Publication seems a REALLY long way off, but do reach out if you'd like to schedule a book signing, talk, reading, podcast interview, exhibition, or any combination of the above to help get A New Unfeathered Bird off to a flying start next year. 'A celebration of all birds, across all time'.

Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew!

✅ #Artemis II splashdown at 01:07 BST/02:07 CEST!

#Artemis II lunar flyby images are showing up! 😍 A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Did you know you can hire me to paint stuff for *you*? It's true! 🐡🪶🎨

🐡🌎 I was wondering where all the PFAS floss went in my state!!! A win for the environment… and a loss for this series 😂 Whoops! Guess I’m done when my PTFE floss stash is exhausted 🤓 Not a bad way to end it 💪

Most dental floss contains PFAS. But PFAS are linked to serious health conditions. Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, & Vermont have already banned the sale and distribution of PFAS-containing dental floss. Good news: more bans are coming stateside. 🎨 Use Less/ Useless by @eyeforscience.bsky.social

Just a reminder of the truly great #LuxArt created by yours truly, Jennifer Quinn, and Photobacterium (I just grow the organism; Jenny is the Petri dish artist). This #LuxPortrait is of the great Carl Woese, a name every biologist should know. @univpugetsound @asmicrobiology @microbetv.bsky.social

2 more subscribers to the SciArt Feed and we will have completed The Old One’s ritual--er, I MEAN we will have reached 4,200 subscribers! 🐡🧪🩺🎨

Expansive, insightful and astonishing essay here by @patrlynch1.bsky.social. Capturing the fine art world’s failure to exalt animal subjects during a mass extinction, as well as the utilitarian role sci illustration has been pushed into. I will be thinking about this #SciArt essay for some time.

Was thinking earlier today how the art materials industry is still in thrall to early-factory Industrial period norms (“bristle brush for oil, soft for watercolour”) influenced by the Impressionist era. Knowledge grows so quickly but norms are moribund an slow to change. 🐡🎨

The pinning begins!! Got my tags (will need soooooo may more), finished my design, transfered it to pattern pages over the last two days and so now I get to the fun part: piecing and sewing. New projects are always so exciting!! #quilt #quilting

Sometimes I post stuff about These Times, and people will reply with some version of "Thank you for granting me permission to do nothing" and I- seriously you guys- am never ever advocating for you doing nothing. Not gonna happen. Not in this household, not in this timeline. Do something.

more neuroscientists in Congress, yes, please!

for my next project, I’m collecting clothing care tags to make quilts & garments. This warehouse graciously lets me sift through donated clothes before they get shredded into insulation and carpet padding. In case you were wondering where your single-use Halloween costume ends up…

Prints www.inprnt.com/gallery/near... ...and other stuff nearbirdstudios.threadless.com/designs/psyc... ...now available! Black/blue version is also there.

post a monster! my monsters are slightly different but no less scary: Year of Plastic, Family of Four, 2021, made of single-use plastic packing collected for an entire year 🐡🌎

ever wondered what you throw away in a year? A friend collected her family’s thin plastic packaging for me for an entire year. The resulting quilt I made is 26-ft wide by 26-ft long at its longest. Always open to collecting someone else’s for a different window into our waste! 🐡🌎 must be CLEAN 🪤🐭

did someone post this to #sciart?

Capy’s are my spirit animal #IYKYK #sciart 😂

And if you want to buy a set of 3, I’m selling the set for $30! We are only doing local pickup because I am not shipping glass. Too stressful.

Left: original, re-used from @symbiartic.bsky.social, blog I wrote with @eyeforscience.bsky.social & @katiemckissick.bsky.social. Right: new icon, colours similar to the Apple puffer fish emoji 🐡. Big thank you to @blueappaloosa.bsky.social for help starting the Feed in Bluesky's ancient times.

Welcome to the SciArt Feed! 🔸The intersection of art + science 🔸Medical illustration, paleoart, space art, bioart, wildlife art, + more 🧡Like + 📌Pin! - 🔹Contributors: tag posts with #SciArt or 🐡 🔹Alt-text + self-promo encouraged 🚫No AI/NFTs 🔹Contact @flyingtrilobite.com to become a contributor

If you’re in DC, stop by the AAAS building for a really neat exhibit that showcases a decade of visuals in Science magazine 🤩 www.aaas.org/programs/art... Kudos to Beth Rakouskas and the Science Visuals team! 🧪#SciArt 📊

#sciart curious?! New #drawing class with my friend Anna Kaye! In addition to being an accomplished artist, she’s been a generous& dedicated teacher for yrs at the Denver Art Museum & Denver Botanic Gardens. Check out her new series of classes: www.instagram.com/reel/DUzAwaa... 🐡🌎

currently working on expanding this art infographic showing 75+ years of global plastic production - Each quilt represents the amt of virgin #plastic we produced worldwide in a given year. 8 data points take up 18ft of wall—when I show it in 2027 in Tulsa it will be MUCH bigger!! #sciart 🐡🌎

As I say here, there is no scientific justification to revoke the engagement finding. In fact, over the last 15+ yrs, the evidence of how climate change affects our health has only grown. Higher risk of allergies, dementia, fertility, heart disease, and death: that’s what’s on the line. @nature.org

reposting for the sciart feed 🐡

confession: I did not watch the halftime show but it’s not because I’m upset about Spanish anything… it’s because I genuinely don’t know how to work my tv!!! (I miss the days when you just turned it on and pressed channel up/down 🤦‍♀️ ) Anyway, I watched it in spirit…

Opening coming up for metro Denver folks! Loving Gestures, Feb 14 Exhibit opening: 2:30-5pm at Studio 108, 901 Englewood Pkwy, Unit 108, Englewood, Colorado. 2/28, Exhibit hours: 12-5pm 3/14, FREE Loving Gesture Tai Chi 11am-12pm 3/21, Exhibit hours: 12-5pm 3/22, Exhibit closes

In today's installment of Old Lady Yells At Clouds:

Early Arthropods xkcd.com/3199/

can you help me explain what I just saw on the Pacific side of Costa Rica? A shrimp in a tide pool that didn’t match anything that should be in the area. But it sure looks like a spotted bumblebee shrimp to me! iNaturalist is silent for the moment. Anyone know? #marinebiology #mystery #crustacean

New followers, hello! I’m an artist/ science communicator exploring the complexity of our relationship with plastic. below - this #art jacket is made fr 172 single-use #plastic bags signifying whether we use plastic for 30 sec or 30 yrs, it’s ultimately a one way street to trash.

i know nothing about billboards but it seems like maybe these two are having a rough day? #windy #billboard #fail

If you create science-related art, enjoy looking at it, or just want to make your social media experience a little bit prettier and more intelligent, this feed is what you need.

Hi! As I am not very available for commissions these days BUT still receive requests from researchers looking for artists who can do scientific illustrations of arthropods and inverts, I am updating my list of potential artists, so please, if you know arthropod loving artists, let me know! #SciArt

With tears streaming down my face, I’m giving this guy a standing ovation 🤣🤣 “I’m Building an Algorithm That Doesn’t Rot Your Brain” #blueskyart #oc #artislife #humanityFTW www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...

A friend inadvertently named my series of #jewelry made from broken windshield glass when he bought one & included a note for his bestie: “You’re never broken. You are a jewel.” So, introducing the Never Broken series. Join my mail list so you don’t miss the shop drop! www.kalliopimonoyios.com

working on a pattern for these reusable gift bags for a local sustainability workshop I’ll lead in Dec. Made from #upcycled & scrap fabric. Wouldn’t it be fun if it had a gift log like the old library cards that showed how many times a book had been borrowed? #sustainable #reduce #reuse

It looks so simple but I’ve been working on this for weeks… ahem… months… on and off. Finally I can see the finish line!!! PTFE dental floss on “treeless” polypropylene paper. Yes, dental floss, people!! #more #sciart #fineart

Wesleyan Potters’ 70th Annual Sale is almost here… I sent a bunch of work this year - framed & unframed geodes, journals, and rocks from the plasticene. Plus you’ll find hundreds of other beautifully made items from talented local artists. Def check it out if you’re near Middletown, CT!! 🐡

Amazing work #sciart

progress on this PTFE floss embroidery!! Not only do these take forever (been working on this 3 weeks now) but soon PTFE will disappear from dental floss and these will be collector’s items 😎 Already, I’m stockpiling it like Elaine hoarded the sponge on Seinfeld. Anyone? Anyone? 😬 🐡

Art exhibit opening. Public Reception, Friday, Sept 12, 2-4 pm, at Waukegan History Museum at Carnegie. 15 artists of Heeyoung Kim Botanical Art Acedemy present 47 paintings of flora and fauna featuring Piping Plover and shorebirds. Collaborators and more in the comment. #botanicalart #SciArt #art

just sold my first of these sculptures i’m using as substrates for epiphytes… so excited to make more!! The sculpture itself is made from reclaimed telephone and stereo wires and Teflon tape. More on the philosophy behind the work on my site: www.kalliopimonoyios.com/home/pattern...

Colorado, listen up! Just visited Jesse Mathes’ mid-career retrospective at the Foothills Art Center in Golden, CO and it is a show stopper. If you’re close you must go! Her work should be at the MOMA it is so conceptually and so technically good. Go see!! #art #colorado #jewelry

Massachusetts folks: this Saturday, Sept 6, at 11 I'm giving a free talk at Plymouth Public Library for Manomet Conservation Sciences www.manomet.org/event/author...

The Center for Art Law is hosting a virtual workshop on Moral Rights in Practice on Monday, September 15, at 12pm US ET. Hear about the scope and limits of moral rights as they apply to artists in the US. $17 www.eventbrite.com/e/art-law-wo...