👀Behind the Paper!👀 Author Vinícius Brito discusses how competition among pollen donors changes over a flower visits, mastering the art of quantum-dot labelling, and pondering luck🦇🌺 Read it here👇️ buff.ly/ayPETes 🧪🌍️

Vinícius Brito | When bats run out of room for pollen

In this ‘Behind the Paper’ blog post, author Vinícius Brito – a professor at the Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil – disucusses the article “Pollen landscape saturation on pollinator bodies reduces pollen deposition by…

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Recently completed #digitalillustration of two Ruddy-ground doves (Columbina talpacoti) ✍️ #Pigeons and allies have been my most recent #NaturalHistoryArt project obsession ✨

It is so hot ☀️🔥 in Guyana currently…#ElNiño is making it difficult for me to function.

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The bat houses at the University of Florida - it started as a passion project of a few and has grown into a campus, cultural event 🦇 It was so cool waiting for sunset and watching these little Mexican free tailed bats emerge from the houses in the thousands!

Heatwaves, droughts, and heavy rainfall - the negative effects of climate change are already impacting our ecosystems. But do we understand by how much?

Our Visual SciComm Conference begins today! In additional to speakers and panel discussions, we are also excited to announce our Annual Juried Member Exhibit! Each year, GNSI members submit works to a juried exhibit representing the best work being created by visual science communicators today.

Chris Ruggia kicked us off as our first presenter at our Visual SciComm Conference. It was great to hear about his path in scientific illustration and how he works with many different scientific partners! #SciArt

#Illustration #WIP: a Margay on the hunt, high in the trees. 🌳 Learning and un-learning some facts about these tropical cats 🐱 #art #SciComm

Forum📜: The disruption of seed dispersal networks: disentangling the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation 🗺️ vist.ly/54zqw #EcologicalNetworks #FragmentationPerSe #Frugivory #LandscapeEcology #Mutualism #PlantFrugivoreNetworks

I think this is the thought process of pigeons, globally.

Cassowary painting fun 🎨 Time to get ambitious and paint the full bird next (?) #digitalart #wildlifeart

This was such a fun blog to edit! Check out this author’s amazing work 👇

Functional Ecology@funecology.bsky.social · 7mo ago

👀Behind the Paper!👀 Author Joanna Sudyka answers the question: “Why do birds cheat?”🐦️ Joanna discusses the mating and parental behaviour in blue and great tits, collecting DNA high up in century-old oaks, and her advice for navigating a career in ecology🌳 Read it here👇️ buff.ly/cfyuXQy 🧪🌍️

Snippets of #artwork I’ve been working on in the in-between hours - such as in-between a work call, making dinner or in-between periods of existential dread 🌳

We’re on the hunt for new Associate Editors to join our Editorial Board 🔎 We’re looking for a range of expertise across the whole field of applied ecology. For some particular examples take a look below! 🌎🧪 Find out more information here: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...

Spent the last 4 days in the Variety Woods logging concession in #Guyana, setting #cameratraps and cracking my neck looking for monkeys I was painfully reminded that mammal fieldwork requires atleast 10km of walking 😭 …my poor feet.

Red belly piranha painting…being done digitally 🖌️✨ #NaturalHistoryIllustration #DigitalArt

Roadside vegetation is so interesting to observe…full of thorns and prickly bits. There’s a plant here in Guyana, locally called “hold me back” and it literally snags your clothes lol…who are these plants angry at? #casualBotany (Also, can you spot the doves in the third picture?)

I’m currently on a bird training course in the Guyana interior…lots of new birds on my life list but yellow-rumped Cacique nests are gorgeous! 🪺 #naturalhistory #birds #tropicalecology

Happy 2026 🍾🍁 #comics #wildlife #animalcomic

New Year New Toad! Our new friend Adhaerobufo wokomungensis was first described as a new species two months ago and is named after the location where they were found on Mount Wokomung in Guyana! (photo by D.B. Means)

My first bird spread of some commonly found birds around Georgetown. Diving into more #naturalhistory inspired #art in 2026 now that I’m a member of @gnsiart.bsky.social Birds featured: Great Kiskadee , Lesser Kiskadee, Tropical Kingbird, Rusty-margined flycatcher, Boat-billed flycatcher 🪶✨

📰Published📰Bird mating secrets revealed in Europe’s last ancient forest🐦 buff.ly/sd7z6C5 🧪🌍

Bird mating secrets revealed in Europe’s last ancient forest

Cheating birds in Europe’s last untouched forest show promiscuity may be a natural default Joanna Sudyka, Irene Di Lecce, Grzegorz Hebda, Patryk Rowiński, Robert Rutkowski, Anna Szczuka, Char…

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Hi 👋🏼 my name is Ari and I’m new to Blue sky. I’m an ecologist and illustrator with an interest in the natural world. Seeking refuge here as I build my #art and #science portfolio in 2026✨ I only use blue sky, TikTok and Instagram…all handles are @artofariii