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 🐡🪶🧪
This is a person who makes a lot of fantastic spoons, but these are instantly my new favorites!
A repost...
'Eel Conceived' ~ Wooden spoon carved in Sapele wood with 30,000 year old Kauri base.
I was halfway through this project before I realized the title implied an offspring.
The last image is the original sketch as the idea occurred.
#spoon #woodworking #art #craft #sculpture #wood
'Eel Conceived' ~ Wooden spoon carved in Sapele wood with 30,000 year old Kauri base.
I was halfway through this project before I realized the title implied an offspring.
The last image is the original sketch as the idea occurred.
#spoon #woodworking #art #craft #sculpture #wood
December 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM
This is a person who makes a lot of fantastic spoons, but these are instantly my new favorites!
Reposted by Rebecca Gelernter
Artwork for cards I made this year, featuring a Bohemian Waxwing. Stamped from a linocut, which I'm still pretty new at. I have a small number of extras, if anyone would like one message me!
December 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Artwork for cards I made this year, featuring a Bohemian Waxwing. Stamped from a linocut, which I'm still pretty new at. I have a small number of extras, if anyone would like one message me!
Reposted by Rebecca Gelernter
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
Reposted by Rebecca Gelernter
The light that never goes out (plus candles for the Bondi Beach victims)
December 15, 2025 at 2:46 AM
The light that never goes out (plus candles for the Bondi Beach victims)
Reposted by Rebecca Gelernter
Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
December 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
It's worth sharing the negative side of living with a parrot sometimes. Louie was in a mood today and bit me hard twice, the way he did the first several months after I adopted him. This is after about a week of being grumpy in the morning. All birds are good birds, but this is what you sign up for.
December 15, 2025 at 3:28 AM
It's worth sharing the negative side of living with a parrot sometimes. Louie was in a mood today and bit me hard twice, the way he did the first several months after I adopted him. This is after about a week of being grumpy in the morning. All birds are good birds, but this is what you sign up for.
It is time 🕎
December 15, 2025 at 3:19 AM
It is time 🕎
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railroad worms on a date
December 14, 2025 at 1:10 AM
railroad worms on a date
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If anyone knows how to identify planthopper parasite moths (Fulgoraecia exigua), could you please help me out on this iNaturalist observation? #inaturalist #moths #lepidoptera www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Insects (Class Insecta)
Insects from Swarthmore, PA 19081, USA on July 30, 2024 at 11:41 AM by Colin Purrington
www.inaturalist.org
December 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
If anyone knows how to identify planthopper parasite moths (Fulgoraecia exigua), could you please help me out on this iNaturalist observation? #inaturalist #moths #lepidoptera www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Fluffy, toothy birds
Absolute furry wonders from the Dinosaur Exhibition at the Shanghai Natural History Museum
#FossilFriday
#FossilFriday
December 13, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Fluffy, toothy birds
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watch me draw an extremely realistic struthiomimus in under three minutes*
*like 70 minutes irl
*like 70 minutes irl
December 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
watch me draw an extremely realistic struthiomimus in under three minutes*
*like 70 minutes irl
*like 70 minutes irl
Oh hell yes I do
New paper out. If you like colorful birds, hybridization, and phylogenetics, read on! 🧵https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003501
A colorful legacy of hybridization in wood-warblers includes frequent sharing of carotenoid genes among species and genera
Introgression between species can shape evolutionary trajectories in important ways. This study of the entire family of the colorful wood-warblers (Parulidae) uses whole-genome sequencing to reveal fr...
doi.org
December 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Oh hell yes I do
Painters, would it be weird if I cut down my one long brush that drives me crazy? Are sawn-off brushes a thing?
December 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Painters, would it be weird if I cut down my one long brush that drives me crazy? Are sawn-off brushes a thing?
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December 12, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Payne's Grey appreciation post
December 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Payne's Grey appreciation post
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Now that the scaffolding is gone, you can get a good look at a rare artform — heraldic palaeontology — above the Downing Street door of the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social
December 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Now that the scaffolding is gone, you can get a good look at a rare artform — heraldic palaeontology — above the Downing Street door of the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social
Rosa DeLauro's (CT 03) primary challenger needs to petition in order to get on the ballot. The official petition period is in the spring, but you can sign up to be notified on his site damjanforct.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Rosa DeLauro's (CT 03) primary challenger needs to petition in order to get on the ballot. The official petition period is in the spring, but you can sign up to be notified on his site damjanforct.com
Where are people using for POD shirts etc these days? I'm not going back to RedBubble 🐡🎨
December 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Where are people using for POD shirts etc these days? I'm not going back to RedBubble 🐡🎨
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Tune in for the final webinar in the Jamaica Bay Fall Colloquium series on Monday, December 15 from 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. We will welcome Dr. Mark Botton and Dr. Christina Colon to share research on the Horseshoe Crabs of Jamaica Bay. Register to receive Zoom details: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
December 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Paleocolor news! This is one of my absolute favorite areas of study. It's beyond mindblowing that we can learn these things about animals no human will ever see.
While the paper hasn't come out just yet, the news certainly has. Proud to announce our discovery of color patterning in a sauropod dinosaur. Will go in depth tomorrow.
December 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Paleocolor news! This is one of my absolute favorite areas of study. It's beyond mindblowing that we can learn these things about animals no human will ever see.
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Ok who wants a bizarre no stakes mystery to solve?
I had to go to the hospital by ambulance this morning (heart stuff, am ok now.)
A bunch of ambulance guys came into our living room to get me.
And now we
keep
finding
tiny
glass
ducks
On the floor.
I had to go to the hospital by ambulance this morning (heart stuff, am ok now.)
A bunch of ambulance guys came into our living room to get me.
And now we
keep
finding
tiny
glass
ducks
On the floor.
December 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Ok who wants a bizarre no stakes mystery to solve?
I had to go to the hospital by ambulance this morning (heart stuff, am ok now.)
A bunch of ambulance guys came into our living room to get me.
And now we
keep
finding
tiny
glass
ducks
On the floor.
I had to go to the hospital by ambulance this morning (heart stuff, am ok now.)
A bunch of ambulance guys came into our living room to get me.
And now we
keep
finding
tiny
glass
ducks
On the floor.
Reposted by Rebecca Gelernter
Just put a couple new prints up, including this silly guy 🐡🪶🎨
November 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Just put a couple new prints up, including this silly guy 🐡🪶🎨
There's something here with serifs and fonts that could do a pull-up, but I'm too tired to find it
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
There's something here with serifs and fonts that could do a pull-up, but I'm too tired to find it
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Love to see the Sedgwick County Zoo putting out a good explainer on why GenAI slop videos of animals are a problem & how to identify them! It’s succinct, easy to read, and doesn’t shame people for not knowing better. A+ useful link to share with family and friends.
scz.org/blog/the-rea...
scz.org/blog/the-rea...
The Reality of AI Animal Content – Sedgwick County Zoo
If you spend any time on social media, you’ve probably seen them – bears bouncing on trampolines, apes caught on doorbell cameras, or “rescued” wild animals acting in ways that seem too good to be…
scz.org
December 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Love to see the Sedgwick County Zoo putting out a good explainer on why GenAI slop videos of animals are a problem & how to identify them! It’s succinct, easy to read, and doesn’t shame people for not knowing better. A+ useful link to share with family and friends.
scz.org/blog/the-rea...
scz.org/blog/the-rea...
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This dude also now available 🐡🪶🎨
November 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
This dude also now available 🐡🪶🎨