Phoebe Barnes 🏳️⚧️
@vireosylva.bsky.social
wildlife biologist and paleontology enthusiast from Santa Cruz, CA. she/her or they/them.
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the duality of amphipods
December 2, 2025 at 6:49 AM
the duality of amphipods
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I love the little birds that don't get any attention. The Torrent Tyrannulet is a very special little flycatcher that spends its whole life hunting insects on the edges of fast-moving rivers. At first, they look like bits of foam or spray at the edge of the water.
#birds #costarica
#birds #costarica
September 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I love the little birds that don't get any attention. The Torrent Tyrannulet is a very special little flycatcher that spends its whole life hunting insects on the edges of fast-moving rivers. At first, they look like bits of foam or spray at the edge of the water.
#birds #costarica
#birds #costarica
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A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius.
This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
June 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius.
This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
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iNaturalist is my favorite monster-catching game
May 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
iNaturalist is my favorite monster-catching game
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Newest #watercolor #paleoart. Agressive Leptoceratops charges a T.rex with a threat display. This isn’t purely display, however, since a well placed chomp from that beak could do real damage to the much larger carnivore. Small hornless ceratopsians are overlooked too much. 🦖
May 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Newest #watercolor #paleoart. Agressive Leptoceratops charges a T.rex with a threat display. This isn’t purely display, however, since a well placed chomp from that beak could do real damage to the much larger carnivore. Small hornless ceratopsians are overlooked too much. 🦖
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okay so i was browsing through old files and realised i never posted this cube diorama of a floodplain forest in Hell Creek done for one of #Paleostream 's older art challenges in 2022
this is literally 3 years old. i fell off apparently...???
#paleoart #sciart
this is literally 3 years old. i fell off apparently...???
#paleoart #sciart
May 2, 2025 at 6:09 PM
okay so i was browsing through old files and realised i never posted this cube diorama of a floodplain forest in Hell Creek done for one of #Paleostream 's older art challenges in 2022
this is literally 3 years old. i fell off apparently...???
#paleoart #sciart
this is literally 3 years old. i fell off apparently...???
#paleoart #sciart
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Sighted: a crow using a crosswalk to stroll across the street
April 19, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Sighted: a crow using a crosswalk to stroll across the street
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The floof squad! In order: Zhenyuanlong suni, Daurlong wangi, Iyuku raathi, and Sanxiasaurus modaoxiensis
I just love feathered #dinosaurs so much, and I like the challenge of taking inspiration from patterns that tend to appear in modern birds without copying any one species wholesale!
#paleoart
I just love feathered #dinosaurs so much, and I like the challenge of taking inspiration from patterns that tend to appear in modern birds without copying any one species wholesale!
#paleoart
April 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The floof squad! In order: Zhenyuanlong suni, Daurlong wangi, Iyuku raathi, and Sanxiasaurus modaoxiensis
I just love feathered #dinosaurs so much, and I like the challenge of taking inspiration from patterns that tend to appear in modern birds without copying any one species wholesale!
#paleoart
I just love feathered #dinosaurs so much, and I like the challenge of taking inspiration from patterns that tend to appear in modern birds without copying any one species wholesale!
#paleoart
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Kleptoparasitism. Geosternternbergia, Nyctosaurus and Enchodus. Inspired by the book Oceans of Kansas by Micheal J Everhart and the brown pelicans, magnificent frigate birds and delicious mahi-mahi tacos at my trip to Puerto Vallarta. #paleoart #pterosaurs
March 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Kleptoparasitism. Geosternternbergia, Nyctosaurus and Enchodus. Inspired by the book Oceans of Kansas by Micheal J Everhart and the brown pelicans, magnificent frigate birds and delicious mahi-mahi tacos at my trip to Puerto Vallarta. #paleoart #pterosaurs
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April 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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February 28, 2025 at 2:55 AM
If you see this, post a skeleton.
The "Charlotte whale," an Ice Age beluga and Vermont's state marine fossil. Specimen housed in the University of Vermont's Perkins Museum of Geology. What is now the all-but-landlocked Lake Champlain was once much larger and connected to the North Atlantic.
The "Charlotte whale," an Ice Age beluga and Vermont's state marine fossil. Specimen housed in the University of Vermont's Perkins Museum of Geology. What is now the all-but-landlocked Lake Champlain was once much larger and connected to the North Atlantic.
February 27, 2025 at 6:40 AM
If you see this, post a skeleton.
The "Charlotte whale," an Ice Age beluga and Vermont's state marine fossil. Specimen housed in the University of Vermont's Perkins Museum of Geology. What is now the all-but-landlocked Lake Champlain was once much larger and connected to the North Atlantic.
The "Charlotte whale," an Ice Age beluga and Vermont's state marine fossil. Specimen housed in the University of Vermont's Perkins Museum of Geology. What is now the all-but-landlocked Lake Champlain was once much larger and connected to the North Atlantic.
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Iso-Pan? Ace-opod? Bi-sopod? Crustace-Trans?
First round of PRIDE-sopods are here 🏳️🌈🍄
#snowwolpard #isopod #entomology #pride
First round of PRIDE-sopods are here 🏳️🌈🍄
#snowwolpard #isopod #entomology #pride
February 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Iso-Pan? Ace-opod? Bi-sopod? Crustace-Trans?
First round of PRIDE-sopods are here 🏳️🌈🍄
#snowwolpard #isopod #entomology #pride
First round of PRIDE-sopods are here 🏳️🌈🍄
#snowwolpard #isopod #entomology #pride
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A friend asked what they can do to fight #antisemitism, from the perspective of wanting to #freePalestine and thinking that is a more pressing issue. My response was, I feel, good enough to repost here. Please read it:
February 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
A friend asked what they can do to fight #antisemitism, from the perspective of wanting to #freePalestine and thinking that is a more pressing issue. My response was, I feel, good enough to repost here. Please read it:
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February 27, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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February 3, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Generalist dinosaurs foraging terrestrially
January 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Generalist dinosaurs foraging terrestrially
Realized I never posted anything about it here, but I recently passed the 2,000th day of my streak on @inaturalist.bsky.social / iNaturalist!!! Wrote a journal post about it, linked below. Here's to the next 2,000!
www.inaturalist.org/journal/vire...
www.inaturalist.org/journal/vire...
Day 2,000 of my streak!
Hello to whomever may read this!!! I am making this journal post to note an occasion that, while perhaps not momentous, is significant, at least to me. Today, as of the day this is posted, is the 2,00...
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January 31, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Realized I never posted anything about it here, but I recently passed the 2,000th day of my streak on @inaturalist.bsky.social / iNaturalist!!! Wrote a journal post about it, linked below. Here's to the next 2,000!
www.inaturalist.org/journal/vire...
www.inaturalist.org/journal/vire...
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This is not a drill! And *this* is not drill. Neither is this. None of these things are drills. What an awful tool shed.
January 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This is not a drill! And *this* is not drill. Neither is this. None of these things are drills. What an awful tool shed.
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January 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Wanna see something REALLY cool?
This Bristletail of the Order Archeognatha is an ancient insect that evolved around the same time as the Arachnids. And they live here, in Ireland.
You can find them on seashores, under stones and driftwood. Usually accompanied by Sea Slaters and Amphipods.
This Bristletail of the Order Archeognatha is an ancient insect that evolved around the same time as the Arachnids. And they live here, in Ireland.
You can find them on seashores, under stones and driftwood. Usually accompanied by Sea Slaters and Amphipods.
December 12, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Wanna see something REALLY cool?
This Bristletail of the Order Archeognatha is an ancient insect that evolved around the same time as the Arachnids. And they live here, in Ireland.
You can find them on seashores, under stones and driftwood. Usually accompanied by Sea Slaters and Amphipods.
This Bristletail of the Order Archeognatha is an ancient insect that evolved around the same time as the Arachnids. And they live here, in Ireland.
You can find them on seashores, under stones and driftwood. Usually accompanied by Sea Slaters and Amphipods.
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A nice little article about my recent paper with @skyemcdavid.com on a giant Rhamphorhynchus at the @nhm-london.bsky.social: www.sciencenews.org/article/jura...
A mysteriously large pterosaur finally has an identity
A Jurassic pterosaur fossil, known to paleontologists for over 160 years, isn’t a new species. It is an odd specimen of Rhamphorhynchus muensteri.
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January 23, 2025 at 7:41 AM
A nice little article about my recent paper with @skyemcdavid.com on a giant Rhamphorhynchus at the @nhm-london.bsky.social: www.sciencenews.org/article/jura...
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So this little #SeaSlug is a type of sap sucker in the genus Costasiella. These are not technically #Nudibranch and belong in the super order of #Sacoglossa. They perform kleptoplasty where they steal chloroplasts from their Avrainvillea algae host and utilise them for photosynthesis
#🦑 #🦐 #📷
#🦑 #🦐 #📷
January 23, 2025 at 7:28 AM
So this little #SeaSlug is a type of sap sucker in the genus Costasiella. These are not technically #Nudibranch and belong in the super order of #Sacoglossa. They perform kleptoplasty where they steal chloroplasts from their Avrainvillea algae host and utilise them for photosynthesis
#🦑 #🦐 #📷
#🦑 #🦐 #📷
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Just joined Bluesky so I'll be posting some older stuff as I populate this new account. Here's a digital illustration (drawn on an iPad) of a pair of Purple Finches in flight.
I offer this piece as a 6x6in print in my Etsy shop.
#scientificillustration #sciart #digitalillustration #birdart
I offer this piece as a 6x6in print in my Etsy shop.
#scientificillustration #sciart #digitalillustration #birdart
January 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Just joined Bluesky so I'll be posting some older stuff as I populate this new account. Here's a digital illustration (drawn on an iPad) of a pair of Purple Finches in flight.
I offer this piece as a 6x6in print in my Etsy shop.
#scientificillustration #sciart #digitalillustration #birdart
I offer this piece as a 6x6in print in my Etsy shop.
#scientificillustration #sciart #digitalillustration #birdart