A.Zimmer
@atzimmer.bsky.social
Biology A.S in-progress 🧬
They/Them + She/Her
Dirt goblin, rock turner-over, sometimes-illustrator.
They/Them + She/Her
Dirt goblin, rock turner-over, sometimes-illustrator.
No wonder my desktop struggles with basic browsing, UGH.
November 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
No wonder my desktop struggles with basic browsing, UGH.
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As a post-exam treat I’m seeing Angel’s Egg tonight!
November 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
As a post-exam treat I’m seeing Angel’s Egg tonight!
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Deadline next week! Don't forget to nominate! (and if you have problems, get in touch with us directly via our website)
Have you completed or commissioned a piece of palaeoart in the last year? Nominations are now open for The Marsh Palaeoart Award! 🎨🦕🌿🐌🐟🎨
You can self-nominate, or nominate an artist you think deserves recognition. Check out our website for more details - palaeosoc.org/grants-prize...
You can self-nominate, or nominate an artist you think deserves recognition. Check out our website for more details - palaeosoc.org/grants-prize...
November 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Deadline next week! Don't forget to nominate! (and if you have problems, get in touch with us directly via our website)
Following people who post about bugs are an excellent litmus test for who to block.
November 16, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Following people who post about bugs are an excellent litmus test for who to block.
Every holiday season this tweet lives rent free in my head
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Every holiday season this tweet lives rent free in my head
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This is an Eastern Cape giant cycad. This specimen at Kew Gardens is the world's oldest potted plant* & it is older than the United States.
I found this oddly comforting? Certain systems seem deeply entrenched & unchangeable but in reality there are houseplants that have been around longer.🧪🌿
I found this oddly comforting? Certain systems seem deeply entrenched & unchangeable but in reality there are houseplants that have been around longer.🧪🌿
November 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This is an Eastern Cape giant cycad. This specimen at Kew Gardens is the world's oldest potted plant* & it is older than the United States.
I found this oddly comforting? Certain systems seem deeply entrenched & unchangeable but in reality there are houseplants that have been around longer.🧪🌿
I found this oddly comforting? Certain systems seem deeply entrenched & unchangeable but in reality there are houseplants that have been around longer.🧪🌿
I need to go 👀
"Angel's Egg" illustration by Zack Lydon & Zine Hug.
Commissioned as part of the screenings of the remastered version of the film at The Grand Cinema (Tacoma, Washington).
www.instagram.com/p/DQ-lp1Mj5Ox
Commissioned as part of the screenings of the remastered version of the film at The Grand Cinema (Tacoma, Washington).
www.instagram.com/p/DQ-lp1Mj5Ox
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I need to go 👀
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👇 the website will be creaking a bit now, but especially if you have observations from low latitudes (<45⁰N) save this site and submit your observations later!
Submit them to Aurorasaurus!!! They're an NSF funded project out of University of New Mexico that takes crowdsourced aurora observations for research purposes:
www.aurorasaurus.org
www.aurorasaurus.org
Aurorasaurus - Reporting Auroras from the Ground Up
Friends, see my real-time #aurora report on the aurorasaurus.org map! Follow us on www.facebook.com/aurorasaurus.org. Reporting #northernlights and #citizenscience from the ground up since 2012!
www.aurorasaurus.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:37 AM
👇 the website will be creaking a bit now, but especially if you have observations from low latitudes (<45⁰N) save this site and submit your observations later!
I might have to give up earning my new degree in order to get healthcare.
Thanks a lot, cowards.
Thanks a lot, cowards.
November 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I might have to give up earning my new degree in order to get healthcare.
Thanks a lot, cowards.
Thanks a lot, cowards.
“But you’re married, why not just get on your spouse’s health insurance plan?”
Because it costs $900 to add a spouse 🫠
Because it costs $900 to add a spouse 🫠
November 10, 2025 at 5:38 AM
“But you’re married, why not just get on your spouse’s health insurance plan?”
Because it costs $900 to add a spouse 🫠
Because it costs $900 to add a spouse 🫠
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Super useful tips & tricks for insect specimen imaging from @andrewjohnston.bsky.social! He shares how to build an affordable focus stacking system on your own.
Handy guide available here:
www.insectid.org/post/focus-s...
#ECN2025 📸 🪲
Handy guide available here:
www.insectid.org/post/focus-s...
#ECN2025 📸 🪲
November 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Super useful tips & tricks for insect specimen imaging from @andrewjohnston.bsky.social! He shares how to build an affordable focus stacking system on your own.
Handy guide available here:
www.insectid.org/post/focus-s...
#ECN2025 📸 🪲
Handy guide available here:
www.insectid.org/post/focus-s...
