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David MacKinnon - 🇨🇦Photographer
@dkmackinnon.bsky.social
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Fine-art #photographer in #ottawa who occasionally does #costuming (mostly #leather or #chainmaille) and body art (mostly acrylic and metallic #tape).
Website: www.dkmackinnon.ca
Instagram/Facebook: @d.k.mackinnon
Mastodon/Cara: @dkmackinnon
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David MacKinnon - 🇨🇦Photographer @dkmackinnon.bsky.social · Nov 28
I created a fine-art nude and travelling model starter pack. Feel free to suggest people to add to it.

#starterpack #photography #modelphotography #fineartphotography

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sfwa.org
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨

Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
N. K. Jemisin: SFWA's 42nd Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award recipient.
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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catalyst-artworks.bsky.social
This chicken-of-the-woods mushroom painting is for sale now at Cline House Gallery in Cornwall, Ontario.

#botanicalart #fungi #painting
A painting of a cluster of chicken of the woods mushrooms. They are overlapping, shelf shaped, polypores with deep orang moving to yellow at the scalloped edges.
November 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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stevenjrobbins.bsky.social
Metagenomics colleagues!

I'm looking for studies where both Illumina and ONT sequencing were performed on the same samples from soil, human, ruminent, and other sample types for comparison. Bonus if those studies include PacBio data.

Please help and share!
November 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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catalyst-artworks.bsky.social
Whohoo, online sales are finally up! This pitcher plant painting is for sale at Cline House Gallery until Dec 20th.

Sales link: clinehousegallery.com/product/c-r-...

#botanicalart #bloomsky #painting
Water soluble encaustic painting of a cluster of pitcher plant leaves and flowers in different stages of life.
November 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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spudislander45.bsky.social
#Canada’s first free #foodbank #grocery store started in Saskatoon SK. Here people can shop and choose what they want/need.

No food banks receive any government funding. #FeedCanada #FoodInsecurity
November 6, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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catalyst-artworks.bsky.social
These are at the Cline House Gallery in Cornwall, Ontario, from November 6th to December 20th. Vernissage November 6th at 7pm.

#botanicalart #mushrooms #fungi #flowers #bloomsky
Five square paintings of fungi and flowers on black backgrounds. Pitcher plants, chocken of the woods, jack o'lantern mushrooms, ghost pipes, and orchids.
November 5, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Testing a plugin to automatically post to Bluesky from my Wordpress account.
Bluesky autopost test
This is a test of automatically posting to Bluesky from my WordPress account.
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October 29, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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nature.com
The molecular basis for signalling between epithelial and mesenchymal cells in pancreatic cancer has now been revealed

go.nature.com/3Jlu490
Pancreatic cancer relies on opposing signalling pathways to drive its cellular diversity
Communication between epithelial and mesenchymal cells in pancreatic cancer leads to a poor prognosis. The molecular basis for this signalling has now been revealed.
go.nature.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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variantlit.bsky.social
We can't wait to read your work!

variantlit.com/submit/
Text on blue background: "we're open for submissions" and "submit your poetry, flash prose, and fiction to Variant Literature between October 21 and December 4"
October 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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catalyst-artworks.bsky.social
How the fuck is this done in watercolor painting?? Close-up of watercolor painting of pussywillows by Rosalind Allchin. Botanical artists are badass. #botanicalart
Close-up of pussy willows catkins done in watercolor which look like real living plants even when I get really close.
October 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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tanyahuff.bsky.social
New ebook editions of SUMMON THE KEEPER and THE SECOND SUMMONING with new ebook edition covers are now available. 1/3
New digital cover for SUMMON THE KEEPER -- it was a dark and stormy night, a black and white cat peers over the roof of a victorian (slightly Queen Anne but let's not be architecturally pedantic) house. There's caution tape over the door and silhouettes of a bat, a werewolf, and tentacles in the windows. The cat's expression says he's had enough of this shit. New digital cover for THE SECOND SUMMONING: in the background, a human torso wearing a beige sweater. The person is holding a very large tea cup that holds in turn an orange almost kitten and some tentacles. There's a line drawing of the Toronto skyline on the tea cup. The cat's expression suggests he hasn't noticed the tentacles not that it would matter because he's just too sweet for this world. He's not actually wrong...
October 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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ewacat.bsky.social
nerds freely nerding in their nerd field is really lovely www.science.org/content/arti...
These ‘ghost flowers’ thrive without photosynthesis. One scientist is learning how
Japanese botanist Kenji Suetsugu studies plants that steal carbon and nutrients from soil fungi
www.science.org
October 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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catalyst-artworks.bsky.social
Finished the chicken-of-the-woods mushrooms paiting from the plein air reference.

