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Kate Morozova
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Ecologist. Work for CA Fish and Wildlife. Associate Editor of J. CA Fish and Wildlife. Endangered sp. permits and mammals #2025MMM
Wildlife artist, foodie, dreamer.
Prints: https://geogalleries.com/ek.morozova
Stickers: https://brushesandbiomes.printful.me
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Kate Morozova @brushesandbiomes.bsky.social · Jul 25
The auction is live and running until the end of July! Come check out and bid on all the great offers, including tons of lovely art!
gazaaidcollective.betterworld.org/auctions/gaz...

#sciart #birds #watercolor
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If you see this, post something toothy!
Blast from the past from the 2025 March Mammal Madness.

#art #sciart #watercolor
A moonrat, showing a toothy smile
July 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
brushesandbiomes.bsky.social
The auction is live and running until the end of July! Come check out and bid on all the great offers, including tons of lovely art!
gazaaidcollective.betterworld.org/auctions/gaz...

#sciart #birds #watercolor
July 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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The lovely Palestinian Sunbird. This 6x8 #watercolor piece is made for an auction with @gazaaidcollective.bsky.social. More details to come.

#sciart #birds
A watercolor piece of a Palestinian Sunbird sitting on a branch, looking to the right with beak half open. The bird has iridescent blue-green feathers on its head, shoulders and tail, while the rest are a dark brown.
June 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Reposted by Kate Morozova
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Just finished this brown-lipped snail from Mud Lake in Ottawa 🐌 Had such a relaxing time with it using QoR watercolors and a Pentel water brush in an Etchr sketchbook. Grabbed new references in Ithaca yesterday too – totally beat but happy this one’s done! #sciart #artist
Watercolor painting of a brown-lipped snail crawling on tree bark, rendered with high detail and realism in a small sketchbook.
June 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Boosting this opportunity to #science
kratina.bsky.social Pavel Kratina @kratina.bsky.social · Jun 2
Job alert - We are looking for an Environmental Facility Technician @qmulsbbs.bsky.social to help support file work, experiments, isotope ratio mass spectrometry, gas chromatography etc. Please apply here:

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Environmental Analytical Facility Technician - QMUL Jobs
ID: 6011. Title: Environmental Analytical Facility Technician. Application Deadline:
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June 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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I’m edging towards thinking this a queen red-tailed cuckoo (Bombus rupestris) rather than a red-tailed bumblebee, ( B. lapidarius) but would appreciate any confirmation of which she is. Thank you! (NEEngland).
#bees @nenature.bsky.social
A queen bee on an allium flower. She has a shiny black abdomen, dark wings, red tail, and the tibia of the back leg appears hairy A queen bumblebee on an allium flower. She has a shiny black body, dark wings, red tail, and the tibia of the back leg appears hairy.
June 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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The space bee is complete and ready for framing! #sciart #bombus #nebula #space #insectart #watercolor
A watercolor painting of a bumblebee flying with a purple and orange toned nebula in the background.
June 2, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Messing around with a new technique to paint nebula. Which version do you think looks better? #sciart #spaceart #watercolorart
Watercolor paintings of nebula in red and orange tones.
May 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Esta es mi reinterpretación del esquema anatómico de la piel y las células del sistema inflamatorio. Es muy divertido ver cómo escala el proceso creativo.
#scientificillustration #sketches
January 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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artologica.net
Want some of my Itty-Bitty #sciart Paintings? Come to Artscape in Baltimore this weekend
An Itty-Bitty Love Story
Because everyone should have original art
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May 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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The orangutans and bonobos are the first two illustrations of a series on behavior and movement of animals in their environment. #SciArt
More coming soon! :)
For @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
Illustration of orangutans climbing on trees
May 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Going back to an old project to paint all the #DnD classes as native #California animals. Here is #jackrabbit as a #warlock. The jackrabbit already has the air of a mad desert prophet so the arcane class felt fitting! Which class or animal do you want to see next?

#wildlife #watercolor 🦊
A watercolor of a jackrabbit, a species of rabbit native to California, painted as a Dungeon and Dragons warlock class.
May 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Reposted by Kate Morozova
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Total deregulation of a/i where states cannot enact any guardrails of their own. That's what's in this bill.

This is some real, truly awful shit for the future of all of us and everything we post online.

U.S. House Switchboard: (202) 224-3121
5calls.org to get a script and quick dial to your rep.
kortizart.bsky.social Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · May 12
Good lord just what the hell is up today. A potential ban on any regulation for AI for the next 10 years? This includes good bills like AB 412 of legislation protecting folks from Deepfakes! Wtf?! Call your congressmen and women asap to tell them to take this down!

www.404media.co/republicans-...
Republicans Try to Cram Ban on AI Regulation Into Budget Reconciliation Bill
Republicans try to use the Budget Reconciliation bill to stop states from regulating AI entirely for 10 years.
www.404media.co
May 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Reposted by Kate Morozova
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4 artists & 3 scientists created a series of posters to communicate some of the science issues most important to us.

These posters are made to be shared!

We're selling them in 4-packs, so YOU can share them outside of the science circles where we hang out online.

get 'em squidfacts.bigcartel.com
4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel
May 12, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Awesome day at the farm with @norcalresist.bsky.social

Hopefully the strawberries will be happy in their new home!
Wheelbarrow full of strawberry plants, ready to transplant Prepared garden beds at the farm. The bed to the right is full of transplanted strawberry plants. Volunteers plant strawberries into the ground
May 12, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Reposted by Kate Morozova
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🚨🔔 6-month technician position in plant-soil interactions available in @frantecol.bsky.social ‘s lab at the University of Amsterdam! 🌎🧪
frantecol.bsky.social Franciska de Vries 🟥 @frantecol.bsky.social · May 8
Do you want to be part of our team this season, maintaining and sampling field experiments in which we test the effect of extreme weather on grassland C storage?

We have a 6-month technician position available - apply here before May 23rd!

Please RT or forward!
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Chupei, sitting in a green grassland, measuring CO2 fluxes using a transparent chamber. In the back you can see the IBS tanks used to simulate flooding in this field experiment. The field team during a coffee break on a very hot day - the farmer created shade to sit in by lifting a large box into the air with his tractor One of the field experiments, showing the structures built to simulate drought and flooding in the field plots The field team being silly
May 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Such lovely country side. Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Will likely keep messing with this some more.
#art #landscape #wip #thailand
Watercolor painting of a mountain village overseen by a blue sky with clouds. Reference photo of the village near Chiang Mai, Thailand
April 18, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Reposted by Kate Morozova
self.agency
in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list
The mission of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is to work with others to “conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people.” The Department of the Interior is excited about the potential of “de-extinction” technology and how it may serve broader purposes beyond the recovery of lost species, including strengthening biodiversity protection efforts and helping endangered or at-risk species. The Endangered Species List has become like the Hotel California: once a species enters, they never leave. In fact, 97 percent of species that are added to the endangered list remain there. This is because the status quo is focused on regulation more than innovation. It’s time to fundamentally change how we think about species conservation. Going forward, we must celebrate removals from the endangered list - not additions. The only thing we’d like to see go extinct is the need for an endangered species list to exist. We need to continue improving recovery efforts to make that a reality, and the marvel of “de-extinction” technology can help forge a future where populations are never at risk. Since the dawn of our nation, it has been innovation – not regulation – that has spawned American greatness. The revival of the Dire Wolf heralds the advent of a thrilling new era of scientific wonder, showcasing how the concept of “de-extinction” can serve as a bedrock for modern species conservation. The Dire Wolf revival carries profound cultural significance as it embodies strength and courage that is deeply encoded within the DNA of American identity and tribal heritage. Breakthroughs of this nature will inspire leading minds and future generations of innovators to chase the impossible, capture it, and unleash its potential! The Department of the Interior looks forward to a vibrant future full of innovation that advances core missions such as wildlife conservation.
April 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Koh Chang, Thailand
#thailand #watercolor #plainair
Watercolor painting of a cliff by the sea, surrounded by teal blue water and a gray sky. Watercolor painting of a cliff by the sea, surrounded by teal blue water and a gray sky. The subject of the painting is visible behind the paper. Lineart for a painting of cliffs surrounded by sea and sky. The subject of the painting is visible in the background. Rocky cliff in Koh Chang, Thailand is covered with dense green canopy of trees, and surrounded by a deep blue sea and an off blue, clouded sky
April 8, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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I am off to #Thailand until the 22nd. Kind of a long shot, but if anyone in the area wants to chat about endangered species permitting, biological illustration or anything in between, I'd be down to meet up. #science
April 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Messing around with my new Manta @supernote.com
Pretty decent functionality and feel. Shot from the #DnD campaign, where our party got invited to dinner at a creepy mansion. #wip #art
Sketch of a creepy gothic mansion. Three adventurers walk through the gate as a tiefling and war forged remain behind with the cart. Two rats sit in the cart with the tiefling. One of them has a mushroom growing out of his shoulder.
March 31, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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The flowers are coming back and with them some cool native #pollinators. Saw a lovely yellow-faced #bumblebee queen and what I think is a caterpillar of the variable checkerspot #butterfly. Super cool. This is Steven's trail. #california #wildlife #flora
A yellow-faced bumble bee queen sits on a white phacelia flower. The variable checkerspot caterpillar crawls along the stem of the blue dicks plant towards the purple flower. The yellow flower of the bush poppy held up by a hand Two hikers explore the stream, surrounded by vegetation. One person in the foreground smiles at the camera.
March 31, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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#Mesozoic 100 m sprint: a juvenile #Tyrannosaurus - legitimately thought to be one of the fastest of all predatory #dinosaurs - chases down Ornithomimus. T. rex leg muscle configs suggest that they were ambushers, not marathon runners, so outrunning them was one means of escape. #paleoart #Sciart
A scaly juvenile tyrannosaur chases a feathered ostrich-like dinosaur across a dusty landscape. Background details are sparse but the foreground is littered with low plants. The tyrannosaur is countershaded, with a darker top than flanks, while the ostrich dinosaur has light brown feathers over its dorsum with a white head and neck. Its legs and chest are devoid of feathers, as is suggested by fossils.
March 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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It has come to my attention that the Flying Frog, #2025MMM wildcard contestant and very cool #amphibian did not make it onto the sticker store. This has been fixed, and the whole set should be up there. Tell me if I'm wrong. You can get these watercolor stickers here: brushesandbiomes.printful.me
Sticker design for the March Mammal Madness contestant flying frog. The sticker shows the green and yellow frog sitting on a branch, the text around it says MMM 2025 and it's species name.
March 27, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Reposted by Kate Morozova
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Thank goodness for this morsel of positive news in the midst of relentless ongoing barbarism in Gaza, where electricity, water, and aid have been cut off for weeks and Gazans are starving, and in the West Bank, where settlers continue to attack Palestinians with state sanctioned impunity
‘No Other Land’ Co-Director Hamdan Ballal Freed, Says Yuval Abraham
The filmmaker had reportedly been attacked by settlers and detained by Israeli police, sparking international outcry.
deadline.com
March 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM