Alice Stuart

A cartoon of 2 rhinocerous beetles clashing. One beetle is saying "I'm just trying to kiss you!" and the other beetle is saying "I'm just trying to kiss you too!". Above them is text reading LGBTQ+ Journal Club in the colours of the progress pride flag.

Hello bluesky! We are an LGBTQ+ Biology Journal Club at Uni of Oxford 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️. We are interested in topics relevant to queer ecology and amplifying queer voices in academia 🪲🌱.

For those in Oxford, we meet every 2 weeks - get in touch for more details! 🥳

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...

Late Afternoon Light ~ Cyril Cox, 1958

Book cover of Hunkin’s almost everything there is to know. It is green with good hand drawn lettering. Text says: ALMOST EVERY HIN THERE IS TO KNOW BY HUNKIN THOUSANDS OF ODD FACTS HUNDREDS OF RIDICULOUS EXPERIMENTS IDEAL FOR ALL AGES FROM 8-80

Alongside countless animal encyclopaedias, I really loved Hunkin’s almost everything there is to know, which had little black and which cartoon panels explaining almost everything there is to know!

Photo of an advance copy my new book "Ponds: An Illustrated Guide," from Yale University Press in early 2026.

Photo of an advance copy my new book "Ponds: An Illustrated Guide," from Yale University Press in early 2026.

Photo of an advance copy my new book "Ponds: An Illustrated Guide," from Yale University Press in early 2026.

Photo of an advance copy my new book "Ponds: An Illustrated Guide," from Yale University Press in early 2026.

Just got an advance copy of my new book Ponds: An Illustrated Guide, shipping from Yale Universy Press in early 2026.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #Ponds #Ecology #Freshwater

A page filled with colored sketches of sprouting potatoes. #kimgakaku

potato.

👀 Do you want your own
✨🌈🐈‍⬛Chaotic Queer Cat?🌈🐈‍⬛✨

www.kickstarter.com/projects/gay...

Off to shit on transphobes pigeon

Keeping busy

When I have settled into my new house 🐙

Today's owl drawing 🦉✨️
#owl #autumnal #kidlitartist #nonfictionillustrator #illustrator

An Intergeneric Hybrid Between Historically Isolated Temperate and Tropical Jays Following Recent Range Expansion We document the first known hybridization event between the Green Jay (Cyanocorax yncas) and Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata), two distantly related species whose ranges now overlap in Texas due to cli...

This is RAD. Another result of changing climates is population overlap and hybridization. I’ve always wanted to see a Steller’s jay x blue jay hybrid. Now I need to add this to the birdy bucket list!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I love love love the hatched shading on the skeleton!!

WHAT!! This is stunning 🦕🍁

Some of my favorite Mongolian Dinos!!! 🦖🦕 Khishgee took me to the Hunnu Mall for some dino education, but next time I'm hunting my own fossils in the Gobi.
#sketch #sketchbook #traveljournal #doodle

tons of sharks and whales and stuff.

tons of river fish

tons of ocean fish

tons of other seacreatures like crabs and squids

1.000 WATER CREATURES! #pixelart #fish

Gull

A sad red panda painted with ink, colored pencils and wax crayons

Yay I want to play more with my new wax crayons ✨🖍️ ✨ #kidlitart

Three stylized rat views, shown as watercolour blobs with rat features drawn over them in ink. The three views are facing the viewer, standing and looking away from the viewer, and flattened like a pancake.

I’d love to be involved!!

this new art style of drawing with finger and lasso tool is a lot better for my wrist, just look at how cute the ducks turned out!!

Relief mount of Edmontosaurus on all fours against a beige wall

This one is a relief mount running on two legs. Various Cretaceous dinosaur skulls on display in front

Bipedal, tail-dragging, free-standing mount

Quadrupedal mount in subtle walking pose, on a sandy base

A thread of every Edmontosaurus skeleton on my phone, just because #FossilFriday

Stone carving of a lion. Hanging from it's mouth is a small black sign with white writing. It reads, I may look fierce but I'm very old and fragile. Thank you for not climbing on me.

Post summer holiday feels.

Unicorn crying with trans flag hanging front horn and text “persist”

And yet, we endure.

#art #digitalart #unicorn #pride #trans #transpride #encouragement

A banner image promoting the month-long art challenge, Sci Art September 2025. The banner features an animal illustration plus text describing a monthly theme, weekly themes, and daily prompt words. The month-long theme is conservation. In order, the weekly themes are: Lands, species, water, people, and a shared future. Finally, the list of daily words is as follows. Week one: Islet, canopy, jewel, riverbank, corridor, prairie, boreal. Week two: Niche, vanishing, tawny, venomous, wandering, bottleneck, mimic. Week 3: Spawning, rift, trawl, cenote, depths, glacial, reef. Week 4: Fellowship, scouting, numbered, tireless, forage, bounded, harvest. Week 5: Foresight, dream. The event is hosted by LizLagomorph and LucyGemArt.

✨Starting on Monday!✨

#SciArtSeptember is a month-long creative challenge inspired by natural sciences. 🌿

Post on your own schedule.
Post new work, old work, work-in-progress.
Post artwork, music, words - whatever you like to make. (Thematic baked goods?🤞)
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#SciArt #SciComm #Nature

An orange and cream shiba with a green collar is pulling back on a leash with their full strength. Their paws are leaving grey drag marks, and their neck is scronched up. They have a disgruntled look on their face, like they're prepared to do this for hours.

A tiny little orange pomeranian orb is smiling happily while running, slightly blurry. They're leaving an elaborate blue trail of loops, to convey their general enthusiasm.

A grey husky sitting in a triangular shape, with their mouth wide open and eyes closed. The background is bright red, and their tail is spiky. It is implied that they are making an unearthly shriek.

A little brown, black, and grey beagle is wagging their tail and smiling maniacally while barking. There are many orange lines indicating noise, and the work "bark" written several times above them in grey.

Doggust 28: Energy. I've seen the term "golden retriever energy" used a lot to describe people, and I am here today to propose some new potential comparison energies.
#doggust #doggust2025

Panel 1: In a bug classroom, a praying mantis teacher points at a board sketch of Sisyphus rolling a boulder and says, “So, Sisyphus was doomed to roll the rock up the hill for all eternity.” Panel 2: A dung beetle student beams and says, “That sounds wonderful,” while a butterfly next to him listens. Panel 3: The butterfly replies, “It’s actually horrible.” Panel 4: The dung beetle still beams and says, “Ok. It’s horrible.”

POV: You're a Dung Beetle

a colorful kelp forest illustration of harbor seals, sea otters, garibaldi fish, california sheephead fish, senorita fish, urchins, sea stars, and an octopus hiding in the background. hiding is a generous term.

kelp forests are one of my favorite habitats!! i have been watching a million documentaries about them so naturally, i had to draw one.

Everything about it is so good!! Thoroughly enjoyed watching !!

Woah thank you! I was sure that when I went through wiki it was the weight but I am glad to be corrected !!

Double decker trains are so exciting!! Apparently they tried them in the UK once but they can’t go on most lines as they’re too heavy 😭😭