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A group of Emperor Penguins follows the flagged route across sea ice immediately in front of New Zealand's Scott Base in Antarctica.

Open water is so close this year (highly unusual) that seeing groups of Emperor Penguins out front of Scott Base is becoming a regular occurrence. Fun experience for people on base, but a stark and sobering reminder that change is here and is affecting more than humans.

Viewed thru SB telescope

The cover of the book WOMAN ALIVE by Susan Ertz. Illustrated with a drawing by Tom Gauld in shades of reds and pinks which shows a retro-futuristic city. In the arched door of a tall tower stands a female stick figure. Stairs lead down, through a layer of clouds to lower levels and tunnels from which a crowd of male stick figures emerges.

I drew this cover for WOMAN ALIVE from @manderleypress.bsky.social "A forgotten #sci-fi #dystopian classic, first published 90 years ago and now reissued with an introduction by Graham Norton". Preorder it now: www.manderleypress.com/shop/p/womanalive

You don't owe anyone... ...an interaction ...your time, energy or love ...an explanation about how you live your life ...a response to their questions ...an apology when you arent sorry ...insight into your private life ...clarification of your beliefs ...elaboration of your feelings

Yup.

A chart of a few toxic nudibranch seaslugs, ranging in shapes and coloration, compiled by Universlings and using photography by David Doubilet. We've got: Chromodoris annae (blue and yellow) Chromodoris sp. (Purple with black and white and yellow, in two examples) Thecacera pacifica (orange and black) Halgerda batangas (mottled red dots) Mexichromis marici (red dots on white, with some yellow) Nembroths kubaryana (dark green, neon green, orange) Risbecia tryoni (yellow and brown) Bornella anguila (brown with fantastic frills)

Good morning, nudibranchs!

The world's a tough place, but nature is full of reminders that we can survive it by being as soft, squishy, & glorious as we are dangerous to mess with.

So whatever colours you're flashing to tell predators to eff off today, keep up the good work, & just keep swimming!

A bemused ginger cat sitting in front of a crude drawing of himself.

Art critic. 😾

Adult Cooper's Hawk on a cold drizzly day sitting with one foot tucked into soft, warm chest feathers

Adult Cooper's Hawk keeping warm on a cold, drizzly day 🪶🌿

#Cincinnati #TalonTuesday

📷 Cooper's Hawk

After everybody in the neighbourhood puts them out on the curb for trash pick up I gather them up and get all the pumpkin seeds to roast 😊

Square photo of an open wooden box, with a rounded matrix of yellow-orange wax arrayed in messy concentric circles of papery layers surrounding a core of honeycomb-shaped capped cells. A few dozen small orange and black bees wander about the nest.

A rare look inside a Tetragonisca stingless bee nest, a native South America honey-making species used in traditional apiculture.

Landscape format loosely painted in acrylics on mat board. Small stone lighthouse at centre of circular paved walled-in ending of pier. Sunny day. Sky mostly blue with white wispy clouds mostly to right where sky breaks through in parts in a pale teal. Pier and light house stones are in yellows and oranges with some red in shadow of curved wall on right. Line details are in blue, red, and white. Lighthouse has green railing around base, a green narrow door on the left up 3 or 4 steps from base, and a green lantern on top. Shadow is on left edge of curved lighthouse and left sides of circular steps at base. The cast blue shadow of lighthouse itself extends out to the left from base of lighthouse. Signed top left, Liam Daly

A #painting for you. "West Pier, Dún Laoghaire" came out of multiple cycles and walks to the end of the lesser walked of Dún Laoghaire harbour's two main - and magnificent - piers. I like stonework. #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear #Scape

Look who showed up on my new music Fridays this week @realvarnellhill.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/track/01gpCR...

Is there a consensus on how to vote between Jin and J-hope? there are 2 awards they are up against each other so vote so each get one win? Help!

This whole beautiful comic is *chef’s kiss* and this is my favorite bit.

My photo shows a polychrome mosaic depicting Mediterranean marine life using earthy-coloured tesserae (mosaic tiles) against a black tessarae background. At the centre of the mosaic is a pale-coloured octopus composed of off-white and light brown tesserae with some of its writhing tentacles wrapped around the body of a lobster composed of light red, and pinky-brown tesserae. The octopus has an egg shaped body/head and it stares at the viewer with large eyes made of brown and pink circles with black centres. The octopus and lobster are surrounded by various species of large and small Mediterranean fish and a mollusc, including an eel and a flat fish. On the left hand side of the scene there is a small kingfisher bird on top of a rock. Some of the fish appear to be watching the fight between the octopus and the lobster This mosaic comes from the House of the Geometric Mosaics in Pompeii. Now on display at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.

Spectacular googly-eyed octopus does battle with a lobster in this 2,000 year-old Roman mosaic from Pompeii! 🐙 🦞

Fantastic fishy onlookers too! 👀

From the House of the Geometric Mosaics. Now at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.
📷 by me

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology

Illustration from 1771 depicting a crab labeled "Cancer arenarius" amid delicate, branching seaweed labeled "Lithophyton." The crab is detailed with prominent claws and multiple hairy legs, positioned centrally on the seaweed, showcasing marine life native to the Atlantic regions of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands. The image features soft brown and gray tones on a faded cream background, characteristic of historical natural history prints.

🌊 The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands: London: Printed for B. White, 1771.

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Also to get ARMY used to the idea that some members probably will marry at some point

my Bangtan syndrome is so strong ... anyway this is Jungkook and a hyung on the next Bon Voyage 💔

Do you know if anyone keeps a Spotify playlist of RM recommendations?

Three crinoids tangled together on a large plate

This plate of crinoids is from Crawfordsville, Indiana. The Mississippian aged Edwardsville Fm. has tremendous density and diversity. There are over 85 crinoid species found here, often tangled together.

#FossilFriday

a collage of 31 invertebrates in a 7x5 grid, with a list of their latin names in the middle. there are lanternbugs, butterflies, cephalopods, jellyfish, flies, spiders, wasps, flatworms, ants, chnidarians, beetles, crabs, bees, snails, isopods, sea slugs, sponges, sea cucumbers, and bottom right occupying two spaces a horseshoe crab with a long tail. the text (white on black) in the middle: Invertober 2025 1 | Fulgora laternaria 2 | Siproeta stelenes 3 | Sepia officinalis 4 | Cotylorhiza tuberculata 5 | Bombylius major 6 | Brachypelma smithi 7 | Chrysis ignita 8 | Bipalium choristosperma 9 | Nothomyrmecia sp. 10 | Radianthus magnifica 11 | Goliathus goliatus 12 | Macrocheira kaempferi 13 | Bombus pratorum 14 | Monadenia infumata 15 | Argema mittrei 16 | Armadillidium gestroi 17 | Lampyris noctiluca 18 | Chromodoris annae 19 | Aplysina fistularis 20 | Coccinella trifasciata 21 | Histioteuthis heteropsis 22 | Neotibicen linnei 23 | Eristalis flavipes 24 | Hierodula membranacea 25 | Tachypleus gigas 26 | Chicobolus spinigerus 27 | Kiwa hirsuta 28 | Synchlora aerata 29 | Phidippus audax 30 | Parastichopus johnsoni 31 | Gecarcinus quadratus

