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Lauren
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Biologist + Scientific Illustrator @ birdpop.org
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🏠 Oregon, USA
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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · Jan 14
All right all right time for a new #PortfolioDay. Hello! I'm Lauren, a biologist by day and scientific illustrator by... other times. I illustrate for publications, outreach materials, & sometimes board games! 🎨🪶🐡🧪🌎

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Digital illustration of a nosa' luta (Rota White-eye), a small yellow-green songbird with a white ring of feathers around the eye, and an orange beak and feet. This bird is drawn with its wings spread and feet held at the ready, about to land on an unseen branch. The background is a loose blur of colors similar to those in the canopy on Rota - bright yellows and greens, with hints of blue from the yoga berries abundant in this species' habitat. For personal use in my research with The Institute for Bird Populations. Illustration of an island (Bird Island, Saipan) set in a shallow tropical lagoon, fringed by Casuarina and coconut trees. The rocky island is covered in vegetation and tiny dots - lots and lots of birds! More birds are seen flying toward the island, and in the foreground some of these are identifiable as Brown Noddy and Red-tailed Tropicbird. For Nature (NorthStar Games) Illustration of an Indochinese Green-Magpie with its wings spread as it lands in a thicket of tropical foliage and flowers, all under a bright blue sky with a few soft clouds. This bird is brilliantly colored with a bright green crested head, black mask, red-orange wings, and fanned yellow tail with a black bar. For NorthStar Games' board game Nature. Commissioned portrait of a Phidippus californicus immature female on a stalk of Swiss chard. She is covered in fine tan hair as she peers inquisitively toward the viewer. She has long black hairs above the eyes at the corners of her head which look like eyelashes.
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twigtechnology.bsky.social
Seals singing in a sea cave

#Orkney 🦭🎧
November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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This large kiddo was walking in the field with his Mom I think. He was bigger than both his parents and his feather development was very advanced. Most migrating juniors don't have their red skin patch on their forehead, but his was developing already. A very mature juvie.
#birds #SandhillCrane
A large juvenile Sandhill Crane is standing with his Mom in a farm field during migration.
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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alyssaharad.bsky.social
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
blipstress.bsky.social violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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give it up for Henry yall
A photo of a saltwater crocodile. the caption says: he ate people, Father 10,000 babies, and just turned a 124...meet Henry
November 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Day 08 - 'Alalã (Hawaiian Crow) 🪶
#AvianAugust #AvianAugust2025

Did you know that along with New Caledonian crows, they are among the few crow species that naturally use tools without training/social learning?
Digital waterpainting of a stylised 'Alalã (Hawaiian Crow) fishing out a fat, yummy grub with a curved stick in its beak. Its plumage is chocolate brown with touches of pink and olive.
August 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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😊🙏🖤
Thanks very much, Lauren! 🖤
This is what it's like at 100%:
(closeup crop) A dark grainy black and white scene. a moody moon radiates into the abstract storm.
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Unstitching the Oil Prayer.

#Art #DarkArt
A dark grainy black and white scene. A dark, spiked mast set against a maelstrom of swirling matter. in the sky, a moody moon radiates into the abstract storm.
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
a cheese grater that, if viewed from the correct angle, appears to have a friendly, stupid face, an example of Pareidolia
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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As a Filipino, born and raised in the Philippines, I have witnessed the destruction and aftermath that mining can bring.

These capitalists won't stop until they bleed this planet dry.

Petition link here. Really appreciate if you sign this too, thank you.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Coming together to eat the food we share has been part of humanity from the very beginning. I wrote this post after a Thanksgiving week lecture on evidence for Neanderthals and other ancient people making prepared mixtures of grains, lentils, and other foods.

www.johnhawks.net/p/a-neandert...
A Neandertal recipe with lentils and grain
Looking at a fascinating new study that finds mixtures of different plants within ancient morsels of charred foods.
www.johnhawks.net
November 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
tinylongwing.bsky.social
waaait how did this not make it into my art or fanart personal feeds?? 🎨 that should help lmao
tinylongwing.bsky.social Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 25d
Happy Halloween from the best of Lord Huron's fictional in-universe bands!! 🎃🧛🏽‍♂️🦇🧟🐺💀

#fanart #LordHuron
Fictional poster for the Phantom Riders playing a Halloween gig. Top left, Cid is dressed like a skeleton with skull face paint; top right, Rigo has a wolf ear headband, glue on muttonchops, a painted nose and fake paws to make him into a werewolf. Bottom left, Johnnie has makeup and a torn up shirt to make him into a zombie, and bottom right, Dale is dressed like a menacing vampire with a grin showing off his fangs. There is a torn paper effect around the margin and at the bottom of the poster. The text reads "THIS HALLOWEEN! Rise from your graves with the PHANTOM RIDERS"
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Starting on some new art for work, and while I'll hold off on showing the finished illustration until I get the go-ahead (likely not for a few months here), I think it might be fun to share the thumbnails that didn't get picked! Nosa' luta with various other Rota plant species. 🎨🪶
A rough digital thumbnail of a nosa' luta, a small green and yellow songbird with a white eyering, creeping down the branch of a trongkon guåfi toward its starburst pink and white flowers where a tasty caterpillar is hiding. Rough digital thumbnail of two nosa' luta foraging together among the tree canopy where several white orchids are flowering.
November 6, 2024 at 9:33 PM
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tinylongwing.bsky.social
My latest for @instbirdpop.bsky.social ! This was our 2024 winter card illustration - a break from the snow, since the end of the year comes to the tropics too! Featuring a nosa' luta (Zosterops rotensis) chowing down on a caterpillar plucked off a trongkon guåfi (Serianthes nelsonii) 🎨🪶🐡🌏 #birdart
Digital illustration of a bright green and yellow little songbird with a ring of white feathers around the eye (nosa' luta, Rota White-eye) perched on a flowering stalk of a canopy tree (trongkon guåfi, håyun lågu, Guam fire tree). The flowers are in a cluster of three, formed of a little green bud with a small white tubular-shaped flower pointed upright, from which emerges a dazzling burst of hot pink feathery stamens. The bird has a caterpillar in its mouth, showing a potential for helping the trees defend from their herbivores. Both the bird and the tree are critically endangered.
January 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Celeste dos Cravos (2025), acrylic gouache (+ tiny bit of watercolour) on hot pressed paper (A3)

The traditional version of the illustration I painted digitally last year, now as I had first envisioned it :)
Illustration by Eleonor Piteira featuring a woman on a balcony, holding a bouquet of red carnations, giving one of them to a soldier passing below, placing it on the muzzle of his gun while he looks up at her. All around, other soldiers walk beside him, some wearing red carnations on the muzzles of their guns too, others waiting for their turn to get one. On the background, Portuguese tiles frame the woman, while the balcony's railing slowly transforms into a streetlamp typical of Lisbon (with a caravel and 2 ravens, the symbols of the city).
October 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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hugopaleoart.bsky.social
New art is arrived !

A large Yutyrannus is being cleaned up by a group of Hongshanornis. A curious Gegepterus approaches.
In the foreground, a Zhongjianosaurus seems interested in the small birds.
#paleoart #SciArt #dinosaur #digitalart #yixian #china #feathered
Zhongjianosaurus yangi, Yutyrannus huali, Hongshanornis longicresta and Gegepterus changi
November 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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"Before they drove him away, Carlos started to tear up. Carreto told him, 'Don’t cry. I don’t know how, but I’ll get you back. Understand?'" www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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I'll never forget this cute juvenile Cooper's Hawk that hung around in our backyard for a while. We affectionately called it Wonky Beak

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF100-500mm f/4.5-7.1L IS USM
M, f/7.1, 1/320, ISO 1600, 500mm
7/27/24

Northern Oregon Coast

#birds #bird #photography #ornithology

🦉 🪶
A large hawk faces directly towards the camera. Its legs look like bright yellow sticks. Its feathers near its legs are wet. Its underside is a mixture of white and brown streaks. Its back is dark brown with highlights of light brown at the tips of the feathers. Its eyes are circular and light green. This bird's beak is slightly twisted, giving its face a bit of a wonky look.
November 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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harkthorn.bsky.social
Black-throated magpie jay

-3245 🎨🐡🪶 #art
A black ballpoint sketch of the top half of a Black-throated magpie jay, viewed from the side and facing to the left of the image
November 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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A Black Turnstone stands on mussel-covered rocks as water droplets from a crashing wave surround it

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF100-500mm f/4.5-7.1L IS USM
M, f/7.1, 1/320, ISO 800, 500mm
4/13/25

Northern Oregon Coast

#birds #bird #photography #ornithology #birdphotos #nature #naturephotography

🦉 🪶
Water droplets fly around in the air surrounding a medium-sized bird. The bird stands on a rock covered in small sea creatures, mostly tiny black mussels. The bird's belly is white and the rest of its body is dark brown with a pattern of mottled white mixed in.
November 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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narrator: 50 years ago...

me: [nods] in 1945

narrator: in 1975...

me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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I’m begging novel writers to hire an artist for their covers. At least someone who can do graphic design at a minimum. I see the worst book covers on here everyday and you’re all doing such a disservice to yourself to put in the effort to write a whole book only to turn people away with a bad cover.
November 25, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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A pair of Gang-gang Cockatoos have stopped by a few times this week! The male is camera shy, but I managed to get a few shots of the female.
#birds
Photograph of a female Gang-gang Cockatoo - a grey parrot with light grey beak and orange/yellow edges on its neck and breast feathers. It appears to be nibbling on a dead branch, but was actually climbing it and using its beak as a hand (as parrots tend to do). In this light its eye looks brown. Same subject, but different lighting and pose. This is a more conventional bird portrait, with the cockatoo's back to the camera but the head turned side-on. Its soft, willowy crest is raised and its eyes appear much darker in this light. Its grey back feathers have light grey edges and thin yellow bars.
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Derpy Green Giant (Lyssomanes viridis) 💚
#EmotionalSupportSpood
The giant googly eyes of a female magnolia green jumping spider--apple jello green and translucent, with a little white and orange "hat"--peering into your soul.
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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#dailyart 81 bird study

#birds
Study of a brown bobby
November 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM