Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂

a cartoon character with wings is holding a gun Alt: a cartoon character with wings is holding an umbrella

Watching Princess Mononoke right after Hazbin Hotel is so disturbing when earing Okkoto voiced by Keith David, for 1sec I was like "Husk wtf are you doing in a Miyazaki movie ?!?"

Same here, the transition from Twitter to bluesky was really tough I have to say, still struggling a bit to find the same level of interaction, but at least it's way safer and way less stressful

Small single-celled organism bathed in rays of light, evocative of the Pale Blue Dot photograph

The first of a paleoart series I'm calling "Perspectives," which aims to highlight the evolution of life on Earth with a variety of different creatures and styles.

This one is "Pale First Dot," depicting good ol' LUCA, the last universal common ancestor.

#sciart #paleoart #paleontology

A drawing by Jun of Sanctacaris, one of the earliest arthropods of the chelicerate lineage

A screenshot from Nausicaa of the valley of the wind with a Ohm, a giant arthropod

Sanctacaris what the hell are you doing in Nausicaa of the valley of the wind ?

Picture of the holotype of the devonian mite Protochthonius gilboa, with a pear-share body and long thick setae on its back

Say hello to Protochthonius gilboa, a devonian mite from Gilboa (USA) and an early representative of the oribatids, a major group of mites well represented today !

📸 from the book Fossil Arachnids (Dunlop & Penney, 2012)
#FossilFriday #mite #arachnid #devonian

3 cladograms (trees of schematic relationships between species) of the animals present in our phone's emojis, showing the evolution from 2015, 2019 and then 2022

I'm doing a bit of cleaning in my computer, didn't wrote down who made this back in 2023 but it's a phylogeny of the animal emojis we use on our phones, it's so cute !!

Oxyuropoda reconstruction (an aquatic arthropod, red, on the bottom of a river, with algae and fish in the background)

Hi!
As I am not very available for commissions these days BUT still receive requests from researchers looking for artists who can do scientific illustrations of arthropods and inverts, I am updating my list of potential artists, so please, if you know arthropod loving artists, let me know! #SciArt

Screenshot de Wikipedia d’une perruche à collier sur un bureau avec beaucoup d’objets colorés autour. Caption : "Une perruce tireuse de cartes, chez un praticien de Parrot astrology à Serangoon Road, Singapour"

Découverte wikipédienne du jour bonjour
(sur la page Wikipedia FR de la Perruche à collier)

an insult to scientific illustrators who put time and work into accurately communicating results of research in a visual form

an insult to the researchers whose work is being bastardized here

an insult to the funding bodies who support research for it to be disseminated to the world

Basic light pollution diagram showing four different streetlight set ups ranging from more light pollution on the left to less light pollution on the right. The most pollution option, labelled "very bad" is a street lamp with a round uncovered bulb on top, making a sphere of light in the air. The next option, labelled "bad" has a tiny cap on top, that limits the upward pollution a bit. The "better" option is mostly uncovered on top, limiting pollution above the streetlight. The final option, labelled "best" has a full shroud overtop, limiting the light to only below the streetlight, where it is needed for pedestrians and vehicles.

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"

guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

And now I just want to do speculative evolution to reconstruct potential common ancestors of some nodes, please someone stop me

A drawn schematic tree of the relationships between chelicerates arthropods (sea spiders, horseshoe crabs, eurypterids, spiders, scorpions, harvestmen, mites and other close groups)

Was bored on the train, redrew chelicerata phylogeny mostly from memory🕷🦂

And yup there's 3 made-up names (Opistholamellifera, Aflagellarachnida & Neophtalmarachnida), don't take them into account it was just for me😅

MonitorChef épisode 2 : le THYM
Ce qui me fait halluciner, c'est quand on met Eizo devant un truc qui visiblement le dégoûte, et qu'il re-goute 5 fois pour être sûr à 100% que c'est vraiment pas bon

Les noms communs quel bonheur, ça me fait penser à tout le bordel des noms communs anglais des arachnides où y'a plein de trucs qui sont appelés spiders mais qui en soit pas, genre les solifuges en "camel spiders" ou les amblypyges en "whip spiders"

Eizo did birdwatching (terrifying).
Lizard and bird, two taxa separated by 300 million years of evolution.
Eizo, rather big Varanus acanthurus, weighs 420g, while the average european greenfinch weighs 30g. Fortunately, he prevailed!
🦎🐦

Y'a un thread sympa à lire en dessous😉🤓🐞🪲👇

Les participations au projet stagnent ; on a vraiment besoin de vos partages! Visitez la page pour découvrir toutes les super contreparties à vos soutiens qui permettront peut-être de retrouver un animal unique !

#arthropods #invertebrates #araignée #spider #nature #wildlifephotography #documentary

How could I have not watched Powerless before🤣🤣🤣

Pictures of legs fragments from an extinct arachnid called Ecchosis pulchribothrium

Me 5 minutes ago: oh, I want to do some paleoart of extinct chelicerates, let's look at this one, Ecchosis pulchribothrium !
Me right now : How the fuck only this few was enough to raise a genus

Merci !😊

Me as Supergirl (Blue top, red skirt and boots, yellow belt, red cape, pentagonal crest on the chest with an S-shape inside) having fun doing a spin with the cape floating in the air

Me as Supergirl (Blue top, red skirt and boots, yellow belt, red cape, pentagonal crest on the chest with an S-shape inside) in a field and giving a sideye for I don't know why

And I like these 2 a lot too^^

Thanks to @lea-rtemis.bsky.social for the photoshoot, best birthday ever😊

Me as Supergirl (Blue top, red skirt and boots, yellow belt, red cape, pentagonal crest on the chest with an S-shape inside) in a field with the sun behind me

Me as Supergirl (Blue top, red skirt and boots, yellow belt, red cape, pentagonal crest on the chest with an S-shape inside) in a field with the cape flowing in the air

Me as Supergirl (Blue top, red skirt and boots, yellow belt, red cape, pentagonal crest on the chest with an S-shape inside) in a field facing the sun, with my silhouette being visible though the cape due to sunlight

Me as Supergirl (Blue top, red skirt and boots, yellow belt, red cape, pentagonal crest on the chest with an S-shape inside) on a rocky terrain

My own supersuit for my birthday, always knew I was a Supergirl

"Dreams save us. Dreams lift us up and transform us into something better. And on my soul, I swear that until my dream of a world where dignity, honor and justice are the reality we all share, I'll never stop fighting. Ever."
-Superman

A zoomed in view of the organisms in soil.

#Paleoctober2025 day 31 paleoart sketch of the extremely old problematic fossil that might be one of the first eukaryotic organisms Diskagma.

#Paleoctober #Paleoart #Diskagma

Image regroupant des dessins et des photographies de plusieurs « bestioles ». Il y a des photographies d’une éristale gluante et d’un leste vert. Les dessins représentent une zoropse à pattes épineuses, un tircis, un faucheux urnigère, une coccinelle des friches et une punaise verte. Il est écrit au milieu « les bestioles du mois de novembre ».

Bonsoir !

Nous sommes début novembre, ce qui signifie qu’il est temps de poster les nouvelles bestioles du mois. Je vous souhaite un temps au beau fixe et de belles observations ! Ne les gardez pas pour vous, on veut les voir ! 👀

#Bestiologie #Insectes #Araignées #Illustration

The stegosaur from the shoulders up reaching for leaves with its tongue extended like an okapi in a forested environment with rim lighting.

#Paleoctober2025 day 30 paleoart sketch with the long-necked stegosaur Miragaia / Dacentrurus

#Paleoctober #Paleoart #Dinosaur #Stegosaurid #Miragaia #Dacentrurus

Un cheval sauvage ancestral de Mongolie. Il mesure 1,30 au garrot et sa robe est bai dun.

Le plus vieux fossile sur Terre. Découvert en Afrique du Sud, c'est un eucaryote à l'origine de la vie !

Day 31 of #Paleoctober2025

🐴 Przewalski’s Horse
An ancestral wild horse from Mongolia. It stands about 1.30 m at the withers and has a bay dun coat.

🦠 Diskagma (~2.2 billion years)
The oldest fossil on Earth. Discovered in South Africa, it is a eukaryote at the origins of life!

#SciArt #Paleoart

I made my lizard have a prehistoric encounter with Yutyrannus.
Broke his flegm.
Oh Eizo, you're so brave...

The lovebird standing tall with its long tarsometatarsus among dead grass to show off its green and yellow coloration. Color scheme is speculative based on extant members of the genus.

The small mollusk on the seafloor in the sand with some on its foot. It is shown here as a gastropod.

#Paleoctober2025 days 28 and 29 with paleoart sketches of the lovebird Agapornis longipes and the marine mollusk Bellerophon sp.

#Agapornislongipes #Bellerophon #Paleoart #Paleoctober

Chassé massivement pour sa chair et ses plumes, l'espèce s'est éteinte. Il vivait en colonies en Atlantique Nord. C'était un grand oiseau non volant, mesurant 80cm pour 5kg.

Découvert au Portugal, ce dinosaure herbivore vivait au Jurassique supérieur. Son nom signifie "Déesse de la Terre". Il avait un long cou.

Day 30 of #Paleoctober2025

🦕 Miragaia (~150 Ma)
Discovered in Portugal, this herbivorous dinosaur lived during the Late Jurassic. Its name means “Goddess of the Earth.”

🐧 Great Auk (19th century)
Hunted for its meat, the species went extinct. It lived in the North Atlantic.

#SciArt #Paleoart #art

YouTube video by The Scientist Djigr #PALEOCTOBER2025 challenge! A presentation for each day/animal

For more details, I recommend you to watch this video made before the paleoctober, and you'll have waaayyy more information on the organisms that made the list this year !
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYTt...