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Lia Pas

@liapas.bsky.social

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#SciArt symptomatology and #anatomy #embroidery, writing, and #MECFS. A bit of music too. Canadian settler. she/her. https://linktr.ee/lia_pas

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Lia Pas @liapas.bsky.social · Jun 17

Late in 2024, Kathryn Vercillo of Threadstack and Create Me Free sent me some intriguing interview questions which I used as journaling prompts between liver infections. The interview is now online for all to read.

#SciArt #embroidery #MECFS

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THREADSTACK Interview with Lia Pas of The Slowest Thread

"When I'm symptomatic it helps to visualize what I am feeling and "dissect" those sensations to make them less overwhelming. Freehand stitching those sensations feels like a meditation practice."

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Eduardo Valdés-Hevia 👁️ @valdevia.art · 1d

Spontaneous Carcinometamorphosis, commonly known as Mancini's disease after the famed boxer-turned-crustacean Bruno Mancini, is a disease that will slowly turn skeleton to exoskeleton, hands to claws, lungs to gills, until a human being finds itself where all the roads of evolution lead: crab.

A textbook anatomical drawing of a human with a large crab claw for an arm. Some of the organs inside appear to be that of a crab's.

A black-and-white photo of a patient in a hospital, being held by two nurses. The man's arms are now crab claws, and his skin is turning into an exoskeleton. His eyes are now at the end of stalks.

A textbook showing three black-and-white pictures of a person's arm turning into a crab claw. The three stages read "Presymptomatic patient", with a regular man's arm, "Exoskeletalization", where the arms turns hard and segmented and the fingers start fusing, and "late stage transformation", where the arm is fully crab-like.

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Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 19h

A little nurse shark to celebrate Ava's first #SundayFishSketch.

A sketch of a young nurse shark in shades of green.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 14h

Wow, that really looks like the outline of some godlike yellow humanoid just starting to materialize out of the star stuff. His eyes are glowing red!

Astronomy and Beer @astronomyandbeer.bsky.social · 14h

First narrowband image: The Elephant’s Trunk Nebula.

25 hours of integration in the Hubble SHO palette using 6nm filters.

This one taught me how patient you have to be to see color in hydrogen, sulfur, and oxygen — but when it works, it really works.

#Astrophotography #photography #bluesky #beer

A high-resolution astrophotograph of the Elephant’s Trunk Nebula, a vast column of cosmic gas and dust set against a deep star field in the constellation Cepheus. The central “trunk” curves gracefully upward like a celestial tornado, glowing in intricate shades of gold, green, and blue — the result of mapping sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen emissions into the Hubble SHO color palette. Wisps of illuminated gas stream away from the trunk’s rim, sculpted by intense ultraviolet radiation from massive young stars nearby. Fainter tendrils and filaments of dust fan outward into the surrounding nebula, giving the impression of motion frozen in time. Tiny pinpoints of starlight pepper the background — some crisp and brilliant, others faint and ghostly, scattered across the dark expanse of interstellar space. The entire scene feels alive, like a galactic storm caught mid-creation, revealing both the power and elegance of star formation nearly 2,400 light-years from Earth.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 15h

Strike a pose (Common Grackle) #birds 🌿

Iridescent black bird with bright blue neck and head, yellow eye and pointy, downward curve beak. Bird is perched on the edge of a concrete bird bath with beak pointed skyward. Background is soft focus green and pink.

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alison (she/her) FREE LINK @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 14h

Hey!

Being alive is hard work.
Pat yourselves on the backs for making it through another day.
Let's all help each other make it through tomorrow, too.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Spooky Boo @spookyboo.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, not sorry, neighbors.

Multiple plastic skeletons bow down on the grass or kneel with their palms up towards their god - the 12’ plastic skeleton standing behind the fence line

Two plastic skeletons bow on their knees in the grass while one has a single knee down and his palms outstretched towards their god - the 12’ plastic skeleton standing behind the wood fence

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Colpizen @colpizen.bsky.social · Aug 4

Because sciart isn't apolitical
"To write poetry that is not political, I have to listen to the birds. and to listen to the birds, the noise of the bombers must stop.
Marwan Makhoul."
#openthegates

Small cute great tit illustration, with a small keffiyeh. text : stop genocide urbicide ecocide stop colonization stop starvation.
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"To write poetry that is not political, I have to listen to the birds. and to listen to the birds, the noise of the bombers must stop.
Marwan Makhoul."

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 2d

Can we talk about an exciting fall visitor to the yard this week?: Purple Finch! #birds (1/7)

Bird that looks like a sparrow dipped in cranberry juice is perched on the edge of a bird bath.

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michellelernerauth.bsky.social @michellelernerauth.bsky.social · 1d

My mentee Fatima just evacuated from Gaza on a scholarship and is trying to raise money to support her family back home through two one-hour tatreez (Palestinian embroidery) classes next weekend. Information on how to sign up is at the end of her video.

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Still COVIDing Canada @stillcovidingca.bsky.social · 2d

Masks will be required in all Health P.E.I. facilities starting Oct. 14

CBC News
October 10, 2025
By Brittany Spencer, Marilee Devries

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#COVID #health #PEI #CovidIsNotOver

Masks will be required in all Health P.E.I. facilities starting Oct. 14

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Suzanne 🪡 in Brno: Oct 17-19🪡 @anatomoth.bsky.social · Sep 10

The Real AnatomyMoths. A new series I haven’t shared with you yet. They will be turned into stickers, 20x20cm prints and if my budget lets me: wooden pins!
These are the first 4 ones, hope you like them!

hand tendons anatomy moth digital drawing

lung and heart anatomy moth digital drawing

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Lia Pas @liapas.bsky.social · 1d

So good!!!

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Colleen Iversen @colleeniversen.bsky.social · 1d

Nearly done! Pretty girl - I love the shadows from her feathers. ✨
#Embroidery

A partially embroidered ptarmigan - a large white bird with grey shadows, standing in a painted snowy back gourd with shrub tops sticking up around her.

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Lia Pas @liapas.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, please!

Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 1d

This black gown with a swoop of gold lace at the hem is actually a nightgown, but honestly it seems to me a perfect night on the town kind of dress and far too glamorous to be kept indoors. Late #1930s @ngvmelbourne.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A mannequin posed in a long sleeveless silk robe with a high neck and ties fall centre back. The hem is trimmed with gold lace

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 1d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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David Brace @davidbrace2.bsky.social · 1d

"Alit (Rocky Mountain High)", oil on vintage map, 10 1/4 x 14", 2025- $450 (Cdn). #art #sciart

A map of the Rocky Mountains along the border of BC & Alberta, Canada covered with 5 painted butterflies & 5 caterpillars. One butterfly, an orange, brown, black & white Painted Lady, sits in the top left corner, beside it is a grey, black & orange Rocky Mountain Parnassian, lower to the right is an orange & black Monarch & the Mourning Cloak, purple & brown with blue spots & a white fringe. At the bottom facing down is a buttery yellow & black Western Tiger Swallowtail.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 2d

Haven't been to the post office in ages; surely someone needs a #sciart artologica.etsy.com

various science themed ink and watercolor paintings

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Lia Pas @liapas.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you! The needle minder is by ShelliCan

Lia Pas @liapas.bsky.social · 1d

This looks amazing!!!

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Super Nintendo Chalmers @snchalmers.bsky.social · 2d

Obviously Canadian thanksgiving

Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 2d

Walked into a Canadian Tire and no longer know what holiday season we’re celebrating anymore

Grim Reaper plays heavy metal guitar next to a display of Christmas trees

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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 2d

Devil Wars: Prada 2

billboard @billboard.com · 2d

‘Gird Your Loins’: Lady Gaga Set to Appear in ‘The Devil Wars Prada 2’

Lady Gaga is set to appear in 'The Devil Wears Prada 2,' according to a report.

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 2d

hey canadian friends you can tell the govt what you think about AI (🚮)! survey closes at the end of the month. it's a tad long but worth it. #CanPoli
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Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renew...

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Lia Pas @liapas.bsky.social · 3d

Yay! It sounds like you had a decent appointment. It’s always nerve wracking to see a new specialist.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 3d

Saskatchewan

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 4d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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