Rebecca Gelernter
@nearbirdstudios.bsky.social
Science illustrator and designer. I like things with feathers. She/her
Portfolio: www.nearbirdstudios.com
Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/nearbirdstudios
Portfolio: www.nearbirdstudios.com
Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/nearbirdstudios
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Hello #PortfolioDay! I'm Rebecca, a science and medical illustrator who loves birds and other feathered creatures 🐡🪶🧪
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Please sign folks... 🙏
The Guga “hunt” must end. Sign the petition: petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...
December 9, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Please sign folks... 🙏
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"I don't think I've ever seen anything quite so stupid in my life," muttered Ford to himself.
December 9, 2025 at 6:53 AM
"I don't think I've ever seen anything quite so stupid in my life," muttered Ford to himself.
Painting all the rocks I drew
December 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Painting all the rocks I drew
Anyone want to pick up some milk for me
December 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Anyone want to pick up some milk for me
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He did not want his photo taken while he was soggy
December 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
He did not want his photo taken while he was soggy
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I love love love that they hired a painter to do these portraits and then acknowledged her by name. Artists of all kinds supporting each other is so beautiful.
Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!
December 7, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I love love love that they hired a painter to do these portraits and then acknowledged her by name. Artists of all kinds supporting each other is so beautiful.
STOP THE PRESSES I booped Louie's beak and he booped my finger back, as he often does, but this time he said "boop" 🧡
December 7, 2025 at 12:24 AM
STOP THE PRESSES I booped Louie's beak and he booped my finger back, as he often does, but this time he said "boop" 🧡
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Playing in the wind
December 6, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Playing in the wind
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December 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Ooohhh I love this
Check out our cover article by @timjanicke.bsky.social and colleagues about the role of sexual selection in animal speciation. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic.... The beautiful illustration is by Katharina Bóth.
December 6, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Ooohhh I love this
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Support us dry dry humans
December 2, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Support us dry dry humans
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California unveiled an online portal to report potentially illegal activity by federal law enforcement, including ICE agents, to the state Department of Justice.
You can now report crimes by federal agents in California
California unveiled an online portal to report potentially illegal activity by federal law enforcement, including ICE agents, to the state Department of Justice.
www.berkeleyside.org
December 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
California unveiled an online portal to report potentially illegal activity by federal law enforcement, including ICE agents, to the state Department of Justice.
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Another comic from this past year. Sometimes I'm in awe about how incredibly small birds can be.
December 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Another comic from this past year. Sometimes I'm in awe about how incredibly small birds can be.
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I, too, visited this exhibition and took pictures of my favorite guys
December 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I, too, visited this exhibition and took pictures of my favorite guys
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A cluster of juvenile Pachycephalosaurs shelter from an early spring downpour as the adult members of the clan stand watch against roaming predators. A pair of small pterosaurs attempt to stay dry beneath a fallen log nearby. #fossilfriday #paleoart
December 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
A cluster of juvenile Pachycephalosaurs shelter from an early spring downpour as the adult members of the clan stand watch against roaming predators. A pair of small pterosaurs attempt to stay dry beneath a fallen log nearby. #fossilfriday #paleoart
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Some of my favorite Guys from the MFA's Rachel Ruysch exhibit 🎨
December 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Some of my favorite Guys from the MFA's Rachel Ruysch exhibit 🎨
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they should have a separate color of the year for people who haven’t lost the will to live
December 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
they should have a separate color of the year for people who haven’t lost the will to live
Weird nervous system thing: I had to get lidocaine for a filling replacement this morning, and while half my face was numb, I got a tiny little itch under my lip. Tried to scratch it and, of course, nothing. But the itch remained! Very strange.
December 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Weird nervous system thing: I had to get lidocaine for a filling replacement this morning, and while half my face was numb, I got a tiny little itch under my lip. Tried to scratch it and, of course, nothing. But the itch remained! Very strange.
Medical illustration is usually pretty clinical, but let it not be said that nobody ever got weird with it. That's not a coral reef those three fetal skeletons are standing on, it's a flesh sculpture including blood vessels, kidney stones...are those alveoli?...and a bird. By Frederik Ruysch 🐡🎨
December 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Medical illustration is usually pretty clinical, but let it not be said that nobody ever got weird with it. That's not a coral reef those three fetal skeletons are standing on, it's a flesh sculpture including blood vessels, kidney stones...are those alveoli?...and a bird. By Frederik Ruysch 🐡🎨
Some of my favorite Guys from the MFA's Rachel Ruysch exhibit 🎨
December 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Some of my favorite Guys from the MFA's Rachel Ruysch exhibit 🎨
The decadence of deciding not to put the bins out 😌
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 AM
The decadence of deciding not to put the bins out 😌
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Please join us in sending heartfelt thanks and condolences to the extraordinary team of animal care specialists and veterinarians who provided the best care for Claude every day. And thank you for loving Claude so fiercely over the years.
December 2, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Please join us in sending heartfelt thanks and condolences to the extraordinary team of animal care specialists and veterinarians who provided the best care for Claude every day. And thank you for loving Claude so fiercely over the years.
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truly feels like every day we are waiting for someone in the press room to point out that the emperor has no clothes
someone will, someday, and the tide will turn, and these people’s children and grandchildren will be deeply ashamed of them; but they aren’t there yet, and it’s maddening
someone will, someday, and the tide will turn, and these people’s children and grandchildren will be deeply ashamed of them; but they aren’t there yet, and it’s maddening
He can't stay awake. Or walk. Or speak. I'm so sick of the GOP denial. The embarrassing flattery parades. The complicit press standing silent while he drones on incomprehensibly or insults colleagues who dare to question his lies. Or laughing obligatorily at his non-jokes. I'm just so tired of it.
December 2, 2025 at 11:29 PM
truly feels like every day we are waiting for someone in the press room to point out that the emperor has no clothes
someone will, someday, and the tide will turn, and these people’s children and grandchildren will be deeply ashamed of them; but they aren’t there yet, and it’s maddening
someone will, someday, and the tide will turn, and these people’s children and grandchildren will be deeply ashamed of them; but they aren’t there yet, and it’s maddening