Have a tentacular time on #SeaSlugDay with #MoteMarineLab youtu.be/SGKAFg4rNnY 10/29 1pm ET mote.org/event/sea-sl...

Join the shell-less-bration for World #SeaSlugDay tomorrow, 10/29 at 1pm ET mote.org/event/sea-sl... #Nudibranch #Nerd #SeaSlug #VirtualLearning #SeaMeRead #MoteMarine

Cardboard #chompsaw #shark

The cardboard #chompsaw #shark craftivity is proving incredibly popular with teachers at the Guy Harvey Conservation Summit!

📢 Big news! Applications for FMSEA 2026 Grants are now OPEN! Join us in Fort Pierce this April 23–26 for ‘Connecting the Dots.’ Apply today at FMSEA.org! #FMSEA2026 #Grants #MarineEducation #connectingthedots #linkinbio

Representing @fmsea.bsky.social at the Guy Harvey Conservation Summit. 200+ educators are getting salty. www.linkedin.com/posts/valeri...

Dive into the gelatinous world of #jellyfish, the most mesmerizing movers in the sea. Fun facts, science, and surprises in this free Wonderful Animal Virtual Encounter. #JellyfishDay #MoteMarineLab #VirtualLearning 🗓️ 11/3 @ 1:00 PM ET 💻 Free virtual event 🔗 mote.org/event/jellyfish-day-jamboree

Join us for a shell-less-bration of Sea Slug Day! It’s a slime-time adventure for the spooky season—discover the secrets they secrete. 10/29 @ 1:00 pm Free mote.org/event/sea-sl... #SeaSlugDay #SEAmeRead #VirtualLearning #MoteMarineLab #CILC

What does an #octopus sound like? youtu.be/i_cRnL2mZto?...

Connecting for a Cause with CILC.org from the new Mote Science Education Aquarium mote.org/marven

A future where we all have personalized, copyrighted/trademarked face tattoos. If your image appears without it, it's a fake. If it appears with it, they need permission or it's a violation.

Happy Ctenophore Day! 🐙🦑🧪

Office Hours Global Tribute to John Pretto youtu.be/rkcWkqiipfw?...

📚🐠 Announcing SEA Me Read Plus — STEM storytime + live animal encounters. Best for K-4. 🔗 motemarven.blogspot.com/2025/08/anno... #EDUsky #VirtualLearning #KidLit #NSTA

🐢 Weekend Wonders: the bedotted Diamondback Terrapin — explore Florida’s only brackish water turtle and its unique estuary home. 🔗 Read more: motemarven.blogspot.com/2025/08/week... #DotDay #InternationalDotDay #terrapin

This is incredible. A living deep sea squid like this in captivity is just…not something you get to see every day.

🤖 Meet M.A.R.V.E.N. — the Mote Aquarium Roving Virtual Exhibit Navigator. Our new livestreaming cart connects classrooms to marine science with real-time, behind-the-scenes access to the exhibits and animals at Mote. 🔗 Learn more: motemarven.blogspot.com/2025/08/meet...

🌸 Weekend Wonder: Meet the roseate spoonbill—one of Florida’s most striking wading birds. With its vivid pink feathers and unique spoon-shaped bill, this bird sweeps shallow waters to find food in a way few others can. Full post: motemarven.blogspot.com/2025/08/week...

Celebrate #InternationalDotDay with Mote Marine Laboratory in a creative, interactive ocean-themed Virtual Focus Trip that blends art, science, imagination, and fishes. 🐠 Spots, dots, and sea life. 📅 Sept 15, 1 pm ET 🆓 FREE motemarven.blogspot.com/2025/08/dive... @intldotday.bsky.social

🏆 Mote Marine Laboratory receives the prestigious 2024-2025 CILC.org Pinnacle Award for Virtual Learning Excellence. Our thanks to the teachers, students, and staff who made this honor possible. 📚 Celebrating 30 years of connecting classrooms together. motemarven.blogspot.com/2025/08/mote... #STEM

📅 Booking a Virtual Focus Trip with Mote is now easier than ever. We’ve added TidyCal.com integration for quick scheduling + payment. Now, only our available time slots are shown so you know exactly when to connect. motemarven.blogspot.com/2025/08/book...

🌳 Mangroves aren’t just cool-looking—they’re coastal superheroes. Build your own model mangrove tree while learning how their tangled-rooted protect shorelines, trap sediment, and shelter wildlife. 🔗 Start crafting: motemarven.blogspot.com/2025/08/make... #STEMventures

OTN has a squad of ROVs to help us explore the depths, recover infrastructure, train field technicians, support outreach and education, and track ocean life like never before. Each one brings unique powers to aid you on your epic journey. Choose your ROV... 🎮 🌊

🌊 New SEA Me Read: Next Time You See a Pill Bug From land to sea, discover how pill bugs and their ocean cousins are connected. Live virtual reading + live animal look for grades K–4. 🔗 motemarven.blogspot.com/2025/08/new-... #SEAmeRead #VirtualLearning #EmilyMorgan #NSTAKids

📡 From shipwrecks to sharks, Mote has over 30 years of virtual learning journeys. It started all the way back in 1989—and we’ve been innovating ever since. 🔗 motemarven.blogspot.com/2025/08/over... #EdTech #STEM #VirtualLearning

🎓 Teachers, naturalists, and lifelong learners: earn CEUs or in-service credit with the Florida Master Naturalist Program at Mote. Financial assistance is available. 🔗 Learn more: motemarven.blogspot.com/2025/08/fmnp... #FMNP #ProfessionalDevelopment #LifelongLearning #TeacherPD

🌊 Weekend Wonders: Zebra Sharks! Did you know zebra sharks lose their stripes as they grow? 🦓🦈 Read more: motemarven.blogspot.com/2025/08/week... #MARVEN #sharks #ZebraShark #WeekendWonders #MarineBiology

💧 Dive into Florida’s freshwater habitats this summer. Join us for an FMNP Freshwater Systems course and explore wetlands, wildlife, and water quality with expert-led field experiences. 🔗 Sign up today: motemarven.blogspot.com/2025/07/expl... #FMNP #Freshwater #Florida #LifelongLearning

Finished reading: Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata 📚Japanese neurodivergent convergence at the Kwik-E-Mart.

Thanks to today’s guest scientists! We caught and worked up a beautiful bonnethead shark, and a large tiger shark was hooked but got away. Today we had @technotional.bsky.social @coraliejp.bsky.social and more!

I've decided to give away my first printed and painted Great Auk egg! To Enter: 1. Repost this post 2. Follow me (I'll be checking) The winner will be chosen by random draw on April 30th! The winner will have to pay shipping but I don't suspect it will be much.

Finished reading: The Magician’s Daughter by H. G. Parry 📚This could easily be adapted as a Studio Ghibli movie, fitting somewhere between Kiki and Ponyo.

Heading over to St. Augustine for the 2025 Florida Marine Science Educators Association conference. Stop by our booth for some free swag and learn about the new Mote Science Education Aquarium opening this summer. sites.google.com/fmsea.org… #FMSEA25

🌊 Go on a hike without the bug bites. 🥾 Celebrate Earth Day 🌍 with a virtual excursion into an estuary! Explore mangroves and seagrass habitats in Sarasota Bay. 🐟🦀 ✨ All ages 📆 4/22, 3:30 pm ET 🌐 mote.org/event/estuar... #SuncoastRemakeDays #RemakeDays #EarthDay youtu.be/lfXxV893oUQ?...

Finished reading: Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky 📚As the author noted, this is a book about C3PO in Thunderdome.

Itty bitty snails slowly munching away inside a glass jar that’s been sealed for 17 years. youtu.be/r8AOl7bti…

Finished reading: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler 📚 Tomorrow’s dystopia today.

“Mammals internalise everything (grudges, eggs) and furthermore are excessively, flamboyantly wet internally.” Chicken Lore — gallusrostromegalus: …

Finished reading: Moonbound by Robin Sloan 📚 Weird be dragons? Lagrange d’Arthur shirks the wizards of odd with the help of a chronicler of fungA.I.

It’s a great day on the bay. Join us for Bay Fest at at The Bay Park. Learn about our local sea life and see what we are planning for #SuncoastRemakeDays #SarasotaBay #RemakeDays www.thebaysarasota.org/event/bay-fe...

We are thrilled to announce the 2025 Annual Florida Marine Science Educators Association Conference will be held in beautiful St. Augustine, Florida, from April 24-27, 2025! 🐠 VISIT FMSEA.ORG TO LEARN MORE 🌊 #FMSEA25 #MarineScience #ProtectOurOceans #StAugustine2025 #AnnualConference #Registernow

ORTBO is an anagram of ROBOT. #severance

"Adding Way Too Many Fish to Minecraft" from @eightsidedsquare.com #makingthemoistofminecraft youtu.be/AMJhruPaORM?...

“There’s a secret hiding in your pencil lead” –Merlin Mann #journaling #writingprompts #naturejournaling https://technotional.micro.blog/2025/02/07/theres-a-secret-hiding-in.html

The Enthusiasm Ladder “Wherever your enthusiasm is at, your audience is going to be about two rungs below that…” –Brandon Hall #interpretation #publicspeaking https://technotional.micro.blog/2025/02/06/the-enthusiasm-ladder-wherever-your.html

Florida Master Naturalist Program – Coastal Systems conference.ifas.ufl.edu/fmnp/cs25… Join me for a Florida Master Naturalist Program (FMNP) Coastal Systems course this spring. Deepen your understanding of ... https://technotional.micro.blog/2025/02/03/florida-master-naturalist-program-coastal.html

More synonymies for Interactive Videoconferencing. digital field experiences (DFEs) streamingscience.com/2024/03/2…

Fine, I put out a press release: www.southernfriedscience.com/for-immediat... TLDR: it didn't rename the Gulf of Mexico and it isn't even a gulf.

Finally got my top ten songs for 2024 from Siri. At number one was the pop hit — “I’m having trouble connecting to the internet…” followed at number two with “For more information, check the home app…” 🎶