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We’re nerding out about a new research paper 📄 and celebrating California’s marine protected area network! 🐋

Did you know there’s a network of 124 ecologically connected marine protected areas along the California coast? A recent study spearheaded by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis shows that California’s MPA network is successful at conserving marine fish populations across sandy beach, kelp forest, shallow reef, and deep reef ecosystems throughout the State! This paper, published in Conservation Biology, was led by our research scientist, Joshua Smith, formerly a postdoctoral researcher at NCEAS.

We’re grateful for the long-term monitoring data that made this research possible and our state partners’ dedication to using the best available science to guide the adaptive management of the MPA network. Click this link to learn more!

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captain afab is honestly a very relatable character because whomst among us does not have some great beast that has eluded us all our lives. mine, for instance, is a decent night's sleep.

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Ahab. I meant fucking. captain Ahab.

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y'all are gonna make this a whole thing aren't you

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top 5 things people have said in the tags on this so far:

moby girldick

I mean, he is chasing dick

the real white whale was testosterone

assigned whaler at birth

captain afab and his trusty crewman cismale

jantesika

Cismale is sending me.

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I hate I when I get an idea for a novel. Like oh no here starts the slow sad slip n’ slide to dissapointment again.

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You ever been 30,000 words and hundreds of research hours into a project when you realize hey wait a minute. I don’t like this. This is bad.

fassina

Ok adding to this though that even though it is extremely relatable, this is a KNOWN thing with professional writing. 10k is often referred to as "having a pot boiling" or "having a stew" - it's the point where you often see an idea coming together and it's exciting! But THEN... 30k-50k is the point where that fun has to start coming together. In theatre, it's usually week 3 of a 5 week rehearsal period where you have to stop talking about the play and really get it all up on its feet and cohesive. In art, it's committing to what are going to be the final visible layers of colour and texture, in sculpture the moment where you're truly at the point of no return with carving out the shape.

It usually feels really bad. Because this is the point it becomes real craft. It's so, so difficult to really be able to identify if it's truly not going to be anything or you're just in the hardest part of the process, and really the only way to know is to... write through it. Write it badly. Or, if you really can't, put it in a drawer and come back to it after a few months of breathing space. Remember, you can fix so much in the edit, but you can't fix nothing!

(I say, fully looking at my latest draft of my book and considering throwing it in the bin. But my editor said exactly this to me, so I'm passing it along.)

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Hospital notes

2.5D anime

Yo..

starsabovethegreywaterfalls

Imagine setting up this whole thing

shinondraws

I was listening to an art podcast and I heard someone use “creative hibernation” as a term to describe a period of time when your creative energy and flow of ideas is slowing down.

Honestly, it sounds so much better than “art block”. To me, “creative hibernation” sounds less like a negative thing and more like an organic part of the creative process.

“Art block” sounds very definite. They sound like something you MUST actively fight against to break them down in order to continue. “Hibernation” on the other hand sounds more like a thing that happens every now and then but that will go away on its own when it’s time. It’s a stage of gathering energy for the next creative pursuit. Art block on the other hand is an artificial, mental block that actually just seems to solidify the more you treat it like an obstacle to get around.

All creative people go through this type of slowing down all the time and it is completely alright. I thought I would share this because I think the right kind of mentality is actually one of the most important things of recovering your creative energy.

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I needed this.

thevictorianviola

The two halves of my personality getting along well enough to find someones day to ruin

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watercolour life lessons

I’m trying to work more with traditional media lately, mainly sketching with pencils. A few days ago, though, I pulled out my little watercolour field box, firmly set on developing my not-yet existing skills. Watercolour is a challenge, in more than one way. It requires you to think from light to dark, from background to foreground and you can’t just paint over mistakes due to its transparent…

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The Week in Review, 6.11.2016

Man, getting into the blogging groove again after such a long time is HARD. Besides, with the clocks going back an hour last Sunday, I felt not quite myself all week and the addition of a puplic holiday on Tuesday just added to the confusion. The weather around here is gearing up for winter, yesterday was especially horrible with all day rain. The less than stellar weather wasn’t keeping me from…

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let's get the ball rolling again

let’s get the ball rolling again

Hi there! *plops in* It’s been a loooooooong while since I wrote here last. So long, that I had forgotten the logins for both the admin and the writer accounts. *hangs head in shame* And goodness gracious, did a lot happen in that year since my last post. Let’s try a recap. 1) I got married. Uhm yes. We did the thing we never planned to do, and promised to be there for each other in good times…

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70sscifiart

“It was the decade that gave the world the maverick New Hollywood drama, the Nixon-era paranoid thriller, the slasher flick, the all-star disaster movie, the gross-out comedy and the modern mega-blockbuster. But the Seventies were particularly kind to one specific cul-de-sac of cinema: the science fiction film, a subset category that was still buzzing from its late-Sixties head-trip phase courtesy of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

As the Age of Aquarius slowly slid into the beginning of the nation’s Watergate-and-disco period, you could still find sci-fi movies that wanted to blow an audience’s possibly addled, probably enhanced mind.

But by the end of the 1970s, it was possible to have checked out postapocalyptic action-adventures, future-shock case studies, technophobic nightmares, low-budget exploitation movies about what-if scenarios and big-budget space operas — all of which fell under the S.F. umbrella and helped turn the genre into a gamechanger. And as anyone who saw Guardians of the Galaxy or Interstellar last year will tell you, the influences of this period are still showing up in theaters near you.”

Rolling Stone lists the top 50 sci-fi films of the 70s

tilliewalden

I made this for fun, but may continue these girls’ story if there’s any interest. I really want to draw them reacting to future episodes of SU, and make there relationship progress. We’ll see.

All drawn traditionally with watercolor and Uni pens.

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Bob the golden retriever is best friends with eight birds and a hamster. (photos via @bob_goldenretriever/imgur)

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I’m sitting in my office trying to squeeze a story from my head. It is that kind of morning when you feel like melting the typewriter into a bar of steel and clubbing yourself to death with it.

Richard Matheson (via writingquotes)

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Yuri Shwedoff

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Mirror comb-footed spider (Thwaitesia sp.) by melvynyeo

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