eHawk (alana rivera)
@eveninghawk.bsky.social
Museum collection nerd working with invertebrates at the MCZ. Artist making work that shows why I find all these organisms so precious. Neurodivergent and chronically ill person making it go. 🔬🧫🪗🌈🪼🐙🦀🪸
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Jinxland is back with a new song release, just in time for Friday revelry. Find Whiskey Demon on Bandcamp or your favorite music platform! jinxland.bandcamp.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Jinxland is back with a new song release, just in time for Friday revelry. Find Whiskey Demon on Bandcamp or your favorite music platform! jinxland.bandcamp.com
This is a fun redraw of a piece I made back in 2008. I didn't think about how much fun it is to retool panel layout!
August 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This is a fun redraw of a piece I made back in 2008. I didn't think about how much fun it is to retool panel layout!
A nice watercolor and colored pencil giant african snail (Achatina) with a feather-tailed centipede (Alipes). Building up color this way takes a lot of patience that is not always in reach for me! Do you like playing with gutters in sketchbooks? I love a full page spread but it's hard!
July 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
A nice watercolor and colored pencil giant african snail (Achatina) with a feather-tailed centipede (Alipes). Building up color this way takes a lot of patience that is not always in reach for me! Do you like playing with gutters in sketchbooks? I love a full page spread but it's hard!
I am forever amazed by colors in the natural world. Gecarcinus quadratus (the Halloween crab, among many many other common names) is absolutely stunning. What's your favorite crab?
July 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I am forever amazed by colors in the natural world. Gecarcinus quadratus (the Halloween crab, among many many other common names) is absolutely stunning. What's your favorite crab?
Caprellidae (skeleton shrimp) are some of my favorite organisms to watch!
July 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Caprellidae (skeleton shrimp) are some of my favorite organisms to watch!
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Many thanks to our intrepid keynote speaker, Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social! We had a delightful time learning about his journey into cultural entomology and #SciArt...and a little dance along the way! There was even a little collaboration cameo with GNSI member Tierney Brosius.
July 15, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Many thanks to our intrepid keynote speaker, Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social! We had a delightful time learning about his journey into cultural entomology and #SciArt...and a little dance along the way! There was even a little collaboration cameo with GNSI member Tierney Brosius.
A fun request that let me flex a little local fauna! Formica exsectoides was the field ant of choice for this project. Neohelix albolabris (Eastern whitelip) is probably the largest land snail we have up here in New England. A queen in battle needs her battle armor!
July 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
A fun request that let me flex a little local fauna! Formica exsectoides was the field ant of choice for this project. Neohelix albolabris (Eastern whitelip) is probably the largest land snail we have up here in New England. A queen in battle needs her battle armor!
Summer solstice hit last month, so I have my second snake piece for 2025. This time featuring Erpeton tentaculatum, the tentacled snake. I couldn't quite make out their facial details, but friends over in Herpetology let me come check out a couple specimens in the collection!
July 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Summer solstice hit last month, so I have my second snake piece for 2025. This time featuring Erpeton tentaculatum, the tentacled snake. I couldn't quite make out their facial details, but friends over in Herpetology let me come check out a couple specimens in the collection!
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Stunning urchin tests by Anders Hallan via National Geographic www.facebook.com/natgeo/posts...
June 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Stunning urchin tests by Anders Hallan via National Geographic www.facebook.com/natgeo/posts...
A new pink monster piece, to be friends with a blue monster i drew years ago. I can't decide if green or red will be the next color. What do you think? This is one of the pieces I'm bringing to Somerville Open Studios this weekend. I'll be at the Armory, 191 Highland Ave from 12-6pm Sat and Sun!
May 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
A new pink monster piece, to be friends with a blue monster i drew years ago. I can't decide if green or red will be the next color. What do you think? This is one of the pieces I'm bringing to Somerville Open Studios this weekend. I'll be at the Armory, 191 Highland Ave from 12-6pm Sat and Sun!
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They canceled the National Nature Assessment. We kept going. The science didn’t stop. Neither did our hope, or our resolve. The work is still happening—independent, evolving, and grounded in purpose. Because weareunitedbynature.org
🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...
🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...
