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Drosera
@drosera0sundew.bsky.social
just hanging out
mostly repost things(with alt text): art, native plants, cool critters, books, etc.
icon is Drosera capensis, banner is Drosera anglica
both photos attributed to wikipedia user NoahElhardt
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December 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
It's a Christmas miracle! My library hold of What Stalks the Deep is available at last! Shout out to @ tkingfisher for making the holiday more bearable🍄🌲🎄. I'm sure this latest book in one of my favorite series of hers will be well worth the wait #booksky
December 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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This piece was in our main library in 2015 for a couple of months & a woman told me she would stop by on her lunch break & just sit & look at it almost daily because it gave her some peace. Few better compliments.

Shore
55×40 140×101cm
Oil on Canvas
2015

#ArtAdventCalendar
December 24, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Quick tips for sorting reptiles! ⤵️
December 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Day 22 #artAdventCalendar my bee (and other pollinator) propaganda I made for Manufactured Ecosystems. 🧪🐡🐝 Thinking about the future of pollination and seeking solutions from technological and nature-based knowledge. This is essentially my conclusion: we can aid our beleaguered pollinators with 🧵
December 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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For Day 21 #ArtAdventCalendar

A Little Night Magic
32 x16 81x40cm
Oil on Canvas
2021
December 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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We have 526 scientists signed up for spring semester. We try to get that to about 1000 scientists before unleashing the teachers on the database. Wanna connect a class of kids with science this spring? Sign up!
Alright scientists! It's that time again!

Time to sign up for Skype a Scientist's spring semester.

Want to get matched with a classroom in 2026?

Sign up now 🥰

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
December 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Quilters of BlueSky, I need your help. This unfinished quilt top has likely been in a box for over 50 years, is completely hand stitched. Each square is about the size of a saltine cracker and the whole top is huge, at least queen size but going to measure. #Quiltsky
December 20, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Birds! Muskrats! BEAVERS!! Two minutes of busy evening action at the wetlands.

#birds #mammals 🌿
Winter Wildlife After Sunset
YouTube video by Get To Know Nature
m.youtube.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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willow ptarmigan. Thank you for spreading the bird word, @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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If you are still not sure what to get this holiday season… books 📚 are always a great option.

The quote posts and replies to this post by Bluesky authors are an excellent impromptu gift guide.
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! Do not ask me how my writing is going.
December 19, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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It's time for the "How to do ALT text" image again.

Writing a perfect ALT text is impossible, but please try 💚!

Visually impairment is a wide spectrum and doesn't keep people from loving the visual arts.

🐡 #art #kleinekunstklasse #artadventcalendar
December 7, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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“So this exciting fossil discovery of bees nesting in bone cavities, and in caves, serves as a good reminder that when it comes to evolution, bees will keep on being the bees they need to be.” Happy that @cnn.com Science used my quote about this amazing fossil find. www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/s... 🧪🐝🪹🦴🪨
Discovery of ancient bee nests in fossils points to a never-before-seen behavior | CNN
In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this behavior has been recorded, a new study finds.
www.cnn.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:
December 16, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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there’s so much love in this thread. go scroll for a few minutes if you’re having a rough day
this was a weekend of unrelenting horrors, but if you had a small nice thing happen I would like to hear about it

maybe you read a great book or saw a cute dog walking down the street or your soup turned out really good? please share
December 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing

these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous

this is worth sharing and educating people about
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Looking for an *L.A. based* artist who (against all odds) has time for a poster gig before the end of the year.

It's for a science + art event.

We can offer $500 for the gig.

Dreadfully sorry about the timeline. Link a portfolio if you're interested, I'll delete this post when we found someone.
December 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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A pelican? More like peli-can't!

I absolutely love these pictures and had no idea how expressive a pelican could be!
FINALLY GOT IT!

I've taken well over 100,000 pelican pictures, maybe 200,000.

Over 20,000 the past month alone.

Today, I snagged "The One That Got Away"

In my infinite optimism, I give you, a very rare:

Fish success story.

🪶
December 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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That white grunt really said ‘shut your mouth’!! 🌶️🌶️🌶️ #whitegrunt #mouthfight #gruntfight #spicy #fishfight #chomp #thatsafirst #coral #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
December 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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A Triceratops skull from my 1907 first edition copy of “The Ceratopsia by John B. Hatcher based on preliminary studies by Othniel C. Marsh.”
Marsh was a paleontologist who named 19 dinosaur genera & published 1,400 scientific papers.
Coin for scale.
#FossilFriday
December 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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A mushroom chromolithograph from “Les Champignons Comestibles et les Espèces Vénéneuses avec Lesquelles Ils Pourraient Être Confondus (Edible Mushrooms and the Poisonous Species with which They Could Be Confused) by apothecary and artist Fritz Leuba (1890).
Coin for scale.
#sciart 🍄
December 11, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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This photographer on a cool quest to photograph every hummingbird species was going through up to 90 pounds of sugar in nectar a week in California.
www.audubon.org/magazine/mee...
Meet the Woman on a Mission to Photograph Every Species of Hummingbird in the World
In less than a decade amateur photographer and Hummingbird Spot founder Carole Turek has photographed more than 250 hummingbird species, including one that was long considered extinct.
www.audubon.org
December 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Fidget pendants are back in stock! For immediate shipping: carnelian, rose quartz, blue goldstone, tiger's eye.

oishiny.etsy.com/listing/1604...

(If you want a different stone, see previous posts upthread.)

Last chance for US Xmas shipping is Thursday night, 11th Dec, to go out Fri morning.
December 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Please take the measles threat seriously, it is only going to get worse

www.patreon.com/posts/123491...
December 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM