Thank you @punkwithacamera.bsky.social for the wonderful patches pictured, and get your queer ocean patches from @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social

Back in January, @jensseattle.bsky.social found this rare ctenophore while nightlighting. Haeckelia rubra is a delightful contrarian. It’s a comb jelly with stinging cells in its tentacles. It might not make them itself but it impressively wields them & steals them from a much larger jelly. 🧪🐙🦑🌿

Back in January, @jensseattle.bsky.social found this rare ctenophore while nightlighting. Haeckelia rubra is a delightful contrarian. It’s a comb jelly with stinging cells in its tentacles. It might not make them itself but it impressively wields them & steals them from a much larger jelly. 🧪🐙🦑🌿

Gorgeous gorgeous amphipod from nightlighting tonight 🦑🐙

Gorgeous gorgeous amphipod from nightlighting tonight 🦑🐙

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Thinking about Zander. He would have turned 38 today.

From now until the end of the month, you can get ebook versions of all of my zines in a bundle for $5. That includes: 5 Minute Daily Drawings : Year 1 5 Minute Daily Drawings : Year 2 Insert An Invert August Arthropod Art Nudivember 2024 Nudivember 2025 itch.io/s/179175/6-z...

I am already having a day only to get the mail and find replacement ID cards I had to order because they spelled my name wrong arrived with my name mangled even more and so now I have to wait on hold again at multiple different places. Three separate ID cards arrived from this mess today, all wrong

Hey cuties. You need a valentine set right now, I can tell. It's only $20. You get 20 of them, 4 designs, & each one has a little fact inside. I need a little more cashflow into Skype a Scientist to do the amount of shit I want to do this year. These valentines are a good start! SquidFacts.net

Back in October, the dock I had taken ~1/3 of my natural history documentation notes at got caught up on a piling on one end & lost it's floatation to gravity as the tide left it behind. I knew it was going to be removed & not fixed, but I went to see if it happened yet today. It was gone.

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3 hours of health insurance phone calls so far today and I’ve needed to cry but I wish it was because I was actually able to work through some grieving and not because I’m frustrated and hopeless to the point of tears trying to just figure out how to get to keep existing next year

This parasitic isopod was another of my Peracaridan visitors this week. It's name is Rocinela belliceps and it mostly lives attached to the gills of fishes, but if you are lucky you may find one swimming around. 🐙🦑 #inverteFest

I want to go out nightlighting but feeling pretty bleh.

This parasitic isopod was another of my Peracaridan visitors this week. It's name is Rocinela belliceps and it mostly lives attached to the gills of fishes, but if you are lucky you may find one swimming around. 🐙🦑 #inverteFest

Such a good night with @jensseattle.bsky.social by the water. #inverteFest 🦑🐙🌿

Such a good night with @jensseattle.bsky.social by the water. #inverteFest 🦑🐙🌿

I’m going to try to get a few more pieces done for deep sea December, so here’s day 15 - Gossamer (worm) #art #ocean #deepseadecember

Today I visited the Takeshima Aquarium in Gamagori, which specializes in deep sea animals. I saw giant isopods, spider crabs, deep sea octopus and all kinds of fascinating #invertebrates.

I’m literally one item away from 1500 pieces of art sold this year…

Lanterns at the Solstice Luminaria walk with the Salish Sea School tonight

We have the deep sea at home www.instagram.com/reel/DSVyL1K...

We lost power the other night for long enough that everything in the freezers was totally soft and a loss and folks trashed it all while I was vending. I’d bought some apple blossom pastries to have with my dad before he died & I’d been trying to get myself up to make them. Just realized I can’t.

More excellent tunicate news this morning, with a new preprint from the @mchatzigeorgiou.bsky.social lab 🤩 This work, led by @olegtolstenkov.bsky.social, describes the fascinating diversity of behaviors displayed by the larvacean Oikopleura throughout its life cycle ⤵️🧪

I love Phronima so much...

Just think this gossamer worm needs a moment again 🐙🦑🐡

Just managed to fumble a nearly four pound container of peanut m&m’s I’d bought because they were my dad’s favorite and it of course flipped so all of them spilled across the floor and under furniture

Remember these baby octos? 🐙🦑🐡 This piece is in memory of my father, Jonathan Fay, who died suddenly in October. He took the astro photo of NGC2244 with his SeeStar. He loved when I'd message him critters I found, & joining me when he could. shop.noncompliantcyborg.com/product/baby...

Remember these baby octos? 🐙🦑🐡 This piece is in memory of my father, Jonathan Fay, who died suddenly in October. He took the astro photo of NGC2244 with his SeeStar. He loved when I'd message him critters I found, & joining me when he could. shop.noncompliantcyborg.com/product/baby...

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I cannot control the USPS but I can tell you your window for ordering a package and having it likely arrive by Christmas is beginning to narrow. Get your ocean art in orders ASAP to increase your chances. shop.noncompliantcyborg.com/products

I cannot control the USPS but I can tell you your window for ordering a package and having it likely arrive by Christmas is beginning to narrow. Get your ocean art in orders ASAP to increase your chances. shop.noncompliantcyborg.com/products

I have such a love/hate relationship with being my own manufacturer.

The Trolley Problem except the lever is too late to save your father you're tied down beside your brother bridging two tracks the trolley's set to take you both at the knees a voice calls out if you say yes they'll pull the lever for a third track that hits no one or so they say

iNat 2026 stats update: 199 days out observing •105 nightlighting •30 tidepooling •99 dockfouling 4,623 observations 571 species Top species Hermissenda crassicornis - 242 Pleurobrachia bachei - 156 Melibe leonina - 150

little jelly, big parasite Hyperia riding inside (maybe) Solmundaegina nematophora 🐙🦑

little jelly, big parasite Hyperia riding inside (maybe) Solmundaegina nematophora 🐙🦑

@noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social check this ctenophore out! Lovely images. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 875 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife

Made a little #shopSmall mostly ocean art, mostly PNW local gift guide The guide is available with more details in my linktree linktr.ee/noncompliant... 🐙🦑🐡🧵

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Made a little #shopSmall mostly ocean art, mostly PNW local gift guide The guide is available with more details in my linktree linktr.ee/noncompliant... 🐙🦑🐡🧵

Going to SICB in January sounds like a really nice break from the everything I am dealing with right now and I wish that it cost an amount of money I could reasonably throw at going. I could maybe do a one day pass and stay with a friend but it’s such a long drive to go down for one day :/

I really want to go nightlighting but it is predicted to start raining as soon as I would be set up and persist moderately until close to when I’d need to leave :/

wake up babe, new taningia observation dropped one of my faves, great piloting by the ROV folks at @schmidtocean.bsky.social

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When you shop for presents from artists & not a big corp, you might be perusing & be like "Is that... the Creature from the Black Lagoon slapping the wolfman's ass?!*" or "Does that alligator have...starfish for pasties?!*" So...it's better. *Real thoughts that have crossed my mind in Philly