Kristen Behrens, PhD

small watercolour sketch of the face of a blue and green fish with little orange vampire teeth sideview, the background is dark blue

little #SundayFishSketch of a redtoothed triggerfish
The fish theme was spooooky 🧛‍♂️🐡

Bird sitting among some flowers, study

#dailyart 59: birb study

They Tom and Jerry-ed your ass 😔

Watercolor sketch of a Cookiecutter Shark with sharp teeth and big eyes.

Cookiecutter Shark (Isistius brasiliensis) for #SundayFishSketch 🐡
#Fishytheme SPOOKY

Cuties with nasty behaviour. They like to nibble on whales, seals, humans, submarines... whatever 😬

#sciart
#watercolor
#coloredpencildrawing
#mixedmedia
#FineArt
#animalart
#sketchbook
#art
#kleineKunstklasse

Colored pencil drawing of a black ghost knife fish. Think torpedo shape with a lil nubbin tail and a wavy fin running along most of the underside

I think a black ghost knife fish is sufficiently spooky for this week’s #SundayFishSketch prompt! But also a good wiggly little guy

This week’s #sundayfishsketch prompt was spooky fish or fish w/spooky names. I started down a toadfish rabbit hole b/c they always look menacing. Discovered a new group to me. The plunderfish with their odd little chin barbels. Denizens of the cold waters of the southern oceans around Antarctica.

Watercolor of a spotted eagle ray

Here is a spotted eagle ray watercolor to round out your weekend.
#sundayfishsketch #sciart #marinelife #coralreefs #sharks #sharksandrays

Photo of a crayon sketch of a baby brown banded bamboo shark with its dark and light body bands along its cute slinky body, ending in a boop snoot

Rene assigned spooky fishes for Halloween #SundayFishSketch. Sharks are often misunderstood as scary or spooky, but most species are just derpy sea puppies, like this Chiloscyllium punctatum / brown-banded bamboo shark / 點文狗鯊 / 白狗鯊。 #TaiwanFishes #台灣魚類 🦑🐡🧪

Art

My painting TWILIGHT SURGE.

A late autumn illustration featuring a wolf eating a dead rabbit amid an austere looking landscape.

Spooky times. Happy Halloween 🎃

Michigan State faculty reject Trump administration's higher ed 'compact' - The State News Michigan State University faculty voted Tuesday to oppose the federal government's offer for schools to adopt conservative policies in exchange for preferential treatment. No school has publicly accep...

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Oh it’s 100% a sub basement Metriaclima zebra 😂 which I will argue fits the ideal shape for a cichlid

Picture of a pumpkin with a mbuna cichlid carved into it and red and yellow mum sitting on a low white table. There is a bumpy/warty pumpkin sitting on the ground next to them.

I didn’t carve any pumpkins this year, but here’s a cichlid pumpkin I did during my PhD!

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.

A spooky illustration featuring two wolves walking through a bleak late autumn landscape.

Happy Halloween 🎃 🐺

Federal Workers Are Barely Making It Through the Government Shutdown The US government shut down 30 days ago. WIRED spoke with more than a dozen federal workers who have struggled to pay bills, worked side gigs, and relied on free food programs to get by.

“We’re making do with less while telling our kids why we can’t afford certain things right now,” a Department of Labor employee told WIRED www.wired.com/story/federa...

One Note not having a find and replace function is downright evil

Overfishing is not the answer.

Together, we can demand that the government put our shared seas before corporate profit.

Help us tell UK Govt it's time to: END OVERFISHING 🎣 https://bit.ly/3Wxi2MI

Grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

Laugh or cry, I choose laughter

A fellow furloughed coworker posted this. Laugh so you don’t cry.

Science is intertwined with eugenics; eugenic ideologies continue to negatively impact #Indigenous communities to this day.

In the October issue of #GENETICS, @jazlynmooney.bsky.social and colleagues offer a timely and important reminder on the perils of eugenics. buff.ly/1Q5r3XF

Multiple giant oar fish swimming towards the surface of the ocean. There is a tiny diver near the middle one.

Pelagic Respite

BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown.

Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.

What a wild thing to say when they’re literally carrying out the sacking of the Shire

EPA flush with cash for ‘priority’ staff The agency is taking an unprecedented approach to furloughs during this latest government shutdown.

The EPA is picking and choosing who gets to work during the shutdown: "virtually everyone who is working to undo marquee Biden-era regulations for air pollution, climate change and
water quality is still on the job."

This is, to put it mildly, not normal.

www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

Silly because boy seems about right 🥴

Picture of a turkey very casually strolling through a parking lot

Bopped up to north campus today for a teaching workshop, the turkeys up in that area are deeply unimpressed by people

1/5 New from the #NearLab, w/Julia Wood in the lead, Pleistocene speciation and glacial refugia in the Gilt Darter (Percidae: Percina evides) species complex
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