Happy birthday to #botanist Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010), renown algae expert, celebrated seaweed cook, devoted teacher & mentor, expert on Hawaiian ethnobotany, 1st Indigenous Hawaiian woman to earn a doctorate in science & 1st woman or person of colour to become a full prof 🐡🧪👩🏻‍🔬#histsci 🧵1/n

This bobolink male has been a fun project. They’re such unusual words with their pale yellow hairdos. It’s been an interesting challenge to render in black-and-white. Just have to get the legs done now. 🌿🪶🎨

Making a quilt back with a colourful scrappy border for the alphabet quilt. Wanted to revisit this method of using strips and use up some small but colourful remaining pieces of fabric in my stash.

#quilting #patchwork #wip #printmaking #scrappyquilt #textiles 🧶

Rose season has begun.

Henrique Alvim Correa - War Of The Worlds Illustrations, 1906

'Jean-Paul Belmondo and Friend on Their Lunch Break During the Filming of Marcel Ophüls “Peau de Banane” (Banana Peel)'
   
Raymond Cauchetier, 1963

Gorgeous JWST/NIRCam data processing of Antennae Galaxies by landru79 (X).

NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
🔭 🧪

An update on H5N1 bird flu from the USDA, CDC, FDA joint briefing session today
erictopol.substack.com/p/a-bird-flu...

Great lords and gentlemen, what means this silence?
Dare no man answer in a case of truth?

This earth of majesty

Sunday afternoon light.

A quick scan of some expired 8"x10" I'm using for an upcoming 'thing'

"Governing", right?

This is an outright (continued) attack on science and scientists, yet, not a peep from any of the professional societies. Next up, another show trial of a scientist, followed by the former Director of NIAID and the former Director of NIH.

It's a disgrace.

Volta 295.