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Celestial Whale Studio @celestialwhale.bsky.social · 5d

Sharing some cephalopod love for World Octopus Day! 💜🐙
'Purple Tentacles' (Ink & Watercolor)
#sciart #worldoctopusday #octopusart #cephalopods #watercolor

A giant purple tentacle curls around into a spiral within the rectangular frame.

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Olivia V. Ambrogio (she/her) @squidfan.bsky.social · 5d

For the #inktober prompt “heavy,” in recognition of root-vegetable season #ink #SciArt

Ink (and colored ink-wash) drawing of an enormous sweet potato being held up by three tiny stylized people.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 6d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Olivia V. Ambrogio (she/her) @squidfan.bsky.social · 8d

Definitely my inspiration!

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Olivia V. Ambrogio (she/her) @squidfan.bsky.social · 8d

A Halloween-y take on the #Inktober prompt “pierce.” #SciArt #penandink

A black-and-white drawing of a very cute little rabbit at night, plunging its tiny fangs into a beet. At the points where the fangs piece the beet, there is a spurt of red ink.

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Olivia V. Ambrogio (she/her) @squidfan.bsky.social · 10d

For the #Inktober prompt #murky
#SciArt #penandink

An ink and ink wash drawing of an octopus surrounded by darkness.

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Esther Oyedele (She/Her) @estheroyedele.bsky.social · 11d

I’m thrilled to share the launch episode of PEAS Talk — where we spill the science on #Planetary, #Earth, and #Atmospheric #Sciences. You can listen on any of your favorite platforms

#PEASTalkMoment #SciencePodcast #SciComm #PlanetaryScience #EarthScience #AtmosphericScience

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Olivia V. Ambrogio (she/her) @squidfan.bsky.social · 11d

Day 3 of #Inktober, “crown” for a kinglet. #SciArt #ink #penandink

A ballpoint pen drawing of a puffed-up ruby-crowned kinglet, wearing a crown with sparkling rubies in it.

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Olivia V. Ambrogio (she/her) @squidfan.bsky.social · 12d

Mixing #SciArt and traditional #inktober challenge with the prompt “weave.”

A mixed ink and digital black and white drawing of a spider’s web against a dark background, with the spider crouched in the center, its bent legs obscuring its head.

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Olivia V. Ambrogio (she/her) @squidfan.bsky.social · 13d

Distracting myself from the news with a challenge! Making #SciArt for #Inktober and the day 1 prompt of “mustache “

A pen drawing on white stone paper of a female walrus head and torso, with her mustache of whiskers very clearly visible

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Olivia V. Ambrogio (she/her) @squidfan.bsky.social · 14d

Today a jumping spider hung out inside my nature journal, and I like to think that means I made it feel at home. #SciArt #NatureJournal

Photo of a large journal with mushroom drawings barely visible, and a page lifted up so that underneath you can see a jumping spider on a blank page.

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Olivia V. Ambrogio (she/her) @squidfan.bsky.social · 21d

A reminder for you from my #nature journal. #SciArt

Ink and watercolor drawing of three small pale orange fruits with noticeable dark blossom-like calyx areas. Text says, “it’s wild persimmon season!”

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Olivia V. Ambrogio (she/her) @squidfan.bsky.social · 22d

Happy Rosh Hashanah and Fall Equinox to the Northern Hemisphere!
#fall #autum 🐡

A drawing of several kinds of leaves--maple, oak, tulip tree, sycamore--in red, orange, and brown, tumbling through the air, with the words "So may our enemies fall."

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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 22d

#sciArt !

Cecil Castellucci @misscecil.bsky.social · 22d

Digital artists in Montreal. You should totally apply for this cool ass Insectarium residency! I wish I could! Looks amazing! www.artsmontreal.org/en/grants/pr...

Artist residency at the Insectarium | Espace pour la vie - Conseil des arts de Montréal

Immerse yourself in the amazing world of insects as you let them inspire you to create a digital artwork during a six-month artist residency at the Insectari...

www.artsmontreal.org

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Olivia V. Ambrogio (she/her) @squidfan.bsky.social · 26d

This is also how I feel about “healthy choices.”

A drawing (attribution unknown) on a school bulletin board titled Healthy Voices. In it, a cartoon-style white, blond child is holding up an apple in one hand and a chocolate cupcake in the other. The child has a perturbed frown on her(?) face and her(?) eyes are drifting irresistibly towards the cupcake.

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Jennie Wetter @jennieindc.bsky.social · Sep 11

🚨 Breaking News 🚨

The Admin just destroyed $10M of birth control purchased by USAID for women in low-income countries. That birth control would have prevented 362,000 more unintended pregnancies, 110,000 more unsafe abortions, and 718 preventable maternal deaths.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

$10 Million in Contraceptives Have Been Destroyed on Orders From Trump Officials

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Lizzie Harper Illustrator @lizzie-harper.bsky.social · Sep 12

This is a sprig of #Silverbirch #Betula pendula I painted years ago

I was messing about on photoshop, and just like the way it looked with unattached leaves.

Something as inconspicuous as a twig with #leaves can make a really interesting and challenging subject.

#botanicalillustration #sciart

Silver birch sprid on white paper, showing several catkins and pairs of leaves, pointing from right to left on the page. There are 4 loose leaves at the base of the sheet, and two in the upper right hand corner. This makes it look a bit like the leaves are fluttering down to earth after being blown off the twig in the wind.

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Olivia V. Ambrogio (she/her) @squidfan.bsky.social · Sep 9

Messing around, doodling using acorn-cap ink I made. #SciArt #penandink

Some very messy cursive writing in grey-brown ink about “sort of how a rabbit looks,” along with an ink drawing of a rabbit sitting.

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Olivia V. Ambrogio (she/her) @squidfan.bsky.social · Aug 29

Drew this beech tree using iron-gall ink and ink wash I made from galls on a local swamp oak
#SciArt #NaturalInk

A black and white line drawing with grey shading of the double trunk of a beech tree with several long limbs stretching out from it

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S.S. Julian @octopolis.bsky.social · Aug 27

This one’s for my stoic icthyologists. Eventually, we all become Whalefall.
#sciart 🦑🐋

A decal of a moray eel skeleton and a hopkin’s rose nudibranch. Text reads ‘Memento Moray’

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apantesis @apantesis.bsky.social · Aug 27

#invertefest ❤️🥰❤️

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Olivia V. Ambrogio (she/her) @squidfan.bsky.social · Aug 16

“We haven’t processed things properly, so the fault is on YOUR end.”

NPR @npr.org · Aug 16

NPR has learned that dozens of immigrants across the U.S. have received letters notifying them that their asylum cases have been dismissed because they have not yet received a screening interview.

Asylum-seekers thought they were following the rules. Now some are told to start over

NPR has learned that dozens of immigrants across the U.S. have received letters notifying them that their asylum cases have been dismissed because they have not yet received a screening interview.

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Olivia V. Ambrogio (she/her) @squidfan.bsky.social · Aug 12

At Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, that den of iniquity.

Photo of two beautiful pink lotus flowers and many huge lotus leaves floating above the surface of a tranquil pond

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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · Aug 11

Donald Trump has personally incited more crime in Washington DC than perhaps anyone else living. He pardoned violent criminals who attacked our Capitol and put them back in American communities. He even made a man who was filmed urging the crowd to kill DC police officers a senior adviser at DOJ.

Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · Aug 11

National Capital Region Delegation Statement On Trump’s Police Actions In The District Of Columbia beyer.house.gov/news/documen...

@hoyer.house.gov @raskin.house.gov @mcclellan.house.gov @ivey.house.gov @repsuhas.bsky.social @elfreth.house.gov @repvindman.bsky.social @repaprildelaney.bsky.social

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Samantha Michaels @samanthamichaels.bsky.social · Aug 11

DC officials cited a 30-year low for violent crime in January. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The National Guard is coming to DC

How the carjacking of "Big Balls" helped Trump conduct a federal takeover where crime is falling.

www.motherjones.com

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