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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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danhawk333.bsky.social
🚆 art train! 🚆

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Pen drawing of a large, vaguely humanoid figure with a simple disc for a face surrounded by a thick oval halo while two organic limbs rise from behind it's shoulders while it opens up wings that reveal the void of space with stars as they arc around it's body that seems to be made up of several other figures and forms as if a portal. In front of this are several figures in poses suggesting that they are worshipping this scene while all around are strange ancient cathedral looking ruins with ancient Egyptian style textures and patterns. Pen drawing of a humanoid with a void and a single star-like pin point of light in the center. Their unclothed but low definition body flows down into a number of organic shapes and semi-human faces that make up the overgrown mass of eyes, and root like structures. Up the sides it flows up into aged bone and metal structures that eventually becomes a set of highly complex technological structures that radiate outward from a marble like halo that surrounds the head. Pen drawing of a silvery tree like structure made up of individual threads that flows to the top of the page, surrounded by a coppery sky with the threads flowing into a large eye like structure that is above a vaguely human looking face that is flanked by two bluish orbs and surrounded by a number a coppery and silver roots and threads that it is unclear if it is engulfing the body or is the body belonging to the head with hands sort of drooping in front of it. Flanking the silver filaments are two figures made up of shadows, one with horns and the other almost headless looking with large wings and a headdress of crescents pointing downward while a female figure kneels on the right next to a column of symbols while on the left is a column, vaguely root like that ends in an animalistic face Pen drawing of a tall, slender feminine being made of black space with white symbols showing on the body and white ellipses in place of the face with an upturned crescent moon shaped headdress or horns with another circular one over the head in a 2/3 halo. This being is standing among several jet black tentacles in front of a large stone ruin with cathedral like overtones and lurking between the columns is a tentacled eldritch horror with several tentacles wrapped around and oozing between the columns with a gas giant looking planet several times the size of the moon in part of the sky visible in the upper right corner.
November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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swhikt.bsky.social
All bad things lead back to Reagan chart
November 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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asleepywanderer.bsky.social
It's that time of year again. If you're in Scotland and go see the sunrise on a partly clear morning near the Cobbler in Arrochar, you might get lucky and see the grass dramatically lit up by the sun before it hits the mountains.
Mountains at sunrise. The foreground is lit up orange by the rising sun. There is a cloud on top of a mountain in the background, with some fog coming down, lit up by the sun. The Cobbler at sunrise. The foreground (grass and trees) is lit up in yellow-orange by the rising sun. The Cobbler is dark and foreboding against a cloudy background. A sunrise behind mountains. The sun is shining from in between two mountains, with a soft ray of light coming through. Mountains at sunrise. The foreground is lit up orange by the rising sun. The mountains are dark against the clouds.
November 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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pitbool.com
Crested, or #cristate #saguaros are a rare (est. 1 in 200,000) and little understood phenomenon here in the #Sonoran #Desert. Suspected causes range from frost and lightning damage to genetic mutation to hormonal changes to geomagnetism.

#landscape
#photography
#plants
#botany
#saguaro
#cactus
Crested, or cristate saguaro in the Sonoran Desert. Crested, or cristate saguaro in the Sonoran Desert. Crested, or cristate saguaro in the Sonoran Desert. Crested, or cristate saguaro in the Sonoran Desert.
November 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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throughthereeds.bsky.social
The yuccas at White Sands are so striking 🌵

#BlueskyArtShow #Bright #BotanicalArt #OilOnCanvas
An oil painting of a handful of yuccas at White Sands in New Mexico. The sand takes on the oranges and blues of the sun and the sky, and the sky is bright and cloudless.
November 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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flyingtrilobite.com
The SciArt Feed 🐡 is currently #42 out of the Top 50 Feeds by subscribers according to blueskyfeeds.com!

blueskyfeeds.com/feeds/top
November 15, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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trigonotarbida.bsky.social
Well this is as done as it's going to get. Tiliqua frangens, a megafauna skink from pleiocene and pleistocene australia with large pointy scales feeding on spring wildflowers. #palaeoart #palaeoart #reptile #lizard
Digital illustration of a brown skink with white markings with large pointy scales, it is eating wildflowers and there are vegetated sand dunes in the background.
November 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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chuckwendig.bsky.social
JFC FFS
truthout.org Truthout @truthout.org · 3d
Congress’s shutdown deal eliminated key food safety rules, blocking agencies from enforcing measures to prevent contamination and trace outbreaks. This rollback has coincided with a surge in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.
Shutdown Deal Kills Rules to Prevent Food Contamination and Foodborne Illnesses
The gutting of these rules coincides with a huge increase in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.
truthout.org
November 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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sonichedgeblog.bsky.social
'Shadow The Hedgehog' was released on the Nintendo Gamecube 20 years ago today in the US.
November 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
In Arizona, the brown-skinned, Spanish speaking people have been there, many of them, upwards of 15,000 years, whereas the English speakers likely slipped over the border last weekend. But ICE can't get its mind around actual history. newrepublic.com/post/203195/...
ICE Almost Deports Native American Woman
Leticia Jacobo was about to be deported, despite her Social Security number and tribal identification.
newrepublic.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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tamvmat.bsky.social
Inprnt is having a free shipping event for orders over $30.
A wonderful time to check out my print gallery there 😊

👉 www.inprnt.com/gallery/tamv...

#sciart #natureart #moths #crabs #inverts
A large green Luna moth sitting on morning glory flowers A Dungeness crab with barnacles and bladderwrack seaweed
November 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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georgeouthwaite.bsky.social
The sweet wrapper paintings
gouache/oil
Painting of apple flowers Painting of orange with segments
November 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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daryllmarie.bsky.social
Should I ask him for a kayak? 🪶🌿
A turkey vulture stands on a sign, wings outspread. The sign reads “kayak rentals available upon request”
November 11, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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ajcousins.bsky.social
Redpoll! One of the older gentlemen I see a lot while birding told me that it's been four years since we've had them in Chicago. I saw one a week ago, but couldn't get a pic. NOW I'm happy. 😂 #birds
Photo of a Redpoll with a magenta forehead curled around a twig with a spiky dried seed pod at the end, against a background of dried prairie grasses
November 15, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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clever-reports.bsky.social
We report: after the fact, we think we drove through the rainbow, or by it, or under it. We cannot recall how it went exactly, although there were a lot of light and colours, and the rain glittered. And then, the rainbow faded so soon anyway, the whole moment felt like a dream.
Digital painting of a blue sky, half covered in rain clouds. There is a rainbow in the middle, with a bright section showing against the clouds, looking washed out against the blue of the sky.
November 15, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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kindracrick.com
A print of a neuron forest I made during my artist residency at Sitka.

Cerebral Wilderness
6” x 8”
Intaglio and spit-bite aquatint

#printmaking #neurons #sciart
Black and white intaglio spit-bite print of a landscape with neuron trees. Image 6” x 9” in a edition of 10 By Kindra Crick #art
November 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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micathemineral.bsky.social
This is such a good point, I'm always looking for weird angles to use as ref, but never think to upload them myself. You've inspired me to upload this snow bunting butt to Macaulay right now.
Photo of a snow bunting from behind.
November 14, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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aimeecozza.com
Ages ago (13 years now) I did a series called Trash Birds that was birds + how environmental, manmade things affect them

this is 1 of a rainbow of birds all chillin in front of Cherynobyl Nuclear Power Plant

should I post em all in a thread? I shall!

#Art #Birds
Multi-colored sketchy/scratchboard style drawing of a bunch of different regional birds sitting on a tree in front of Cherynobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Each bird is wearing a tiny gas mask.
November 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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fishsqueezer.bsky.social
It's fun when somebody posts to these dead threads so they pop back up months later. Here's some more:
A brown and black Coturnix quail sits in a metal tablespoon on a red and white woven baking sheet with a red wire whisk in the background. A pink flamingo stares at the camera, with its being looking strangely flaccid and its neck apparent descending into infinity. A white-crowned sparrow sits on a wire and stares at the camera. Its yellow beak looks like something from Wallace and Gromit. It is mostly gray with a black cap that has three white stripes. A bald eagle stares imperiously at the camera in this close-up portrait. You can see that the shafts of its white facial feathers are darker. Its beak and eyes are gold, and it has strong eyebrows. The downturned cream-colored gape flange makes it look like it's disappointed in you.
November 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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sacredeels.bsky.social
it’s bat friday! im working on this piece of a pallid bat swooping down to eat an arizona bark scorpion (fun fact: arizona bark scorpions are the most venomous scorpions in north america! but these bats can eat them no problem 😊) #science #bats #bugs #arthropods #sciart #illustration
an in progress color pencil drawing of a pallid bat swooping down to eat an arizona bark scorpion an in progress color pencil drawing of a pallid bat swooping down to eat an arizona bark scorpion (close up of the bat) an in progress color pencil drawing of a pallid bat swooping down to eat an arizona bark scorpion (close up of the scorpion)
November 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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birdcmp.bsky.social
Forward facing Honeycreeper, Panama.
A honeycreeper: tropical bird perched on a branch, facing forward. She is yellow-green w/ a blue and white striped chest and pure yellow beneath her throat. She has a long decurved black beak, gray and white head and one luminous black eye is looking at you.
November 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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fishsqueezer.bsky.social
Fascinating & foreboding that the mammal-contagious variant of bird flu that's killed thousands of pinnipeds in the southern hemisphere hasn't made its way north yet. I guess birds aren't carrying that strain & the tropical oceans are a mammal migratory barrier? 🦊🪶🧪🌎

www.latimes.com/science/stor...
Bird flu slams seals and sea lions at the bottom of the world but spares Pacific Coast so far
The largest population of elephant seals in the world suffered massive mortality in 2023 from H5N1 bird flu infection. Animal experts fear for California's elephant seals.
www.latimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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westernbirding.com
Lol I got behinds, lots of behinds lol 🪶 📷 #wildlife #nature
Sandhill crane walking away from me Sandhill crane walking away from me
November 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Him
Photo of a budgie
November 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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madeleinefjall.bsky.social
A quick study of Equestrian portrait of Louis XIV

I took some shrimperties 🦐
a quick study of Equestrian portrait of Louis XIV but he's on a red shrimp instead of a white horse
November 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM