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Kinda new to bluesky... ✍️ Science communicator—copywriting, content writing, multimedia editing. BraeuNERD.com 🎙️ Podcaster @ epistemas.com (new things are coming 😉) 🐸 Full-time nerd and conservationist. 🎨 Doodling and other art attempts here. 🇬🇹.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 1d

“If you share your knowledge outside the scientific community, then you’re already exerting societal influence, according to Judi Mesman. This isn’t problematic for the prestige of science: ‘Pretending to be neutral doesn’t make sense to me.’”

www.nwo.nl/en/there-is-...

‘There is no clear boundary between science and activism’ | NWO

If you share your knowledge outside the scientific community, then you’re already exerting societal influence, according to Judi Mesman. This isn’t problematic for the prestige of science: ‘Pretending to be neutral doesn’t make sense to me.’

www.nwo.nl

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BraeuNERD @ranabraeunerd.bsky.social · 11h

#inktoberShredded 🐛

#inktober #inktober2025

BraeuNERD @ranabraeunerd.bsky.social · 18h

#inktoberHeavy 🐘

Falling behind already, but still enjoying the stippling 🫶

#inktober #inktober2025

Ink stippling drawing of an elephant's foot

BraeuNERD @ranabraeunerd.bsky.social · 4d

This did not turn out how I pictured it 😂 but it's the #reckless salamander that jumps off cliffs to escape danger, here falling through the leaves 🌿🍃💃

#inktoberReckless

#inktober #inktober2025

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BraeuNERD @ranabraeunerd.bsky.social · 4d

Colleagues from CPSG will be at the #WorldConservationCongress this week: don't miss them 🐸🫶

Schedule here:
www.instagram.com/p/DPjjwVkDM9...

Or here: www.linkedin.com/posts/conser...

#IUCNcongress #ConservationScience🌎 #Conservation🌎

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BraeuNERD @ranabraeunerd.bsky.social · 5d

#inktoberStarfish #inktoberColor

Not entirely happy with this one, but it was good to play with colors for a change.

#inktober #inktober2025

BraeuNERD @ranabraeunerd.bsky.social · 6d

#inktoberPierce

They slash more than stab when hunting, but won't shy from a true pierce in self-defense.

#inktober #inktober2025

BraeuNERD @ranabraeunerd.bsky.social · 7d

#inktoberDeer

Still not comfortable drawing mammals and/with lines, but gotta start somewhere 😅.

#inktober #inktober2025

BraeuNERD @ranabraeunerd.bsky.social · 8d

#inktoberMurky

Mudskippers thrive in murky, tropical environments like mangrove swamps and mudflats, utilizing both water and land for survival.

#inktober #inktober2025

BraeuNERD @ranabraeunerd.bsky.social · 9d

#inktoberCrown

To impress, warn or threat, the royal flycatcher opens its feathery crown.

#inktober #inktober2025

BraeuNERD @ranabraeunerd.bsky.social · 10d

#inktoberWeaving Jumping spiders don't really weave webs to hunt; but they weave little sleeping bags within leaves to chill.

#inktober #inktober2025

BraeuNERD @ranabraeunerd.bsky.social · 10d

#inktoberWeaving Jumping spiders don't really weave webs to hunt; but they weave little sleeping bags within leaves to chill.

#inktober #inktober2025

BraeuNERD @ranabraeunerd.bsky.social · 10d

The September AArk Newsletter is out! With 6 stories of hope for #frogs and #salamanders all over #LatinAmerica 🐸

English version here: www.amphibianark.org/fileadmin/up...

Versión en Español: www.amphibianark.org/fileadmin/up...

#ConservationScience🌎 #Conservation #wildlife #SciComm

BraeuNERD @ranabraeunerd.bsky.social · 11d

First time I do the entire #SciArtSeptember 💪!! Now jumping into #inktober. I won't have the same time for October, and will try bigger/longer ideas, but here we go 🐒

#inktober2025 #inktoberMustache

BraeuNERD @ranabraeunerd.bsky.social · 12d

Day 30: Dream

In several cultures, foxes symbolize adaptability, intelligence, transformation...this one dreams with the adaptability of all the ecosystems and species drawn in this #SciArtSeptember challenge! As for the transformation: that's on us 😉🦊

#SciArt

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BraeuNERD @ranabraeunerd.bsky.social · 13d

#SciArtSeptember Day 29: Foresight

With increasing water levels, birds that lost nests to floods nest higher or farther inland the next year—a glimpse of natural foresight? Wildlife will find its own ways to climate adaptation. Will we?

#SciArt

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BraeuNERD @ranabraeunerd.bsky.social · 14d

#SciArtSeptember Day 28: Harvest

Leaf-cutting ants clip foliage not to eat, but to farm certain fungi—an underground harvest that feeds the colony and recycles forest nutrients.

#SciArt

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BraeuNERD @ranabraeunerd.bsky.social · 15d

#SciArtSeptember Day 27: Bounded

Oases form where groundwater reaches the surface, creating "islands" of other lifeforms bounded by desert. They're critical refuges for some migratory species. I'd love to see one/be in one, one day—have you?

#SciArt

Ink drawing of an oasis viewed from above

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BraeuNERD @ranabraeunerd.bsky.social · 16d

#SciArtSeptember Day 26: Forage

A quick late and tired sketch today 😅

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BraeuNERD @ranabraeunerd.bsky.social · 17d

#SciArtSeptember Day 25: Tireless

At first I thought the Monarch butterflies flew tirelessly until reaching their overwintering grounds, but since finishing this drawing and looking it up I've learned they do take breaks. But still, +100km a day for a total of 4000 km?! Tireless!

#SciArt

Black ink drawing of a monarch butterfly

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BraeuNERD @ranabraeunerd.bsky.social · 18d

#SciArtSeptember Day 24: Numbered.

Tree rings record annual growth in temperate zones, letting dendrochronologists date age and even climate events. Tropical trees often lack clear seasonal rings though, making age estimates trickier, but not impossible.

#SciArt

Ink drawing of a cross cut of a tree, depicting the tree rings.

BraeuNERD @ranabraeunerd.bsky.social · 19d

#SciArtSeptember Day 23: Scouting

In many ant species, a lone or couple of lone scouts go out in search for food before recruiting the whole colony, leaving a pheromone trace along the way to find it again and to later "guide the crew".

#SciArt

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BraeuNERD @ranabraeunerd.bsky.social · 20d

#SciArtSeptember Day 22: Fellowship

Wildlife is both brutal and beautiful, yet full of surprising partnerships. From mutualism to simple coexistence, we can take inspiration from these relationships and remind ourselves that collaboration takes us further, too.

#SciArt

Ink drawing of a butterfly "riding" on top of a turtle on top of a crocodile.

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 21d

#SciArtSeptember Day 21: Reef

illustration fragment of a colourful coral reef, full of marine life

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BraeuNERD @ranabraeunerd.bsky.social · 21d

#SciArtSeptember Day 21: Reef

Coral reefs can reproduce both sexually and asexually. Some species are male or female, some are hermaphrodites, & some even switch sex with age! That's called 'sequential hermaphroditism' and it increases the individual's reproductive potential.

#SciArt

Ink drawing of a coral reef seen from above

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