Orthoceras (big) and Lituites

"This story doesn't need a sandworm" This is almost always wrong. Arguably, EVERY story benefits from adding a huge subterranean worm with quasi-mystical or semi-supernatural powers, or equivalent (similar to Moby Dick). Obviously the bigger the worm, the more literary quality it adds.

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Enjoy the quiet moments of beauty, like these winter bell jellies, this season.❄️🔔🪼 There’s wonder in ocean life, and caring for it helps us all.

Deerfoxes are popping up everywhere! 'Tis the season, indeed. #DogsInAntlers

A wild deerfox has appeared. 'Tis the season #DogsInAntlers

ATTENTION CARTOONISTS! 📢 Submissions open Jan. 1st, 2026 for the Minicomic Awards, part of the Cartoonist Co-op’s annual Nib and Ink Festival! Comics 32 pages or fewer published in 2025 will be eligible. See mca.cartoonist.coop/submission-g... for full eligibility requirements and FAQs.

This is a great example of what we're trying to tell you about the breadth of information historians use to do our research.

Happy Solstice ❄️

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Christmas penguins always bothered me, as they live in the South Pole and most holiday lore takes place in the northern hemisphere. Friends and I have adopted the extinct Great Auk, Pinguinus impennis, as the official holiday "penguin", which we celebrate on the solstice. Merry Auksmas, everyone.

For the #ArtAdventCalendar: an army of tasty spice mice.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

It’s duck washing day, and not everyone in this house is pleased about it.

A Common Raven on a foggy morning early this year. Skagit County #BirdOfTheDay #QuietMoments #ClassicMono 📷🪶🖤

We have 526 scientists signed up for spring semester. We try to get that to about 1000 scientists before unleashing the teachers on the database. Wanna connect a class of kids with science this spring? Sign up!

If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is. It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.

One of my favourite drawings from a few years back ☺️

me, preparing for winter

despite the miserable fall weather, the Abbot always made sure to take the novice monks out to his favorite mushroom foraging grounds. if they were lucky he'd also have the opportunity to teach them some weather forecasting tricks

no one asked but just so everyone who follows me knows, real psychrolutes (blobfish) look like this normally

Day 18: Triceratops Wellness check-in. Have you had your mud bath and snack today? #ArtAdventCalendar #Art #DigitalArt #Dinosaur #Triceratops #SciArt #Paleontology #PaleoArt #Orange #Nature #Animal

"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.

I probably shouldn't make a batch of brownies until the batch of cookies I made last night are consumed. *pours a glass of milk and sidles up to the cookie tin*

A month ago I adopted a one eyed hamster from my local animal shelter

Heck yeah! 🪶

I've updated the feed I created last year so it will include the new #BirbFest2026 hashtag so as we all embark on more #BirdArt adventures you can see them all in one place here... bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Adding pink to my Christmas palette healed me.

When making my roach pattern, it was important to me that it was *modular*. Because roaches come in vaguely similar shapes yet very different. So I finally braved it and tackled two different species! A question mark roach and a WINGED MALE simandoa cave roach! I'm so pleased with them #plushart 🪲🦐

This is just five minutes. Please watch this and share it with anyone you think might be moved by it. And then call your US rep and tell them to vote AGAINST all of the anti-trans bills Republicans are pushing this week. Find your rep at reps.fyi

Tender Horns #mushishi

the full speech is something to see & is one of the reasons it is good to have a trans member of congress youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...

“How’re you?” Ah, you know.

For today's #ArtAdventCalendar I'm sharing my Living Ink Dragon! A little dragon flying out of a puddle of spilled ink. Polymer clay, wire, empty fountain pen ink bottle, and ceramic tile.

Sometimes, all the bucks line up and you find yourself in the right place at the right time. Deep southern Alberta while look for an abandoned school. #ArtAdventCalendar #nature #wildlife

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 17 A graphite drawing of a wren. #wren #graphitedrawing #sciart #traditionalart

thiiiiiiiis. *does a little awkward dance* *throws a doodle of a beetle with buns of steel at you* *jazz hands smokebomb*

Canada geese. Day 16 #ArtAdventCalendar We heard some flying over last night. The kittens watching from the windows were bewildered :) #NatureArt #WildlifeArt #birds #migration

If you’d like to follow a Feed of art inspired by science, WITH NO GENERATIVE AI, please give the SciArt Feed 🐡 a Like and a Pin.

We have 28 of these bad boys left! 12 months of animal art, animal facts, and ways to help animals. These calendars were designed by Philly artist @megstampede.bsky.social and profits fund our 2026 native plant project. We're distributing 10,000 packets of seeds across the city. SquidFacts.net

They cannot be denied

I have in fact not learnt animation this year, and this is still the best creation I've achieved #SciArt #WeirdMedievalGuys

Please I’m begging be careful what you repost. Some good tips here. Assume anything online could be AI at this point. (Especially if it’s meant to evoke a strong emotion or reaction. yes this includes cute animal photos/videos).

after shop sales today we only have like $500 more to go to pay the taxes not having w2 jobs sucks lmao once taxes are paid we just have ... our mortgage... a $240 bill I skipped to help make the above possible and a pre-pay $200 for a drs appt on the 18th b/c we don't have healthcare l..lmaoooooo

My print-at-home digital color book is available on my kofi for just $10! 🖍️🌈 37 animal characters to color...a fun activity for holidays! ko-fi.com/s/86ef14fcbc

$200 to go!!! Thank you everyone who has snagged something!

Ok, gotta figure out how to get $2K more to pay back taxes by tomorrow *yikes* This thread has a bunch of older originals HUGELY DISCOUNTED. If you are interested please DM me. PayPal/Venmo (US only shipping)

Sheep and Tale (2025)