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Drosera
@drosera0sundew.bsky.social
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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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rosemarymosco.com
A four-panel comic. In panel one, a female northern cardinal and winter plumage american goldfinch are sitting at a bird feeder in a grey landscape. The cardinal says "These seeds are delicious." The goldfinch replies "Mmm-hmm." In panel 2, there's a close up of the birds at the feeder, and the cardinal says "It was nice of the human to put up this feeder." The goldfinch says "Sure was." In panel 3, the cardinal says "We should return the favor." The goldfinch says "Great idea." In panel 4, there's a pullback shot of the bird feeder, and a human is staring at it and also at a large stick next to it with a pink-iced donut at the end of it.
December 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
drosera0sundew.bsky.social
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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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
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
Abstract landscape: wavy dark blue clouds with a late sunset over a lake with small beach, Full moon in upper right
December 24, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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inaturalist.bsky.social
Quick tips for sorting reptiles! ⤵️
Educational slide about snakes with five snake photos on the left and key traits listed on the right: no legs, long slender body, scales covering entire body, no visible eyelids or external ears. Educational slide about lizards with four lizard photos on the left and key traits listed on the right: usually 4 legs, elongate body, visible eyelids and sometimes ear openings, tail may break off. Educational slide about turtles and tortoises with five photos on the left and key traits listed on the right: hard shell, retractable head and legs, shell shape varies by species. Educational slide about crocodilians with six photos on the left and key traits listed on the right: large robust body, long snout with visible teeth, strong tail, semi-aquatic, thick scales.
December 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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minouette.bsky.social
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 🧵
As described this 16” x 20” linocut print combines gold text in a central circle reading “OUR FATE” arching upwards, “IS TIED” horizontally across the middle, “TO THAT OF THE INSECTS” arching downwards in two lines with insects. Clockwise from top: two leaf cutter bees (Megachile relativa and M. brevis), the Imperial moth (Eacles imperialis), the Virgin Tiger moth (Apantesis virgo), an Isabella’s Longwings butterfly (Nymphalidae Eueides isabella), a blue orchard mason bee (Osmia lignaria), a firefly (Photinus pyralis), the rusty patched bumblebee (Bombus affinis), a white underwing moth (Catocala relicta), an eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica), a sweat bee (Agapostemon sericeus), a hummingbird clearwing moth (Hermaris thysbe), the common eastern bumblebee (B. impatiens), a long-horned bee (Melissodes sp.), a monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) and centre: eastern snail-shell nesting bee (O. conjuncta).
December 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
For Day 21 #ArtAdventCalendar

A Little Night Magic
32 x16 81x40cm
Oil on Canvas
2021
Abstract landscape. Tall rotating storm cloud with a funnel at the bottom at night illuminated by a lightning strike.
December 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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willoremus.com
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
reddit post from a presumably young person who watched sex and the city and couldn’t get over how much people smoked indoors. “wouldn’t everything smell bad?” they asked
December 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
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!
skypeascientist.bsky.social Skype a Scientist @skypeascientist.bsky.social · 16d
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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tinybagel.bsky.social
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
Section of hand stitched quilt top with small squares in variety of colors and patterns.
December 20, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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gettoknownature.bsky.social
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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mariesposeets.bsky.social
willow ptarmigan. Thank you for spreading the bird word, @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
A willow ptarmigan in winter plumage stands on a snowy hill and watches as a werewolf finishes off a traveler below. Ptarmigan: Oh god. Oh god. I... oh god... I tried to warn them... Pen and watercolor.
December 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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brainchain.ca
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.
lollardfish.bsky.social David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · Nov 26
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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greyauk.bsky.social
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
An explanation on how to write ALT text with a photo of a capybara as an example. The main points are Indentify who expression description colour interesting features
December 7, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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ichnologist.bsky.social
“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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heyitsdora.com
Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:
A post by c.a.t.y.a.y that reads, "I wonder what my art could've been if I didn't quit". Iggy responds, "I wonder what it will be if you start again"
December 16, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
there’s so much love in this thread. go scroll for a few minutes if you’re having a rough day
clairewillett.bsky.social Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11d
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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thoughtrise.bsky.social
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
screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized text says: Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved. Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like. Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch. This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
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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melaniebrown.bsky.social
A pelican? More like peli-can't!

I absolutely love these pictures and had no idea how expressive a pelican could be!
banditelli.org Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 15d
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.

🪶
a pelican with their mouth open, and two fish are above to fall into their pouch, but one is above another and may take a path out the pelicans mouth is closed, and there's a fish out the pelican looks at the camera, miffed, the fish is far away from its head at this point the pelican opens its beak and tries to go for it, but i can report back it failed, the fish was long gone
December 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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coralcitycamera.bsky.social
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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bookswain.bsky.social
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
A large fold out page from a book with a detailed illustration of a triceratops skull in profile facing down. It is labeled “PLATE XXIX. SKULL OF TYPE OF TRICERATOPS SERRATUS MARSH.” #paleosky #fossils #paleontology
December 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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bookswain.bsky.social
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 🍄
A colored illustration with multiple depictions of two species of mushrooms with white and light brown bodies that jump out against the black background. One labeled Geaster hygrometricus, which taxonomically now refers to the fungus Astraeus hygrometricus, or the Barometer Earthstar, ‘famous for its hygroscopic (moisture-sensitive) rays that open in wet conditions and close in dry ones, revealing a central spore sac.’ The other is labeled Bovista nigrescens, commonly known as the brown puffball or dusty puffball, is a small, edible puffball mushroom. #fungi #fungilovers 🐡
December 11, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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jacobgrier.bsky.social
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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oishinythings.bsky.social
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.
4 single bead and silver wire fidget pendants - orange, pale pink, sparkly dark blue, brown striped.
December 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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matthewcort.land
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