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landguyminor.bsky.social
🎶Under the old Sycamore bark🎶
#macromonday #sycamore #tree #photography #eastcoastkin
Close up of Sycamore tree bark peeling away.
December 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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enniusredloeb.bsky.social
Nothing quite like the intricacies of a carpet page

Lichfield Cathedral, MS Lich 01; St. Chad Gospels; c.730 CE; p.220 @lichfieldcathedral.bsky.social
December 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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arnaerr.bsky.social
some crystals studies, each took approximately 30 minutes

#art
December 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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worldwildlife.bsky.social
Common Blackbird (Turdus merula): This 29cm (11.4in) species of Thrush is native to Europe, North Africa and Asia, also introduced to Australasia, North & South America. Super photo taken by Amer Sanabutt of a male Blackbird taken in Swindon, Wiltshire, UK. #blackbird #eurasianblackbird #wildlife
September 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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amnh.org
Meet the rock squirrel (Otospermophilus variegatus)! This critter can be found throughout much of the southwestern United States & Mexico. While it does forage in the trees, this species prefers to make its dens in rocky terrain like cliffs & canyons.

Photo: kenttrulsson, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist
A photo of a rock squirrel standing on reddish colored rocky terrain. The squirrel's fur is light brown interspered with gray. It is plump in shape and has a large bushy tail.
September 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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allantadams.bsky.social
Some fascinating looks at the earliest of Britain's passenger railways. I was fortunate enough to be asked to do some of the illustrations for three of the articles, including the lime depot at Darlington.

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A cutaway drawing of a building with railway wagons on the upper floor and people loading hires drawn wagons on the lower floor. Work in progress on a drawing of railway wagons being moved in a building.
September 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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pixelsandalchemy.bsky.social
A Peek of the #Pond
#GreenSat #Forest #PNW #Photography
September 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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rabihalameddine.bsky.social
Frank Lloyd Wright, Saguaro Forms and Cactus Flowers, 1927
July 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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rbgkew.bsky.social
Why do some plants grow tiny glass-like structures called phytoliths? New research by @jehovalourenco.bsky.social reveals that monocots evolved this trick twice - and some later dropped it.
A story of convergent evolution, loss, an cellular creativity
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Silica mapping (in red) in leaf transverse sections of Asparagales. (A–E) Orchidaceae–Epidendroideae, silica deposits mostly restricted to bundle sheath cells (with fragments elsewhere), absent from epidermis. (A–D) Dendrobium ×delicatum (Epidendroideae–Orchidaceae), (A) entire vascular bundle with phytoliths in bundle sheath cells, (B) single phytolith inside bundle sheath cell, (C: silica 0.8%) leaf section, and (D) group of phytoliths on bundle sheath surface. (E) Bletilla striata (Epidendroideae–Orchidaceae), phytoliths mostly restricted to bundle sheath cells. (F) Astelia fragrans (Asteliaceae–Asparagales), showing part of epidermis and vascular bundle; no silica detected throughout leaf. Map sum spectra of elements shown in C and F (inset). Scale bars: A, C = 100 µm; B = 5 µm; D = 10 µm, E = 50 µm; F = 100 µm.
July 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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romanceofbooks.bsky.social
Botanical woodcuts from 'Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants, Or, An Herball of Large Extent’ by John Parkinson. London: Printed by Tho. Cotes, 1640.

I saw this at Boston Public Library Special Collections.

#rarebooks #woodcuts #herbal #botany #flowerillustration
July 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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rafiscapture.bsky.social
Nature’s precision in full flight. 🐦 Moments like this remind me how wild and wonderful the world really is ☺️
#BirdInFlight #NaturePhotography #WildlifeMagic #BirdwatchingDaily #NatureLovers
A brightly colored Blue-tailed Bee-eater with vibrant blue and green plumage captured mid-flight with wings fully spread, holding an insect in its beak against a blurred green background.
July 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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instascience.bsky.social
A mesmerizing time-lapse of the Sun in ultraviolet light, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft over a month.

-Credits: NASA
July 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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isabellemarie.bsky.social
Study translates fragmentary ancient Sumerian myth around 4,400 years old.
phys.org/news/2025-07...
Study translates fragmentary ancient Sumerian myth around 4,400 years old
A recent study by Dr. Jana Matuszak, published in the academic journal Iraq, examines the mythical narrative contained in a tablet (Ni 12501) dating to the Early Dynastic IIIb period (ca. 2540–2350 BC...
phys.org
July 23, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social
#WatercolorWednesday :
Franz von Zülow (Austria, 1883 - 1963)
Drei Hirsche (Three #Deer), 1945
Watercolor & ink on paper
38 × 54.5 cm
www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Drei...
watercolor sketch in landscape orientation of a trio of stags bounding through a mountain woodland scene from right to left across composition
July 24, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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rabihalameddine.bsky.social
Marc Riboud, The Forbidden City, Beijing, 1957
July 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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rabihalameddine.bsky.social
Workers at the Central Social Institution of Prague, Czechoslovakia, April 26th, 1937
July 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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wildlife.nathan.fun
A monograph of the Nectariniidae, or, Family of sun-birds London: Published by the author, 1876-1880. (source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/113608) #nature #illustration #art
A monograph of the Nectariniidae, or, Family of sun-birds London: Published by the author, 1876-1880. http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/113608�
July 21, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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A Peacock Fly (Callopistromyia sp.) showing off the beautiful display on those wings! They strut around waving their wings and doing a little wiggle, an amazing behavior right in your own backyard.

#Invert #Diptera #bugsky 🌿 #entomology
Macrophotograph of a Peacock Fly (Callopistromyia sp) resting on a slightly weathered metal beam. The fly holds its patterned wings upright in an elaborate, fan-like display, appearing almost butterfly-like. Each wing is intricately marked with shades of dark brown, black, white, and subtle hints of iridescent blue, creating a mosaic-like camouflage pattern. The fly’s body is robust and heavily speckled in shades of brown, black, and cream. Bright, vivid orange-red eyes stand out distinctly on its head, along with delicate antennae and fine bristles visible along its legs and thorax. The textured metal beam beneath it has faint scratches and rust streaks, providing contrast that highlights the detail and coloration of the insect.
July 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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romanceofbooks.bsky.social
‘Ocean Gardens: the history of the marine aquarium, and the best methods now adopted for its establishment and preservation’ by Henry Noel Humphreys (1810-1879), London: Sampson Low, 1857.

UW-Madison Special Collections 📚

#scientificillustration #naturalhistory #sciart #bookhistory
July 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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rabihalameddine.bsky.social
Leonardo da Vinci's Deluges and Maelstroms
Black chalk, touches of pen, on paper, 1517-1518 (?)
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July 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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sciencearthub.bsky.social
The Best Science Images of 2024 - Nature’s Picks
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
#sciart #scicomm #bioart #nature
Bacterial Blossoms. These crinkly blooms of 0.2 mm wide are groups of bacteriophages - viruses that infect bacteria.
July 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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aveneziano.bsky.social
XIX century #DataViz on the evolution of political parties! Please, someone who has time, can you make a #R function to reproduce this beauty?

🧪 #science #stats
adamrothman.bsky.social Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · Jul 6
Absolutely incredible graphic from 1880 tracing the history of political parties in the United States.
From Smithsonian description: "This ambitious chart presents U.S. political history on a single page. Moving from left to right, a timeline of parties, policies, persons, and events courses like a river through graphic space marked in four-year intervals. The analogy between politics and springs and rivulets (that jump and rejoin their banks) is the most conspicuous feature of the timeline. The parties appear in different colors. The ascendance of a party is gauged as its stream rises above the centerline, and above the streams of other parties. The thickness of a stream indicates the party’s strength. The diagram is meant to dramatize U.S. political history in a more accessible shape for educators and to offer a ready reference for scholars, statisticians, and statesmen. The chart itself, titled “Diagram of the Rise and Fall of American Political Parties, from 1789 to 1880, inclusive,” is from the Conspectus of the History of Political Parties and the Federal Government, by Walter R. Houghton, 1880"
July 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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emmasartworks.bsky.social
I’ve been recording the garden bees for the #NorthEastBeeHunt run by @nenature.bsky.social but found plenty of other invertebrates out there. It’s amazing what you can find when you look.
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#art #invertebrates
A sketchbook page of garden invertebrates drawn in pen and watercolour. Species shown are red-tailed cuckoo bee, forest cuckoo bee, ants, elder aphids, garden bumblebee, southern cuckoo bumblebee, snout moth, early bumblebee, bramble sawfly, Halictus rubicundus bee, tree bumblebee, a Lasioglossum bee, mournful wasps mating, a Sphaerophoria hoverfly, a green shield bug nymph, a leaf cutter bee, a mint moth (Pyrausta sp.), red-barred tortrix moth, turnip sawfly, and carrot wasp (Gasteruption wasp). All from NE England.
July 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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enniusredloeb.bsky.social
Initial 'Q'(uoniam) at the beginning of Luke's Gospel with a portrait of the Evangelist.

BL Harley MS 2799; 'The Arnstein Bible'; c.1172; Germany, W. (Arnstein); f.173v
June 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM