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erujayy.bsky.social
★Jay ✩ Funkiest Bug
@erujayy.bsky.social
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Jay | they/them | 🇮🇪
★ Funky artist with some funky insects in my pouch ★
Professional 2D animator and full time bug keeper while managing 500 hobbies on the side 🪲🦐🐛

Check out my shop!
https://erujayy.carrd.co/

Furry alt: @RavenFriedRice.bsky.social
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★Jay ✩ Funkiest Bug @erujayy.bsky.social · 17d
‼️CALLING ALL BUG NERDS‼️

You'll never believe it, but my next enamel pin crowdfunding campaign is once again based on bugs... HOWEVER... it's *prehistoric bugs*

All creatures weird and cute during the Mesozoic and Paleozoic will get their spotlight for my next campaign launching in JANUARY

🧵👇
An illustration of fossilized and carved stone with the words "Ancient Arthropods, enamel pins". There is a smaller banner in the top right with the text "EU and UK friendly" 🪲🦐 🪲🛒
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petrathepostdoc.bsky.social
i just think they are neat

#birds #SciArt
drawing of a jackdaw with a silly eye, top is grey, bototm is black, and they have a speech bubble with two sunflower seeds and a question mark
November 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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erujayy.bsky.social
‼ SHOP UPDATE ‼

New merch of Bugs, Monster Hunter, Dinosaurs, Avatar and mini phone charms!

Details in 🧵 vvvv

erujayydoodleden.etsy.com

#inverts #paleoart #SciArt #bskymarket 🪲🛒
Image of compiled items with the text "Shop Update" followed by a bullet point list with "notepads, Beetle Charms, Avatar, Monster Hunter, Dino fossils, Phone Charm Expansion." Three notepads surrounded by flowers. It depicts flower beetles. One is orange, another red and blue, and the last green with yellow wings. Six charms of dinosaurs. There is a carnotaurus, microraptor, triceratops, quetzacoatlus, spinosaur, mosasaur, stegosaur and deinonychus.
November 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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anatomoth.bsky.social
Anatomy moth next one is something different than a moth. Hopefully releasing as s sticker and print for Fantasy expo.
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
erujayy.bsky.social
ive been working non stop on the update today for the last 5 hours. truly speedrunning

im gonna go have dinner now OTL

yall can tell me about any spotted mistakes LOL
November 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
erujayy.bsky.social
‼ SHOP UPDATE ‼

New merch of Bugs, Monster Hunter, Dinosaurs, Avatar and mini phone charms!

Details in 🧵 vvvv

erujayydoodleden.etsy.com

#inverts #paleoart #SciArt #bskymarket 🪲🛒
Image of compiled items with the text "Shop Update" followed by a bullet point list with "notepads, Beetle Charms, Avatar, Monster Hunter, Dino fossils, Phone Charm Expansion." Three notepads surrounded by flowers. It depicts flower beetles. One is orange, another red and blue, and the last green with yellow wings. Six charms of dinosaurs. There is a carnotaurus, microraptor, triceratops, quetzacoatlus, spinosaur, mosasaur, stegosaur and deinonychus.
November 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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erujayy.bsky.social
My postal service is expecting delays this year for winter so I am going to make a very very impromptu...

‼️SHOP UPDATE, TOMORROW AT 6PM UTC!!‼️

All the items have now arrived and I got product photos made! So we good to go!!
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
erujayy.bsky.social
My postal service is expecting delays this year for winter so I am going to make a very very impromptu...

‼️SHOP UPDATE, TOMORROW AT 6PM UTC!!‼️

All the items have now arrived and I got product photos made! So we good to go!!
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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petrathepostdoc.bsky.social
artist depiction (i dont know how to export video and add music)

#SciArt #invertebrates
November 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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ketrinadrawsalot.bsky.social
#Nudivember day 17: Jorunna rubescens, the forbidden stracciatella gelato
(When they lay their eggs, the resulting mass looks like frilly pink ribbons!)
#nudibranch #seaslug #art #stripey #icecream
A cream-colored nudibranch covered in brown and white streaks
November 17, 2025 at 10:45 PM
erujayy.bsky.social
Okay I now have 2/3rds of the new merch in my hands!
Now just waiting for the notepads :] then its an immediate shop update day to make sure people have enough time for christmas shopping wahoo
November 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social
In the last year PRI has kept the museum open, opened a new in person and online exhibit "Marvelous Mollusks", expanded online content, published dozens of scientific papers, digitized much of its fossil coral collection, hosted numerous researchers in its collections and run its teacher ed programs
a bald man wearing a pink shirt and a necklace looks at the camera
Alt: a bald man wearing a pink shirt and a necklace looks at a crowd and shouts " we are still here" in the caption
media.tenor.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social
Well it seems it is going to be to late for @lastweektonight.com to help with their hiatus. Any suggestions for a big sci com/science interested news account I should play with to help save PRI?

Tag them in the comments with your pitch for why they should help out this museum maybe
infographic about the Paleontological Research institution. 94 years of research here. One of the 10 largest fossil collections in the USA, with 7 million specimens. 1.2 million users of their online content annually, 30,000 in person visitors 1,500 teachers use PRI for continuing education each year link to donate: https://www.priweb.org/donate infographic explaining that PRI needs to raise 1 million dollars by December 31st to pay off their mortgage, be free of that debt and continue future operations. They have already raised 2.1 million of the 3.1 million needed to pay this unexpected expense due to a major donor being unable to fulfill a long-term pledge
November 17, 2025 at 2:04 AM
erujayy.bsky.social
Hey so like, just a reminder that I don't control import taxes on packages and I'm just a single artist behind the shop, so it's not exactly nice to receive passive aggressive DMs from you as a customer about being asked to pay customs
November 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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dadrummond.art
Mood, by noonsillustrations on IG.
A black and white drawing by noonillustrations on Instagram showing two panels of an isopod on the left the isopod is open on the right the isopod is rolled up. Underneath the panels, associated with each one, text says, “fuck it we ball“
November 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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loadofolbobbins.bsky.social
Just 4 days until the bonanza that is the first ever @backerkit.com Holiday Market. Support your fave creatives by shopping their ready-to-ship items with special discounts and bundles!

www.backerkit.com/c/collection...

#BackerKit #ArtistSupport #ArtSky #Merch #Illustration #ArtShop
November 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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tinylongwing.bsky.social
Feels like a good opportunity to re-share this thread which is FULL of wonderful front-on bird photos in the replies, haha. The reverse of what I need at the moment, but pure joy to scroll through.
tinylongwing.bsky.social Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · Jun 25
Hey bsky. My favorite thing right now is forward-facing Brewer's Blackbirds. Just so you know.

Show me your forward-facing birds! 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
Page of digital sketches of three male Brewer's Blackbirds, all facing forward (or mostly). On left, the bird is standing tall and alert with his neck stretched slightly, and he is colored with bright iridescent purple and blue. The other two are sketched in more muted grays. Upper right, the bird is calling upward with beak open and with tiny pupils. Lower right, he is puffed up, looking straight on, as if about to sing and show how buff he is to the ladies.
November 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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snailbreaker.bsky.social
mega feraligatr 🐊 I didnt like this design much at first but drawing him was so fun

#pokemon | #pokemonlegendsza
November 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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fossilforager.bsky.social
please check out my new isopod stickers :)
A photo of a vibrant orange illustrated sticker sheet featuring colorful isopods doing isopod things (eating a piece of fruit, hiding under a leaf, resting on top of a leaf, crawling around). To the right of the sticker sheet are some of the isopod stickers stuck onto a white sheet.
November 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
erujayy.bsky.social
Im a brown rice hater you cant change my mind
November 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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petrathepostdoc.bsky.social
I got permission to #CrabPost

#SciArt #invertebrates
a grid of 3x2 square drawings of crabs (and one shrimp) on a black background, red crab, leopard crab, fluffy crab, orange and purple halloween crab, pipe cleaner red and white shrimp, yellow grey crab with googly eyes
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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pictheas.bsky.social
A little baby in the works
Work in progress shot with photoshops interface and painting of a unicorn foal surrounded by roses and foliage
November 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM
erujayy.bsky.social
Idk theres just something greatly off about being considered an etsy representative and not understanding the problem AI has caused for the marketplace
November 13, 2025 at 12:58 AM
erujayy.bsky.social
The new dino fossil charms have arrived 👀

#paleoart
November 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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ehrenenglish.bsky.social
It's #Pachyrhinosaurus day for #dinovember! Gave this #dinoknight a Sword of Moonlight from Demons' Souls.

#art #dinovember2025
A red-orange pachyrhinosaurus knight in gold armour with purple and blue cloth, holding a glowing sword of moonlight
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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blueappaloosa.bsky.social
Test print of a 3d printed, table-top, A-frame, NOAI sign. Folds mostly flat, stable when standing.

Thoughts on size? Too big? Too small? (~4.74x7 inches, 12x17cm)

Do the colors on the hinge bother you? (It's simpler to print with the weird colors there, and I'm trying to keep it simple.)
A white, A-frame sign with a red circle with diagonal slash over the black text "AI", below is the black text "Art designed by human artists, without the use of generative AI." A white, A-frame sign from the side-ish, folded in so it's mostly flat, with a small gap at the top. A white, A-frame sign with a red circle with diagonal slash over the black text "AI", below is the black text "Art designed by human artists, without the use of generative AI." At it's base is a scale bar with inches and centimeters, showing the sign to be roughly 12cm (4.75 inches) wide. A white, A-frame sign from the side-ish, alongside it is a scale bar with inches and centimeters, showing the sign to be roughly 17cm (7 inches) tall.
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 AM