Opinion | We Found a Work Around to Trump Defunding Science
When knowledge is threatened, don’t just mourn it. Build around it.
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
They canceled the National Nature Assessment. We kept going. The science didn’t stop. Neither did our hope, or our resolve. The work is still happening—independent, evolving, and grounded in purpose. Because weareunitedbynature.org
🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...
🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...
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#wormwednesday! A #newspecies of an unusual polychaete genus Ctenophoricola (#Phyllodocida, Phyllodocidae, Alciopini) from the Indian Ocean how interesting! www.mapress.com/zt/article/v...
March 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
#wormwednesday! A #newspecies of an unusual polychaete genus Ctenophoricola (#Phyllodocida, Phyllodocidae, Alciopini) from the Indian Ocean how interesting! www.mapress.com/zt/article/v...
My new band is playing a show April 12, come party with us!
Shake off the winter and come party with us, Ruby Grove, @thepunkmonk and more! Music, poetry, burlesque, fortune telling, art, and vendors at Warehouse XI April 12! 🧙♀️🔮💫🏳️🌈
Get your tickets!
www.ticketleap.events/tickets/jinx...
Get your tickets!
www.ticketleap.events/tickets/jinx...
March 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
My new band is playing a show April 12, come party with us!
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Today's additions to the science library:
"What's a mollusk anyway?" mini-zine
and
"Mutual Aid & ism"
Both by @eveninghawk.bsky.social! Thank you for sending these! They are fantastic!
Do you have extra printed zines you'd like to add to the library? DM me!
"What's a mollusk anyway?" mini-zine
and
"Mutual Aid & ism"
Both by @eveninghawk.bsky.social! Thank you for sending these! They are fantastic!
Do you have extra printed zines you'd like to add to the library? DM me!
March 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Today's additions to the science library:
"What's a mollusk anyway?" mini-zine
and
"Mutual Aid & ism"
Both by @eveninghawk.bsky.social! Thank you for sending these! They are fantastic!
Do you have extra printed zines you'd like to add to the library? DM me!
"What's a mollusk anyway?" mini-zine
and
"Mutual Aid & ism"
Both by @eveninghawk.bsky.social! Thank you for sending these! They are fantastic!
Do you have extra printed zines you'd like to add to the library? DM me!
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Putting together all the perfect components to bring some music into being. We need a little joy, sharing, and weirdness right now. 🔮💫🌙🧙♀️🏳️🌈
#ComingSoom #music #musicsky
#ComingSoom #music #musicsky
March 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Putting together all the perfect components to bring some music into being. We need a little joy, sharing, and weirdness right now. 🔮💫🌙🧙♀️🏳️🌈
#ComingSoom #music #musicsky
#ComingSoom #music #musicsky
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Here is the mollusc tree. (We fixed it, you're welcome.) 😇 @sgn.one @oceanspecies.bsky.social @kmkocot.bsky.social
@squamiferum.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@squamiferum.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
February 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Here is the mollusc tree. (We fixed it, you're welcome.) 😇 @sgn.one @oceanspecies.bsky.social @kmkocot.bsky.social
@squamiferum.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@squamiferum.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A few days ago I posted a photo of the diatom Auliscus sculptus. I found this little frustule of the same species in my sample this week, and I thought it was a good opportunity to show you its beautiful adornment. 🦑 #plankton
February 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
A few days ago I posted a photo of the diatom Auliscus sculptus. I found this little frustule of the same species in my sample this week, and I thought it was a good opportunity to show you its beautiful adornment. 🦑 #plankton
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Squeeee! 🥹 A Ctenophore (comb jelly) larva from this week’s sample. I love it! 🦑
February 26, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Squeeee! 🥹 A Ctenophore (comb jelly) larva from this week’s sample. I love it! 🦑
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Really happy that the @marineevoeco.com lab played a very small part in this really cool paper published with the @roneilllab.bsky.social, @vuruputoor.bsky.social, @noahreid.bsky.social, @jillwegrzyn.bsky.social and others! Big thanks to Gabe Barrett for connecting UConn and URI research teams
Genome Assembly of a Living Fossil, the Atlantic Horseshoe Crab Limulus polyphemus, Reveals Lineage-Specific Whole-Genome Duplications, Transposable Element-Based Centromeres, and a ZW Sex Chromosome ...
Abstract. Horseshoe crabs, considered living fossils with a stable morphotype spanning ∼445 million years, are evolutionarily, ecologically, and biomedical
doi.org
February 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Really happy that the @marineevoeco.com lab played a very small part in this really cool paper published with the @roneilllab.bsky.social, @vuruputoor.bsky.social, @noahreid.bsky.social, @jillwegrzyn.bsky.social and others! Big thanks to Gabe Barrett for connecting UConn and URI research teams
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I was quite confident on my knowledge of marine biodiversity in my area (I have a PhD in marine biology after all).
But today I learn about Paromola cuvieri, one of the largest crab species of the Northeast Atlantic, that uses its last pair of legs to carry live specimens of sponges and corals 🦑 🌊
But today I learn about Paromola cuvieri, one of the largest crab species of the Northeast Atlantic, that uses its last pair of legs to carry live specimens of sponges and corals 🦑 🌊
February 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I was quite confident on my knowledge of marine biodiversity in my area (I have a PhD in marine biology after all).
But today I learn about Paromola cuvieri, one of the largest crab species of the Northeast Atlantic, that uses its last pair of legs to carry live specimens of sponges and corals 🦑 🌊
But today I learn about Paromola cuvieri, one of the largest crab species of the Northeast Atlantic, that uses its last pair of legs to carry live specimens of sponges and corals 🦑 🌊
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Classroom/Library enrollment was down pretty bad in February. National chaos and uncertainly likely has something to do with it.
Can you help me make sure that all the educators on bluesky know Skype a Scientist exists and is ready to connect them with scientists? Every RT helps!
#EduSky #STEMEd
Can you help me make sure that all the educators on bluesky know Skype a Scientist exists and is ready to connect them with scientists? Every RT helps!
#EduSky #STEMEd
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February 26, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Putative Batesian mimicry of gelatinous zooplankton by larvae of marine fishes: a closer look based on in-situ images by blackwater photographers
Johnson et al. 2025
Larval fishes appear to mimic invertebrates as seen by deep ocean divers after sunset
oceansciencefoundation.org/josf42d.html...
Johnson et al. 2025
Larval fishes appear to mimic invertebrates as seen by deep ocean divers after sunset
oceansciencefoundation.org/josf42d.html...
February 25, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Putative Batesian mimicry of gelatinous zooplankton by larvae of marine fishes: a closer look based on in-situ images by blackwater photographers
Johnson et al. 2025
Larval fishes appear to mimic invertebrates as seen by deep ocean divers after sunset
oceansciencefoundation.org/josf42d.html...
Johnson et al. 2025
Larval fishes appear to mimic invertebrates as seen by deep ocean divers after sunset
oceansciencefoundation.org/josf42d.html...
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I've fallen down the pit of politics lately so here's my start to claw back....I'll try and balance that with science. This is Austropallene cornigera, sea spider he's a dad. MOST pycnos reproduce like seahorses....females pass eggs to males to brood until they crawl off dad! #Antarctica 🦑🧪🌎🇦🇶🐧
February 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I've fallen down the pit of politics lately so here's my start to claw back....I'll try and balance that with science. This is Austropallene cornigera, sea spider he's a dad. MOST pycnos reproduce like seahorses....females pass eggs to males to brood until they crawl off dad! #Antarctica 🦑🧪🌎🇦🇶🐧
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This #paleoart shows 3 views of the Devonian brachiopod fossil Paraspirifer bownockeri; one is reconstructed w/ some epifauna and boreholes. These are fun to find; they're an impressive size (for brachiopods). I had an excellent specimen to use as a reference for this painting.
#FossilFriday #sciart
#FossilFriday #sciart
February 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This #paleoart shows 3 views of the Devonian brachiopod fossil Paraspirifer bownockeri; one is reconstructed w/ some epifauna and boreholes. These are fun to find; they're an impressive size (for brachiopods). I had an excellent specimen to use as a reference for this painting.
#FossilFriday #sciart
#FossilFriday #sciart