#ECN2025 📸 🪲
Hoping to exorcise Windows 11 from my laptop tomorrow 😈
November 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Hoping to exorcise Windows 11 from my laptop tomorrow 😈
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check your ndc / manufacturer on your label first! pharmacies receive lists of affected lots and should be reaching out to patients as well. this is specifically for sun pharmaceuticals' generic, starting numbers 57664
As a headsup for anyone on Vyvanse, you should go check your lot numbers.
www.health.com/adhd-medicat...
www.health.com/adhd-medicat...
FDA Announces Nationwide Recall of ADHD Medication—Check Your Cabinets Now
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries has recalled several lots lisdexamfetamine dimesylate capsules, a generic form of Vyvanse, after testing found they failed to dissolve properly.
www.health.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
check your ndc / manufacturer on your label first! pharmacies receive lists of affected lots and should be reaching out to patients as well. this is specifically for sun pharmaceuticals' generic, starting numbers 57664
No word yet on whether I can afford health insurance next year, but at least one more war criminal is down.
November 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
No word yet on whether I can afford health insurance next year, but at least one more war criminal is down.
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happy halloween i am ready to confuse some trick-or-treaters
October 31, 2025 at 1:19 PM
happy halloween i am ready to confuse some trick-or-treaters
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Happy Halloween! 🎃 This is a piece I’ve did before but wanna try a different background color. Orange and black insects lining up for the spooky season! 🧡🖤
October 31, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Happy Halloween! 🎃 This is a piece I’ve did before but wanna try a different background color. Orange and black insects lining up for the spooky season! 🧡🖤
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Anyone who has offered to help me financially, please instead help out PRI / Paleontological Research Institution. They run a wonderful small museum in Ithaca at risk of foreclosure. They offer special sensory-friendly days, fully-masked days, fossil IDs, and an online gift shop.
www.priweb.org
www.priweb.org
Paleontological Research Institution
www.priweb.org
October 30, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Anyone who has offered to help me financially, please instead help out PRI / Paleontological Research Institution. They run a wonderful small museum in Ithaca at risk of foreclosure. They offer special sensory-friendly days, fully-masked days, fossil IDs, and an online gift shop.
www.priweb.org
www.priweb.org
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If you like Hollow Knight and Silksong, you may also like those 2 previous illustrations of mine! Those are all kinds of interesting looking caterpillars with unique horns and masks 💚
October 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
If you like Hollow Knight and Silksong, you may also like those 2 previous illustrations of mine! Those are all kinds of interesting looking caterpillars with unique horns and masks 💚
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Let's get an Indigenous art share going too!! If you're an Indigenous/First Nations artist, vendor, beader, etc, share your work and links below!!
#IndigenousPeoplesDay ❤️💛🤍🖤
#IndigenousPeoplesDay ❤️💛🤍🖤
June 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Let's get an Indigenous art share going too!! If you're an Indigenous/First Nations artist, vendor, beader, etc, share your work and links below!!
#IndigenousPeoplesDay ❤️💛🤍🖤
#IndigenousPeoplesDay ❤️💛🤍🖤
New squiggle!
Meet the “squidworm” 🦑🪱
Discovered by WHOI biologist Larry Madin and colleagues, this 4-inch-long animal was just one of roughly 6,000 new species uncovered during the Census of Marine Life, a decade-long global effort involving more than 2,700 scientists to explore and document ocean life.
Discovered by WHOI biologist Larry Madin and colleagues, this 4-inch-long animal was just one of roughly 6,000 new species uncovered during the Census of Marine Life, a decade-long global effort involving more than 2,700 scientists to explore and document ocean life.
October 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
New squiggle!
RIP to a real one
Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91. Gift link: nyti.ms/48FOuUn
nyti.ms
October 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
RIP to a real one
As that time of year rolls around, a quick reminder that !nktober is trademarked!
Artists publishing sketchbooks have been sued over it 👎👎👎
The term doesn’t belong to any community.
Please consider doing any of the many, many other awesome themed October drawing challenges (or make up your own)!
Artists publishing sketchbooks have been sued over it 👎👎👎
The term doesn’t belong to any community.
Please consider doing any of the many, many other awesome themed October drawing challenges (or make up your own)!
September 28, 2025 at 3:35 AM
As that time of year rolls around, a quick reminder that !nktober is trademarked!
Artists publishing sketchbooks have been sued over it 👎👎👎
The term doesn’t belong to any community.
Please consider doing any of the many, many other awesome themed October drawing challenges (or make up your own)!
Artists publishing sketchbooks have been sued over it 👎👎👎
The term doesn’t belong to any community.
Please consider doing any of the many, many other awesome themed October drawing challenges (or make up your own)!
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Like oops there’s a whole world of beauty and wonder out there if you would stop to look at a small thing for two seconds
September 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Like oops there’s a whole world of beauty and wonder out there if you would stop to look at a small thing for two seconds