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The cliffs are still there, the sea is still there, the Falkland Islands wolf not so much. Only in art. And that's why art matters. (Or, you know, at least one of the reasons.) #SciArt #art #traditionalart #drawing #FalklandIslandsWolf #coloredpencils

Really fascinating article on how different parts of the Americas treat #wildlife based on what European countries colonized them: phys.org/news/2026-05... #colonization #colonialism #IndigenousCultures #nature 1/

Can I just show my appreciation for one of my favorite mosses, Menzies' tree moss (Leucolepis acanthoneura)? I would like to be a little beetle trundling along under the awnings of green phyllids.

Excited that I registered for a #metalsmithing class at the Multnomah Arts Center that starts next month! It has been a VERY long time since I tried out a brand new art medium. I'm hoping to get into making silver jewelry eventually. #artist #creativity #Portland

Hey, #Portland area folks! Want to reduce your chances of eating a #mushroom that will dissolve your liver? Check out my upcoming class at Experiment, 1421 SE Stark St! #fungi #FungiFriends #foraging #MushroomHunting

Hey @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social new book in the Lynnwood public library!

I always tell my students that scientists can’t shut up about their science. We love it!! We want to tell EVERYONE!!!!

Check out this awesome lily #weevil (Agasphaerops nigra) I found at Multnomah Falls in #Oregon! Pretty uncommon #insect species that seems restricted to the #PacificNorthwest; only nine iNaturalist observations including mine. #bugs #Entomology #weevils #wildlife #animals #nature 🌿

Next online book study group for The Everyday #Naturalist is May 4! We'll discuss my method for identifying animals, #plants and fungi, and other practicalities. Register at www.eventbrite.com/e/the-everyd... 📚💙

As much as I love my colored pencils, there's something really satisfying about these relatively quick little #sketches with the #Copics. They blend differently, and the palette of colors is different from Prismacolors. #strawberries #GreatBlueHeron #mushrooms #FungiFriends #illustration 🌿

Had time to do a #SundayFishSketch today, so have a walking catfish (Clarias batrachas)! Micron fineliners and Copic markers on paper. Pardon the wrinkles; I've been trying to use odd scraps and spaces in my sketchbook. #fish #wildlife #animals 🌿

One of my pheasant eye #daffodils bloomed! #gardening

Really cool fasciated #salmonberry #flowers in Camas, WA!

Excited that my heritage (from 1596) twin sisters daffodils are blooming! And the Pacific bleeding heart I just got a couple months ago, and the winter pansies that managed to survive the (terrifyingly) mild winter! The rest of the #garden is a mess, but I appreciate the #spring #flowers.

Meet Doli. Dolabrifera. Look at that face! 😍 One of my first ever Sydney tidepool trips, I was busy looking for tiny nudis on shallow rocks, without realising like a herd of these slug-cows were RIGHT NEXT to me, incredibly well camouflaged. #rstats #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

Utterly fantastic news. With the invaluable help of supporters and members, the Dorset Wildlife Trust have secured Upton Heath! Priceless habitat saved by wonderful people.... www.dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/upton-h...

The thought of a new Nikon lens can wait, I’ve got Mums funeral to pay for now. Will have these charcuterie boards up on my store next week.

A sign of thinking normally.

“We scientists are used to sticking to our knitting. But I began realizing that science needed defending,” says @samwang.bsky.social. @nature.com talked to researchers running for office who say the "science is above politics" era is a failed business model.

🌿🌷 Good morning 🌞 as servers were down yesterday @bsky.app I am reposting this for more to enjoy including the #bsky team who will have been working tirelessly to get us all back up again Reminder #bsky is free & a wonderful resource. Thank you 🙏🌷🌿

Anatomic orientation planes and motions. Pen & ink. From my book Manual of Ornithology, a.co/d/0ifKiilH 🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #ornithology #PenAndInk #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #scicomm #birds #songbirds #birdart

Male Common Grackles (bronzed subspecies) strutting their stuff on the boardwalk.

The Senate voted on Thursday to allow mining upstream from Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, one of the largest and most visited expanses of federally protected lakes and forests in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/c...

Last night's big victory was getting all but one of these #mosses identified down to species level with confidence. The only one that I got stuck at genus level was a Racomitrium, and to be fair that genus can be difficult to ID to species level, especially if you forget to bring a microscope. 🌿

Sometimes you make a new comic, and sometimes you redraw an old one because you lost the original high res file 😅

Episode 174: A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils www.palaeocast.com/dinosaurs-in... We speak to Prof. Paul Barrett, NHM London, all about his recent book. He discusses the history of dinosaur research, the current state of the science and what could be next. #dinosaur #podcast #paleo #fossils

Flower Freaking Out After Realizing There’s A Bee On It https://theonion.com/flower-freaking-out-after-realizing-there-s-a-bee-on-it-1825290678/

I have been thinking about how the Russini situation has affected so many of my tremendous female colleagues and friends in this business, and I think this is something that should be read.

There were over 100 million birds in the air over the US last night and they were apparently all White-throated Sparrows and they all ended up in Columbus Ohio (so so many around town today)

You know, a couple days ago I woke up thinking "It's about the time #SlimeMolds should start showing up around here." And sure enough, later that day I found this lovely specimen of Didymium spongiosum! #Myxomycota #Myxomycetes #Myxogastria #nature 🌿

Hello #PortfolioDay✨ I'm Michal, a landscape #artist making fantasy, scifi and space #illustrations. I like doing thematic scenes with little #retro anime stylization. 💾 My website: kvacm.carrd.co 💾 Portfolio: cara.app/kvacm 💾 Store with free stuff: cubebrush.co/kvacm 💾 Open for commissions.

The thing is, the miasma of social media & the negativity it fosters *also* insured that almost no one was aware of the incredible advances in climate & energy policy under Biden. It's not *just* the economy. It's everything. That's the point: the info environment rewards doom & resentment.

"I entered this project in good faith, working with the mining company to help determine whether or not deep-sea mining at Solwara I could be conducted with minimal harm to the marine environment. I exited convinced that there is no viable path forward for hydrothermal vent mining, anywhere...."

2nd #PortfolioDay of the year! I'm Math, and I'm an illustrator and comic artist with a focus on horror. I work traditionally with ink, marker, and watercolors!

Douglas fir and much more

This brings to mind my trip down from an early morning summit of Whitney. On the 99-Switchbacks it was POURING by 10am w/ lots of thunder heard at summit area. I told everyone I passed it was not wise to continue due to lightning. One dude told me “It’s cool, bro. I got a rain jacket”.

This kind of thing at Substack (including their Nazi problem and trans hate problem) are why my newsletter is at Ghost.org and always has been. Andrew Tate is a spectacularly vile human being accused of numerous violent crimes against women and hugely corrosive for young male minds.

This is Sadie. She was finally reunited with her human, astronaut Christina Koch, after her mom’s voyage around the moon took her the furthest any human has ever been from their dog. She can't wait to hear all about the universe. 14/10 (IG: astro_christina)

Haven't done a #SundayFishSketch in years, so here, have a #koi! Micron fineliner and Copic alcohol markers. #fish #illustration #sketch

Remember the white phase goldenrod crab #spider from my video last week? Well, I found a younger and tinier yellow phase individual hiding underneath this #violet! #wildlife #animals #arachnids #arthropods 🌿

Steve Sack, Minneapolis Star Tribune

Book learnin’ at the Thorndale Red Line station.

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A little colored pencil study of Douglas's neckera #moss (Neckera douglasii) I'm working on. It needs some darker values and a few more negative spaces filled in, but I like it so far. #BotanicalIllistration 🌿

If you’ve been moved & inspired by Artemis, NASA needs your help. Literally during A2, the president proposed cutting NASA science 47%, canceling 54 missions, including many already in-flight. To help stop these cuts, check out @planetarysociety.bsky.social www.planetary.org/save-nasa-sc...

My NSERC funded undergraduate thesis student Kim Lebel completed her thesis today on using trail cameras as a non-invasive approach to determining migratory caribou reproductive rates. Sent the first draft of the manuscript out for reviews to co-authors!

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

I'm in the final week of my Sitka Center residency. Since the rain returns tomorrow, I've spent this week getting outside as much as possible, and I'll be spending time with these books and more over the weekend.