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Publication seems a REALLY long way off, but do reach out if you'd like to schedule a book signing, talk, reading, podcast interview, exhibition, or any combination of the above to help get A New Unfeathered Bird off to a flying start next year.
'A celebration of all birds, across all time'.

Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that.

Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best.

Welcome home, Integrity crew!

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View of spacecraft with three red and white main parachutes deployed, view of sunlit ocean behind.

View of spacecraft with three red and white main parachutes deployed, view of dark blue ocean behind.

✅ #Artemis II splashdown at 01:07 BST/02:07 CEST!

Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Central peaks form in complex craters when the lunar surface, liquefied on impact, splashes upwards during the crater’s formation. [alt text from NASA]

#Artemis II lunar flyby images are showing up! 😍

A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon.

i find it interesting and very informative!! would never have occurred to me but if you don’t have a weird agenda (to disprove science or something dumb), the question is a fine one since our only experience with even half of 1000mph (airplanes) is clearly zipping along. thx!!!

That's home. That's us.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.

Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.

Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

just saw it yesterday!! Didn’t realize it was temporary 😢 save the pigeon!!

Did you know you can hire me to paint stuff for *you*? It's true! 🐡🪶🎨

🐡🌎 I was wondering where all the PFAS floss went in my state!!! A win for the environment… and a loss for this series 😂 Whoops! Guess I’m done when my PTFE floss stash is exhausted 🤓 Not a bad way to end it 💪

Most dental floss contains PFAS. But PFAS are linked to serious health conditions. Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, & Vermont have already banned the sale and distribution of PFAS-containing dental floss. Good news: more bans are coming stateside. 🎨 Use Less/ Useless by @eyeforscience.bsky.social

Just a reminder of the truly great #LuxArt created by yours truly, Jennifer Quinn, and Photobacterium (I just grow the organism; Jenny is the Petri dish artist). This #LuxPortrait is of the great Carl Woese, a name every biologist should know. @univpugetsound @asmicrobiology @microbetv.bsky.social

2 more subscribers to the SciArt Feed and we will have completed The Old One’s ritual--er, I MEAN we will have reached 4,200 subscribers!
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@gnsiart.bsky.social duh, forgot you were on here!!

Guild of Natural Science Illustrators GNSI advances scientific illustration and visual science communication through education, community, and professional support.

The Guild of Natural Science Illustrators (gnsi.org) has a job board they update regularly for requests like this. Researchers can contact news@gnsi.org with specs and GNSI will post it if it fits their guidelines. Paying work only, no spec work, but other than that, no job is too small #sciart

oh! Tali Weinberg is brilliant!! Her work is 💯💯💯

I honestly think this is happening - I’m seeing so many textile and craft techniques in a broad array of very serious high brow art. So there’s that.

That said, I can think of two very successful artists off the top of my head who are directly addressing this and avoiding dismissal: Kevin Sloan and Marc Dennis. I will note that they are both men. I have not seen a woman get away with it.

soooo interesting, Glendon!! And a huge reason I turned away from representational work in my sciart. Never articulated it but I wanted to avoid the trite dismissal that instantly relegates representation to the cheezeball bin.

Expansive, insightful and astonishing essay here by @patrlynch1.bsky.social.

Capturing the fine art world’s failure to exalt animal subjects during a mass extinction, as well as the utilitarian role sci illustration has been pushed into.

I will be thinking about this #SciArt essay for some time.

Was thinking earlier today how the art materials industry is still in thrall to early-factory Industrial period norms (“bristle brush for oil, soft for watercolour”) influenced by the Impressionist era.

Knowledge grows so quickly but norms are moribund an slow to change. 🐡🎨

photograph of black clothing care & brand name tags pinned together before sewing

The pinning begins!! Got my tags (will need soooooo may more), finished my design, transfered it to pattern pages over the last two days and so now I get to the fun part: piecing and sewing. New projects are always so exciting!! #quilt #quilting

Sometimes I post stuff about These Times, and people will reply with some version of "Thank you for granting me permission to do nothing" and I- seriously you guys- am never ever advocating for you doing nothing. Not gonna happen. Not in this household, not in this timeline. Do something.

more neuroscientists in Congress, yes, please!

Where Does Ridwell Operate? — Ridwell Ridwell picks up hard-to-recycle material from members in multiple U.S. cities and locations, including Seattle and Tacoma, Portland and Vancouver, Denver and Boulder, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Austin...

looks like Ridwell is in the Austin area: blog.ridwell.com/blog/ridwell...

yep, that’s what I’m talking about 😂 I own my crazy!! Here are two outfits I made last year out of tags. Good times

yes, agree! It’s just crazy to see the volume and some of it is never even worn (think t-shirt schwag from random events). But it’s nice to have a use for old sheets, trashed kid clothes, pants with blown out knees/bums, etc. The company is called Ridwell. Fighting a good fight

for my next project, I’m collecting clothing care tags to make quilts & garments. This warehouse graciously lets me sift through donated clothes before they get shredded into insulation and carpet padding. In case you were wondering where your single-use Halloween costume ends up…

pshaw!!