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Peggy Wolven

@vexedmuddler.bsky.social

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Fashion for the Scientific Body. Nails, nerdy and not. https://linktr.ee/vexedmuddler 🩷💛💙 She/her, artist, scientist, nail polish nerd, friend to underloved animals.

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Peggy Wolven @vexedmuddler.bsky.social · 3d

Sadly it appears to have either mange or some kind of injury or damage to the bum and tail :(

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Peggy Wolven @vexedmuddler.bsky.social · 3d

We HAVE a room, silly.

Peggy Wolven @vexedmuddler.bsky.social · 3d

There’s probably a converter

Peggy Wolven @vexedmuddler.bsky.social · 3d

My kit is ill-equipped for this task but the macro lens did its best. I may need a telephoto lens for these occasions.

A red fox laying on an electrical box, with the lower half of its body turned away from the viewer. It has half-risen, as though suddenly made aware of something in the direction of the viewer, and its face is ¾ toward the camera.

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Peggy Wolven @vexedmuddler.bsky.social · 3d

To be fair when I first saw it, it was curled up in a ball with a very small profile. As soon as it uncurled a bit I could see it was far too big 😂

Peggy Wolven @vexedmuddler.bsky.social · Sep 19

This is goddamned delightful

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · Sep 19

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

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Peggy Wolven @vexedmuddler.bsky.social · Sep 13

What a stunner!

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Brian Wolven @brianwolven.bsky.social · Sep 2

The young calico who adopted us last year has desperately wanted to play with her two much older sisters, but they will have none of it.

Last Friday @vexedmuddler.bsky.social and I adopted this lovable little nugget, whom we have dubbed “Timiny Cricket”.

A small brown & tan kitten lies asleep between two cat toys, one a small salmon plushy, the other a plaid Christmas present.

A small brown & tan kitten sits on a cardboard scratcher next to a screened window, looking over his shoulder toward the camera.

On a totally irrelevant note, the window crank is crowned with a tardigrade figurine.

A small brown & tan kitten dozes INSIDE an opening of the Ripple Rug. Guess it’s warmer in there?

A small brown & tan kitten lies sleeping between us on the sofa while we watch a show.

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Peggy Wolven @vexedmuddler.bsky.social · Sep 2

No, I’m doing I best to avoid the entire thing 😅

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Peggy Wolven @vexedmuddler.bsky.social · Aug 27

Awwww ♥️

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Brian Wolven @brianwolven.bsky.social · Aug 26

I must ask why you neglected to mention Santa and his Elvers in the calendar promotional materials. 😕

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Peggy Wolven @vexedmuddler.bsky.social · Aug 26

@skypeascientist.bsky.social I just ordered an Eel Facts advent for @brianwolven.bsky.social but he has a question for you

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Peggy Wolven @vexedmuddler.bsky.social · Aug 20

Ah yeah, I’ve seen people paint with acrylic on regular polish too but I guess it has to be super dry. Haven’t tried it!

Peggy Wolven @vexedmuddler.bsky.social · Aug 20

Ah cool, I’ve seen people do amazing and wildly complex nail art with gel! I haven’t gotten into it because I’m paranoid about my super-reactive skin but I’m envious of the people who do. I do everything with just regular lacquer 🥲

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Peggy Wolven @vexedmuddler.bsky.social · Aug 20

(Not planning on giving unsolicited advice, just curious because NAILS 🤩)

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Peggy Wolven @vexedmuddler.bsky.social · Aug 20

Are you doing gel or lacquer?

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Peggy Wolven @vexedmuddler.bsky.social · Aug 11

Freds! I love it 😂

Peggy Wolven @vexedmuddler.bsky.social · Aug 3

I wish bsky told me about this mention before the post it was replying to was deleted ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Peggy Wolven @vexedmuddler.bsky.social · Jul 4

@amyraehill.bsky.social hey @tychogirl.bsky.social follow Amy for awesome

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Peggy Wolven @vexedmuddler.bsky.social · Jun 30

He has a RACING STRIPE I love him so much 🥹

Thomas Shahan @tshahan.bsky.social · Jun 30

a few more shots of this beautiful species 🕷️🙇

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Thomas Shahan @tshahan.bsky.social · Jun 30

Photographed a LOT of handsome salticids in Costa Rica, but these Anasaitis canalis males were the fanciest! ✨💙 Very difficult to shoot - not just tiny - but super skittish too!

In situ, stack (3 shots?), Pentax, Laowa 25mm

Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica - ground level, shaded areas w/ tree cover

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Peggy Wolven @vexedmuddler.bsky.social · Jun 30

Oh my goodness he’s like a squat little toy race car! I’m absolutely smitten!

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Peggy Wolven @vexedmuddler.bsky.social · Jun 18

Thanks Hannah! 🥰

Peggy Wolven @vexedmuddler.bsky.social · Jun 18

Aside from being pride month, it’s also immigrant heritage month! I'm a recent immigrant to the US, so I did this mani as a celebration of my Canadian heritage. I recreated 4 famous Group Of Seven paintings - the last image shows the paintings they’re based on. Details in alt text!

This photo shows the full mani, all 5 nails visible, though the index and pinkie are a bit out of focus. My thumbnail features the Canadian and US flags flying side by side. The other 4 fingers feature my best attempt at recreating famous landscape paintings in nail polish.

On my index, J.E.H. MacDonald's Autumn Algoma. On my middle nail, I painted Lawrence Harris' The Idea Of North. My ring finger (which I think came out the best) Franklin Carmichael's Autumn in Orillia. My pinkie shows my best attempt at Arthur Lismer's Isles of Spruce.

A close up of my thumbnail showing the Canadian and American flags painted waving against a blue sky with big fluffy white clouds.

A little further view of just the 4 fingernails on which I recreated the paintings.

On my index, I painted the right half of J.E.H. MacDonald's Autumn Algoma. It depicts a densely wooded hillside across a lake, in rich autumn colours. The lake and sky are vivid blue and clear. There’s a single ragged spruce tree in the foreground.
On my middle nail, I painted Lawrence Harris' The Idea Of North. This is a stark northern landscape painted in a somewhat abstract style. It depicts a large blue and white smoothly sculpted glacier against a blue sky with billowing clouds making long fingers over the peaks.

My ring finger (which I think came out the best) is Franklin Carmichael's Autumn in Orillia. This is a somewhat desaturated and impressionistic painting of a forest, but this time up close and personal - you’re inside the woods for this one, and there’s an impression of birch trees and shrubby undergrowth, all in orange and yellow. The slay has a washed-out overcast appearance.

My pinkie shows my best attempt at Arthur Lismer's Isles of Spruce. I had to take a thin slice out of the middle of this painting, so I chose the spruce spars in the very centre and made them the whole image. Again the scene is autumnal, but the towering dark spruce trees rising from a small rocky islet dominate it.

A collaged image - on top, a close up of my 4 finger nails. Below are 4 images of the original paintings the nails are based on:
J.E.H. MacDonald's Autumn Algoma, Lawrence Harris' The Idea Of North, Franklin Carmichael's Autumn in Orillia, and Arthur Lismer's Isles of Spruce.

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