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Glendon Mellow
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Art in Awe of Science
Past: SciAm, Scholastic, Yale U Press
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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · Jan 16
🔸A reintroduction.

I’m Glendon Mellow, aka @FlyingTrilobite.com.

Illustrator, fine artist, writer.
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By day, life sciences marketing strategist (seeking new role).

Toronto-based, asthmatic cyclist, grateful dad.

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Parrot-Winged Trilobite from “A Field Guide to Flying Trilobites”. Ink drawing with digital paint (ArtRage). Green feathery winged trilobite perched on a branch, with some field notes in cursive below. Neutral background, except the trilobite appears to be on vellum taped to the page. That’s a trompe d’œil effect, I painted on. #sciart Darwin Took Steps Oil on canvas paper. Portrait of elder Charles Darwin with a partial staircase arising from his forehead. A sketch of his “I think” sketch is beside him in red-gold. Lots of umbers in this piece.
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quasi- #invertefest
flyingtrilobite.com Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 15h
🪽 QRP with your wing art! 🪽
December 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Amongst the new designs I made in 2025 & just the thing for #invertefest: A little repeat pattern made with my linocut red-legged grasshopper! You can find it in the minouette Spoonflower shop & find the print in the minouette Etsy shop.

Red-legged grasshoppers (Melanoplus femurrubrum), 🧪🐡are 🧵
A repeat pattern with my linocut red-legged grasshopper in profile, in a closely-spaced half-drop pattern against a deep citrine yellow.
December 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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I’ve been active on #bsky for a year now, and I’ve followed around 4000 new accounts, I mostly follow artists and scientists. What a great year! Looking forward to find and follow new people. First feed that I enjoy checking out is #SciArt (and few others are in comments)

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December 29, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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🪽 QRP with your wing art! 🪽

(This was a sort of value study of the Monteverde Angel I did for an online class years and years ago, and it actually got flagged and removed from my shred post on Facebook.

That was the beginning of the end of my relationship with Meta's platforms.)
Illustrated grayscale value study of a slightly adjusted version of the Monteverde Angel with the light coming from below.
December 29, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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quote with your wing art
a woman smoking a cigarette wearing a tiara and fairy wings
December 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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QRP with my wing art? Most of the wings I render have flaps and ailerons...except this one.
Illustration showing a relaxed and happy looking orangutan lounging in the back of a winged canoe as it flies low over the water
December 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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QRP WITH YOUR WING ART ATTEMPT DEUX
December 29, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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🪽 QRP with your wing art?🪽
Okay…
A Tshirt I made years ago- hand cut stencil of a scarab beetle as depicted in ancient Egyptian art, with feathered wings. This one holds a gear above its head. Hand cut stencil and fabric paint on cotton. T-shirt I made for my son years ago- a copy of the “flamel” design from Full Metal Alchemist. Hand cut stencil and fabric paint on cotton. Wedding gift for my college buddy and her wife. The design is based on a traditional German design. Chipcarved basswood (linden; tilleul) and gel stain.
December 29, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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QRP with wing art?

Was going thru a rough time with this one. Kinda glad I never finished it.
An angel? sits crosslegged facing away from the viewer, wearing jeans and with a shirt wrapped around her waist. Her wings have been crudely amputated, and pink/white/blue feathers are scattered about.
December 29, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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himmapaan.bsky.social Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 4d
Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

I tidied up this little thumbnail (of approximately 100 × 60 mm). It's all I could manage for now. 🥲
December 29, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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serpenillus.bsky.social Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 3d
I want to wish everyone Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays with this quick sketch of two Microraptorine dinosaurs in the snow ❄️. I hope everybody is having a great day and enjoying the presents! 🎁 🎄 🎅

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Sketch showing a pair of undetermined microraptorine dinosaurs perched on a branch with some snow falling down
December 29, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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🪽 QRP with your wing art! 🪽
Traditional ink drawing/digital painting. A parrot-winged trilobite on a branch. Large compound crystal eyes, it’s stretching its wings as though preening the way parrots do. There is a trompe d’œil effect that makes it look like vellum is taped to a larger page, Thani am quite proud of. Text: “The modern proliferation of winged trilobites is as much a product of scientific meme-based humour as it is of genetic and ecological terrorism. Example: the terrifying & beautiful ’Cyphaspis aestiva’.” —from A Field Guide to Flying Trilobites 🐡 #GlendonMellowArt
December 29, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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1/5 Seeing some tech/ai slop accounts online claiming that AI has always been used in games, pretending GenAi is a part of that, when its absolutely not.

