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Tess Gallagher @tessasaurus.bsky.social · 5h

Looks like the SVP abstracts have been posted, and are password protected! Wooohoo! Y'all are already aware that I submitted an abstract with @ndgspaleo.bsky.social for a talk. Hope people are excited to learn more about a specific, duck-billed dino November 12, 9:15 am

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 8h

Did I just get back from a viewing at Bonhams auction house in NYC of cat-themed art? Why yes- yes I did. Did I take pictures, including of these Chinese ceramic cats from the Qing Dynasty? Also yes! Will I make a thread of some of them? Indeed I will, which will include...

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 7h

Mommmmmm all the OTHER museums have life-sized model eurypterids, why can't WE install life-sized model eurypterids

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Tucker White @tuckerjw464.bsky.social · 7h

Seeing a lot of people hopping on this trend, I figured I would too. I feel pretty good about this list.

A list titled "My 9 Games: The 9 Games That Shaped Who I Am" The list ranked first to last is as follows: Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, Planescape Torment, Chrono Trigger, The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind, Thief The Dark Project, Katamari Damacy, The Bard's Tale Trilogy, Dwarf Fortress, and Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe (OpenTTD).

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calisera @rolylowpoly.bsky.social · 10h

UPDATED PUZZLE!!! the original puzzle is dummy hard since it can have multiple solutions, oops ^^; this revised version should only have one solution! therefore, it is much easier to solve! ;v;

nonogram puzzle on a grid size fifteen by twenty two. the key is in the top left corner and is inverted.

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Joshua Lüdtke @joshualudtke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The news today from Hays and Philadelphia isn't exactly great. But giving up means that the decision makers will go with their worst instincts, which will involve selling fossils and other natural history specimens to the highest bidder. That needs to be avoided, so speak up.

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feeb @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

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

ehhhh I think at this point if you're a moderately informed person, science person especially, you should absolutely know better than to use genAI to make images, and doing so anyway makes you a jerk. we're five years into slop world; people have had plenty of time to gather their thoughts.

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Kristen Behrens, PhD @behrenskristen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Alright fish folks I’m talking to some 4th and 5th graders at the museum next week about science and writing and need a good funky fish to test their observation skills + ability to remember things without writing them down (you bet I’m making a point). Any fish come to mind?

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I became a biologist because of a museum exhibit. Real artifacts tell stories that are more powerful than anything we can get from scrolling. They are part of our engine for training the next generation of scientists. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/the-awesomen...

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The awesomeness of museums

Genuine artifacts tell the richest stories that fill our souls. And they fuel the scientific enterprise.

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 28/09/2026

Former ‘South Park’ writer Toby Morton has created a website to expose information about Cornell University’s administration in response to the group sexual assault case: “Accountability should not disappear when the headlines do. And we all know this headline will disappear.”

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TAKAO★WATANABE🌿10/23-28Exhibition @watanabetakao.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Let's take a close look at the underwater world today! #Illustration #CommentPls #RTpls

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Derek Hennen, Ph.D. @derekhennen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We can't fund icky taxonomy positions when the money-eating computer needs more gold bullion

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Raven Amos (Autumn Edition)🎨🐦‍⬛ @alaskanime.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm probably going to get muted or blocked for this, but as a fellow science communicator, using AI-generated imagery/text is really a bad look all around. It not only steals from your fellow scientists because it's all trained on stolen data, it also makes up fake science.

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Robert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️ @coastalpaleo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

New #watercolor for #seaotterawarenessweek - a sea otter skull stained purple by echinochrome, a result of eating a large number of sea urchins! Based on several specimens found earlier this year by tidepoolers. Watercolor and gouache, 5x4", 2026. ~5 hours. 🦑🦀🐬🧪🐡 #sciart #art #painting

A watercolor painting of a skull and mandible slightly agape showing the completely purple stained bone of a sea otter

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Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A quillback rockfish. Not quite a drawing with a quill but with a dip pen, which feels of-a-sort. - #SundayFishSketch + #SciArtSeptember Day 27: Quill

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Sarage @sarahcpjones.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

27. Quill. Porcupine fish. I'm knackered and had to dig deep for that one. #SciArt #SciArtSeptember #SundayFishSketch

A face on drawing of a brown striped porcupine fish of some kind

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Larry Hamilton @ichiloe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Leaves turning in the White Mountains today.

Forested New England mountainside with bright orange and red scattered among other trees still green.

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Ligus @greyauk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I finished my little bee \o/ . Art of a bee and by a bee 🐝🌿 It's now available on my Ko-fi. (End of the month and next month is vet month, so I will try to put other art up too. Commissions for small paintings are open 🙏) ko-fi.com/s/4515f07e50 #sciart #traditionalart #bee

2 passepartous with round cutouts.
One is showing a leaf cutter bee gripping a green stem on turquoise background.
the other is showing a glued down leaf which was symmetrical cut out by a bee. The background is red with little dots of gold.

watercolour of a leaf cutter bee gripping a green stem on turquoise background with a little golden signature underneath

a glued down leaf which was symmetrical cut out by a bee. The background is red with little dots of gold.

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Lincoln Shoemaker @lincoln-shoemaker.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

This was perhaps one of my top 5 favorite finds of all time. A beautiful Taxocrinus ungula from the Edwardsville formation of Indiana. From the field to finished. This piece also had a nice Halysiocrinus tunicatus hitchhiking. #Fossil #crinoid #echinoderm #paleontology #paleozoic #geology

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Ligus @greyauk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A little work-in-process post 🐝. I should know by now that miniatures don't take less time 😅 . 🐡

An ink/pencil sketch of a leaf cutter bee holding on to a branch.
On it lies a very small brush.

A painting (in process)of a leaf cutter bee holding on to a branch. The background is turquoise and the branch/grass is bright green.

A painting of a leaf cutter bee holding on to a branch. The background is turquoise and the branch/grass is bright green.
On it lies a very small brush.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you want a full rundown of the Academy of Natural sciences situation, this video does a really good job of covering it. youtu.be/nxyfBfCrbDw?...

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The Plan To Destroy Americas Oldest Natural History Museum

YouTube video by Miniminuteman

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the unmanageable chulk @hulkfuckscar.top · 23/09/2026

y’all think microbes got drama?

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Keishu Asada @cephwarden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of my favorite nudibranchs, Bornella anguilla, swimming like some sort of psychedelic dragon

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Tucker White @tuckerjw464.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The only reason I listened to his podcast at all is because of Karl Pilkington and I'm like this ~80% of the time.

A Spiderman 3 impact font meme of Peter in the symbiote suit crouched down moutngully in the rain against a dark, cloudy sky with the words "WHEN THEY'RE MEAN TO KARL ON RICKY GERVAIS SHOW" in impact font. Behind the words "KARL" and "RICKY GERVAIS SHOW" there are black scribbles, implying a hastily-done edit on a phone.

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Tucker White @tuckerjw464.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"No foolin'? I'M from the mountainhome! Do ya know Urist Koganusan?"

A screenshot from the simpsons episode titled "Lard of the Dance" where Homer is confronted by Groundskeeper Willie wearing a towel in the school kitchen. Various large kitchen appliances for the school are seen in the background, as well ad a pot rack. Homer is in the foreground facing away from the viewer and towards Willie, while Willie is facing the viewer, pointing a thumb at himself.

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Pablo Rivera @pablonotpicasso.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Been having fun trying out more isolated vignettes in personal work! As always, coming back to a classic subject matter during such times of exploration. #paleoart #dinosaurart #paleosky #triceratops

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🌻OK MR. SUNSHINE!🌻 @entobiologist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

i was a little suspicious at first since ai-checkers have been really hit-or-miss ime but upon questioning from the newspaper this guy straight admitted to using ai for "making writing more efficient"

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Betty Widerski (aka Betty4Cats) @bettywiderski.com · 20/09/2026

Really unexpected lifer today in Wellfleet (Cape Cod): a Crested Caracara, which is supposed to be down the length of South America, maybe as north as Florida. Seen by many. @aba.org is this a MA first?

A slightly blurry bird: white neck, grayish/black body, black top of head, reddish orange face, pale thick curved bill. Standing in marsh grass.

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Paul Brown @pbrown4348.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NOAA fisheries takes a ‘sharp turn away from science’. The agency’s focus on commercial interests threatens fisheries science and over one million miles of protected marine habitats. ehsciences.emlnk9.com/lt.php?x=4lZ...

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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For a second year, a survey of nearly 1,000 scientists across a variety of life sciences details how federal government policies have created ongoing disruptions to American research and to the scientific workforce.

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Scientists Report Continuing Harms to U.S. Science in Second-Year Survey

A survey of scientists across a variety of life sciences details how federal government policies have created ongoing disruptions to American research and the scientific workforce.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

all of this is exactly correct, and what i would add is: no person has ever spent 100 hours writing a scientific paper hoping, hoping with all their heart, that potential readers will skip that step to go straight to some mangled summary you didn't even write

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Auk @aukkenopsia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Two adult Plesiosaurus socializing and playing with a little bit of sea plant material

A digital illustration of two plesiosaurs, aquatic reptiles with flipper fins and a long, slightly slender neck who have countershading with grey-black upper bodies and white underbellies. They are swimming around each other, playing with a piece of seaweed, in the open ocean.

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Aaron Radney COMMISSIONS OPEN (3/7 slots left) @aaronradney.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For those of you who aren't in the know or didn't go to art school this is one of the longest running beefs in professional art. The artificial categorization between the "design arts" (illustration, graphic design, animation and fiber arts) and the "fine arts" (painting, sculpture etc). Wild stuff!

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molly @bugmom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

megalithic structures near me

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

While thinking about arthropods at PRI, I'll also note that the eurypterid body pillows are back in stock and if you want one but aren't one of the 87 lucky folks who already had back orders or recent orders, its a good time to order! ⚒️🦑 #fossilfriday pri-gift-shop.myshopify.com/collections/...

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Giant Eurypterid Body Pillow

Eurypterus remipesSilurian eurypterid Limited quantities available! If you would like to buy multiple units, please purchase each unit separately to ensure our shipping calculator works correctly. Eu...

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Ligus @greyauk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It is so rare to see this kind of fish paleo art 🎉🐡. Makes me want to create some too ... but breathing life into fish fossiles is scary 🫠

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Nathan Nun @nathannun.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hello cat lovers. Here's a colorful cat poster. Please follow me here for more if you like my work and visit my print shop at nathannunart.etsy.com - Thanks for taking a look. Thank you, Cats of Yore, for the show!

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TAKAO★WATANABE🌿10/23-28Exhibition @watanabetakao.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Suddenly, I felt as if I’d been pushed from behind. The moment I thought that, a large pod of whales swam right past me. To be honest, it was scary. #Illustration #CommentPls #RTpls

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shafer brown @shaferbrown.com · 08/09/2026

raichu bangin out the tunes (2024)

2024 limited color commission of a raichu playing a modular synth. behind him are stereos amps and speakers, to his right a gameboy running LSDJ

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SuperRAD 🍋 @superrad.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

They should remaster Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate and release it in PC

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Starite 🌟 @starite.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

50 years of plantasia 🪴 #art

a vintage style illustration of tor, a man with shaggy blond hair wearing a knit sweater, patched jeans, and a set of headphones, sitting in a cozy nook listening to mort garson's plantasia on his record player. the nook is surrounded with many potted plants and even some ivy crawling up the wall.

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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 06/09/2026

Seeing a lot of y’all still interacting with Little Bunny Foo Foo as if nothing she did to those field mice even mattered

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Today’s #SciArtSeptember prompt is the colour saffron which made me think of a particular yellow-orange mushroom. This is a hand-carved lino block reduction print of a clump of poisonous, Eastern jack-o-lantern mushrooms (Omphalotus illudens) on a hardwood tree stump. 🧪

As described this is my 8” x 10” linocut reduction print of a clump of several Eastern jack-o-lantern mushrooms in yellow-orange with glow-in-the-dark gills against a decaying tree stump with textured bark in grey, brown and black, and ground with dead leaves with green in a corner of the background. The print is signed and numbered by me, Ele Willoughby, 2024.

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