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Lauren
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Biologist + Scientific Illustrator @ birdpop.org
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🏠 Oregon, USA
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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · Jan 14
All right all right time for a new #PortfolioDay. Hello! I'm Lauren, a biologist by day and scientific illustrator by... other times. I illustrate for publications, outreach materials, & sometimes board games! 🎨🪶🐡🧪🌎

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Digital illustration of a nosa' luta (Rota White-eye), a small yellow-green songbird with a white ring of feathers around the eye, and an orange beak and feet. This bird is drawn with its wings spread and feet held at the ready, about to land on an unseen branch. The background is a loose blur of colors similar to those in the canopy on Rota - bright yellows and greens, with hints of blue from the yoga berries abundant in this species' habitat. For personal use in my research with The Institute for Bird Populations. Illustration of an island (Bird Island, Saipan) set in a shallow tropical lagoon, fringed by Casuarina and coconut trees. The rocky island is covered in vegetation and tiny dots - lots and lots of birds! More birds are seen flying toward the island, and in the foreground some of these are identifiable as Brown Noddy and Red-tailed Tropicbird. For Nature (NorthStar Games) Illustration of an Indochinese Green-Magpie with its wings spread as it lands in a thicket of tropical foliage and flowers, all under a bright blue sky with a few soft clouds. This bird is brilliantly colored with a bright green crested head, black mask, red-orange wings, and fanned yellow tail with a black bar. For NorthStar Games' board game Nature. Commissioned portrait of a Phidippus californicus immature female on a stalk of Swiss chard. She is covered in fine tan hair as she peers inquisitively toward the viewer. She has long black hairs above the eyes at the corners of her head which look like eyelashes.
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lucidillusions.in
Here's a fern for you all.

#FernFriday #FrondFriday #Nature #Leaf 🌿🖌️
Close up of a frond, partially unfurled.
November 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
Your moment of calm: kestrel on a fence post. Out at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge with @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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hannahtempler.com
thinking about... tarantula paw
A very very very zoomed in close-up of a little tarantula paw. It looks like a little cats paw
November 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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tinylongwing.bsky.social
Black Friday? Black Sicklebill! This is one of the cards in the #boardgame Birdwatcher. These strange birds have long spoon-shaped feathers hanging off their shoulders which are *not* the wings - these can be folded to convert the bird into his strange display shape 🎨🪶🐡 see reply for video!
Illustration of a Black Sicklebill, a large black bird of paradise with a reflective turquoise patch on his back, red eyes, and a very long tail. The strangest feature are the wide rounded feathers that cascade past his shoulders, for use in display, but here they are folded in a resting position.
November 29, 2024 at 4:38 PM
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mush-photos.bsky.social
Hope you all like parrot mushrooms, because I'm going to have quite a few to share! Here's the second one we found ✌🏼🍄

📷 Canon R5 Mk II
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/2.8, 1/2, ISO 800
Stack of 68 images
11/22/25
Northern Oregon Coast

#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms

🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫
This is a photo of a mushroom with a bendy yellow stipe and green cap. Its stipe bends from the bottom left corner of the frame to the center, where the cap appears. The stipe and cap are very shiny and reflect the mushrooms surroundings. Bits of moss and fir needles litter the ground around it.
November 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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alexjholt.bsky.social
And last of our Costa Rican vertebrate collections; Reptiles!

R1: Green Iguana
A head shot of a large male green iguana, though in this case orange with it's breeding season colours.
November 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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jennalarza.bsky.social
Pocket Scully
Semi realistic Dana Scully doll wearing a coat
August 26, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
Stay strong, Hong Kong
A blue magpie holding a blooming bauhinia flower
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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albertonykus.bsky.social
New species of jewel-babbler, the hooded jewel-babbler (Ptilorrhoa urrissia), described based on individuals pictured in camera trap photos: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🪶🧪 (📷Woxvold et al.)
Sequence of camera trap photographs of songbirds on a forest floor. In the topmost photo, two birds are shown in a single photo, whereas the remaining photos show a single bird each. The birds have grayish bodies and black-and-white faces, with a brown "hood" on the top of the head and neck.
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Reposting #art since last time, bsky didn't have tags or feeds yet! This is my California Condor illustration for @instbirdpop.bsky.social and the May/June 2022 issue of The Wildlife Professional, "A Giant Loss" by RB. Siegel and R.L. Wilkerson. Did you know #condors nested in burned sequoias? 🎨🪶🐡🧪🌎
Full illustration for the article named in the post. This features a split image - on the left, a zoomed out view of a California Condor flying away from a giant sequoia within a forest. This sequoia has been through fire and has burn marks racing up the trunk, and a large hollow cavity about halfway up. On the right, an expanded box shows that inside that cavity, another condor, the mate to the first, is laying down inside the charred hollow, incubating unseen eggs. Detail crop from the main image showing a closeup of the incubating condor's wrist and the wood and bark texture of the edge of the tree hollow. Detail crop of the flying condor, showing its wrinkly head and outstretched enormous black wings with white underwing coverts. Detail crop of the incubating condor, showing in finer detail the wrinkly head with trace black fuzzy bristles on the forehead, a shaggy "mane" of long neck feathers, and large slightly iridescent black-purple wings and back.
October 25, 2024 at 2:43 PM
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For friendsofabracadaver on tumblr, a Least Bittern! Big thanks once again for the #Waymakers donation. The challenge is over for this year but I'll be wrapping up bird art for donors over the next couple weeks. Much appreciation to all of you who joined in!

🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
Digital painting of a Least Bittern clinging to green reeds as it aims downward, watching the water carefully for movement. It has yellow eyes, a very sharp pointy beak, and a mottled gray-yellow-reddish back. The water surface is murky and covered in little green duckweed leaves.
October 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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dirtysexyhistory.bsky.social
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.

Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
The smallest man on the planet and he knows it 🥹

(Mr Attidops cinctipes, the Brown Creeper)
Tiny brown stubby jumping spider, thick legs bunched around him, peering at you shyly The tiny man, dwarfed by my finger next to him, and he's peering at it
November 27, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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A Speckled Orbweaver!
This gorgeous little garden friend is only about 1cm across.
#spiders #invertebrates
Photograph of a small green orbweaver spider in the centre of its web against a black background. The Spider has a bright green abdomen with a slighlty darker green cephalothorax and legs. Its abdomen is speckled with cream and brown dots, and the tips of its legs grade to red.
November 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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mikemelton.bsky.social
A lovely butterfly that I found up above the Bribri community of Salitre in #CostaRica

I believe this is a Tracta Sister (Adelpha tracta)

#bugsky #butterflies #lepidoptera
Dark brown butterfly with wide wings and bright orange bands, resting on a dry twig among pale grass.
November 27, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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adapalmer.bsky.social
In the US, Catholic sisters return Wisconsin land to Ojibwe tribe in a historic first. The Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration have transferred a lakefront property to the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa for the same $30,000 they paid in 1966.
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For the first time, Catholic sisters return land to a Tribal nation
"This return represents more than the restoration of land — it is the restoration of balance, dignity, and our sacred connection to the places our ancestors once walked."
buff.ly
November 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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streetsblogla.bsky.social
This UCLA CA freeway project devastation study is very clear and informative... and the harms are very deep and awful. Worth at least a few minutes of your time.
November 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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saint-vagrant.bsky.social
wip, on the island
an in progress ink drawing of jack standing in a cemetery lush with sea grass, with the sea and low clouds beyond him
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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kanizo.bsky.social
Cosmic Squirrel ✨
Red squirrel jumping through space, with a long flowing tail turning into a nebula.
November 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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opb.org
A group of culinary students from the Siletz Valley School recently joined a trio of world-renowned Indigenous chefs to gain hands-on culinary skills and celebrate First Foods from the Americans and around the world.
Indigenous chefs are training the next generation of culinary students
The program's goal is to teach transferable, real-world skills to his students, and also to expose them to foods from around the world, including Indigenous, first nations foods from the Americas.
www.opb.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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tyleraking.com
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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spiderdaynightlive.bsky.social
look 👀
LOOK at the spider book 🕷️📘👀
gaze at its thoughtful features & reasonable price 💵🔍👀
$9.25 gets you everything you need to start spidering bookshop.org/p/books/spid...
need a more premium experience? i have a limited number of autographed copies available, each with a spider doodle; DM me
Photos of my field guide, Spiders of the United States & Canada, with text describing its features: "Basically, it's the book I wish I had when I started learning about spiders: slim + pocket-sized •written for all ages & easy to use •spiders sorted by how they hunt and where you might find them (you don't need to know scientific names to start identifying!) •covers 153 common species (USA+CAN) •only $10!" Photos of my field guide, Spiders of the United States & Canada, with text describing its features and arrows pointing to examples on the pages: "spiders sorted by how they hunt, descriptions for each family with ID advice and life history, photos for both male and female (for many species)"
December 17, 2024 at 10:44 PM
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naomikritzer.bsky.social
There's a pretty great Tumblr post about this:
A Tumblr post from user "nitewrighter," March 26. Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now? The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances. Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW. Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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paleontologizing.bsky.social
I made an infographic for this very reason!

Every year I encourage my viewers to print it out for their Thanksgiving turkey dinner, Christmas goose feast, Boxing Day budgie buffet, or any other ritual when people gather to dismember bird carcasses. I'm not a meat eater, but I try not to judge
"YOUR TURKEY IS A DINOSAUR" infographic, featuring the skeletons of a Velociraptor and turkey, helpfully labelled with osteological features which turkeys (and all birds) inherited from their theropod ancestors. It's grayscale for easy printing at home!
November 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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brandonfriedman.bsky.social
New pricing tiers at national parks based on who you are and where you come from is EXTREMELY Nazi stuff
axios.com Axios @axios.com · 2d
The Trump administration is raising national parks' prices and adding fees for international tourists from next year in an "America-first" initiative, the Interior Department announced.
Trump admin hikes national parks prices by up to $170 for international tourists
The Interior Department said the "America-first" policy will see "resident-only patriotic fee-free days" on some holidays.
www.axios.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:08 AM