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Lauren
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Biologist + Scientific Illustrator @ birdpop.org
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🏠 Oregon, USA
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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · Jan 14
All right all right time for a new #PortfolioDay. Hello! I'm Lauren, a biologist by day and scientific illustrator by... other times. I illustrate for publications, outreach materials, & sometimes board games! 🎨🪶🐡🧪🌎

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Digital illustration of a nosa' luta (Rota White-eye), a small yellow-green songbird with a white ring of feathers around the eye, and an orange beak and feet. This bird is drawn with its wings spread and feet held at the ready, about to land on an unseen branch. The background is a loose blur of colors similar to those in the canopy on Rota - bright yellows and greens, with hints of blue from the yoga berries abundant in this species' habitat. For personal use in my research with The Institute for Bird Populations. Illustration of an island (Bird Island, Saipan) set in a shallow tropical lagoon, fringed by Casuarina and coconut trees. The rocky island is covered in vegetation and tiny dots - lots and lots of birds! More birds are seen flying toward the island, and in the foreground some of these are identifiable as Brown Noddy and Red-tailed Tropicbird. For Nature (NorthStar Games) Illustration of an Indochinese Green-Magpie with its wings spread as it lands in a thicket of tropical foliage and flowers, all under a bright blue sky with a few soft clouds. This bird is brilliantly colored with a bright green crested head, black mask, red-orange wings, and fanned yellow tail with a black bar. For NorthStar Games' board game Nature. Commissioned portrait of a Phidippus californicus immature female on a stalk of Swiss chard. She is covered in fine tan hair as she peers inquisitively toward the viewer. She has long black hairs above the eyes at the corners of her head which look like eyelashes.
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crocketthoughton.com
Your lack of understanding does not make it a plothole. A plothole is something that goes against the internal logic of the show- not being told something that you can figure out on your own if you pay attention is good writing. Stop being lazy. Pay attention.
January 5, 2026 at 11:17 PM
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fisherspeaks.bsky.social
Winter raptors like Snowy Owls and Rough-legged Hawks travel thousands of kms to winter in these areas - mainly because of the mice and voles. Unlike the raptors that get loads of clicks and likes - the undervalued rodents get next to no love at all!
A Western Meadow Vole stands in the white snow and has flakes on its brown fur.
January 6, 2026 at 2:21 AM
tinylongwing.bsky.social
it's apparently #NationalBirdDay but that's every day for me really. To celebrate regardless, here's a singing male Blackburnian Warbler I painted for @songbirding.com a few years back. I'm just in love with their colors.

🪶 #SciArt #BirdArt
Singing male Blackburnian Warbler, perched on a branch with his beak open, full of song. His yellow-orange face and breast practically glow against the muted blues of the background.
January 6, 2026 at 2:23 AM
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judylalingoptgs.bsky.social
For International Wolf Day, here is one of my recent paintings "Red Wolf" 12" x 9" oil on linen panel. Considered critically endangered there are fewer than an estimated 15 - 18 individuals living in the wild. #redwolf #wolfconservation #endangered #animalart #wolfpainting #traditionalpainting
A painting of a single red wolf with an anxious expression standing on a red background.
August 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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barghest-land.bsky.social
Forgor i have bsky........... anyway!! more studies
A digital drawing with a few colored studies on one page. Here's a study of Tom Mckay, and some other things - a sword from kcd2, a drawing of beladonna inspired by the drawings in kcd2 books (i tried to mix a real look and a medieval drawing). Also some stars and birds. The traditional texture i used partually on the background is also my own art (done in acrylic, colors altered digitally).
January 6, 2026 at 1:34 AM
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aimeecozza.com
Just a reminder, because everyone seems to have forgotten:

Tumblr wants to or is actively selling your data: mashable.com/article/tumb...
Tumblr user? Here's what to know about Tumblr selling your data to OpenAI and MidJourney
Parent company Automattic will reportedly sell Tumblr content to OpenAI and MidJourney for training data. Here's how you can opt out.
mashable.com
January 5, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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mxmorgan.com
micro microraptor
2" x 2" ink and watercolor on paper

for sale: ko-fi.com/s/85035e67b1
photo of me holding a tiny painting of a microraptor surrounded by dragonflies and various vegetation a tiny painting of a microraptor surrounded by dragonflies and various vegetation
November 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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ironspike.bsky.social
One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years.

Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
kashana.blacksky.app Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 8h
30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine
drewmagary.bsky.social Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 13h
“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
January 6, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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wyden.senate.gov
I wrote section 230 to protect user speech, not a company's own speech. I've long said AI chatbot outputs are not protected by 230 and that it is not a close call. Given that the Trump administration is going to the mat to protect pedophiles, states should step in to hold Musk and X accountable.
hairybusiness.bsky.social Hairybusiness @hairybusiness.bsky.social · 16h
I am not a Section 230 expert but being that Twitter is creating and publishing these photos I wonder if they actually have any civil legal protection? @kenwhite.bsky.social ? @akivamcohen.bsky.social ?
eliothiggins.bsky.social Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 17h
What X is allowing Grok to do is unlawful or regulatory-illegal in multiple jurisdictions, creates clear DSA violations, and continues despite regulator scrutiny. The images do not need to be pornographic, non-consensual sexualised or intimate depictions are enough.
January 5, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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moxiest.art
posting birds so we don't get fined
A recreation of the quoted image of seagulls flying over the ocean against a sunset. Made using watercolor and overlapping punctuation marks from a typewriter
January 5, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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tinylongwing.bsky.social
A second #LordHuron Secret Santa piece, done as a backup after someone bailed. Leigh is such an underrated character and I really wanted to give her a chance to experience a Death Valley superbloom, I think she'd find it pretty meaningful.

🎨 #fanart
Illustration of a woman in a green floral skirt and white floral cowgirl boots walking through a field of desert flowers lit by sunrise. They glow brilliant orange-gold in contrast to the dark cool blue shadows. The sky is a pale blue, and the background mountains are jagged and barren.
January 4, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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toothandbranch.bsky.social
Hello! I'm Tooth, a surreal & dark fantasy artist based in Canada. My work is deeply inspired by nature—the wild, beautiful, and rotten.

✧ toothandbranch.com
✧ toothandbranch[at]gmail[dot]com
✧ patreon.com/toothandbranch
✧ ko-fi.com/toothandbranch
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Digital painting by me; a great beast lurks in the lightless depths of the sea. Here it is met by a comparatively miniscule submarine which catches part of creature's coiling form. Emerging from the darkness above that is the beast's head; its blank eyes glow teal. Its mouth has opened just enough to reveal rows of needle-like teeth. Character belongs to @drekiormur.bsky.social A white-on-black pencil sketch of the Gaddi Torso sculpture with leafy stems drawn below the pecs to decorate top surgery scars. The bottom half of the image, just above the navel, is corrupted and drags down in numerous vertical lines. Digital painting of a white-eyed elk standing in a foggy, dreary place with a backgdrop of dead, branchless trees. Tangled in its antlers are the antlers of another elk, whose head has been severed at the neck. A simple gold ribbon loops around the first elk's body, going from one side of the painting to the other. Digital painting by me, of a giant monster based on a fire eel, framed by swaying sea foliage in murky greenish water. The creature's jaws are open, revealing a secondary set of pharyngeal jaws toward the back of its throat. Red dorsal and yellow ventral frills, matching the colours of its markings, run down the length of its body. Character belongs to @winterwisteria.bsky.social
January 2, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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themckenziest.gay
This is one of the coolest fucking things I’ve ever seen

An old school anarchist hacker who goes by Martha Root infiltrated a nazi dating site, got all of their into onto okstupid.lol, and THEN SHE DELETED THE ENTIRE SITE LIVE WHILE DRESSED AS THE PINK POWER RANGER.

hero.
January 5, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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markrobbie.bsky.social
This morning a hawk mooned me really good 🪶
A triptych of a red-shouldered hawk flying across the waning gibbous moon—
January 5, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social
Latest articles from the WJO: An ethogram for the social behavior of the male Negros Bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba keayi). 📷 Mhlayson. #ornithology doi.org/10.1080/1559...
photo of a Negros Bleeding-heart, a colorful dove with a blood-red mark in the center of its chest
January 5, 2026 at 10:00 PM
tinylongwing.bsky.social
I'm no photographer, so how about an illustration?

#BirdArt #SciArt 🪶
A Horned Lark in alternate (breeding) plumage with a bold yellow and black face pattern, and both feather "horns" raised, sits on a wooden board in front of indistinct grasses.
January 5, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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aba.org
The 2026 ABA Bird of the Year is the Horned Lark! Get ready for a great year of celebrating Horned Larks!

www.aba.org/the-2026-aba...
The 2026 ABA Bird of the Year: Horned Lark! - American Birding Association
The 2026 Bird of the Year is the Horned Lark: a widespread, resilient, and fascinating species uniting birders through art, storytelling, and conservation all year long.
www.aba.org
January 5, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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tinylongwing.bsky.social
Additional tiny ficlet goes with this piece, which can be found here at tumblr due to character limits here on bsky www.tumblr.com/tinylongwing...
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💬 0  🔁 1  ❤️ 1 · Sunrise. She braves the chill of the desert morning and emerges from the overnight drive to one of the most spectacular scenes she's ever seen. The sands are in bloom. Crevices ho…
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January 4, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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highcountrynews.org
The discovery that the continents are in continuous motion is fairly recent—dating back only to the late 1960s — and one woman was responsible for decoding what it meant for California and much of the West Coast.

