🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@qoto.org

Work in progress on my next portrait: Victorian lepidopterist, scientific illustrator, traveller and diarist Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940).

For #printerSolstice prompt variety.
#linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #lepidopterist #entomology #scientist #butterflies

The Myrmecobius fasciatus or Numbat, also known as The Walpurti, is native to Southern and Western Australia, as well as New South Wales. While they look like squirrels and a combination of other animals, they are actually insectivorous marsupialis! They eat up to 20,000 termites a day, using sticky, long tongues just like aardwolves, aardvarks and anteaters!

I'm not sure if people realize that Twitter collapsing will mean no more articles in newspapers that are just a collection of people tweeting about a particular topic as though that's what everyone's saying.

Twitter becoming irrelevant is going to be so awesome you have no idea

Apparently, in French, a transom window is known by a German phrase meaning “what is that?”

"The #HBCU Library Alliance & #HarvardLibrary are embarking on this project [to advance] open, public access to archives & special collections pertaining to #AfricanAmerican history. Funds are provided by the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative, which has designated $6 million for this project."
https://library.harvard.edu/about/news/2023-03-08/hbcula-hl-partnership

PS: Universities can't stop states determined to prohibit the teaching of accurate US history. But they can make it easy for students to find more of the missing chapters.

What kind of biologist should you be?

I adore this charming - and pretty accurate - chart by @rosemarymosco to help make the decision.

Also, fungi wins 🍄 #art #science

Being free feels great. I remember my first web server on an old laptop back in 2000. The internet seemed limitless and *I* could help to create a small part of it.

Now, a renaissance is underway. Capturing that old magic.

Creativity, freedom made me love computers, but weren't the main reasons I abandoned Big Social. Yet, from the other side? It a magnificent benefit.

I had accepted big companies as unavoidable (to really reach people) Turns out we don't need them after all!

In some fields of research it’s not too unusual for amateurs to make discoveries. Science is now complex, involving groups of highly trained people & special equipment but the universe is large & they can’t be searching everywhere. Amateur astronomers still sometimes find comets, or even supernovae before any professionals. Amateurs can still happen to find exciting fossils for instance. But it’s less expected in #mathematics, especially for problems like ‘how can we tile the Euclidean plane?’

Finally done with developing the booklet that comes along with the anatomical snail model. Tomorrow I'll check if my Dunglish is acceptable (..) and if every infographic is consistent and perfectly outlined.

I'm still figuring this all out, but I'm experimenting with posting my #ArtForSale over on my @KristinHenry@artatomic.social account. And sometimes boost them here.

That way my promotional posts won't be on the local vis.social but folks who follow me will see them.

I'll still post my daily #inkyDays drawing here on vis.social, but I was feeling like posting my art here was just too much all in one place...to me.

Of course, I may change my mind again.

Remember that time that Worf witnessed the Second Coming of Klingon Jesus? And then the first thing he did was scan him with a tricorder?

BLENDERHEADS - Ep. 1 https://video.blender.org/videos/watch/dd79de22-6d2a-4bfe-bacc-48342ee9ead4

So few cis people seem to appreciate just how hard it is to obtain puberty blockers and hormones because conversations about "regret" frequently rely on the built-in assumption it's quick and easy and kids especially are being "rushed" through the process without adequate safeguards, which is untrue, but it's exactly the idea being planted in people's heads by these anti-trans moral panic "just asking questions" concern troll articles in mainstream media.