Reposting for #WorldJellyfishDay 🪼🐙🦑🌿

Seeing cuttlefish in the wild will never get old to me.

Welcome to the 2025 #Nudivember art challenge! Like last year, here is a list of some lesser known, yet always fabulous, nudibranch species. Participate as much or as little as you want in any art form you like. Make sure to use #Nudivember and use alt text!

How are there barely 500 larvacean (appendicularia) observations on iNaturalist? I swear they are ubiquitous. I know they are tough to photograph and they can be little but they are everywhere and their little snot houses are so cool.

Starting to fill in blocks of color and working on rendering some bull kelp for a project. #sciart

Listening to Love Ain’t Enough by the Barr Brothers on repeat while trying to write an obituary for my dad and not having him here to read it over and tell me if I’ve got any of the little details wrong.

This kinda looks like one of those black ctenophores, just pale. 4413m @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social check that one out! From @nautiluslive.org #CookIslands #MarineLife

My father died suddenly in our home this past Sunday. I am fighting against the overwhelming revulsion I have to asking for financial support to ask for help covering my access to healthcare for the remainder of the year so that I can focus on supporting my mom. gofund.me/7be865eb6

My friend and very dear human, Jamie, lost their Dad unexpectedly this past week.. If you have the means, please consider helping them, no amount is too small. I would also ask that as you move through the world, please mask up and stay home when you are sick if you can.

My father died suddenly in our home this past Sunday. I am fighting against the overwhelming revulsion I have to asking for financial support to ask for help covering my access to healthcare for the remainder of the year so that I can focus on supporting my mom. gofund.me/7be865eb6

My dad died last night. I think he was dead when we found him but I did compressions until the ambulance arrived and his color was coming back but they just couldn’t get his heart going again. I talked to him an hour before, but he wasn’t answering when I told him I’d made it home with his dinner.

Get vaccinated and wear a fucking mask. And please fucking stay home and rest when you are sick if at all and as much as possible. And do whatever you can to support the people in your lives in doing the same.

The Lovers #nudibranch Art Print 🐡 shop.noncompliantcyborg.com/product/the-lovers-leopard-dorid-pair-art-prints

The Lovers #nudibranch Art Print 🐡 shop.noncompliantcyborg.com/product/the-lovers-leopard-dorid-pair-art-prints

HAPPY CTENOPHORE DAY (part I). The fjords around Bergen are full with Mnemiopsis right now. Movie by the amazing @alexandrejan.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social #ctenophores #GoPro

Happy Ctenophore day! Its a perfect day to celebrate such a small yet beautifully diverse phyla that comes in a wide array of shapes and colors. #Ctenophoreday

Happy Ctenophore Day! 🐙🦑🧪

LOVE these divas.

UFOs? A music festival viewed from space? Some sort of rare gem earrings? No, these are "Mnemiopsis leidyi", aka comb jellies! 🧵

Our science photo book The Radiant Sea is out Sept 2nd!! 30 years of research, 10 years of "we should", and a year of collating pix and writing. Sönke and I show (mostly for the first time) images of how organisms produce, use, and interact with light in the sea. #bioluminescence #fluorescence 🦑🧪🌊

For CTENOPHORE DAY, a little survey: Which end of this fishing Pleurobrachia is the mouth on? Please just "vote" in the comments — no definitive answers. 🦑🧪🌊 P.S. this is one of my earliest #ctenophore photos, shot on film in a home-built kreisel. P.P.S. Legit data-gathering for a future paper.

It’s Ctenophore Day! (‘Cos it’s the 4th of Oct and in the States you’d say it’s 10/04 ten-oh-four ctenophore. See? See?) So here’s a Ctenophore juvenile for #ctenophoreday ! Now the word ctenophore doesn’t make any sense to me, I’ve said it too many times. #marineplankton 🦑

I mostly know my local species but I’m gonna take a stab at this… Clockwise from top right Menmiopsis leidyi Beroe abyssicola Coeplana? (Or another benthic species) Pleurobrachia pileus Mertensia ovum Hormiphora plumosa Hormiphora (californensis?) Bolinopsis (infundibulum?)

Happy Ctenophore Day! These glowing ocean drifters look like jellyfish but aren’t! They’re comb jellies, shimmering creatures that light up the sea with rows of beating cilia 💙🌈 Which species can you identify? 👀 Most are raised in @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab #CtenophoreDay #CombJelly #Ctenophore

Quote post with a ctenophore! Here's a sea gooseberry, Pleurobrachia pileus (bonus: tiny parasitic trematode). #Ctenophores #InverteFest🪸🪼

#CtenoTakeOver 🐙🦑

Dryodora glandiformis here in the Salish sea are often quite small (under 1 cm) compared to their brethren further north (~5 cm). The two I found tonight were surprisingly large, close to 2 cm long. I've yet to find one with a full gut but they eat larvaceans which have been plentiful. 🐙🦑🌿

First feather boa cydippid I’ve seen in a while… they tend to show up in the Salish Sea in the winter when there are two high tides with just a slight dip between them, which was the case today. 🦑🐙🌿

#CtenoTakeOver 🐙🦑

Incredible moment from this evening: a small child came running up shouting “I caught a comb jelly” and dropped a species of cteno* in the jar with only eleven iNat observations, and only four of those from the Salish Sea. *tentative ID, awaiting more opinions.

#CtenoTakeOver 🐡

So happy with how this new bandana design came out. It’s a Beroe abyssicola based on a photo of the first one I ever saw back in Spring of 2016. I knew when I found the base fabric I had to make it - it looks just like Friday Harbor in Spring. 🐙🦑🐡

*You* can help these gay little ocean blobs fund queer + trans healthcare by buying my art prints and embroidery that they posed for. How cool is that? 🦑🐙🐡 shop.noncompliantcyborg.com/products

A fun fact for #CtenoTakeOver: Phronima eat Beroe abyssicola 🧪🦑🐙

Well I didn’t make it to 1004 but I did add 126 more to my total so that’t averaging a little over a cteno a day #CtenoTakeOver

#CtenoTakeOver If you live near a coastline, try looking for ctenophores today!

Happy Ctenophore Day, everyone! It’s been a long time since we’ve had a #CtenoTakeOver, something that started well before this space went public. I want to hear about your fave cteno science 🧪 and see your cteno art 🐡🦑🐙

I've only painted a ctenophore once so far, they are beautiful creatures #invertebrates #art

Such magical creatures. The first time I saw one underwater, I cried in my mask. They’re so beautiful!

Obligatory 10/04 self reskeet

TE AMO CTENOPHORA TE AMOOOO

Happy Ctenophore Day! 🐙🦑🧪

Something awesome arrived today from @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social ! Unexpected bonus? The amazing envelope it arrived within which delighted me further. Thank you so much. 🥰

Tomorrow is Ctenophore Day!!! If you can't get out to look for ctenophores I would love to see your cteno art or hear about your favorite ctenos! 🐙🦑🌿🧪

Tomorrow is Ctenophore Day!!! If you can't get out to look for ctenophores I would love to see your cteno art or hear about your favorite ctenos! 🐙🦑🌿🧪

Happy Docktober! Have one of my favorite nudibranch dock finds. Doto sp (potentially Doto amyra)

Wanted to see if I could get an image I have of Haeckelia rubra to look like it was on a black background but didn't totally figure it out but am interested in dropping the attempt somewhere so here it is side by side with the original.

Look who washed in with the eel grass... it's Dendronotus venustus, the branched dendronotid! #nudibranch 🦑🐙

Some shrimps from playing around with my AstrHori Probe Lens at night 🦑🐙