No marine organism today, but a photo I’m very proud of nonetheless. It even got awarded “best photo” at the Botanical Garden Bioblitz earlier this year. :D It’s a portrait of Bembecia ichneumoniformes, a wasp mimicking butterfly. #macro #macrophotography #nature #insect #butterfly #entomology

For Jane. RIP.

I've not been very active recently, but I'm back for this #WormWednesday with a polychaete from my favourite Genus: Phyllodoce. :D I think, this is P. mucosa. #polychaete #worm #macrophotography #nature #naturephotography #marinelife

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.

I don't really know what to do right now, I'm just waiting for some loading bars to finish loading, and I apparently have to be at the computer for this because otherwise it stops... So I thought I'd share another cool animal: Hersiliodes latericius, a very orange copepod! :) #MarineLife #Macro

It's frustrating to see people so confident that the law will stop this new attack of Trump against Harvard. US-government doesn't care about the law and after the international students get their heads shaven and sent in shackles to wherever, no amount of being in the right can fix the situation.

My desk this week!💐🐋 Such different subjects and style and I equally love them both🩷 I hope you’re having a great week! #watercolor #painting #workinprogress #artist #art

Ive just done a 3 day workshop teaching people to paint #leaves in #watercolour at Cambridge university botanical gardens, & thought I'd share this teaching aid. Quick & basic...& under 3 mins long! #botanicalillustration #sciart

:) #orchid #plant #houseplant

I haven't posted an animal in ages, but don't think I've run out! There's plenty more to come. This very fashionable blue and red amphipod for example! I sadly don't know anything about it apart from that it is an amphipod. #MarineLife #Macrophotography #Crustacean #Amphipod #Nature #Animal

Bureaucracy is the final boss. I just want to be able to live and do useful stuff without filling out multiple 20-page documents that all require a bunch of different numbers (assigned to me at birth) that I do not know. I'm livid. This is dystopia.

7. Candy-striped Polychaete (Dorvillea moniloceras) by chilipossum

IT'S FINISHED! The Art of #InverteFest April 2025 Edition A digital art book showcasing the work of 86 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna. Thank you to the human artists who contributed to our art book! Download here drive.google.com/file/d/1JvEx...

Oh no! Due to City-Nature-Challenge craziness, I have totally forgotten about #InverteFest! D: I hope I can make up for it with this collection of wonderful chitons, all of the species Lepidochitona cinerea, a species with amazing variety! :D #MarineLife #Photography #Mollusks #MacroPhotography

It's my first #InverteFest! 🥳 To celebrate, here is a flat worm "dressed" for the occasion! Very colourful. Very pretty. Very dragonfruit. :) Prostheceraeus moseleyi typically feeds on Ascidians, and is found in rocky habitats. #MarineLife #Macro #Macrophotography #Nature #FlatWorm #Worm

Beautiful artwork of a beautiful woim! A. virens is the spaceship-jaw worm I mentioned in my previous post, btw. I don't know if other Nereididae worm-jaws are spaceship-able too, but this one was mentioned in the article, at least. #MarineLife

It's #WormWednesday, so I have another polychaete for you! It's a member of the Nereididae, some of which have jaws made of a very strong but light material. Who knows... Maybe we'll have spaceships made of worm-tooth one day! #MarineLife #Worm #Polychaete #Invertebrates #Macro #MacroPhotography

species key, for the approx 3 nerds who care

Colorful flies 🌈 Phasia hemiptera (Tachinid fly, Wanzenfliege) Ectophasia crassipennis (Tachinid fly, Breitflügelige Raupenfliege) Lucilia sericata (Green bottle fly, Goldfliege) Myathropa florea (Batman hoverfly, Totenkopfschwebfliege)

I always forget to publish here. This is my latest drawing.

Christmas Tree Hydroids - like delicate lace in the sea. #MarineLife #scuba #photography

This one's cool! :D It's a pantopod, presumably Nymphon gracile. It just crawled across my hand suddenly while I was looking for worms. One of the few non-crustacean arthropods in the ocean, pantopods, like spiders, are chelicerates. 1/4 #MarineLife #Arthropod #Macro #MacroPhotography #MacroMonday

A very small little star: Asterina gibbosa According to German Wikipedia it has the shape of a "slightly bloated pentagon". How rude! :( It's quite smol too. This individual was about 1cm in diameter. #MarineLife #Echinoderms #Starfish #Macro #Macrophotography #SlightlyBloatedPentagon

My second favourite kind of egg, after chocolate ones, are planktonic eggs! This is a fish egg (photo stack). I hope you all have a wonderful Easter! 🦑 #plankton

Here are some eggs for Easter for you. :) Unlike most other easter-eggs, these were made by a butterfly instead of a bunny, though. :P Happy Easter! #nature #insect #easter #butterfly #macrophotography #easteregg #blueskyeasteregghunt

New writing! For @sciam.bsky.social, I talk about misleading memes. If you understand evolution enough to know this already, great! But memes/youtubes/etc reach folks with no biology background. Science has been twisted to justify bad things, such as eugenics, before. NOT IN CRABS' NAME. 🦀🧪🦑⚒️

Fun fact, the worms have eyes, THEY CAN SEE YOU 👀 I can't tell for sure which type this species would have, but they are all cool 🧪🦑 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Fluffy Crab! :D #MarineLife #Crustacean #Crab #MacroPhotography

Incredible anemone. We don't need AI to make wild and beautiful creatures. They're right here. We should be focusing on preserving the beauty we have. #okeanos #saveNOAA

Just posting about sea life like everything is fine

& we just launched a brand-new version of the iNaturalist app for iPhones to help you do exactly that! It lets you identify your local nature & connect with a worldwide community of fellow nature-lovers to contribute to science — download it here (100% free!): linktr.ee/inaturalistorg

I can’t decide if Blackwater diving- open ocean diving at night- looks awesome, terrifying, or both. www.scubadiving.com/introduction... 🦑🧪🌎

Here's another of my photos from the excursion: The Aeolid nudibranch Aeolidiella sanguinea! Just look at those cerata! :D Its name means "bloody", but I think "fiery" would have been a better fit. They, too, look like mythical creatures! [1/2] #MarineLife #Nudibranch #Mollusk #MacroPhotography

Take me back into the arms I love

Is it a worm? 🪱 Is it a dragon? 🐉 Who knows... (Though, judging by the emojis, I'd say: Definitely the latter!) [1/3] #MarineLife #Polychaete #Worm #NaturePhotography #Macro #MacroPhotography

I really should start editing and sorting my photos from the Spain shore biology excursion, but the fact that there's 1.45 TB of them isn't helping. P.S.: #addOcean for when I'm finally done and want to share them all :D

copepod people I am demanding an explanation for this right now

Almost home now. :D Flying is stressful, and due to environmental reasons, I never fly when I can avoid it. But I cannot deny… The view is great! (P.S.: This was not sent from an airplane)

The last day of my university excursion to Spain. The places here are really pretty, the weather was constantly good, and I’ve seen some fascinating creatures. Expect some very cool animal photos soon! :D #biology #marinebiology #beach #university

A few lichens that I have spotted in Brandenburg (Germany), Part #1. It's cool to see the diversity you get outside major cities. #lichen #fungi #nature #macro #biology

Gonna go to Spain tomorrow for a marine ecology excursion. I’m panicking. I’m not scared of flying, but the bureaucracy around it… nightmare inducing! Why do people voluntarily do this to themselves just for a holiday? I don’t understand

Accidentally clicking on the wrong app icon = pure rage

(4/5) Whilst many of these nomadic dragons are, a few are tiny, merging not with an entire tree, but becoming branches, leaves or fruit. Their infinite diversity and adaptability is key to their persistence over thousands of years…

Oops you made me do a fanart

Disappointed to announce that my local bookstore (Thalia) now sells AI-generated jigsaws. :/ The “artwork” sucks, the printing on the box is the poorest quality I’ve seen, and the price (30€!!) is the highest of all puzzles there.

🇬🇧Oleander hawk-moth or army green moth 🇩🇪Oleanderschwärmer 🔬Daphnis nerii Look at this stunning wing scales. It is impossible not to fall in love with this beauty. Rare colors in lepidoptera have a special charm.

Not the greatest photo, but combining random optics can be fun. In this case, my Raynox DCR 250 and the wide-angle phone camera create some sort of macro with a very wide depth of field… ^^

I think writers should stop writing dystopias. They’re just giving the tech bros in silicon valley new ideas. That one Doctor Who episode where they privatised oxygen doesn’t seem so fun now that Elmo “The Fascist” Muskrat is actively working towards creating such a world…

I cannot wait for Spring to come fully, so that there are all kinds of small flowers again. Their colours really pop on a black background. I really want to take this kind of photo with as many different ones as I can find! :D This one is Draba verna (s.l.) #macro #macrophotography #flower #botany

Z is for Zebrida, completing the alphabet of #CrabAZ! This pretty little guy rides around on fire urchins, which are venomous to us. But the crab nibbles its tube feet! Its body shape and colors both match and contrast with the urchin. But it's not over yet! Come back tomorrow for a bonus post 🦀🧪🦑