Sarah MacMillan

Habitat and land‐use intensity shape moth community structure across temperate forest and grassland This study reveals how land-use intensity, plant diversity, weather and artificial light interact to shape moth diversity across forests and grasslands. Using 300 plots across Germany, we highlight h...

🌿🦋 Interested in how #land-use intensity shapes #moth communities? Check out this BE-paper in @animalecology.bsky.social
🌳 #Forests host higher abundance & diversity than grasslands. 🌡️Temperature is a key factor. It's all a complex interplay of habitat , LUI and weather.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365... 🌐

"it might be conscious but unable to express it! You can't know."
O-kay... That sounds like you are trying to argue for existence of a soul. Why have you never argued this for animals or other objects that didn't have multibillion dollar marketing campaigns?

a black highland cow walking between banks of gorse in the sunshine.

Fluff monster coming for me. September 2025

#cow #coo #highlandcow #quantocks #somerset #sonyalpha #photography

Rockweed (Ascophyllum nodosum)

~

#rockweed #knottedwrack #wrack #seaweed #ascophyllumnodosum #botanicalart #botanicalillustration #watercolor #natureillustration #maineartist

A blue-pink giant flower beetle mecynorrhina ugandesis with cream stripes. It sits atop orange and red flowers.

The last of the giant flower beetle saga...

Mecynorrhina Ugandesis

The very first one I ever reared, although they were a black-orange variant. I think the blue-pink is so iconic on them though

#inverts #SciArt 💜🪲

We are not monstrous when we think on monsters. No. We are only monstrous when we have no feeling for those who suffer horrors at their hands or teeth. - #CLNolan on the 1932 introduction of an H for Horror certificate for films

Read Band Books - featuring a list of books about bands

am i doing it right

Profile to publish Mary Beard’s 'bold and incisive' account of why the classics matter

Profile has acquired Mary Beard’s Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old, a 'bold and incisive' account of why the classics matter. Profile will publish in April 2026 👇 #BookSky

3/ Fighting fascism means standing firm for what it seeks to destroy: human dignity, justice, equality, and the rule of law.

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

When a parish church presents itself as a fortress, it's fair to ask what are those who pray inside it so afraid of? Every Englishman's home may be his castle, but why does an omnipotent God need battlements? In certain spots, I believe they shiver from fear of folklore. – #CLNolan

To the Cowboy, buying nothing but roses KYM DEYN what brings you away from the joshua trees, the thin shadow of the saguaro? Why the single tear shining beside your heart-shaped beauty mark? What are you running from here in this florist's? What's wrong with pink carnations or hellebores? Do you care for hart's tongue fern, the white sprays of baby's breath? Who's causing that faraway look in your sweet hazel eyes? Do you have a wife, sir? A husband? An outlaw you met once along a short dirt track, looking out over the gulch? Can you smell their cherry tobacco still, after these long years apart? Do they remind you of sweat and suede jackets? Is that faded tattoo on your bicep their name or the face of your favourite horse? Cash or card, sir? Do you have an account with us? Was this town big enough for the both of you?

Just read this poem by @shortestwitch.bsky.social to my creative writing class

Anton Seder’s The Animal in Decorative Art (1896) — an Art Nouveau reference book full of elaborate ornamentation: winged dragons, chiseled hieroglyphs, warring sea creatures, and more... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/das-thier-in-der-decorativen-kunst/

Magic in the Shadows — Charming Disaster Brings on the Night The Brooklyn duo has spent over a decade perfecting their brand of haunted vaudeville. Their latest album, 'The Double,' continues their exploration of the strange spaces between reality and dreams.

Theatrical Brooklyn duo Charming Disaster has spent over a decade perfecting their brand of gothic vaudeville. Their album The Double continues their exploration of the strange spaces between reality and dreams.

Charming Disaster Brings On the Night:

(follow: @charmingdisaster.bsky.social)

YouTube video by Scots Opera Project The Seal-Woman - Perth Festival of the Arts

The Seal-Woman - Perth Festival of the Arts.
Scots Opera Project
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhhz...

A box with a pencil drawing, origami, some necklaces, buttons, and zines

Added some @cms.bsky.social zines, some buttons, and some resin experiments turned into necklaces to the local take art / leave art box. #DHmakes

Text: "THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH" Loxolophus, a raccoon-sized animal, begins to chow down on a beached Baculites, a shelled cephalopod.

Loxolophus and Baculites. Comparatively large (raccoon sized) mammals emerged some 300k years after the K-Pg extinction, and ammonites fully died out some 500k years, so for a brief window of time they may have met.

#paleoart #SciArt #art #artist #paleontology #artistonbluesky #originalart
🐡 🐡

drawing of a yeti crab, a cream yellow light crab covered in little hairs with extremely hairy leggies, on a black background.

drawing of a yeti crab, a cream yellow light crab covered in little hairs with extremely hairy leggies, on a white background.

Day 27 #Invertober2024 - Yeti crab (Kiwa hirsuta) 🦀

get your coat on, autumn chill is coming

#SciArt #invertebrates

The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain #1) Audiobook — Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness This listing is for a audiobook version of The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy, the first book in the Danielle Cain Series, and it runs for approximately 2.5 hours. The print versio...

Originally published by Tor.com, we have the honor of publishing the audiobook for The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion, and to be the new home for the continuing Danielle Cain series by @margaret.bsky.social!
(audiobooks for the rest of the series forthcoming)
www.tangledwilderness.org/shop/p/the-l...

Underside view of the impressive Northern Eggar

The Northern Eggar moth resting on heather up on moorland back in July

It's the first #MothFaceFriday of #Leptember
So here's the tiny head, broad shoulders and thick torso of the Northern/oak Eggar.
These moths always give me body-builder vibes!

Have a pumped weekend #TeamMoth - don't overdo it on the protein shakes!

War Artists Resource Kit | The Canadian Encyclopedia The Memory Project and Historica Canada produced this kit with the generous support of the Government of Canada....

Calling all teachers! Are you looking for lesson-planning resources on the First or Second World War for Remembrance Day? Explore our many education guides, like our most recent guide on War Artists, to help you prepare your students.

A large very furry bee stands on a cluster of small white flowers.

This bee looks like it just got back from the salon. Such perfect floof and a marvelous mustache

#invertebrates 🌿 🐝

An illustration from Agnes's Garden. Agnes, a redheaded woman in a yellow dress, giving vegetable plants to her neighbours. Behind her, you can see many different kinds of vegetables growing in colourful pots, and a greenhouse full of blooming cucumbers plants.

It’s #HugAVegetarianDay! Show your favourite veggie some love by giving them a copy of AGNES’S GARDEN, a book about how vegetables save the day.

www.runningthegoat.com

#KidLit

Photographer captures Nova Scotia’s ‘fairy doors’ in new exhibit A Dartmouth gallery has been turned into a world of whimsy with an exhibit celebrating Nova Scotia’s “fairy doors.”

I went to this exhibit a week ago and was pleasantly surprised at the detail. It was lovely. #Dartmouth #NovaScotia

Photographer captures Nova Scotia’s ‘fairy doors’ in new exhibit

www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

"News from Nowhere was first published in 1890 and appeared in serial form in the Socialist League newspaper, The Commonweal. It was then published complete in book form by the Kelmscott Press in 1893."
williammorrissociety.org/the-ideal-bo...

Part 23 in my weekly poster series of 2025 #art #hopepunk

love this one <3

Day 14 - Secretary bird

#art | #nature | #SciArt

Meta's glasses are legitimately impressive, but it's so frustrating they are attached to a known predatory organization. Like, the least trustworthy org possible.

Imagine that tech but with built-in jailbreaking to allow hackers and hobbyists to use only with personal infra.

I really do recommend writing poetry, because if you write it (even if you aren't satisfied with your own poems as: whom amongst us) you will start to _read_ other people's poetry with more excitement and focus and appreciation, and that is a joy.

My first attempt at a famous person 🤭