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Robert Back

@rback.bsky.social

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[Contemporary] art[ist] Lecturer at Novia UAS. Finland Also Natural history illustrations. Biology, ecology, conservation Blog (Swedish) about various animals I meet and document in, mostly, nearby surroundings: http://utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com

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Robert Back @rback.bsky.social · 18d

Trump-administrationen:
En mäktig massförstörelsekult som söker kortsiktig vinning för några enstaka individer.
yle.fi/a/7-10086191...

USA hotar Finland och andra som vill skära ner sjöfartens koldioxidutsläpp

Den här veckan avgörs om sjöfartsbranschens plan går igenom. USA hotar beslutsfattare och länder med sanktioner för att stoppa planerna.

yle.fi

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Lisa Röstlund @lisarostlund.bsky.social · 19d

Otroligt skrämmande och sorgligt.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/8q...

Första tröskelpunkten nådd: ”Korallreven är förlorade”

Den första tröskelpunkten är nådd. Korallreven är förlorade. Det skriver 160 forskare från 23 länder i en ny rapport.

www.aftonbladet.se

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Lisa Röstlund @lisarostlund.bsky.social · 18d

Vi träffar Greta Thunberg hemma i hennes kollektiv. Och får höra om tortyren hon och de andra i flottiljen utsattes för. I vår granskning framgår att UD tonat ned allvaret i situationen, i sin kommunikation med anhöriga under fångenskapen. Bilder av Magnus Wennman.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/0V...

”De sparkade på mig varje gång flaggan nuddade mitt ansikte”

Greta Thunberg om skräckdygnen i israeliskt fängelse Slag, sparkar och hot om att gasas i burar. Greta Thunberg och flera andra ur flottiljen berättar nu detalj

www.aftonbladet.se

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Robert Back @rback.bsky.social · 21d

Totalt 40 holkar för flygekorre färdigställdes i går på talko (finlandssvenskt ord för gemensamt frivilligarbete).

Holkar för flygekorre. Även sparvuggla kan nyttja dem.

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Chris Nagano @charliesaito22.bsky.social · Oct 2

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Robert Back @rback.bsky.social · Oct 2

Muscina pascuorum.
Currently 849 (and counting) animal species observed in the garden and 1303 animal species in the blog.
Blogpost in Swedish:
utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2025/10/trad...

#Invertebrate 🐙
#Diptera 🪰
#Insects #Muscidae #Biodiversity #Macrophotography

Robert Back @rback.bsky.social · Oct 2

We desperately need an enormous amount of Jane Goodalls in this world in order to break the momentum of society and planet destroying death cult persons currently multiplying as leaders both here and there.

Gene Doctor Gene @isog.bsky.social · Oct 2

Remembering Jane Goodall:
Read this inspiring cover story about the wonderful scientist and brave guardian, from the July 2024 issue of STEM Magazine. Here’s the link: article by Dr. Brad McLain
stemmagazine.com/gJULY24/view... 🧪🌎 📚 🙏

Robert Back @rback.bsky.social · Oct 2

"I didn't se it"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 2

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · Sep 30

Photo of Trump's terrible makeup line and thin hair saying I'm a very aesthetic person

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Robert Back @rback.bsky.social · Sep 30

Oh the recognition! Lovely!
My doofuses are asleep right now though. Also sometimes taking care of an axolotl or chicxulub or…?

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Robert Back @rback.bsky.social · Sep 30

Female Drapetisca socialis and the Oribatid Cymbaeremaeus cymba (nymph) as bycatch.
Blog post in Swedish:
utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2025/09/trad...

#Invertebrate 🐙
#Arachnida #Acari #Araneae #Linyphiidae #Oribatida
#Biodiversity #Macrophotography

Drapetisca socialis and Cymbaeremaeus cymba on birch trunk

Robert Back @rback.bsky.social · Sep 29

Horribly painful or the most fantastic sensation when being dissolved this way? Or neither?
Araneus diadematus and Sericomyia silentis.
utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2025/09/trad...

#Invertebrate 🐙
#Diptera 🪰
#Spiders #Insects #Araneidae #Syrphidae #Biodiversity #Macrophotography

Araneus diadematus with captured Sericomyia silentis.

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Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · Sep 26

Falling behind in schedule, but
#SciArtSeptember 21 - Reef

Currently, our ocean life is threatened by the climate crisis. Fossils tell us it’s not the first time: in the past, many species have been wiped out by heating. This one is set in the Late Triassic to Early Jurassic, 201 million years ago.

A colourful and detailed illustration of a late triassic lively tropical reef that at the midpoint of the image turns into an early jurassic desolate landscape of bleached corals and algal blooms, depicting the oceanic extinction event of the late Triassic. Overlaid on the illustration is a temperature curve, going from cool to hot.

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Robert Back @rback.bsky.social · Sep 28

Female Sericomyia silentis.
Two more images and something in Swedish here:
utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2025/09/trad...

#Invertebrate 🐙
#Diptera 🪰
#Insects #Insekter #Flugor #Syrphidae #Blomflugor #Kärpäset #Hyönteiset #Hoverflies #Hoverfly #Kukkakärpäset #Biodiversity #Macrophotography

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · Sep 23

Autistic folks are _heavily_ represented in STEM fields, so it would be far more accurate to say:

Autism causes vaccines.

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Patrick McCann @pjmccann3.bsky.social · Sep 19

Former staffers of Climate.gov are launching a new site: www.climate.us

🧪

Climate.us

independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics

www.climate.us

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Robert Back @rback.bsky.social · Sep 18

Painted - kind of "traditionally" - in Photoshop.

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Robert Back @rback.bsky.social · Sep 18

Nucifraga caryocatactes macrorynchos.
Illustration for Finlands Natur #3/2025.
Sticking to strict lateral view.

#SciArt #Birds #ornithology #Illustration

🐡🪶

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Mathias Cederholm @mathiasced.bsky.social · Sep 14

Ukraina i en märklig sits. Attackerar allt fler raffinaderier, börjar märkas av i Ryssland. Men Ukrainas "vänner" i väst säger "inte för mycket, det stör globala marknaden". Samma EU-"vänner" som köpt fossilt för 200 miljarder € av Ryssland under krigsåren (mer pengar än milit. stödet till Ukr)?

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Robert Back @rback.bsky.social · Sep 13

Kvadratspindel (Araneus quadratus) - en relativt vanlig art som jag dokumenterat först nu.
Mer om det här:
utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2025/09/bada...

#invertebrate #Spider #Spiders #Araneae #Araneidae 🐙🕷️
#Orbweavers #Spindlar #Hämähäkit #Macrophotography #Biodiversity

Robert Back @rback.bsky.social · Sep 12

The entomologist song
youtu.be/6cbrmyg1UTg?...

#entomology #Bugs

Bugs

YouTube video by Jesse Welles

youtu.be

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Robert Back @rback.bsky.social · Sep 12

I both want and need this on vinyl!

Orange Dotard Slayer @dotard-slayer.bsky.social · Sep 12

Robert Back @rback.bsky.social · Sep 12

Everything in Swedish though. But the photos are in esperanto.

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Robert Back @rback.bsky.social · Sep 12

I imagine there might have been pupae around when I took those photos august 23. But I didn't search any. I was mainly looking for other critters right then and the ladybirds came as "bycatch".
Here's the ladybirds I normally encounter around here.
utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/search/label...

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