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Colleen Iversen
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Scientist | #Arctic | #Belowground | #Roots | #ScienceEmbroidery | Opinions my own | She/Her | Editor @newphyt

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Colleen Iversen @colleeniversen.bsky.social · Aug 31
Come for the #ScienceEmbroidery and stay for the Science!
Embroidered tundra plants against a painted soil background. Embroidered strawberry plant against a painted lake background. Embroidered muskoxen against a painted background. Made for Jacquelyn Gill. Embroidered Umiaq.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Textile artist Britta Marakatt-Labba's embroidery of Sami culture, Indigenous Finno-Ugric people inhabiting the Arctic #womensart
Complex pictorial embroidery with reindeer herd, herders and their dogs in a circular snowy landscape
November 20, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Reposted by Colleen Iversen
womensartbluesky.bsky.social
'Wheelbarrow Washing" by Pamela Grace, contemporary artist and printmaker living and working in Galloway, Scotland #WomensArt
Print featuring a green wheelbarrow in the foreground in a garden setting with bare trees, xhickens and a washing line with clothes hanging
November 9, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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!!!!🖖🏻❤️
November 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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New Assistant Professor Posting:
@dartmouthears.bsky.social @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social
Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry and/or Geobiology
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November 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
colleeniversen.bsky.social
The next #Embroidery is a polar bear for Grace at Audubon Alaska. 🤍🐻‍❄️
A partially embroidered close up of a polar bear face with a black nose and grey muzzle. She’s stitched against a grey sky.
October 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
colleeniversen.bsky.social
She’s done. I love her winter shadows. ☀️❤️
#Embroidery
An embroidered willow ptarmigan in her winter white feathers - she looks like a white chicken. The low winter sun is making her feathers cast grey shadows. She’s standing on painted blue and white snow amount painted shrubs.
October 22, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
More breathing space, 2024 one of the many etchings & engravings by printmaker Janis Goodman #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
Print in in blue and black, looking up to bare black tree silhouettes in a forest as two birds fly in between
October 18, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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alaskawx.bsky.social
Important article highlighting the longer term environmental threats to the Kuskokwim coast by @yjrosen.bsky.social. #AlaskaSky
October 18, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social
If any plant nerds want to come work with me on soil-plant interactions... we should chat :) www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation
www.simonsfoundation.org
October 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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alaskawx.bsky.social
Wednesday early afternoon: mandatory evacuation for the entire city of Kotzebue (posted on the city FB page) for expected coastal flooding later today. No roads in or out of Kotz, so in this case, evacuation means go to the High School. #akwx #weatther #Alaska
City of Kotzebue Mandatory Evacuation Order Issued 1205pm October 8, 2025. Due to incoming storm.water surge, the City of Kotzebue is issuing a mandatory evacuation order for all residents, effective immediately.
October 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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henneckejustus.bsky.social
Super excited to see that the last chapter of my PhD on root trait - ecosystem functioning relationships is now published in @newphyt.bsky.social!
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Rooting for function: community‐level fine‐root traits relate to many ecosystem functions
Humans are driving biodiversity change, which also alters community functional traits. However, how changes in the functional traits of the community alter ecosystem functions—especially belowground...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
colleeniversen.bsky.social
The next #Embroidery will be a willow ptarmigan in the snow with her very fluffy feet on display. 🐓
A partially embroidered large white chicken ish bird against a painted blue and snowy background with willow twigs sticking up around her.
October 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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alaskawx.bsky.social
End of an era and a sad day for those that care about Arctic work done in the best ways possible. 😢 Nonetheless "… the goal of broadening participation in Arctic-focused research, education, and policy is still an important mission to achieve." #Arctic
A Final Message from the Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) After nearly four decades of service to the Arctic research community, the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS) has now reached its sunset. This will be our final message to the community. On behalf of the ARCUS Board of Directors and all ARCUS staff, we want to thank you for the many years of collaboration, support, and partnership that made ARCUS possible. We have enjoyed working with this community immensely and believe that the goal of broadening participation in Arctic-focused research, education, and policy is still an important mission to achieve.
September 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
colleeniversen.bsky.social
Jade is done! Sweet boy. 💚🐺#Embroidery
An embroidery of a grey and black wolf dog named Jade with green eyes. He’s stitched on a painted green background.
September 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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#MinCup25 Round 2 Match 1: It's a pair of striking blue beauties as #pectolite the uncrushable faces off against #hauyne, the phoenix from volcanic ashes!

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r2...
Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...
www.mineralcup.org
September 17, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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mineralcup.bsky.social
#MinCup25 Round 1 Match 3: It’s a battle of the blues with #Haüyne vs #Jeremejevite. Are you into the fluorescing phoenix or the pleochroic & piezoelectric gem?

VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1...

Check results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...
Vote in Round 1 Match 3 — Mineral Cup
Click here to vote in Jeremejevite vs Haüyne
www.mineralcup.org
September 3, 2025 at 12:05 AM
colleeniversen.bsky.social
The next embroidery is for Clarissa at UIC science. It will be of her childhood wolf dog, Jade. She doesn’t have any photos to remember him by, so I hope I can do justice to her fond memories!
#Embroidery
A pencil sketch of a wolf dog smiling at the camera with his tongue hanging out against a painted green background. He’s only embroidered a tiny bit in black around his eyes and tongue.
September 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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#MinCup25
mineralcup.bsky.social Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · Aug 29
Behold, the #MinCup35 bracket!

Use it to follow along, plan campaigns to support your favs, or make predictions on how voting will shake out. We start at the top left on September 1st, then alternate left and right as we work our way down.
A sports-style elimination bracket of 32 minerals labeled "Mineral Cup 2025". Text below reads, "Daily voting takes place on www.MineralCup.org in September. Campaign on your favorite social media using #MinCup25." The starting matches are, in chronological order: chrysotile versus pectolite, stibnite versus okenite, jeremejevite versus haüyne, calcite versus perovskite, silver versus baryte, carpathite versus leucite, sanidine versus hematite, pollucite versus tugtupite, kosmochlor versus azurite, dioptase versus wavellite, titanite versus thortveitite, zunyite versus molybdenite, topaz versus kyanite, cuprosklodowskite versus ikaite, taenite versus nontronite, and paddlewheelite versus mannardite.
August 31, 2025 at 10:41 AM
colleeniversen.bsky.social
She’s done!❤️🦣
#Embroidery
An embroidered mammoth based on a painting by Angus McBride in many browns. She’s standing on fuzzy wool snow against a painted blue background. There are two of her family members painted behind her in the distance.
August 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Scientists!

@skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, libraries, & more for virtual Q&As! It's easy and fun!

We are looking for 750 more volunteers by 8/15

If you're down to chat with 1-5 classrooms this semester, sign up here
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
a canva graphic that says "How it works Step 1: Go to SkypeAScientist.com Step 2: Click “Sign Up” then “Scientist Sign Up Form” Step 3: Tell us about yourself Step 4: Get matched with a classroom Step 5: Connect with the teacher Step 6: Make a kid’s day isn't that great? @SkypeAScientist"
August 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
colleeniversen.bsky.social
The next embroidery is for Marine at UIC Science - based on a painting by Angus McBride.

Marine worked on a mammoth graveyard in France as an archaeologist and they are very dear to her. 🦣
A pencil sketch outline of a mammoth with two smaller mammoths painted in the background against a painted blue and purple evening sky. There is snow on the ground.
August 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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eos.org
Through social media, talks, and more, @drwendyrocks.bsky.social shares the joy of understanding our planet with audiences that might otherwise have never taken a second look at a rock.

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Read more in our August issue: bit.ly/Eos-Aug2025
Wendy Bohon: Quelling Fears and Sparking Geoscience Joy - Eos
This earthquake enthusiast and science communicator wants you to know that a “whole ecosystem” of scientific careers exists outside of academia.
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August 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
colleeniversen.bsky.social
He’s done! Just in time for the fair. 😅
#Embroidery
#qiŋalik

inupiaqonline.com/qi%C5%8Balik...
An embroidered king eider duck with a bright orange bill, yellow nose, and black and white feathers. He’s stitched on a painted blue and green lagoon.
August 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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charitywoodrum.bsky.social
I am honored to be on this week’s episode of Radiolab! The host @lutimestwo.bsky.social gets excited about galaxies with me! We talk about finding light in the darkest places, both for my research and my life. Lulu was so kind talking about my personal life and so intelligent discussing my research.
Galaxy Quenching
In the midst of unthinkable grief, an unthinkable discovery.
radiolab.org
August 2, 2025 at 12:40 AM
colleeniversen.bsky.social
The next #Embroidery is the fourth and final (whew!) door prize for the BARC Science Fair, coming up this August.

He’ll be a regal king eider in his fanciest and most outlandish colors.
A sketched outline of a king eider duck against a painted blue and green lake with a few stitches in white cream and grey.
July 29, 2025 at 10:39 PM