Is it really summer if you're not listening for *hours* to @paulmmcooper.com during a long drive to a place to walk, swim or just stare at animals & plants doing their thing, cooking, pausing the podcast in ten minutes intervals to discuss what you're discovering about the world? I DON'T THINK SO.

Fall of Civilizations Podcast@fallofcivilizations.com · 5d ago

🏝️🌋 Episode 21 is now live! 🌋🏝️ This time we look at the Majapahit Empire on the island of Java. With traditional music, shadow puppet performances, and readings in Old Javanese, find out how the empire of the islands fell. YouTube: youtu.be/01CZBhZM430?... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3xZ9...

Finally I get to do my best "Di Caprio's meme impression" pointing wildly at the screen while watching Eons!

franz@franzanth.bsky.social · 6d ago

Eons: Life and Death on Pangaea thread The Eons team trusted @lacerdajulio.bsky.social @kiabugboy.bsky.social and myself to help with the reconstructions for the series. I'm consolidating my posts to this thread so that they're easier to find. #Art #SciArt #PaleoArt Watch link:

2026 so far has been very much a "Cried but did *the* Thing" kind of year, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. So go ahead, give yourself a pat on the shoulder and take your badge of honor: it's very much deserved.

Tostoini@tostoini.it · last yr.

Come collect your prize. You know you DESERVE this. 🎖

Maybe I was not the audience for the movie, I was a kid that chose the picture book version of the Odissey as her first book, and I'm an adult that loves antiquities and museums, but that washed out, grey vision of the Mediterranean sea that looked more like the Northern sea felt so incredibly dull

Tostoini@tostoini.it · 3y ago

This summer while I was finishing the pages I was due for the book I'm working on I stumbled on a call for illustration on wine. I was drawing waves for a couple of days, so I immediately thought about Homer and the concept of wine-colored sea. Also because ancient vase are quite fun to draw.

A newsletter about middle age, Middle Ages with capital letters, me gushing on @goingmedieval.bsky.social, and the times when the summer exam session is no longer a test on Romance Philology but more like "before the exam be on an empty stomach for at least 12 hours". www.patreon.com/tostoini/pos...

Me, genuinely enjoying my day: 🏔

Say no to another set of boring humans on your money! A vote for the bird bills is a vote for #sciart! (I am way more invested in the bird money poll that I am ready to admit)

Nedge@nedg3.bsky.social · 2w ago

Praying that people vote for the bird euro bills 😭🙏

Just imagine Charles Dickens posting a 1/? neverending chain of posts after seen Nolan's Odyssey. Oh Charlie you could have been right at home on the internet

Paul Cooper@paulmmcooper.com · 2w ago

Always find it so funny that Charles Dickens got so red and mad about this painting. He stomped all the way home from the viewing and wrote this, still angry.

If we are making progress but we don't have a definite destination in mind to make progress toward, maybe instead of making progress should we call it a stroll? In that case, we should definitively get ice cream along the way. A post for my manapeeps on Patreon! www.patreon.com/tostoini/pos...

I love making pet portraits, browsing cat pictures FOR WORK, developing a parasocial relation with the subjects of the illustration, hearing stories about them to decide how to best capture their characters. I loved drawing those two, she'e even rounder than this, and he's even lōôœnger.

People who keep pointing out that golf courses use as much water as data centres as some sort of defence of data centres drastically underestimate the amount we also hate golf.

Yes I have parasocial relationships with all the cats in my timeline, why do you ask

One of the perks of being an illustration is that you are allowed to go back to your older illos and make another pass on them! It's allowed! It's not cheating! #sciart

"Juvenile male elephant seals need to practice for dominance battles in which adults rear up and crash their chests together... with no other juveniles to practice with, Neil can only rehearse on Toyotas." Neil the seal, welcome to The War on Cars.

NPR@npr.org · last mo.

The 5-year-old seal has a social media following twice the size of Tasmania's population, and his antics include bending traffic bollards and blocking roads. n.pr/4bqqXr5

My body made absolutely clear in unequivocal terms that he's not ok with being outside in a heatwave, so instead of being at the Pride parade I made this illustration. STAY ZESTY! 🍋 www.patreon.com/posts/162240...

Sharing with my good fellows from the #sciart feed 🐡 🌈

Tostoini@tostoini.it · last mo.

Aside from humans, manatee have no predators. Adults can swim alongside crocodiles and nobody will try to take a bite. If you think that's baffling you should remember that yes, they're gentle giants, but they're still giants. They defend themselves by taking up space.

Aside from humans, manatee have no predators. Adults can swim alongside crocodiles and nobody will try to take a bite. If you think that's baffling you should remember that yes, they're gentle giants, but they're still giants. They defend themselves by taking up space.

Shaka, when the letters fell.

Once again,

Sabrina Imbler@sabs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I wrote about one specific way AI is ruining my life defector.com/ai-animal-vi...

Yes please. Also: museum curators please consider to have a itinerary in your collection of all the friend-shaped art, we're here for it. (And replicas in your shop. I don't want another notebook with yout Famous Masterpiece, I want a little animal figurine and a cuneiform tablet cookie cutter)

Dr Alex Fitzpatrick@animalarchaeology.com · 4mo ago

I am proposing to my fellow archaeologists and museum curators a new, cross-cultural typology: “friend-shaped”. Can be used concurrently with “little guys” as well.

Maybe it's being overheated that made me decide that translating the monthly newsletter that I wrote in Italian for the last eight years in English was a good idea. www.patreon.com/posts/160158...

This is clearly the iridescent pink transparent plastic toy with sparkly fake jewels that all of us Eighties little girls brought to the beach, that by the end of the summer was sanded by being in to many sand castles and missing most of its jewels

Chapps@chapps.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One of the smaller antiquities in the #BrooklynMuseum is this ancient #Egyptian soft-shelled turtle amulet, made of amethyst. The spots are inlaid semi-precious stones: turquoise, red jasper, and lapis lazuli. Buried with the dead as a protective charm, it also represented rebirth. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

Spent the day at Artropocene Festival (excellent name) speaking about why treating science, science communication, art, creativity & humour like they're separate is part of the reason we're in this mess. I finally met a gar in person! And a Insulindian Phasmid from Disco Elysium! A very #sciart day.

A hat full of stars, and a kimono full of manatees.

I'm very proud of myself for sendind my patreon their monthly illustration while bouncing around Italy speaking to children on the inexhaustible topic of weird but real creatures. If you want to subscribe to you monthly dose of manatees - or, this month sloths: www.patreon.com/posts/beacon...

Today is the 100th birthday of the Patron Saint of all us nature nerds. As much as I love Attenborough, I can't help but think that Sir David started at 28, and was allowed to grow and become the National Treasure he is now. #Attenborough100

Sometimes inviting people to touch grass is not enough.

It's International Workers Day 🫡

Buon 25 Aprile, Festa della Liberazione dal Nazifascismo*. Per Irma, Ines, Norma, Ancilla, Clorinda, Vera, Modesta e tutte le altre. * (il "da + complemento" di causa è importante, lascia fare.)

yall remember… companies dont make art, people do. there is no disney art, there is no unreal or tencent art. they create a wrapper around someone else’s art. find out who makes the stuff you love