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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 4h

Beaches can look "barren," but are complex ecosystems full of life. From my book A Field Guide to the Mid-Atlantic Coast, Yale University Press. a.co/d/6rKgbMQ #sciart 🧪🌿🌎 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #iNat #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #beaches #obx

Complex book plate diagram featuring the trophic layers and nutrient cycles found on beaches of the U.S. Atlantic Coast.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 4h

Spread design for a new book project on the natural history of the U.S. Atlantic Coast.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #design #BookDesign #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #ChesapeakeBay #BlueCrabs

Book spread design on the Blue Crab fishery in Chesapeake Bay, USA.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 23h

Looking forward to this one: www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

A Warning for the Modern Striver

A new biography of Peter Matthiessen chronicles his many paradoxical attempts to escape who the world expected him to be.

www.theatlantic.com

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 1d

Salt marsh spread (detail) for a new project, with a Marsh Hawk (Circus hudsonius). Yeah, yeah, I know, Northern Harrier...
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #Harriers #ornithology #SaltMarsh #SaltMarshes

Northern Harrier (immature) in flight over a salt marsh photo. Drawn in Photoshop with a Wacom tablet. My photo in the background.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 1d

Salt marsh spread for a new project, with a Marsh Hawk (Circus hudsonius). Yeah, yeah, I know, Northern Harrier...
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #Harriers #ornithology #SaltMarsh #SaltMarshes

Northern Harrier (immature) in flight over a salt marsh photo.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 1d

Amen.

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

"So we read with interest yesterday the news that two Nobel-winning MIT economists are decamping for the University of Zurich next year.

MAGA may be fine with this. But we liked it when America was a magnet for Nobel laureates, not a place they wanted to flee."

www.thebulwark.com/p/is-he-lyin...

Is He Lying or Crazy? Does It Matter?

Living in the world the president dreams up.

www.thebulwark.com

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 1d

The nightmare of neonicotinoid insecticides and glyphosate herbicides in freshwater systems. For a new book on stream ecology, coming from Yale University Press in 2026.
🧪🐡🌿🌎🪶 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #scientificillustration #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #neonics #freshwater #streams

Complex diagram and data graphics on the harm neonic pesticides do to freshwater environments.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 1d

The vital role of biofilms in freshwater stream environments. From "STREAMS: An Illustrated Guide," coming from Yale University Press in 2026.
🧪🌿🌎🐡🪶 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #streams #rivers #biofilms

Diagram, illustrations, and micro photos illustrating freshwater biofilms.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 1d

Snowy Owl, an illustration for my book A Field Guide to Long Island Sound, Yale University Press, a.co/d/ffZ6GFP 🧪🌿🌎 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #owls #LongIslandSound

Illustration of a perched Snowy Owl, done in Photoshop with a Wacom drawing tablet.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 2d

Great Horned Owl (detail). From my book A Field Guide to Cape Cod, Yale University Press. a.co/d/eK4A0sd
🧪🌿🌎🪶 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #birds #birdart #owls

Detail view of a Great Horned Owl illustration, drawn in Photoshop using a Wacom tablet.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 2d

Great Horned Owl. From my book A Field Guide to Cape Cod, Yale University Press. a.co/d/eK4A0sd
🧪🌿🌎🪶 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #birds #birdart #owls

Illustration of a Great Horned Owl, drawn in Photoshop with a Wacom tablet.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 2d

The nutrient spiral in stream ecology. For a forthcoming book Streams: An Illustrated Guide, to be published by Yale University Press in 2026.
🧪🌿🌎🪶 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #streams #freshwater #NutrientSpiral

Diagram with forest stream background, illustrating the concept of "the nutrient spiral" in freshwater stream ecology. The cycle of nutrients is complicated by the constantly moving water of the stream.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 2d

Osprey (Pandion haliaetus). From my book A Field Guide to The Mid-Atlantic Coast, Yale University Press, a.co/d/6rKgbMQ
🧪🌿🌎🪶 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #birds #Osprey

Illustration of a perched Osprey, done in Photoshop with a Wacom drawing tablet.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 2d

From my book "Manual of Ornithology," written with the late Noble S. Proctor. Still in print, from Yale University Press. a.co/d/eQCIg2H

Manual of Ornithology: Avian Structure and Function: Proctor, Noble S., Lynch, Patrick J.: 9780300076196: Amazon.com: Books

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 2d

The Avian Heart, an ancient pen-&-ink drawing I did decades ago, with a crow-quill pen and 1940s-era Esterbrook points. #Inktober
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart

Pen drawing of the internal anatomy of the avian heart.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 3d

Eastern Screech Owl (Megascops asio) illustration w custom photo background shot for the plate. Yale University Press, STREAMS: An Illustrated Guide, later in 2026.
🧪🌿🌎🪶 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm

Illustration of an Eastern Screech Owl wading through a shallow stream, looking for prey such as crayfish. Remarkably, some Screech Owls get as much as 75% of their diets from aquatic prey.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 3d

Page spread on the Great White Shark and Gray Seals in Cape Cod waters. From my book "A Field Guide to Cape Cod," Yale University Press. a.co/d/eK4A0sd
🧪🐡🌿🌎 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #sharks #CapeCod

Illustrated side view of a Great White Shark, with a photo of a swimming Gray Seal.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 3d

Guide to Florida & Gulf Coast: A Field Guide to the Southeast Coast & Gulf of Mexico. a.co/d/84EaWUL
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #AtlanticCoast #Florida #FloridaCoast #OBX

Book cover, also showing the NOBA Award.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 4d

Common Eastern Bumble Bee (Bombus impatiens) on Goldenrod (Solidago sp.). North Haven, CT, USA.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #garden #bugsky #biodiversity #pollinators #photography #macro #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #insect #bees #Apidae #macro #insects #flowers #InsectApocalyse

Close photo of a Bumble Bee on a Goldenrod branch with many yellow flowers.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 4d

Great Horned Owl study.
🧪🌿🌎🪶 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #birds #birdart #owls

Head study drawing of a Great Horned Owl. Done in Photoshop with a Wacom drawing tablet.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 4d

Jenny Lake, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA.
#GrandTeton #JennyLake #NationalParks #Landscape

Landscape photo of Jenny Lake, with the Grand Teton mountains in the background.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 4d

Wood Duck family. From my book A Field Guide to Long Island Sound, Yale University Press, a.co/d/ffZ6GFP
🧪🌿🌎🪶 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #birds #birdart #ducks

Illustration of male and female Wood Ducks, with four ducklings, in a swimming pose. Drawn in Photoshop with a Wacom tablet.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 5d

Red-Tailed Hawks, immature (top) and adult plumages. For a new book on stream ecology, Yale University Press, sometime in 2026. Photoshop w/Wacom tablet.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifephoto #macrophoto #macro #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #hawks #ornithology #freshwater

Illustration of perched immature and adult Red-Tailed Hawks (Buteo jamaicensis).

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 5d

Any news organization that treated "Will Trump Get Nobel?" as a remotely serious question, and not one more indication of his accelerating hallucinatory patterns, has some 'splaining to do.

Looking at you, all major news orgs.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 5d

If you find all this performative fascism outrageous, you're in good company. From today's "Strength in Numbers" Substack.

Poll data show that a significant majority of Americans oppose Trump's use of the military for political bullying.

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