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Olivia V. Ambrogio (she/her)
@squidfan.bsky.social
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#SciComm professional, writer, artist, biologist (Ph.D.). Scholar and gentlewoman. Very queer.
For nature/puns art: https://www.redbubble.com/people/BaggageClam/explore
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cannopworkings.bsky.social
A damp November tree #
#drawing #sciart #art #forest
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
squidfan.bsky.social
For the #Inktober finale, “award.” #penandink
An ink drawing of the grim reaper smiling and making the peace sign while leaning their scythe against one shoulder and holding a trophy for wheat hand harvesting
October 31, 2025 at 3:55 PM
squidfan.bsky.social
For #Inktober, “blast.”
Ink drawing of a ghost blasting a trumpet so that another ghost throws up its arms in fright, while a third looks on and laughs
October 21, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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celestialwhale.bsky.social
Sharing some cephalopod love for World Octopus Day! 💜🐙
'Purple Tentacles' (Ink & Watercolor)
#sciart #worldoctopusday #octopusart #cephalopods #watercolor
A giant purple tentacle curls around into a spiral within the rectangular frame.
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
squidfan.bsky.social
For the #inktober prompt “heavy,” in recognition of root-vegetable season #ink #SciArt
Ink (and colored ink-wash) drawing of an enormous sweet potato being held up by three tiny stylized people.
October 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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carlzimmer.com
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
nyti.ms
October 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
squidfan.bsky.social
A Halloween-y take on the #Inktober prompt “pierce.” #SciArt #penandink
A black-and-white drawing of a very cute little rabbit at night, plunging its tiny fangs into a beet. At the points where the fangs piece the beet, there is a spurt of red ink.
October 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
squidfan.bsky.social
For the #Inktober prompt #murky
#SciArt #penandink
An ink and ink wash drawing of an octopus surrounded by darkness.
October 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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estheroyedele.bsky.social
I’m thrilled to share the launch episode of PEAS Talk — where we spill the science on #Planetary, #Earth, and #Atmospheric #Sciences. You can listen on any of your favorite platforms

#PEASTalkMoment #SciencePodcast #SciComm #PlanetaryScience #EarthScience #AtmosphericScience
October 4, 2025 at 8:45 AM
squidfan.bsky.social
Day 3 of #Inktober, “crown” for a kinglet. #SciArt #ink #penandink
A ballpoint pen drawing of a puffed-up ruby-crowned kinglet, wearing a crown with sparkling rubies in it.
October 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
squidfan.bsky.social
Mixing #SciArt and traditional #inktober challenge with the prompt “weave.”
A mixed ink and digital black and white drawing of a spider’s web against a dark background, with the spider crouched in the center, its bent legs obscuring its head.
October 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
squidfan.bsky.social
Distracting myself from the news with a challenge! Making #SciArt for #Inktober and the day 1 prompt of “mustache “
A pen drawing on white stone paper of a female walrus head and torso, with her mustache of whiskers very clearly visible
October 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
squidfan.bsky.social
Today a jumping spider hung out inside my nature journal, and I like to think that means I made it feel at home. #SciArt #NatureJournal
Photo of a large journal with mushroom drawings barely visible, and a page lifted up so that underneath you can see a jumping spider on a blank page.
October 1, 2025 at 1:04 AM
squidfan.bsky.social
A reminder for you from my #nature journal. #SciArt
Ink and watercolor drawing of three small pale orange fruits with noticeable dark blossom-like calyx areas. Text says, “it’s wild persimmon season!”
September 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
squidfan.bsky.social
Happy Rosh Hashanah and Fall Equinox to the Northern Hemisphere!
#fall #autum 🐡
A drawing of several kinds of leaves--maple, oak, tulip tree, sycamore--in red, orange, and brown, tumbling through the air, with the words "So may our enemies fall."
September 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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robcruickshank.bsky.social
#sciArt !
September 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
squidfan.bsky.social
This is also how I feel about “healthy choices.”
A drawing (attribution unknown) on a school bulletin board titled Healthy Voices. In it, a cartoon-style white, blond child is holding up an apple in one hand and a chocolate cupcake in the other. The child has a perturbed frown on her(?) face and her(?) eyes are drifting irresistibly towards the cupcake.
September 19, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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jennieindc.bsky.social
🚨 Breaking News 🚨

The Admin just destroyed $10M of birth control purchased by USAID for women in low-income countries. That birth control would have prevented 362,000 more unintended pregnancies, 110,000 more unsafe abortions, and 718 preventable maternal deaths.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
$10 Million in Contraceptives Have Been Destroyed on Orders From Trump Officials
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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lizzie-harper.bsky.social
This is a sprig of #Silverbirch #Betula pendula I painted years ago

I was messing about on photoshop, and just like the way it looked with unattached leaves.

Something as inconspicuous as a twig with #leaves can make a really interesting and challenging subject.

#botanicalillustration #sciart
Silver birch sprid on white paper, showing several catkins and pairs of leaves, pointing from right to left on the page. There are 4 loose leaves at the base of the sheet, and two in the upper right hand corner. This makes it look a bit like the leaves are fluttering down to earth after being blown off the twig in the wind.
September 12, 2025 at 10:40 AM
squidfan.bsky.social
Messing around, doodling using acorn-cap ink I made. #SciArt #penandink
Some very messy cursive writing in grey-brown ink about “sort of how a rabbit looks,” along with an ink drawing of a rabbit sitting.
September 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
squidfan.bsky.social
Drew this beech tree using iron-gall ink and ink wash I made from galls on a local swamp oak
#SciArt #NaturalInk
A black and white line drawing with grey shading of the double trunk of a beech tree with several long limbs stretching out from it
August 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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octopolis.bsky.social
This one’s for my stoic icthyologists. Eventually, we all become Whalefall.
#sciart 🦑🐋
A decal of a moray eel skeleton and a hopkin’s rose nudibranch. Text reads ‘Memento Moray’
August 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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apantesis.bsky.social
#invertefest ❤️🥰❤️
August 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
squidfan.bsky.social
“We haven’t processed things properly, so the fault is on YOUR end.”
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Aug 16
NPR has learned that dozens of immigrants across the U.S. have received letters notifying them that their asylum cases have been dismissed because they have not yet received a screening interview.
Asylum-seekers thought they were following the rules. Now some are told to start over
NPR has learned that dozens of immigrants across the U.S. have received letters notifying them that their asylum cases have been dismissed because they have not yet received a screening interview.
n.pr
August 16, 2025 at 11:08 AM
squidfan.bsky.social
At Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, that den of iniquity.
Photo of two beautiful pink lotus flowers and many huge lotus leaves floating above the surface of a tranquil pond
August 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM