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Colleen Iversen
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Scientist | #Arctic | #Belowground | #Roots | #ScienceEmbroidery | Opinions my own | She/Her | Editor @newphyt

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Colleen Iversen @colleeniversen.bsky.social · Aug 31
Come for the #ScienceEmbroidery and stay for the Science!
Embroidered tundra plants against a painted soil background. Embroidered strawberry plant against a painted lake background. Embroidered muskoxen against a painted background. Made for Jacquelyn Gill. Embroidered Umiaq.

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Colleen Iversen @colleeniversen.bsky.social · 23h
I stitched a springtail for a beloved friend. They’re so pretty. ❤️
An embroidery of a springtail walking along a painted root highway to grab a fungi snack.

Reposted by Colleen M. Iversen

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d
'Wheelbarrow Washing" by Pamela Grace, contemporary artist and printmaker living and working in Galloway, Scotland #WomensArt
Print featuring a green wheelbarrow in the foreground in a garden setting with bare trees, xhickens and a washing line with clothes hanging

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Colleen Iversen @colleeniversen.bsky.social · 3d
White bears are verrrry colorful. 🌈
#Embroidery
A partially embroidered polar bear face with a grey snout stitched on a painted grey background.

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Colleen Iversen @colleeniversen.bsky.social · 4d
She’s so pretty. 🫶🏻
#Embroidery
A partially embroidered polar bear face with a grey snout against a painted grey background.

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Colleen Iversen @colleeniversen.bsky.social · 4d
!!!!🖖🏻❤️

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TrekCore.com 🖖 @trekcore.com · 5d
NEW — LEGO finally unveils their long-rumored 3600pc, $400 STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D brick set and limited-availability shuttlepod kit, coming in late November

#StarTrek #Lego

blog.trekcore.com/2025/11/lego...
LEGO Unveils New 3600-Piece STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D Brick Set
LEGO finally unveils their long-rumored 3600pc, $400 STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D brick set and limited-availability Shuttlepod kit, coming in late November
blog.trekcore.com

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Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Dávila @josephtumber.bsky.social · 6d
New Assistant Professor Posting:
@dartmouthears.bsky.social @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social
Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry and/or Geobiology
apply.interfolio.com/176517

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screenshot of job ad from link on post

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Colleen Iversen @colleeniversen.bsky.social · 8d
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Colleen Iversen @colleeniversen.bsky.social · 8d
Pretty brown eyes…
#Embroidery
A partially embroidered polar bear with a grey snout stitched on a painted grey background. She had brown eyes.

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Colleen Iversen @colleeniversen.bsky.social · 9d
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#Embroidery
A partially embroidered polar bear face with a grey snout, stitched on a painted grey background.

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Colleen Iversen @colleeniversen.bsky.social · 12d
🐻‍❄️
#Embroidery
A partially embroidered polar bear face with a grey snout stitched on a painted grey background.

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Colleen Iversen @colleeniversen.bsky.social · 13d
☁️🤍🩶
#Embroidery
A partially embroidered polar bear in whites and yellows staring at the camera. She had a grayish snout and she’s stitched against a painted grey sky.

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Colleen Iversen @colleeniversen.bsky.social · 15d
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#Embroidery
A partially embroidered polar bear face with a grayish snout and white and yellow fur against a painted grey background.

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Colleen Iversen @colleeniversen.bsky.social · 16d
The next #Embroidery is a polar bear for Grace at Audubon Alaska. 🤍🐻‍❄️
A partially embroidered close up of a polar bear face with a black nose and grey muzzle. She’s stitched against a grey sky.

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Colleen Iversen @colleeniversen.bsky.social · 19d
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Colleen Iversen @colleeniversen.bsky.social · 19d
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Colleen Iversen @colleeniversen.bsky.social · 19d
Thank you! ❤️

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Colleen Iversen @colleeniversen.bsky.social · 20d
She’s done. I love her winter shadows. ☀️❤️
#Embroidery
An embroidered willow ptarmigan in her winter white feathers - she looks like a white chicken. The low winter sun is making her feathers cast grey shadows. She’s standing on painted blue and white snow amount painted shrubs.

Reposted by Colleen M. Iversen

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 24d
More breathing space, 2024 one of the many etchings & engravings by printmaker Janis Goodman #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
Print in in blue and black, looking up to bare black tree silhouettes in a forest as two birds fly in between

Reposted by Colleen M. Iversen

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Alaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 24d
Typhoon disaster in Western Alaska raises questions around the region’s future, reports Yereth Rosen for the @alaskabeacon.com
Typhoon disaster in Western Alaska raises questions around the region’s future | Alaska Beacon
Climate change forces are combining to make the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta especially vulnerable and possibly unable to support residents.
alaskabeacon.com

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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 28d
If any plant nerds want to come work with me on soil-plant interactions... we should chat :) www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation
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Colleen Iversen @colleeniversen.bsky.social · Oct 11
❤️❤️❤️!

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Colleen Iversen @colleeniversen.bsky.social · Oct 11
🤣☺️

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Colleen Iversen @colleeniversen.bsky.social · Oct 11
Nearly done! Pretty girl - I love the shadows from her feathers. ✨
#Embroidery
A partially embroidered ptarmigan - a large white bird with grey shadows, standing in a painted snowy back gourd with shrub tops sticking up around her.

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Colleen Iversen @colleeniversen.bsky.social · Oct 10
❤️! I haven’t been close enough to get a good feet look myself, but I find ptarmigans to be both goofy and feisty, which I always appreciate:)

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Colleen Iversen @colleeniversen.bsky.social · Oct 9
🌘✨
#Embroidery
A partially embroidered ptarmigan in her winter white feathers standing in bluish painted snow. She has shadows from her feathers.

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Colleen Iversen @colleeniversen.bsky.social · Oct 8
More fluff!🪽
#Embroidery
A partially embroidered wintery white ptarmigan bird standing in the snow against a painted snowy landscape. Her feathers are fluffy and partly shaded.

Reposted by Colleen M. Iversen

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Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · Oct 8
Wednesday early afternoon: mandatory evacuation for the entire city of Kotzebue (posted on the city FB page) for expected coastal flooding later today. No roads in or out of Kotz, so in this case, evacuation means go to the High School. #akwx #weatther #Alaska
City of Kotzebue Mandatory Evacuation Order Issued 1205pm October 8, 2025. Due to incoming storm.water surge, the City of Kotzebue is issuing a mandatory evacuation order for all residents, effective immediately.

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Justus Hennecke @henneckejustus.bsky.social · Oct 7
Super excited to see that the last chapter of my PhD on root trait - ecosystem functioning relationships is now published in @newphyt.bsky.social!
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Rooting for function: community‐level fine‐root traits relate to many ecosystem functions
Humans are driving biodiversity change, which also alters community functional traits. However, how changes in the functional traits of the community alter ecosystem functions—especially belowground...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Colleen Iversen @colleeniversen.bsky.social · Oct 6
I picked her because she’s standing in the low winter sun and it’s making beautiful shadows on her feathers. ☀️
#Embroidery
A partially embroidered ptarmigan in her winter white, standing in the snow against a painted blue snowy background.