fred
@fredmakes.bsky.social
I wander and make stuff, sometimes; I'm trying to make stuff more often, despite the best efforts of my inner critic. Behold, many shiddy first drafts, and some iffy second drafts too.
How do I work this thing.
How do I work this thing.
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For sea creatures, plastic is often deadly. New research shows it takes just 6 pieces the size of a pencil eraser to kill sea birds. It’s the first time scientists have quantified how much plastic it takes to kill a bird, marine mammal or turtle. @susrust.bsky.social www.latimes.com/science/stor...
How little plastic does it take to kill marine animals? Scientists have answers
Ocean plastic kills sea creatures. For the first time, researchers set out to find out how much it takes. The answer: Surprisingly little.
www.latimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
For sea creatures, plastic is often deadly. New research shows it takes just 6 pieces the size of a pencil eraser to kill sea birds. It’s the first time scientists have quantified how much plastic it takes to kill a bird, marine mammal or turtle. @susrust.bsky.social www.latimes.com/science/stor...
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Filming at an abandoned uranium mine in Arizona. The mining waste is uncontained, open to the winds. Professor Kearfott, University of Michigan, telks me the Geiger counter readings I took here are similar to those remaining around Chernobyl.
vimeo.com/ondemand/thi...
vimeo.com/ondemand/thi...
November 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Filming at an abandoned uranium mine in Arizona. The mining waste is uncontained, open to the winds. Professor Kearfott, University of Michigan, telks me the Geiger counter readings I took here are similar to those remaining around Chernobyl.
vimeo.com/ondemand/thi...
vimeo.com/ondemand/thi...
@taiga080521.bsky.social バナー写真の鶏とご近所さんになりたいです。❤️（日本語が下手でごめんなさい、翻訳アプリを使っています。）
November 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
@taiga080521.bsky.social バナー写真の鶏とご近所さんになりたいです。❤️（日本語が下手でごめんなさい、翻訳アプリを使っています。）
This, but for everything.
'Small-scale fishermen using low-impact methods are...forced out by industrial vessels "that take more in a day than we can in a season...we are not asking for special treatment, only for rules that protect the ocean, reward those who fish responsibly, + give our communities a chance to survive"'.
Very encouraging to see small-scale fishermen demand better protections from bottom trawling
thefishingdaily.com/eu-fishing-i...
thefishingdaily.com/eu-fishing-i...
November 9, 2025 at 10:52 AM
This, but for everything.
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sudden urge to share @mcnees.bsky.social 🧵 on Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin was born #OTD in 1920. Her X-ray diffraction work was critical for establishing the helical nature of DNA. 👩🔬 🧪
Work carried out by Franklin (with doctoral student Raymond Gosling) was given to Watson and Crick without her consent.
Image: Vittorio Luzzati / Jewish Women’s Archive
Work carried out by Franklin (with doctoral student Raymond Gosling) was given to Watson and Crick without her consent.
Image: Vittorio Luzzati / Jewish Women’s Archive
November 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
sudden urge to share @mcnees.bsky.social 🧵 on Rosalind Franklin
@marlenacannon.bsky.social ❗ new mythical creature unlocked ❗
Here’s a picture I took in 2020 of an alpine dragon in the Naturhistoriches Museum Wien.
November 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
@marlenacannon.bsky.social ❗ new mythical creature unlocked ❗
October 31, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I loved this comic!
"Summer of the Wondrous Salamander" by @ivyteas.bsky.social is a weird, whimsical masterpiece with attention to detail and smart, quirky choices on every page (in layouts, lettering and typography in particular). I never knew what was about to happen next and loved every bit of it. It's SO GOOD
October 31, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I loved this comic!
October 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
October 20, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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@charamath.bsky.social ! also, did those papers help and/or do you need more?
October 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
@charamath.bsky.social ! also, did those papers help and/or do you need more?
It's hard to explain how much I love this 😆
Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.
October 5, 2025 at 7:50 AM
It's hard to explain how much I love this 😆
October 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
@marlenacannon.bsky.social Did you get a calendar for next year yet?
October 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
@marlenacannon.bsky.social Did you get a calendar for next year yet?
💯 A bug-free future may sound convenient or nice, but it will NOT be good.
Day 28 #SciArtSeptember prompt harvest. 🧪🐡 Echoing my print of insects for Manufactured Ecosystems about the future of pollination this print is intended to drive home how much we are dependent on insect pollinators. These are many of the food crops we grow here in Ontario which benefit from 🧵
September 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
💯 A bug-free future may sound convenient or nice, but it will NOT be good.
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Hate to do this but I only had two orders this month and I'm overdrawn so if you could boost or check out my shop that'd be a great help! thanks anaisfae.art/shop/
September 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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If you're interested in absorbing scientific literature, this concise, smart, extremely valuable for people at a range of experience levels: How to Read a Paper, by S. Keshav 🧪 #NEISvoid
web.stanford.edu/class/ee384m...
web.stanford.edu/class/ee384m...
web.stanford.edu
September 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
If you're interested in absorbing scientific literature, this concise, smart, extremely valuable for people at a range of experience levels: How to Read a Paper, by S. Keshav 🧪 #NEISvoid
web.stanford.edu/class/ee384m...
web.stanford.edu/class/ee384m...
It's a chilly rainy day so I guess I have to spend it inside drinking hot tea and reading ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #cozyfantasy
📢 #ARC Alert for cozy #fantasy and supernatural mystery fans: "The Vanishing Castle" is now available for early review on #NetGalley! I would be so grateful to anyone who takes the time to review my book or share this post and help this #indieauthor find my readers. www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
September 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
It's a chilly rainy day so I guess I have to spend it inside drinking hot tea and reading ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #cozyfantasy
Read banned books! 📚 Do it just because you can 😼
Banned Books Week is coming up!
I always offer free virtual banned author talks to any school or library, but the message is vital so this year I'll extend it to any book store, book club, little free library, livestream, festival, pumpkin patch, birthday party, anywhere folks want to listen.
I always offer free virtual banned author talks to any school or library, but the message is vital so this year I'll extend it to any book store, book club, little free library, livestream, festival, pumpkin patch, birthday party, anywhere folks want to listen.
September 22, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Read banned books! 📚 Do it just because you can 😼
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I made these as a novelty, but dang, I encourage everyone doing networking to come up with some kind of business card bit like this.
It's wild having a card people not only keep and remember, but bring other people to you to get more.
It's wild having a card people not only keep and remember, but bring other people to you to get more.
This year for the film festival, in addition to normal business cards, I got one that opens up and includes the entirety of Learn to Read Korean in 15 Minutes.
September 22, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I made these as a novelty, but dang, I encourage everyone doing networking to come up with some kind of business card bit like this.
It's wild having a card people not only keep and remember, but bring other people to you to get more.
It's wild having a card people not only keep and remember, but bring other people to you to get more.