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airendrawsdogs.bsky.social
Airen
@airendrawsdogs.bsky.social
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Artist and notorious dog science nerd (he/him)

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This is the second prize for the latest art giveaway I did! (have I ever mentioned I love dogs)
Digital drawing of two dogs together. One of them is a small white terrier with his snout stuck on a sock. He's sitting down looking at his own sock-covered nose, a bit baffled with a paw raised as if about to take the sock off. Behind him there's a tricolor collie desperately trying to get him to play by bowing and looking adoringly at him. The collie has asymmetrical ears and his mouth is open \end ID
April 25, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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This is how surprised I was to learn that Arthur Jensen, the most famous defender of IQ testing (among other things) was a frequent contributor in a neonazi journal
Rupaul on a leopard robe switching channels while completely bored unsurprised tired of the tedious drag of life and of everyone else's mediocrity. The bits of the house we see in the background are about as opulent as you'd expect.
April 10, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Doing the illustrations for my essay on intelligence and having a blast with the baby apes :_ I used to have a really hard time stylizing apes but I think I have finally got it
doodle of a baby chimp with a big round belly playing with little alphabet cubes. She's looking sily with her tongue out
April 3, 2025 at 11:48 AM
airendrawsdogs.bsky.social
drawing dogs! so silly!
Screenshot of part of a digital drawing where a fluffy mutt is acting shy and surprised at another dog's attempts to initiate play (the other dog is only partly seen). The mutt is thinking "well this is new"
March 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Biologists unfamiliar with philosophy arriving at the conversation of socially constructed concepts and making the same embarrassing "but I can test it! it's real!" argument over and over again:
disgruntled man with messy hair in a news screening with the headline "Liam: teenager who just woke up"
March 17, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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aw mate sorry, I can't today, I'm doing this later
Diagram from a science book showing a rat approaching a container, digging, then waiting, then having to pick between two containers. The last rat, the one deciding which container to choose, is drawn in a comically anthropomorphic posture, upright and with her hands on her hips, almost like if she was saying "well well well what do we have here"
March 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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(me when i'm definitely not pro eugenics)
weeeelll there's no causal relationship proven.... YET 🧐🧐🧐 but what if there was 🤔
text screenshot "That IQ is a predictor of criminal behavior – people with lower IQs being more likely than people with higher IQs of being convicted of a crime – is well known (Beaver et al., 2013; Neisser et al., 1996). Again, the data show a correlation – in this case a negative one – but they do not demonstrate a cause-effect relationship. However, the possibility that increasing intelligence by educational means could decrease criminal behavior seems a worthy focus of research."
March 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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anyway here's a dog I drew once
Digital drawing of a mutt jumping out of a forest to chase a tennis ball. The dog has rose ears, a big blocky head and a white coat with lots of brown spots and flecks. The drawing is painted in a cartoon style. The vegetation is concentrated on the left side of the image, giving the impression of the dog jumping from the forest into the open.
March 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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I'm watching a show with a lot of demons on it and now I can't stop doodling demon dogs everywhere send help
a series of doodles in my notebook depicting demon dogs in a cartoon style. all of them have the classic demon tails and either horns or spikes on their head, backs and tails. there's one spitting fire, one that looks more wolf-like, a couple of bulldog and pug-like ones, a silly one with her tongue and teeth out and one who is peeing some sort of acid stuff melting the floor
February 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Recent commission of Indy dressed as Tigger 🐝
Digital drawing of a brown fluffy mutt with lighter fur on her snout and chest. She's wearing a tiger costume that makes her look like Tigger from Winnie the Pooh. The background of the image is white and has a small bee flying around
February 27, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Bethany the Calm Pigeon is there. Don't let her down.
Digital doodle of a pigeon in a cartoon style. She has a missing foot and looks slightly discombobulated.
February 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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my notebook is full of quick "processing doodles" of all the wild shit that happens to me in this town just so I know I'm not losing my mind

(translation:
-Today Adrián is grounded for taking a vaper to school
-WHAT?!
-A vaper for kids, though
-Oh.... WAIT, WHAT?!)
quick doodle explaining what happened. A little chubby kid with short hair says "today Adrián is grounded for taking a vaper to school" to which I, a man with long hair in a bun, glasses and a sweatshirt, exclaim "what?" horrified. The kid calmly explains it was a vaper for kids while my dog, a brindle greyhound, licks his face, and I say "oh". In the next panel the kid runs away happily while I yell "wait, what?"
February 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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One of my favorite pages from Ginny's Walk -as you can probably guess because I keep posting it everywhere

( ko-fi.com/s/7d2e7b83ca if you don't have it already. it's free!)
Digital illustration that shows a scene around a birch tree that occupies the center of the image. To the left, a white man in a big coat, jeans and boots looks up the tree while holding a leash. He's surrounded by leaves carried by the wind. At the center-right, an orange-and-white fluffy dog with pointy ears puts her paw up the tree trunk to better look and sniff the air in the direction of an angry squirrel perched in a branch. The squirrel, to the right of the image, is yelling at them both while holding an acorn protectively. the whole image is painted in yellow, orange and red tones.
February 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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can i come over and stare at you like this
doodle of a chubby African wild dog cub sitting down and staring up at mum (out of frame) with a happy, adoring expression
February 6, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Nothing about this is accurate but you see my vision
Super quick doodle with a black pen and grey marker of a paleolithic human with dark skin, messy hair and a spear and dressed with skins giving a piece of meat to a huge bear (A. angustidens, though it's nowhere near an accurate representation and instead looks jut like a big cartoon bear)
February 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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You keep citing that study. I do not think it says what you think it says.
closeup of Inigo Montoya with a strained half smile
January 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Lot of Dog Science People (and dog people in general) joining bluesky lately and being worried about learning to use it. As an avid twitter ex-user (RIP), and since it's similar: just shitpost. When in doubt, shitpost. For example: scrimblhound
January 27, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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A few kids in town have become obsessed with my dog and I'm teaching them the ancient human art of "if you give a dog a treat dog will probably like you". The i̶n̶d̶o̶c̶t̶r̶i̶n̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ mentoring is going very well
Doodle in a cartoons style of a couple of kids interacting with a brindle greyhound. One of them pets her back while the other hold up a treat high up while the dog tries to reach it.
January 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Anyway. Drawing stressed dogs is sad.
Sketch of a malinois dog wearing a shock collar and looking very defeated, with his body crouched ears back and sad eyes.
January 22, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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I think part of the shock (ha) of seeing that some guy can just. Shock the hell out of a bunch of dogs and then publish the results he gets in some shitty journal, comes from people only being familiar with animal welfare science. Because if you step out of that and go to, say, autism research...
James Franco about to be hanged looking very chill as he asks the person next to him "first time?"
January 22, 2025 at 8:26 AM