Rebecca Gelernter

Claude⭐

Interestingly, still OU-certified kosher

PANEL 1: a text conversation - an incoming text asks "hey! wanna hang out tonight?" the owner of the phone replies "aw thanks but i can't tonight" PANEL 2: the sender asks "what about tomorrow night?" and the response is "yeah sure!" PANEL 3: a pigeon sitting on a green sofa puts their phone down. eyes closed, they inhale deeply PANEL 4: the panel turns dark blue. the pigeon sits, legs crossed, wings on their knees, looking intense. there is a buffer icon above them. big red text reads "PREPARING FOR SOCIALISATION" and below that in white says "minimum time required: 24 hours"

notice period

You only have a few more days! Very worth making the trip.

Neutral grey Pantone swatch with the caption, “Pantone's 2026 color of the year is historic and, technically, not a color at all - meet Cloud Dancer, the first-ever white shade to receive the designation from the world's color authority.”

they should have a separate color of the year for people who haven’t lost the will to live

My shitty (heh) relatives got on the ivermectin train a few years ago and from what I heard through the family grapevine, they did manage to give themselves diarrhea. In my mind, they used a livestock syringe.

Weird nervous system thing: I had to get lidocaine for a filling replacement this morning, and while half my face was numb, I got a tiny little itch under my lip. Tried to scratch it and, of course, nothing. But the itch remained! Very strange.

Historical medical illustration print featuring, well, a mound of anatomical bits, a bird on a nest, and three fetal skeletons holding a sickle, a beaded necklace, some bones on a string, and a suspiciously veiny handkerchief, which a fetus is wiping its eye socket with. It's pretty odd.

Medical illustration is usually pretty clinical, but let it not be said that nobody ever got weird with it. That's not a coral reef those three fetal skeletons are standing on, it's a flesh sculpture including blood vessels, kidney stones...are those alveoli?...and a bird. By Frederik Ruysch 🐡🎨

They are excellent weirdos and I love them! But I know they can be a lot. There was a trypophobia warning outside the exhibit, which I'd never seen before!

Watercolor grasshopper - mostly black with red-orange distal legs and abdominal bands and yellow wing markings.

Watercolor Triceratops beetle - dark with, yes, three Triceratops-like horns.

Watercolor beetle - black with blotchy gold markings on its elytra.

Watercolor bug - stink or shield bug nymph. Largely dark green with bright red-orange markings.

Bonus: bugs by Herman Henstenburgh

Painting detail: a brown mantis with its wings spread. Forewings are green with a brown and white marking, hindwings are gold.

Painting detail: a Eurasian Jay holding an acorn. Its plumage is beautifully rendered and looks very soft, but it has that odd texture that makes it look like a skin. Despite that, the bird looks very alive and busy.

Painting detail: a lovingly-rendered liverwort.

Painting detail: looks like a flower fly (yellow-and-white banded abdomen), but its thorax is translucent, and you can see the red of the flower petal it's standing on. I'd love to know what the deal is here.

These may or may not be Guys, but they're great. Also a ghost fly?

Painting detail: a Hercules Beetle climbing up a tree.

Painting detail: a pale caterpillar with dark spots climbing between leaves, its front end raised in the air as it searches for something else to grab. The light is handled really beautifully on this one, raking across its back with the raised front of its body in shadow.

Painting detail: a robust lizard, I think a skunk, points downward and licks a water droplet with its dark, forked tongue. Its head and dorsal stripe are burnt sienna, and its body is covered with dark markings, light bars, and light dots.

Painting detail: a long lizard eating the contents of a broken egg.

More Guys

Painting detail: a Suriname Toad with babies hatching out of holes in her back. Two little froglets are on the ground - yes, ground, which is not where these wonderful aquatic creatures are traditionally found.

Hiding this one because it's a Suriname Toad and much as I love them, I know they give some the willies

Painting detail: a lizard looks up, reaching with one foot, mouth open and little teeth showing. This one reminds me of a Bosch creature.

Painting detail: an orthopterid peeks out between two arched pieces of grass. Below it is a large, light pink flower.

Painting detail: a hairy caterpillar, maybe some kind of tussock moth. It's lale brownish green with black bands, a bristly head, and several distinct tufts of hairs down its back.

Painting detail: a stag beetle on a striped green squash.

Some of my favorite Guys from the MFA's Rachel Ruysch exhibit 🎨

The decadence of deciding not to put the bins out 😌

Tinamou are more known for calls that really carry 😆

Please join us in sending heartfelt thanks and condolences to the extraordinary team of animal care specialists and veterinarians who provided the best care for Claude every day. And thank you for loving Claude so fiercely over the years.

truly feels like every day we are waiting for someone in the press room to point out that the emperor has no clothes

someone will, someday, and the tide will turn, and these people’s children and grandchildren will be deeply ashamed of them; but they aren’t there yet, and it’s maddening

Claude the Albino Alligator Passes Away at Age 30 Beloved Academy icon will be dearly missed.

A few years ago I got to play a show at Cal Academy right by Claude’s enclosure and would like to retroactively consider it a performance FOR Claude

RIP Pale King

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TINANEW

flat color cartoon drawings of several thrips, small insects which may have four wings or none. clockwise from top left: a thrips with very complex fringed wings, a thrips with large crab claws, two drawings of thrips with no wings and a dark brown front end and tan back, and a long and thin black thrips with red legs

photos of the real animals that are drawn in the previous image; Arachisothrips has large and complex wings, Stephanothrips is wingless with a dark brown head and thorax, Idolothrips is very long and thin, and Carcinothrips has very large crab claw-like forearms

thrips

I think Rouen with a little of another breed!

Screenshot from my INPRNT store showing lots of bird prints available, all marked to 25% off

I'm terrible at self-marketing but I will say that if you want to buy prints, today is a pretty good day to do it. Also if there's something you want a print of that I haven't uploaded yet, let me know (I'm very behind on updating!)

#SciArt #BirdArt #bskynightmarket

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An interesting take on adjusting phylogenetic trees containing humans for more effective #scicomm

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Ooh, they're pretty! Never met one before.

You think so? I would've thought he was too big to be anything but a full domestic.

YouTube video by WKUK: Whitest Kids U’ Know Are we going to war with Iran today?

They did some really great stuff!

They're big guys! It's surprising how small mallards look after you spend some time with them.