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Rebecca Gelernter
@nearbirdstudios.bsky.social
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Science illustrator and designer. I like things with feathers. She/her

Portfolio: www.nearbirdstudios.com
Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/nearbirdstudios
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Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social · Oct 8
Hello #PortfolioDay! I'm Rebecca, a science and medical illustrator who loves birds and other feathered creatures 🐡🪶🧪
Portrait of a female Great Hornbill, a large bird, down to the upper chest. Her beak is huge, with a yellow-to-orange maxilla and damaged casque and a pale blue-grey mandible. She has a black mask covering her face and the base of her bill. Her eye is silvery and has nice lashes. Her neck shades from yellow through raw sienna to a pale burnt sienna, and her body feathers and the top of her wing are black. Twelve detailed vector illustrations of brains, arranged in two columns, one without blood vessels and one with. More anatomical layers are added from top to bottom, starting from a midsagittal view and ending with lateral. At the bottom left is the wordmark "MedStudy", for whom I did this work. Gouache painting of Anchiornis huxleyii, a small feathered dinosaur, climbing through branches. He's mostly grey with black-spotted white wing, leg, and tail feathers and a rusty red crest and cheek feathers. Watercolor illustration of a Red-and-yellow Barbet, seen at 45°. His head is mostly red and his belly is creamy white. His wing is black with white spots, and a band of this pattern circles his breast. His tail is banded black and white. He's glaring at the viewer, challenging the audacity of any who would dare to look upon him.
nearbirdstudios.bsky.social
Where are people using for POD shirts etc these days? I'm not going back to RedBubble 🐡🎨
December 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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gettoknownature.bsky.social
Oooh, interested in horseshoe crabs? Check out this zoom talk

#invertebrates 🦑
littoralsociety.bsky.social American Littoral Society @littoralsociety.bsky.social · 4h
Tune in for the final webinar in the Jamaica Bay Fall Colloquium series on Monday, December 15 from 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. We will welcome Dr. Mark Botton and Dr. Christina Colon to share research on the Horseshoe Crabs of Jamaica Bay. Register to receive Zoom details: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
December 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
nearbirdstudios.bsky.social
Paleocolor news! This is one of my absolute favorite areas of study. It's beyond mindblowing that we can learn these things about animals no human will ever see.
tessasaurus.bsky.social Tess Gallagher @tessasaurus.bsky.social · 17h
While the paper hasn't come out just yet, the news certainly has. Proud to announce our discovery of color patterning in a sauropod dinosaur. Will go in depth tomorrow.
December 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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baddestmamajama.bsky.social
Ok who wants a bizarre no stakes mystery to solve?

I had to go to the hospital by ambulance this morning (heart stuff, am ok now.)

A bunch of ambulance guys came into our living room to get me.

And now we

keep

finding

tiny

glass

ducks

On the floor.
Tiny blue and pink glass ducks
December 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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nearbirdstudios.bsky.social
Just put a couple new prints up, including this silly guy 🐡🪶🎨
Gouache painting of a Common Potoo in branch mode. He's a largish, brown-grey bird with a tiny beak, large gape, and slitted yellow eyes.
November 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
nearbirdstudios.bsky.social
There's something here with serifs and fonts that could do a pull-up, but I'm too tired to find it
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17h
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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animalphotorefs.bsky.social
Love to see the Sedgwick County Zoo putting out a good explainer on why GenAI slop videos of animals are a problem & how to identify them! It’s succinct, easy to read, and doesn’t shame people for not knowing better. A+ useful link to share with family and friends.

scz.org/blog/the-rea...
The Reality of AI Animal Content – Sedgwick County Zoo
If you spend any time on social media, you’ve probably seen them – bears bouncing on trampolines, apes caught on doorbell cameras, or “rescued” wild animals acting in ways that seem too good to be…
scz.org
December 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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nearbirdstudios.bsky.social
This dude also now available 🐡🪶🎨
Great Sapphirewing hummingbird in gouache. It's a large hummer with a primarily green body shading to a bronze tail and long blue wings.
November 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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ditchpony.bsky.social
today’s affirmation: I am within the acceptable range of deviation. I am a perfectly roasted quail. if I was a car the mechanics would find nothing weird or rodent related in my air filter. I am upright. There are no stones or excess debris in my shoes. I still have all my bones.
December 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
nearbirdstudios.bsky.social
Parrot break
A cute little Crimson-bellied Conure sits on my leg, one foot raised and hidden in his fluffy red belly feathers. He's beak-grinding happily, and you can see the pink top of his little tongue.
December 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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vandroidhelsing.bsky.social
the club was like an Ediacaran sandbar: full of things that were technically alive, but not in a way you or I would recognize
December 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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cathhodsman.bsky.social
Please sign folks... 🙏
protectthewild.bsky.social Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 2d
The Guga “hunt” must end. Sign the petition: petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...
December 9, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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whalepetunias.bsky.social
"I don't think I've ever seen anything quite so stupid in my life," muttered Ford to himself.
December 9, 2025 at 6:53 AM
nearbirdstudios.bsky.social
Painting all the rocks I drew
Sowing/reaping meme: Twitter screenshot from The Golden Sir/@screaminbutcalm Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
December 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
nearbirdstudios.bsky.social
Anyone want to pick up some milk for me
December 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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annihowls.bsky.social
He did not want his photo taken while he was soggy
A wet cockatiel looking outraged
December 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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shannonhale.bsky.social
I love love love that they hired a painter to do these portraits and then acknowledged her by name. Artists of all kinds supporting each other is so beautiful.
rianjohnson.bsky.social Rian Johnson @rianjohnson.bsky.social · 4d
Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!
December 7, 2025 at 3:31 AM
nearbirdstudios.bsky.social
STOP THE PRESSES I booped Louie's beak and he booped my finger back, as he often does, but this time he said "boop" 🧡
A cute little parrot getting his neck scratched while sitting on a sofa.
December 7, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social
Playing in the wind
December 6, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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megugu.bsky.social
I love magpies ♥
Done with black ink Waterman
#traditionalart #ink
December 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
nearbirdstudios.bsky.social
Ooohhh I love this
evolletters.bsky.social Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social · 6d
Check out our cover article by @timjanicke.bsky.social and colleagues about the role of sexual selection in animal speciation. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic.... The beautiful illustration is by Katharina Bóth.
December 6, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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nataliebsketching.bsky.social
Support us dry dry humans
A two-panel comic drawing. The first panel says “why use water-hungry AI…”, accompanied by an abstract drawing of a dark cloud extending fingers into Earth or water. The second panel says “when you can support dehydrated artists?”. The image is of a skull next to a paintbrush and a palette. The skull says “we’re very low impact”.
December 2, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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berkeleyside.org
California unveiled an online portal to report potentially illegal activity by federal law enforcement, including ICE agents, to the state Department of Justice.
You can now report crimes by federal agents in California
California unveiled an online portal to report potentially illegal activity by federal law enforcement, including ICE agents, to the state Department of Justice.
www.berkeleyside.org
December 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
Another comic from this past year. Sometimes I'm in awe about how incredibly small birds can be.
In a comic strip panel, person in a red shirt walks through a sunlit forest. The text says "Sometimes I go looking for a tiny part of the universe." "This part only takes up as much space as: half an apple, a salt shaker, or 2 ping pong balls." Each of these items is shown. Galaxies and stars swirl as the text says "But somehow, in an unfathomably huge universe," and then there's a complex mess of forest leaves, with one tiny Wilson's warbler in one corner, and the text says "this one tiny part". There's a close up of the warbler, blazing yellow against a sparkly yellow background, and the text says "can fill up my whole heart."
December 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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americanbeetles.bsky.social
I, too, visited this exhibition and took pictures of my favorite guys
A sprightly lacertid from a 17th century oil painting Frog, peering plaintively around grasses Shrump valgine scarab hiding in effectively in a flower
December 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM