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Olivia V. Ambrogio (she/her)
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#SciComm professional, writer, artist, biologist (Ph.D.). Scholar and gentlewoman. Very queer.
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tishamark.com
I have several small paintings in my shop, including framed pieces like this moody babe! These are nice for gifting if you happen to be looking for gift ideas.

Tisha Mark ©2025, Low Autumn Evening, oil on gessobord, 8"x6"

Available:
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#art #TraditionalArt #bsnm #SciArt
Original oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Low Autumn Evening" 8"x6" oil on Ampersand Gessobord (2025), shown in a maple frame at an angle from left to show paint texture and depth of frame. Loosely painted abstract-leaning atmospheric seascape with earth tones on a dark shore. The sky has orange and gray tones with hints of blue.
November 21, 2025 at 10:21 PM
squidfan.bsky.social
Another #folktaleweek drawing for “book.”
A woman runs through a dim forest clutching a book from which spoil scribbles that form into birds and bats
November 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
squidfan.bsky.social
A real snail shell in the #folktaleweek prompt “rain” 🐡
A green-skinned fairy peers out from beneath an empty snail shell during a rainstorm amongst the grass blades
November 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
squidfan.bsky.social
The highly scientifically accurate explanation of Night for #folktaleweek
Around the Earth, a golden fox and midnight-blue wolf run; the first carries sunlight with it, the other starlit darkness.
November 17, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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cannopworkings.bsky.social
A damp November tree #
#drawing #sciart #art #forest
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
squidfan.bsky.social
For the #Inktober finale, “award.” #penandink
An ink drawing of the grim reaper smiling and making the peace sign while leaning their scythe against one shoulder and holding a trophy for wheat hand harvesting
October 31, 2025 at 3:55 PM
squidfan.bsky.social
For #Inktober, “blast.”
Ink drawing of a ghost blasting a trumpet so that another ghost throws up its arms in fright, while a third looks on and laughs
October 21, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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celestialwhale.bsky.social
Sharing some cephalopod love for World Octopus Day! 💜🐙
'Purple Tentacles' (Ink & Watercolor)
#sciart #worldoctopusday #octopusart #cephalopods #watercolor
A giant purple tentacle curls around into a spiral within the rectangular frame.
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
squidfan.bsky.social
For the #inktober prompt “heavy,” in recognition of root-vegetable season #ink #SciArt
Ink (and colored ink-wash) drawing of an enormous sweet potato being held up by three tiny stylized people.
October 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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carlzimmer.com
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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October 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
squidfan.bsky.social
A Halloween-y take on the #Inktober prompt “pierce.” #SciArt #penandink
A black-and-white drawing of a very cute little rabbit at night, plunging its tiny fangs into a beet. At the points where the fangs piece the beet, there is a spurt of red ink.
October 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
squidfan.bsky.social
For the #Inktober prompt #murky
#SciArt #penandink
An ink and ink wash drawing of an octopus surrounded by darkness.
October 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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estheroyedele.bsky.social
I’m thrilled to share the launch episode of PEAS Talk — where we spill the science on #Planetary, #Earth, and #Atmospheric #Sciences. You can listen on any of your favorite platforms

#PEASTalkMoment #SciencePodcast #SciComm #PlanetaryScience #EarthScience #AtmosphericScience
October 4, 2025 at 8:45 AM
squidfan.bsky.social
Day 3 of #Inktober, “crown” for a kinglet. #SciArt #ink #penandink
A ballpoint pen drawing of a puffed-up ruby-crowned kinglet, wearing a crown with sparkling rubies in it.
October 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
squidfan.bsky.social
Mixing #SciArt and traditional #inktober challenge with the prompt “weave.”
A mixed ink and digital black and white drawing of a spider’s web against a dark background, with the spider crouched in the center, its bent legs obscuring its head.
October 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
squidfan.bsky.social
Distracting myself from the news with a challenge! Making #SciArt for #Inktober and the day 1 prompt of “mustache “
A pen drawing on white stone paper of a female walrus head and torso, with her mustache of whiskers very clearly visible
October 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
squidfan.bsky.social
Today a jumping spider hung out inside my nature journal, and I like to think that means I made it feel at home. #SciArt #NatureJournal
Photo of a large journal with mushroom drawings barely visible, and a page lifted up so that underneath you can see a jumping spider on a blank page.
October 1, 2025 at 1:04 AM
squidfan.bsky.social
A reminder for you from my #nature journal. #SciArt
Ink and watercolor drawing of three small pale orange fruits with noticeable dark blossom-like calyx areas. Text says, “it’s wild persimmon season!”
September 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
squidfan.bsky.social
Happy Rosh Hashanah and Fall Equinox to the Northern Hemisphere!
#fall #autum 🐡
A drawing of several kinds of leaves--maple, oak, tulip tree, sycamore--in red, orange, and brown, tumbling through the air, with the words "So may our enemies fall."
September 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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robcruickshank.bsky.social
#sciArt !
September 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
squidfan.bsky.social
This is also how I feel about “healthy choices.”
A drawing (attribution unknown) on a school bulletin board titled Healthy Voices. In it, a cartoon-style white, blond child is holding up an apple in one hand and a chocolate cupcake in the other. The child has a perturbed frown on her(?) face and her(?) eyes are drifting irresistibly towards the cupcake.
September 19, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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jennieindc.bsky.social
🚨 Breaking News 🚨

The Admin just destroyed $10M of birth control purchased by USAID for women in low-income countries. That birth control would have prevented 362,000 more unintended pregnancies, 110,000 more unsafe abortions, and 718 preventable maternal deaths.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
$10 Million in Contraceptives Have Been Destroyed on Orders From Trump Officials
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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lizzie-harper.bsky.social
This is a sprig of #Silverbirch #Betula pendula I painted years ago

I was messing about on photoshop, and just like the way it looked with unattached leaves.

Something as inconspicuous as a twig with #leaves can make a really interesting and challenging subject.

#botanicalillustration #sciart
Silver birch sprid on white paper, showing several catkins and pairs of leaves, pointing from right to left on the page. There are 4 loose leaves at the base of the sheet, and two in the upper right hand corner. This makes it look a bit like the leaves are fluttering down to earth after being blown off the twig in the wind.
September 12, 2025 at 10:40 AM
squidfan.bsky.social
Messing around, doodling using acorn-cap ink I made. #SciArt #penandink
Some very messy cursive writing in grey-brown ink about “sort of how a rabbit looks,” along with an ink drawing of a rabbit sitting.
September 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
squidfan.bsky.social
Drew this beech tree using iron-gall ink and ink wash I made from galls on a local swamp oak
#SciArt #NaturalInk
A black and white line drawing with grey shading of the double trunk of a beech tree with several long limbs stretching out from it
August 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM