Farewell to Shoals

Click either tweet below to see a 13-part Twitter thread from my art residency on the Isles of Shoals in the Gulf of Maine. More posts on Instagram, Facebook, and my art gallery.

Lobster wave🦞 goodbye to the stupendous students, faculty, and staff @ShoalsMarineLab. #artistinresidence pic.twitter.com/2mSCUXZRsJ

— Abby McBride (@sketchbiologist) August 5, 2021

Bonus tweet that I forgot to put in the thread!

Gull in reverse @ShoalsMarineLab pic.twitter.com/90AGR1TnSx

— Abby McBride (@sketchbiologist) August 4, 2021

Micromanagement

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Who’s in charge, an animal or the bacteria in its gut? According to an @oikosjournal paper that I illustrated (by Macke et al.), gut microbes can drive the ecology and evolution of their hosts—like these lichen-eating reindeer. More at http://www.oikosjournal.org/forum. #ecology #art #illustration #drawing #wildlife #bacteria #animal #mammal #nature #cartoon #science #research #scientistsofinstagram #painting #oikosforum #scienceinpictures

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Stop, drop, and roll

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Today in “scientists like pictures too(?)”...my illustration of ‘Generalized fire response strategies in plants and animals’ by Juli G. Pausas in @oikosjournal. . (Visit oikosjournal.org/forum to see the paper and more illustrations.) #ecology #art #conservation #illustration #wildlife #painting #animal #botany #trees #seeds #birds #ornithology #mammals #herps #fire #forestfire #oikosforum #scienceinpictures

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Science birthday

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Voilà, a weird illustration I made for the Nordic Society Oikos.

NSO is the ecological society of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The society publishes four international journals, each of which is reaching a decade milestone.

Oikos is 70 years old. The Journal of Avian Biology is about to turn 50. Ecography is 40 years old. The Nordic Journal of Botany is turning 40 as well.

This quite clearly adds up to two centuries of scientific publishing. Happy birthday.

Endangered (by) sea lion

Possibly the most exciting ten minutes of my penguin-counting career, on an island 300 miles south of New Zealand: https://t.co/28msUIL0rT pic.twitter.com/hziV5Dl7HS

— Abby McBride (@sketchbiologist) December 3, 2018