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Kelsey 🌲
@sylvanbat.bsky.social
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Behavior scientist transitioning to UX. Aspiring illustrator & comic artist. Books, coffee, fantasy, horror and anything animals. 🏳️‍🌈
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Went to the Regional Parks Botanic Garden in Berkeley this week. I saw birds, lizards, frogs, fish and crawdads.
Today's Friday photo is a native wildflower there that looks like fire. Don't know the name but it's amazing!
June 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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It's been a few weeks since I posted a Friday nature photo. So to make up for it...here is an otter chomping on a fish. 🦦

Humboldt Redwoods State Park, California.
May 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Wandering salamander at the Humboldt Redwoods State Park.
A (possible) Wandering Salamander clinging to the vertical slice of a felled redwood tree. There are holes in the grains and the salamander is still climbing out of one hole and its head is faced towards another hole. Both holes are too small for the salamander to actually hide in, but it was a good try.
May 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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It's #Friday again - time for another not to nature. Instead of a photo, I'm going for a short clip of Toketee Falls in Oregon's Umpqua National Forest.

Anyone else hear the Gravity Falls theme song when looking at this?

#waterfall #moss #forest #PNW
March 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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I didn't do my usual nature post yesterday. So here's my belated #nature photo for the week. This was taken at the Portland Japanese Garden. It was such a serene experience.
Photo of a traditional Japanese garden in Portland. A background of mossy rocks and evergreen tress with a small waterfall flowing into a wide pond. In the pond are some ornamental koi doing their thing. To the right are some Japanese maple trees hovering over a rolling bed of moss and a stone temple.
March 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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It's been really hard to have a #FeelGoodFriday with the CR votes and disregard for free speech and the constitution. But maybe that's why I should post.
Here's to Scotland's beauty - heather, moss and pine from the Cairngorm's near Glenmore.
#heather #moss #flowers #nature
A photo of wild Scottish plants, with blooming heather and grasses in the foreground, a thick bed of moss in the middle, and a background of more heather and some Scottish pine in the far distance. Taken near Glenmore/ Cairngorm mountain.
March 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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It's time for #FeelGoodFriday. As daylight savings time signals spring is coming, I thought I'd share a plant I look forward to seeing soon... the Pacific Bleeding Heart (Dicentra formosa). Found near a trail path in Issaquah, WA.

#PNW #flowers #friday #spring #moss
A Pacific or wild bleeding heart plant (Dicentra formosa) with two clusters of pink and purple flowers. Behind it is a moss covered log and a pond, with a cedar forest in the far background.
March 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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It's #Friday, which means another nature pic. Here's some 💚 to our Nat'l and State parks!

Nature lovers, be sure to follow @altfws.bsky.social and @altnps.bsky.social for updates

Grove of Titans at the Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park
#Nature #FeelGoodFriday #Forest #Redwoods
A worm's, er, person's upward view of a massive chonk of a redwood tree on a foggy winter morning. Centered is a huge vertical growth partway up the tree that looks a bit phallic from some angles. For scale, the trunk diameter is about the length of a SUV.
February 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Possibly some Candlesnuff fungus (Xylaria hypoxylon) found near North Bend at the shore of the South Fork Snoqualmie River.

#FungiFriday #PNW #FungiFriends #mycology
Candlesnuff fungus, which looks like long black and white crab claws, growing out of a mossy stump, lit by a Winter's afternoon sun. The South Fork Snoqualmie River is in the background.
February 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Feeling a bit down this morning so I took some time to go through nature pics. Here are a couple of my 'fairy places'

#moss #PNW #forest #green
Edge of a walking bridge in Oregon with guard rails painted rainbow colors and encouraging graffiti written on it, including 'sisterhood of the traveling naked fairies'. In the background is a gorgeous flowing river and evergreen trees with sun shining on the tops. For context, the bridge leads to a clothing-optional natural hot spring. A young evergreen forest in Issaquah, Washington, with ferns scattered about the forest floor. The trees and the stump in the center of the image are covered in thick layers of mosses. It's a sunny day so speckled light highlights the various shades of green. I call this my fairy glen and it's where I used to go when I was feeling down.
February 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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I was fishing through my files to find some example pieces for a portfolio and came across this. It's not my normal style but was fun to try!
#procreate #spooky #digitalart
A mid-century modern style graphic showing a ghost facing left and a floating jack-o-lantern behind and to the left of the ghost. They're floating over shapes looking like concrete ground with building blocks behind.
January 28, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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This is Riley, a draft NB character for a science communication project I was working on a couple years ago. We went for another (also NB) main character, but I still think about them. I'm sure they'll show up elsewhere.

#characterart #sketching #nonbinary
A full body digital drawing of a Latinx character in sweatpants and a sweatshirt talking to an off-screen person. To the left is a headshot making a sus face and below is a portrait of them listening to music with their hoodie up.
January 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Don't forget the labels in figure 3!
A clip of an AI generated figure with a long, very nonsensical label name with red swirly shape before it.
February 15, 2024 at 5:36 PM
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A friend shared a real published paper in a 'decent' journal that had figures generated from AI art. It's horrendous in so many ways, the least of which is that this falseness is just another reason for people to distrust research. 😫🤬
Clearly AI generated white rat with veiny tube leading from the sky to the rat's belly with attachments to grainy bulbs, then a series of misnumbered subdiagrams on the right showing a veiny bulb in flesh, then a needle poling a grainy bulb, then a dist of grainy bulbs with a spoon. Most the labels are incoherent. Screenshot of a review article published in the Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology titled, "Cellular functions of spermatogonial stem cells in relation to JAK/STAT signaling pathway"
February 15, 2024 at 5:32 PM