a collage of 31 invertebrates in a 7x5 grid, with a list of their latin names in the middle. there are lanternbugs, butterflies, cephalopods, jellyfish, flies, spiders, wasps, flatworms, ants, chnidarians, beetles, crabs, bees, snails, isopods, sea slugs, sponges, sea cucumbers, and bottom right occupying two spaces a horseshoe crab with a long tail. the text (black on white) in the middle: Invertober 2025 1 | Fulgora laternaria 2 | Siproeta stelenes 3 | Sepia officinalis 4 | Cotylorhiza tuberculata 5 | Bombylius major 6 | Brachypelma smithi 7 | Chrysis ignita 8 | Bipalium choristosperma 9 | Nothomyrmecia sp. 10 | Radianthus magnifica 11 | Goliathus goliatus 12 | Macrocheira kaempferi 13 | Bombus pratorum 14 | Monadenia infumata 15 | Argema mittrei 16 | Armadillidium gestroi 17 | Lampyris noctiluca 18 | Chromodoris annae 19 | Aplysina fistularis 20 | Coccinella trifasciata 21 | Histioteuthis heteropsis 22 | Neotibicen linnei 23 | Eristalis flavipes 24 | Hierodula membranacea 25 | Tachypleus gigas 26 | Chicobolus spinigerus 27 | Kiwa hirsuta 28 | Synchlora aerata 29 | Phidippus audax 30 | Parastichopus johnsoni 31 | Gecarcinus quadratus

so here it is folks, with one day to spare the complete #SciArt collage of critters for #invertober2024 by @fossilforager.bsky.social

and now I have a fresh clean slate to start the 2025 list! which hopefully is done before September 2026...

Angled down image of a scorpion on red soil, positioned diagonally with head and claws facing the lower right corner. The body color is a deep blackish purple. The most singular aspect are the 17-18 tiny white babies clinging to her back.

Aside from a few painful stings, I don't know my scorpions very well. Here's one with her offspring from the Great Karoo of western South Africa #inverts #scorpions #NaturePhotography 🌿

This #FossilFriday: a spectacular 3D reconstruction of Waptia fieldensis, an arthropod from the 500 million year old (Cambrian) Burgess Shale, produced by Lars Fields.

To learn more, visit doi.org/10.1098/rsos.... 😃

oral surface showing 6 rays radiating from a disk, plus mouth of brittle star

6 rayed brittle star with scalar plates-top surface

The six rayed Ophionotus hexactis from Antarctica! I always find 6 rayed brittle stars to be a delight! #echinoday

One very wealthy white man got his job back today (along with his 200 staff and production team) because of organizing, boycotts, and collective pushback.

When will we see that same energy for the 320k+ Black women who were pushed out of the labor market?

He does like to give out his merch as gifts~

Original art quilt with the sun rising from the rolling meadow into the blue of the sky. #pieced #original #abstract #landscape #etsy

It is time to spiff my studio up a bit before the leaf peepers come. Step One-- I just ordered a new sign based on my quilt "June comes to the meadow". #quilt #quiltstudio #westernmassart #shelburnefallsma #artquilt

A photograph of a fossil fish, preserved in a flat layer. The fossil is a darker brown than the surrounding matrix. It's very round, with a body nearly as tall as it is long, with proportionately small fins.

Another fossil fish from the Hunterian in Glasgow (2019): Mene rhombea, from the Middle Paleogene, from Monte Bolca, Italy.
#Paleontology #FossilFriday #PaleorenjiPhoto

I use Kanopy through my local library and it has lots and lots of foreign content both TV and movies

Why I Cannot Be Technical With some regularity, kind-hearted Technical people tell me that I Can Be Technical, Too. This usually happens when I’m asking us to define what we’re calling technical in a software environment. I un...

I loved this piece from @grimalkina.bsky.social about who is and isn't allowed to be technical.

"I am sorry to be the one to tell you this, but if my belonging in tech is fundamentally unacceptable yours is uncertain."

www.fightforthehuman.com/why-i-cannot...

Perovskite from Rother Kopf Mountain, near the community of Roth in the town of Gerolstein, also in Rheinland-Palatinate’s span of the Eifel Mountains. (Photo: Fred Kruijen) This crystal looks like a iridescent tree branch made of rectangular crystals.

This iridescent, dendritic (from the Greek word dendron, meaning tree) #perovskite likely formed from volcanic gases released from a volcanic vent, or fumarole. This crystal is from the Eifel Mountains, Germany. Perovskite can be beautiful!
More on dendritic crystals in the comment.
#MinCup25 ⚒️