Shawn Rykaczewski 🍉

The February 2026 Neowsletter cover featuring Neow surrounded by hearts receiving a Valentine.

Here's a belated Valentine for you... the last Neowsletter before the release of Slay the Spire 2 is here!! 💝

This month's issue features:
👾 The final Spire Spotting enemy!
🗨️ The return of the Q&A!
🧩 Slay the Spire Connections!
🎨 Community highlights!
➕ ...And more?

a slide with 3 pictures of schools with brightly colored murals stacked on top of one another under the words "Schools in service area". On the other side of the slide, a blank wall of a school under the label "Our partner"

Alright bsky science + art community, I need your help.

I was p confident we could get a grant to fund our upcoming biodiversity mural in Kensington. Last night, they called to say our partner school is 2 blocks outside of their service area.

But ya know what? We're gonna do it anyway.

what's the Canadian curling team's favorite board game?

boop

Squen, Cragg, and all of us Wizards are rooting for Amber Glenn, Alysa Liu, Isabeau Levito, and all of Team USA to win those legendary (gold) artifacts!

Hey definitely call your senators about this. Like seriously.

Analilia Mejia’s historic victory is a huge win for working people and sends a clear signal that it’s a new day in New Jersey politics, and that our country is ready for bold, working-class leadership.

We’re one step closer to sending an organizer and a WFP champion to Congress! 🏆

i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.

And despite that, they fully intend to give ICE more money for "body cams" and "more training" the second the wind changes. As if you can't just fund these problems away.

Join us for SICB's February zoom 2-24-26 at 12 noon est

with co authors of two of our M.I.S.S. papers

academic.oup.com/icb/issue/65/5

Buddhi Maheshika Pathirana and Toby Daly -Engel will be discussing
Between Fins: a conversation with M.I.S.S. authors- #Science, Stories, & solutions
#sharks

Abolish ICE all together. This is not an unpopular opinion amongst your constituents.

Abolish ICE all together. We cannot reform our way out of this!

This is not an unpopular opinion amongst your constituents. Please answer our calls and emails. We've been trying to contact you.

Which is why the agency must be Abolished.

This won't be the last president that will attempt this level of over reach and we can't allow Dems to pretend that if we throw more money at this problem we can't train it away and provide enough body cams so it never happens again.

a set of six cards with a blurry pink foreground with white sparkles. the text on the frontmost card says "Our love is like a Horseshoe Crab ... Tough, Timeless, Unrelated to the true crab." the card has a hand-drawn image of a Horseshoe crab. Card by Rosemary Mosco

Hey baby. Is that a Musa Paradisiaca in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? ;)

Can your love only be described with hyper-specific scientific facts? Yeah, we thought so. Check out @rosemarymosco.com's Nature Valentines!

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Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so.

How far we have not come in 250 years.

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

lithub.com/renee-nicole...

Right after Renée Good’s disgusting murder, a ICE goon was filmed kicking her memorial candles.
Absolutely vile.

about 15 tickets left so if you wanna go, get on it!

I maintain that the only good Christmas song is Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses

Oh hey @sarahmackattack.bsky.social 👋 😂

🎄 in the deep sea

Literally same

Bird flu vaccine trial in Hawaiian monk seals shows promise Two endangered Hawaiian monk seal pups are responding well after receiving vaccinations against a highly contagious strain of avian influenza that has decimated other marine mammal populations.

www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2...

Oh yeah, that's just an AI photo they decided to use

It's more likely an issue with plastic waste being carried in by the tides.

Microplastics are unfortunately incredibly pervasive at this point and found functionally everywhere from Rain drops to in our own bloodstreams.

An AI-generated abomination found in the original post from the British Oceanographic Data Centre. It's a mix between a tortoise and a sea turtle. It consists solely of a shell, with one right fore limb and one left rear limb, and no head.

You think the guy on the left is bad, but I feel awful for this poor abomination.

a new jersey-based christmas tree delivery service called Spruce Bringsteen

Johnny Silverhand and V (from their perspective) overlooking Night City. In the background, a black billboard with white lettering reads "Secure Your Soul," advertising Arasaka's Digital Engram service.

Support Skype a Scientist! By Skype a Scientist

At @skypeascientist.bsky.social we were able to give out more grant funding than we took in this year, thanks to people who support us!

That grant funding went to 13 science communicators across the country on their in-person projects.

YOU can support us here: givebutter.com/SupportSAS25

Important notice: AI-generated archival references

I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...

Buster from the tv show ‘Arrested Development’ holding an arm full of plushies while he looks at his mother Lucille, saying, “these are my awards, mother, from FIFA.“

Who has made this 🤣