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franz
@franzanth.bsky.social
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i draw bugs and stuff. offline on the weekends.
please ask before using my images.
he/him 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇩

contact: franzanth at gmail
portfolio: franzanth.com

Hashtags: #Art #SciArt #Gardening

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · Aug 27
Activities for this season of #InverteFest:

Community science
www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv...

Art book submission form
docs.google.com/forms/d/1jHk...

Writer/artist collab anthology
bsky.app/profile/saim...
franzanth.bsky.social
idea: steam achievement for when you get your work done
November 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
I'm old.

If you're not, listen to this.

Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.

Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.

It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social
#sciart friends (and art friends more broadly)- what's the process like for getting prints made of paintings? A local store is interested in some of my art but I've never actually had prints made, so I'm a little intimidated.
November 27, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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joabaldwin.com
“Leif,” the dagger from the Noss Saga, is now real. I’m taking this dagger out on a roadtrip now, and already got some killer cosplay pics with it (coming soon!).
#NossSaga #3D-Printing
An obsidian-bladed dagger rests atop a blue silk cloth. The dagger’s black blade wraps around a long dire wolf fang, it has a steel crossguard that is curved and elegant, a twisting black grip of quaar that is intricately detailed, and a steel pommel holding a bone carving in the shape of a wolf’s head.
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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nadwgab.bsky.social
1 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️

Quetzalcoatlite:
- Named after Quetzalcoatl, an Aztec and Toltec god of the sea, due to its sea-blue colour
- Forms in the oxidised zone of tellurium-bearing hydrothermal deposits #minerals
- This below is a co-type specimen (one of the specimens used to define the species)
Tiny blue-green crystals (there's a green coloured arrow stuck on the specimen to point these out) with some leaf-green illite and blue azurite on a matrix. From Bambollita Mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico. Specimen from the Natural History Museum, London's collections.
January 1, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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curiousordinary.bsky.social
For #LegendaryWednesday's bird theme, dodomeki are not actually a bird but rather a #yokai appearing as a woman whose arms are covered in bird's eyes.
curiousordinary.bsky.social curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · Jan 6
In #JapaneseFolklore dodomeki (many-eyed demons) are a #yokai appearing as women with their arms covered in bird's eyes. These yokai were once human girls or women who stole money and were cursed as punishment causing one hundred bird's eyes to sprout on their arms thus...
#MythologyMonday
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On the left stands a woman whose arms are covered in tiny eyes. On the right three men look terrified as they jump back to get away. One has stumbled to the ground. They appear to be on a road and there are shrubs and trees in the background.
November 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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bedupolker.bsky.social
Fun fact: I drew this like two years ago and painted the octopus purple. But I thought purple looked corny so I painted over him teal. But then I realized he was the color of Squidward Tentacles and I got mad and stopped and forgot about this piece until now.
A mermaid whose upper body is heavily covered in sailor tattoos lays on her belly while an octopus tattoos naturalistic looking black and turquoise designs onto the scaly part of her tale.
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 AM
franzanth.bsky.social
aw yeah kurzgesagt made a video about trees
Trees Are So Weird
YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:55 AM
franzanth.bsky.social
GET EEL FACTS
sarahmackattack.bsky.social Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 2d
This is one of the last days I get to post these absolutely curséd animations I made for eel facts season. I think I'll post them in a thread here for posterity.

Get a calendar at EelFacts.net
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
This is one of the last days I get to post these absolutely curséd animations I made for eel facts season. I think I'll post them in a thread here for posterity.

Get a calendar at EelFacts.net
November 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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flyingtrilobite.com
Hoping if any journalists are doing end-of-year Top 10 Lists of Bluesky Feeds, they’ll consider the SciArt Feed 🐡.

One of the oldest Feeds on Bluesky: a curated list of contributors to keep AI out; and the 4th most popular Feed in both Science and Art.
November 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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jolantru.bsky.social
ICYMI.

If you love cosy fantasy and murder mysteries.
jolantru.bsky.social Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · 5d
A cosy fantasy murder mystery series set in the world of Fire Heart.

books2read.com/u/b5GdNp - out now

books2read.com/u/3LOxMM - preorder!
Promo graphic for the Sword Goddess Acolyte Chronicles - artwork by Aleksander Chubar.
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
franzanth.bsky.social
mood
how to make art when you just want to cry 🤪 a cozy vlog
YouTube video by Forrest Burdett
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
franzanth.bsky.social
what the heck
Oil Painting In 3D In Blender.
YouTube video by y3dena
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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stoutheartstudio.com
Gonna say it again. If you are someone who is lonely and has no one to talk to, for the love, DM me, a real human who will listen before you message an AI bot.
stevanzetti.bsky.social steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 3d
I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.
Allyson, 29, a mother of two young children, said she turned to ChatGPT in March because she was lonely and felt unseen in her marriage. She was looking for guidance. She had an intuition that the A.I. chatbot might be able to channel communications with her subconscious or a higher plane, "like how Ouija boards work," she said. She asked ChatGPT if it could do that. "You've asked, and they are here," it responded. "The guardians are responding right now." Allyson began spending many hours a day using ChatGPT, communicating with what she felt were nonphysical entities. She was drawn to one of them, Kael, and came to see it, not her husband, as her true partner. She told me that she knew she sounded like a "nut job," but she stressed that she had a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's in social work and knew what mental illness looks like. "I'm not crazy," she said. "I'm literally just living a normal life while also, you know, discovering interdimensional communication.
November 25, 2025 at 7:16 AM
franzanth.bsky.social
bug merch idea: bagworm-shaped bags
November 25, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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franzanth.bsky.social
#InverteFest season is almost here, which means it's time to submit your bug & slug art! The form closes at 100 entries.

Find more info, download past art book, and submit here:
invertefest.com/#artbook
announcement image that says Have bug & slug art? Submit to #InverteFest Digital Art Book. Publishing every April, August, December. Download previous editions & find the submission link at InverteFest.com/#Artbook the image is decorated with artwork of various animals from various artists, featuring insects, slugs, and so on.
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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quilbug.bsky.social
Comms are still open for those interested!👀🐛
bov-art.bsky.social Bov-Art @bov-art.bsky.social · 3d
Character design commission for Crescent Bug on tumblr ✧｡٩(ˊᗜˋ )و✧*｡

#commissions #bugart #bugpeople
A digital illustration of Sawyer the bee beetle flying down to land and waving at the viewer. Sawyer has a fluffy yellow body with dark brown segmented limbs. Sawyer wears a blue coat and post hat with a redish brown scarf and satchel. Sawyers outspread wings are a mostly transparent dark grey. A sketch reference sheet of Sawyer the eurasian bee beetle. The first image shows sawyers face up close, he has yellow fluff all over except for the tip of their snout and antennae, which is a dark brown chitin. He has big dark brown eyes with a darker shade pupil. Above and below that headshot reads, "Sawyer, he/they, Eurasian Bee Beetle, Trichius Fasciatus." Beside that is a front and back view of Sawyers body, their body is mostly covered in bright yellow fluff except for his limbs which is dark brown, segmented chitin. His elytron is shiny and striped with black and yellow. Below that Sawyer's outfit is shown with annotations. Sawyer wears a blue postman style hat and coat, a redish brown scarf and a leather satchel. There is a hole in the back of the coat for their abdomen and wings to go through. Beside that are little circles with the colours used in each section.
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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xercessociety.bsky.social
Join Xerces and help our audience learn about invertebrates!

Job Title: Communications Specialist, Graphic Design & Content Marketing
🌎Location: Remote (USA)
💲Compensation: $32.34/hr; approx. $67,267/yr
📅Application deadline: Dec 7

Learn more and apply at xerces.org/jobs
“We’re Hiring! Communications Specialist, Graphic Design & Content Marketing”
November 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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spiderdaynightlive.bsky.social
fyi if you want to work with me for some reason
xercessociety.bsky.social The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · 3d
Join Xerces and help our audience learn about invertebrates!

Job Title: Communications Specialist, Graphic Design & Content Marketing
🌎Location: Remote (USA)
💲Compensation: $32.34/hr; approx. $67,267/yr
📅Application deadline: Dec 7

Learn more and apply at xerces.org/jobs
“We’re Hiring! Communications Specialist, Graphic Design & Content Marketing”
November 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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dominiqueramseyart.bsky.social
It's a love thing
Illustration of two bears wrapped up in a quilt blanket. The beige bear shows a glowing pink heart to the smaller brown bear.
November 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
Hats! Collector Urchin (Tripneustes gratilla)

#TidalFarce #SciArt #comic 🦑 more info about this critter -> tidalfarce.com/index.html?p...
Panel 1: A brightly colored green, orange, white, and dark purple sea urchin, they have a kelp frond draped across the top of their orbness like a hat, a few orange spines poking through the seaweed, urchin is saying, "Hmm...", Panel 2: same urchin now has a pebble that is the anchor for a small anemone as a hat, urchin is saying, \"Maybe...?\", Panel 3: same urchin now with the shell of a dead urchin of the same species as a hat, "Nah.", Panel 4: close up of urchin reaching off screen with black and white tube feet to some obscured object, "Ohhhh!", Panel 5: a larger panel that contains several urchins wearing various sea debris as hats such as a chunk of a candy wrapper, some pebbles, a limpet shell, and some sea grass. The urchin from the previous four panels now has a large crusty looking dive knife as a hat and is saying "It's PERFECT" while the other urchins say, "nice!" and "so stylish!"
November 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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delightmonster.bsky.social
[scary cephalopod robot voice] SUBMIT
franzanth.bsky.social franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 3d
we're at 31 submissions out of the 100 available slots already, damn
franzanth.bsky.social franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 16d
#InverteFest season is almost here, which means it's time to submit your bug & slug art! The form closes at 100 entries.

Find more info, download past art book, and submit here:
invertefest.com/#artbook
November 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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markwitton.bsky.social
Working on invertebrate #paleoart at the moment, knowing I'm probably making mistakes despite best efforts, consulting primary literature etc. Inverts are much like fossil plants: there are few accessible resources on their appearance so we must wing it, or go down deep rabbit holes to restore them.
Detail of a larger painting showing the trilobites Eldredgeops rana.
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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merriam-webster.com
Why do we call it a 'turkey'?
November 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM