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Robert Back
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[Contemporary] art[ist] Lecturer at Novia UAS. Finland
Also Natural history illustrations. Biology, ecology, conservation
Blog (Swedish) about various animals I meet and document in, mostly, nearby surroundings: http://utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com
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the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social
Wow! Jesse Welles performed his song “Join ICE” on the Colbert Show last night. 🏆
November 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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aubronectes.bsky.social
I guess now would be a good time for my first post here. Yesterday we published a new paper on the incredible ecosystem of tetrapods and other vertebrates in Science. It has been years of work - but we got there in the end. Thank you to everyone the contributed to this work ❤️
science.org Science Magazine @science.org · 9d
An early Triassic bone bed excavated at 78°N changes the story about how marine life recovered after the most cataclysmic extinction in Earth history ~252 million years ago.

Learn more in this week's issue of Science: https://scim.ag/48bLsGI
An early Triassic bone bed excavated at 78°N changes the story about how marine life recovered after the most cataclysmic extinction in Earth history ~252 million years ago. The quantity and diversity of marine reptile and amphibian fossils show that these groups had already radiated into complex oceanic ecosystems by ~249 million years ago.
November 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
rback.bsky.social
Feeling most thankful and honoured that Aubrey Roberts @aubronectes.bsky.social and co-authors chose to ask me for a painting connected to their paper on Triassic marine invertebrates.

#SciArt #Paleontology #Paleoart #Tetrapods #Highseas #Ichthyosauriformes
science.org Science Magazine @science.org · 9d
An early Triassic bone bed excavated at 78°N changes the story about how marine life recovered after the most cataclysmic extinction in Earth history ~252 million years ago.

Learn more in this week's issue of Science: https://scim.ag/48bLsGI
An early Triassic bone bed excavated at 78°N changes the story about how marine life recovered after the most cataclysmic extinction in Earth history ~252 million years ago. The quantity and diversity of marine reptile and amphibian fossils show that these groups had already radiated into complex oceanic ecosystems by ~249 million years ago.
November 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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glenpeters.bsky.social
"Here is the graph, which is so wild, the climate scientist had to call a colleague & check it"

It is true actually! In the Global Carbon Budget we do not usually show the LUC like this, because of interannual variability & uncertainty. But it is what the data says!

politiken.dk/klima/art106...
November 6, 2025 at 7:40 AM
rback.bsky.social
Trump-administrationen:
En mäktig massförstörelsekult som söker kortsiktig vinning för några enstaka individer.
yle.fi/a/7-10086191...
USA hotar Finland och andra som vill skära ner sjöfartens koldioxidutsläpp
Den här veckan avgörs om sjöfartsbranschens plan går igenom. USA hotar beslutsfattare och länder med sanktioner för att stoppa planerna.
yle.fi
October 15, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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lisarostlund.bsky.social
Otroligt skrämmande och sorgligt.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/8q...
Första tröskelpunkten nådd: ”Korallreven är förlorade”
Den första tröskelpunkten är nådd. Korallreven är förlorade. Det skriver 160 forskare från 23 länder i en ny rapport.
www.aftonbladet.se
October 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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lisarostlund.bsky.social
Vi träffar Greta Thunberg hemma i hennes kollektiv. Och får höra om tortyren hon och de andra i flottiljen utsattes för. I vår granskning framgår att UD tonat ned allvaret i situationen, i sin kommunikation med anhöriga under fångenskapen. Bilder av Magnus Wennman.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/0V...
”De sparkade på mig varje gång flaggan nuddade mitt ansikte”
Greta Thunberg om skräckdygnen i israeliskt fängelse Slag, sparkar och hot om att gasas i burar. Greta Thunberg och flera andra ur flottiljen berättar nu detalj
www.aftonbladet.se
October 15, 2025 at 5:14 AM
rback.bsky.social
Totalt 40 holkar för flygekorre färdigställdes i går på talko (finlandssvenskt ord för gemensamt frivilligarbete).
Holkar för flygekorre. Även sparvuggla kan nyttja dem.
October 12, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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charliesaito22.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 6:10 AM
rback.bsky.social
Muscina pascuorum.
Currently 849 (and counting) animal species observed in the garden and 1303 animal species in the blog.
Blogpost in Swedish:
utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2025/10/trad...

#Invertebrate 🐙
#Diptera 🪰
#Insects #Muscidae #Biodiversity #Macrophotography
Muscina pascuorum. Muscina pascuorum.
October 2, 2025 at 5:58 AM
rback.bsky.social
We desperately need an enormous amount of Jane Goodalls in this world in order to break the momentum of society and planet destroying death cult persons currently multiplying as leaders both here and there.
isog.bsky.social Gene Doctor Gene @isog.bsky.social · Oct 2
Remembering Jane Goodall:
Read this inspiring cover story about the wonderful scientist and brave guardian, from the July 2024 issue of STEM Magazine. Here’s the link: article by Dr. Brad McLain
stemmagazine.com/gJULY24/view... 🧪🌎 📚 🙏
October 2, 2025 at 5:44 AM
rback.bsky.social
"I didn't se it"
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 2
MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.
October 2, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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blueheronfarm.bsky.social
Photo of Trump's terrible makeup line and thin hair saying I'm a very aesthetic person
September 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
rback.bsky.social
Female Drapetisca socialis and the Oribatid Cymbaeremaeus cymba (nymph) as bycatch.
Blog post in Swedish:
utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2025/09/trad...

#Invertebrate 🐙
#Arachnida #Acari #Araneae #Linyphiidae #Oribatida
#Biodiversity #Macrophotography
Drapetisca socialis and Cymbaeremaeus cymba on birch trunk Drapetisca socialis and Cymbaeremaeus cymba on birch trunk
September 30, 2025 at 7:57 AM
rback.bsky.social
Horribly painful or the most fantastic sensation when being dissolved this way? Or neither?
Araneus diadematus and Sericomyia silentis.
utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2025/09/trad...

#Invertebrate 🐙
#Diptera 🪰
#Spiders #Insects #Araneidae #Syrphidae #Biodiversity #Macrophotography
Araneus diadematus with captured Sericomyia silentis.
September 29, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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maijakarala.bsky.social
Falling behind in schedule, but
#SciArtSeptember 21 - Reef

Currently, our ocean life is threatened by the climate crisis. Fossils tell us it’s not the first time: in the past, many species have been wiped out by heating. This one is set in the Late Triassic to Early Jurassic, 201 million years ago.
A colourful and detailed illustration of a late triassic lively tropical reef that at the midpoint of the image turns into an early jurassic desolate landscape of bleached corals and algal blooms, depicting the oceanic extinction event of the late Triassic. Overlaid on the illustration is a temperature curve, going from cool to hot.
September 26, 2025 at 7:37 AM
rback.bsky.social
Female Sericomyia silentis.
Two more images and something in Swedish here:
utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2025/09/trad...

#Invertebrate 🐙
#Diptera 🪰
#Insects #Insekter #Flugor #Syrphidae #Blomflugor #Kärpäset #Hyönteiset #Hoverflies #Hoverfly #Kukkakärpäset #Biodiversity #Macrophotography
Sericomyia silentis. Syrphidae
September 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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baweaver.bsky.social
Autistic folks are _heavily_ represented in STEM fields, so it would be far more accurate to say:

Autism causes vaccines.
September 23, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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pjmccann3.bsky.social
Former staffers of Climate.gov are launching a new site: www.climate.us

🧪
Climate.us
independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics
www.climate.us
September 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
rback.bsky.social
Nucifraga caryocatactes macrorynchos.
Illustration for Finlands Natur #3/2025.
Sticking to strict lateral view.

#SciArt #Birds #ornithology #Illustration

🐡🪶
Nucifraga caryocatactes macrorynchos. Illustration for Finlands Natur #3/2025
September 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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mathiasced.bsky.social
Ukraina i en märklig sits. Attackerar allt fler raffinaderier, börjar märkas av i Ryssland. Men Ukrainas "vänner" i väst säger "inte för mycket, det stör globala marknaden". Samma EU-"vänner" som köpt fossilt för 200 miljarder € av Ryssland under krigsåren (mer pengar än milit. stödet till Ukr)?
September 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
rback.bsky.social
Kvadratspindel (Araneus quadratus) - en relativt vanlig art som jag dokumenterat först nu.
Mer om det här:
utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2025/09/bada...

#invertebrate #Spider #Spiders #Araneae #Araneidae 🐙🕷️
#Orbweavers #Spindlar #Hämähäkit #Macrophotography #Biodiversity
Araneus quadratus. Nykarleby, Finland Araneus quadratus. Nykarleby, Finland
September 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
rback.bsky.social
The entomologist song
youtu.be/6cbrmyg1UTg?...

#entomology #Bugs
Bugs
YouTube video by Jesse Welles
youtu.be
September 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
rback.bsky.social
I both want and need this on vinyl!
September 12, 2025 at 11:22 AM
rback.bsky.social
Chilocorus renipustulatus - the ladybird with the shortest scientific name of them all. Well, not really. But anyway.
More (in Swedish) here:
utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2025/09/bada...

#Invertebrate #Insects #Insekter #Coleoptera #Skalbaggar #Beetles #Kovakuoriaiset #Coccinellidae
Chilocorus renipustulatus. Ostrobothnia, Finland
September 10, 2025 at 7:34 AM