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GHOULology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Another great tour today! There were multiple small cliff falls and one with some human sized blocks. Lots of #ammonites were found. Did beach outreach, found a nodule for a wee lassie and it split in one go into a perfect golden ammo. She was super stoked. #geology #paleontology

Human hand with a grey rock containing a Brown and gold spiral ammonite fossil with faint smooth ribs.

Human hand holding a brown ammonite fossil with many prominent ribs.

Human hand holding a brown ammonite fossil that has been eroded by the sea to reveal the many internal Chambers.

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Jess Taylor @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Another hot of the presses bug for your enjoyment...this time a super fancy Golden Tortoise Beetle for the last day of #InverteFest Stats: Drawing time total 21hr 15 min #SciArt #BugSky #Insects #ArtSky #Illustration #Procreate

An original digital illustration by Loadofolbobbins of a Golden Tortoise Beetle against a white background. Overall a wide oval in shape, the main body of the beetle is like liquid gold, shining and speckled with thin lines of very small dark brown dots that form a loose almost stripe like pattern. The upper section of the beetle also has a more iridescent metallic effect in greens, yellows and blues with dark speckled markings. Surrounding the body and head the outer section of the beetle is a semi transparent plating, where you can just glimpse it's legs curled underneath it.

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A wee purple damselfly to wrap up #InverteFest. They come in a range of beautiful colors and it always surprises me to see these jewel tones. Also, here’s a free art book filled with incredible invertebrates! #BugSky 🌿

A long thin purple bug stands on a light brown rock facing into the camera with its big, round, appealing eyes.

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Liℤℤy Kodpuak née Acid Lich (can’t spell sheaves without she) @acidlich.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I’m just a girl asking you to pls buy my art, this time it’s beautiful goldleafed glicee prints of my piece Psychedelica. Won’t lie I’m in an extended health crisis and this would be helping me out a lot. I have two for $40 + shipping

Illustration on watercolor paper of a strange figure made of leaves behind datura flowers wrapped with mushrooms and thorns in front of a golden circle which is gold leafed. The gold leaf is mixed tones of gold leaf. There are numerous spiral accents and it has been hatched shaded and the figure has three eyes

Close up showing some of the details in the strange eyes and the iridescence of the gold leaf

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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Here's a cute little monkey #grasshopper nymph for your Friday 🥰 😍 #Orthoptera: #Eumastacidae Costa Rica

A bright green mottled grasshopper with short antennae and legs splayed out on a white background.

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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Ophiocistioids remind me of a Lovecraft nightmare.

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Stalked glass sponge at 3708 m #Okeanos B2 seamount, Cook Islands

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My pink fairy armadillo print for International Armadillo Day! 🧪🐡 One of a series of #linocut prints of the world’s smallest #armadillo, the adorably named pink fairy armadillo, each print is embellished with collaged, hand-printed pink Japanese washi papers. The tiny armoured mammal, also known as

My linocut pink fairy armadillo standing on sandy ground, viewed from the side. All the stripes of armour along the armadillo are collaged with various coloured and patterned Japanese washi papers.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Pitta of the Day: Superb Pitta Endangered 📷 Adam Riley

Bird perched on branch, photo, description from ebird: ‘A medium-sized, long-legged bird of lowland forest undergrowth on Manus in the Admiralty Islands. Mainly jet black with a red belly, extending to the center of the chest, a blue wing patch extending down from the shoulder and some green on the flight feathers. Unmistakable. Feeds on the ground, but usually sings from up in the trees. Song, a 2-note “wow-wow!” repeated at intervals.’

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The month-long #DeepWonders expedition, led by @divaamon.bsky.social, documented rare ecosystems and awe-inspiring wildlife in the deep waters of Trinidad & Tobago; their work will inform future ocean stewardship in the Caribbean & beyond. Read more about this seafloor scene: bit.ly/3Szw2ap

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Marco Langbroek @marcolangbroek.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Very happy with this result. Combination of #eclipse images (time lapse) with 35 mm lens, one image per 5 minutes, from #Leiden, the Netherlands. Old Leiden Observatory bottom right.

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Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

So embarrassing when people think the point of reading a novel is to know the plot, so a summary is just as good. The plot isn’t important, you rube. You absolute simpleton. The point of reading a novel is to find out what the characters are eating and start thinking about what you want for dinner.

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

oooo! Bald interradial shields.. maybe Ophiophyllum, 3500 m! Pepe seamount, Cook Islands #OKEANOS

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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/08/2026

If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:

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Liℤℤy Kodpuak née Acid Lich (can’t spell sheaves without she) @acidlich.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Alright I guess I’m not done with new drawings this week, here’s another: Hopf Fibration I

Illustration on pale yellow paper. It features a hopf fibration, a type of a mathematical object, a 3 sphere in terms of circles and an ordinary sphere. It’s sitting in a misty & foamy waterfall, which has hexagonal pillars, beyond which we can see a river and flying dragon, rolling hills and the night sky with stars and a crescent moon. There are bubbles framing the hopf fibration, some of which have spirals and many of the bubbles have been painted with an iridescent gold paint which reads kind of lavender/pink, which is also in the water in choice places as well as for some of the stars. There are also some white highlights. Hatch shaded

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gg @ggdg.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

what if you could kill god and recreate the world. what if you watched the sweetest nicest single dad slowly become sephiroth. what if a printer put a gun to your head. what if "now neither of us will be virgins" were a devastating plot point. what if you read peak........ gigidigi.itch.io/soulsov

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Soul of Sovereignty Prelude by ggdg

a tale of deadly kindness and selfish virtue

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Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

An Eldredgeops rana (formerly Phacops) trilobite from the Devonian of upstate New York

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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

How do people have room on their phones for games? Don't they know they need all that storage for picture of bug?

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Some of my favourite stills from this week’s plankton sample. #marineplankton 🦑

Left to right, top row to bottom:
Sponge larva?
Capitellidae bristle worm larva
Phyllodocidae bristle worm larva
Platyhelminthes? Or another type of worm?
Globothalamea foraminifera (what are the globs inside?
Cyclopoida copepod
Synchaeta rotifer
Spionidae bristle worm larva
Cirripedia (barnacle) cyprid larva

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GHOULology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We get these on the #yorkshire Coast to. They ate carried by the glaciers from the North West.

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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Get in, nerds! A new species of carnivorous plant just dropped, proving a 150-year-old prediction by Charles Darwin 🧪 How did scientists figure this out? Sticky trapping hairs ✅ Tempting floral scent to lure gnat prey ✅ Chemical evidence of digestion ✅ Genes found in other carnivorous plants ✅

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Darwin proposed that a type of plant was carnivorous. Scientists finally proved him right | CNN

A new study found Saxifraga candelabrum to be a carnivorous plant, proving true Charles Darwin’s hypothesis that some plants of its genus lure, trap and eat insects.

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LuUuUuke Knox 👻 @lukeknox.me · 31/07/2026

this is my new favorite diagram

Brachiosaurus projectile vomiting: forces generated and resulting traces
Assuming 50 kg (110 Ibs) of regurgitant, impact velocity from 14 m (45 ft) height, and hard-packed sand as impact site.
h = 14 m (45 ft)
Impact velocity = V = V 2gh = 16.6 m/s; kinetic energy before impact = 6,860 J
Average impact force = 68,600 N

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

I put a call out for mural walls yesterday and I got a lot of VERY good walls for projects of a variety of scales. Unfortunately I have only sold enough shirts this summer to cover 2 of those walls. This means more people need to buy shirts. Thems the breaks. More shirts more art. SquidFacts.Net

a bunch of people in our shirts, including our biology is bigger than binaries shirt, adam whose poor head got cut off in his montage in our plant native plants shirt, a blonde dude in the shrimp shirt, and Jay in oue firefly squid shirt in the dark forest

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FonsCordi Art @fonscordi.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Shrimp plant 🦐🌶 ___ Had a dream a couple of days ago where I was going to cook pasta shrimp, so I went outside to harvest the shrimps from a plant like they were peppers 🤣🦐🌶 #sketch #surrealism #weirdcore #kunst #art #sketchbook #traditionalart

Shrimps growing from a plant like peppers

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gg @ggdg.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

read my jrpg fantasy visual novel about kindness in the face of despair, religion as a tool of oppression, and the power of hot, evil women. (also there's a free demo 😊) gigidigi.itch.io/soulsov

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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The appropriately named piglet squid floats mostly upright in the deep, full of ammonia for buoyancy, with a little tuft of tentacles on top and a light organ under each eye. It looks less like a predator and more like something that lost a bet. #MolluscMonday #marinelife

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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

For #MolluscMonday, a grim one. The new IUCN Red List assessed every mollusc known to live only at hydrothermal vents. Of 201 species, 125 are now threatened with extinction, and the driver is deep-sea mining that has not meaningfully started yet. #marinelife iucn.org/press-releas...

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From desert frog to deep-sea molluscs, remarkable species at risk – IUCN Red List

Gland, Switzerland, 9 July 2026 (IUCN) – Deep-sea mining threatens over half of molluscs reliant on hydrothermal vents, today’s update of The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ has revealed. In Aust...

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

we're clamposting, post a clam

semi-realistic #SciArt drawing of a orangey tan clam shell with slightly purplish lines and covered in tiny barnacles, on a black background

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Steven Gawoski @stevengawoski.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Ink 10/25/2019 Speedball 107nib 6" X 8" [15.2 X 20.3 cm] #sciart #gawoski #arthropod

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Jen C Mars @jencmars.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Portrait of a moth

Close-up photo of a moth's head and first pair of legs. The moth is light brown and white and has a kind of pointy face and is extremely fluffy. One oversized eye is visible, with a very large dark pseudo-pupil that appears to be giving you the side eye

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Various growth stages of the oreasterid sea star Culcita novaeguineae! Undergoes change from a flat, biscuit shaped star to a huge cushiony thing that looks more like a rock! Growth changes are crazy!

different growth stages of a single species from smaller flat biscuits on left to big cushion shaped on the right.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

House Finch (Haemorhous mexicanus) male. Most male house finches are redder, but this guy is #orange. An introduced species, but the males are so pretty, I like seeing them in the backyard if there are not too many. They have a nice song, also. #BirdoftheDay #birds #backyard #Florida

A vertical frame filled with a House Finch male perched up facing the viewer on a thin branch sweeping from the bottom left to top right. Though most House Finch males are reddish to red-purple, this one instead has bright orange from mid-breast to the top of his head. He is cream-colored below and under tail, with brown, eye stripe, fine streaking and what little can be seen of his back. He is looking off to the left showing the large finch beak. The background is mottled greens, except for the left top, which is blues, contrasting nicely with the orange in the bird's head.

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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

It's ironic that the vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis), despite its name, is the one cephalopod species that doesn't eat live prey at all, and instead feasts on marine snow which is made of dead animals, mucus and poop. Ah yes, vampires, well known for eating poop... 🧛🐙📷MBARI

A juvenile vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) floating in the ocean at a depth 762 metres. Its mantle is partially inflated and its arms are all held together except for their tips. It is point toward the right. As it is a juvenile, it has two sets of fins, with one larger pair in the centre of their mantle and a smaller pair at the end. It has big round blue eyes and it is a dark red, almost purple colour.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

our lawn brings all the marmelade hoverflies to the yard

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Bri @circadiancrunch.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Many thanks, folks <3 And hello new people~ #sciart #sketchbook #doodles #marinelife #pilotwhale

messy ballpoint pen sketches of pilot whales

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Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

This is why my drawings take ages.

A zoomed-in screenshot of my most recent lanternfly drawing, showing detail of the green thorax and yellow abdomen.

A slightly zoomed out screenshot, now showing its long green snoot and bright orange wings.

An even more zoomed out shot, showing more of the wings (forewings are green with yellow spots, lower wings are vibrant orange).

A final screenshot showing the full body.

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Gil Wizen @wizentrop.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This spectacular cockroach (Panchlora aurora) came to the light trap at Igapó's International Fieldwork Course in Manaus, Brazil. The colors and texture of this species are unreal. The pastel blue & yellow together with the smooth and shiny surface makes it look like it is made out of porcelain!

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Bumps on bumps on bumps!

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

A mantis nymph looking before she leaps. (Stagmomantis limbata, SoCal) Found in my garden today on a native buckwheat (Eriogonum sp.). The various species of buckwheats are among my favorite native plants; they are often pretty, in and out of flower, and attract tons of insects. 🐙🌿📷 #BugSky

A macro photo looking up at the underside of a yellowish-orange mantis nymph against a muted green background. The nymph is perched on a fuzzy, white-green cluster or flower buds lower right, with her forelegs held out in preparation to hopping up to another flower bud cluster in the extreme upper left.

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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Some spectacular parasitic fungus for your feed: Ophiocordyceps curculionum!

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

when two of the feetball guys run into one another, they fake injury to attract the attention of the referee, allowing their packmates an opportunity to steal the referee's nutritious egg

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