Yes, AI has always been a part of games in: NPC behaviors, Data Mining, PCG’s (Procedural Content Generation) etc

All different from GenAi!
December 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Watching the same tech broligarchs who demanded a bailout from the government with our taxes when the Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, now going bonkers over a measly little 1% tax increase per year on their wealth, so we tackle Gilded Era levels of inequality ☠️

So endlessly tired of this era.
David Sacks ALL @DavidSacks • 2h Why does California need a wealth tax? To fund the massive fraud. Red states like Texas and Florida don't even have income taxes. Democrats steal everything, then blame job creators for their "greed." David Sacks @DavidSacks Where is Powell? Where is Yellen? Stop this crisis NOW. Announce that all depositors will be safe. Place SVB with a Top 4 bank. Do this before Monday open or there will be contagion and the crisis will spread. 12:36 pm • 10 Mar 2023 •
December 29, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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We present: The Art of #InverteFest - December 2025 Edition
A digital art book showcasing the work of 100 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna.

Thank you to the artists who contributed to our book!

Download: drive.google.com/file/d/1JCXz...

#Art #SciArt
a promo image showing various pages from the book, each page showcasing different animals like an opabinia, a leaf insect, close up of a starfish, and so on. the art featured shows a range of different medium, including digital, pixel art, ceramic, fursuit, post it, and so on.
December 28, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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24. Cinnabar moth

Caught up! Here's an illustration of one of my favourite moths (tho I admittedly have a whole fkn lot of favourite moths. 😂)

& Bonus photo + my tattoo of the same, handpoked by Belle at LD Tattoos in Newbury 💖

#SciArt
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A colour pencil drawing of a boldly marked cinnabar moth and its equally sassy caterpillar. The moth has black forewings with chonky red bar and dot markings, and very red hindwings. The caterpillar is yellow and black striped, and is munching on the flowers of its ragwort host plant. The species is labelled 'Cinnabar moth, Tyria jacobaeae.' & Why some fucking people just put that Latin name and no bloody description of the actual life form in their alt text I'll never chuffing know. Photo of a real cinnabar moth adult and caterpillar, to compare to the drawing. The adult has striking red and black wings, and I'm holding it on a small jar lid. It's held next to the stripey yellow and black caterpillar which is munching on a big frilly ragwort plant. A look at my tattoos of an adult cinnabar moth with it's striped forewings single tone hindwings, a boldly striped cinnabar caterpillar, part of a lime hawkmoth wing with lighter and darker patches, and a portrait of the barred yellow moth from the photo up-thread. They're all black and grey handpoked, so the shading is a pattern of closely made dots.
December 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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If any journalists or media outlets are doing end-of-year, 2025-in-review articles about Bluesky, I hope you’ll consider the SciArt Feed 🐡 for inclusion.

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December 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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I'm never going to be okay with the idea that I'm supposed to sit politely while people talk about using ChatGPT to do their research! I actually do this science stuff because I enjoy it, and I think if you hate writing your own papers or parsing your own data THAT much you should do something else!
December 28, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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This is another dangerous step forward.
anntelnaes.bsky.social Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 1d
"Any artist cancelling their show at the Trump Kennedy Center over political differences isn't courageous or principled—they are selfish, intolerant, and have failed to meet the basic duty of a public artist: to perform for all people"- Kennedy Center spokesperson Roma Daravi
Kennedy Center vows to sue musician who canceled performance over Trump name change
The Kennedy Center is planning legal action after jazz musician Chuck Redd canceled an annual holiday concert. Redd pulled out after President Trump's name appeared on the building.
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December 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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December 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Really enjoying the new season of Stranger Things and I need to stop reading everyone else’s opinions online.
a close up of a person 's face with a light in the background .
Alt: Young Eleven with a deadpan face making the finger gun to the head gesture and barely raising her eyebrows.
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December 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Sleep until spring-
2022
My art, digital. A crow sits on a human skull in the snow
December 27, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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I sketch almost exclusively in ballpoint pen nowadays, and it's still my medium of choice for plein air studies:
Plein air sketch of Balanced Rock at Bryce Canyon, drawn in ballpoint in a moleskine, held up in front of the subject. Plein air sketch of the Swasey Hotel in Bodie, CA, drawn in ballpoint in a moleskine, held up in front of the subject. Plein air sketch ofsome hoodoos near the rim of Bryce Canyon, drawn in ballpoint in a moleskine, held up in front of the subject.
December 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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I love all of @korybing.bsky.social’s art for When the Earth Was Green but charming little Mesohippus is one of my favorites.
titannik.bsky.social Annik Gmel, PhD @titannik.bsky.social · 2d
Currently reading yours and being delighted at the little horses 🐴
December 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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