Hey! I’m Meghan, a lifelong artist; painter and drawer. The deep ocean has my heart and I adore painting unusual critters you don’t usually hear about ❤️ I’m contracted for writing and illustrating a deep ocean children’s book releasing in 2026. I also use deep ocean images in my personal work.

Sketchbook land save me 🐡 #sciart

Each morning I'm like oh shit I need to remind people to buy Love Bugs valentines (cute art! facts about insects! & how you can help that insect!). But that means I am only reminding the morning crowd repeatedly & never the late night goblin crowd. OH WELL. Buy valentines: squidfacts.bigcartel.com

Anyone else experiencing some serious art block? I'm itching to escape into my sketchbook, but every time I get a chance to, I struggle 😵‍💫 everything feels so forced!!

For all the folks out here who can't believe what's happening is happening so fast, with so much acquiescence...don't be so naive. This is America. Many of us who have been trying to fight for a democracy that just recognized us since the 1960's tried to tell you this ish was fragile.

Good morning, please have a nice bug. #invertebrates #BugADay #Bugsky

It was such a pleasure to host you both at our #CellBio2024 #SciArt Show & Reception! Thank you for making this event so special, and for bringing your creativity and enthusiasm to our community 😍

After our #SciArt subgroup at #CellBio2024, join us for a very special Science Art Show & Reception, where you'll get to interact with our amazing speakers and other pioneers in this field. We are honored to feature over 30 scientists/artists in the exhibition! RSVP: beatascienceart.com/artshow2024/

In San Diego for #CellBio2024 & couldn't pass up the chance to visit the tide pools!!

🤩 Art by @drewberry.bsky.social @loliboldu.bsky.social @patriciabondia.bsky.social @jayeperview.bsky.social @hudrewthis.bsky.social @molmir.bsky.social @munafomarzia.bsky.social @snowotarski.bsky.social @marykoreilly.bsky.social @biyolokum.bsky.social @ahnaskop.bsky.social @bryanwelm.bsky.social

Coming Out—Before, During or After Getting a New Job? 3 members of ASCBs LGBTQ+ Committee who have recently obtained Asst Prof positions share their perspectives on navigating their LGBTQ+ identities in application materials and interviews. Read more: www.ascb.org/diversity-eq... #cellbiology

Excited to do a live stream with @skypeascientist.bsky.social tomorrow about microscopy! www.skypeascientist.com/livestreams....

Some recent #sketchbook stuff 👻

Every year I participate in #ArtAdventCalendar. It’s a great way to fill your feeds with art at the end of the year. All are welcome & it’s definitely not just for people who celebrate Christmas. Join in! It can be a bit of an antidote to all the commercialism of the season cause it’s just about 🐡🧵

It's about that time of year- time to remind you all you can get your FREE christmas grub STL for 3D printing from either my MyMiniFactory or Cults3D pages. Enjoy and if you print one, I'd love to see pics! 🐡

Many bivalves can see! Scallops have hundreds of eyes, which they can even use to resolve simple shapes, to help them navigate while swimming. Giant clams and some other cockles have them too. Juvenile oysters have an eyespot for navigating in the larval phase #clamFacts 🧪

I also drew this guy today! #colorpencil #drawing

If you love science-based art, check out the 2025 Guild of Natural Science Illustrators juried art exhibit-I was honored to have 2 pieces accepted. www.gnsi.org/2024-gnsi-ju... #SciArt #art

3 Years of papercut marine invertebrates 🐌🦑🪼

The Anji Biota, a diverse glass sponge reef roughly 1000 metres below the waves of Ordovician China, in the aftermath of Earth's second worst mass extinction event. Archopterus anjiensis, a small eurypterid, glides leisurely through. #paleoart #sciart

🔬 Curious about #mitochondria #imaging but unsure where to begin? Our review might help! 🚀📜🧪 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... #Quantitative #Microscopy #SuperResolution #AcademicSky #ScienceSky #CellBiology #mtDNA

That was our last slug of the evening (we had lost the light and didn't want to lose skin off our knees as it got harder to navigate). Here's a roundup of the evening's sea stars -- plenty of ochre stars in purple and orange, a bat star, and hundreds of little six-armed stars!

Shamelessly taking advantage of the bluesky migration to share again some of my favorite echinoderm pics 😀🤩 🔽 Acetylated tubulin (nerves and cilia) and phalloidin (muscles) stains in a juvenile sea urchin (Paracentrotus lividus) just after metamorphosis ⭐

And of course the cool and soothing #invertedLUTs with my new favorite combo: inverted grey + white. and a last reminder, for social media sharing of cool microscopy, it's fine and good to use gamma correction to adjust the contrast without saturation!

Let's start a little game. Highlight 3 artists, one by one, that you think deserve more followers than you have. @ehrenenglish.bsky.social likes similarly weird animals that I do, so I intimately know how hard it is to make them look right and aesthetically appealing. They're slaying at both.

The big migration is finally happening! I'm going to start doing some #throwbackthursday for my new followers. Here is a mushroom-filled illustration I made back in 2022 - check out my blog for process sketches and much more: matteofarinella.wordpress.com/2022/11/06/m... #mycology #fungi #sciart 🍄

Greetings, new followers (many of whom, I suspect, have migrated from The Bad Place). I'll start sharing more of my drawings here over the next few days.

Is there a starter pack for art accounts??? I need to see colors and shapes 🤤 🦷🏝️🔶➿🌈🪽

What I see when I'm painting 🤪

Vanessa cardui (wip) Carbon pen millenium on old papers #ink #gouache #entomology 🐡

We proudly present: The Art of #InverteFest – a digital art book showcasing the work of 66 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna. Thank you to the human artists of bluesky who contributed to our first art book! Download here drive.google.com/file/d/1WYvI...

Obsessed with this lovely pygmy boxfish (a native to my homeland southern Australia). I #diceCT scanned this one's #anatomy for #oVertTCN 🥰 The regular + soft tissue datasets are available for download on MorphoSource: www.morphosource.org/concern/pare...

Sci artists: bsky.app/starter-pack...

Hiiii bsky people! I'm Mol 🌻 I'll probably be posting biology stuff & sketchbook pages #sciart I am a science viz specialist & I love creatures and cells and art!! 🪲🕸️🐌🪱🌷🐚🍀🌗

Tonight’s #SundayFishSketch #SciArt 🐡

Hi Bluesky!! I can't wait to see you people in Boston this weekend. I'm giving a talk about drawing in biology as part of this incredible subgroup --> Science and Art: Bridging Two Creative Universes. If you see me, say hi!!! Check out the full lineup here: #CellBio2023

Headed to #cellbio2023 in boston end of this week. Hope to see some of y'all there!

We assembled new datasets describing the natural history, ecology, and physiology of terrestrialization (exciting to include personal field observations - not easy when you usually study fossils). Left=marine, middle=direct path to land, right=path through freshwater. 2/4 🧪🦀🦑#evosky

It’s World Jellyfish Day. Please enjoy. 🪼🧪🪼

Lots of people know that prehistoric sea turtles got big, but it can be easy to underestimate just how huge these things got. The largest verified specimen of a modern Leatherback turtle weighed in at 1,433 lbs, but this Archelon would have been closer to 11,300 lbs. #scicomm #paleosky #paleontology

Sometimes all I want to do is draw

Clouds, nature, light... 🌥️🌫️

Back at it 😎 #3Dprinting

Today is brought to you by the color purple www.etsy.com/shop/artolog... 🐡🦠🧪🧠🎨

While in Two Egg I found this soft shell turtle loafing around on a sand road literally surrounded in every direction by cotton fields. I have no idea where there was even one pond for them to have come from. Also the western Two Egg road sign is missing, I'm guessing someone stole it again

2nd pic: the biggest piece looks like a definite mole crab to me! the left piece is the underside of a crustacean, where their legs attach to the smallest piece is some kind of a crustacean limb, likely arm my guess is they're all from the same kind of mole crab see pics for comparison:

My first sand dollar! And idk?? Does anyone know what I found in the second photo? 🔍

I will publish photo book! #Invertebrate 🦑 🦀

Beach! Beach! Beach!