#fungi #botanicalart #painting #watersolubleencaustic #mushrooms
Shelf shaped, flat, mushrooms stacked on and around each other that start orange at the base and move to yellow feathered edges.
October 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM
dkmackinnon.bsky.social
I've been spending so much time decommissioning the old website and figuring out the new one that I've done almost no photo processing since August. Good thing I no longer do trade-for-print or I'd have some unhappy models waiting on stuff.
October 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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kiabugboy.bsky.social
The Crinoid hat video is up on my channel!
youtu.be/ZdPTYamnqQA
October 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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luckytran.com
when you try and get your PhD advisor to review your manuscript 😂
Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable
October 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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minibubbly.bsky.social
If you want to volunteer to help?

More volunteers needed to help find 'cold-stunned' sea turtles #NovaScotia #NewBrunswick #Turtles

'If we can get them soon enough, we can rehabilitate them,' says executive director of Halifax-based network

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More volunteers needed to help find 'cold-stunned' sea turtles | CBC News
Beach patrols will begin this month across Atlantic Canada in an effort to find and rescue endangered sea turtles that may become stranded in the fall due to exposure to cold waters.
www.cbc.ca
October 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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spudislander45.bsky.social
In #Canada, if you go to a #library and even without a permanent address, the library will help you borrow and read books.

If you don’t have the preferred type of ID, they’ll accept alternates, including proof of like a shelter card, or social services letter or showing up in person.
October 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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catalyst-artworks.bsky.social
The smaller oil paintings that will be on display (and for sale) in my studio at the Studio Space Ottawa open house this weekend.

#oilpainting #stilllife #painting #art #ottawa #portrait
A white wall framed by black curtains and a gold striped navy blue table. Arranged on the wall for display are a variety of small oil paintings of still life, plants, bones, and people. Two small egg paintings sit flat on the table.
September 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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amandaleduc.bsky.social
Disabled friends! I am thrilled to be overseeing @fiddlehd.bsky.social's Summer 2026 issue--DISABILITY: THE REVOLUTION.

Our theme is REVOLUTION and you can interpret that as widely as you like. If you identify as disabled and want to answer this call, please submit!

thefiddlehead.ca/revolution
[Image description: White text against a purple background: The Fiddlehead, Atlantic Canada's Literary Journal. Disability: The Revolution. The Fiddlehead's Summer 2026 Special Issue. Call for Submissions from Disabled Writers: Deadline November 30, 2025.]
September 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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minibubbly.bsky.social
Truth and Reconciliation in action: Absolutely Canadian docs highlight experiences of Indigenous People #Canada

Watch free on #CBCGem

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Truth and reconciliation in action: Absolutely Canadian docs highlight experiences of Indigenous People | CBC News
Absolutely Canadian documentaries reflect upon lived experiences of the Indigenous People in Canada, as we mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept. 30.
www.cbc.ca
September 30, 2025 at 10:48 AM
dkmackinnon.bsky.social
Yesterday was Ira Balan's @irapassion.bsky.social ssion.bsky.social birthday so here is an image from one of our past photoshoots.

#photography #modelphotography #modelphotoshoot #studiophotoshoot #studiophotographer #studiolighting #glamour #glamourphotography #glamourshots
A dark-haired woman in a grey top and blue jean-shorts against a bamboo backdrop, arms up as she holds her hair back.
September 29, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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catalyst-artworks.bsky.social
Redid this design. I like this version better.

#botanicalart #orchids #bloomsky #painting #watersolubleencaustic
A painting of a stem of magenta orchids on a stem with buds at the end.
September 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
dkmackinnon.bsky.social
Bee and Ghost Pipes from a walk a few months ago in the Purdon Conservation Area.

#Bee #Nature #NaturePhotography #GhostPipes
A bumblebee in flight over ghost pipes surrounded by blades of grass.
September 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM