SciCommic
@scicommic.bsky.social
Science communication tramp.
I’ve been an informal science educator and vaccine advocate long enough to know that anti-science is not partisan.
People show us who they are by who they choose to represent them.
I’ve been an informal science educator and vaccine advocate long enough to know that anti-science is not partisan.
People show us who they are by who they choose to represent them.
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SciCommic
@scicommic.bsky.social
· Dec 7
Talking with guests in our dino exhibit at Pacific Science Center, I’d remind them how these ancestors of birds munched on our mammalian ancestors for millions of years.
So, you can think of #Thanksgiving as payback.
So, you can think of #Thanksgiving as payback.
November 27, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Talking with guests in our dino exhibit at Pacific Science Center, I’d remind them how these ancestors of birds munched on our mammalian ancestors for millions of years.
So, you can think of #Thanksgiving as payback.
So, you can think of #Thanksgiving as payback.
When Force Awakens, and when Star Trek, premiered in the IMAX at Pacific Science Center,we were assigned to “edutain” guests in line (for hours) with hand-held #science activities.
#StarTrek fans were eager to engage about astronomy, astrobiology and exoplanets.
#StarWars fans were just annoyed.
#StarTrek fans were eager to engage about astronomy, astrobiology and exoplanets.
#StarWars fans were just annoyed.
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Piddlin’ around with mixed media:
#watercolor gouache and pencil.
Might add an owl, a raccoon and/or a Sasquatch.
#watercolor gouache and pencil.
Might add an owl, a raccoon and/or a Sasquatch.
November 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Piddlin’ around with mixed media:
#watercolor gouache and pencil.
Might add an owl, a raccoon and/or a Sasquatch.
#watercolor gouache and pencil.
Might add an owl, a raccoon and/or a Sasquatch.
🎶 If you like piña coladas
And gettin’ caught in the rain
If you’re not into yoga
If you have half a brain
If you like making love at midnight
In the dunes on the cape
Then I’m the love that you’ve looked for
Write to me and escape
And gettin’ caught in the rain
If you’re not into yoga
If you have half a brain
If you like making love at midnight
In the dunes on the cape
Then I’m the love that you’ve looked for
Write to me and escape
November 23, 2025 at 6:16 AM
🎶 If you like piña coladas
And gettin’ caught in the rain
If you’re not into yoga
If you have half a brain
If you like making love at midnight
In the dunes on the cape
Then I’m the love that you’ve looked for
Write to me and escape
And gettin’ caught in the rain
If you’re not into yoga
If you have half a brain
If you like making love at midnight
In the dunes on the cape
Then I’m the love that you’ve looked for
Write to me and escape
Off to hang out with marine invertebrates that show more spine, and morals, than any Republican.
When I tell visitors how the “eyes” of a seastar can only tell the difference between light and dark, gonna add how they still see what’s going on around them better than the Republican Speaker.
When I tell visitors how the “eyes” of a seastar can only tell the difference between light and dark, gonna add how they still see what’s going on around them better than the Republican Speaker.
November 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Off to hang out with marine invertebrates that show more spine, and morals, than any Republican.
When I tell visitors how the “eyes” of a seastar can only tell the difference between light and dark, gonna add how they still see what’s going on around them better than the Republican Speaker.
When I tell visitors how the “eyes” of a seastar can only tell the difference between light and dark, gonna add how they still see what’s going on around them better than the Republican Speaker.
November 19, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Millie has suddenly become fascinated with the Blue Herons at the Cap Sante Marina.
Despite having walked along waterways and wetlands for years.
These things so clearly evolved from dinosaurs.
#DogsOfBluesky
#Anacortes
Despite having walked along waterways and wetlands for years.
These things so clearly evolved from dinosaurs.
#DogsOfBluesky
#Anacortes
November 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Millie has suddenly become fascinated with the Blue Herons at the Cap Sante Marina.
Despite having walked along waterways and wetlands for years.
These things so clearly evolved from dinosaurs.
#DogsOfBluesky
#Anacortes
Despite having walked along waterways and wetlands for years.
These things so clearly evolved from dinosaurs.
#DogsOfBluesky
#Anacortes
Reposted by SciCommic
Sponges appeared on Earth first.
Jellyfish were on second.
Idunno’s on third.
Guess I can work this into conversations with visitors by using the relationship between anemones and jellyfish as a segue, since we don’t have either sponges or comb jellies in the aquarium.
#MarineLife
#science
Jellyfish were on second.
Idunno’s on third.
Guess I can work this into conversations with visitors by using the relationship between anemones and jellyfish as a segue, since we don’t have either sponges or comb jellies in the aquarium.
#MarineLife
#science
November 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Sponges appeared on Earth first.
Jellyfish were on second.
Idunno’s on third.
Guess I can work this into conversations with visitors by using the relationship between anemones and jellyfish as a segue, since we don’t have either sponges or comb jellies in the aquarium.
#MarineLife
#science
Jellyfish were on second.
Idunno’s on third.
Guess I can work this into conversations with visitors by using the relationship between anemones and jellyfish as a segue, since we don’t have either sponges or comb jellies in the aquarium.
#MarineLife
#science
Doing public engagement of #science in nonprofit venues, I tend to be a little more subtle.
The time for being subtle has long since passed.
I’ll be keeping the decal I just affixed to my water bottle conspicuously placed while at the aquarium today, as well as its original message for #vaccines.
The time for being subtle has long since passed.
I’ll be keeping the decal I just affixed to my water bottle conspicuously placed while at the aquarium today, as well as its original message for #vaccines.
November 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Millie is hoping we can make the most of these coming weeks, as daylight hours decrease while muddy trails with slick rocks become more frequent.
#DogsOfBluesky
#GoldenRetriever
#DogsOfBluesky
#GoldenRetriever
November 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Millie is hoping we can make the most of these coming weeks, as daylight hours decrease while muddy trails with slick rocks become more frequent.
#DogsOfBluesky
#GoldenRetriever
#DogsOfBluesky
#GoldenRetriever
Moon snails create their egg casings by swallowing sand, then extruding the eggs in a mixture bound by mucus.
So, I’d wait until the kids at our faux tide pool had handled them for a few minutes before informing them that they were holding a lump of sand, eggs and butt snot.
#PNW
#marinelife
So, I’d wait until the kids at our faux tide pool had handled them for a few minutes before informing them that they were holding a lump of sand, eggs and butt snot.
#PNW
#marinelife
November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Moon snails create their egg casings by swallowing sand, then extruding the eggs in a mixture bound by mucus.
So, I’d wait until the kids at our faux tide pool had handled them for a few minutes before informing them that they were holding a lump of sand, eggs and butt snot.
#PNW
#marinelife
So, I’d wait until the kids at our faux tide pool had handled them for a few minutes before informing them that they were holding a lump of sand, eggs and butt snot.
#PNW
#marinelife
Our local volcano, Mt Baker, behind the wooden hulk of the +100y/o Le Merced, that’s been used as a breakwater for so long, there are mature trees growing from its deck.
Guemes Channel Trail
Anacortes
Guemes Channel Trail
Anacortes
October 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Our local volcano, Mt Baker, behind the wooden hulk of the +100y/o Le Merced, that’s been used as a breakwater for so long, there are mature trees growing from its deck.
Guemes Channel Trail
Anacortes
Guemes Channel Trail
Anacortes
Months of looking while walking our dog on the trails, weeks of hearing a fledgling Horned Owl calling out, and tonight, this Barred #owl is right above our mailboxes.
October 3, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Months of looking while walking our dog on the trails, weeks of hearing a fledgling Horned Owl calling out, and tonight, this Barred #owl is right above our mailboxes.
Lessons from Captain America:
October 2, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Lessons from Captain America:
Damn. Just finished the 3rd book of NK Jemison’s Broken Earth trilogy. Which I dove into right after finishing her Inheritance trilogy.
The awards are justified.
Gonna feel odd reading someone else, as I’ve been reading her work almost exclusively since the 1st week of June.
The awards are justified.
Gonna feel odd reading someone else, as I’ve been reading her work almost exclusively since the 1st week of June.
September 27, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Damn. Just finished the 3rd book of NK Jemison’s Broken Earth trilogy. Which I dove into right after finishing her Inheritance trilogy.
The awards are justified.
Gonna feel odd reading someone else, as I’ve been reading her work almost exclusively since the 1st week of June.
The awards are justified.
Gonna feel odd reading someone else, as I’ve been reading her work almost exclusively since the 1st week of June.
A book that should actually be required in public schools.
September 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
A book that should actually be required in public schools.
Rock hounding with Millie.
Took the back trail from the marina to Upper Cap Sante.
#DogsOfBluesky
#GoldenRetriever
#Anacortes
Took the back trail from the marina to Upper Cap Sante.
#DogsOfBluesky
#GoldenRetriever
#Anacortes
September 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Rock hounding with Millie.
Took the back trail from the marina to Upper Cap Sante.
#DogsOfBluesky
#GoldenRetriever
#Anacortes
Took the back trail from the marina to Upper Cap Sante.
#DogsOfBluesky
#GoldenRetriever
#Anacortes
Science makes intellectually insecure people feel bad.
September 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Science makes intellectually insecure people feel bad.
Reposted by SciCommic
Because other celestial objects are moving too, it’s easy to forget that as our planets and moons revolve around the sun, it’s moving around the core of a galaxy that’s moving “outward.”
This is the problem with stories in which they travel in *time only* : Earth wasn’t “here” 10 minutes ago.
This is the problem with stories in which they travel in *time only* : Earth wasn’t “here” 10 minutes ago.
a 4gifs.com animated image of a planet orbiting another planet
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media.tenor.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Because other celestial objects are moving too, it’s easy to forget that as our planets and moons revolve around the sun, it’s moving around the core of a galaxy that’s moving “outward.”
This is the problem with stories in which they travel in *time only* : Earth wasn’t “here” 10 minutes ago.
This is the problem with stories in which they travel in *time only* : Earth wasn’t “here” 10 minutes ago.
Because other celestial objects are moving too, it’s easy to forget that as our planets and moons revolve around the sun, it’s moving around the core of a galaxy that’s moving “outward.”
This is the problem with stories in which they travel in *time only* : Earth wasn’t “here” 10 minutes ago.
This is the problem with stories in which they travel in *time only* : Earth wasn’t “here” 10 minutes ago.
a 4gifs.com animated image of a planet orbiting another planet
ALT: a 4gifs.com animated image of a planet orbiting another planet
media.tenor.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Because other celestial objects are moving too, it’s easy to forget that as our planets and moons revolve around the sun, it’s moving around the core of a galaxy that’s moving “outward.”
This is the problem with stories in which they travel in *time only* : Earth wasn’t “here” 10 minutes ago.
This is the problem with stories in which they travel in *time only* : Earth wasn’t “here” 10 minutes ago.
Gee. Wonder what visitors to our little Padilla Bay aquarium are gonna wanna talk about today as they pet the #seastars ?
Coupling this with the study that showed sea stars in colder waters can stave off infection better, it’s still a vehicle to talk about #ClimateChange affecting #PNW #MarineLife.
Coupling this with the study that showed sea stars in colder waters can stave off infection better, it’s still a vehicle to talk about #ClimateChange affecting #PNW #MarineLife.
Researchers recently identified a bacterium that causes sea star wasting disease, which has wiped out billions of sea stars since 2013.
Cause of sea star wasting disease finally discovered, raises new questions | Cascadia Daily News
WWU sea star researchers give their perspective on the breakthrough
www.cascadiadaily.com
August 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Gee. Wonder what visitors to our little Padilla Bay aquarium are gonna wanna talk about today as they pet the #seastars ?
Coupling this with the study that showed sea stars in colder waters can stave off infection better, it’s still a vehicle to talk about #ClimateChange affecting #PNW #MarineLife.
Coupling this with the study that showed sea stars in colder waters can stave off infection better, it’s still a vehicle to talk about #ClimateChange affecting #PNW #MarineLife.
Millie is more interested in looking for chipmunks and squirrels in the more wooded parts of Washington Park, than the view from Burrows Pass overlook.
#PNW #Anacortes
#DogsOfBluesky
#GoldenRetriever
#PNW #Anacortes
#DogsOfBluesky
#GoldenRetriever
August 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Millie is more interested in looking for chipmunks and squirrels in the more wooded parts of Washington Park, than the view from Burrows Pass overlook.
#PNW #Anacortes
#DogsOfBluesky
#GoldenRetriever
#PNW #Anacortes
#DogsOfBluesky
#GoldenRetriever
Another magnificent exhibit at the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, WA.
The oils rendered by Drie Chapek have a subtext of flowing streams and little waterfalls, while the other pieces definitely appeal to my geonerd side.
The oils rendered by Drie Chapek have a subtext of flowing streams and little waterfalls, while the other pieces definitely appeal to my geonerd side.
August 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Another magnificent exhibit at the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, WA.
The oils rendered by Drie Chapek have a subtext of flowing streams and little waterfalls, while the other pieces definitely appeal to my geonerd side.
The oils rendered by Drie Chapek have a subtext of flowing streams and little waterfalls, while the other pieces definitely appeal to my geonerd side.