Rita Clare

Friday sunset on Mackworth.
#maine #nature

The entire concept of masculinizing and feminizing certain modes of thinking or knowledge is what she's pushing back on. It's gatekeeping certain behaviors for everyone and reinforcing a gender binary. Men can be spiritual and women can be shapers and analysts and it in no way affects their genders

As idiotic as RFK and the Tylenol take is, I'm inclined to question claims that circumcision leads to absolutely no downstream mental health effects. Didn't we only recently dispel the myth that babies don't feel pain?! I'm curious to know what the literature more broadly concludes here.

This only reads as sexist. Shoes have no impact on the content of character or political views. There are hundreds of better comparisons to make about how lame Collins is, but don't bring her gender into it.

Wonderful, I've already got plenty of that laying around! Thanks for sharing.

The more she wants a taste of something, the longer she gets.

#sploot #dogsofbluesky

What's your favorite paper for Copics? I assume the smooth blends and crisp lines are mostly skill/expertise, but paper has to make a difference right?

Yes
Yes

It's almost as if human phenotypic diversity is explained by genetic diversity 🤔

Green Bean aka Beandog

#dog

A pair of orange monarch butterflies on pink asters

Monarch butterfly with it's wings closed on pink asters

Was very lucky to run into a few monarchs on Mackworth Island this morning. I haven't seen them since I was a child in California, during their annual migration, had no idea they made it to the East Coast. Was surprised by how large they are up close!

#butterflies #maine #insects

One of the reasons rent is high is because these private equity firms purchase and drive up the cost of all homes. A first step towards making rent more affordable and opening up the possibility of home ownership is by increasing the supply of homes through banning private equity hoarding.

Spicy bee post: Caught two Eastern bumblebees 69ing!

#bees #entomology #insects #pollinators #maine

Read the paper here:
Engineered Pseudomonas putida monoculture system for green synthesis of 7-methylxanthine
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

New back cover out this week in @greenchemistry.rsc.org for Lahiru Jayakody et al. at SIU Carbondale. P. putida was engineered to efficiently convert caffeine to 7-MX, a compound for treating myopia.
#greenchemistry #metabolicengineering #biochemistry #microbiology #scientificillustration

SO ROUND 😍

This was one of the wildest videos I've ever seen and left me feeling things, both good and bad, that I had definitely not expected to. Definitely S-tier YouTube.

Here's what my dog Green Bean was doing while I was taking pics of bugs. She got so bored waiting around she just started grazing 🐄

#dogsofbluesky

Pollinator party! Came across this incredible patch of goldenrod covered in all sorts of wasps, bees, and flies. Spent about 10 minutes just watching them do their thing and lost track of how many different species I could tell apart.

#insects #entomology #pollinators #bees #nativeplants

Awoke from a nightmare this morning that the forest I live in went silent because the outdoor cats killed every single chipmunk and bird.

A photograph of a giant red oak tree in full foliage amongst a pine forest and blue sky

A gorgeous giant red oak tucked away in the middle of Mackworth Island. Every time I visit this magnificent tree I take a moment to contemplate how differently it must experience time and everything it's lived through. Anyone know how old it might be?

#trees #quercus #ecology #forests #nature

Looks tessellated! Incredible, unique piece. Doors are a very underutilized canvas.

PSA: Do not save your PSD if you think the power will go out soon...If it goes out *while* saving it irrevocably corrupts the file with no backup 🙃

#adobe #photoshop #woopshahaoopsiesmybad #theregoesaweeksworthofwork #theregoesmyweekendtoo

Epistolary ala "S" by J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst??!

Scientific journal cover art depicting orange furan molecules undergoing catalysis using a blue green zeolite structure

Scientific journal cover art depicting orange furan molecules undergoing catalysis using a blue green zeolite structure

Zeolites are SO COOL! Loved exploring their beautiful geometry for this. Cover from January illustrating #catalysis of furans to a jet fuel precursor, from Morais group at KU, published in @acs.org Industrial & Engineering Research. #scientificillustration #chemistry #zeolites #journalcover #noAI

Scientific journal cover art work in progress of bright green bacteria against a brightly colored background.

Here's some psychedelic Pseudomonas for you on this Psunday. From a journal cover WIP, having fun with material nodes to try and replicate how I'd shade a 2D illustration.

#blender #bacteria #microbiology #sciart

Oh the incredible irony of using an AI generated cover for this featuring a non-existent molecule that does not conform to any laws of #chemistry. Visual #misinformation is still scientific misinformation - hire a human scientific illustrator instead! #noAI

What an incredibly simple yet elegant experimental design. I can't wait to see how this idea of xenosurveillance (such a cool word to coin) expands in further research 😍

Visited Kansas City, MO over the weekend. Surprisingly lovely weather and city. Saw lots of very interesting bugs and plants but here are two of my faves - Eastern carpenter bee the size of my thumb and a beautiful Chlorion wasp!
#bugs #bees #entomology #insects @inaturalist.bsky.social

A recent cover I did for #ChemCatChem from @chemistryeurope.bsky.social on supercritical fluids as reaction media for #plastic #recycling. Had to familiarize myself with fluid simulations in #Blender, but I think it paid off! Read the paper here: buff.ly/A0Hiu4l #catalysis #scientificillustration