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Lauren
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Biologist + Scientific Illustrator @ birdpop.org She/her 🏠 Oregon, USA W⚡E 🚫AI portfolio: http://tinylongwing.carbonmade.com shop: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/tinylongwing/ more: https://linktr.ee/tinylongwing
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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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The Institute for Bird Populations @instbirdpop.bsky.social · 2d
🪶🌎🧪 On September 28th, Rota TMAPS banders Greta Walser and Jason Talbott observed a color-banded Whimbrel on the lawn of a church directly across from their home. (1/4)
Photo by Jason Talbot of a Whimbrel walking across a grassy lawn on the island of Rota in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The bird has blue and white flags on on leg
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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 6d
Thanks to all of you who donated in the final stretch! I've received the final donors list spanning 9-22 to 9-30, and will work on all of those birds as I find time - probably mostly after October 8 when I'm back home, so I appreciate your patience while I wrap up my travels out here in the Pacific!
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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 15d
A Gray Catbird, for aurorawest on tumblr! Thank you for the #Waymakers donation!

For info, to donate + request a bird: act.theyoungcenter.org/a/birdsbeyon...

All funds help unaccompanied immigrant children in the US via @theyoungcenter.bsky.social Ends Sept. 30 - one week left! 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
Illustration of a Gray Catbird perched upright on a long stick, with a mottled abstract purple and gold foliage background. The bird is mostly gray with a dark cap and red undertail coverts, highlighted in gold with rim lighting implying late afternoon.
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Reports From Unknown Places @clever-reports.bsky.social · 4d
11:25 PM: we trudge along fresh puddles on the way home. There is light from somewhere far away keeping the horizon awake.
A square pastel drawing of a foggy night scene. The sky is a dark grey, slightly lighter above the horizon. There is a line of trees standing in mid-distance, half-engulfed by the fog. There are puddles in the grass in the foreground reflecting the faint light.
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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 6d
Ah hooray! They're so beautiful.
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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 6d
Thanks to all of you who donated in the final stretch! I've received the final donors list spanning 9-22 to 9-30, and will work on all of those birds as I find time - probably mostly after October 8 when I'm back home, so I appreciate your patience while I wrap up my travels out here in the Pacific!
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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 15d
A Gray Catbird, for aurorawest on tumblr! Thank you for the #Waymakers donation!

For info, to donate + request a bird: act.theyoungcenter.org/a/birdsbeyon...

All funds help unaccompanied immigrant children in the US via @theyoungcenter.bsky.social Ends Sept. 30 - one week left! 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
Illustration of a Gray Catbird perched upright on a long stick, with a mottled abstract purple and gold foliage background. The bird is mostly gray with a dark cap and red undertail coverts, highlighted in gold with rim lighting implying late afternoon.
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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 7d
Happy #Invertober!

Japanese sea nettle (Chrysaora pacifica)

#SciArt #art #invertober2025
A digital painting of a Japanese sea nettle (Chrysaora pacifica), a jellyfish with dark striped pattern on its bell and tangled curly transparent tentacles surrounded by thin hair-like tentacles.
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Tam||maT @tamvmat.bsky.social · 7d
Alright here we go! #DREDGEtober 2025 day 1 "Eyes"
Ink pen on paper
A fishing boat with darkness and red eyes in its wake - Dredge, Dredgetober
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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 7d
She built a legacy that wove science AND emotion together to help us better understand ourselves, our primate cousins, and nature. She was a giant and it’s on all the people she inspired and influenced to keep her work and her values alive. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
Jane Goodall, famed primatologist and conservationist, dies at 91
Jane Goodall, the most prolific primatologist of a generation, has died. She was 91 years old.
abcnews.go.com
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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 8d
quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric
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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 8d
Fantastic, thanks!
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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 8d
This is your last chance to donate! I'll wrap up all final drawings in early to mid-October!
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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · Sep 6
Osprey, for lycorisrecoil @ tumblr! Thanks for the #Waymakers donation!

For info, and to donate and request a bird: act.theyoungcenter.org/a/birdsbeyon...

All funds go to supporting the rights of immigrant kids in the US. Ends Sept. 30!

🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
Digital illustration of an Osprey flying over blue water with ghostly foggy trees in the background. The lighting is strong blue and gold, accentuating the bird's bright yellow eye on its otherwise black and white feathers.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 8d
For the third time in a dozen years, the U.S. scientific community is digging in for a potentially lengthy partial federal government shutdown that promises to disrupt research and funding programs. https://scim.ag/4pQ9y0K
U.S. scientists gird for yet another government shutdown
Political impasse to hobble research agencies—and perhaps enable layoffs
scim.ag
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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 8d
YES these are so satisfying to look at!
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4952 @every-eye-evermore.bsky.social · 8d
Thumbnailing some new pages and I’m very pleased with how they’re looking
#webcomic #wip
simple black and white thumbnails for three comic pages, showing a man wandering through the woods towards a house.
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 8d
portland update: this just crossed the street in front of me holding a bright yellow sign that said WELCOME TO HELL
(a person in an inflatable unicorn costume to be clear)
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Marc Jones @marcehjones.bsky.social · 10d
When images of glacial retreat are posted online it's amazing how many people's gut reaction is "summer vs winter!" without any consideration for latitude + light levels or knowledge of actual glaciers.
#ChristianAslund
#Blomstrandbreen
#Svalbard
The image shows six panes. The top left pane shows the Blomstrandbreen glacier (Svalbard) as photographed in 1928 by the Norwegian Polar Institute labelled "The Arctic, Summer 1928". The middle left pane shows the same glacier as photographed in 2002 by Christian Aslund labelled "The Arctic, Summer 2002". The bottom left pane shows the same glacier as photographed in 2022 by Christian Aslund labelled "The Arctic, Summer 2022". The top right pane is black and labelled "The Arctic, Winter 1928". The bottom right pane is all black and labelled "The Arctic, Winter 2002". The bottom right pane is all black and labelled "The Arctic, Winter 2022". Yes, the labels and panes on the right are added in jest but the topic is serious: overall this glacier has retreated over 2 km since 1928 and over 3 km since 1861.
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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 27d
A Common Nighthawk for amorphous-astrocyte on tumblr! Thanks for your #Waymakers donation!

For info, to donate + request a bird: act.theyoungcenter.org/a/birdsbeyon...

All funds support unaccompanied immigrant kids in the US. Ends Sept. 30! 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
Illustration of a Common Nighthawk on the wing at sunset over dark purple and bright orange clouds. It turns in flight and opens its wide mouth to try and nab a moth out of the air. It is a brown mottled bird with lots of black and white speckling and barring, and two broad white bands near the tips of the wings.
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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 15d
A Gray Catbird, for aurorawest on tumblr! Thank you for the #Waymakers donation!

For info, to donate + request a bird: act.theyoungcenter.org/a/birdsbeyon...

All funds help unaccompanied immigrant children in the US via @theyoungcenter.bsky.social Ends Sept. 30 - one week left! 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
Illustration of a Gray Catbird perched upright on a long stick, with a mottled abstract purple and gold foliage background. The bird is mostly gray with a dark cap and red undertail coverts, highlighted in gold with rim lighting implying late afternoon.
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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 10d
Great! I get donation messages in a weekly bulk email so I will get to it when I receive that!
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Reports From Unknown Places @clever-reports.bsky.social · 12d
We report: it is a little less hot, for a shorter amount of time, but when the sun is out, it is out. We left our sunglasses in our other jacket - subconsciously, we must have thought autumn meant no sun. We are left helplessly squinting for our trouble. It is a bright day.
Digital painting of an apple tree against a bright blue sky, red and yellow apples clear among the leaves. There are white clouds sprinkled across the sky, and a line of trees in the background.
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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 13d
I'd say the average has been $30-50 but whatever you feel comfortable with is ok!
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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 13d
Yes these are just digital thank yous for donating!
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CuttleDreams 🪱🪳 @cuttledreams.bsky.social · 15d
Tried to do 30 min bugs to help learn Krita + see if I can offer bug doodles of reasonable quality. A little iffy so I'll keep practicing.

Referenced from the Bug Pics for Art Refs inaturalist project by Franz: www.inaturalist.org/projects/bug...
Three speed drawings of bugs. An orange Scotolemon doriae, a green leafy Pycnopalpa bicordata, and a lovely brown Megaloblatta blaberoiodes cockroach.
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Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center @anzaborrego.bsky.social · 15d
Teddy-bear cholla at sunrise on 9-18-25 (Photo: Sicco Rood).
Teddy-bear cholla. Dark thunderstorm clouds above the sunrise.
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Murk @ginkgogoes.bsky.social · 15d
Turkey vulture sketch 🪶
Digital painting of the head of a turkey vulture in profile against a grey textured background.
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