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I’m actually just three penguins in a trench coat. mariswicks.com
Next Fest has begun! Please enjoy + wishlist the latest demo build of Perfect Tides: Station to Station, the coming-of-age adventure in production since 2022 - coming in January!
store.steampowered.com/app/2088810/...
A purple and red octopus talk to each other on the tin can telephone. Purple octopus says “want to connect your students with real Scientists?” Then red octopus says “Skype a scientist matches groups with scientists for virtual q&as. It’s free!” And then an orange flapjack octopus says “get a match at skypeascientist.com”
Hey, you!
Do you know any teachers, librarians, scout troop leaders, or other k-12 educators?
Please send them this picture & link www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
For what Skype a Scientist lacks in advertising budget we make up for in program value.
We're GLOBAL so this applies to all 😘
Somerville Zine Fest October 4th 12pm - 7pm Market, Workshops, Zine Swap, Boston Figure Arts Center, 285 Washington Street, Somerville, MA 35+ local artists the poster is very cute, it has illustrated lil animal people all excited about their zines, there's a lil duck with a frog on its head, a wolf, a mouse, an owl, some dogs, cats, maybe a lil hippo pal, just a whole bunch of cute friends Somerville Zine Fest October 4th 12pm - 7pm Market, Workshops, Zine Swap, Boston Figure Arts Center, 285 Washington Street, Somerville, MA Pearl_House_Collective
October 4th! That's Saturday!
I hope you'll join me for the Somerville Zine Fest, it's going to be a fun time, lots of cool stuff and zines, zines, zines!
Absolutely nobody asked for this but I reformatted my animal yeetability thread into printable poster & zine files.
Introducing, the "Pocket Guide to Responsible & Sustainable Animal YEETING" featuring a revamped rating system. Download links below.
Sneak peak inside my 2026 nature-loving wall calendar collab with @sarahmackattack.bsky.social
Each month covers a different animals and Sept's is the Anglerfish!
These calendar sales help support @skypeascientist.bsky.social 2026 native plant project! Pre-order: www.etsy.com/listing/4366...
This looks amazing! I just texted my friends with kiddos in that area and told them the should go!
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This free festival is returning to Concord-Carlisle High School on Saturday, November 15, 2025, from 9am-2pm. You’ll get the chance to meet the following authors and illustrators, hear about how they created their books, and learn how you can write or draw your own!
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Logo reading "Beyond X&Y" where the X and Y are part of the trans symbol. Beneath it reads "Trust the real science. Biology is nonbinary."
It's the scientific community's duty to fight misinformation, bioessentialism, and eugenics
That's why we're launching Beyond X&Y, an educational campaign combating the rise of unscientific political propaganda used to attack trans and intersex people
Subscribe to our newsletter at beyondxandy.org
I have a couple of small updates on this story, in case y'all have been wondering about any fallout since its July publication! 🧵
23.09.2025 15:27 — 👍 87 🔁 33 💬 4 📌 6Hey it’s my favorite flavor!
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Image 1 of 15 of a Crow Time update listing various French Canadian / Quebecois expressions and illustrating them with crows.
Image 2 of 15 of a Crow Time update listing various French Canadian / Quebecois expressions and illustrating them with crows. This one includes "tsé" (you know) and "y fait frette" (it's very cold).
Image 3 of 15 of a Crow Time update listing various French Canadian / Quebecois expressions and illustrating them with crows. This one is "bec sucré" (sweet beak, which is akin to sweet tooth).
Image 4 of 15 of a Crow Time update listing various French Canadian / Quebecois expressions and illustrating them with crows. This one is "C't'encore drôle" meaning "its still funny," an expression said to express doubt that sonething will happen.
A Handy Guide [1/4]
23.09.2025 00:29 — 👍 1551 🔁 493 💬 23 📌 14"hoist by your own timnard" heh heh heh
18.09.2025 14:15 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ah, my little Canadian early morning airport treat. Also, my sister can’t stand the name "Timbits" (Tim’s…bits?!) so we call them "Timsticles" instead.
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Friends, I am as excited as heck to tell y'all about the NEWBERRY MEDIEVAL MINICOMIC PRIZE!
It's for emerging cartoonists (i.e. no major publisher work, excepting anthologies) considering making a short work that engages with a medieval subject (fic or nonfic). 1/
www.newberry.org/calendar/new...
bad drawing of a tiny snail with it's front end off the ground vroooooooooooom!
here's a snail poppin' a wheelie
wow!
VENUS
a mini comic about girls night uniting us all
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Oh cool! The Outside book was new to me - I picked it up last time I was at the library!
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The orange cover of the book Outside: A Guide To Discovering Nature by Maria Ana Peixe Dias, Ines Teixeira Do Rosario, and Bernardo P. Carvalho. There are black silhouettes of two kids looking down a a white snail.
I’m currently reading this book, which is a pretty neat general guide:
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There’s a Science Comics: Spiders by Tait Howard: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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Rosemary Mosco has done butterflies and ants (illustrated by Jacob Souva and Anna Pirolli, respectively): rosemarymosco.com/books
12.09.2025 14:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Elise Gravel has a whole series on inverts (scroll down for the single issue ones): elisegravel.com/en/livres/me...
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Kevin McKloskey has books on both worms, snails, caterpillars, etc: heymccloskey.com
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A drawing of two extinct tetrapods (they look like a cross between a fish and a salamander), one is saying to the other "Nice spinal cord."
The irony is that I am currently drawing this (shame!):
10.09.2025 20:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hahaha eeeewww vertebrates
10.09.2025 20:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Are you open to picture books about terrestrial inverts? I have some recs, if so (they might be fun in a kit)
10.09.2025 20:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The National Audubon’s Field Guide to New England was my go-to for super-general/broad ID, but I’d love to have that type of book for just terrestrial inverts!
10.09.2025 19:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I would also like a general field guide for this! Instead, I have a bunch of very specific guides that I have a hard time navigating (lol I need lots of photos/illustrations and easily digestible text)
10.09.2025 19:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Working on a work project and realizing that there basically are no general field guides for terrestrial inverts. Insects, spiders, freshwater inverts, and marine inverts but where’s my log flipping guide? Anyone know of one?
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Meme. Drawing of the eels' life cycle, surrounding a map of their migration range, centered on the mid-Atlantic. The drawing shows the evolution cycle: 1. Silver eels spawing 2. Eggs 3. Larval stage 4. Glass eel 5. Elvers 6. Yellow eel 7. Silver eel The inconsistency in singular/plural drives me a little crazy, because it suggests that eels shift from being multiple animals to one animal and back several times over their lives. Which is silly. Nobody does that. Not even my neighbor, Jim. Meme text reads: "There's history in here somewhere"
I love summer, and I hate the change of seasons. But eels change in excellent ways, so let's talk about that, instead!
That's right, friends...it's Big Eel Life Cycle Thread time!
Before we start, let's remember that I'm a historian, not a scientist. But I'll do my best. 1/11
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an anthropomorphic cat sits in the dark at a classroom desk, paws clasped judgmentally (like shinji's dad from evangelion... you know the scene) next to a projection screen of questionable relationship tropes in media. they're saying: "25% off of a cute, all-ages graphic novel about what it takes to build and maintain healthy relationships? in THIS economy?" "and pre-orders help authors hugely by showing book sellers that they're supported?? ... I see. You have three days."
the same cat is cute and cheery now, holding a giant sparkling copy of the book, A Quick & Easy Guide to Healthy Relationships. Text: BARNES & NOBLE PRE-ORDER SPECIAL Wednesday Sept 3 - Friday Sept 5 use the code PREORDER25 at checkout!
i've been told @barnesandnoble.com
is having a big pre-order sale on my book that comes out in dec! w/ this discount it's about ~$7 that goes a long way in helping me get it out in the world. only lasts till friday! find out what some kind colleagues had to say about it below...
