Photo of a man crouching over a bicycle that's laying upside-down on a beach. He's pointing a finger at the chainring.
Musician James Taylor reveals his secret method for removing bottom bracket squeaks, Malibu, California, 1981
📷Aaron Rapoport
Happy #BicycleBirthday, James!
Born March 12, 1948
deep sea isopod on a black canvas, created with color pencil and white paint
“bathynomus giganteus” mixed media, by me :)
wanted some new room decor so i made it
#isopod #mixedmedia
This cormorant is from Dec 25. It was a lightbulb moment piece. It’s unfinished, and I suspect it will remain so. I am still very much a noob with watercolors, this piece made me realize that I really like being a bit more spontaneous at times.
#cormorant #birdart #waterbird #lovecormorants
a print: two scruffy cartoon crows are having a conversation. Crow 1 has a clipboard in its claw with two options on it. Crow 1: are you a girl or a boy? crow 2: I am a crow crow 1: i'm sorry that option isn't available
still one of the smartest things I've made IMO
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a white hand with black nail varnish holding a small print of a stylised crow strutting along with the sun in its beak. Beneath its feet are human skulls.
look at this lil fella though
shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/crow... #art #printmaking #crow #witchsky
Good to see the latest work by Angela Harding, one of my favorite printmakers. More at the link.
mailchi.mp/angelahardin...
This is brilliant! 🙏🙏
(David Attenborough voice) The modern American driver is easily startled when confronted with something out of the ordinary.
Meanwhile the well prepared cyclist deploys their full plumage giving a clear signal to “GIVE ME 3FT OF SPACE!”
Everything is calm again on the roads to school.
Photo of a man dressed in an all-metal robot outfit resting astride a bicycle in front of a house.
The new sharrows have dried, let's try 'em out!
A City of Cambridge traffic analysis finds "that investing in high-comfort bikeways is helping more people than ever choose to bike in Cambridge" with a 250 percent increase in citywide bicycle traffic since 2004.
Hey don’t worry guys, just wait a few tens of millions of years and that pesky Strait of Hormuz will close right up. Then no worries! Plate tectonics to the rescue! 😃
normalize loudly saying "ai shite" when encountering it in the wild at tradeshows, conventions and craft fairs
Gold Rush San Francisco had a protein problem. The solution? Seabird eggs. If you were an egg in the city back then, odds are you were a common murre egg from the Farallones—harvested by the hundreds of thousands. A strange Bay Area history, with a Marin park and one mysterious egg at its heart. 🥚🌊
Y’all have been so sweet about my website errors recently, please enjoy 10% off all paper originals through 3/21!
I don’t normally discount originals but I just feel awful about the website hiding them from you. Thank you all!
www.beastieandbone.com/gallery
It's exciting to see snippets of #SurvivingEarth coming out from #ImpossiblePictures (www.instagram.com/picturesimpo...). One of the clips features #Arctodus, the #ShortFacedBear, here's my design sheet, which was used by the production team.
#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PaleopArt #Dinosaurs #Alt4Me
For #BirdOfTheDay the theme is #Corvidae and I thought I would show you my entry to the #postcardartexhibit which is currently in The Netherlands, vs the reference photo I took.
#birds #birdart #art #painting
#EQHistory: 3/10/1933 M6.4 Long Beach. This EQ destroyed several school buildings. Had it struck during school hours, the death toll would have been far higher. Just 30 days later, California passed the Field Act — one of the first US laws mandating seismic building standards. buff.ly/cKH6m49
oh god!
Elevated water table triggering an idealised 3D-printed rotational landslide. Complete with a Monopoly house on top.
A paper, presenting six different 3D-printable landslide models, has now been submitted for review. Once it is published, they will all be made freely available.
Get printing!
Tree trunk being transported by bike using a trailer.
"But what if I want to transport a huge tree trunk?"
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People where I live have admitted to hitting flex posts on purpose to make cycle lanes accessible to cars and to discourage cycling. If they can do that without fear of consequence (neither damage to their vehicle nor social, other financial or legal consequences), flex posts aren't up to the job.
Global distribution of female scholars in vertebrate palaeontology research in 2023, displayed as the proportion of female authors by country. The pie charts illustrate regional variations, while the line graphs show the temporal trends in female scholar proportions among the top five countries by publication volume (2014−2023). Research articles| 14 May 2025 A decade of vertebrate palaeontology research: global taxa distribution, gender dynamics and evolving methodologies by Haohan Wang ; Juliana Sterli ; Vincent Dupret ; Henning Blom ; Annalisa Berta ; Susan Turner ; Daoming Han ; Luyan Xu ; Zhaohui Pan
Happy International Women's Day 💐
Did you know, for every 7 men in palaeontology, there are ~3 women. Women make up 25-35% of global vertebrate palaeontological publishing output. And are most likely to study mammals, while men, reptiles.
Felted nudibranchs!!!!!!!! 😍🌊🐌🦑🐡
Death Valley wildflower bloom
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“Wildflowers, South Death Valley” — A flower-covered landscape.
Is this a so-called “super bloom” year…more: gdanmitchell.com/2026/03/07/w...
#deathvalley #wildflowers #superbloom #photo #photoOfTheDay #lensCulture #landscapePhotography #photographyLovers #naturePhotography #fineArtPhotography
👀 the elevated chainstays!
screen cap of Watch Duty app map showing high winds moving sw across the San Gabriel mountains
Yikes...does everyone in southern California have Watch Duty open? #wind #CAwx
Oh, of course they are here on Bluesky already:
@hey.cafe
Polished section of a fossil fern showing the internal structure of the trunk. There is a thick mantle of small roots (R) surrounding the trunk. The vascular tissues of several leaf bases are visible. Paläontologisches Museum München public exhibit.
Of course the best fossils are always ✨Paleozoic plants✨ This is a polished section of a Psaronius tree fern from the early Permian (~290 million years) of the Czech Republic 🌿⛏️ We can see the root mantle (R) and the base of several leaves (arrows). Happy #FossilFriday & #FernFriday! #paleobotany
laser scan showing a Fractofusus
Laser scanning Johnson surface
This #FossilFriday we have a fantastic post as part of our 5 year project on Understanding selection in the early animals of the #Ediacaran. This research technician post will process our #Ediacaran laser scan data - DM/email: ek338@cam.ac.uk, deadline 12th April 2026
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
A mosasaur skull biting an opalised ammonite fossil Source : https://korite.com/blogs/news/ammonites-with-mosasaur-bite-marks?srsltid=AfmBOoqTN4Qe49bVvReHFPzimOh67nwYzY17F6F_9MFe8P_miYSqZ-5j
🧵A scientific cold case for #FossilFriday
For decades, mysterious holes in fossil ammonite shells were attributed to mosasaur bites.
But what if the real culprit was even more terrifying...
Let me tell you about one of these little debates that makes palaeontology so cool👇
