This just feels like a longer way to get to cocaine bear, you do you.

#HarderBetterFasterStronger 😵‍💫🐟🧪

Here is my original live-thread of the 2026 Research Data Management Workshop 研究資料管理工作坊 #RDMW2026 hosted at Academia Sinica, from March 2026: bsky.app/profile/youn... 🧋🧪

The Ecological and the Sociological: Tapping Into Taiwan’s Wealth of Long-Term Research Datasets Written by Ben Young Landis for depositar lab / Research Data Management Hub

Grateful to Tyng-Ruey Chuang and the #DepositarLab #研究資料寄存所實驗室 team at #AcademiaSinica #中央研究院 for having me cover these ecological and social sciences talks at #RDMW2026 . 感謝個位老師的指教！ rdm.depositar.io/news/rdmw2026/ #Taiwan #ScienceInTaiwan #TaiwanResearch #DataScience #台灣 #台灣研究 #台灣科學 #科普 #科學新聞 🧋🧪

The Ecological and the Sociological: Tapping Into Taiwan’s Wealth of Long-Term Research Datasets Written by Ben Young Landis for depositar lab / Research Data Management Hub

"The Ecological and the Sociological: Tapping Into Taiwan’s Wealth of Long-Term Research Datasets" (rdm.depositar.io/news/rdmw2026/) is my first official science writing assignment in Taiwan! Read on if you're a researcher or science journalist interested looking for resources and leads in Asia. 🧋🧪

You can put beef tallow and salmon sperm on your face. But should you? Animal-derived skin care products are gaining popularity, from salmon sperm facials to moisturizers made with beef tallow — the fat around a cow's internal organs.

At least it's not gladiator sweat or mummy powder!

"You Can Put Beef Tallow and Salmon Sperm on Your Face. But Should You?" (AP) apnews.com/article/skin... 🦑🧪

Ink and watercolor sketch of a long, scaleless fish without a jaw.

Sea lamprey for #SundayFishSketch. Learned about potential genetic biocontrol in the #GreatLakes last week.

Pen, ink, and marker drawing of a river carpsucker (30-45 cm)

Pen, ink, and marker drawing of a quillback (30-45 cm)

Pen, ink, and marker drawing of a highfin carpsucker (22-30 cm)

Pen, ink, and marker drawing of a white sucker (25-50 cm)

Self-imposed Project - draw all the species of Kansas fish. Here’s 13-16. Added color this week. We’ll see how it goes. #sundayfishsketch

The finned son!!!

Drawing of a lawnmower blenny sitting on a purple couch. He’s a light brown mottled fish with lil fuzzy things coming out of his head in several spots. He is accompanied by a brown mottled snail.

#SundayFishSketch this week is @fishfetisher.bsky.social’s Henry, a lawnmower blenny, painted (drawn) like a french girl 😂

Female Puddingwife Wrasse in oranges, blues and white. Boulders in background. Watercolor

57/100 Puddingwife Wrasse, Initial phase, Halochoeres radiatus
#dothe100dayproject ##SundayFishSketch #100creaturesonthereef #coralreef #fishart #marineart #wrasse

Photo of a crayon sketch of an albacore, with its wing-like pectoral fins

Quick no-photo doodle of an albacore (Thunnus alalunga) for #SundayFishSketch 🦑🐡🧪

Photo of a sketch book page with six spaces each with a crayon drawn fish species: an anchovy, a fire goby, a flounder, a sculpin, a blind garra, and a look down jack

#SundayFishSketch BONUS: A peek at another full page!

Polychaete capture by native jellyfish and invasive ctenophore reveals a novel benthic–pelagic trophic link - Hydrobiologia Shallow coastal and estuarine habitats are among the most productive ecosystems, sustained by dynamic benthic–pelagic coupling. Yet living-mediated trophic interactions remain underexplored. Here, we ...

#stableisotopeanalysis

#Jellyfish hunting and eating #polychaete worms was not on my bingo card.

"Here, we present the first field evidence that benthic nereid polychaetes are preyed upon by gelatinous zooplankton...in the inner reaches of a Danish fjord..."

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

They are beautiful!!! 😍😍😍

A page full of drawings of shubunkin fish.

Banged out a load more shubunkins already 🐟
#SundayFishSketch #sciart

It's so dry. The high level drought-tolerant scrub freaks are wilting. I have not seen a single zebra butterfly this year. Even my hügelkultur are failing

Photo of science cafe speaker smiling in front of slide of planet earth with earthquake records, titled Our Earth Is Never Quiet! What Is It Telling Us?

Photo of science cafe speaker in front of slide with seismograph aligned with Taylor Swift concert set song titles

Photo of science cafe speaker in front of slide titled fiberoptic cables are around us and diagram of urban wildland interface

Photo of a martini next to a moon lamp, giving off an alien glow

Thank you all who attended our #TaipeiScienceCafe #台北科普咖啡 this week!! 🙏 Chaninthon Rattanavetchasit for being my first-ever speaker, delivering a great #SciComm talk on ambient seismic noise. See you all back at @newbloommag.net on May 20 for our next Taipei Science Café!! 感謝大家熱心的支持！ #Taiwan #台灣 🧪

Worm people HELP!! Any idea what this beauty might be? Collected in a tide pool in Eastern Taiwan.

Worm people HELP!! Any idea what this beauty might be? Collected in a tide pool in Eastern Taiwan.

Early Pleistocene pufferfish fossils from SW Taiwan (1.95–1.35 Ma) assigned to Arothron. First fossil record of Arothron + first tetraodontid cranial record from the western Pacific
doi.org/10.26879/1668
#fossil #Academiasinica #魚類化石 #中研院

Wildlife Camera 10hr Nature Ambiance | Hoppers YouTube video by Pixar

Pixar made a Hoppers 10-hr wildlife camera trap footage: youtu.be/EGQt_7nY_6w 🦫🪵🥔🚀❤️

3 columns of hashtags: #SciArt #LuxArt #Scientificillustration 🐡 #MedArt #SciVis #Afrofuturism #MedicalAnimation #SciViz #AnimalArt #Medicallllustration #SpaceArt #Animallllustration #NatureArt #SpecEvo #ArtSci #NatureJournal #SolarPunkArt #BioArt #Nature Journaling #STEAM #BirdArt #PalaeoArt #SundayFishSketch #BirdGlamour #PaleoArt #VisualSciComm #BotanicalArt #PaleoStream #WildlifeArt #DataViz #SciArtPortfolioWeek #Wildlifelllustration #Dinovember #SciArtSeptember #GraphicMedicine #SciComm #insectArt #ScienceComic #InverteFest #Sciencelnk

Another advantage for approved artists, is that I’ve added a ton of hashtags related to SciArt.

If they forget to add #SciArt or 🐡 while posting say, #paleoart or #SundayFishSketch, it will appear in the SciArt Feed. Reduces friction.

This is a main value proposition of following the SciArt Feed instead of just the #SciArt hashtag. Anyone can post AI slop on the hashtag.

But I’ve checked every contributor before allowing them to post in the SciArt Feed. If they do, I delete them as a contributor and all their posts disappear. 🐡

The SciArt Feed here on Bluesky is gated so I can keep Gen AI out.

If someone posts AI, I boot them and it disappears. I think it’s happened twice in 2.5 years. A worry-free feed.

Pin & Like here:
bsky.app/profile/did:...

Ink sketch of the long mouth and head of the pike on top. Bottom is view from above of two pike cruising the shallows.

I've been watching spawning Northern Pike in the last week, so here are two sketches of them. #SundayFishSketch

Bar Jack in silver with blue bar and dark line above, watercolor

50/100 Bar Jack, Caranx ruber #dothe100dayproject #100dayproject #100creaturesonthereef #coralreef #fishart #marineart #barjack

A drawing of a large orange, black, and white carp fish done on white paper with black ink and brightly colored markers

Haven't done a #SundayFishSketch in years, so here, have a #koi! Micron fineliner and Copic alcohol markers. #fish #illustration #sketch

Sorry that I wasn't very active here the last weeks ... The black dog was sitting on my art supplies ;) .

Here is one of my first #SundayFishSketch -es from years ago 💛

Colored pencil sketch of a very odd fish poking out of a hole on a reef. It’s grayish purple with what looks like a collection of little tree branches coming out of its forehead. The mouth is slightly open and shows some tiny little blunt teeth.

This weirdo, featured in some BBC doc or another, popped up in my feed. Unclear what exact species of comb blenny this is but he’s funky #SundayFishSketch