Caroline Hack
@carolinehack.bsky.social
UK based artist making things about Moby-Dick, British Arctic Whaling, S Atlantic whaling research and other museum inspired shenanigans. Projects with museums a speciality - DM me if you’ve got an idea! Current obsession - the Continuous Plankton Recorder
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Caroline Hack
@carolinehack.bsky.social
· Nov 12
For new and prospective followers. Current work at #DiscoveryPoint #Dundee featuring new commissioned work and previously exhibited textile panels.
Loving this and also loving the folk learning about the survivorship bias plane for the first time.
November 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Loving this and also loving the folk learning about the survivorship bias plane for the first time.
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Beluga
Blue whale
Sowerby’s beaked whale
Sperm whale
Walrus
Beluga
Blue whale
Sowerby’s beaked whale
Sperm whale
Walrus
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Hammerhead shark
Stingray
My brother
My other brother
Cotton mouth snake
Hammerhead shark
Stingray
My brother
My other brother
Cotton mouth snake
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Giant Monitor Lizard
Wombat
Whale Shark
Cassowary
Kākāpō
Giant Monitor Lizard
Wombat
Whale Shark
Cassowary
Kākāpō
November 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Beluga
Blue whale
Sowerby’s beaked whale
Sperm whale
Walrus
Beluga
Blue whale
Sowerby’s beaked whale
Sperm whale
Walrus
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Reposted by Caroline Hack
🌊 Funded PhD: Advancing Plankton Imaging & Machine Learning to Transform Marine Biodiversity Monitoring 🔬🌍 @plymuni.bsky.social
Bring together AI-powered image analysis, innovative sensors, and real-world policy frameworks.
Two funding options:
1. lnkd.in/e566f8RR
2. lnkd.in/eKPRGhsP
Bring together AI-powered image analysis, innovative sensors, and real-world policy frameworks.
Two funding options:
1. lnkd.in/e566f8RR
2. lnkd.in/eKPRGhsP
November 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
🌊 Funded PhD: Advancing Plankton Imaging & Machine Learning to Transform Marine Biodiversity Monitoring 🔬🌍 @plymuni.bsky.social
Bring together AI-powered image analysis, innovative sensors, and real-world policy frameworks.
Two funding options:
1. lnkd.in/e566f8RR
2. lnkd.in/eKPRGhsP
Bring together AI-powered image analysis, innovative sensors, and real-world policy frameworks.
Two funding options:
1. lnkd.in/e566f8RR
2. lnkd.in/eKPRGhsP
Yeah, deciding I need to sew the outline of the land on the navigation chart around #Shetland is one I am regretting already. So wiggly. So many little islands. #HandEmbroidery #MappySewing
November 27, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Yeah, deciding I need to sew the outline of the land on the navigation chart around #Shetland is one I am regretting already. So wiggly. So many little islands. #HandEmbroidery #MappySewing
First real frost of the winter here last night. Patches of ice dusted nettles on the green lane this morning.
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
First real frost of the winter here last night. Patches of ice dusted nettles on the green lane this morning.
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The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍
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Librarian
The Library of the Scott Polar Research Institute is one of the most comprehensive collections of published polar information in the world. This highly specialist reference collection, which attracts
www.cam.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍
📜
📜
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Roses are red
That dino looks ill
That dino looks ill
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Roses are red
That dino looks ill
That dino looks ill
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It’s #WorldWalrusDay so it’s a good excuse to repost this #HandEmbroidery version I made recently, based on an 1579 illustration.
November 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
It’s #WorldWalrusDay so it’s a good excuse to repost this #HandEmbroidery version I made recently, based on an 1579 illustration.
Reposted by Caroline Hack
They really don't want to share any interior shots but when they do, you just know that unspeakable acts have been committed within... www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
Check out this 3 bedroom end of terrace house for sale on Rightmove
3 bedroom end of terrace house for sale in 75 Camden Mews, Camden, London, NW1 9BY, NW1 for £925,000. Marketed by Auction House London, Hampstead
www.rightmove.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
They really don't want to share any interior shots but when they do, you just know that unspeakable acts have been committed within... www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
It’s #WorldWalrusDay so it’s a good excuse to repost this #HandEmbroidery version I made recently, based on an 1579 illustration.
November 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
It’s #WorldWalrusDay so it’s a good excuse to repost this #HandEmbroidery version I made recently, based on an 1579 illustration.
Starting the #stitching on this scrap of a #screenprint on fabric of a Shetland Navigation chart with some watercolour highlights
#HandEmbroidery #WorkInProgress
#HandEmbroidery #WorkInProgress
November 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Starting the #stitching on this scrap of a #screenprint on fabric of a Shetland Navigation chart with some watercolour highlights
#HandEmbroidery #WorkInProgress
#HandEmbroidery #WorkInProgress
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I am 16 followers shy of 100,000
Tell a friend
Tell a friend
November 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I am 16 followers shy of 100,000
Tell a friend
Tell a friend
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How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽
November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽
This is just to Say
I have eaten the Lee and Perrins, honey and mustard coated sausages
that were in the ice box
and which
I was theoretically
saving
for tomorrow’s lunch
I have forgiven myself
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
I have eaten the Lee and Perrins, honey and mustard coated sausages
that were in the ice box
and which
I was theoretically
saving
for tomorrow’s lunch
I have forgiven myself
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
November 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
This is just to Say
I have eaten the Lee and Perrins, honey and mustard coated sausages
that were in the ice box
and which
I was theoretically
saving
for tomorrow’s lunch
I have forgiven myself
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
I have eaten the Lee and Perrins, honey and mustard coated sausages
that were in the ice box
and which
I was theoretically
saving
for tomorrow’s lunch
I have forgiven myself
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
Reposted by Caroline Hack
A little side project/work in progress working up ideas from my various visits to Shetland. This is Bressay Lighthouse (where I stayed from a month in 2017). The shape is inspired by the architecture of the Shetland Museum and Archive.
#WIP #HandEmbroidery
#WIP #HandEmbroidery
November 17, 2025 at 9:56 PM
A little side project/work in progress working up ideas from my various visits to Shetland. This is Bressay Lighthouse (where I stayed from a month in 2017). The shape is inspired by the architecture of the Shetland Museum and Archive.
#WIP #HandEmbroidery
#WIP #HandEmbroidery
A little side project/work in progress working up ideas from my various visits to Shetland. This is Bressay Lighthouse (where I stayed from a month in 2017). The shape is inspired by the architecture of the Shetland Museum and Archive.
#WIP #HandEmbroidery
#WIP #HandEmbroidery
November 17, 2025 at 9:56 PM
A little side project/work in progress working up ideas from my various visits to Shetland. This is Bressay Lighthouse (where I stayed from a month in 2017). The shape is inspired by the architecture of the Shetland Museum and Archive.
#WIP #HandEmbroidery
#WIP #HandEmbroidery
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SUPPORT YOUR LIBRARY
November 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
SUPPORT YOUR LIBRARY
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But what if we kissed inside the giant taxidermy cetacean?
November 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
But what if we kissed inside the giant taxidermy cetacean?
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Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for 30 Seconds Before Vanishing Day to all who celebrate! #SciArt
November 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for 30 Seconds Before Vanishing Day to all who celebrate! #SciArt
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We're #hiring! We have an exciting opportunity for an #EarthObservation Scientist - on a one year fixed term appointment (Maternity cover) - to work on topics related to #phytoplankton #PrimaryProduction, #PhytoplanktonDynamics and #biodiversity. Find out more and apply: pml.ac.uk/working-with...
November 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
We're #hiring! We have an exciting opportunity for an #EarthObservation Scientist - on a one year fixed term appointment (Maternity cover) - to work on topics related to #phytoplankton #PrimaryProduction, #PhytoplanktonDynamics and #biodiversity. Find out more and apply: pml.ac.uk/working-with...
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I was in a situation where a guy had lost his arm. He had put on a tourniquet and I administered his morphine. We were waiting for his airlift and I said I hope thats not your wanking hand. He replied I don’t need one I know your Mum😂
August 9, 2024 at 9:01 AM
I was in a situation where a guy had lost his arm. He had put on a tourniquet and I administered his morphine. We were waiting for his airlift and I said I hope thats not your wanking hand. He replied I don’t need one I know your Mum😂
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50 years ago, today, a whale exploded on an Oregon beach. 20 years later, before social media or video sharing sights or smartphones, it would become the first viral Internet video.
We sent it to each other in the mail.
The History of Exploding Whales Is the History of the Internet Itself
We sent it to each other in the mail.
The History of Exploding Whales Is the History of the Internet Itself
The History of Exploding Whales Is the History of the Internet Itself
My first whale video came in the form of a VHS tape mailed to me by a stranger from the internet.
www.vice.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:27 AM
50 years ago, today, a whale exploded on an Oregon beach. 20 years later, before social media or video sharing sights or smartphones, it would become the first viral Internet video.
We sent it to each other in the mail.
The History of Exploding Whales Is the History of the Internet Itself
We sent it to each other in the mail.
The History of Exploding Whales Is the History of the Internet Itself