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Tucker White
@bittling.bsky.social
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•Aquatic Biologist • University of New Hampshire insect collection • I make art sometimes • (He/him/His)•
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ruca-0775.bsky.social
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August 9, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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kelleywelley.bsky.social
Here is a colored pencil sketch of my favorite type of shark to round out #sharkweeksketchjam
#sciart #finsattached
Reference photo by Leonardo Lamas, downloaded from Pexels.
Drawing of a whale shark
August 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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schmidtocean.bsky.social
🦑 Squid squad alert! This may be a type of whiplash squid from the family Mastigoteuthidae. Filmed during the #MarDelPlataCanyon in Argentina, where an international science team is exploring the diversity & distribution of seafloor communities in one of the country’s largest deep-sea canyons. 🇦🇷
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August 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
Not a single negative comment about yellow jackets. I love them and find their behavior fascinating. I don't give a shit if you stepped on a garden rake, fell over, got your head stuck in a ground nest, and now dislike them for their mighty defense systems.
August 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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oceanfilly.bsky.social
Slipper lobster at your service <3
Illustration of a slipper lobster
August 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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jutfelt.bsky.social
The Kristineberg Underwater Observatory is now live!! 🐟🧪🦑
Similar to the @coralcitycamera.bsky.social.

Watch the eel grass meadow full of life live from your desk! Gobies, crabs, pipefish, several species of wrasses including some massive Ballan wrasse. Enjoy!
www.youtube.com/live/goB60IJ...
August 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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acollierastro.bsky.social
coal keeps the lights on, i drive my $88k truck to an office. i've never used my hands or seen a coal mine. im scared of the subway and books. if you say anything about how i am actually a tiny little baby scared of the world with no interests or values i will get fascist real quick like. manly manl
iansociologo.bsky.social Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · Aug 1
If a scholar of petro-masculinity said that men lust for coal, it would be seen as an exaggeration. But here we are...
u.s. department of energy post on x praising coal: "She's an icon She's a legend And she is the moment [sparkly picture of coal]
August 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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meredithmeredith.bsky.social
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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minovskyarticle.bsky.social
Born to hang out in aquariums, cursed to do whatever else.
August 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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bighippoart.bsky.social
The views on the Ring of Kerry are always magical 😁
An illustration of the Ring of Kerry on the West Coast of Ireland.
August 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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greyauk.bsky.social
Don't know how many I'll manage to draw, but here is day 1 :
Tachypleus tridentatus
#AugAthroAwe 🐡

#kleinekunstklasse Ich mache auch mal bei einer Challenge mit, auch wenn ich wahrscheinlich nicht viel schaffen werde 😊
little watercolour/ink sketch of a tri-spine horseshoe crab. It's a young crab and one can see their little feet The colour it of the crab is blueish and it has pink cheeks
August 2, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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greyauk.bsky.social
Check out Javiers beautiful snakes.
Here is my version of a yellow-bellied sea snake from last year.
Give snakes some love 🐍💚!
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lino print of a yellow bellied sea snake its hand coloured with ink (yellow for the snake. green for the seaweed) the snake is hanging relaxed in the water, framed by some seaweed.
August 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
It was pretty cold last night so the moths were not as out as we’d hope, but we still saw cool critters, like this assassin bug nymph!
A flat bug with red eyes and 6 big legs that looks like they have leg warmers on, standing on a purple marker with other colors of marker around like green and pink and blue
August 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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telekitnetic.bsky.social
Me, fighting first day con jitters: oh man, what do I do?
The Mizutsune and Nargacuga blind bag figures sitting on my table:
August 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
bittling.bsky.social
A buckler dory for #SundayFishSketch this week. I worked on this during the last few days of ASM training.

#FishArt, #SciArt
A photo of a white sketchbook with a horizontal graphite pencil sketch of a buckler dory in profile view. The fish is deep-bodied with a relatively large protruding mouth, one filamentous dorsal fin, a second long, rounded dorsal fin which is identical to its anal fin, a short causal peduncle and a concave squarish causal fin. Running underneath the back half of the dorsal side are distinctive buckler scales that end at the causal peduncle.
August 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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thundergoose.bsky.social
The thing that bugs me most about “de-extinction” is that ignores the fact that we have to have healthy ecosystems to support these animals. What good is it to bring back thylacines (far example) if there is nowhere they can survive?
tetzoo.bsky.social Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · Aug 1
You’ll all have seen the many announcements and PR pieces from #ColossalBiosciences. There are reasons to be concerned about the general message promoted by CB, one being that it is seen >by some< (US politicians in particular) as meaning that we can devalue conservation. A 🧵 1/n
August 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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artbyemilytull.bsky.social
Day two of National Marine Week.
"Cooked 1"
Lobster hand embroidered thread painting artwork.
#ColorADay #OrangeSun #embroidery #ArtYear
Hand embroidered cooked lobster claws on a bright turquoise blue fabric
July 27, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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nabatamekazutaka.bsky.social
Japanese spider crab , Miyajima aquarium
(2024)
July 29, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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harkthorn.bsky.social
Puffin sketch

-3127 🎨🐡🪶 #art
A black ballpoint sketch of a loafing puffin on a rock or cliff edge, with minimal digital colouring
July 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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crystalsmithart.bsky.social
In the last 60 years we've lost 70% of our seabird populations worldwide!! That's about 230 million birds.

#birds #conservation #illustration #sciart #kidlitart #kidlit #puffins
Puffins illustration. One with wings outstretched. Standing on ice with snow falling.
July 28, 2025 at 3:37 AM
bittling.bsky.social
Black bellied rosefish for #SundayFishSketch
A photo of a sketchbook opened to a profile sketch of a black bellied rosefish done in graphite pencil. The fish has large eyes and pectoral fins and is facing the left side of the page.
July 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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hgpennington.bsky.social
In 2024 I drew a green shield bug (Palomena prasina) for my light and shadow series.

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A shield bug, drawn in chalk and charcoal on tan coloured paper
July 28, 2025 at 10:59 AM
bittling.bsky.social
Friend at the Airbnb
A photo of a reddish brown stag beetle perched on an index finger against the blurry backdrop of a living room.
July 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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theinnerobserver.bsky.social
"Mystic"

One of my favorite watercolor #kitties I've painted over the years!

#watercolor on 11x14"
Watercolor painting featuring a Bengal cat with a blue background, a forest in the cats chest, and Moths floating around in a circular formation.
July 18, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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betsystreeter.bsky.social
Woa
righto.com Ken Shirriff @righto.com · Jul 21
We obtained a mysterious box of 1960s electronics. I reverse-engineered it, and with much effort, we got it running. It turns out to be a test unit for testing NASA's Up-Data Link, a system from the Apollo moon landing to control the spacecraft from the ground. Let's take a look inside... 1/n
A gray box of electronics. It has thirteen large orange digits displayed at the top, with lights and switches underneath. These have labels such as Message, UDL Compare, AGC Confirm, and Program Start. A paper tape reader sticks out of the front, with a paper tape threaded through it. The unit is rack-mountable with two handles on the front.
July 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM