illustration of a glass bottle with brown liquid inside pooling to the left and shaped into reaching fingers. the bottle sits on a mottled purple background with a red totally image of the Jinxland X logo on the upper left.
Jinxland is back with a new song release, just in time for Friday revelry. Find Whiskey Demon on Bandcamp or your favorite music platform! jinxland.bandcamp.com
This is a fun redraw of a piece I made back in 2008. I didn't think about how much fun it is to retool panel layout!
A nice watercolor and colored pencil giant african snail (Achatina) with a feather-tailed centipede (Alipes). Building up color this way takes a lot of patience that is not always in reach for me! Do you like playing with gutters in sketchbooks? I love a full page spread but it's hard!
I am forever amazed by colors in the natural world. Gecarcinus quadratus (the Halloween crab, among many many other common names) is absolutely stunning. What's your favorite crab?
Caprellidae (skeleton shrimp) are some of my favorite organisms to watch!
A photo of a man at a podium in front of a slide reading "under the influence of insects: the power of visualizing insects in science, art, and across human culture"
A photo of a long table full of insect things, and people leaning over to carefully study one particular box of insects
Barrett in front of a slide reading Insects in Art by Klein and Brosius 2022
Many thanks to our intrepid keynote speaker, Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social! We had a delightful time learning about his journey into cultural entomology and #SciArt...and a little dance along the way! There was even a little collaboration cameo with GNSI member Tierney Brosius.
A fun request that let me flex a little local fauna! Formica exsectoides was the field ant of choice for this project. Neohelix albolabris (Eastern whitelip) is probably the largest land snail we have up here in New England. A queen in battle needs her battle armor!
Summer solstice hit last month, so I have my second snake piece for 2025. This time featuring Erpeton tentaculatum, the tentacled snake. I couldn't quite make out their facial details, but friends over in Herpetology let me come check out a couple specimens in the collection!
Purple urchin with smooth plates on top, blunt fringe around edge
spiny urchin with spines on spines
red urchin skeleton with white highlights
elongate spines with red/white bands on white center test
Stunning urchin tests by Anders Hallan via National Geographic www.facebook.com/natgeo/posts...
Illustration of a pink creature with puffs of yellow fluff reaching towards the viewer. The creature has multiple eyes and long antennae. The figure is on a gray black and white swirling background.
A collection of swirling lines and petals made of a variety of colorful art pieces. Text reads: "Flourish, SOS, 2025. Citywide, May 3+4, 12-6pm. Somervilleopenstudios.org."
Image of desk with computer monitor with one art piece and a large format printer, with a stack of prints on top.
A new pink monster piece, to be friends with a blue monster i drew years ago. I can't decide if green or red will be the next color. What do you think? This is one of the pieces I'm bringing to Somerville Open Studios this weekend. I'll be at the Armory, 191 Highland Ave from 12-6pm Sat and Sun!
They canceled the National Nature Assessment. We kept going. The science didn’t stop. Neither did our hope, or our resolve. The work is still happening—independent, evolving, and grounded in purpose. Because weareunitedbynature.org
🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...
#wormwednesday! A #newspecies of an unusual polychaete genus Ctenophoricola (#Phyllodocida, Phyllodocidae, Alciopini) from the Indian Ocean how interesting! www.mapress.com/zt/article/v...
My new band is playing a show April 12, come party with us!
Today's additions to the science library:
"What's a mollusk anyway?" mini-zine
and
"Mutual Aid & ism"
Both by @eveninghawk.bsky.social! Thank you for sending these! They are fantastic!
Do you have extra printed zines you'd like to add to the library? DM me!
illustrated hand holding a sparkly vial on a swirly background with the text "Mixing up something special for you... Jinxland."
Putting together all the perfect components to bring some music into being. We need a little joy, sharing, and weirdness right now. 🔮💫🌙🧙♀️🏳️🌈
#ComingSoom #music #musicsky
Here is the mollusc tree. (We fixed it, you're welcome.) 😇 @sgn.one @oceanspecies.bsky.social @kmkocot.bsky.social
@squamiferum.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A few days ago I posted a photo of the diatom Auliscus sculptus. I found this little frustule of the same species in my sample this week, and I thought it was a good opportunity to show you its beautiful adornment. 🦑 #plankton
Squeeee! 🥹 A Ctenophore (comb jelly) larva from this week’s sample. I love it! 🦑
Really happy that the @marineevoeco.com lab played a very small part in this really cool paper published with the @roneilllab.bsky.social, @vuruputoor.bsky.social, @noahreid.bsky.social, @jillwegrzyn.bsky.social and others! Big thanks to Gabe Barrett for connecting UConn and URI research teams
Paromola cuvieri carrying a deep sea coral Source : @irisgorgona
Paromola cuvieri carrying a sponge Image: OCEANA
I was quite confident on my knowledge of marine biodiversity in my area (I have a PhD in marine biology after all).
But today I learn about Paromola cuvieri, one of the largest crab species of the Northeast Atlantic, that uses its last pair of legs to carry live specimens of sponges and corals 🦑 🌊
Classroom/Library enrollment was down pretty bad in February. National chaos and uncertainly likely has something to do with it.
Can you help me make sure that all the educators on bluesky know Skype a Scientist exists and is ready to connect them with scientists? Every RT helps!
#EduSky #STEMEd
Figure 7. Mimics and models based on Greer et al (2016) with live blackwater images substituted: see other figures for photographer credits, except the salp (AW). Model organisms on left including salps and ctenophores and larval fish mimics shown on the right
Putative Batesian mimicry of gelatinous zooplankton by larvae of marine fishes: a closer look based on in-situ images by blackwater photographers
Johnson et al. 2025
Larval fishes appear to mimic invertebrates as seen by deep ocean divers after sunset
oceansciencefoundation.org/josf42d.html...
Austropallene cornigera, male, with brood
I've fallen down the pit of politics lately so here's my start to claw back....I'll try and balance that with science. This is Austropallene cornigera, sea spider he's a dad. MOST pycnos reproduce like seahorses....females pass eggs to males to brood until they crawl off dad! #Antarctica 🦑🧪🌎🇦🇶🐧
purple colored squat bodied lobster with elongate spiny arms and legs
purple colored squat bodied lobster with elongate spiny arms and legs
purple colored squat bodied lobster with elongate spiny arms and legs
A nice lavender squat lobster from Pioneer Seamount in the North Pacific #Okeanos 2015
Detailed color illustration showing 3 different views of the same specimen. Two at the bottom are the unreconstructed fossil from different angles. The reconstruction at the top shows the brachiopod in life position, with 9 visible boreholes and the common epibionts Cornulites and a bryozoan. The shell has pinkish and whitish horizontal stripes and the valves are slightly agape, with cirri lining the opening.
This #paleoart shows 3 views of the Devonian brachiopod fossil Paraspirifer bownockeri; one is reconstructed w/ some epifauna and boreholes. These are fun to find; they're an impressive size (for brachiopods). I had an excellent specimen to use as a reference for this painting.
#FossilFriday #sciart
9 examples of sea pigs, sea cucumbers with 8 "legs"
Japanese exhibition of "ULTRA DEEP-SEA" animals! Here are some sea pigs from 7300 m! www.chiba-muse.or.jp/UMIHAKU/exhi...
Happy year of the snake! Love this design and riso is going to be so fun for this!
Yes, this is the lab that hosts “drag and tag,” shark tagging research with drag queens that raises money for Florida LGBTQ youth.
We could sure use your support, and you get an amazing adventure out of it!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/drag...
Small pellet of dark metallic beetle, all appendages fitting into slots and crevices of its body. Playing dead in the palm of my hand
The creature on the move on my hand, very lumpy and "warty"
The beetle pellet, sprouting legs
Encountering a warty leaf beetle is always a minor holiday 🖤
