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RuCa@デザフェスB-261 @ruca-0775.bsky.social · Aug 9

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Kelley Whitley @kelleywelley.bsky.social · Aug 7

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.

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · Aug 5

🦑 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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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · Aug 5

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.

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Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️‍🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social · Aug 4

Slipper lobster at your service <3

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Fredrik Jutfelt 🐠 @jutfelt.bsky.social · Aug 4

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...

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Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social · Aug 4

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

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]

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · Feb 19

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.

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · Aug 3

Born to hang out in aquariums, cursed to do whatever else.

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Big Hippo 🇮🇪 @bighippoart.bsky.social · Aug 3

The views on the Ring of Kerry are always magical 😁

An illustration of the Ring of Kerry on the West Coast of Ireland.

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Ligus @greyauk.bsky.social · Aug 2

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

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Ligus @greyauk.bsky.social · Aug 3

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.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · Aug 3

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

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Jay 🌲 @telekitnetic.bsky.social · Aug 1

Me, fighting first day con jitters: oh man, what do I do?
The Mizutsune and Nargacuga blind bag figures sitting on my table:

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Tucker White @bittling.bsky.social · Aug 3

A buckler dory for #SundayFishSketch this week. I worked on this during the last few days of ASM training.

#FishArt, #SciArt

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Professor Goose @thundergoose.bsky.social · Aug 1

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?

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

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Emily Tull ASGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · Jul 27

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

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生田目和剛(Nabatame Kazutaka) @nabatamekazutaka.bsky.social · Jul 29

Japanese spider crab , Miyajima aquarium
(2024)

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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · Jul 29

Puffin sketch

-3127 🎨🐡🪶 #art

A black ballpoint sketch of a loafing puffin on a rock or cliff edge, with minimal digital colouring

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Hey Crystal Smith @crystalsmithart.bsky.social · Jul 28

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.

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Tucker White @bittling.bsky.social · Jul 28

Black bellied rosefish for #SundayFishSketch

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@hgpennington @hgpennington.bsky.social · Jul 28

In 2024 I drew a green shield bug (Palomena prasina) for my light and shadow series.

hgpenningtonart.co.u...

A shield bug, drawn in chalk and charcoal on tan coloured paper

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Tucker White @bittling.bsky.social · Jul 26

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.

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Kaitlyn Page @theinnerobserver.bsky.social · Jul 18

"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.

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Betsy Streeter 🐋 @betsystreeter.bsky.social · Jul 21

Woa

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.

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