If you see this, post something toothy! Blast from the past from the 2025 March Mammal Madness. #art #sciart #watercolor

The auction is live and running until the end of July! Come check out and bid on all the great offers, including tons of lovely art! gazaaidcollective.betterworld.org/auctions/gaz... #sciart #birds #watercolor

The lovely Palestinian Sunbird. This 6x8 #watercolor piece is made for an auction with @gazaaidcollective.bsky.social. More details to come. #sciart #birds

Just finished this brown-lipped snail from Mud Lake in Ottawa 🐌 Had such a relaxing time with it using QoR watercolors and a Pentel water brush in an Etchr sketchbook. Grabbed new references in Ithaca yesterday too – totally beat but happy this one’s done! #sciart #artist

Boosting this opportunity to #science

I’m edging towards thinking this a queen red-tailed cuckoo (Bombus rupestris) rather than a red-tailed bumblebee, ( B. lapidarius) but would appreciate any confirmation of which she is. Thank you! (NEEngland). #bees @nenature.bsky.social

The space bee is complete and ready for framing! #sciart #bombus #nebula #space #insectart #watercolor

Messing around with a new technique to paint nebula. Which version do you think looks better? #sciart #spaceart #watercolorart

Esta es mi reinterpretación del esquema anatómico de la piel y las células del sistema inflamatorio. Es muy divertido ver cómo escala el proceso creativo. #scientificillustration #sketches

Want some of my Itty-Bitty #sciart Paintings? Come to Artscape in Baltimore this weekend

The orangutans and bonobos are the first two illustrations of a series on behavior and movement of animals in their environment. #SciArt More coming soon! :) For @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

Going back to an old project to paint all the #DnD classes as native #California animals. Here is #jackrabbit as a #warlock. The jackrabbit already has the air of a mad desert prophet so the arcane class felt fitting! Which class or animal do you want to see next? #wildlife #watercolor 🦊

Total deregulation of a/i where states cannot enact any guardrails of their own. That's what's in this bill. This is some real, truly awful shit for the future of all of us and everything we post online. U.S. House Switchboard: (202) 224-3121 5calls.org to get a script and quick dial to your rep.

4 artists & 3 scientists created a series of posters to communicate some of the science issues most important to us. These posters are made to be shared! We're selling them in 4-packs, so YOU can share them outside of the science circles where we hang out online. get 'em squidfacts.bigcartel.com

Awesome day at the farm with @norcalresist.bsky.social Hopefully the strawberries will be happy in their new home!

🚨🔔 6-month technician position in plant-soil interactions available in @frantecol.bsky.social ‘s lab at the University of Amsterdam! 🌎🧪

Such lovely country side. Chiang Mai, Thailand. Will likely keep messing with this some more. #art #landscape #wip #thailand

in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list

Koh Chang, Thailand #thailand #watercolor #plainair

I am off to #Thailand until the 22nd. Kind of a long shot, but if anyone in the area wants to chat about endangered species permitting, biological illustration or anything in between, I'd be down to meet up. #science

Messing around with my new Manta @supernote.com Pretty decent functionality and feel. Shot from the #DnD campaign, where our party got invited to dinner at a creepy mansion. #wip #art

The flowers are coming back and with them some cool native #pollinators. Saw a lovely yellow-faced #bumblebee queen and what I think is a caterpillar of the variable checkerspot #butterfly. Super cool. This is Steven's trail. #california #wildlife #flora

#Mesozoic 100 m sprint: a juvenile #Tyrannosaurus - legitimately thought to be one of the fastest of all predatory #dinosaurs - chases down Ornithomimus. T. rex leg muscle configs suggest that they were ambushers, not marathon runners, so outrunning them was one means of escape. #paleoart #Sciart

It has come to my attention that the Flying Frog, #2025MMM wildcard contestant and very cool #amphibian did not make it onto the sticker store. This has been fixed, and the whole set should be up there. Tell me if I'm wrong. You can get these watercolor stickers here: brushesandbiomes.printful.me

Thank goodness for this morsel of positive news in the midst of relentless ongoing barbarism in Gaza, where electricity, water, and aid have been cut off for weeks and Gazans are starving, and in the West Bank, where settlers continue to attack Palestinians with state sanctioned impunity

#BattleOfTheTongues!!! #2025MMM

#2025MMM #DivisionTuxedoStyle #TeamNarwhal Art by Valeria Pellicer @veppart.bsky.social #mammals #sciart

New sketch of a little burrowing owl Graphite pencils on paper #art #birds #sciart #wildlife #traditional

Excited to say that the stickers of all #2025MMM contestants are finished and up on the store. Check them out here: brushesandbiomes.printful.me #mammals #sciart #watercolor #art

Am I super close to having all the sticker designs finished? Yes. Am I also going to be neurotic about a missed ink line instead of posting them up on the store? Also yes. #art #wildlifeart #wip

Had a lovely time at Jepson Prairie with @dylapodiformes.bsky.social and a couple others! So many cool endemic vernal pool plants (and some critters too)! We'll get that beetle next time.

#2025MMM Round 2 tOO WINNERS: Addax, Peccary, Puma & Saiga Round 2 Roots & Relicts WINNERS: Gingko/Rhizo, Seal, Gar & Shark Join us MONDAY 3/24 at 8PM EST for Round 2 of SAME/DIFFERENT and TUXEDO STYLE!

#2025MMM are you seeing this??

State Scientist job in California. Mostly permitting work. Pay=$7,556.00 - $10,221.00/m Due Date: 3/26/2025 I am not going to make any promises about the quality of the job or the team, but state service is currently more stable than working for the feds so... calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...

#2025MMM #DivisionRootsandRelicts #TeamGar Art by Charon Henning @oddangel.bsky.social #sciart

#2025MMM RND 2 tOO + Roots & Relicts EMOJI BATTLE RESULTS! 👃🏻🆚🔲:👃🏻😤🔲/🔲🔊🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️/🏆👃🏻 🌳🍄‍🟫🆚🐢:🐢🥶/🐢👋🏾/🏆🌳🍄‍🟫 🦈🆚🦖:🦖🗡️🦈/🦖🆙🏊🏽/🏆🦈 🐟🆚🦭:🐟💥🦭/🐟🔎🥡/🏆🦭 🦌🆚🦦:🦦🤼🦅/🦦🍽️👋🏻/🏆🦌 🐊🆚🦀:🐊🚀🦀/🐊🙂‍↔️🦀/🏆🐊 😼🆚🥹:🥹🔙🚼/😼🍽️🚼/🏆😼 🐗🆚🐺:🐗😳🐺/🐗🤺🐺/🏆🐗

#2025MMM bonus art! #DivisionOnlyOnes art by @veppart.bsky.social @oddangel.bsky.social @maryfreisner.bsky.social @opellisms.bsky.social

The samples for the stickers arrived and I'm so excited! They look great! I'm pushing myself to get all the contestants processed into stickers and on the store by this weekend! #2025mmm #mammals #art #watercolor #sciart

Deinonychus. #dinosaur #paleoart #sciart #art #raptor

Narwhal coloration changes with age. Juveniles start out uniform bluish-black & increased white mottling appears as they get older. Most adults appear speckled while very old individuals can be almost fully white #SilverFoxes #2025MMM

Delacour’s langurs are one of the world’s 25 most endangered primates, w/less than 200 animals in the wild. Given their critically endangered status, unsurprisingly, variation in the mitochondrial D-loop suggest low levels of nucleotide and haplotype diversity #2025MMM #RIP shorturl.at/Vh30c

#2025MMM Last but not least Tasmanian Devil, the feisty inhabitant of Tasmania and the long-limbed cliff-dwelling Delacour's Langur! 🐡🦊 #watercolor #art

#2025MMM These two have the fanciest of suits! I wonder what the benefit of such coloration might be? The Tamandua also has a pretty cool display posture where they stand on their back legs to intimidate the threat! 🐡🦊 #Watercolor #art

Tonight's battle takes place in Etosha National Park, Namibia. It's mid-morning and a small group of Mountain Zebra are gathered near the Okaukuejo waterhole (#HomeHabitatAdvantage). [Interested in zebra watercooler talk? You can livestream this waterhole www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ6m... #2025MMM

#2025MMM Both of these were so satisfying to paint. Especially the zebra stripes! 🐡🦊 #watercolor #art

#2025MMM I'm usually #teamfurball but the Narwhal is just so cute! Good luck Eastern Spotted Skunk, hope you can doggy paddle! 🐡🦊 #watercolor #art

#2025MMM I love the moonrat because it has all the lovely derpiness of the possum but also a certain mystique (and a cool name). And they have at least two color morphs that appear regional! Doubt it stands a chance against the imposing cape buffalo though! 🐡🦊 #watercolor #art

#2025MMM I'm a huge fan of polecats, behold it's full fluffy glory as the Zorilla tries its best to be large and intimidating. But can it stand a chance compared to the massive (and fluffy) Yak? 🐡🦊 #watercolor #art

#2025MMM Look at these cool tropical friends! 🦊🐡

#2025MMM Field work today, hence late post, but here is your preview for the battle on Wednesday! The mighty polar bear and the Eurasian Water Shrew of the Tuxedo division! Both are capable swimmers and predators. I have a fondness for the small, so the shrew has my heart. #watercolor #art 🧪🦊🐡