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Kate Baldwin
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Scientific Visual Communicator, Analytical Illustrator, and Author
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paulisci.bsky.social
very much captures the experience of using generative AI to write for you instead of learning how to write
jjvincent.bsky.social James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 16d
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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antsymbiosis.bsky.social
Impact of demographic change in one image.
December 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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beetlemoses.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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jevinwest.bsky.social
NIH is already feeling the effects of LLMs.

A new policy was posted yesterday that limits the number of proposals that can be submitted by any one investigator.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-132: Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications NOT-OD-25-132. NIH
grants.nih.gov
July 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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xercessociety.bsky.social
Join Xerces and make art that supports conservation! 🐝✍🏽

Job Title: Science Illustration Intern
🌎Location: Remote
💲Compensation: $24/hr, 20hrs/week
📅Duration: Sep-Dec 2025
❗Apply by: July 14, 2025

Learn more and apply at xerces.org/jobs
“We’re hiring! Science Illustration Intern. Apply by July 14, 2025”
June 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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entobiologist.bsky.social
the new developments on inat inspired me to make a diagnostic thread for every insect order because there's only like 30something of them. going to try and avoid exceptions and extremely technical characteristics when possible. 🧵
June 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
k8baldwin.bsky.social
Working on Scientific Grant applications? Here are some conceptual tips for your figures so that you have the best chances of being funded: www.k8baldwin.com/grant-figure...
Grant figures conceptual tips
Make sure the figures in your grant reflect your scientific professionalism!
www.k8baldwin.com
June 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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sethf.bsky.social
I just posted a comment, took me less than 10 minutes. Please consider doing so if you are at all concerned about habitat destruction and the preservation of the natural world on which we all depend.
davidho.bsky.social David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · May 17
Two days remain to comment on the US FWS and NMFS rule change that undermines the Endangered Species Act (ESA). This proposal rescinds the definition of “harm,” limiting protections to actions that directly injure or kill listed species, leaving their habitats vulnerable. Please submit comments! 🧪
Rescinding the Definition of “Harm” Under the Endangered Species Act
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) (collectively referred to as the Services or we) are proposing to rescind the regulatory definition of "harm" ...
www.federalregister.gov
May 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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doctorzen.net
Two other articles in this volume have graphical abstracts made with generative AI. The others disclosed that the abstracts were "provided" to the authors? 😕

doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...

doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
March 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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dralgaegirl.bsky.social
The best way to find typos in your writing is to submit it somewhere.
February 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
Nature valentines.
Thanks to my Patrons for keeping me drawing www.patreon.com/birdandmoon
A group of six nature valentines. A picture of a bog with pitcher plants, with text saying "Our love is like a bog. Built up over time, resistant to decay, deeply interesting to just a small number of people." A yellow slime mold stretching out and exploring. "our love is like a slime mold. Collaborative, complex, at times unnerving to behold." A piece of limestone with a small trilobite in the corner. "Our love is like limestone. Layered, useful for many purposes, shaped by the friends we met along the way." A ring-billed gull with a french fry on a beach. "Our love is like a ring-billed gull. Abundant, found in North America, sometimes sustained by french fries." An Atlantic horseshoe crab walking on the sand. "Our love is like a horseshoe crab. Tough, timeless, unrelated to true crabs." A drawing of the phosphorus cycle, with arrows connecting various parts of a scene, including algae and fish and a farm and a river and a forest. "Our love is like the phosphorus cycle. Important, really hard to draw."
February 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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harmitmalik.bsky.social
Something tells me I should have followed my instincts and bought stock into hard liquor companies back in January.
February 8, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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franzanth.bsky.social
Have yourself a merry little Carboniferous.
#Art #SciArt #PaleoArt #Inverts
a pine tree with bugs hanging all around it. at the very top is a dragonfly-like meganeura with open wings, circling the base is the giant millipede arthropleura. on the branches sit various insects and circular pine cones.
December 20, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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alexwitze.bsky.social
New from Nature: Does Harris vs. Trump matter for science? Take our survey: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
Does the 2024 US election matter to science? Take Nature’s poll
The presidential election in the United States will have global ramifications. Do scientists around the world care who wins? Will the outcome affect you?
www.nature.com
October 7, 2024 at 4:31 PM
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saimihanma.bsky.social
Bird watching as a term and activity is pretty common vernacular now.....but how about bug watching? I'm gonna start telling people I'm going bug watching when I go outside. I'm sure it'll catch on in no time.

#Invertebrates
September 25, 2024 at 11:22 PM
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jeffday.bsky.social
wake up babe, new magnapinna sighting dropped 🦑🧪

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP0b...
Rare 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘯𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘢 sighting September 2024
YouTube video by Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre
www.youtube.com
September 19, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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digglelab.bsky.social
Bad agar www.science.org/content/arti...
Bad agar is killing lab yeast around the world. Where is it coming from?
Scientists are struggling to figure out why—and how—the standard growth medium is disrupting their studies
www.science.org
August 9, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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xkcd.com
PSA: If you live anywhere near this blob and it’s not cloudy, tonight is a good night to go outside and look up www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/...
May 11, 2024 at 12:57 AM
k8baldwin.bsky.social
In Wisconsin today, we have little white specks gently wafting through the air. It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity for these ants: www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRTwNS1D/
April 14, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
Because folks liked my latest pigeon comic so much, here's another pigeon piece!

I made this a couple years ago for a sadly now defunct publication called Pipe Wrench. I hope this piece helps spread more pigeon love.

#pigeon #bird #comic #cartoon #science 🪶
A comic titled "What is a City Pigeon? By Rosemary Mosco." There's a small pigeon shouting through a megaphone. Panel 1: A banner says "It's a Dinosaur. Like all birds, pigeons descended from dinos." A pigeon roars "coooo" over the silhouette of a dinosaur yelling RARR. Panel 2: The banner says "It's a Dove. A city pigeon or Rock Dove is a member of the pigeon and dove family." A pigeon stands in glorious rays of sparkling light, with a halo over its head. Panel 3: The banner says "It's a Domestic Animal. Pigeons were domesticated millennia ago for meat and fertilizer (poop)." A cow stands in a farmer's field, saying "moo." A pigeon looks up at it and says "coo." Both have just pooped. Panel 4: The banner says "It's a Purebred Pet. Like dogs & cats, pigeons come in fancy breeds." There are three fancy pigeons: A Birmingham Roller, with rusty feathers and splotches of white. A Fantail, with its head pushed back and a huge fanned out tail. A Saxon Fairy Swallow, with a crest and huge fan
March 11, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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sabs.bsky.social
I wrote about a how on earth a mushroom could grow out of a living frog
defector.com/mushroom-gro...
Mushroom Growing On A Frog? Now That's A Toadstool | Defector
The single mushroom sprouted from the golden flank of a frog like a palm tree from a clichéd drawing of a desert island. It had a small, slightly puckered cap and a stalk as pale and translucent as sk...
defector.com
February 13, 2024 at 4:51 PM
k8baldwin.bsky.social
I picked up this lovely Kim Russell artwork at the Garden Show yesterday. russellworks.com #natureart
February 11, 2024 at 3:45 PM
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jencross.bsky.social
One of the techniques I was working on last year is wide angle macro using fisheye lenses. This allows you to show a small animal in its environment. Here is a Rhinoceros Beetle with the mountainous cloud forest in the background.
Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve, Ecuador
A large brownish-black beetle with orange fuzz at the edges of its exoskeleton. It is standing on a mossy branch with front legs outstretched. You can see densely forested mountains in the background.
January 14, 2024 at 7:43 PM
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edyong209.bsky.social
Two photos of the same Anna’s hummingbird, taken a fraction of a second apart. Iridescence is wild. 🪶
Little hummingbird looking forward, with vivid magenta over its entire face Same bird, now looking sideways, its formerly magenta face now a drab, dark blackish-purple
January 14, 2024 at 1:40 AM