Sea turtle surfacing by a group of Cownose Rays near Clearwater, Florida: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
Biology / science / nature enthusiast. Software / firmware engineer who loves knitting and doing dog sports with Sadie, my pup. An amateur artist / pixel artist. Huge fan of all things animals especially marine animals / sharks.
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Sea turtle surfacing by a group of Cownose Rays near Clearwater, Florida: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
After a failure I finally figured out the trick to my bread maker so I could wake up to fresh baked bread
What do people think about using shaping to train your dog. I get the idea of the dog having to focus on what they are doing but the minimal / no prompts feels too overwhelming for my dog. I have found social training (showing the behavior myself before asking for her to copy) better. #dogtraining
Working on some resilience training for my giant baby, Sadie. This tower of potential noises is her nemesis!
Well yocto froze my computer. This might make me a real embedded developer now? #yocto #firmware
Nothing like a bottle of wine to inspire me to bring out the bread maker
Someone has been sneaking into someone's garden and was caught red antlered
Found this dead Cicada Killer Wasp on my morning dog walk this morning. These things are huge! #InverteFest
Saw this dobsonfly while camping in 2021. I was eating and looked up and there was a giant bug with pinchers and it definitely startled me #InverteFest
That looks super comfy Sadie... #dogsofbluesky
Painted this green heron after spotting one at the pond in Stewart Park in Ithaca. Done in my Etchr A5 hot press sketchbook with QoR watercolors + Pentel waterbrushes. Green herons are rare tool users–they’ll drop bait on the water to catch fish. #sciart #birds
Researchers have filmed thousands of climbing catfish scaling waterfalls, providing a rare insight into the daring migration of an enigmatic fish. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4lDlFux
Haha already what Java engineers sound like when talking about class factories
Worked on my stingray / skate animation and I think it looks really good! #sciart #pixelart #art #digitalart
Join me in welcoming the CDC to the dissent letter club!!! As a member of a fellow HHS organization, I stand with you, always. @altcdc.altgov.info
As someone who left academia (without a phd but in a phd program) I feel that all the time even after talking to my professor friends struggling and asking about leaving it all the time.
Oh yeah things are falling apart. You've got paranoid guys on Blind freaking out now
The fact that historians wouldn't face that fact that Jefferson raped his slave should until there was DNA evidence should show you how bad it was. She was the child of his wife's father and his slave and he moved her into a closet off of his bedroom when she was still a child herself.
Snoozes after our hike this morning #dogsofbluesky
Tig Notaro <3
#Sundayfishsketch 🐡 A brooding blob sculpin #deepsea
I loved inscryption and the journey it took me on
Honestly, this is a really funny review if you have played the whole game ...
Rewilding captive reared leopard sharks to repopulate their home ranges. Can we undo extinction? A growing effort to restore lost sharks
The saddest thing about moving out of NYC is not having an Insomnia Cookies around the corner
The Deep Ones - I’ve been always thinking about a deep sea Cephalopod theme and here it is! Tentacles and appendages are so different when it comes to arranging the composition so it took me a good while, and hopefully it ends up well! 🦑🐙They’re just like from another world💙
Saw this beauty on my hike yesterday morning
Been there done that
Weird posting from my phone didn't animate the gif but posting from my computer does. #art #pixelart #animation #sciart
I expanded on my skate animation to make it more fluid, tail movement, and added a background to convey more movement. Haven't quite figured out how to generate gifs in gimp and this is actually a screen grab of a Haskell program animating a png 😆 #pixelart #art #sciart #raysandskates #haskell
Another fun paper cut! 🤭 #papercutart
After finding a sketch of skate movements when swimming I wanted to try my hand at animating it. Still needs some tweaking but I think it is a good start.
It almost looks like knitted cloth. Really cool
The idea that medieval music is any closer to our development as a species than today is insanely wild
Somehow this is worse than all the map stuff. They can't even get their own prompt to say their own product name.
Do you know what the experiment is testing?
So many babies in my neighborhood!
TOON TUESDAY #ToonTuesday
Last night my husband and I played plate up and our restaurant really rose to the next level. We sold toast with a bread appetizer! 🍞🍞
I think he is implying for their own self interest but just like abortion they will just fly to somewhere they haven't banned it so they can get the benefits while publicly decrying it
Well except that because of the politicalization of COVID-19 Republicans are trying to ban mRNA vaccines.
I hadn't checked netflix for shark content so thanks for pointing it out. I loved the variety of sharks and I enjoyed guessing the species before it told you! The competition format wasn't my favorite but still a fun watch.
Sigh. I just want one shark show that isn't about White Sharks. I wish they would bring back the Alien Sharks series back. That was my all time favorite and a repeat watch for me. #sharkweek
She was a very good wedding dog. Only got the zoomies after dinner.
Ha I saw this and it was what inspired me to draw my lantern shark sketch
Testing the movement for the Shark Cranial Kinesis model. Think this is pretty close? Shark/marine/anatomy people, I'd love your feedback! Intended for outreach for "general public". In the final version the parts will each be a different color. #SciArt #SciComm #SharkWeek
Finally got the official wedding pictures and I'm glad we were on the same page as the photographer about how many pictures we wanted of Sadie. Love this one of her watching me and my dad coming down the aisle. ❤️
Yes!!!
And corn is really hard on the soil so needs a lot of fertilizer
Some more progress on the Zebra Shark Pup (Stegostoma tigrinum). I haven't done an illustration in stipple (dots) in quite a while. It takes focus, but there is a certain tranquility in it once you are in the zone. #shark #marinelife #sciart #fishart #animalart #ArtYear #nature #fish #stippleart
Definitely bought books I heard about on bluesky alone. I don't think I really saw book recs on other social media except maybe YouTube.
okay hang on this is actually kinda brilliant
Liver cell types #WorldHepatitisDay #sciart #LiverDisease #StemCell #science #RegenerativeMedicine
Can you tell what it is? Struggled a little bit.
#SundayFishSketch #WIP Started a new study for the walking shark, belatedly for #SharkWeek. Working on this between pain management & deadlines, will update more when I can! 🐡 #art #artists #SciArt #fish #FishArt #sketch #illustration #DisabledArtists #NatureArt #wildlife #WildlifeArt #ArtYear
See the baby has grown in the three days between the two pictures
There is a mourning dove family near our back deck that has been using our pergola for small test flights. Even in the three days they have been visiting I can see the coloring on the chick change. #birds
I am more sore from puzzling today than I was after my run earlier this week... I want to stop getting older
My brother moves in this weekend & I’m panicking. I still have all this Skype a scientist merch in his room & there’s a crab in the kitchen. Who let me own a home?! If you were ever thinking about buying one of these t shirts today is a GREAT time lmao 😅😅😅 squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/bina...
This Fossil Friday, meet Eryops megacephalus! Evidence, including strong limbs and trackways that may have been made by this critter, suggests it was one of the most terrestrial early tetrapods. It lived ~280 mya during the Early Permian.
Ya this is over 3 weeks on the meds but it's an SSRI so it can take up two months. I am working with a trainer weekly. It has just been sad watching her be worse than ever, before *cross fingers* she gets better.
She has a crate in the room she spends the most time in. The hiding under the bed is really new. We had gone upstairs to give some space. She wasn't sensitive to it until starting the meds although she has always been sensitive to noises usually she is more focused on moderating my emotions.
In this case it is my husband playing video games online with his friends. He can get rowdy and she knows it and as soon as he says a calm hello she is bugging me to stop him. She started eating again so hoping the anxiety will get better soon too.
We have two extra bedrooms because we live far from family and friends and love people to stay here when they visit.
I think you just need to do it in a city near me because then I would go 😉
Pelagornithids for an assignment a while ago #palaeoart #paleoart #pelagornithid #birds
Shark bytes on YouTube talks about being approached to host the Dancing with Sharks show. I thought it was interesting. Sounded like some producer thought up a concept and didn't want to talk to any actual people who know sharks before casting it.
I thought it was annoying when my back itched...
Not a ton of shark species can be kept in captivity and not usually the ones that they think people want to see like Whites, tigers, and bulls.
The person who takes it apart for sure. I hate people who half ass disassembly.
Don't worry I had an even more confused interpretation. I thought it was saying slavery was worth it to bring Ethiopian food to America which was very confusing.
Someone mentioned drawing a lantern shark and when I saw this picture of one I knew I wanted to try my hand at it #sciart #art #shark
Poor Sadie is stressing out even more tonight... I am worried that after 3 weeks the Prozac still has her this stressed. She decided to climb under the guest room bed even though the bed frame was under there.
Blood Hounds! An exploration of different species of dogfish and hound sharks. No one ever talks about them!
I hear it’s Shark week. 🦈 So… my little contribution to all the sharky art. #SciArt 🦑 #shark #sketchbook
do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists
Byyyy the way there are still spots open for August 2nd's moth night. It's going to be another artist-focused night, so I'll bring out all the art supplies. If you think moth nights have looked cool, you should come! givebutter.com/nKBvxH
Also a ton of cats are pretty shy. I didn't appreciate cats fully until living with one and having her be completely comfortable with me.
Sadie and I escaped up to the craft room while my husband played online games with friends. It's good to make me near my art stuff but I wish she didn't get so upset with his playing with friends. Something to work on :/
Sharing with the #SciArt Feed:
Tempted to try to animate this
An old commission for office decoration #SciArt #bats #mammals
We cut down the tree of heaven that was in our yard (there when we moved in) and the number we see outside now is substantially lower. Although that might just be the ecosystem eating more of them.
I've seen it happen a few times. You start a startup with 5 people who all get c-level titles, it survives long enough you can put it on your resume and then from there you won't accept a job below c level even though your only experience is the shittiest software on the planet working by yourself.
I hate it* when
I had when my ADHD brain is in that mode where it is avoiding the guilt of not doing something so much that it will automatically get me to forget that important thing I just remembered. If you can't think of it you can't feel bad for not doing it! #adhd
As someone whose super power most of my life has been the ability to sleep this insomnia is really killing me
When I was a kid I was being dragged along to a car dealership where I met the band members of Nine Inch Nails.
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This baby pterosaur is no bigger than my thumb
Slime molds
Ya but can we talk about bird tongues?
#dogsofbluesky
Isn't Damien Hirst also a grifter? I thought he got in trouble for labeling his art "at the time he thought about doing it" so it was older than it actually was
It's a nice night to hang out
She had a big part in starting / spreading the satanic panic
I used to have time for defeatism on this subject and then after 2 weeks of lockdown the canals of venice were clear enough to see fish and the dolphins were back in the Ganga so yeah, the climate doomerism also now feels like an op
What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the leg of the horse, the paddle of the porpoise, and the wing of the bat, should all be constructed on the same pattern, and should include the same bones, in the same relative positions? - Darwin
