🦀 see a crab, post a crab 🦀 I'm on a roll (not a crab roll, obvs).

🦀 see a crab, post crab art 🦀

🦀 see a crab, post a crab 🦀

A Japanese carved boxwood group of turtles, 19th century

Transparency is key in the deep sea. 🗝️⁠ ⁠ Solmissus jellies, also known as dinner plate jellies, are dominant predators in Monterey Bay. With few places to hide in the open waters of the ocean, many deep-sea animals use their colors (or lack thereof) to hide from potential predators and prey. ⁠

Last week I sowed some broad beans in toilet roll tubes to get them started before planting out. The seeds have sprouted, but so have some tiny parasol-shaped mushrooms, both inside and outside the tubes. Any idea what species? #fungifriday #mushrooms

If you ever wondered whether it's possible to weave a basket from tomato stalks, the answer is yes. If you've never wondered, never mind. Move on - nothing to see here. 😊

@nigelslater.bsky.social In your Christmas fruit cake recipe I can't see when to add the fruit and hazelnuts to the batter. Is it before or after the flour? Thanks.

Urban fox decided that our bag filled with soil was the ideal place for a nap. @chrisgpackham.bsky.social

*crab-walked

For years, we've been making Hyphae lamps that fit in your hand. Now we're working on something a bit bigger #sciart

POLONIA-Coral Comet, work in progress. #SciArt #MarineLife #comet #ceramic #porcelain #coral #reef #sculpture

Pope Duck Confit III. Ooh, get me 🙄

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of visiting the amazing Archaeological State Museum in Chemnitz. One of its many stunning objects is this Neolithic well bucket made of lime bast with a willow handle. Lime bast fibre is a flexible inner bark of a lime (linden) tree that was, for ...🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺

As promised, here are some nudibranchs I saw yesterday on the docks. The first one is Dendronotus venustus, the second and third are Hermissenda crassicornis and the last one, which I had to hang half off the dock to reach, is Coryphella verrucosa. #InverteFest

#Opencall for artists! We're looking to commission a Devon/Cornwall-based artist to run a series of 7 workshops with a selection of community groups, working with diverse communities to create textile artworks exploring stories of place. Find out more + apply >>> rammuseum.org.uk/jobs/#artist...

Leading 20th century textile artist Itchiku Kubota reinvented ancient dye techniques for use on modern kimono, creating panoramas of colour and light ~ here are some of his beautiful works thekubotacollection.com

I've been away for a few days, so here are some embroidered stones from 2023.

19/20C biologist/artist Ernst Haeckel, coiner of the term “ecology”, created these vivid depictions of sea anemones, jellyfish and hummingbirds (1904, from his book ‘Art Forms in Nature’)

Very good advice to find after a day of doomscrolling

Yu Chengyou is one of China’s most prominent contemporary printmakers. Chengyou's favorite subjects often reflect traditional elements of Chinese art, including fans, tea bowls, and musical instruments. He is particularly skilled in calligraphy, a recurring feature in the background of his prints.

glass feather Flameworked; bolosilicate glass #glassart #ガラス #glass

One of my new resolutions is to avoid buying print books from Amazon—so I finally set up an account on Bookshop.org, which benefits indie bookstores. I should have done this sooner. They had the book I wanted in stock and I was able to choose Women and Children First as beneficiary of the sale. Win!

A favorite commission this year, a dividing cell with an extra detail. Colleagues of a retiring researcher commissioned me to add the specific structure she worked on—the spindle pole body—to the sculpture. Here it is close up, in sterling silver embedded in the bronze nuclear membrane. 🔬#SciArt

Another improvised leaf wrap-around on a tiny cup. Could possibly be used as an egg cup, or shot glass…. really a glaze test, but a lovely one, if I do say so myself. #ArtAdventCalendar

A duo of amphipods have made this radiolarian their home. Radiolarians are part of the marine #plankton. Individual radiolarians are normally hundredths to tenths of millimeters in size, but some species amass into colonies like this one which may reach size of a whole centimeter! #marinelife 🦑

Day 20 #ArtAdventCalendar • This #MECFS #symptomatology #embroidery, paresthesia (face) (2016), looks abstract at first glance, but is a visualization of the tingling I felt on my face at the time. #MedSky 🐡🧪🧶

Cladonia #lichens. Northwest Territories, Canada. #fungifriends

Is this ancient evidence of a sore loser at board games?! 😂 About 1,000 years ago, this beautifully carved 'Tables' game was smashed to pieces with an axe and thrown into a rubbish pit at Gloucester Castle! Excavated in 1983, it's the world's oldest complete tables gaming set. #Archaeology

'Looking at the Snow.' (c1930) By the deftest of touches, Christopher Nevinson takes us right to a place and makes it real. Although we are given no clue to the actual location or who the figure is in the painting, it is immaterial.

#ArtAdventCalendar On the easel today - a ‘grain’ of sanderlings. Yes indeed, it’s the collective noun, and I’d love to know who decides these things? 🤷‍♀️

Blue Lattice 11/2015 15 X 15 inches [38.1 X 38.1 cm] Colored Pencil on Paper #sciart #gawoski #plankton #radiolarian

A glass sponge observed in the Ross Sea, a bay of Antarctica, is thought to be the oldest living animal on the planet. Glass sponges are very slow growing, and a one meter tall sponge may be 220 years old. www.ifaw.org/journal/anim....

Good Day! Primrose Hill by David Gentleman 2009 Watercolour

Day 18. “Tempest III” in situ at the collectors. #ArtAdventCalendar

I think the Japanese word kuchisabishii, which is used to describe the feeling when you’re not hungry but you eat because your mouth is lonely, will always be one of my favourite ever words.

I went for the basketry but stayed for the Venetian blinds 😊 kimwinter.co.uk/2024/12/18/h...

Not gonna lie. I love an armadillo. Looks like a little dinosaur. #wildlife #nature #naturalist #photographer #bluesky

A lichen mimic katydid at Wildsumaco in Ecuador. These absolutely disappear into this beard lichen. Finding one was mostly a happy accident. Its neat to think about the selective pressure that lead to them looking just like this lichen, that they both live around and eat as their main diet.

Day 17 of #ArtAdventCalendar is a linocut print from a couple of years ago Printed using the reduction method (one Lino block for all the layers) ‘Tree by the Stour’ #linocut #print #printmaking #art #artist #landscape #noAI #handmade jemgooding.com

A weight made of stone with a great relief of an octopus from Knossos, around 1500 BCE. Interpretations include an actual weight for weighing ingots and an anchor stone. The weight is about 30kg. Museum Heraklion. #Archaeology

Happy day 17 of #ArtAdventCalendar! Something a bit different - the jellyfish tattoo I designed for @acescicomm.bsky.social Inspired by a moon jelly with sampaguita flowers. 🐡 🦑 #invert

One of the more impressive trees I've seen recently #epiphyte #ferns

Touched by the last light of day, as a testament to eternal love, two beautiful trees remain locked in embrace 700 years after the Tsauchab river was cut off by the shifting red dunes of Namibia's Sossusvlei. #photography #nature #bluesky #naturephotography #landscapephotography #landscape #sunset

A photo of Lamproderma columbinum by Michael Harz

I made a coiled piece inspired by the radiated tortoise in 2020, during the Covide-19 lockdown. Everyone was withdrawing into their homes, so it seemed appropriate. Shelter, 2020, linen, copper, hemp #artAdventCalendar #sculpturalbasketry #tortoise

おはようございます #地衣類 #lichen #fungifriends