Hey look! I finally got the new brain cell scarf listed on Etsy! #sciart artologica.etsy.com/listing/4400... You should buy one : ) 🧠🧪

We report in the complete absence of the sun: it is as dark as we remember it from previous nights, when the sun also was not there. We are counting all the other suns that we are now able to observe. Our expert insists that we do not need to count stars every time we see them.

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

Happy birthday to #physicist Lise Meitner (1878-1968) who explained #nuclear #fission. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬#histsci She worked with chemists Hahn & Straßmann in 30s Berlin, investigating whether there were any stable elements beyond uranium. They discovered bombarding nucleus of U-235 with neutrons actually 🧵

Installations by Pakistani American artist Anila Quayyum Agha, 2010s-20s, whose motifs are inspired by Islamic patterns and the architecture of the Alhambra.

Book 80/52 for 2025: Inheritance (Lost Bride Trilogy 1) by Nora Roberts. This was mostly a romance with the mildest haunted house plot ever. There were some slightly scary scenes near the end but was overall not scary at all. Still a fast & enjoyable read though I prefer my hauntings much darker.

Once again, for people in the back: graded exercise therapy, while great for many illnesses, does not help ME/CFS and can, in fact, worsen your condition. Unfortunately, chances are your doctor doesn't know this despite existing guidelines. So if you have or get Long Covid, be warned.

GOOD. Premiers using the notwithstanding clause to take our rights away whenever we prove to be ideologically inconvenient is wrong. What is our democracy then? "Supreme Court of Canada says it will hear appeals in a challenge of Saskatchewan's school pronoun law." #CdnPoli #SkPoli #Sask

From "Borders & Edges": "Sleight (of hand)", oil on map, 10 1/4 x 14", 2025 & "Hoard (and it burns, burns, burns)", oil, fire on map, 10 1/4 x14", 2025 - $450 (Cdn)each #art

Hypogymnia wilfiana is probably my current lichen favourite. I like the little floral lobes with apothecia. Not too uncommon in the more mature forests nearby. Near 100 Mile House, BC 🪶🌿

A gown for the Pomegranate Queen

I have one more spot open for custom hand embroidered wall hoops!

It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column

A gown for the Queen of Tillandsia usneoides (Spanish moss)

"Mystic Mountain" is a gas pillar in the Carina Nebula, where stardust curls into being. This vessel holds that moment, when chaos births light, and silence learns to shine. A vase shaped by fire, echoing the nebula’s breath, this is "Mystic Mountain." #space #pottery #sciart

Comics, recreating the stolen Louvre jewels in paper, and a bunch of photo essays about all kinds of bullshit are some of the things I made in October! Public post: www.patreon.com/posts/octobe... Join for free to get my monthly projects recap in your email or feed 😘

I can't believe it's November 5th already. We've got up to 5cm of snow forecast for tonight so I guess it's time... #ArtAdventCalendar starts in 25 days. Artists get your posting fingers ready.

Another day, another nudibranch for #Nudivember. #TradArt

#WIPWednesday • The next section of this #embroidery adds the #SciArt elements—anatomy, symptomatology, and astronomy—I’m stitching the Milky Way across where my hysterectomy scar is on my belly.

"An Effort to Release It" Available later today through Strangerfactory.com

Making art in the midst of the excellent art at one of my specialist’s offices.

Canada is showing global leadership in preventing airborne virus transmission with the CSA's new draft standard for respirator use (especially in healthcare) 🎉 theconversation.com/the-csas-rev...

The Peak: 'What we must confront: Living with Long COVID' 'This photography exhibition by long-haulers is a refusal to let suffering be forgotten' 'Long COVID affects one in nine Canadians' the-peak.ca/2025/11/what...

Did you know you can get free, one-on-one help with disability benefits? Inclusion Canada has a team of navigators who can help you apply for benefits, provide advice on filing your taxes, & support you with accessing provincial programs & free services inclusioncanada.ca/page/barrier-free-benefits

I’m seeing “blocking discourse” again. It’s not that complicated, folks. We have a right to choose what we see online. This doesn’t mean echo chambers are good, it just means each user has a personal responsibility to draw their lines where they want them, and where they do is none of your business.

This is how I'm gonna look every time someone hits the dislike button on one of my posts.

Day 2 of #Nudivember is Cerberilla tanna. #TradArt

Canadian authors, take note!

Pomegranatius

1/ if you truly believe in #consent you’re wearing an n95 in public indoor and crowded spaces. no one—especially those more vulnerable than you—is consenting to breathing in your COVID air, which can disable them or, yes, kill them. you may feel it’s 100% fine. it’s not. news.nm.org/new-research...

Although this ensemble was a commercial failure, Claire McCardell had a vision of the capsule wardrobe that would be revived decades later by designers like Donna Karan and her 7 Easy Pieces. This is mid #1930s, a travel ensemble to work anywhere you might land @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

#3131 I wasn't sure what animal I was drawing

🎶 New ALBUM releases! Nov. 3 - Nov. 9 🎶 FRIDAY @transgressivemetal.bsky.social transgressivethrash.bandcamp.com/music @youngweather.bsky.social youngweather.bandcamp.com/album/partia... SUNDAY various artists via @iheartnoise.bsky.social iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/2025-s... 5/5

Book 79/52 for 2025: Silver and Lead (October Daye 19) by Seanan McGuire. Another excellent addition to this series! If you enjoy urban fantasy this series is absolutely fantastic.1/2

Too soon.

If there's one thing I'd hope the music community learns from Leave Spotify it's this: The signs were there for years but we acted too slow. Artists are broke. The LLM has its dataset for AI slop. Ek has made his billions and reinvested in AI+war. The damage is done. Next time we must move faster.

Periodic reminder for this! If you’re thinking of getting gift 🎁 art for holidays, now’s a good time to start looking & booking!

Sharing for today's #BlueSkyArtShow theme, #autumn - my favorite season! 🥰🍂🍁 Tisha Mark ©2025, Autumn Mini No. 2503, oil on gessobord, 4"x4" Original is available: tishamark.com/product/autu... *10% of proceeds from my art sales go to Project Bread's Resilience Fund (in MA) thru 11/30 #art #bsnm

Double supernova 🤩 🔭 www.eso.org/public/image...

My youngest sister stopped by and while we were chatting I had a hot flash. She immediately changed the subject to “please tell me what to do about hot flashes!”

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRock Or Week C for Cheese 😉 Tonight’s 80% waxing #Moon, close to Saturn, taken in a welcome break in the clouds after the rain. Good chance to try out the new #olympus lens. Details of various craters in the alt text #lunar #astrophotography

reminder that alt text is important for accessibility and also bsky mute function works for alt text too so by using it youre supporting the disabled community AND helping ppl curate their space ! and there’s a setting to make sure you never forget to use it ! and it takes less than 30 sec to type !

star trek and famous art: a thread

November 1st

It increasingly feels like the Canadian electorate was tricked. Health care is a consistently high voter priority. Kicking it down to the provinces after breaking the promises made in a federal election is shady af behaviour.

Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word? My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle. www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...

We've just launched the first large, site-less (home, direct to participant) randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid, testing tirzepatide (a GLP-1 drug) vs placebo. Please help spread the word www.scripps.edu/news-and-eve...

1. @ianhanomansing.bsky.social platformed the Lightening Process as Long COVID "recovery" on National Television -No evidence, No biomedical context, & Huge policy risks. Long COVID is biological. Children deserves science, not illusion.