Word on the reef is, shrimp are SO in this season. A crab told me. And bonus? These shirts fund our fall Philly Bug mural series. 3 Murals, 3 Artists, 3 Neighborhoods, All bugs baby. Don't get caught without a crustacean. Tell your friends. Get a shrimp shirt. At SquidFacts.net (pls RT)

I am blown away by the support I've received in just one day. Thank you all so, so much. Feeling so loved 😭💖 I'm not sure exactly how much my recovery will cost in total, but any extra funds I receive will help me continue to be self employed and fully dedicate myself to @beyondxandy.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️🧬

Major thanks to @melodyschreiber.com for interviewing me about what biology actually says about sex & gender Unscientific attacks on trans rights are fueled by fascism, not science, and harm all of us - cis or trans Excellent reporting 🧬🏳️‍⚧️ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

More art from Subnautica: Below Zero, in this case the little Pinnacarid. The name was inspired by seals (Pinnipeds) and shrimp (Caridea), the latter taken from the name of Anomalocaris.

Having an absolute terrible time lately and my body decided to ditch the lactase enzyme this week. What the fuck.

Today in marine invertebrates Meet the Dumbo Octopus

Do you know the dumbo octopus? 🧵 featuring my art 🧪🐙🦑🐡

Im always shocked to hear content creators tell their audience they love them in 2026. Like…didn’t we deal with this in 2014? Have we not all learned it’s weird and insincere?

It is finished. 🎏🐙🎏 🐡🦑🐋

Whenever I have to write about myself for resumes and cover letters, I pretend I’m writing about me like I would a friend. It honestly allows me to be so much more upfront about my accomplishments and then I step away like wait i really am that girl??

This has become my biggest beef with the giant octopus paper. Everyone just took this papers speculation as fact and didnt even ask anyone else in the field of cephs about their thoughts 😭 and now the internet will forever know extinct octopus ate sharks. Im gonna be battling that for decades

Did I have many important things to do this afternoon? Yes. Did I spend it drawing Nanimoteuthis haggarti? Also yes. 🐙🦑 #sciart

I teared up reading this. Jake really did my story justice and understood my message, when I could have been very easily treated as "just a joke" Let's do this, y'all Time to fight for trans rights with the powers of science and whimsy combined! 🏳️‍⚧️ 🧬 💖 @beyondxandy.bsky.social

What do I think about the giant Cretaceous octopuses? - First that I'm delighted people are asking me 😁 - Second that WOW! Scientists used an amazing technique to discover HUGE fossil cephalopod beaks! 🤩 - Third that OH BOY do I have questions...🧵🧪🐙 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I’m not the first to think of this but I may be the first to illustrate it with seagulls wearing teeny weenie red beanies Inspired by Zissou by Hayley Williams

Sitting here crying while after getting WhatsApped the photo on the right, so let me tell you a little story about how we got here from the photo on the left and why repatriation research matters!

nobody has ever looked at an old broad with loads of tattoos and thought anything other than "heh, hell yeah dude"

Discovered when I backed up my phone to iCloud to transfer my data to a new phone, that the entire month of October 2025 wasn’t saved. So guess who lost all her photos from Japan and my first international conference!! I am crushed. I already reset my old phone.

Me having an absolute terrible Monday with horrible brain fog and irritability wondering what tf is wrong with me me today waking up with a 10/10 migraine

Putting myself out there to say that if any movie/tv production or game studio needs a consultant in marine biology, ecology, animal behavior, or being a graduate student/PhD, I am available and would LOVE to work with your team!

Projection night 2: it’s beetle time This project could still definitely use your support!! Help us here givebutter.com/KenzoMural

#wormwednesday is the perfect opportunity to show off one of my favorite marine worms, Alitta williami. Simply because they are BEAUTIFUL

The long & limbed King Rag, or Alitta virens. Isn't he beautiful? But they have two large pincer teeth that can deliver a severe bite. #InsertAnInvert2024 📸 Both Alexander Semenov

Leipidonotus squamatus- stunning scaleworm shot by Alexander Semenov! #worldpolychaeteday!

Did playdough get massively better since i was a kid because i do NOT remember it being this nice

Please remember when you swim in the ocean: 200 meters below you, there is a layer of fish that stretches all around the world. It is so dense, that when it was discovered during WWII it scared the navy so bad they bombed it. This is the ocean's thin inner shell of fish [🧵]

Attention Science Communicators! Our survey on the state of scicomm closes this Friday! Please get your responses in ASAP and nudge your colleagues! umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... This is a collaboration between myself, @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and @drjuliawester.bsky.social!

Calling all scientists!! @invertebabe.bsky.social and I shared this on instagram and people LOVED it. Now we want to know what animals you all are studying, and what are you trying to understand about them?

We have 2 cool shirts! I have to sell them out by early April for 2 reasons: 1) 5 of my family members are staying in the Skype a Scientist stockroom in mid-April 😅 2) I need to fund our mural project which starts the first week of April! They're soft! They're cute! Get a shirt! SquidFacts.net

Squid!

Anthony green drinking a big jug of martinellis on stage is healing

Are you an early career biologist looking for a position (Masters up to Faculty) and looking for community? I started a Discord server to help us find opportunities, build a network, and support one another! We're 40 strong as of posting this, come join us! discord.gg/nmktHJhUPH

Semi-regular reminder: Baby open-ocean octopuses sometimes ride on jellyfish like little hats. 📸 Songda Cai bit.ly/2ZmNZZH 🧪🪼🐙🦑🌿

Whoever at my local theatre decided to provide nutritional yeast for the popcorn, i love you

What they dont tell you about fixing your deviated septum is that ANY booger in your nose will become the biggest annoyance in your life because now you know what unrestricted air flow feels like and you simply cannot go back to any other way of living

centipede bride

I have a biologist joke but the funding got cut before I could publish it.

I AM IN THE TOP 20! As of March 2026 I have described 186 species-based on data from Carter&Sands 2025 who summarize the top 20 echinoderm taxonomists (by total species) that puts me in the TOP 20! All these others are dead, white guys. I am the first who is not. #taxonomistappreciationday

(9/10) Poseidon’s Squid was found in the stomach of a sperm whale. www.marinespecies.org/worms-top-te... @cefafalopodo.bsky.social @ieo.es @gi.ieo.es @icmcsic.bsky.social #toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean

If you've ever dove or snorkeled with fish or been to an aquarium and slowed down enough to really watch them, you'll know this to be the case! I've had many interactions with fish simply by looking at them, and have conversations with colleagues about this. It's super cool to see it in research!

👏Scientists discover an entire ecosystem hidden under the ice of Antarctica FRANCE 24 English www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp2a... How cool is that! Now all we have to do is protect it! #Antarctica🌍 #UnderWater #Ecosystem🌱

Fuck im so excited. There is no bigger fan of this series than me 😭

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Out now in Science: The Truman Show, but with killifishes! "Continuous recording of a vertebrate’s adult life from adolescence until death would provide a complete view into the behavioral architecture of aging." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Pokopia is so good that me and my partner have to schedule our time with the switch. We both get unlimited access on our weekends and then switch off every other day. Today is his day with the switch and I am already yearning for mine.

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

EDGEDANCER (2002)
 Acrylic on Gessoboard - 28" x 22" 

From the End of Nature subset of my gallery work, a cautionary tale, “All good things come to an end...” 2/2 #art

Xenomorph 🖌

fiiiinally catching up with the last few birthday doodle requests; this one came from @invertebabe.bsky.social on insta: "cephalopod with a scuba suit ready to take over land"