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Drifters and the introduction of plate tectonics - High Country News
How the San Andreas fault and Tanya Atwater’s theory changed geology.
www.hcn.org
January 5, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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alan678.bsky.social
Good morning. Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #speckles&spots birds with speckled or spotted plumage. The alt theme is #most the bird you think you have most photos of. Good luck. Here’s a Starling taken yesterday. Ps don’t forget to put the theme hashtag too #birds #photography #EastCoastKin
A European starling stands upright on a low ridge of fresh white snow, photographed in close-up from the side. Its dark plumage is densely speckled with small cream-white spots, and subtle iridescent tones of green and purple shimmer across its neck and chest. The bird’s long, pointed bill faces to the right, closed, with a calm but alert expression. One reddish leg is faintly visible beneath the feathers. The background is softly blurred in muted grey and olive tones, creating a moody winter atmosphere that contrasts with the crisp snow and highlights the starling’s intricate feather patterns.
January 5, 2026 at 8:04 AM
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eolai.bsky.social
A #painting for you. "Water Tower" came out of my cycle across America where the number of water towers I could see on the horizon would tell me not only the location of a town but also what to expect there. Useful in my pre-internet times. This one was in Nebraska. #art #ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear
Square format in painterly acrylics on canvas. A brilliant sunny day. Low horizon. Foreground is deep yellowy-orange crop, with dark flecked details in reds, blazing oranges, and pinks closer to viewer where the dark edge of the crop reveals a triangle of orange grass in the bottom right. Standing on the horizon is a white water tower with blue shading on right, like a giant white burger held up by one central narrow column in shadow and about eight narrower columns around the edge. Tower dwarfs dark green trees on horizon, a mass of them from the left edge to directly behind the tower, and a couple of taller ones to the right of the columns. Sky is pure blue in loose brushstrokes. Tower has some hints of red along its edges. Sun is coming from high on the left, causing a blue shadow on the right of cylindrical part of the tower. Signed top left in dark blue, Liam Daly
December 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Biologist kidnapped in Mexico news.mongabay.com/short-articl... 🧪🌎
Biologist kidnapped in Mexico
In the mountains of central Veracruz, scientific work is rarely abstract. It means walking narrow paths through cloud forest, speaking patiently with communities, and learning to read landscapes that…
news.mongabay.com
January 4, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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avesbrasil.bsky.social
🇧🇷Garça-branca-grande
🌎Ardea alba
Conservação: Pouco Preocupante

A garça-branca-grande (Ardea alba, sinônimo Casmerodius albus), também conhecida apenas como garça-branca, é uma ave da ordem Pelecaniformes

📷 Thais Regina Monteiro
Uma garça branca majestosa, com plumagem imaculada e finas plumas ornamentais em exibição, ergue o bico amarelado em meio à folhagem verde escura. A ave está empoleirada entre as folhas densas, destacando-se com sua coloração clara e postura elegante. Atenção: O alt da imagem foi gerado automaticamente.
January 4, 2026 at 7:40 PM
tinylongwing.bsky.social
A second #LordHuron Secret Santa piece, done as a backup after someone bailed. Leigh is such an underrated character and I really wanted to give her a chance to experience a Death Valley superbloom, I think she'd find it pretty meaningful.

🎨 #fanart
Illustration of a woman in a green floral skirt and white floral cowgirl boots walking through a field of desert flowers lit by sunrise. They glow brilliant orange-gold in contrast to the dark cool blue shadows. The sky is a pale blue, and the background mountains are jagged and barren.
January 4, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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304wv66.neocities.org
if no one lives forever, who laughs last?

#art
digital illustration (doodle tbh) of a woman lit up by the headlights of a car behind her, casting a long shadow. she has a telephone receiver in one hand and blue smoke billowing out of her mouth from behind her other hand. inspired by the music video for who laughs last by lord huron because i'm smad i couldn't get red rocks tickets and this is part of my deep slurping copium ok 😤 also yeah i had to repost it because turns out this site does not like long images actually and will deepfry them or idk maybe something else went wrong, i'm just seeing if this goes better, i hate this hellhole
January 3, 2026 at 2:54 AM