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"

BECOME A CRAB

On top of the slowdown in grantmaking I wrote about last week - this is another deeply worrisome trend for scientists, physicians, patients, families, and basically anyone who wants new treatments and new tools to promote health. 🆘🧪🥼 open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Hell yeah, got a write up in Billy Penn about the @wednightrides.org @skypeascientist.bsky.social collab. Cyclists chucked seed bombs in abandoned lots last week. Wholesome as hell. Read more here: billypenn.com/2026/03/11/p...

Hey friends! It’s been a hot second since I posted, I blame my creative drive that paces inside like a tiger and says “paint, never stop, nothing else is quite as important”. Here is another finished painting for my shows with the @unseenocean.bsky.social #deepsea #deepseacreatures 🦑🐡 #sciart #ocean

NEW: for @nytimes.com, I wrote about a new study showing that queen bumblebees can breathe underwater, surviving submerged for a week the “remarkable” study stems from a lab snafu, when a co-author thought she accidentally drowned several bees—but later found that they were alive 🧪 gift link 🎁

Paramore’s caught in the middle is my morning dancing song and today the lyrics resonated way too deeply to my phd journey and now I’m dancing AND crying at 6 in the morning jfc

Thank you @invertebabe.bsky.social for sending me these! I really appreciate them and they look amazing!

Did you know that the bees that need saving are NOT honeybees? Honeybees are the dairy cows of bees. People brought them over from Europe to make us honey. The problem with honeybees, esp in resource-limited ecosystems (like hey! cities!) is that they compete with our native bees for food.

Had our first group meeting yesterday with the H.A. Brown Principal & Nick (the artist!) The school is psyched. I'm going to talk about pollinators next week, & have the kids vote on their favorite bug! We have a wall! We have a plan! We just need a little more funding 😅 givebutter.com/KenzoMural

Multicultural relationships are beautiful because now we dip our pastrami sandwiches in matzah ball soup like its consommé

𝕻𝖘𝖞𝖈𝖍𝖔 𝕸𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖎𝖘

♥️ Nautilus ♥️

My coworker has named our new printer Squid and I had absolutely nothing to do with it I swear

Things are still scary and uncertain here in Minnesota but the community is strong and so is our love #iceoutcomics #iceoutmlps

I’ve been drawing my migraines since I was a child and decided to put them altogether to talk about my history with migraines and how many others are also affected by this invisible disability 🧵

I’ve been drawing my migraines since I was a child and decided to put them altogether to talk about my history with migraines and how many others are also affected by this invisible disability 🧵

Might be a good time to remember that each of us is profoundly annoying to someone.

Marty Supreme and Uncut Gems. Josh Safdie makes the most incredible uncomfortable movies. I hate them but cant deny they are good at the same time. But NEVER again.

Would be extremely sick to get this to 5k by bedtime tonight

Are you an early career biologist seeking a position (Masters up to faculty)? I have talked to so many people who feel alone, like they don't have resources, or who are seeking community during this difficult time in the job market. I created a Discord community to help. discord.gg/nmktHJhUPH

I am never going to get over the fact thar so many Americans died that corpses stacked up in nursing homes and hospital morgues, that refrigerator trucks had to be brought in for the overflow, and that the big takeaway from Important Pundits is there should have been *less* mitigation.

Ted Lieu: “Donald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands and thousands of times. In those files, there are highly disturbing allegations of Donald Trump raping children … of Donald Trump threatening to kill children. So I encourage the press to go look at these allegations.”

Not my horses… But I have to point out that these have not stayed unchanged for millions of years! doi.org/10.3389/fear...

When we started @lingthusiasm.com, we benefitted from grad school funding that let us cover a few startup costs, and we recognize that not everyone has those resources That's why in 2020, @superlinguo.bsky.social and I started the LingComm Grants, to help up-and-coming linguistics communicators

Constantly switching healthcare providers, i love getting diagnosed, with ADHD over and over and over again. Incredibly affirming as a late diagnosis individual. Like wow if only someone had thought to do this 20 years earlier.

Wanna see what projects were funded last year? I just published a post about them this morning! Everything is bleak as hell right now. If you want a pick me up, read this post. It's gonna warm your heart. www.patreon.com/posts/scienc... (anybody can read this, it's not paywalled or anything)

🚨🚨🚨 Attention science communicators! 🚨🚨🚨 The 2026 Science IRL mini-grant application is NOW OPEN! Submit your creative ideas for connecting people with actionable science information *offline*. The deadline for this round of grants is March 23, 2026. Apply here! forms.gle/4emvpRPddmEt...

Science + Art appreciators, we need your help! We're working with the E. Kensington Neighbors Assn & H.A Brown school to create a community-driven mural on the biodiversity of our Philly neighborhood! We need your help to fund this project givebutter.com/KenzoMural Here's why this is important ⬇️

Converting my partner’s music taste is officially complete. He loves American Football and wants to plan a trip to see them. Everything has gone according to plan