Dana Ransby 🤿📈🪸

Watercolor painting of a Honeycomb Cowfish, Acanthostracion polygonius. The intricate pattern of this Boxfish breaks up its silhouette and helps it blend into its surroundings. I’m painting one reef fish per day for 100 days with the hope of building a community. It’s about how art becomes connection. If you love the ocean, curiosity is enough. 🐠

100 Days of Reef Fish
Beautiful Reef Fish 1/10: Honeycomb Cowfish, Acanthostracion polygonius. The intricate pattern breaks up the boxfish’s silhouette for camouflage

Thank you, Dana Ransby, @danaransby.bsky.social for suggesting this beauty.

#sciart #marinelife #coralreefs #dothe100daysproject

Very well done 💙

Hug!

Another opportunity for a snow lantern today YEY

💙 What are the rope-like things? Natural? Algaea? My first though was not the diver-dolphin encounter, rather the poor diver being entangled 😜 Maybe the cetacean can help...

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Cowfish :)

‘Nothing is sacred to them’: the race to save rare plants as Russian troops advance With some of Ukraine’s most valuable biodiversity sites and science facilities under occupation, experts at Sofiyivka Park in Uman are struggling to preserve the country’s natural history

The Ruzzian invasion of Ukraine isn’t only a human tragedy, it carries far-reaching environmental costs too. Some are obvious, others more subtle (via @theguardian.com), but no less serious.
More documented by @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social
#Ukraine #environment
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

That sucks! Hope you can find a better dive center...

❄️ Six days under water. In total darkness and in bitter cold. So that Kyiv residents could have warmth in their homes. As a result of a Russian missile strike, one of the capital’s combined heat and power plants (CHP) was flooded. A damaged pipe made repairs impossible, putting heat and electricity supplies for thousands of families at risk. Without hesitation, divers from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (DSNS) entered the icy water, with air temperatures dropping to –15 °C. Darkness, cold, extreme conditions — and no option to “do it later.” For six days they worked where it was hard even to breathe, so that warmth could return to Kyiv homes. This is a feat of humanism and self-sacrifice by rescuers that might have gone unnoticed. Yet it is precisely such rescue operations — and the people who take part in them — that keep Ukrainian cities from energy catastrophes. Sincere gratitude to the personnel of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine for their courage, endurance, and professionalism! Illustration by: Mykhailo Skop

❄️ Six days under water, in darkness and freezing cold.
After a Russian missile strike flooded one of Kyiv heat and power plants, DSNS divers worked in icy water (air temperature to –15 °C) to restore heat and power for thousands of families.
An act of courage that kept the city warm.

A tiled illustrated pattern featuring various species found in the intertidal zone of the Pacific coast. There is a two spot octopus, sea cucumber, ochre sea star, California mussel, bat star, black turban snail, chiton, purple sea urchin, anemones, sea lemon, opalescent nudibranch, blue-banded hermit crab, purple shore crab, California aglaja, red abalone, and a green fluffy sculpin. They are illustrated and arranged on a teal-blueish background.

A tide pool pattern for your feed 🐚🦀

The Black Hole - 22/9/2018 - Tahkoluoto Finland There's two old empty oil storage tanks beside Tahkoluoto harbor. The tanks are closed, but have one open maintenance hatch through I put the microphones inside. I waited for a stormy day to do that,

if you have some over-ear headphones, treat yourself to this audio wonder. recorded inside a large metal tank during a storm (not by me). recorded with a high-end pair of stereo mics. soundcloud.com/holotna/iron...

Some thoughts about the murder by ICE in Minnesota.
This is the time for all of us to demand much better and to show what’s right.

There may be those in Europe who are less than forceful... but this is the Chair of Austria's "NATO Enlargement Committee”. And he's not taking any shit from the USA. If they attack or otherwise “acquire" Greenland, then Europe will take control of all […]

[Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

꼬부기 찍는 고래
왕큰산호랑 같이 사진찍기
정어리와고래
수지맨드라미와나

심심해서 남이찍어준내사진보는중

Looks so inviting, what did you see down there?
I hope your kit didn’t tip over and end up in the sound before you even had a chance to put it on. Sorry about that - just a "professional aberration" kicking in 😂

Impressive!

A snow lantern made if sticky snow balls.

Our first snow lantern made of kransnö, I mean :)

Thanks for sharing this great tradition! So simple, yet special. We got some rare snow here in north 🇩🇪 now and I constructed my first kransnö, with lots of joy 😊

Dry January is a great idea in theory. Then you read the news.

Cheers! Ah, the straw method? I find even simple beer quite difficult to sip underwater.

Or new-killer...

Homo Deceptus: Science's Dirty Little Secret
#CautionaryTalesPod
timharford.com/2025/11/caut...

An Australian lungfish rests on the gravel floor of an aquarium. It is torpedo shaped with long pectoral fins and a dog-like head. Credit: OpenCage.Info via Fishes of Australia.

For this year's #25DaysOfFishmas we're going to go in roughly chronological order, from the oldest lineages of fish to the present. We're kicking off, then, with a truly ancient and utterly bizarre animal - this is the Queensland Lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri.

Yeah!

That’s the spirit! 🪸🦀🐙