Rebecca Gelernter
@nearbirdstudios.bsky.social
Science illustrator and designer. I like things with feathers. She/her
Portfolio: www.nearbirdstudios.com
Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/nearbirdstudios
Merch: https://nearbirdstudios.threadless.com
Portfolio: www.nearbirdstudios.com
Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/nearbirdstudios
Merch: https://nearbirdstudios.threadless.com
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Hello #PortfolioDay! I'm Rebecca, a science and medical illustrator who loves birds and other feathered creatures 🐡🪶🧪
February 20, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Oh my god, it's about an out-of-work science illustrator?! YES.
I REVIEWED @tkingfisher.com's WOLF WORM. I gave it five stars. Five really, really grossed out stars.
Full review here: freeliteracy.jcink.net/index.php?sh...
Full review here: freeliteracy.jcink.net/index.php?sh...
February 19, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Oh my god, it's about an out-of-work science illustrator?! YES.
Reposted by Rebecca Gelernter
my wife texted IT HAS HAPPENED to the group chat and it wasn't about what i hoped it was about and i'm very disappointed and we have revised our group chat style manual
February 19, 2026 at 8:29 PM
my wife texted IT HAS HAPPENED to the group chat and it wasn't about what i hoped it was about and i'm very disappointed and we have revised our group chat style manual
Reposted by Rebecca Gelernter
February 19, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Reposted by Rebecca Gelernter
A new Spinosaurus species uncovered in northern Niger appears to have been a wading predator of fish like its close relatives, but it lived as many as 1000 kilometers inland from the Tethys Sea.
Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/4arYPUI
Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/4arYPUI
February 19, 2026 at 7:05 PM
A new Spinosaurus species uncovered in northern Niger appears to have been a wading predator of fish like its close relatives, but it lived as many as 1000 kilometers inland from the Tethys Sea.
Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/4arYPUI
Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/4arYPUI
Reminded once again of the Mitchell and Webb sketch where a triumphant revolutionary mob cheerfully dunks the queen in a vat of acid
let's have a spirited international sporting event focused on "purging the billionaires and the fascists and salting the defiled earth from whence they sprang" - we can give out fun prizes
We should view "even the British monarchy are better at holding their elites to account for their crimes than the US is right now" not as proof that we're doomed -
but as an inspiring challenge to do an even BETTER job of purging our loathsome murdering-rapist tech CEO and MAGA class.
but as an inspiring challenge to do an even BETTER job of purging our loathsome murdering-rapist tech CEO and MAGA class.
February 19, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Reminded once again of the Mitchell and Webb sketch where a triumphant revolutionary mob cheerfully dunks the queen in a vat of acid
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[Lindisfarne]
Me: (chanting) teeth, teeth-
Other fossil hunters: teeth, TEETH
British Geological Society: [pounding its clipboard] TEETH, TEETH, TEETH!
Me: (chanting) teeth, teeth-
Other fossil hunters: teeth, TEETH
British Geological Society: [pounding its clipboard] TEETH, TEETH, TEETH!
'Smiling' fossil discovered in Northumberland
The unusual looking fossil is estimated to be a few hundred million years old dating to the Carboniferous period.
www.bbc.com
February 19, 2026 at 2:23 PM
[Lindisfarne]
Me: (chanting) teeth, teeth-
Other fossil hunters: teeth, TEETH
British Geological Society: [pounding its clipboard] TEETH, TEETH, TEETH!
Me: (chanting) teeth, teeth-
Other fossil hunters: teeth, TEETH
British Geological Society: [pounding its clipboard] TEETH, TEETH, TEETH!
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I'm down to my last £100, Ive signed on for work in warehouses/factories or whatever to keep the lights on but it takes a while to organise, if you'd like to support my artwork here is my Patreon, cheers! patreon.com/c/AlexDuneBr...
February 19, 2026 at 6:02 PM
I'm down to my last £100, Ive signed on for work in warehouses/factories or whatever to keep the lights on but it takes a while to organise, if you'd like to support my artwork here is my Patreon, cheers! patreon.com/c/AlexDuneBr...
More that any other birds, nuthatches embody the right triangle
February 19, 2026 at 1:22 AM
More that any other birds, nuthatches embody the right triangle
Crested goose?!
What up with this goose? Anyone seen anything like this before?
February 19, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Crested goose?!
Wish I could get a picture with a bird in each hand, but sadly that is currently anatomically impossible, so you'll just have to trust that it's extremely cute. Here's Louie leaning into a neck scratch #Parrotsky
February 19, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Wish I could get a picture with a bird in each hand, but sadly that is currently anatomically impossible, so you'll just have to trust that it's extremely cute. Here's Louie leaning into a neck scratch #Parrotsky
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Horse(shoe crab) limb.....
February 18, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Horse(shoe crab) limb.....
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Everyone's favourite hadrosaur. :}
Parasaurolophus
Ink on Fabriano Medioevalis, 132 × 85 mm.
Parasaurolophus
Ink on Fabriano Medioevalis, 132 × 85 mm.
February 18, 2026 at 5:27 AM
LinkedIn is evidence of hell
February 18, 2026 at 4:49 AM
LinkedIn is evidence of hell
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Little bit of housekeeping for the SciArt Feed.
Gave the icon pic a fresh colour scheme, and added a pinned post for people who find the feed.
Gave the icon pic a fresh colour scheme, and added a pinned post for people who find the feed.
February 18, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Little bit of housekeeping for the SciArt Feed.
Gave the icon pic a fresh colour scheme, and added a pinned post for people who find the feed.
Gave the icon pic a fresh colour scheme, and added a pinned post for people who find the feed.
Reposted by Rebecca Gelernter
Yucky! Apparently there is a 2,600 ACRE data center that is proposed near Dinosaur Valley in Glen Rose, TX. I grew up loving that area, and I have numerous fond memories of it.
Please help me tell the powers that be we do NOT want this data center.
www.sierraclub.org/texas/greate...
Please help me tell the powers that be we do NOT want this data center.
www.sierraclub.org/texas/greate...
Action Alert
Take Action 2
www.sierraclub.org
February 17, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Yucky! Apparently there is a 2,600 ACRE data center that is proposed near Dinosaur Valley in Glen Rose, TX. I grew up loving that area, and I have numerous fond memories of it.
Please help me tell the powers that be we do NOT want this data center.
www.sierraclub.org/texas/greate...
Please help me tell the powers that be we do NOT want this data center.
www.sierraclub.org/texas/greate...
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Even though society has moved past them, I like when library books still have the little list of stamps of when they were checked out a few decades ago
February 18, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Even though society has moved past them, I like when library books still have the little list of stamps of when they were checked out a few decades ago
Who wants to see something completely horrifying
February 17, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Who wants to see something completely horrifying
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Dawn over Marl Pits (1)
digital painting
digital painting
February 17, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Dawn over Marl Pits (1)
digital painting
digital painting
For anybody else using CS6 on Win11 - have you been noticing Photoshop get much, *much* slower to load in the last week or two? 🎨
February 17, 2026 at 6:50 PM
For anybody else using CS6 on Win11 - have you been noticing Photoshop get much, *much* slower to load in the last week or two? 🎨
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Stink bugs from the 80s and their ridiculous shoulder pads.
February 17, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Stink bugs from the 80s and their ridiculous shoulder pads.
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A repost...
A couple of spoons where a knot in the wood was used as an 'eye'.
The first one is Australian Silky Oak and the second is Surinam Cherry (which really isn't a cherry at all).
A couple of spoons where a knot in the wood was used as an 'eye'.
The first one is Australian Silky Oak and the second is Surinam Cherry (which really isn't a cherry at all).
February 17, 2026 at 11:01 AM
A repost...
A couple of spoons where a knot in the wood was used as an 'eye'.
The first one is Australian Silky Oak and the second is Surinam Cherry (which really isn't a cherry at all).
A couple of spoons where a knot in the wood was used as an 'eye'.
The first one is Australian Silky Oak and the second is Surinam Cherry (which really isn't a cherry at all).
Not only can they fly and see a whole set of colors we can't*, they carry around personal duvets and don't have to go to the dentist.
*varies by clade
*varies by clade
February 17, 2026 at 5:42 AM
Not only can they fly and see a whole set of colors we can't*, they carry around personal duvets and don't have to go to the dentist.
*varies by clade
*varies by clade
Amphibian Time is coming 👀
Is it the time of night when we go listen to singing amphibians? Yes, yes it is. Can you hear amphibians where you are? Go outside and take a 10second clip with your voice memo and upload it to iNat. #herps
February 17, 2026 at 5:19 AM
Amphibian Time is coming 👀
