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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 4h

Eastern Screech Owl (Megascops asio) illustration w custom photo background shot for the plate. Yale University Press, STREAMS: An Illustrated Guide, later in 2026.
🧪🌿🌎🪶 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm

Illustration of an Eastern Screech Owl wading through a shallow stream, looking for prey such as crayfish. Remarkably, some Screech Owls get as much as 75% of their diets from aquatic prey.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 4h

Page spread on the Great White Shark and Gray Seals in Cape Cod waters. From my book "A Field Guide to Cape Cod," Yale University Press. a.co/d/eK4A0sd
🧪🐡🌿🌎 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #sharks #CapeCod

Illustrated side view of a Great White Shark, with a photo of a swimming Gray Seal.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 4h

Guide to Florida & Gulf Coast: A Field Guide to the Southeast Coast & Gulf of Mexico. a.co/d/84EaWUL
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #AtlanticCoast #Florida #FloridaCoast #OBX

Book cover, also showing the NOBA Award.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 1d

Common Eastern Bumble Bee (Bombus impatiens) on Goldenrod (Solidago sp.). North Haven, CT, USA.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #garden #bugsky #biodiversity #pollinators #photography #macro #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #insect #bees #Apidae #macro #insects #flowers #InsectApocalyse

Close photo of a Bumble Bee on a Goldenrod branch with many yellow flowers.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 1d

Great Horned Owl study.
🧪🌿🌎🪶 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #birds #birdart #owls

Head study drawing of a Great Horned Owl. Done in Photoshop with a Wacom drawing tablet.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 1d

Jenny Lake, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA.
#GrandTeton #JennyLake #NationalParks #Landscape

Landscape photo of Jenny Lake, with the Grand Teton mountains in the background.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 1d

Wood Duck family. From my book A Field Guide to Long Island Sound, Yale University Press, a.co/d/ffZ6GFP
🧪🌿🌎🪶 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #birds #birdart #ducks

Illustration of male and female Wood Ducks, with four ducklings, in a swimming pose. Drawn in Photoshop with a Wacom tablet.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 2d

Red-Tailed Hawks, immature (top) and adult plumages. For a new book on stream ecology, Yale University Press, sometime in 2026. Photoshop w/Wacom tablet.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifephoto #macrophoto #macro #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #hawks #ornithology #freshwater

Illustration of perched immature and adult Red-Tailed Hawks (Buteo jamaicensis).

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 2d

Any news organization that treated "Will Trump Get Nobel?" as a remotely serious question, and not one more indication of his accelerating hallucinatory patterns, has some 'splaining to do.

Looking at you, all major news orgs.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 2d

If you find all this performative fascism outrageous, you're in good company. From today's "Strength in Numbers" Substack.

Poll data show that a significant majority of Americans oppose Trump's use of the military for political bullying.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 2d

Common fresh & brackish water herons along the U.S. East Coast. For my forthcoming book STREAMS: An Illustrated Guide, Yale University Press, 2026.
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #herons #Nightherons #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm

Illustration of three common heron species of the eastern U.S.: Black-Crowned and Yellow-Crowned Night-Herons, and a Green Heron. Drawn in Photoshop with a Wacom tablet.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 3d

Common Drone Fly (Eristalis tenax). See the notes in the ALT text.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #garden #bugsky #biodiversity #pollinators #photography #macro #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #insect #hoverflies #Syrphidae #macro #insects #flowers #InsectApocalyse #BatesianMimickry

A close photo of a bee-like Drone Fly on an Oxeye Daisy. The common drone fly (Eristalis tenax) is a classic example of Batesian mimicry, where a harmless species imitates a dangerous one to deceive predators. Though the drone fly is an insect, it mimics the appearance and behavior of a male honey bee (Apis mellifera), which possesses a painful sting. This deception allows the fly to avoid becoming a meal for insect-eating birds and other animals.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 3d

Good morning.

Common Eastern Bumble Bee on Garden Cosmos.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 3d

“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
– Bertrand Russell

Close photo of a Monarch butterfly feeding on a white and yellow Oxeye Daisy. Hammonasset Beach State Park, Connecticut, USA.

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Guild of Natural Science Illustrators @gnsiart.bsky.social · 4d

Check out Scientific American's Oct 2025 issue for some beautiful visualizations and a really interesting exploration of the ancient origins of bird migration! The evolutionary tree makes use of #SciArt by GNSI members Brittany Cheung & Rebecca Gelernter.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

Bird Migration Is One of Nature’s Greatest Spectacles. Paleontologists Just Found Clues to Its Origin

Tiny fossils hint at when birds began making their mind-blowing journey to the Arctic to breed

www.scientificamerican.com

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 4d

Brilliant!

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 4d

Book spread concept for the highly endangered North Atlantic Right Whales and their entanglement troubles with fishing gear in the Gulf of Maine. For a new book project.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #whales #RightWhales #GulfOfMaine

Illustration of a Right Whale, with maps and fishing boat photos rendered lightly in the background.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 4d

A racy-looking beast, the Four-Banded Stink Bug Hunter, Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus. Hammonasset Beach State Park, Madison, CT, USA.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #garden #bugsky #biodiversity #pollinators #photography #macro #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #insect #wasps #Hesperiidae #macro #insects

A close photo side view of a small wasp feeding on the yellow center florets of a white Oxeye Daisy.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 4d

Fascinating.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Why Concord?

The geological origins of the American Revolution

www.theatlantic.com

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 4d

Good morning.

A close photo of a Monarch butterfly feeding on an Oxeye Daisy flower.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 4d

Large canids of eastern North America: Eastern Coyote, Timber Wolf, and Red Wolf. Done in digital for my current field guide projects with Yale University Press. 🧪🌿🌎🐡 #SciArt #coyotes #wolves #wildlifeart #scicomm #artsci #artistsonbluesky #illustratorsky #illustratorsky

Portrait views of the Eastern Coyote, Timber Wolf, and Red Wolf, drawn in Photoshop with a Wacom tablet.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 5d

An iconic keystone species of the U.S. Atlantic Coast, the Blue Crab (Callinectes sapidus), or "beautiful, savory swimmer." For a new project.
🧪🌿🌎 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #crabs #BlueCrab

A very detailed top-view illustration of a female Blue Crab. Drawn with Photoshop and a Wacom drawing tablet.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 5d

Common Eastern Bumble Bee (Bombus impatiens) on Blue Wood-Aster. North Haven, Connecticut, USA.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #garden #bugsky #biodiversity #pollinators #photography #macro #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #insect #bees #Apidae #macro #insects #flowers #InsectApocalyse

Very close photo of a bumble bee collecting nectar and pollen on very light blue aster flowers.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 6d

Snapshots from the surface of the Jovian Moon Io. ;-)

Geothermal patterns in the Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA.

Geothermal patterns, Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 6d

Huron Sachems (Atalopedes huron), an autumn skipper species. North Haven, Connecticut, USA.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #garden #bugsky #biodiversity #pollinators #photography #macro #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #insect #Skippers #Hesperiidae #macro #insects #flowers #InsectApocalyse

Close photo of an orange-brown skipper butterfly on a fading Buddleja blossom.

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