate coral (smaller) and one I'm less sure of, possibly part of a coral as well #sciart

Pencil sketch of two stones with fossils, in black and white on tan paper. One is a tabulate coral with honeycomb like markings and one has possibly part of a coral as well

Photo of two stones with fossils. One is a tabulate coral with honeycomb like markings and one has possibly part of a coral as well

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Quake & Quiver @quakeandquiver.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The way my phone camera automatically "corrects" photos of the wildfire smoke sky to look normal is such a ripe metaphor for how climate impacts get normalized and filtered out of the public eye 😅 Anyway Boston is orange today and this is more or less what it looks like

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NPR @npr.org · 13/07/2026

NPR has learned that the Department of Health and Human Services will not be finalizing its most aggressive attempt to end gender-affirming care for youth nationally. n.pr/4w1lkb8

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Trump's HHS abandons threat to withhold Medicare and Medicaid funding over trans care

NPR has learned that the Department of Health and Human Services will not be finalizing its most aggressive attempt to end gender-affirming care for youth nationally.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Reason why I say fuck AI #837: Sitting down and writing a solid paragraph is often the fucking highlight of my day, the one bit of light in the darkness.

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Holly Bik @hollybik.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

LAST DAY to submit your comment for the proposed OMB rule changes! I submitted mine this weekend, took under 30min (mostly bc I got on a roll typing out impacts to process my anger…and then editing into more eloquent reasoning lol)

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Most of the federal agency science budgets goes into the salaries of students and trainees, and the decision to take that money and instead give it to industry and already rich venture capitalists is fundamentally a decision to have many fewer scientists and do far less science in the future.

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Quake & Quiver @quakeandquiver.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

A #SundayFishSketch dogfish from one of my Friday Harbor photos! Dogfish, aka the Squalidae family, are a type of shark. Very charming little guys who like to eyeball whoever's come over to look at their tank #sciart 🐡

A digital painting of a dogfish, a grey sharklike fish, on a green and pink background

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Quake & Quiver @quakeandquiver.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Pretty frustrating to see an official @boston.gov event that supposedly celebrates "the best of Boston's local food scene, artisan makers, and cultural entrepreneurs" using AI instead supporting actual local artists and designers #SailBoston

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Quake & Quiver @quakeandquiver.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Higgledy piggledy, Tufts University scientists tattoo the plants under stress. Stretchable wearables watch for botanical signs pestilential of illness and thirst. #doubledactyl

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Quake & Quiver @quakeandquiver.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Redraw of NASA Earth Observatory imagery of phytoplankton blooms back in May, fueled by river runoff, increased spring sun, and upwellings of cooler nutrient rich water in the shallow waters of the Mid-Atlantic Bight #sciart

a digital painting of the east coast of the US from the Chesapeake Bay to Long Island, with swirling blue green masses of phytoplankton offshore

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Quake & Quiver @quakeandquiver.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Doing some good old fashioned skeleton sketchin'; harbor seal courtesy of the FHL library 🦭Don't look too closely at those vertebrae 😬 #pencilsketch #sciart

A pencil sketch of a harbor seal skeleton; the sketchbook is being held up in front of the actual seal skeleton in a display case in the background

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Quake & Quiver @quakeandquiver.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

A few friendly dogfish, with a ratfish for company #sciart #sketchbook

A sketchbook page with several drawings in pencil of dogfish, and a ratfish in purple with white spots. In the background of the photo is a harbor

A sketchbook page with a closeup of small drawings of dogfish poking their heads up out of their tank

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Quake & Quiver @quakeandquiver.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

In a serendipitous turn of events, one of the ratfish here laid its eggs today!

A photo of a purpleish ratfish with white spots, a gold metallic lateral stripe, and two egg sacs hanging out from underneath

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Quake & Quiver @quakeandquiver.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

A ratfish for #SundayFishSketch - Hydrolagus collei. Working my way through a PNW field guide while at FHL

A digital painting of a ratfish, a small fish with white spots, rendered in tones of purple and burgundy on a bright pink background with lavender edges

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Quake & Quiver @quakeandquiver.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Berry season - I tried salmonberries for the first time this weekend! I love foraging for black raspberries in the summer but this is the first time I've been to the PNW and encountered these guys #foraging #sciart

A digital painting of two salmonberries, one orange yellow and one darker red, on a green background with bright red and orange edges

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Dr. Cat Lambert @risky-on-rocks.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I'm spending the week at @uofwa.uw.edu's Friday Harbor Laboratory in the San Juan Islands, doing some #scicomm work and (hopefully) writing papers, if the scenery is not too distracting

A sketchbook with a pencil drawing of an oak tree with a coastline in tue background held up against the same view in real life

A black and white pencil drawing of an oak tree in front of a coastline

A photo of an oak tree with grass in the foreground and the sea with an island coastline in the background

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