I like to make silly little 3inch cross stitch patterns myself but I decided to buy a pattern for the first time as an incoming baby gift for my 5-year-D&D-campaign friends, and a) professional artists are way better at colours than me but also b) oh my god it took so much work, oh my god, my arms,

major traffic incident

Important lunchtime conversations have been happening at work. Like yesterday we asked the seabird person which is the most trustable bird? An hour later we had listed many, many birds and all of them were declared to be at the bottom of the list

I know my local greenhouse is selling this sign in a genuine, live laugh love sort of way but I can only read it as the most hilariously aggressive dismissal and I love it

The reason I continued my education to so-called loftier heights is solely so that when I sit at the lunch table with friends and say something like "wait NDT versus NST means daylight savings or not??? I thought they were just interchangeable" they can then reply "Sophie you have a MASTERS DEGREE"

Accidentally hyperfocused on my work instead of something to procrastinate the work with, this is embarrassing

I'm pretty new to not immediately killing succulents and while I was conceptually aware that they can propagate from leaves, the knowing of it did not prepare me for the seeing of it. Is this body horror for plants

Day 17 #SciArtSeptember prompt is trawl. 🧪🐡 Glass sponges are fragile, brittle, living animals with skeletons made of silica, the same material we use to make glass. Reefs, widespread during the age of dinosaurs, are now quite rare, & in fact, were long believed to have gone extinct 40 million 🧵

Booking a 12-person board room so me and my coworker don't disturb the rest of the office floor as we spend 1.5 hours arguing about sponges

Everybody wants to know if I'm doing a PhD now that I finally went back and did a Master's but frankly I graduated from undergrad into Harper and now I have graduated from my Master's into *waves hand at everything* so the world should actually be uniting to prevent me from doing a PhD probably

Just woke up from a social media pause and the first thing I see is an incredible footage of a sperm whale casually cruising with a giant squid in its mouth ?? 🦑 🌊 🌿

if you have a billion dollars you should be legally designated a dragon and any human can adventure against you

This past weekend was a historical buildings open house event and I am forever a fan of the purple pitcher plant being our provincial flower because that means I get to see fancy art of it in the lieutenant governor's house

Listen I get the appeal but people naming animals after other things must be stopped, because I had to write "(x) habitat was characterized by asteroids" and we all have to know that means sea stars and not that this specific stretch of ocean is a magnet for global extinction event celestial bodies

It's my birthday so I hope you all complimented a invertebrate for me today

Woah!! What an utterly incredible perspective of coral 😍 🧪🦑🌿 Looks like alien art, but it's a very real and intimate view of Cauliflower soft coral (Dendronephthya) looking up from its base towards its fractal tips. Australian Geographic 2025 photo competition Winner 🎉 📷 Ross Gudgeon

Here, have some birds perched on appropriate/delightful signage. You're welcome. 🧵 ⤵️ 1. Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) by tysmith on iNaturalist

I reread this over and over again and this absolutely breaks my brain

I have had arguably the most stressful two weeks of my life but on Saturday while snorkeling with a friend she yelled at me to swim all the way back over to her from the other end of the beach and when I got there she just gently deposited the tiniest hermit crab into my hands and it did help

Here's the #InverteFest art book August 2025 cover posted in full - how many species can you identify in this piece? I'll post the answer later when I have the time to annotate the image.

shoutout to this iNaturalist user who appears to be an ROV pilot in the gulf of mexico and posts occasional biological observations, including A GODDAMN TANINGIA ATTACKING THE ROBOT ARM OF THE ROV www.inaturalist.org/observations...

My friend and I went hunting for soft corals (her favourite) the other day and we didn't find any, which was too bad, but we ended up seeing SO many stalked jellyfish which still blow my mind #InverteFest

My friend and I went hunting for soft corals (her favourite) the other day and we didn't find any, which was too bad, but we ended up seeing SO many stalked jellyfish which still blow my mind #InverteFest

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

It's dangerous to go alone....so what invertebrate are you taking with you? #Invertefest

Perfect timing for #InverteFest because my second thesis paper is out! TLDR; I counted two bajillion hydrozoans and about a dozen guys of every other species combined on four different types of substrate (rock, mesh, plastic, and wood) to see if larvae have preferences! peerj.com/articles/198...

"Tourist discovers ‘extinct’ jellyfish while rock-pooling in Outer Hebrides" this is why #InverteFest encourages you to smell the flowers and ogle the critters. cameras have gotten exponentially better over the years and EVERYONE has a high chance of making scientific discoveries in normal places.

Perfect timing for #InverteFest because my second thesis paper is out! TLDR; I counted two bajillion hydrozoans and about a dozen guys of every other species combined on four different types of substrate (rock, mesh, plastic, and wood) to see if larvae have preferences! peerj.com/articles/198...

Unruly children will be placed in the Invertebrates Hole #InverteFest

It's the first day of #InverteFest so please enjoy this blurry photo of a hyperiid amphipod who briefly mistook me for a jellyfish to hang onto

It's time for #InverteFest, BRING OUT YOUR BUGS! Go find bugs, draw bugs, have a seance with bugs but most importantly share bugs (all inverts). We'll have a special announcement soon as well. Plus, we've got this poster in multiple languages on our website! www.metrofieldguide.com/invertefest/

I never invite people into my house, in case they are vampires, or people that want to come into my house

Today's big activity in St. John's: everybody go down and look at the fancy Norwegian barque moored in the harbour

Hey asking for a friend how do you care for fifty packets of predatory mites that you accidentally super duper way over-purchased and don't have enough plants for all of them

Going into the kelp hole, anyone need anything

In 24 hours we went from heat warning 30+C weather with wildfires to frost advisory but still with wildfires and THAT's a Newfoundland weather experience if I ever heard one

I love the way big beetles look when they fly away, like they're headed straight to God to tattle on you.

Pour one out for my monsteras who are on outside time out for having six billion million thrips on them

Do you ever feel so out of the loop that you drive down every backroad in existence to try to get to a snorkelling beach but keep running into road barricades and then somebody finally tells you that actually the Canada Games are here and they've been here for a week

Could the author currently writing the intro to their climate apocalypse book set in near future Newfoundland just like take a few days off or something

Parkour.

I have been moved to a new desk and how hospitable, it came with free fish ears

Something something don't have any money, but I do have a very particular set of skills (volunteered at a wild bird rehab centre for four months so when my roommate comes running in saying there's an injured gull in the backyard I can catch it successfully)

My friend has just sent me a Facebook invite to a local moth night, NOT because she wants to go with me, but because she likes to remind me several times a year by inviting me to moth nights that ACCORDING TO HER, I kidnapped her and brought her under duress with me to a moth night last year

Trying to decide if this job I'm applying for that in part involves counting fish eggs would be more or less inclined to interview me if I specify that I have experience counting eggs (jellyfish)

Greetings, chordate comrades. #InverteFest is upon us. tl;dr: Over the last 7 days every April, August, and December, we invite you to show the internet your coolest bugs & slugs. Go find critters, post your art, write wikipedia pages, do whatever you like to celebrate invertebrates with us!

Planet Crafter remains the only game that anyone needs to play

i think straight men can get laid if they have like a lot of pictures of bugs maybe? like in their wallet

Some days my pattern recognition is great and I can tell which order of hydrozoan an animal in a photo belongs to and other days I'm emailing my colleagues over something that has eyes with pupils and none of us can tell if it's a fish or a squid

Yesterday we had a very rare thunderstorm and so instead of doomscrolling last night I googled how to take a video of lightning and I highly recommend it as an alternative activity